Birds-of-paradise
Jenny crum's prize for winning the little challenge in my other fic Fresh Blood.
Garcia win a cruise for two people to New Zealand, and invites Morgan to join her. While their feelings for each others began to reveal, they accidently find themselves on a deserted island full of birds of paradise.
Okay so I know that today deserted island doesn't exist anymore, except if the soil is completely unfertile and if there is no fresh water. But it's a fic, so please do as if it was possible. I choose New Zealand and it's surroundings because it's the part of the world in which you can find various species of Birds of paradise.
Penelope Garcia was looking at the letter her hands were holding, agape, still unable to believe this was really happening. Like every morning, before going to work, she was checking her mailbox, and today found something really unexpected.
She had participated to a game on the net, and the prize was a cruise to New Zealand for two persons. She participated for fun but she never thought she would ever win, but now that she had this letter in her hand and two tickets for the cruise, she realised it did happen. Finally she smiled and jumped in joy. She went to her car and drove to the BAU as fast as she could. She was so excited, the letter described the travel, it would first bring them to some New Guinea, then some beach of Australia, and finally to New Zealand. She would have preferred Hawaï maybe, but New Zealand was also a beautiful place with a lot of species of birds of paradise, and she really wished to see some.
She didn't really take time to think about who she would invite, she knew already she would ask Morgan; a cruise with him would be really fun. With a wave of sadness she thought it could be also very romantic if only she had chances to be more than a friend to him. Sadly it wasn't the case. Her heart clenched slightly at it. She knew they would encounter difficulties if they were a couple because of the FBI's strictness with couples among teams, but it would have been worth it. She was no fool; she knew this cruise would mean nothing but enjoyment to him, but even if it was only friendly time, she would be delighted to spend it with him.
When she entered the bullpen, she was certainly radiating with joy, because her colleagues saw immediately something happened, or maybe it was the simple fact they were profilers.
"Hey Garcia," greeted Reid, "what's up?"
"Even you couldn't guess my dear genius!"
"Go on Baby Girl, spell it" Morgan said with curiosity.
She gave him a huge smile and extended the letter to her dear chocolate God. He and Reid read it; the genius was done in a second and congratulated her immediately while Prentiss was just reaching her desk. If she had paid attention, Garcia would have seen the shy look Reid gave her, but she didn't.
"Hey guys, what's up?"
"Garcia just won a cruise for two persons" answered Derek in amazement.
"Oh great! How did it happen?"
"Your computer goddess participated to a game on the net, and she won! You had to answer a test about computer's programs and to me it was easy as pie."
"Who are you gonna choose?"
"Well, if my dear Derek Morgan likes New Zealand, he can have the second ticket."
"You're just kidding, I would love it! Thanks you Baby girl!"
Reid turned to Prentiss with a grin on his face.
"I should have bet on that."
"For that you would have needed someone to bet against you, and no one would have been stupid enough to do it."
Morgan and Garcia didn't really paid attention to them; they were only talking about the cruise. Just like Garcia, Morgan was delighted at the idea of going in New Zealand. Reid began to explain how this country sheltered a lot of birds of paradise, you could find on there a lot of different species which were incredibly beautiful. It was one of the rare times Morgan felt like listening Reid, though his patience ran short after five minutes, and he finally stopped the genius, though the perspective of going there was emphasized now, especially if he could spend it with Penelope. He hadn't taken any vacation since long except for the few occasions he took to visit his family in Chicago and worked hard those last months; like most of the BAU's employee he was almost a work-alcoholic. He could be granted some time off.
He and Garcia would simply have to negotiate with Strauss, it wasn't going to be easy of course, but if they had cumulated enough days off they had the right to take. Maybe JJ could give a hand after all being a media liaison she was the best to help them. They informed Hotch first who looked glad for them, but couldn't decide if they were granted those holydays or not. They just had to pray that Strauss would be fine with it or that JJ would be able to help. Surprisingly, Strauss accepted them to take some days over, with some reticence but still she didn't refuse. Garcia was sure she was in a period of good luck.
'Maybe you'll got lucky with him also' whispered a voice in her head.
Garcia ignored that voice, she couldn't be that lucky. Still she was full of joy, and also was Morgan. The departure would be in a week, and decided it was the good occasion to go and do some shopping with Emily and JJ. She had a lot of colourful outfits, but for New Zealand, she wanted to have something new, after all she obtained this wonderful travel for nothing, she could pay herself some clothes. The whole week before the departure would be literally a torture!
As she promised herself, she finally got some time with JJ and Emily to do some shopping; her colleagues were in need of clothes and shoes so she didn't have any problem to convince them. The only problem Emily and JJ encountered was stopping Garcia from ruining herself with clothes and bath suits. The day after shopping, she had teased Morgan about the stuff she bought under Reid and Prentiss's eyes.
"I fear you'll have to wait to discover it."
"That's cruel baby girl, you know men are weak!"
"Oh my poor angel fish, I wish I could satisfy your curiosity right now, but I fear it wouldn't be decent enough for work. Strauss would have a heart attack."
"Another reason to do it!" Exclaimed Morgan
"Don't listen to him Garcia," said Reid, "he deserves some pain."
Spencer avoided the slap that Morgan tried to land on his head with a little smile of triumph, and Penelope immediately forbid Derek to try again.
"No slap on my baby, especially when he is right!"
"Oh God what did I do to deserve it…" sighed he with a false chagrin.
"Well you're ungrateful," answered Emily, "you shouldn't wish Strauss a heart attack after she was nice for once. You two are under a good star I guess."
"Did you know that those kinds of expression came from the old belief that stars were directly linked to people's destiny, depending on their position when they were born?"
"Okay, explain" encouraged Emily.
Morgan, Reid and Garcia were all bewildered at the fact someone was asking Reid to continue one of his long and sometimes complicated explanation. Spencer was delighted and went on, pleased to have an interested ear for once, because Emily obviously really wanted to know more. Garcia and Morgan however went away, sheltering themselves in Penelope's lair, in normal time, they would have told Reid to stop, but this time someone was on his side. They worked together in here, feeling strangely fine. Garcia didn't have the feeling someone was intruding her lair, unlike the time she had to work with Gideon, on contrary, it was right with Derek. Morgan thought that maybe he should work in there often, it was better than the bullpen, something in here made him feel like home.
Okay, I know it's a little short, but it's more like a prologue. You'll get more about Morgan's feelings and POV in the next chapter.