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"JJ you wouldn't believe it! Garcia died, she really died!" Reid was explaining the miracle that occurred in Garcia's room, three days ago. As soon as JJ was awake and able to maintain a conversation, Reid couldn't wait to tell her what happened. "Morgan was crying and he said a prayer, when he did her monitor started beeping again, she had a heartbeat! You just wouldn't believe it JJ! It's the closest proof, I physically seen, that God exists!"

Reid was right, it was hard for JJ to believe what had happened, still feeling weak it was straining her to comprehend, "So what happened? Is she okay now? All she had was a blood transfusion."

Reid sat back down next to JJ's bed, "She had transfusion-associated graft-versus-host disease. Her white blood cells started attacking the new blood. It's more likely to affect people with a weakened immune system and Garcia showed no systems. She's lucky to be alive. It was a miracle JJ a real miracle."

JJ leaned her head back and said, "I don't know what to say. When does she get released?"

"Tomorrow."

"I want to see her when she gets out. How is everybody else?" JJ waited, hopeful for Reid's response.

"Rossi's arm is healing well. Emily woke up yesterday, and needless to say it is a repeat of what happened about a year ago, the dreams, the fear, and overcoming those emotional obstacles, her physical injuries seem to be healing well, the infection's gone, and they repaired her aorta. I think over all that she will make a full recovery." Reid stopped and lowered his head.

JJ knew who Reid was thinking about and she hated to ask, but she wanted to know, "How is she?"

Reid stood up and walked to the window, "She's in a medically induced coma, and the doctor's fear she will have retrograde amnesia. She is almost unrecognizable because of her facial swelling." His head dropped, and his heart ached. He loved her so much.

JJ could feel the hurt he felt from across the room. "Look at me Reid." She said softly, for she was weak and talking seemed to be a strenuous task. He didn't look at her so she mustered up a little more volume and felt a strain in her chest when she tried again to get his attention, "Reid. Look at me." She said, sounding almost mean.

Reid looked at her, feeling vulnerable, almost like he would lose his composure just talking about her.

JJ's chest relaxed, now that she had his attention and she said, "Have you sat with her?"

"Three times, because I try to change out with Hotch or someone else. I'm afraid to be in her room JJ."

"Why?"

"I'm afraid that the longer I look at her the more I'll fall in love with her, and when she wakes up and doesn't know who I am, I fear she won't love me and my heart will be broken."

JJ patted the edge of her bed for him to sit down. He reluctantly accepted her gesture. When he sat down she grabbed his hand. "You listen to me. You've only known her what, two days…"

"Officially two days, eighteen hours and 47 seconds before she went missing."

"Okay, so in that short amount of time you were able to call her your girlfriend, my guess is that if she doesn't know you when she wakes up, she will get to know you and fall in love with you all over again."

"You think so?"

"I know so. So instead of sitting with me, go sit with her, and when she wakes up, be there for her and be her friend." JJ laid her head back and closed her eyes. She couldn't talk anymore, but she was satisfied with what she told Reid.

Reid watched as she drifted off into unconsciousness. His attention turned to the door when he heard a light knock, and there stood Morgan. "I got this kid."

Reid looked back at JJ and kissed her forehead that spread a small smile across her face. Reid stood up and walked to the door. "How's Garcia?" Reid asked before walking out.

"Good, happy to be alive." Reid smiled at him and then he felt Morgan's hand on his shoulder, stopping him from leaving, "She's right you know."

"Who?" Reid said.

"JJ. You've got something amazing with Darcie, you've done something I've never been able to do."

"What's that?"

"Have a girl truly fall in love with you, in all a matter of two days. Why don't you stay with her Reid, we've got everyone else covered."

"It scares me Morgan."

"Love tends to do that to us."

"Do you love Garcia?" Reid asked.

"I've always loved her, but after what happened the other day I realize that I may love her more than I ever realized, the kind of love that you are feeling and the kind of love Hotch has for Emily."

Reid didn't reply but exchanged a glance with Morgan before going to Darcie's room.


Hotch sat next to Emily's bed and watched as she slept. Her sleeping comforted him, because when she was awake she just cried, and questioned her reason to live. He couldn't leave her side. There was nothing he could do in Darcie's room so he focused all his attention on Emily, in the meantime.

The last time she woke up from a dream she tore some of the sutures on her abdomen, causing herself harm. Hotch forced himself to stay awake, just in case she was to start moving, he could wake her before she became violent.

Now he clung to her hand, and strained to stay awake to the constant beeping of the heart monitor. His eyes started to feel heavy and he closed them momentarily to only have them sprung open by a knock at the door. He turned to see Rossi standing there. Relieved to have someone to talk to he motioned him in. "How's Garcia?" Hotch asked.

"Good. The doctor is checking her out right now, so Morgan went to sit with JJ."

"How is JJ?"

"Weak, but she is going to pull through."

"And Darcie?"

"Reid is sitting with her."

Hotch hung his head, while still clinging to one of Emily's hands, half resting his forearms on the edge of her bed.

"Aaron, what is it?"

"I don't know how to do this? How can I help Emily and help Darcie through this? I'm only one person."

"Don't worry about Darcie too much, she has Reid."

"Yeah, but I'm afraid Reid will run the other direction, if she doesn't know who she is…I'm afraid that it will break his heart and he will give up. He's never had to go through anything like this, and the answers he wants isn't something he can find in a book."

Rossi patted his friend's back, knowing exactly what he meant. Reid wasn't the type to fall in love, understand it, or know how to deal with it, but despite all this Rossi has noticed a change in him and knew how to make Hotch feel better. "I think you should talk to Reid." He suggested.

"Talk to him?"

"Yeah, see where he stands. Let him know that all he has to do is be there for her. When you hear that from him, I think it will make you feel better."

"I can't leave Emily."

"I'll stay with her, if she wakes up I'll be here."

Hotch looked at her, and kissed her forehead and left to go to Darcie's room. On his walk down the hall he saw Reid standing outside her door "Is everything alright?" Hotch asked, speeding up his pace.

"Fine the doctor is just looking her over."

Hotch breathed a sigh of relief, "Oh, good." Hotch then observed Reid, he noticed the nervousness in his body language, the often biting of his nails, the pacing, and his quickened breathing.

Hotch didn't even have a chance to say anything before Reid blurted, "I've never felt like this before. All I think about is her, she consumes every thought I have. I think about her when she first walked through the bull pen on her first day, I think about our first kiss, and how maybe I shouldn't have kissed her but then I think about how good it was." Reid then looked up from the floor and made for the first time eye contact with Hotch, since he walked up the hall, "I'm scared Hotch. I don't want to lose her, she means everything to me. I don't know how to do this?"

Reid's raw emotion was filtering into every fiber of Hotch's being. All those same feelings were what he was feeling about Emily and Darcie. Hotch started seeing Reid differently, he seemed to change somehow, life wasn't just about books, facts, and what he could understand, it was about a human being, and not just any human being, his daughter. Hotch could relate and told Reid the only thing he knew to tell him, "Reid, all you can do is be there for her. If she doesn't know who you are, be her friend, listen to her and comfort her. There is nothing you can say that can make the pain go away but from experience, being there and listening to them is all they need." Hotch took a few steps closer to him, and placed his hands, one on each of Reid's shoulders. Almost pleading with him he said, "Reid I need your help. I can't be with Darcie and Emily at the same time. You need to be with Darcie when I can't. I need you Reid."

Reid saw the desperation in Hotch, something he had never seen before. The desperation he saw in Hotch changed his perspective on the situation. Somebody needed him and it wasn't just Hotch it was Darcie too. His sudden need to be that person for Hotch, seemed to override all those feelings he was unsure of, and all of sudden he wasn't that scared anymore and things didn't seem so hard to handle. "Yeah, Hotch. I'm there for you and for Darcie." Reid said with assurance, giving Hotch a hug.

Just then the door opened and the doctor walked out. "Oh good, just the two people I needed to see. Darcie's swelling seems to be going down, I think in a few days we can withdraw the medicine that's keeping her in a coma and let her wake up on her own."

Hotch and Reid shared a glossy glance and half a smile.

Reid was the first to step up and hold out his hand, shaking that of a stranger again, forgetting about all those things that used to bother him, "Thank you doctor." Abruptly, a scream could be heard down the hall, stabbing Hotch right through the chest. Reid knew whose it was and said, "Go Hotch, I've got this."

Hotch went running down the hall, into Emily's room. He skidded to a halt as he rounded the corner. He saw her arms wrapped around Rossi as she cried into his shoulder. Hotch wasted no time in going up to her bed and relieving Rossi. Her beautiful eyes were a mix of indescribable emotion, but one thing he saw was the pleading that needed him to hold her. He sat on the edge of her bed, gently, and she nestled up to him, half wincing in pain. "It hurts Aaron, my stomach hurts. It hurts to cry, but that's all I want to do. Make it stop, please. Make it go away."

Hotch couldn't help the tears that were streaming down his face, the love of his life was breaking his heart and it didn't matter what he did, he couldn't make the pain go away. "Baby, I'm here. I'm here." He squeezed her a little tighter, as he let her tears stain his shirt.

Time passed and she again became tired, "I don't want to go to sleep. Aaron help me stay awake. I don't want to go to sleep, it's like I'm reliving it all over again." Her voice was weak, almost inaudible. Her thoughts and pain were consumed by memories old and new, with no end in sight.

Hotch stroked her hair and said, "How about I tell you some of the good things that used to make you laugh." He felt the slight nod of her head, that in itself made him smile. He scooted himself all the way in her bed, as she rested her head in the crook between his arm and chest. "I remember we were on our way home from hard case, and to pass the time you were working on a puzzle called the star of David. You couldn't figure out the puzzle and Reid asked you about it, so you started telling the story and as you began to speak, everyone stopped to listen. When you finished Reid had finished the puzzle, but didn't understand the story, you tried to explain it, but he still didn't get it." Hotch paused and laughed, "When you get out of here you should tell him again because this time I think he will he understand." Hotch rubbed his fingers through her hair, remembering another fond memory, "I remember when you first wanted to join the team. I told you no and when we came back from a case you were sitting on my couch, waiting to speak with me. You were determined and beautiful, and your argument was good one. You said This is isn't a whirl Agent Hotchner well now that I think about it, it's been on hell of a ride for me."

Hotch continued to talk and tell her things of the past, before fading off to sleep.


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