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Just a few thing you should know or you will be confused.

This is a crossover of Criminal Minds and Without A Trace

Because Eric Close plays Martin Fitzgerald in Without A Trace and Matt Spicer in Criminal Minds, for the convenience of this fanfiction Mat will be Martin. His back story is a bit different as well but that will be explained as the story goes on

From the Without A Trace point of view, this takes place after the team brakes up and Martin and Danny end up both working in California. Martin in Robbery Homicide and Danny in Narcotics.

I think that's it…

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Derek Morgan smiled across the hall as he watched Elli run into her father's hospital room. Somehow Martin Fitzgerald had survived the gunshot wound, it had just missed his heart and even though he was bleeding out for over thirty minutes he managed to survive.

"Are you finally going to get your head checked out?" Spencer Reid asked pulling the other man from his thoughts. The lanky genius was looking at the wound on his head with concern. Sure he was hit in the head hours ago and the wound seemed to not be giving him any trouble, he knew everyone would feel better if he got it checked out.

"In a little bit," he reassured him, "I'm just waiting for Danny to get here, to take Elli home."

Danny worked in the office under robber homicide. Apparently, Danny and Martin used to work together in New York and had become good friends. Since Martin's sister had died when Elli was kidnapped the only other person her trusted with her was Danny.

Spencer pouted a bit knowing that Derek wasn't going to see a doctor unless he was forced. Then again, he wouldn't want to have to do so either. It almost seemed as if every officer of the law they knew had a thing against hospitals.

After a while Elli came back in the hall. She was smiling now knowing that her dad was alright. Morgan explained to her that they were just waiting for someone to come pick her up.

"Why can't I stay here with my dad?" she asked.

"We had to fight with the hospital just to let you talk to him sweet heart," Morgan explained, kneeling down to her level, "I doubt that we'll be able to get them to let you stay."

The girl nodded sitting down on the bench in the hall. She stayed silent swinging her feet. It wasn't long until a Hispanic male came down the hall. Morgan recognized him as one of the guys that had helped on the case. He was the one who was the most vigorous with helping out on the case once it was heard Elli was missing. He was actually the one who got people from other departments to work with them.

"Officer Taylor, what are you doing here?" he tried to sound as polite possible confused on why he was hear. They were FBI and even they had trouble getting past hospital security.

Before he got an answer he heard a call of, "Papa!" from Elli as she jumped off the bench running to the man as she hugged his legs.

The man scoped her up grinning at her, "I came to pick up Elli," he answered. Seeing the puzzled look on the other two's faces he explained, "I'm Danny Taylor. A friend of Martin's, the nurses said you were expecting me, but I forgot I only introduced myself by my last name."

"I picked up on that," Morgan said, "It's just, she called you Papa and…"

"Oh, that," Danny blushed, "I'm around a lot, so I'm kind of like a second father to her."

"I see," Morgan nodded not sure if he trusted this man after all.

"You want to go say goodbye to your Daddy one more time before we go?" Danny asked Elli, excusing himself from the other two as they went into Martin's room.

"Come on," Reid yawned, "Let's get your head checked out and head back to the hotel."

"Is it past your bed time or something?" he joked, looping an arm around his lovers.

"No but, it's been a long three days and even you could use some sleep."

"Tell ya what. I'll get my head checked out in the morning."

Reid sighed knowing it meant he was never going to get it done. "Fine, the teams waiting for us in the lobby."

At that moment Danny came walking back out with Elli in his arms. He thanked them again and went on his way.

By the time they got back to the rest of the team seemed restless and ready to go. Sure piling into the one SUV that they had. Rossi drove and Hotch took shot gun leaving J.J, Emily and Morgan in the back. Derek then insisting that Spencer sat on his lap.

After ten minutes of the young genus refusing Hotch finally just told him to deal with it so they could get back to the hotel.

"I hope Elli is going to be okay," J.J said, "After everything she'd been through…" she shook her head.

"Morgan, who did you say was she was staying with?" Emily asked.

"Officer Taylor is a friend of Martin's, he's watching her until Martin's out of the hospital."

"There wasn't any family," Hotch asked from the front seat.

"No, her grandparents are in Washington and Martin's sister isn't around anymore. So we looked for a friend of the family. Martin's partner said that Danny, officer Taylor, was a good friend and that Elli was with him when Martin or his sister couldn't."

"It makes sense," Emily said, "I know I wasn't the only one who picked on what was going on between them."

Flashback

The team was going through the different cases that were similar to the ones happening now, starting with the first case. What had caught them off guard was that the first family of victims' names was Spicer.

It had been mentioned once or twice that Martin's original sir name was Spicer. And that after his parents died in the crash and his grandparents were no longer able to take care of him he and his sister were adopted by a Victor Fitzgerald.

"Martin, wasn't you last name Spicer?" Morgan asked in shock then read off the name of his original parents.

"Yeah but… my parent's died in a car crash not a home invasion."

"How do you know," Emily asked, "Were you there."

"No, my grandfather told me…"

"You might have repressed it," Hotch said.

"There's no way that…"

"Think about it," Morgan cut in, "You cringed when the boy mentioned being locked in the closet. If you are repressing it than you would react to things that subconsciously remind you of it."

After a bit of discussion they decided to try to resurface the memories. It ended with a really upset Martin who walked out of office for a while.

"Is he okay," J.J asked concerned.

"He will be," Hotch said trying to everyone to focus on the case.

Then officer Taylor popped in looking for Martin. Fitzgerald's partner explained that he stepped out for a while. This caused Taylor to give them a perplex look. They then told him about the brake he made in the case and how it upset Martin.

Taylor nodded leaving the room.

The partner smirked before turning to the team, "Fitzgerald and Taylor used to work in the FBI together back in New York. If anyone can get him to work after he completely shuts down it's him."

Two minutes later Emily decided to make a quick vending machine run. She froze seeing Taylor embarrassing Martin down the hall, rocking him back and forth kissing the top of his head as he whispered soothing words.

She was a profiler so it didn't take long to put two and two together. She purposely made a noise before she rounded the corner to give them some sort of warning. By the time she pasted them they were a respectable distance from each other.

End Flashback

"You think they're lovers," Morgan asked perplexed.

"I don't think," Emily said, "I know so. Come on Morgan you're a profiler it's not that hard to connect the dots."

"Danny did say he was around enough for Elli to call him a second dad," Reid pointed out.

Now they pulled in front of the hotel and retired for the night.

TBC…