Friday

Cole stands in the bathroom of an oncall room, leaning against the counter, with a toothbrush in her mouth staring at the wall. "Important surgery today, huh?" She jumps as a blond in bloody scrubs walks in.

"Ah, yea." She mumbles before brushing her teeth again. After she rinses she turns to the women who had just turned on the shower. "Ann, how did you know?"

"Hunny, you have been brushing your teeth for ten minutes. Now, I need to shower because I have another surgery," She pauses to pull off her top. "So, who is Dr. Spencer Reid? A hospital trusty?" She shakes her head. "Family?" She shakes her head. "Friend?" She nods. "More than a friend?"

"He might be, but we decided to wait until after the surgery."

"Well, that's a good idea." Cole turns to the mirror as Ann hopes in the shower.

"I have no idea why I agreed to do it. I guess I did not see how close I was going to feel to him. My head is just not clear."

"Sometimes you do some of your best work that way dear."

"Lets hope that is true today." With one last deep breath she walks out of the bathroom to go to the OR.

Three hours later, Cole walks out of the OR with her head cover in her hands. She stops in front of the waiting room Spencer's team was waiting in. She takes a deep breath before walking in. They all stood, waiting for the new.

"We repaired the damage, but there was a small complication we did not see coming. We got the swelling under control and it was back to normal before be closed. His short term memory may be effected but I don't believe it will be more than today and yesterday, maybe Wednesday."

"Oh, thank goodness." Garcia says sitting down. Morgan sits down next to her putting his face in his hands as his shoulders visibly relax.

"Can we see him?" Hotch asks keeping his business face on.

"You can, though only two at a time for right now. You can go in together in about an hour if you would like. He should be awake by then. You can go grab some dinner as you wait." They all look at each other and silently agree, before Hotch turns back to her.

"I think that is what we will do, we will be back in about an hour." She nods to them before walking out of the room. See fights with herself to hold back the tears as she works her way to her office.

An hour and a half later the team fills into Spencer's room as the nurse who was in when he woke up walks out with a smile. "What happened?" He asks rubbing his face with his hand the was not held down with an IV.

"Today was your surgery." Garcia says sitting down at the end of his bed, remembering what Cole said about not remembering today.

"What surgery?" He asks looking around at all their faces.

Prentiss walks closer to him looking worried. "Your brain surgery, for your headaches."

"What? Someone found out what it was?" Everyone gives each other looks as Rossi slips out of the room. He walks down to the nurses station to ask a nurse to send Cole when he sees her standing filling out a chart at the station.

"Dr. Capaldi." He asks politely.

She turns to him with a smile. "Agent Rossi. Have you been in to see Spencer?"

"We have, which is why I came to find you. He doesn't remember anything. We told him about the surgery and he asked how someone figured it out." Cole face falls, that was a lot more than she thought would happen. "Maybe if he sees you, it will boost his memory?"

Cole shakes her head and puts back on her smile. "Getting back his memory with take some time it is most likely a short term thing. I will be in in a minute." Rossi nods before slipping back into the room. Inside the team was doing what ever they could to try and get Reid to remember.

Not a minute later Cole walks in with her smile still plastered to her face. "Hi." She smiles at everyone as she walks over to Spencer. "Hey you, how are you feeling?"

"Ah, good..." Cole takes a deep breath. Rossi made her hope a little bit.

"I'm Dr. Capaldi. I performed your surgery. There was a small complication. Which is why you are having trouble remembering some time. Though I don't think you will ever remember today."

"What was it?"

"You had some loss nerve ending on your frontal lobe. When we started repairing them, we notices how close they were to the memory portion of your mind. But it will come back. The reason you have having so much trouble if probably due to the head. It should hopefully come back a little everyday."

"Thank you, for everything."

Cole is taken back. He doesn't know what everything even is. If he did she would be thanking him. "Just doing my job. I will leave you all to talk." As she leaves she wipes at her eyes, which does not go unnoticed by Rossi.