"Penelope you must breathe"
As if it were a command Garcia did indeed start to breathe again. Fresh air began moving in and out of her lungs. Her heart felt as if it were close to beating normal once more. However her body was not getting the message from her brain to move. Garcia was frozen in place with her arms still wrapped tightly around Reid. Very slowly the Tech Goddess raised her eyes to look at him.
Reid stood statue still holding her closely pressed to his body. The feel of her arms around his neck was the first real physical sensation he had dared to hope for since he had awoken five months earlier to his new existence. It had taken him all that time to heal and learn to deal with new life. And in those months he had watched his friends, team, family, from afar. They had all mourned him. They had all felt his loss and missed him in their own ways. But she had called to him. Out of all the people he knew it had never crossed his mind that she would be the one to feel his absence the most. Surely his mother should have been, even with her mental state. But it was her that truly missed his presence. So much in fact that she had unknowingly called him to her in dreams night after night. The first time it had happened was a shock, the second an interesting pattern, and after the third time he found himself in her head he had to know why. So he had gone to the one who saved him and turned him with questions.
The answers Byron gave him were the thing that had finally brought him to the decision of coming to see her. She was after all his mate. According to Byron only true mates could form a mind link. Garcia's sub conscience had reached out to find him even in death. So here he was answering her call.
Reid stared down at her cherub face as she looked up into his eyes. There was fear under her lashes. She was afraid of him, the realization hurt. She should never have to feel scared of him, he would never hurt her.
"Penelope it's me Reid. You know me"
"Reid", she began her voice barely a whisper, "How?"
"That is not a simple question. But I will try to explain as best as I can. I am alive in a new way. I have been given a second chance at existence. An existence tha….
"Existence? What the….what..does that mean?", Garcia blurted out cutting him off while removing herself from his closeness.
Reid immediately felt the loss of her arms from around his neck and he did not like it. She was slowly taking steps backwards away from him.
"Garcia," he stated firmly as he reached out to grab her by both wrists, "You do not have to be afraid of me. I did not come here to harm you or scare you. I came for you."
"For me?"
"Yes for you", the words flowed off of his tongue as he let go of one of her wrists so that he could gently touch the place on her neck where he had bitten her earlier that evening with his left hand.
She was his after all.
