I managed to quickly finish this chapter this morning but my WiFi cut out right before I posted because Rogers sucks. So, my lovelies, my internet has stopped throwing its temper tantrum and here is my next chapter!

(although it is my goal in life, I don't own criminal minds or any characters associated with its production)

Begin!

Hotch watched as Makaia was coaxed onto a gurney and rolled out of the room. He sighed, staring at the dead family before him. "Can you imagine?" He turned to Rossi. "He killed them in front of her. They were the only people in five years that cared about her."

"This job makes you doubt everything about yourself and others." Rossi admitted. "Come on. They found Reid."

Hotch followed Rossi back the way they had come, exiting onto the emergency vehicle filled cement parking lot, leaving uniforms to search the rest of the building for Blaine. The two agents watched as Makaia-who held her knees tight to her chest and flinched at every touch-was loaded into one of the ambulances. She didn't seem to have any injuries that needed immediate medical attention, but she was still being taken to the hospital just to be safe. Hotch watched as the ambulance drove away.

"Hotch." Suddenly, JJ was beside him. The unit chief whirled around just in time to see Reid being loaded into a second ambulance. Before Hotch had a chance to make a move, Morgan jumped into the ambulance and the doors closed. "Come on!" JJ, Blake and Rossi were already jogging towards the SUVs.

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Morgan met the rest of the team as they filed into the waiting room. "They kicked me out of Reid's room until they're done checking him out." He explained before any of them could ask why he wasn't with the genius.

"Is there any word on Makaia?" JJ asked. She had been concerned for the poor girl after hearing that she had seen her family killed in front of her.

"Are you family?" the team turned to see a young looking male doctor approaching them. His nose was buried in a chart, which would be how he managed to miss the bold, yellow FBI printed across all of their jackets.

"No." Hotch stated, pulling out his credentials. "We're from the FBI and-"

"I can't give information to anyone other than family." The doctor interjected.

"Well then you won't be reporting to anyone." Rossi said, an edge of anger tinting his voice. He clearly felt for the girl, as the rest of the team did. "We are working her case. The case where she just witnessed her family get murdered in front of her. So I suggest you tell us if she's okay or not."

The doctor looked taken aback by Rossi's slight outburst. "My apologies agent. Miss Alcina will be fine. She has some contusions and minor lacerations, only one of which needed stitches. The biggest issues were a cracked rib and her slight malnutrition. She was being given nutrients through an IV for some time, but not for long. The rib will heal on its own and we are going to keep her for a day or two for observation and to keep her on the IV. She will most likely be discharged by Saturday."

"Thank you." Blake said, politely before anyone could get words out. "Do you have information on Spencer Reid?"

"Dr. Rivers should be finished with him soon." The doctor's pager beeped and he looked at the screen. "I need to attend to another patient. Miss Alcina is in room one twenty four."

The doctor scurried away.

"I'll go see her." JJ said, turning towards her room. "Let me know when you hear about Spence."

Everyone nodded as JJ walked down the hall.

Room one twenty four was just around the corner. JJ knocked on the open door, causing Makaia to jump. "Hi." JJ said quietly, trying to sound comforting. Makaia had her knees pulled up to her chest, arms wrapped tightly around her shins. She was hooked up to an IV line and heart rate monitor that was beating slightly faster than it should have been. "I'm agent Jareau, with the FBI. You can call me Jennifer, or JJ if you like. Can I sit?"

"Sure." Her voice was small and frightened. JJ's heart immediately went out to the terrified child as she dragged the plastic chair that was in the corner of the room a bit closer to the bed. "Is Doctor Reid okay?"

It surprised JJ when Makaia instigated conversation. "A doctor is just checking him over." JJ said, trying to appear as friendly and approachable as possible. "He'll be okay. He's strong." JJ couldn't help the tiny smirk that pulled at the corners of her lips when she thought about her son's godfather.

"Good." Makaia seemed to relax a bit.

"How are you doing?" JJ asked, slightly hesitantly. She wanted to help the girl, but didn't want to push her.

Makaia looked at JJ for the first time, and the agent could see tears brimming wide, bloodshot, grey-blue eyes.

It was amazing how much insight a person could gain from simply catching a glimpse of another's eyes. Makaia's eyes held more pain, fear, sadness and anger than any person should every have to endure in their lifetime. But they also held intelligence, strength. A certain knowing determination that told JJ the trembling teenager in front of her would be okay someday. That someday would certainly not come soon, but it would come.

"I'm okay." Was the small response JJ received. "Do you think…?" Makaia trailed off, looking away from JJ.

"Do it think, what?" JJ leaned forwards ever so slightly. She wanted to take Makaia' hand, wrap her in a tight, comforting embrace; but she knew better than to even offer a hand to hold. Makaia wouldn't trust JJ, and that thought made Makaia's request become blatantly obvious to JJ right before she asked it.

"Is there any possibility that Dr. Reid and I might be put in the same room?" the hope that pushed all other emotions from Makaia's eyes made JJ melt. "I mean, if he wouldn't mind, of course."

"As soon as I get a chance, I will put that request in for you." JJ smiled slightly. "I'm sure Spence would prefer having you close anyways, when we found him, he asked about you before anything."

That prompted a smile out of Makaia. A fleeting tug at the left corner of her lip. It was gone almost before it came, but JJ caught it. "Thank you."

"Absolutely." JJ nodded reassuringly.

"JJ?" She turned at the sound of Morgan's voice. "We can see Reid now."

"Okay." Morgan stayed in the doorway as JJ turned back to Makaia. "Do you want me to stay?" she asked.

"No, you need to see Dr. Reid. But…" Makaia looked up at Morgan, then back at JJ.

"You want Morgan to stay?" JJ asked gently, slightly surprised that she would want a man in her presence after what she'd been through.

"Just… I don't want to be alone." She sounded ashamed, as if her request was completely unreasonable. "Especially since he's not in custody." The second part was so quiet that JJ and Morgan barely heard it. But they did hear it, and guilt began rolling in their stomachs. The monster that had killed Makaia's family was still out there.

JJ's mind turned to the massive collage dedicated to Reid and the smaller one of Makaia on the back wall of Blaine's hidden basement and the knot of guilt in her stomach clenched tighter. If Blaine had stalked the two for that long, he was probably not going to give them up easily.

Sorry, Reid really wasn't in this chapter... I cranked this one out pretty quickly and figured since Reid was unconscious when last I wrote, it wouldn't be very exciting for the team to just sit there and look at him. Oh well, he will be in the next one! Auf wiedersehen!