There's No Place Like Home

Disclaimer: I don't own Criminal Minds, that's CBS. I also don't own The Wizard of Oz, it belongs to Frank L. Baum and MGM/Warner Bros.

Summary: AU fic. While in hiding Emily falls asleep watching The Wizard of Oz and takes a trip there herself.

A/N: This story came to me while watching ABC's Best in Film's The Greatest Movies of Our Time.

Thanks to: DerekMorgansGirlForever.

"Am I to believe my eyes?" the voice said.

"Yes, sir." Emily said holding the broom "We killed the wicked witch of the west."

Placing the broom on the ground, Emily said "We melted her."

"Ah, death by liquefaction, eh?" the voice said.

"Yes, sir. So we'd like it if you kept your promise." Emily said.

"Not so fast, not so fast." the voice said. "I have to give the manner a little thought."

Emily and the others looked upset.

"Go away and come back tomorrow!" the voice ordered.

"Tomorrow?" Emily said "But I want to go home now."

"You've had plenty of time already" Hotch said.

Dave and Reid approach the two.

"Yeah" Dave said.

"You dare question the great and powerful Oz?" the voice said. "I said come back tomorrow!"

Reid looks over at the curtain and sees movement and walks over to it.

"If you were really all that, you'd keep your promises." Emily said.

"Enough" the voice said.

Reid moves the curtain back exposing a blonde woman in glasses.

Hotch and Dave see this and Emily notices, "Hey!"

"Ignore the woman behind the curtain" she said into the microphone.

"Who the hell are you?" Emily demands.

"I am the great and powerful" she said into the microphone "Oz"

"You are?" Emily asked "You lied to us"

"I'm afraid I'm so..." Garcia said "Penelope Garcia."

"You're a very sneaky woman" Emily said "And bad too."

"No, I'm a good one, just a lousy wizard." Garcia said.

"What about the heart you promised Hotch or Dave's courage?" Reid questioned.

"And Reid's brain?" Hotch and Dave asked.

"Why anyone can have a brain, it's a common commodity." Garcia said. "Back where I'm from we had universities just for people like they have something you don't got..."Garcia said handing him "A diploma."

"Oh wow" Reid said staring at it "How do I ever thank you?

"Well you can't." Garcia said turning to Dave.

"As for you my fine friend, your the victim of disorganized thinking. Your under the impression simply because you run from danger you haven't any courage." Garcia said leading the team to a closet.

"Your confusing courage with wisdom. Back where I come from we had people called heroes. And they all had no more courage than you had but they have one thing you haven't got... a medal." Garcia said pulling out a medal.

"Therefore for meritorious conduct, extraordinary valor, and bravery against wicked witches. I award you the medal." Garcia said.

"I'm speechless." Dave said blushing.

"And now for you my tin friend" Garcia said to Hotch, "You want a heart? You don't know how lucky you are to not have one. Hearts will never be practical unless they are made unbreakable."

"But I still want one." Hotch said to Garcia.

"Back where I'm from there are people who do good deeds, they are called phila... uh good deed doers. And they're hearts no bigger than yours but they have one thing you haven't got... a testimonal." Garcia said opening her bag.

"In consideration of your kindness, I take pleasure at this time of presenting you with this token of our esteem and affection. And remember my friend that a heart is not judge by how much you love but how much you are loved by others." Garcia said handing Hotch the heart shaped pocket watch.

"Ah." Hotch said holding the heart pocket watch up to hear. "Oh it ticks."

"Oh they're all amazing." Emily said looking at her friends new gifts.

"Hey! What about Emily?" Reid said.

"Yeah what about Emily?" Hotch agreed.

"Yeah, Emily next." Dave said.

"I don't think there's any way home for me in that bag." Emily said.

"Well, you put me in a bit of a hurried decision." Garcia said "The only way to get Emily back to Paris is for me to take her there myself."

"Really?" Emily said smiling "Will you?"

Emily smiled to her friends, "But you sure your a clever enough to get us there?"

"Girly, you cut me to the quick" Garcia said "I'm from America, it's only a stop away."

Garcia looks at the group, "My love bug had surprised me with a hot air balloon ride and it simply got away."

Looking at the group Garcia said, "When suddenly the wind changed and I got swept up in the heart of the Emerald City."

They walk to the front of the center of the Emerald City, "I kept my balloon just in case."

"Really?" Emily asked.

"You and I will return to the world of E. Pluribus Unum." Garcia told her.

The whole town of Oz celebrates the two's departure.

"This wonderful festivities will have to be my last, as I have to make an unexpected and hasty departure." Garcia tells the Oz people.

"And in my departure" Garcia said "The tin man Hotch will lead the people, assisted by Reid the scarecrow."

"And Dave the lion here" Garcia pointing to him "Will be the head of our security."

Emily got out of the balloon to say goodbye as the balloon was unexpectedly released.

"This is an unhighly unfortunate event." Garcia said "This ruins my exit."

"Oh don't go, come back." Emily shouted to Garcia.

"I don't know how," Garcia shouted as the balloon flew away "I'm sorry Emily."

"Oh no," Emily said "Now I'll never get home."

"Than stay with us than, Emily" Dave said placing his paw on her shoulder. "We all love you."

""Yeah" Reid said "We don't want you to go."

"That's sweet you guys" Emily said "But this can never be like my home."

Emily looked around at her friends, "I'm sure Jayje has stopped wondering about me by now."

"Look, Em" Reid said pointing "There's someone who can help you."

Emily sees the Good Witch JJ pink bubble coming, as she materialized.

"Oh can you help me? Will you help me?" Emily asked.

"You don't need me to help you," JJ said smiling "You've always had the power to go to Paris."

"I have?" Emily asked in confusion.

"Then how come you didn't tell her before?" Reid asked.

"Because she wouldn't have believed me" JJ said "She had to learn it for herself."

"What have you learned, Emily?" Hotch asked.

"Well, I think it wasn't enough just to want to see my friends." Emily said "And if I ever go looking for my hearts desire again, I won't go looking any further than my own backyard because if it isn't there, I never lost it to begin with. Is that right?"

"That's all it is." JJ said smiling at her.

"But that was so easy, I should of thought of it for you." Reid said.

"I should of felt it in my heart." Hotch said.

"No, she had to find it out for herself." JJ said. "And now those magic slippers will take you home in two seconds."

"Oh now?" Emily said. "That's to awesome to be true."

Emily turns around to look at her friends, and said "Oh it's going to be to hard to say goodbye."

Emily looks at them "I love you all too."

Emily walks up to Dave hugs him and said, "Goodbye Dave. I know it isn't right but I'm going to miss the way you called for help before you found your courage."

Dave lightly sob and said, "I wouldn't have found it, if it weren't for you."

Emily walked over to Hotch "Goodbye Hotch. Oh don't cry, you'll rust." Emily wipes his eyes.

"Here. here's your oil can." Emily handed him the oil can.

Emily kissed Hotch on the cheek and said "Goodbye."

"Now I know I have a heart, because it's breaking." Hotch told Emily.

Emily hugged Reid and whispered, "I think I'll miss you most of all."

Emily kissed him on the nose, "Goodbye."

"Are you ready now?" JJ asked Emily.

"Yes." Emily said lightly sobbing "Goodbye boys."

"Than close your eyes and tap your heels together three times and think to yourself there's no place like home." JJ said waving her wand over Emily head.

Emily closes her eyes, and taps her heels together and said, "There's no place like home."

"There's no place like home." Emily whispers.

"There's no place like home" Emily whispers to herself opening her eyes.

Emily sees she's back in her apartment tangled in her blanket.

Emily sees that the dvd has been over for quite sometime and turns her tv off.

"It was all a dream?" Emily said to herself getting off the couch and placing the remote on her coffee table.

Emily gets up and turns off her light and walks into her bedroom, putting her blanket on the bed.

Emily looks at her nightstand and sees the Halloween photo JJ gave her in the hospital.

Smiling she puts it down not paying attention that they were all dressed as characters from The Wizard of Oz.

JJ was dressed up as the good witch and jokingly said that Strauss should of been the wicked witch.

"Daddy? Jack said "You all fell asleep during the movie."

"Sorry Jack buddy." Hotch told his son shaking himself of his dream.

"We're awake now," Reid said stretching his arms wondering about his bizarre dream of Oz.

"Yeah little man." Dave said noticing JJ waking up wrapped up in a pink quilt.

"Hey, junior G man." Garcia said to Jack "Come here"

Garcia hugged the little boy, thankful he distracted them with the movie giving her a peaceful dream.

No one wanted to tell each other that they had a dream of The Wizard of Oz with Emily as the girl trying to find her way home.

'Hopefully soon' JJ thought 'Then there will be no place like home.'

Hotch looked over at the photo on his bookshelf of the previous Halloween dressed as the Wizard of Oz.

'We'll get you home soon Emily' Hotch thought 'And when we do this will be your home.'

"There's no place like home, daddy." Jack said looking at the Halloween picture on the bookshelf.

"When you're safe at home you wish you were on an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home." Thorton Wilder

The End