Author's Note: I was eager to get this next chapter up that I wrote it up last night while was Criminal Minds. This chapter is a bit more dramatic than the last one. Enjoy.
The first ambulance pulled up in back of the hospital which was also the morgue. The sirens had stopped blaring five miles back, when the person flat-lined. The driver had informed the hospital morgue to that they had another lost life coming to them.
The back doors of the ambulance opened the two medic, who tried to save the person's life got out first. Then they proceed to get the lifeless body out of the back.
The hospital coroner looked at the sheet covered body then at the two medics and asked, "What's their name?"
"Linda Deaten. She was one of the ones from the train hostage situation," one of the medics replied, defeat evident in his voice.
The second ambulance pulled up to the emergency entrance of the hospital. Not second after coming a full stop had the two medics unloaded an unconsicious Reid from the ambulance and rushed him into the hospital.
With an emergency O.R team standing by, Reid was immediately taken up to the O.R, while a nurse in the emergency room looked over Elle, who was beginning to feel a little dizzy, due to the events of the day finally catching up with her
The team, entered the emergency entrance, right behind, the medics, Elle and Reid. Right away one of the nurse directed them to the waiting area.
After about an hour in the ER waiting room, Elle had joined the team.
After another thirty minutes a doctor showed up and lead the team to the OR waiting room.
Elle sat down in a chair in the far corner of the waiting room with her knees to her chest. She regretted the thing she said to Reid, before the medics showed up and he lost consciousness. She never meant to say what she said. If she could go back she wouldn't have said something that would make him smile and not look away.
Gideon leaned up against a wall and looked at his hands. Reid's blood had been washed off over an hour ago, but it still felt like it was there. The old profiler was impressed with how long Reid held out until help arrived. That was all that was on his mind right now.
JJ sat in a chair in the middle of the waiting room. All it took was one look at Reid after being shot, to permanently burn the image in her mind. She didn't think she'd ever be able to look at him the same way again.
Morgan paced the length of the waiting room. He had just finished calming Garcia down and telling her to stay in Quantico so that she can give Reid a proper welcome home when he got back. Before that, he kept beating himself up for letting Reid go on to that train by himself without some kind of weapon or at least as his backup. Maybe the psycho didn't shoot him, but the person who did will surely pay the price.
Hotch stood in the corner of the waiting room. When Reid had first joined the team. Hotch instantly took a disliking to him. He didn't know why. He still doesn't know, but over the past few years, Hotch came to respect the young man's intelligence. When Reid was promoted to a SSA from a PSA was when Hotch began respecting the young genius and everyday since then.
Three hours had passed since the team was put into the bland waiting room that was full of tension. That meant that Reid had been in surgery for four and a half hours.
Everyone was trapped in their own thoughts.
When the five hour mark passed, the team began to expect the worse and started to get anxious.
Just before the six hour mark passed a doctor walked into the waiting room and said, "Spencer Reid?"
Everyone turned their eyes toward the doctor.
"That's us," Gideon replied.
The doctor walked over to the team as they gathered together and said, "He's out of surgery and in the ICU. It was touch and go for awhile since he lost a lot of blood. The bullet had nicked a main artery, which was the cause for the blood loss. When we were able to close up the artery the rest of surgery went pretty smoothly. The bullet also tore through his clavicle shattering it in half. With much effort and pins we were able to repair it. The pins will also limit mobility in his shoulder for the next few months while it heals. If hadn't been as healthy as he is, he might not have even made it to the hospital. Aside from the surgery, for the next twenty-four to thirty-six hours we'll be keeping him under observation, while his in the ICU. After that we'll put him a private room. Any questions?"
"When will he wake up," Elle asked.
"Not for a few days to say at the least," the doctor replied.
"Why's that," JJ asked.
"Due to the amount of blood he lost, he's body will temporarily try to shut down so that blood can restore itself, basically. Normally it would take weeks for someone to get that much blood back by himself without help. That's why we have him on a blood transfusion to help speed up the process," the doctor explained.
"What's his recovery process going to be like," Gideon asked.
"A lot rest and physical therapy, which he won't be able to start for about a month," the doctor stated.
"When can we see him," Morgan asked.
"Typically after someone undergoes a major surgery like this, we don't normally allow visitors until their awake, but with how long it will be until he's awake, we can a allow two visitors for twenty minutes every hour," the doctor explained.
No one said anything else. The doctor then nodded and walked away, letting the team process all the information.
Hotch looked at his team and said, "Right now, no one is going to see Reid. We're all going to check into the hotel and get some sleep. We all need it."
Author's Note: I didn't plan on them saying so much. The next chapters will be more thought and what's happening. For those of who who don't know what PSA stands for, Probationary Special Agent. And if I got any of that medical stuff that the doctor said wrong, message me so I can correct it.