With My Final Breath

SUMMARY: It's nature's law that older brother's are supposed to protect their younger brother's. Derrick Morgan promised to protect Reid but sometimes promises get broken and nature's law doesn't come true.

DISCLAIMER: I don't own CBS or Criminal Minds.

A/N: I am still working on my NCIS Fic Missing Moments and other Fic ideas. I just needed a chance to write something else and spread my wings. Criminal Minds was the winner of the poll I had set up some months back. I hope you like it!

So, here it is! My first Criminal Minds Fic; I hope you all like it!

CHAPTER 1 – Prologue: Two Brothers

Morgan sat in the living room, still not quite able to believe that changes that had happened in his life. He had never intended to be a leader of his BAU team. He hadn't indeed to 'take in' the youngest member of his team. He never intended to move out of the place his mother had helped him find one week when she'd come down.

Not that any of that mattered. In truth he was sitting up because he was waiting for the youngest member of his team, the one he considered to be his brother in all but blood, to have a nightmare and he himself just couldn't sleep. It had been a hard case, one that even the most veteran of them had trouble with.

With such cases came many symptoms, Prentiss would have an extra drink before going to bed, Rossi would also have an extra drink while he read whatever book he was currently reading until he fall asleep in his chair, Hotch would put his son to bed and then start to re-look at his unsolved cases, trying desperately to find something missed, Garcia would put in extra hours at the family counseling center, JJ would keep her son close and once he was asleep she would break down in sobs, leaving her husband to hold her close and hate the fact that he couldn't take away her pain…as for the two brothers…well, that's already been stated.

As he sat there, waiting Morgan allowed himself to think back to how they came to the place they currently called him…

** FLASHBACK **

Derrick Morgan led his younger brother (in all but blood) through the house, "So what do you think?"

"It's huge," Spencer Reid spoke the first thing that came to his mind.

Morgan held back his chuckle. The place was big but not 'huge'…though considering the place the younger agent called home it probably did look like a mansion.

"But what do you think," His brother couldn't hide the amusement in his voice.

Reid looked around before settling his eyes on the far corner before asking, "Why do I need a place this big?"

It took all of older man's inner strength not to growl or cuss. He wondered briefly how his brother could have a genius level IQ but not notice the simplest things, "Reid…what do the three places we've seen today have in common? No, think about it before answering."

Morgan shook his head while Reid looked around the house silently. How the younger man missed the fact that each house had, 3 bedrooms, a library/study, and enough living room space to put another desk up he didn't know.

Throughout the past year, after a series of events, Reid had all but moved in with him. It got to the point that two months prior he had all but ordered the younger man to drop the lease he had on his small apartment and move in with him. Reid had protested but not hard enough to make his brother believe that it wasn't what he wanted.

Morgan hadn't thought about how the two would get along living in a place neither overly big nor overly small. They seemed to always be on top of each other, causing Morgan to have to go on more jogs then before and Reid to eventually all but live in his room.

At the start of the week the older man had started house/apartment hunting, narrowing his choices to five. They were now on the third place and Morgan could tell that, despite his hesitation to say so, Reid actually liked the place they were at.

"Morgan…" Reid's eyes widened, realization dawning.

"Let's look at the two other places I found," Morgan ushered his brother out the door.

** END FLASHBACK **

Morgan pulled himself out his thoughts as he rose to go check on his brother. It hadn't surprised him when Reid protested moving by saying he wouldn't be living with him much longer. It also hadn't surprised him that of the five houses it was the third house that had so held Reid's interest…so much so that Morgan had signed on the dotted line the minute the realtor agent gave him the papers.

As he entered his brother's room quietly he couldn't stop the smile that came to his face as he looked around. Reid had been stunned when he'd been told he could decorate his room however he wanted.

So, while Morgan himself had gone for more earthy tones, Reid had gone for light and dark blues with the occasional splattering of tan. The headboard of his bed rested against the wall so that the rest of the bed seemed to stay in the center of the room. A nightstand was to the left of the bed, on top lay a desk lamp. Across from the bed was the dresser they'd brought when he moved in. On the wall behind the door stood a five shelf bookshelf that was filled and across from that wall were shelves that held pictures, a chess board, framed copies his published work, and other important things.

Across the hall was Reid's bathroom, also decorated by said man. Reid had protested when he was told that the library/study was also his though his big brother did keep a couple filing cabinets in the room.

It was as he was leaving the room that he heard Reid call out, "No, Morgan! Please, no…no…"

His cries made the older Agent rush into the room. Morgan didn't hesitate to pull Reid into a loose embrace, "Wake up Spencer. Come on…wake up!"

Reid's eyes shot open and he looked at his brother in full panic, "They left and you blamed me. You stopped talking to me."

"Never," Morgan soothed as if he were talking to a child, "They would never leave you and I would never blame you let alone stop talking to you."

"I tried, I tried so hard," Tears coursed down the younger man's face. "I tried."

"It's ok," His brother continued to sooth, "It's ok."

"Promise," Reid pleaded, "Promise you'll never stop talking to me?"

"I'll talk to you," Morgan promised, "With my final breath. Now, close your eyes and think of a safe place. A place where no one and nothing can harm you; it's just you…know that you're safe. Know that everyone you love is safe…know that you're loved; know that I love you."

With that Reid allowed himself to fall asleep. Morgan left the room long enough to slip into some sweatpants and shirt and grab an extra blanket and pillow from his room. For tonight he'd stay by his brother's side…just in case.

TBC…