"Love is a temple, love is the higher law."-U2 'One'

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Morning came and Garcia walked into Reid's hospital room to find that Maggie had pushed the cot next to the bed and fallen asleep clutching her husband's hand to her face. A small whimper escaped the redhead's lips when she saw the trails down the cheeks of her dear friend made by the tears that had lulled her to sleep. Cautiously she reached forward and brushed the hair away from Maggie's face and leaned close to speak softly.

"Hey Maggie Mae, the doctor is coming in soon. You need to wake up so you can talk to him."

Maggie gripped Spencer's hand tighter and slowly opened her eyes. She smiled at Penelope at first and then a cloud seemed to cross her face as reality made its way back to her. She shook her head and looked pleadingly at her friend as if begging to be told that none of this had happened and somehow she wasn't in a hospital holding the hand of her comatose husband.

"I'm sorry sweetheart, I know dreamy land is better than this but you need to be the one to talk to the doctors now that you're here."

Maggie sat up and felt suddenly woozy.

"I feel kind of weak, Pen."

"You need to eat something. I brought some breakfast for you."

Maggie took one look at the tray of food and felt even worse and bolted to the bathroom where the contents of her stomach were quickly deposited into the toilet.

Upon emerging from the bathroom, Maggie encountered a quizzical looking Garcia.

"Honey, do you normally vomit when under stress?"

"No, I don't recall ever doing that. Why?"

"You've been throwing up a lot lately. You don't suppose…"

"Pen I can't even think about that now; not with him like this. He's so frail looking and I need him so. And it's not how we're supposed to find out. I'm supposed to test at home with him there and we're supposed to find out together. I can't do it alone."

"Sweetie you can't put it off forever."

"I can put it off for now."

Garcia was about to say something in objection but the doctor walked in and that was her cue to leave.

"Was I interrupting something?"

"No doctor, my friend was just bringing me some breakfast but I don't really feel like eating right now. How is my husband?"

"He's stable and we'll be doing some more tests today to see if the swelling is going down. Once it does we can begin the process of bringing him out of the coma."

"How long does it usually take?"

"There really is no usual Mrs. Reid. Every case is different and I really don't want to give you any ideas of a timeline that doesn't exist. I will keep you informed of everything that we know."

"Tests? That would be MRI, right?"

"Yes, those give us the best information. Why do you ask?"

Maggie picked up Spencer's messenger bag and rifled through it producing a CD.

"As I recall, you can listen to music while in the machine. I would like it if you would have this played for him. He loves Mozart and it soothes him. I know that no one can say for sure if he can hear things but if he can, I'd rather he hear this instead of the noisy machine."

"Of course."

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Maggie was seemingly unaware of the presence of the agents as she got herself a cup of tea and she actually jumped when Hotch came up behind her and put a hand on her shoulder.

"Sorry to startle you Maggie."

"It's alright Aaron; I guess I'm just off in my own little world right now. I really appreciate that all of you are still here but really you should go home to Jack and J.J. should be with Henry. I don't like being the reason that you're not with your families."

"Reid is family too. And so are you. Jack is doing fine. He understands, I told him that Reid got hurt and we want to be here to make sure he gets better. He asked if you were sad and I told him that I thought you were so he told me to give you this."

Hotch stepped forward and wrapped his arms around Maggie and pulled her into a hug. She returned the embrace and smiled.

"Tell him that this made me feel a lot better."

Morgan approached the pair.

"Hey girl can I talk to you a minute?"

"Yeah Derek, what's up?"

Morgan pulled her aside and spoke quietly to her.

"What's the word on boy wonder?"

"He's in MRI so they can see if the swelling is better."

"I'm sure they'll be bringing him out of this soon. He's tough, tougher than we usually give him credit for. So Baby Girl tells me that the procedure might have been successful but you are putting off finding out."

"I'm too scared for him right now to even think about that. I'm already on vitamins so it's not like a week or two is going to matter and it might not even be that long."

"I really think you need to find out. Even if it's just for you. You don't have to tell any of us what the results are."

"I don't know…"

"Here, Garcia ran out and bought this for you. Just take it."

He handed her a bag from a nearby drug store containing a home pregnancy test.

"Okay Derek, I'll take it but no one knows until Spencer can know."

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Maggie was exiting the bathroom with the test in hand as Spencer was being brought back into the room. She quickly dropped the stick into her purse and went to his side. Resuming her place sitting next to him and holding his hand.

"I missed you my knight. You know how lonely I get when you're away. Did they play the music for you? I know how noisy those machines can be and I don't want you to be bombarded. I know you can get overwhelmed by too much noise."

"Mrs. Reid may I have a word with you?"

"Of course doctor, what did the test show?"

"He's improving but we can't bring him out just yet. And it seems I owe you an apology because it's Dr. Reid, isn't it?"

"Actually since my doctorate is in Literature, only students really call me doctor. Everyone addresses Spencer as doctor because he doesn't exactly look like an FBI agent so it garners more respect for him. Besides, he has three doctorates. Really I'm most comfortable being called Maggie."

"Fair enough Maggie, we'll be running the tests again tomorrow and if the progress he's been making continues we might be able to bring him back to you after that round of tests. And I made very sure that the music was played for him. I personally do believe that coma patients can hear even though I can't back that up with any sort of scientific evidence."

"Thank you doctor."

Once the doctor was out of the room, Maggie sat back down and took Spencer's hand into her own threading her fingers through his.

"I know you're strong my prince. I have seen you go through so much and so many people would have been crushed by the events of your life. You know you saved that girl. I don't think anyone told you that yet but you did. She'd be dead if not for you. You're a hero, darling. But now you have to fight just a little more. Please baby, just get a little better and the doctor will wake you up for me. I need you here with me. I need you to hold me and tell me things are going to be fine. Somehow I can believe it when you say it. Oh Sweet Prince, come back to me. I love you so very much."

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