Don't Ever Look Back
M: I don't own CM or the Song "Hanging By A Moment – Lifehouse"
When Spencer Reid look at the small digital clock, the time showed to be almost eleven at night and the storm was still roaring through DC. He grabbed his cell phone and speed dialed Penelope Garcia, but he had forgotten to turn off the radio that was also installed in the small digital clock.
Desperate for changing, starving for truth
I'm closer to where I started, I'm chasing after you
"Goddess of all knowing" she said in a less chirpy tone, knowing that she was still really worried about Emily still missing.
"Garcia, I need you to look for any admissions at any hospital in DC for Emily" he said in a tone that clearly sounded like he didn't want to say this.
I'm falling even more in love with you
Letting go of all I've held on to
I'm standing here until you make me move
I'm hanging by a moment here with you
"Sure thing sweetcheeks, I'll let you know when I find her okay?" was the last sentence she said, before using her pink feather pen to disconnect the call.
Forgetting all I'm lacking, completely incomplete
I'll take your invitation, you take all of me now
The young agent sat back in the not so comfortable chair in his room, looked out the window and watched storm once again, hoping to notice the slightest chance of it lighting up within the next hour.
I'm falling even more in love with you There's nothing else to lose, there's nothing else to find
Letting go of all I've held on to
I'm standing here until you make me move
I'm hanging by a moment here with you
I'm living for the only thing I know
I'm running and not quite sure where to go
And I don't know what I'm diving into
Just hanging by a moment here with you
There's nothing in the world that can change my mind
There is nothing else
There is nothing else
There is nothing else
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After getting a cup of disgusting coffee at the hospital coffee machine, Jennifer Jareau was walking back to Will's room, when she saw the paramedics, running by her, pushing an unconscious person, with frost bite. JJ immediately recognized the unconscious patient and wondered what was going on.
"Emily!"
This caused the eldest paramedic to halt in the hospital hallway and turn to the blonde women, "Jim you keep going and get her to the Intensive care unit… M'am you know this women?" he asked urgently.
"Wait you don't know who she is?"
"We were called out on a small road out of Route 05, where we found her unconscious on the side of the road, in the snow storm. We didn't find any ID on her"
"That's Emily Prentiss, FBI agent at the BAU, What was she doing out in the storm?"
"We still have no idea on this M'am, but if you say this person's name is Emily Prentiss, then would you mind contacting her family?"
"Already on it" JJ walked out in the cold, pulled out her phone and dialed the first number on her speed dial.
"JJ, not that I'm not glad to not hear from you but I'm really busy"
"I know…"
"JJ where are you?"
"I'm at the General Hospital, Will was in small car accident, they just want to keep him here over night, Henry's with him, but that's not why I'm calling… Are you looking for Emily?"
"How… how did you…"
"She was just brought into the Intensive care Unit at the General Hospital… I ID her; she didn't have of her credentials or anything on her"
"Can you stay with her until the team can reach the hospital?"
"Pen… What the hell happened?"
"An UNSUB took her hostage and ran off in the woods… He must have left her somewhere, when the storm started…"
"Wait… the team just walked away?"
"Believe me sugar, even if you would have been there, you would have been dragged away from the forest and taken back to the hotel" JJ knew that her friend was speaking the truth and dropped the subject, "I'll contact the team right away"
"Like I said I'll be in ICU waiting room" she then hung up and quickly made her way to Will's room.
"Hey JJ… did you go outside?" he asked her.
"Emily's in the ICU… I'm just going to wait in the Waiting room until the team gets here and then I'll be back here okay?"
"Yeah, go ahead JJ, I'll be sleeping anyway" he said with a light chuckle, before handing his son to JJ.
"I'll see you soon" she gave him a kiss, before leaving the room with Henry.
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When the clock was about to strike Midnight, Spencer Reid was awoken by the ringing of his house phone slowly made his way to it and answered it.
"Hello?" he sounded really tired.
"Sweetcheeks, I just alerted the rest of the team that Emily's at the General Hospital and you'll have to bring some proof of who she is"
"Wait, what are you talking about?"
"They didn't find any ID on her"
"The how do you know, it's her?"
"JJ… she was at the hospital for Will when she saw the EMT's arriving with Emily and she identified her, she's in the ICU waiting room, waiting for us to arrive. I'm leaving now actually"
"Okay, I'm leaving now as well" he then hung up.
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After a thirty minute drive, and almost getting into a car accident himself, Spencer Reid, finally arrived at the hospital and was now walking at a very quick speed, to the ICU waiting room, where he saw JJ, Henry and Garcia sitting and patiently waiting. Henry gladly clapped his hands together and was fussing in a joyful, way when he saw his godfather. This made both JJ and Garcia look up and they both got up and went to their friend.
"How is she, any news on her?"
"Nothing yet" Garcia answered.
"Um, how's Will?"
"He's got a concussion but the Doctor wants him to stay over night and then we can take him home" JJ explained, "How are you?"
"I'm doing okay… just nervous about a teammate and friend right now" he lied to them; he wanted to keep his real feelings for Emily for himself.
After an hour went by the rest of the team showed up, the last to have arrived was Hotch, who had to drop off Jack at his Aunt Jessica, so the team understood why he was the last to arrive.
"Any word yet?" he asked.
"Not si…" JJ didn't finish her sentence, when she saw a man in a white coat walking towards them.
"Prentiss, Emily?" he asked in the waiting, and he was then surrounded by them in a matter of seconds, "Are any of you related to the patient?"
"No, her mother is in Berlin at the moment and her father passed away three months ago from Lung Cancer" Reid answered, shocking everyone when they heard that their friend's father had died.
"But we're her family" Garcia said.
"And she's a much respected member of the FBI" Hotch said in his boss tone.
"Ah okay then… Miss Prentiss suffered a severe head trauma, but we fixed it, a concussion, frost bites on her face and hands, and she had started hyperthermia, which she is being treated for right now. Her room is large enough for all of you to enter… so go ahead" was all he needed to say to get the entire team to follow the doctor towards their friend's room.
As each one entered, they all tried to hold back their shock. Her head was bandaged, her left face cheek had gauze over it, knowing that it was one of her frost bites, both of her hands were bandaged as well, the room was toasty, and she had IVs connected to her arms. JJ sat in the chair closest to Emily, While Garcia took the other side, Morgan sat on the small couch, next to Reid, who looked like someone had kicked his puppy in front of, and both older agents said that they were getting some coffee and asked if anyone wanted any, knowing that everyone was staying in for a while.