A/N - Written for my beautiful sister JayJe
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Emily smiled at the man before her, her gloved hands setting themselves on her hips as she waited for him to take a step closer. "Derek, this was your idea."
The darker man gave a shaky nod, looking down to the white ground below him as laughs came from around him. "Yeah, I know. I guess I didn't think it through all the way." He looked up to the brunette before him, giving a slow and shaky smile. "Why don't you go on without me?"
Emily arched a perfectly manicured eyebrow, sliding a bit closer to the younger man with her brown eyes narrowing on his worried features. "Derek come on. I said I would help you out with this."
"There are plenty of nice men out there, Em. You go and find someone who can actually do this."
The brunette woman gave a small sigh. "This was your idea."
Derek shook his head. "And now I'm thinking it wasn't one of my brightest."
"Derek, this is our first date."
The younger man looked to the beautiful woman who stood before him with a smile. "Its still early enough to go to the diner and get that hot chocolate you love so much."
Emily scowled to the darker man in front of her and crossed her arms over her breasts that remain warm inside of her coat. "Derek, you promised me a night of ice skating in the park, and that is what I'm getting. Now you get on this ice with me and let me help you."
Derek gave a small shrug. "But Em..."
"But nothing, Derek Nathaniel Morgan. You get on this ice right now."
The younger man gave a firm shake of the head, setting his hands on his hips just as the brunette did a moment ago. "No. I will not risk my life on the slippery ice that can easily cause my death."
Emily immediately put on a smile, biting down on her bottom lip in a seductive way as she cupped his cheek in her warm palm. "Derek, you remember that time we were boxing down in the gym of the FBI building and I punched you in the face so hard you fell over?" She grinned wider as the younger man's eyes widened. "I can do that again, but this time... I'll use my ice skate."
Derek stood up straight, his lips curling into a hesitant smile. "Ok. Time to skate."
Emily winked. "I thought so." She slowly grabbed onto the younger man's elbows and gripped his jacket between her fingers. "Ok, now just move your feet slowly and steadily, and step right onto the ice."
Derek looked into the older woman's dark eyes. "What if I fall down?"
"You won't fall down."
"But what if I do."
"You won't."
"You don't know that!"
Emily looked exasperated as she glanced up to the dark sky. "God, if I'm wrong and Derek Morgan just happens to fall down on this ice, please let me fall down with him." Her eyes made their way back down to the younger man and gave a cautious smile. "Ok?"
Derek let out a breath. "Yeah I guess."
"Good!" She smiled as the younger man slowly made his way onto the ice, and she tightened her hands around his elbows as his body shook. "You're doing great, Derek."
The younger man gave a roll of the eyes. "We haven't even started moving yet, Emily."
Emily let her eyebrows raise, her dark eyes glaring at the man before her. "I swear I will slap you if you don't start to let the Christmas spirit jump on into you."
"Ok ok!"
Emily let a girlish giggle escape her as she started to move backwards on the slippery ice, making sure not to bump into any other people that were skating around them as she led her date slowly on the rink. She smiled to him when she saw his wide eyes looking down at his feet, making sure they didn't slip from under him as they continued to slowly make their way around the pond. "Can I say you're doing good now?"
Derek smiled. "Sure."
"You're doing so good!"
The younger man laughed as they slowed to a stop. His eyes widened as Emily's hands took themselves away from his arms, and quickly grabbed onto the brunette woman's hands. "What are you doing?"
Emily shook her head. "I'm letting you go."
"Why?"
The brunette let out a laugh, trying not to fall from the forceful grip that the wobbly man had on her hands. "Derek, calm down. I'll still be holding onto your hand, ok?"
Derek gave a shaky nod, giving an audible gulp as they started to skate once again, his feet barely moving as they slid across the slippery ice. "Ok...Ok, I think I got it."
"Ya' know, usually the man is suppose to help the woman in relationships."
Derek sent a glare towards the smiling older woman. "Ha ha, very funny. Can we maybe sit down for a minute?"
Emily frowned, slowing down their pace. "Why? Are you alright?"
Derek hid his smile, glancing over to the man in his winter jacket just across the pond. "I just need to get off the ice for a minute."
Emily quickly nodded, skating with her date over to the other side of the pond and helping him slowly off of the ice and back into the melting snow. "Ok, we're good now." She smiled to the younger man, feeling herself wobble slightly in her skates. "No falling now, ok?"
The darker man gave a grin, pecking a kiss to the ivory woman's temple before seating them down on a nearby bench. "I promise no falling, if you promise not to hit."
The older woman let out a laugh, accepting another kiss, this time to her forehead, from the man at her side. "I think that's a promise I can make." She bit softly into her bottom lip, letting the younger man kneel in the snow before her and slip off her skates. "So you ok, now?"
After slipping the shoes onto his date's feet, Derek looked up into the brunette's eyes and smiled. "Come with me."
Emily lifted a brow, cautiously standing and slipping her hand into Derek's outstretched one. She let him lead her over to a skinny looking man with a steaming cart sitting in front of him. "Derek... I don't like the look of that man."
Derek shook his head, putting his hands on the older woman's shoulders and setting her small body before his. "Sir, may I ask what you're selling?"
The younger man turned his brown eyes over to the couple, smiling through his thick beard before pushing his cart towards them. "Selling strawberries, good man! Christmas strawberries, that is."
Emily did her best not to let out a snort. "And what exactly are Christmas strawberries?"
The younger man smiled, opening the top of his cart and picking up a tray of chocolate covered strawberries. "Strawberries for the one and only, Emily Valerie Prentiss."
Emily's eyes widened as she looked to the tray of treats before her, her fingers reaching for the folded note that sat in the center of them. "For the only star that brightens my sky, my diamond in the rough. This is only our first date, and I'm falling for you hard. Try and catch me before I break, and maybe you'll keep me forever." She looked up to her date with stinging eyes, her jaw dropping open as he smiled down to her. "I don't know what to say."
Derek just shook his head, setting a stray curl of the older woman's ebony hair behind her ear. "Say nothing." He reached around her and picked up a strawberry, smiling as he set it against the brunette's plump lips. "You can eat, though."
Emily's eyelids fluttered as her lips parted, taking the chocolate treat between her teeth and gently biting down.
"So?"
The brunette gave a small moan as she brought her hand up to her mouth, licking the chocolate from her lips. "That's delicious." She turned and smiled at the bearded man still holding the tray. "Thanks Spencer."
The younger man's eyes widened. "W-What?"
Emily grinned as she looked back over to a shocked Derek. "I told you I didn't like the look of him."
Spencer gave a sheepish grin before pulling the beard from his face and into his hands, setting the tray of treats back onto his cart. "I guess I should be going then."
The brunette woman smiled as she set a kiss to her co-worker's cheek. "Thank you, Spencer."
The younger man gave a small nod before looking over to his friend, his eyebrows raised. "So?"
Derek rolled his eyes before taking a fifty from his pocket and shoved it into the younger man's hands. "Now get out of here, Reid."
Emily let out a laugh as she watched her friend scurry away. "You paid him to do this for us?"
"For you."
Emily smiled as she felt Derek's arms wrap around her waist, and she slowly turned in his arms. She bit her lip as she looked up to him, feeling the unfamiliar warmth of the younger man's arms around her as she slid her hands up his arms. "Do you believe in miracles?"
Derek arched a brow, much like the older woman always did, as he looked down to the brunette. "Are you saying that it took a miracle for this date to happen?"
The brunette giggled. "No. But when I was little, my father always told me this story that on Christmas day when the first snow would fall, a miracle would happen. He never told me what it would be, but he said it would be the most special experience of my life." She bit her lip, her fingers grabbing onto the material of the younger man's jacket. "It hasn't happened yet, though. I get all excited each Christmas Eve, but when nothing happens the next day, all my hopes seem to die off."
Derek looked into the brunette's dark doe eyes, taking one of his hands and cupping the older woman's cheek. "Emily, do you know what day it is?"
The older woman gave a slow nod of the head. "Of course I do. Its the twenty-fourth of December."
"No."
Emily let her eyebrow raise. "No?"
Derek smiled as the bell tower not a block away began to ring, and people began to cheer around them. "Its Christmas."
Emily felt herself smile as the younger man's lips softly melded with hers, her fingers gripping the darker man's jacket as Derek took her bottom lip between his teeth. She gasped slightly as his left hand cupped her hip, and she slowly pulled away from his loving kiss. "Derek..."
He smiled as he watched a small snowflake fall to the brunette woman's eyelash, and softly blew it away. "Its not the first snow, but maybe this can count?" He took in the laugh from the older woman before diving back in for another kiss. "Happy miracle, Emily."
Emily bit her lip, wrapping her arms around the darker man's neck and smiling as he set a kiss to her pale cheek. "Happy miracle, Derek."
