The paramedics went and removed the moldy sock. Reid's foot had what appeared to be athletes foot, fungus and was an angry shade of red. Doug Paul carefully cleaned the foot, and Henry cline bandaged it. It looked broken, but they would need X-rays to confirm. After they were done Morgan over the protests of the paramedics picked up Reid and carried him to the ambulance. They strapped him in carefully and put his foot in a brace. Reid pricked his finger as the paramedics got settled. Morgan rode with him, Hotch handed him Reid's messenger bag, and stick. The other agents gathered everything up and got into the SUV's.

The painful jostling of Reid's foot was minimal but Reid still gritted his teeth, after an hour Reid fell asleep. The ambulance was the first down the mountain by the time the others got down they only had to wait twenty minutes before the doctor gave his report.

"Dr. Reid is malnourished and dehydrated. He has a broken foot; he'll need to use crutches for at least a week. Otherwise for being in the mountains for three weeks he's in decent shape. "

Rossi went to get his hand stitched up, while the others checked in on Reid and made preparations to fly home. Garcia called Morgan with news

"The person who took our genius is in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I am sending you all the footage I was able to recover. Now tell me how is my baby genius doing?"

"He'll recover, he's got a broken foot, malnourishment, and issues from profound isolation. He'll recover though."

"Send him here; I'll take excellent care of him."

"I know you would, we'll see thanks baby girl."

Morgan hung up and reported everything to Hotch who had received the footage from the camera along with the location of Reid's car and cell phone. It had taken her a couple of days because Reid had turned his cell phone off, and had paid cash for everything. Hotch gathered the team to tell them his plan

"Rossi, Emily I want you to go get Reid's things and gather any intelligence you can about his abduction, check if Gideon was in the area at any time. The rest of us are going to escort Reid home on the jet, we'll get him settled, pick up Garcia and her equipment and then go to Philadelphia."

Reid stayed in the hospital for a couple hours, on an IV drip for a course of antibiotics and re hydration. After he was out the team went to a hotel where Hotch rented a room. Reid showered, shaved, and changed into the sweatpants, and T-shirt Morgan had bought him. Thankfully Morgan had been merciful and had bought him a plain white shirt and not one with an embarrassing picture. Then the team minus Rossi and Emily, who had already left, went to a local restaurant for some much needed food.

"Hotch I want to go with you to Philadelphia. I can help with the case, and I need to know if Gideon is involved."

"Reid you just spent three weeks struggling to survive on a mountain in complete isolation. You need time to recover, and with your foot you can't go into the field."

"The doctor says I have to keep of it for only a week, and I can still help with the profile, help Garcia with technical matters. Please Hotch I can't sit at home wondering. Also if you don't take me along I'll just go to Philadelphia as a private citizen."

"Fine, but you do exactly as I say without question, even If I send you to the hotel to rest. Is that understood?"

"Yes sir."

Their coffee arrived and they all ordered dinner, Reid got soup as the doctor had put him on a diet. When the food came JJ poured some water into the bowl to cool it. Reid went to pick it up but Hotch handed him a spoon. Reid tried to eat with a spoon but his eagerness made it hard. Eventually he gave up and just picked it up and drank it down. After they ate Hotch called Garcia who was still packing equipment and asked her to get Reid some things from his apartment. Hotch wanted Reid to rest before they went to the jet but Reid insisted he was fine and with his foot in Morgan's lap went to the airport. They boarded the jet where Reid once again cut himself. After takeoff Morgan went over to talk to him

"Pretty boy how long are you going to keep doing that?"

"Hopefully never, the crutches, warmth, feeling full it's still got a dreamlike quality to it. However my brain is starting to accept I'm safe, that I've left the mountain. I think everything would feel more real if Gideon was not a part of this. Knowing that he could have had a hand in what happened…" Reid again trailed off, Morgan didn't respond he didn't know what to say about Gideon

When they landed they snatched a few hours at a hotel before meeting up at the local field office whose agents had already started investigating. Garcia ran to meet them and hugged Reid who almost fell. Morgan caught him in time, and Hotch confiscated the cookies Garcia tried to give him, they were too rich for Reid at the moment. Garcia led Reid over to her work station, where they fell right to work. JJ, and Morgan started going through people who might have grudges against Reid who knew him when Gideon was part of the team. They also started going through the footage Garcia had recovered. Hotch consulted with the head of the office Agent Wick over the information they had. Garcia managed to pull more footage from the camera and the team went over it.

A/N I expanded this chapter because it wasn't quite what I wanted. I've shifted information into the next chapter but everything is basically the same just expanded and slightly modified.