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Epilogue: Going Home
Reid sighed contentedly as he looked around the hospital room. He'd seen so many since he'd joined the BAU that it almost surprised him that they all looked exactly the same. Prentiss had been out of the hospital now for more than a week, but he'd had to stay longer because of his far more severe wounds. He still wore a sling around his left arm, but other than that he felt fine. Ready to be back at work, actually. The time away had nearly driven him crazy. He simply wasn't sure what to do with himself when he wasn't working a case.
Garcia was coming to drive him home. He was surprised she had volunteered, considering the amount of time she'd already spent with him in the hospital, breaking up her time between him and Prentiss when Prentiss had still been there.
"Ready to go, junior G-man?" she asked with a bright smile on her face. She carried a tin under one arm and an oversized orange bag under the other.
Reid just smiled, "I've been ready to leave this place since I got here," he said, following her out of the room gratefully. "Let's go."
"Alright then," she said. "Lead the way,"
The drive back to his house wasn't quiet, which was to be expected with Garcia driving him. She talked about everything that he'd missed while he was in the hospital, about Kevin and Morgan and computers.
She'd tried, unsuccessfully, to explain to him the popularity of Twilight when he'd spotted a copy of it in her glove compartment. And she'd also forced him to eat ten chocolate chip cookies on the drive. Not that he'd really needed much persuasion. Garcia made amazing cookies…
And as much as he welcomed her bubbling, happy babble, he'd welcomed the quiet of his own home even more. Sitting his keys down on the counter in the kitchen, he'd let himself fall onto the couch, careful of his still sore arm and smiled.
The next morning he woke up more rested than he'd been in a long time. Before he'd even finished his first cup of coffee his cell phone started ringing. It was JJ.
"Hey, Reid. We've got another case. And it's pretty bad. Hotch wants us all at the BAU in thirty minutes. Wheels up in an hour."
Reid felt a small smile creep across his face. It was good to be back.