Reid hoped that at least JJ would turn up. He decided that asking was the easiest way to find out what had happened to the other team members. "How are Rossi and JJ, by the way?"

"Fine, I guess.", Penelope piped up. "Oh, Emily said that they managed to find a date for the wedding! I think she said something about the end of July."

"Emily is getting married?"

"Yeah, poor sod!", Derek said, not lifting his head from the microscope.

"Derek!", Penelope said with a little indignation swinging in her voice. "Dave asked her! That means he wants to marry her!"

Reid almost fell off the hospital bed. "Emily marries Rossi?"

"Pen, I'm pretty sure he only asked her because he's realised she fancies Hotch as well and wanted to make sure she's not breaking up with him."

"This is just... insane!", Reid said with disbelief in his voice.

Morgan shrugged and mumbled "Girls!" as if this explained everything.

It didn't. Reid wondered whether his team had become the cast of a bizarre soap opera where everyone dated everyone else. And why was Morgan not flirting with Garcia as he always did? They were supposed to be the ones fancying each other! Had they had a quarrel or something?

A few minutes later his friend had analysed his blood and found nothing suspicious. "You're completely healthy!", he announced.

Reid was sceptical. "Perhaps I should go to a hospital and see a real doc-"

"I am a real doctor!", the other man insisted and frowned at him.

"Uh. Yeah... sorry! I'm just not used to the new you."

"I'm the old me, it's you who are behaving oddly!", Morgan corrected him a little coldly, probably because he had doubted his competence.

"Don't be so rude, Derek! Spencer's all confused.", Penelope frowned at Morgan. Then she got up and looked at Reid. "I'd offer to make you a coffee but you'll hate it."

"I would?", he asked a little bewildered.

"My coffee making skills are nothing against yours!", she smiled.

"They are?"

"I don't believe it!", Morgan complained, "You don't remember what your main job here is? You're our coffee boy, that's the only reason why you made it into Torchwood!"

"But Hotch said he hired me because...", he started but interrupted himself. He was not going to tell them what his boss had told him this morning! "Uh... because of my brains.", he quickly improvised.

He thought it wasn't a very bad lie but Morgan snorted nonetheless. "Yeah, sure... He almost didn't take you on, you know. He only had pity because you said Lila died." He began tidying up the surgery.

"Come on, let's get back to the others!", Penelope decidedly changed the subject and started climbing the stairs.

Reid chose not to stay and bicker with Morgan. Instead he got up and followed Garcia. As soon as they were out of the other man's earshot she said, "Sorry about that. He can be such a tosser sometimes!"

He shook his head. "I just don't remember him that way. And it's not just him. Everyone behaves... not as I remember them." He sighed. "Hotch... uh... he... I think he was flirting with me this morning.", he admitted, going a little red.

Penelope smiled. "That's just like him. Don't worry, he does that with everyone!"

"Everyone?"

She giggled. "Emily bets he's also trying to get off with some of the Weevils. He calls himself omnisexual but I think he just wants us to believe that. He has a weird sense of humour."

"Right... But why aren't you and Morgan dallying with each other like you used to?"

To his surprise Penelope was blushing now. "Oh, but... we... we never dallied!" She didn't meet his eye and kept looking at the floor as they were walking.

"But you always called him your Chocolate Adonis, and you were his baby girl!"

Penelope looked really embarrassed. "I don't think he'd like it if I called him that. And he's much more interested in Emily than in me. It's no wonder, she's all pretty and self-confident and a really kick ass agent. I'm just... me."

"Don't say that! You're all that too!", Reid said and he meant it. So she did fancy Derek. At least something was as he remembered it!

They entered the central part of the hub where Emily worked at her desk and Hotch was visible sitting in what probably was his office. It was upstairs and surrounded by glass walls. Penelope just cast him a sad smile and went to her own desk, starting up her computer.

Prentiss looked up as Reid stood in the middle of the room, he was obviously uncertain about what to do now. "What did Derek say?", she asked curiously.

"He said I'm healthy. We haven't found out what caused it." He shrugged. "You can't really do much with amnesia, you know, basically I've got to wait till something triggers the memories."

At that moment Hotch was descending from his office. "Come on, Reid, let's go outside.", his supervisor said, "I'm sure you can use some fresh air."

"Ah, that's what you're calling it now!", Prentiss sarcastically uttered.

Hotch cast her a stern glance but she didn't seem to notice.

"See you later.", Reid mumbled as he followed his superior through the round concrete door. Somehow he didn't want to be all alone with his boss again. Hotch might take another chance to make an advance...

All the way up he found that somewhere inside him there were memories of how to get in or out of this place. When they finally stepped onto the bay he felt like having a déjà-vu. He'd definitely seen this place before. Why couldn't he remember anything about it?

His supervisor suggested they walked a little along the shore of the sea and Reid agreed. There were other people around, it felt like a safe thing to do.

After they had walked in silence for a few minutes Hotch began to speak. "To be honest, I don't think you've got amnesia."

Reid wasn't surprised. "You've never been head of the BAU, have you?"

The older man shook his head. "Not on this planet, no."

He chose to ignore this weird comment. Perhaps he should do this with all the weird things he was experiencing. "Have you any idea what happened to me? I do remember small things about this place. I have seen the hub before, I know the codes and other things."

"I have an inkling it has something to do with last night's shift in the Rift. Something strange happened there..."

"What's the Rift?"

"It's one end of a wormhole, situated right over Cardiff Bay. That's why Torchwood Three is located here. Sometimes we have aliens and other extraterrestrial stuff coming through it and we have to make sure that nobody gets hurt or killed in the process."

Wormholes were just a theory, Reid knew that. Basically they were believed to be shortcuts through space-time. There was definitely no observable proof they existed. But all right, he thought, he could accept that they did now. It was a plausible theory, after all. More plausible than the existence of aliens and dinosaurs, anyway.

"So there was a shift in it."

"There are shifts in it all the time, but last night there was a major one. Usually this means that something comes through it, but not always. We weren't able to locate anything extraterrestrial in town this morning. You see, we've got aliens and alien technology at the hub, so it's bound to show up on the radar every time. That's why we assumed nothing happened."

"Ah, because I was at the hub, which showed up anyway!"

"Precisely! Now we just have to find out what exactly happened to you. I'm guessing you come from somewhere else."

"Yeah, I'm from the United States!"

"No, that's not what I mean. I think if you go home right now you will find there is no place you live, no place you work. People won't recognise you. Because in some way, you do belong here. Some part of you remembers things about the hub."

"But look!" Reid took out his badge. "It says here I'm an FBI agent from Quantico! That's me! I don't have a Torchwood badge!"

Hotch shrugged. "So you got here with your original badge. We could check whether the you that you are exists, though, once we're back in the hub."

He sighed. "You don't think I'm going to wake up any moment and realise it's all a dream?"

"I wish it was that easy!" His boss smiled apologetically. After they had walked in the cool air for a few minutes he added, "I wonder what happened to our Spencer... I'm guessing he's in your world, with your team."

"But how can we reverse what happened? I mean, I want to get back! And I'm sure you want your Reid back, too."

"First we have to find out what exactly happened that night. Then we can find a way how to undo it."

Reid sighed. It seemed like a very vague plan.

The rest of the day he spent meandering through Cardiff, making coffee, sitting at his desk, getting everyone pizza for lunch and watching 'his' team at work. Hotch had told them all about his theory and now everybody was trying to find out what exactly had happened to him. Hotch had showed him that somebody else lived at his address in the USA. Penelope had hacked into the FBI computer system to show him the names and pictures of the current BAU members. He didn't recognise any of them. It just didn't make any sense.

As he brought everyone their afternoon tea ("You're also the tea boy!", Derek had insisted when he had argued that he was only responsible for the coffee.) he thought how odd it was that everyone seemed to fancy somebody from their team. Penelope was having a crush on Derek, who liked Emily, who was doting on Hotch, who flirted with... well, apparently everybody, but him in particular although his boss didn't seem too keen on the rest of the team finding out. In his own team office relations were a strict no-go area but in Cardiff everything seemed to be a bit more relaxed. He doubted that this was a good thing.

He served Penelope last because he wanted to have a chat with her. She had been the nicest to him so far. Except from Hotch who had been rather too nice which was awfully intimidating.

"Any new results?", he asked as he put the last cup of tea next to her computer.

She shook her head. "It's got something to do with the main generator I think, because it's semi-leptonic level has risen to an improbable amount, but I can't find the connection to you."

"Ah.", said Reid. It sounded like gibberish in his ears. "Do you know where JJ is? Perhaps she can help us."

"Why, she's at the police station I guess, doing her shift. But I doubt that the police could handle this case. It's nothing they deal with normally."

"JJ is not in Torchwood?"

"No. She knows why Cardiff needs us though since she's been working with Emily before she joined us. We're trying to keep the wormhole a secret but some people find out anyway."

"Oh..." Why was nothing as it should be? "Can I have a look at the files you have on alien stuff? Perhaps it helps me understand. Though actually I doubt I'll ever really understand any of this..."

"Yeah, they're available through our extranet."

"Right...", he heaved a sigh and went to his desk. He hadn't dared to touch his computer so far. What if he accidentally caused a breakdown of the whole system? They wouldn't be able to save him anymore. To his relief he found the computer working a lot like all computers did. So he busied himself with reading top secret files until Hotch called all of them in for a meeting where they discussed their meagre results of their researches. After a pretty unproductive discussion their supervisor send them home. Tired, everybody arose from their seats and gathered their belongings.

Reid got up. "Um. Where is my home?" Everyone turned to look at him.

"I can drive you.", Emily offered.

"Do you have your keys?", Hotch asked.

He fumbled in his pockets till he found them. "Those are the ones for my home in the States."

"You can stay at the hub. We can go buy anything you need.", his boss said.