Hello everyone, thanks for all the lovely reviews, I really appreciate them.

Tbookworm - Thanks for reviewing, I'm glad you like it. Though he had an adult mentality, he is feeling emotions that he felt when he was around this age the first time. And even though he took care of his mother, he was very depressed as a child since he was bullied a lot and didn't have anyone to look out for him. He is a very angry boy looking for someone to call his parents, that's what he sees in JJ and Will. He's just acting out like a lot of angry kids do. He gets better as it goes on though, I promise.

SpenceFTW - JJ's wanted him to be punished for everything he's been doing lately, such as peeping on a girl, stealing, and now cussing in church. But I felt a little weird writing that chapter, not knowing how to deal with their reactions. I knew from the start Will wasn't going to like punishing Spencer, but I eventually decided to make JJ really mad with Spencer. I'm not pleased with that chapter at all. Thanks for all your lovely reviews though, I really appreciate them.

Now, on with the show!

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Spencer walked into JJ's home that afternoon with a happy mindset. He was going to be recommended to the advanced art class? He couldn't wait to tell JJ and Will. He smiled as he took off his back-pack and threw it on the couch, reaching into it and pulling out his book and recommendation letter before walking into the kitchen with a wide smile on his face.

"JJ, guess what?" Spencer cried happily as he skipped into the room, looking up at JJ with his big brown eyes.

JJ turned around towards the boy, looking very sad with tears in her eyes. Spencer furrowed his eyebrows and suddenly his smile fell into a frown, "What's wrong?"

"Oh, um... Nothing, it's just family issues," JJ tried putting on a smile, "What is it you're so excited about?"

"Oh, um..." Spencer couldn't think straight all the sudden, he wondered what JJ was so upset about, "I-I got recommended to the advanced art classes at school today!"

"What?! Really?" JJ cried, suddenly putting on a big smile as she took the recommendation letter out of the boy's hand and looked it over, "I didn't know you could draw, Spence!"

"Yeah! Look!" Spencer shoved his book into JJ's hand and she flipped it open and looked at every page, scanning all the wonderful cartoons and sketches he had in it.

"Spence, these are wonderful! You're very talented!" JJ beamed, happy the boy was finally excited and happy about something.

"Thanks!" Spencer smiled as JJ handed the book back to him.

"Hey JJ, Rossi just called and said we could go ahead and-" Will suddenly stopped speaking when he saw Spencer standing in the room.

"Go ahead and what?" Spencer questioned, raising an eyebrow in curiosity.

"Go ahead and..." Will didn't know what to say.

"Spencer, sit down," JJ said as calmly as she could. Spencer was worried now, why were they acting so weird? He was nervous for the truth. He sat and listened to JJ carefully, "Hotch and Rossi were hanging around today and having a cookout at Hotch's place, well, they ran out of something and had to go to the store and get it, but while they were at a stoplight and just pulling out, a car ran into them at about 65 miles and hour. Rossi is surprisingly okay, but Hotch was knocked up pretty bad."

"Is he alright?" Spencer asked, tears coming to his eyes.

"He's in a coma," JJ answered.

Spencer stood after a moment of processing this new information before he started letting the tears roll down his face, "We have to go down to the hospital. We have to see him."

"That's the plan, kid," Will said as he grabbed his car keys, "I'll go get Henry."

The family arrived at the hospital sometime later, all of them were nervous wrecks. JJ paced around the room as Will sat with Henry in his lap, Spencer by their side, thinking over the possibilities of survival with Hotch's wounds. Not much long after, Rossi walked into the room with a cup of coffee and a cast on one of his arms. Spencer and JJ practically knocked him over when the rushed up to him.

"How is he?" JJ asked immediately.

"He's stable," Rossi replied sadly, looking down at his shoes and then up at Spencer, "How're you two doing?"

"We're doing fine," JJ smiled sadly, looking extremely tired.

"The nurses told me you could come see him," Rossi said, motioning for the family to follow him.

When they all got to Hotch's room, they saw he had, what it seemed like, a dozen machines and monitors hooked up to him. JJ tried holding back tears as Spencer walked over to Hotch. He sat in the chair next to his bed, not knowing what to do. He heard somewhere that talking to people in a coma would help them wake up, so he tried it.

"Hi Hotch," Spencer said awkwardly, aware of everyone looking at him, "It seems you've had a bad day," He chuckled before continuing, "I haven't seen you in a while, and I don't feel like this should be the last memory I have of you. So please wake up."

Spencer sat for a moment before speaking again, telling Hotch of everything that's happened since he saw him last. About how he had a new best friend, Pete, how he's got in trouble with JJ and Will and is still mad at JJ, but is slowly forgiving her, and about his art recommendation. Sadly though, Hotch didn't move a muscle. Spencer sighed and sat back in his chair, feeling empty. He really didn't want his last memory of Hotch to be him lying in a hospital bed on the brink of death.