Orbus felt like he was floating, like he was riding on the tops of waves, here, but not really...

The weird thing was, he was standing up, and there was no water below him. Instead, a hard marble floor supported his feet while a black darkness cloaked the air around him.

Orbus wasn't sure if he was supposed to be here or not. Maybe, even if most of it was under the influence of Malifeciis, he'd been condemned to hell? Maybe he'd really lost Lyssa forever, and there was nothing he could do about it in this case...

Orbus shook his head, forcing himself to ignore the dark thoughts and focus on his surroundings.

He was dead, he was sure of that. He felt light and weak, like his skin and bones had been replaced with paper and grass blades. Everything felt delicate and breakable.

He started walking, hoping he'd come into some sort of light if he just walked far enough.

Walking wasn't to much of a hardship, it was warm in this dark room, and the floor wasn't to hard. He was sure he would get a great distance before anything made him want to tire out.

Reid's body lie in the hospital bed, giving the appearance that he could be sleeping. Ivona boasted to herself on her improving acting skills. Replaying the scenes of when the doctors burst in to see her screaming at a fading "Reid" in her mind. Now that it was just them in the room again, she allowed herself a small chuckle, feeling extremely accompolished.

Two short knocks and Garcia burst into the room, taking one look at Reid, she turned to the psycic.

"What's wrong with him?" she sounded almost panicked.

"It'll take a few minutes okay?" Ivona shrugged, opting not to reveal that she actually had no idea what was goind on at this point.

Garcia nodded, still looking unsettled at Reid's body.

Ivona grinned, "Why don't you go home and get changed? You must feel like you want to."

"No, it's okay." Garcia waved Ivona off, sitting in the chair by Reid's bed, "I wanna be here when Reid comes back."

Ivona struggled to not roll her eyes.

JJ broke off another long passionate kiss to turn and see her baby holding a crayon drawing up to her.

"It's you and daddy!" Henry cried excitedly.

"Good job sweetie!" JJ said, putting the crayon scribblings down and sweeping the toddler into her arms, "Very good job!"

"Hey," Will said suddenely, "Where are your teammates?"

JJ blinked, then set Henry down and shot towards the front hallway.

"What?" Will called, giving chase.

"They're at the hospital. Hopefully they haven't left yet. I wanna go see Reid."

"You mean they found him?"

JJ nodded and smiled, "It was one hell of an experience."

Hotch, Rossi, Prentiss, and Morgan sat around the metal table, scarfind meatball sandwhiches like there was no tommorow.

"How lond were we even out?" Prentiss paused to wonder.

"Too long!" Morgan declared, tearing another bite from his Meatball Hogie.

Prentiss nodded in avid agreement and continued devouring.

Rossi finished his, licked his fingers, and lept off the stool.

"Well, Im off."

"To where?" Hotch asked, still focused on his own meal.

"Hospital, I wanna give that kid a piece of my mind on dragging us through space's supernatural crap-hole like he did." Rossi grinned.

"Wait for us," Morgan said inbetween bites, "We'll join you."

Orbus blinked, or atleast was sure he did.

He could see a white dot, very, very far ahead.

He was sure it was the way out he'd been looking for.

Unsure, he walked slowly, trying to think of all the nasty things it could possible be.

Then he heard it... the most relief-bringing sound... the most wonderful thing that could reach his ears at that moment.

It was a small childs giggle.

Orbus broke into a run, the white dot growing faster and faster, getting all the more closer...

It revealed itself to be a door.

A large, open door, with white light shining through it.

A dark, crumpled form sat by it's door hinge, with a few more forms standing over it.

"Your supposed to be alive aren't you?" A feminine voice asked, examining the crumpeled body.

"Maybe it's not to late?" A more masculine voice asked, leaning over to the female form.

"Tiffany?" Orbus called out.

It was faster than he could process, the two looked up and into the darkness where he stood. They looked at one another, and then Tiffany and Richard ran out to meet him.

"DANIEL!" Tiffany screamed, leaping on him in a tear stained hug, "I never thought I'd see you again!"

"Dan!" Richard whispered, hugging his best friend when his wife released him.

"Where's Lyssa?" Orbus asked after Richard released him.

He was answered by a small yet strong force attacking his legs as Lyssa wrapped her arms around them.

"I FOUND YOU!" She exclaimed, causing the adults to laugh.

"Yes you did sweetie." Orbus smiled, "Now, where's the other guy?"

Lyssa first appeared confused, then realization dawned on her. She pointed at the barely breathing Spencer who sat against Heaven's doorway. He was watching the whole thing in painful silence. He looked more like a zombie than a human soul.

"We don't know what to do with him." Tiffany shook her head, "We four can only go where the light touches, but he can't enter yet."

Orbus stood considering Reid for a few moments, "Quite the pickle huh?" He smirked.

Then Orbus shrugged, "I bet this will hurt wont it?"

"What?" Richard asked.

"Throwing him back into the dark."

"What?" Tiffany screeched, "Daniel Thadeus Orbus! We are NOT throwing him out there! He'll die for sure then!"

"If he does die the doorway will just open up for him again." Orbus shrugged, walking over and hoisting Reid up by the underarms, "But until then he needs to get away from this door and what it leads to." He stood Reid up onto his feet and turned him around to look Orbus in the eye.

"You have three beautiful women waiting for you back there, three great friends, and a creepy psycic who probably wouldn't let you in to heaven yet anyway on account she's that dark haired agent's friend." Reid steeled himself, a new kind of fire igniting in his eyes, "Thank you for your help in reuniting me with the best people I've ever known, and for destroying that demon witch, but it's time for you to go home, to your body."

Reid nodded, removed Orbus' hand's from his shoulders, and straightened up. He smiled and waved goodbye to Lyssa, shook hands with Richard and hugged goodbye Tiffany. Then he turned to go.

Before he left, he stopped next to Orbus, "Thank you." He smiled at the Circus Master, then clapped him on the back and took his first few steps into a black nothing... The doorway to Heaven closing behind him as the four spirits entered an eternal rest.

Spencer Reid was completely alone, completely ready to live.

It was a short walk before he felt a warm sensation comeover him and he felt like he was falling...

'Here I come...' He hoped.

Reid became concious awhile later. Everything felt sore. Like his muscles had been ripped from his body and then superglued back in place awhile later.

It was still dark, and for an agonizing moment Reid believed he'd failed, that he was still trapped in that dark place, lost and left to wander while he tried to find a way out.

Then he heard the voices whispering above him. They sounded familiar, even when they were hushed so quietly he could barely tell what they were saying.

"Is he even alive?" a female voiced trembeled, probably... Garcia?

"He must be!" Another voice declared, had to be Morgan, "His heart moniters still beeping right?" Yeah, it was Morgan.

Geez, Garcia and Morgan, Reid was begining to feel the pain caused by a year of seperation...

"Guys, quiet." An unfamiliar female voice suddenely cut through the quiet buzz of conversation, "It's hard to tell if he's returned or not."

"So sorry Nostradomus, shall we hold a seance?" Someone said snarkily. It sounded female. JJ? Or was it Prentiss?

"Hey!" The newcomer hissed, "You may not believe but Ive exhibited enough proof for all of you here." Yeah, she must be yelling at JJ Reid decided.

"JJ come on, just concentrate on Reid, he's gotta wake up any minute now." That had to be Prentiss. Good ol' Prentiss, Reid thought drowsily, always there for her people...

Reid felt like a deflated helium baloon. Everything making him alive was gone. Sucked away by greedy kids intent on making funny sounds with their voices after inhaling his helium, his life force.

Reid mentally shook himself, too deep man, too deep, he said to himself.

"It could be another week at this point," the strange new voice finally sighed, "was your friend just lazy sometimes?"

"No," Reid grinned feebly, "just desperatly in need of a coffee loaded with sugar..."

"REID!" the room exploded from the sounds of excited and relieved voices! The voices owners descended on him like waves crashing to the ocean. Garcia got to him first, hugging him so tightely, he thought he heard his ribs crack!

"Garcia come on!" Prentiss and JJ grinned, "We wanna piece of him to!" JJ laughed, squirming past her two teammates and effectively usurping the young agent from the technical analyst. She hugged him tightely, and Reid allowed himself to enjoy this moment for as long as it lasted, hugging back fiercely until Prentiss unknowingly severed a wonderful moment and replaced JJ with herself, trying to hide the tears of relief she'd felt break through as she fought her way to him.

"Welcome back man!" Morgan grinned earnestly, clapping Reid's hand with his and pulling him into a brief hug before Hotch shook Reid's hand and clapped him on the shoulder. Rossi simply smiled at him and said, "Good work kid." Reid nodded back weakly and finally noticed the dark haired goth girl half grinning at him.

"So your the idiot who let a Witch take himself over body and soul?" Reid found he could only nod, hoping his cheeks weren't to flushed from embaressment. She shook his hand, "Ivona."

"Reid."

"I know who you are Spencer," She smiled at his eyebrows shooting up, "Emily is one of my best friends. She talks about you all the time."

"Funny Ivona," Prentiss sneered from Reid's bedside, "And how much have you been talking about Hotch to me in private?"

"I dunno, once or twice, maybe five times? He's hot and apparantly single." Ivona winked at a reddening Hotch, who coughed and stood very, very still. The rest of the team laughed robustly, making Reid's chest hurt.

"I suspect your exhausted Spence." JJ smiled, checking her watch as her motherly instincts kicked in, "Somebody should tell the nurse he's awake."

"Aww!" Garcia cried, "But then she'll throw all of us out!"

Morgan leaned into the blonde computer buff's shoulder and said loudly into her ear, "We can come see him tommorow Baby Girl." Garcia sighed in defeat, "Fine."

Spencer smiled and hugged Garcia and JJ a final time before the nurse appeared on her own and, true to Garcia's word, ushered them all out, Ivona winking at Reid and grinning as he felt his face go red.

Then Reid was left in his comfortable hospital bed, alone with his thoughts...

All in all, he decided, not such a bad comeback. Em talks about him behind his back? That brought a grin to Reid's face as he felt sleep pulling him back to his pillow and he fell promplty into the deepest and most real sleep he'd had in over a year.

Only one more chapter! Are you ready for such a story to come to an end? Please leave your comments and reviews, you have no idea how much sneaking and getting up early i had to do to steal time to write this on many different computers! (for example im supposed to be writing a lab report, but what am i doing? Im writing whatever the heck I want! :D)

Thank you for reading this far... I promise the last one will be truly rewarding!