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"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which yourself have altered." ~ Nelson Mandela

The BAU team were called on to a case located in Arizona. Their unsub was brutally murdering people and the team couldn't find a connection. If only they had Reid. Morgan was busy at the precinct studying the map in front of him.

"Normally this would be pretty boy's job while I'm out there busting doors down." Morgan chuckled to himself thinking back on how things usually were.

Morgan was having a hard time finding a connecting to the victims. They were all white males in their mid-twenties. They all were killed in front of their girl friends and then dumped randomly along the neighborhood in Tucson. He and Emily just came back from the ME office trying to find a better connecting between the victims while JJ, Hotch and Rossi were out talking to the families of the victims.

"Hey." Emily said to Morgan returning to the meeting room with two cups of coffee in her hand.

"Hey, thanks Em." Morgan said

"Any luck?"

"Nope. besides what we already know, absolutely nothing."

"Did you contact Garcia? Does she have anything yet?"

"Nope, apparently this guy is a nobody Em, barley anything on him thats useful."

While Morgan and Emily were focused on the case, a familiar face snuck his way into the precinct. He told the front desk who he was and showed his badge. The lady directed him toward the meeting room soon joining his two friends on this case hoping another pair of eyes could help.

"Its got to be here Em." Morgan said pointing at the map."

"This map, it doesn't make any sense." Reid said as if he's been there the whole time.

Morgan and Emily knew that voice and the face it belonged to but were to focused at the moment to put two and two together.

"Way to use that 187 IQ Reid, tell us something we don't know." Emily said

"Im talking about the unsub... It doesn't make sense why he would kill just the males and let the girlfriends go." Reid said scrunching his eyebrow trying to make something of the map in front of him.

"Maybe the males were the unsub's target and didn't feel a need to kill the females." Derek piped in still oblivious to who he was actually talking to.

"Maybe..." Reid said, in his classic position bitting his fingers with his gears turning. "Can i borrow your phone for a second i may have something. Mine doesn't have service out here."

There was silence as Morgan took his phone out to let Reid used. Wait a minute. Let Reid use? Both Emily and Morgan came to the same realization at the same time and shot their heads toward Reid. He was just standing there leaning on the desk with a smile on his face. "Took you two long enough.. I thought you were profilers." He said with a chuckle.

"REID!" Emily said and immediately wrapped her arms around Reid in a tight hug. "What! How! You're back!" Emily couldn't contain her excitement.

"Yeah, they finally decided to let me go. "Reid chuckled into the hug.

"Good to have you back pretty boy." Morgan said, next in line to give Reid a bear hug.

"Great to be back. I missed you guys." Reid admitted.

"How do you know about the case?" Emily questioned.

"I had Garcia email me the files and took the next flight over here." Reid shrugged.

"Baby girl knew you were back and didn't tell us?" Morgan asked.

"I wanted to surprise everyone so i swore her into secrecy."

Morgan and Emily nodded their heads but then once their excitement died down a tad they took a step back and got a closer look at Reid.

He was like a completely different person. Physically at least. Last time they saw Reid he was wearing a checkered button down with a tie and sweater vest, khakis, and loafers, had longish hair and was quite scrawny.

This Reid was the complete opposite. He wore a plain burgundy button down with the top two buttons undone, with his sleeves rolled up to his elbows. His pair of Jeans were accompanied by a pair of white converse's, and his now tousled, hair was cut shorter pairing nicely with a 5 O'clock shadow living on his lower face. To top his whole fit off he definitely looked a lot buffer. His shirt was stretched across his chest and his rolled sleeves revealed thicker forearms.

"What the hell Reid?"

"Holy shit kid." Both Morgan and Emily said

"What? is there something in my teeth?" Reid said

"Reid look at you. We've never seen you dress like this." Morgan said

"That, also Reid, you are buffed up!" Emily said still in shock.

"Yeah while at the Pentagon they teased me a lot, so i had to make a few changes." Reid said

"JJ is going to flip once she sees A, you. and B how much you've changed." Emily said

Reid slightly blushed at hearing her name. "Oh don't tell me pretty boy still crushes on JJ" Morgan teased, happy to be doing that now.

"Shut up." Reid said jokingly. "Im pretty sure i could mention something about Garcia that could get you to blush just as easily." He countered.

"Whoa where did that come from." Emily joked.

Just then Garcia's face popped up on the monitor sitting on the table.

"What's up baby girl?" Morgan said still getting over what Reid just told him.

"Nothing just wanted to see my boy wonder with my own eyes. I cant believe you're finally back! JJ is going to be so happy." Garcia said excitedly.

"Speaking of, here she comes now. Better go hide Reid." Emily joked as she pointed to the main entrance of the precinct seeing Rossi, JJ and Hotch walking towards them.

JJ was too oblivious with the files she was looking at to look up and see her answered prayer. "So that first family was a complete bust, barley gave us any information on his life..." JJ began although neither Hotch nor Rossi were paying attention to her cus they both noticed who was sitting with Morgan and Emily.

"Hotch? what are you loo-" JJ froze dead in her tracks once she looked up from her files and toward whatever her two superiors were looking at. There was no way that was actually Reid. Right?

"Well look who finally decided to come back to us." Rossi said aloud.

Hotch walked into the meeting room and gave Reid his hand. "Glad to have you back Reid."

"Thanks sir glad to be back finally." Reid said taking Hotch's hand.

"Once JJ finally gets out of her state of disbelief and eventually hugs you to death ill fill you in on what you missed." Rossi said quietly to Reid. Reid nodded and then went back to staring at JJ. He was almost as shocked as she was.

"Spence?" JJ managed to muster out, still not believing what she was seeing.

"Hey Jenny." Reid said with a loud and sincere voice while slightly waving at her."

That was all it took, that confirmation of his voice that he was in fact not a hallucination. JJ took off running as fast as she could into the meeting room. Once she made it through the two doors Morgan quickly shut them knowing what was about to come next and didn't think the rest of the precinct needed to see it. JJ didn't notice this and didn't care. Her only target was Reid.

With open arms Reid was ready to envelop her in a hug he has been waiting 3 long months for. Once the connection was made, JJ wrapped her arms tightly around his waist and wiggled her head into the crook of Reid's neck and almost started tearing up still in shock as to who it was she was hugging.

After a minute or two, or 100, neither of them kept tract, they finally pulled apart, just enough so their faces were visible to each other not ready to give up the rest of the hug yet. "Hi." Was all Reid managed to say.

"Hi." JJ was equally as flustered. "You're actually here... This isn't some evil prank right?"

Reid chucked and pulled her back into a hug. "No Jenny I am as real as they get. I ain't goin nowhere except back home with you once this is all over."

JJ was too emotional to say words so she decided to let the cat out of the bag and do the next best thing. With everyone in the meeting room watching the two young agents she puller herself away from Reid's hug and grabbed his shirt collar and crashed her lips hard to his, as if to express how much she missed him. you could hear the gasp in the room that everyone all at once let out. Emily's Jaw dropped just as the same time you could a 'Whoa!" come out of the monitor Garcia was on. Morgan's eyes went wide and Rossi and Hotch just stood there shocked, but with a smile. Reid was shocked at first as well but soon recovered and reciprocated the kiss almost as hard as JJ.

Eventually when the need for oxygen became apparent they both pulled away staring into each other's eyes. They both thanked God to finally have each other back.

Authors Note: Chapter 3 is now in the books. Up next we dive a bit into Reid's new personality and whats changed about him. This isn't going to be a story based about the case so I'm sorry if you wanted to know more about the unsub and victims. Anyways happy reading!