A/N: Somestimes Inspiration hits at funny times. Don't take this too seriously... The rating will probably go up, depending on the last chapter - which I am writiing right now - develops.
January had never been Derek Morgan's favorite month. It usually came with everyone making resolutions to make big changes in their life and then at some point – usually within a day or two or maybe a week if they were really determined – they'd give them up again. Who needed a new year to change their life anyway?
Any day of the year a person could make changes to their life- no need to wait for January 1st.
They were just seven days into the new year and Morgan had already heard all the standard resolutions multiple times: Lose weight, eat healthier, visit family more. Certainly things that would come up every year and never got done anyway.
They had just been back in the office for two days and Morgan was already buried under paperwork. There were at least six cases he needed to write reports for or add some last details and Hotch was already getting impatient. So until they got a new case it was the same for everyone: following up on paperwork that they weren't able to do in the old year.
During his latest coffee break Morgan decided he needed a bit of distraction from all the reports and went for Garcia's office. He hadn't really seen her today or yesterday, given she and most of the other Tech's were attending the annual security briefing or seminar or something like that. They were always held in January and were mandatory for all Techs. Morgan never really found out what they actually really were talking about, but he knew that it always left his Baby Girl in a really bad mood.
"How's my favorite lady doing today?" he knocked against the widely open door and entered.
"A lot better if I wouldn't have to attend these stupid seminars. God, what's the point? They tell you exactly the same thing every year," she complained, throwing her hands in the air for dramatization.
"Well, I'm sure there is a reason," Morgan tried to sound convincing.
"I certainly could waste my time a lot better. And since this year we also have to fill out some form. Honestly… what the hell?" she exclaimed getting more worked up with the each passing minute. "A form I seem to have misplaced already;" she complained further while going through stacks of paper on her desk.
Morgan decided on helping her hoping that this might get his girl in a better mood any time sooner and went through a different stack of paper. By mistake he knocked over a stack, which was on the floor and spread papers all over Penelope's office floor, at which she didn't seem to be too impressed with.
"Sorry," he tried sounding apologetically, but it didn't seem to work very well. Penelope only rolled her eyes at him.
"You know, as much as I love you and as much as you mean to me and I love spending time with you, I'd say you better leave me alone, since you seem to create more work for me instead of helping me reduce it."
Bending over to at least clean up the mess he had created, he picked up papers from the floor to put them back on the stack they originally came from. And that's when he saw it. One of the last papers he picked up. Big, bright, bold red letters topping what looked like a list and read "Bucket List 2010"
