The Flight

Time to Breathe

Reid exits the cabin after saying goodbye to Kate and heads back in the direction he found her.

As he walks, he does his best to remember things from the past, but can't. All he knows about himself is what Kate told him. Kate and himself found is strange that he could remember random facts about useless books and other things but knew nothing personal about himself.

Reid replays the team's descriptions over and over in his head as he stumbles over the rocky terrain once again.

The sun begins to rise higher above the trees and off in distance, Reid can spot a single column of smoke.

He makes it over another uphill climb when he stops in horror as the torn up jet comes into view.

He gets closer to the crash site and can't help himself but to examine the wreckage.

Reid walks through the main sitting room of the jet, or what's left of it, and into the cockpit.

He is distracted by the panels being ruined, and as he moves closer to them, he jumps in shock as he notices how close he was to the dead pilots in their seats.

In disgust and slight horror, he quickly leaves the cockpit and walks out of the wreckage.

As he steps back out, he finds the source of the smoke and four bodies curled up together on a mat.

Without moving, he studies them and finds that they match the description of his team.

Without putting much thought into the situation, Reid walks up to the sleeping bunch and taps Morgan on the shoulder softly.

Morgan stirs and turns to face the source of the tapping, "okay okay I'll do watch, give me a minute."

Clearly knowing that Morgan was still half asleep but unsure what to do, Reid speaks.

"Um, you're Morgan right? From the FBI..." he says awkwardly as he backs away slightly.

"Of course I am," he says as he rubs his tired eyes but at that moment, Morgan's eyes shoot open and he is quickly to his feet, "Reid! Where have you been? Are you okay? Guys, Reid is here!" Morgan says in a hurry as he wakes the others.

The others are soon awake and greeting their fellow team member, asking all sorts of questions, which makes Reid quite uncomfortable.

Hotch, noticing the signs of him being overwhelmed, silences the others and steps towards the youngest profiler.

"Reid, we are gonna do one question at a time because we've all been through a lot," he says as he pats Reid's shoulder and backs away.

"You're not hurt are you?" Hotch asks, as he studies Reid body, but also watches his facial expressions and his 'tells'.

Reid gives a little shake of the head as his reply.

Hotch notices that something isn't right with his friend, but leaves it, because hell, they did just fall from the sky.

JJ breaks the short silence by running (the best she could) to her close friend and gives him a tight hug.

After a brief few words softly exchanged between the two, JJ backs away, "you must be starving! Morgan, could you get some of the leftover food and some water please?"

"Anything for pretty boy," Morgan says with a smirk and turns away to the fire.

Reid is handed a few pieces of meat and a cup of water that the others had found from a steam earlier and gulps it down.

"Why'd you call me 'pretty boy'?" Reid asks shyly, directed towards Morgan, who is sitting across from him, along with the others.

Confused, Morgan looks to see if he is joking, "what?" But noticing that Reid's expressions were genuine, Morgan becomes fearful.

"Why'd you call me 'pretty boy'?" he asks again, which gains the other's attention.

"Um Reid, I've been calling you that for years; it's a joke... don't you know that?" Morgan asks, as he looks to the others for help.

"Oh-" is all Reid is able to get out before his is bombarded with questions from his concerned friends.

"Spenc?" JJ asks with sad eyes.

"Reid?" Hotch asks, trying to connect with him, "what's going on?"

Reid takes a shaky breath and closes his eyes, "I- I don't remember anything."

"What do you mean?" Rossi asks.

"I woke up on the ground a while ago not knowing who I was or what I was doing there. So I went walking and found Kate and I took her to some shelter and she told me who I was and who you all are and I went to get help."

"Amnesia," Morgan realizes that is why he wouldn't remember.

"Wait you found Callahan?" asks Rossi, "where?"

"I went walking and found her unconscious on the ground so I waited for her to wake up and I took her to a cabin because she's hurt... I went out trying to find you guys so you could help her."

"We have to go get her, we either all go there or a few of us need to go and bring her back," Morgan says, trying to think of a plan.

"We all go together. Not taking the risk of getting separated again, we'll think of a plan of what to do after we reach Kate," Hotch orders as they all stand.

They all set out with Reid leading the way, making their way over the mountains again.

After some uneasy path ways and some resting because injuries, they reach the cabin.

Reid, Hotch, and Morgan go inside first while Rossi helps JJ, as she wasn't feeling great due to her head injury and the long hike.

The boys make their way to the middle of the room where Kate sits, slumped in the chair.

"Kate, I found them. I got you help," Reid says to her as he kneels before her and lays a hand on her leg.

"Kate?" Reid asks again, attempting to wake her up.

Hotch moves his hand to her neck, searching for a pulse, and scatters as he yells, "SHE'S NOT BREATHING..."