your ears ring after the blast, just a moment before you register the blistering heat and the pain.

You had gone into the building unarmed and without a bulletproof vest to try and talk down the unsub, but he had blown up the building you were in anyway, and you- caught in the middle of it- had been hit with shrapnel.

Hotch is suddenly kneeling over you, Emily quickly following suit. They're blurry figures in your eyes, probably speaking, but it's drowned out by the ringing in your ears.