Re watched 6x01 today. Thought Morgan could use some TLC and it would be nice to write Spencer taking care of him.
Also? I pity the boys around her when Ellie hits the teenage years.
The case was over. Ellie Spicer was safe; Billy Flynn was dead.
At Hotch's insistence Morgan had been to the ER and had his head wound treated properly. The CAT scan had come back clear and he was released with a bottle of aspirin and orders to rest.
On the plane he hid behind his headphones, eventually falling asleep.
Spencer drove them both to Derek's house, his love quiet in the passenger seat. Reid didn't worry about it. Once Derek had processed the day he would emerge from his silence. Spencer would be there with him when he did. He just concentrated on maneuvering Derek's stupidly large SUV through traffic, wishing it was his own more sensible car he was driving.
Derek staggered inside, heading straight to the bedroom.
Clooney whined at his master, sensing something was wrong. Spencer let the large dog outside.
Derek was not in the bedroom when he came back; through the half open bathroom door Spencer could hear him moving about, starting the shower.
Crossing the room he leans against the door frame, unobtrusively watching his battered partner. Derek meets his eyes. With this permission Spencer enters the tiled room. He helps his lover undress, crouching to pull off his shoes and socks so Derek won't have to bend, easing the grey t-shirt over stiff, protesting muscles and bruised flesh.
Stripping out of his own clothes he joins Derek under the warm spray. Spencer washes his lover, massaging gently down his neck, over tattooed shoulders and along strong arms, carefully moving over wrists bruised by Derek's struggles against duct tape bindings.
More body wash, hands stroking the broad back, easing strained muscles. Chest and stomach follow, every bruise and mark cataloged as loving hands pass gently over them. Spencer works his way down until Derek is clean from head to toe.
Out and dry, boxers are pulled on and they climb into bed. Derek reaches for him, pulling him close. Careful of the bruises, he cuddles into Derek, wrapping long arms around him, holding tight, laying his ear against the defined muscle above the heart.
He had been scared when Derek and Spicer went missing, relieved and worried when Morgan was found alive but injured. Most of that had abated when he saw Derek for himself, snapping at the EMT and insisting on working the case.
He can hear Derek's heart beating beneath his ear. Spencer closes his eyes, listening to the rhythmic sound, letting it reassure him that his partner is here and safe.
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*DDL
