Peekabooo: Turns out we weren't coming back until Friday! I thought I was coming home yesterday. So I apologize! I just got home and I wrote this chapter immediately. I havent even showered yet. I really like this chapter and a character that we all love is in it! I hope for some more angry Reid and some more angry Morgan for next chapter. It's so awesome!
Rossi's footsteps made tapping noises on the cold tile as he got up and walked out of Reid's room.
"Where are you going?" Garcia mouthed, trying not to wake Reid up. Morgan had also fallen asleep in the chair next to him.
"Just out in the hall," Rossi whispered back.
Garcia nodded and Rossi walked out to find Hotch. Hotch sat on a bench a few feet from Reid's room. Hotch just looked down at the ground unhappily.
"Do you think this is your fault?" Rossi asked, almost apalled.
Hotch sighed and looked up, thinking for a moment. "It is."
"What Morgan said wasn't true and you know that. He was just too worried about Reid to see sense. And Reid has been through hell these past few days and he is just confused."
"I know." Hotch sighed.
"You did it to protect everyone involved. And I know that. Garcia knows that. Morgan knows that. And Reid is smart. He'll figure it out sooner or later."
"JJ called," Hotch sighed.
"And?" Rossi asked.
"Emily...insisted on coming back."
"When?" Rossi asked quietly.
"She left once JJ told her it was safe. She is having the rest of her stuff brought back later."
"So. She'll be here soon?"
"It takes about nine hours. And it's been almost seven since..." Hotch didn't finish.
"Does she know about Reid?" Rossi asked confused.
"JJ decided that she'd tell her when she got here. Something about it being better in person."
"Do you think he'll be okay?" Rossi asked after a moment, refferring to Reid.
"Do you?" Hotch replied.
"I don't know. He's strong but..." Rossi shook his head.
"I know what you mean," Hotch exhaled.
"Are you going to tell them that Emily is coming back?"
"Well Morgan knows," Hotch responded.
"I mean tell them that she's coming back today," Rossi retaliated.
"I don't know if we'll see her today."
"Yeah," Rossi said, "I guess we'll have to wait."
"I guess so."
So they did wait. When Rossi peeked back into the room Garcia had joined Morgan and Reid inthe world of sleep, which made it easier. After four hours Morgan woke up. He noticed Rossi was gone so he wandered into the hallway, looking for him. He noticed Hotch and Rossi both sitting on the bench.
"You both should get some sleep," Morgan informed them, rubbing his eye.
Hotch and Rossi both kind of tensed up.
"We're fine," Rossi insisted.
"Really?"
"Yeah. Why aren't you with Reid? He might wake up," Rossi nodded towards the room.
"Garcia's awake, she's there if he wakes up," Morgan said, knowing something was up.
"Well you should be there too," Hotch finally spoke up.
"What is going on Hotch?" Morgan asked, a slight edge creeping into his voice.
"Nothing. Just go back with Reid okay?" Hotch answered, in a stern voice.
"Morgan, just go. Please?" Rossi gave him an odd look.
"Fine. But I swear to god..If you're not telling us something..." Morgan left reluctantly.
He went into Reid's room and found the young genius awake.
"Hey prettyboy," Morgan gave him a smile.
"Hi," Reid tried to smile back.
"How do you feel?" Morgan asked as he sat down next to Garcia, who was still asleep. It was amazing where you could fall asleep when you hadn't gotten any sleep in days.
"Not so good," Reid admitted honestly.
"Sorry," Morgan frowned.
"Morgan?" Reid asked, his voice becoming quieter.
"Yeah?" Morgan replied, still frowning as Reid tried to sit up.
"Are..Are Jack and Henry okay?"
Morgan smiled, happy to see the old Reid back. "They're fine kid. Hotch got to them."
"Good. I-I'm sorry that I went with Doyle. He had a gun and he threatened to take Jack and Henry but I couldn't let him. I would never forgive myself. So I went."
"Kid. You have nothing to apologize for."
"But if-"
"I don't want to hear it. Just relax okay? You need to get your rest."
"Alright." Reid whispered.
"I'm going to call JJ. I want to make sure that they don't come to the hospital," Hotch told Rossi.
Rossi nodded as Hotch stood up and rounded a corner, while dialing JJ's number.
"Hello?" JJ answered.
"JJ. Is Emily with you?" Hotch asked.
"Yeah. She's here. She's fine. We just left the airport. I was just about to tell Emily what happened," JJ's voice sounded uncomfortable.
"Is there something else?" Hotch asked.
"Nothing else." JJ answered.
"Okay. But don't come to the hospital yet."
"What? Why not?"
"I haven't told them yet. Reid doesn't even want to see me." Hotch caught her up.
"He's awake?" JJ gasped. Hotch could vaguely hear another voice after JJ's frantically asking who and what happened.
"Not anymore. He woke up awhile ago and they took the chest tubes out. At first he couldn't even remember what was happening. Then when we told him he remembered and demanded I get out of his room. He's been back asleep for awhile now." Hotch's voice was gruff.
"Emily really wants to see you guys." JJ sounded desperate.
"Well Reid's hardly ready for that. I don't think he's feeling that great right now." Hotch answered. He wanted to see Emily too but it was too soon.
"I know. But she can see everyone else. Right?"
"I'm not sure everyone else is ready either JJ. Especially right now. Everyone is stressed about Reid. Morgan is on edge. I don't know if now is the right time." Hotch said honestly.
"Fine." JJ snapped right before she hung up.
Hotch sighed and looked at his phone. It seemed that everyone was mad at him today.
"JJ. What the hell happened?" Emily demanded as soon as she got off the phone.
"Emily. Hotch said we can't go to the hospital to see everyone right now," JJ sighed.
"If you don't tell me I wi-" Emily threatened.
"Do you want all of the little details?" JJ surrendered.
"Yes. Every single one of them." Emily crossed her arms angrily.
"It was the Saturday before Easter and we were at the park for an Easter Egg Hunt. Reid was playing with Jack and Henry. He offered to babysit both of them so the rest of us could go out for a drink," JJ's composure started to crack, "I don't know exactly what happened but somehow..." There were now tears in JJ's eyes.
"Keep going," Emily urged, suddenly having a sick feeling that something had happened to Reid or Jack. If something had happened to Henry there was no way in hell JJ would be with Emily right then.
"Somehow..Doyle got into Reid's apartment and kidnapped him. Jack and Henry were okay, but Reid was gone with Doyle." JJ tried to keep her eyes on the road as the tears slowly rolled down her cheeks.
"Son-Of-A-Bitch," Emily muttered, as the sick feeling spread throughout her whole body.
"He kidnapped Reid and they went into a warehouse. We didn't know that Reid was actually missing until Monday morning. He wanted to know where you were and he was..torturing Reid until he told him where you were. But of course Reid didn't know so ihe couldn't help himself in any way. Doyle seemed to realize this and he..he sent us pictures. And then we figured out that it was him. But we didn't know where he was. And then I went to the bathroom and I found Seaver texting," The disapproval of the last sentence was evident.
"Well she's new. She was a really nice girl from what I co-" Emily defended Seaver.
JJ cut her off. "Don't you ever say that ever again." She said through her teeth, her hands shfiting on the steering wheel.
"JJ!" Emily gasped, "How could you say that?"
"Seaver was working with Doyle, Emily. She helped him kidnap Reid. She wasn't with us that day at the Easter Egg Hunt or at the bar last night. She was with Doyle. She was in his back pocket the entire time."
Emily was speechless, so JJ kept going.
"Seaver told us the address and Morgan shot Doyle and found Reid. But Reid..He wasn't in good shape. Doyle shot him right before Morgan shot Doyle. Reid got to the hospital was in surgery all night. He ended up with two punctured lungs, almost all of his ribs and his leg broken, A crack in his skull, deep gashes on both of his arms, hypothermia, blood loss, and bruising. Hotch told me." By the time JJ finished, Emily's makeup was smeared and her face was wet.
"This is all my fault," Emily whispered and shook her head.
"No. Emily this is not your fault. It's Doyle's and no one elses."
"No JJ!" Emily exclaimed, "It is my fault! If I wouldn't have-"
"Don't do that." JJ stopped her.
"It is." Emily buried her head in her hands, thinking of poor Reid strapped to a chair getting cut and kicked by Doyle. It made her shiver, thinking he'd already been through something like that. She sat up and noticed the signs that said 'Hospital'.
"Where are we going?" Emily asked.
"To the hospital."
"But you said Hotch said-" Emily said, confused.
"Right now I don't give a damn about what Hotch says."
They pulled into the hospital parking lot and went into the lobby. They asked for Spencer Reid's room and they went up to his floor. They wandered through the halls and finally rounded the corner to Reid's room. And Emily came face to face with an angry Aaron Hotchner and David Rossi.