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Here's the next chapter. Hope you will like it. The medical part is my own imagination, so forgive me if I got it wrong.

THANK YOU to my beta reader mabelreid.

The Disappointment

Everything seemed to happen at the same time. Reid pushed Gordon away, and then he was falling off the chair. Gideon was quick to catch him and pull him onto the ground. He covered him with his own body while he heard numerous shots ring out above him. He turned around and saw Wilson's body, with multiple bullets holes. He looked back at the now unconscious Reid and saw blood flowing continuously from his chest.

Morgan shouted for the paramedics while Hotch knelt beside Reid to check for a pulse. He was relieved to find one, but it was very weak as he informed the others.

Gordon rushed over to Reid, holding him closely to himself while he cried. "Silly boy, you should have just let him shoot me. It's my entire fault. I was so stupid to believe what your mom said. If I had tried harder to find her, we would be living happily together."

Hotch and Gideon pulled Gordon away so that the paramedics can do their jobs. As they carried Reid out to the ambulance, Gordon shouted "Please don't let him die."

The team, Maria, Ivan and Denise waited anxiously in the waiting room while the doctors operated on Reid. While they waited, everyone was deep in their own thoughts. Hotch blamed himself for not killing Wilson at the first shot. Morgan thought back to those days he'd teased Reid mercilessly, and made a promise that he would stop doing that if Reid survived. JJ smiled at the day when they went to the Redskin match, Elle thought of the time when Reid saved her and the others in the train. Garcia remembered how Reid blushed when she teased him about women noticing him. Gideon thought back to the first time he saw Reid, and how he'd convinced Reid to join the BAU after his graduation. Gordon thought about those times he had spent alone with Reid and prayed that he would be given more time to make up what he had owed him. Maria had liked Reid the first time she saw him, and she prayed that he would come out of this alive. She knew that Gordon would be devastated if he didn't. Ivan and Denise were thrilled to know that Spencer was their half brother, and they couldn't bear the thought of losing him just like that.

It seemed like hours before a doctor came in to inform them about Reid's condition. The doctor told them that the physical wounds were not as serious as it looked and Reid would recover in time. He said that Reid had lost a lot of blood and they'd nearly lost him at the beginning of the operation. There was a moment when his heart had stopped beating, and blood was not circulating to his brain, causing a lack of oxygen for almost a minute. They were not sure if that would cause any damage to the brain, until Reid regained conscious so that further testing could be done. The doctor told them to go home and get some rest, as Reid would wake up at the earliest, by the next morning.

After the doctor left, none of them made the move to leave as they were all unwilling to leave Reid alone in the hospital. Finally, it was decided that Gordon and Gideon would stay and the rest left, promising to come back in the morning. Hotch would be sending Maria and the kids back, while Morgan would be dropping by Reid's place to pack his clothing, and toiletries, to bring them there the next morning.

Gordon and Gideon sat on either side of the hospital bed holding Reid's hands to make sure that he's still alive. While waiting for morning to come, Gordon asks Gideon to tell him everything that he knows about Spencer. The more he heard from Gideon, the guiltier he felt and it hurts him that Spencer had suffered so much as a kid. After a few hours of talking, they both fell asleep in their chairs due to exhaustion.

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Gordon was awoken by the glaring morning rays shining into the hospital room. He was about to get up to pull back the curtains, when he heard a small groan from Spencer. Plenty of thoughts flash through his mind while he watched Spencer slowly coming around.

He held Spencer's hand and called out to him. "Hey, Spencer… Wake up, you've slept long enough."

Slowly, Reid opened his eyes and looked at Gordon. A look of confusion crossed his face and it worries Gordon. "Hey, are you feeling okay?"

"Why am I here, and who are you?"

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Everyone was waiting anxiously outside the hospital room while the doctor checked on Reid. Gordon had told them what Reid had said and they were all worried about the amount of damage done to him.

Finally, the doctor came out of the room and told them that due to a shortage of oxygen, which he had told them last night after the operation, it had affected Reid's memory. Reid had lost a part of his memory, and he told them that for such cases, patients might regain their memory in the next few days, months or even years. However, there was also a possibility that they might never regain those memories. But other than that, there was no other damage found. They thanked the doctor and went in to look for Reid.

Reid smiled when he saw his team coming through the door. He looked at Gideon worriedly, and asked "Gideon, what happened? Why was I shot?"

Gideon sighed and held his hands. "What do you remember Reid?"

"I remembered that we were chasing after Joe Miller in Texas. He raped and killed five children. We caught him before he killed the sixth child. Then we left and I can't recall the rest."

"That was two months ago, Reid." Gideon said.

"What? How can that be?" Reid looks like a frightened kid and it broke their hearts to see him like this.