Aaron Hotchner was sitting in his office when he realized what he had forgotten to do. He triple checked the stack of papers that were sitting on his desk. There was no way he could back out of his promise to Jack. He had promised him he would be there not only on Christmas but the days leading up to Christmas as well. They needed to get a Christmas Tree, and wrap presents and try to get through their first Christmas without Haley. But the papers he had forgotten to give Strauss before she left was detailed notes of the cases the BAU had handled in the past 6 months. If she didn't get the paper's by the 24th of December, she would split up the BAU. Strauss wasn't in Virginia for the holidays and that was what the problem was. She had went to her vacation house in Beaufort, South Carolina. It was a 8 hour drive, and Hotch couldn't betray Jack to drive to Beaufort to give Strauss those papers.

Prentiss had family coming in to stay at her house in the morning, JJ had went straight to Louisiana after the plane had landed. Reid was flying out to Las Vegas and Rossi was at home with the flu. Morgan and Garcia was the only two available. Morgan's flight to Chicago wasn't leaving until the 23rd and it was the 19th.

"Derek!" Hotch yelled trying to catch the guy before he went out the BAU door.

"Yeah Hotch?" he asked turning halfway around.

"I need you to do me a favor." Hotch said, and explained the problem to him.

"You know how far Beaufort is from Quantico?" Morgan asked in disbelief.

"About 8 and half hours of constant driving. But if you want you can take Garcia with you."

Derek instantly perked up. 8 and a half hours to Beaufort with his Baby Girl? How could he pass a chance like that up? They had been so professional to each other lately that Morgan instantly agreed.

"I'll go talk to Penelope." Morgan said, and walked off towards her office.

"Hey Baby Girl, can I ask you a really big favor?"

"Sure Hot Stuff." Garcia said as she shut down her computers.

He explained the whole issue to her, stopping to say she didn't have to go, he just wanted a traveling companion.

"Oh I don't mind Morgs. I didn't have plans anyway."

"Not even with Kevin?"

"He went to Washington State with a couple of his buddies. He didn't invite me."

Morgan could tell this was a touchy subject for her and she didn't want to chat about it. How could Kevin do her like that? Washington State? He bet Garcia hadn't even there, although she'd lived in California when she was growing up.

"So I'll be picking you up at 8?" Morgan asked quickly.

"It works."

"Oh and Garcia can you do me one more favor?'

"Sure hot stuff."

"Can you get directions and things like that? I'm not as good at all the computer stuff as you are."

She laughed and smiled. "Okay, I will. Good night Morgs.

"Good night Garcia."

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