The Flight

Time to Send

Garcia swings around in her chair to face another computer screen. She had been staring at those screens for several hours in effort to find her friends.

People have constantly been barging into her small office to see what she has found; which was the same answer every time, nothing.

Garcia scoots back from computers and puts her head in her hands.

Kevin moves over to her side, "hey it's okay. We'll find them."

She moves her head to look at Kevin, "I will look until we do but what I worry about is that we won't find them in time..."

"Hey hey hey don't think like that. We will find them and everything will be okay. I promise. Now would you like me to go get us some food and coffee?" he asks as he gives her a small smirk.

Garcia thinks for a second, "chocolate. Chocolate and hot tea."

Kevin laughs and stands, "I'll go and buy us some chocolate. It helps with everything doesn't it." He pats Garcia on the shoulder and walks out the door.

Garcia leans back into her chair and lets out a sigh. She sits silent for a minute and suddenly gets up and walks from her office, not totally sure where she is heading.

She finds herself in Morgan's office, sitting in his office chair. She sits there embracing his presence.

Garcia studies the pictures on his desk and the small knickknacks that she had given him over the years.

One picture sitting on the corner of his desk catches her eyes, a picture of Morgan and Garcia together.

She picks up the frame and leaves the office.

She slips into Hotch's office and walks over to his desk. She smiles when she finds framed pictures of Jack and Haley sitting by the computer screen.

On the outside, Hotch is so tight and never shows his emotions, so this was a good thing to see that he has memories of his family with him.

She picks up a framed family photo of the Hotchners and takes it with her along with the picture of Morgan.

Garcia then heads to JJ's office and quickly picks out a picture of her and her family.

She heads to the other agent's desks in the bullpen area and picks out several pictures from their desks and heads back to her office.

Garcia gets to work by setting all the frames up around by her computer screen.

When they are all in place, Garcia takes a seat and Kevin walks in.

"I see you decorated," he says as he sets the food down and bends over to look at the pictures.

"I improvised. But now we need to work," Garcia states as she grabs a piece of chocolate and turns to her computer screen.

Kevin takes his seat by his computer, "what do you need me to do now?"

"I need you to check their phones one more time while I try to break into this black box," she says as she types.

They both sit, staring at their computers when Kevin slams his hands on the desk, "Penelope! Morgan's phone was turned on about two hours ago but it's off now."

"Garcia almost falls from her chair when she spins to face Kevin. She moves over to look at his findings, "find that location right now."

"I- I can get the general area but from the looks of it... they are in the mountains," Kevin says as he clicks around some more on his laptop.

"Oh my," Garcia says as she begins to tear up again at the thought of them stranded on a mountain.

"The Rocky Mountains. Morgan's phone reached out for a signal, which he was unable to connect, about three hours west of Denver, somewhere around Mount Elbert," Kevin says as he pulls up a map.

"Why don't you pull of satellite images of the area around the time I was on video call with them. I need to go brief Cruz," Garcia says as she hurries out the door.

"Sir we have something," she says as she peaks her head in Cruz's office.

"Good. I'm right behind you," he says as she gets up and follows her back into her office.

"Mr. Lynch, what do you have for us?" Cruz asks as he looks at the computer screens.

"Sir," Kevin says as he looks up at the section chief and back at the computer, "we found satellite images of the plane right before it fell and we have reason for the plane to have crashed approximately in this area," he says as he pulls up a map with a circled area of Colorado.

"That's a mountainous area. It will be real hard to get rescue teams on foot down there. But we will. And we will find them and bring them home. Good work guys," Cruz says as he heads out the door.

"Sir?" Garcia asks.

Cruz turns, "yes?"

"Do you mind if I follow you to your office to listen to you alert the rescue teams? I just want to... you know, make sure we are actually working to find them," she asks as she voice gets shaky.

"Sure. Come, follow me."

They both head down the halls into his office. Cruz gets in the phone, introduces himself and orders search teams to the area west of Denver.

He hangs up the phone and looks at Garcia, "helicopters are in route now as we speak."