Heading onto the jet to head up to Brooklyn, New York for the latest case Derek Morgan couldn't help but feel like something was going to change his life completely around and that made him nervous. He couldn't shake this feeling and it was pissing him off to no end. They all get briefed and when they get to the latest victim Derek frowns. She looked really familiar and he couldn't put his finger on it. He sat there staring at the photo aimlessly trying to figure out who the hell she was and how he knew her.
"…and victim number five Samantha Jimenez. She was found in her room by her ten year old twin daughters when they came home from school. She usually has something prepared for the girls when they come home along with money for dinner. She works three blocks from the apartment where they live. The girls went into her room and found her butchered and called 911." JJ said catching Derek's attention.
"What's her daughters' names?" Derek asked.
"Veronica and Christi Jimenez."
"Race of the mother?" Hotch asked.
"Italian and Hispanic. Are you thinking racial discrimination?" JJ asked.
"Could be, the others were all Hispanic."
Derek thinks back to ten years ago. He remembered Samantha now. They had dated in his junior year of college. They had been together until she transferred schools over the summer and she broke it off through a letter breaking his heart and that was when he started having a new girl every week. He sighs and shakes his head.
"She couldn't have been Morgan get a hold of yourself. She would have told you if she was pregnant. She would have told you that. She knew of how much you want kids and to be a father. She knew that. She wouldn't run away all because of that. Or would she?" he thought to himself.
He had been hanging out with her best friend trying to get her help to get a ring for Samantha. He wanted to marry her but after looking all day then went to get a bite to eat and they had a few drinks. He was walking her back to the room she and Sam shared so that he knew she was okay and wouldn't get hurt. When he got to the room they shared her best friend kissed him and he pushed her off right away but it had been too late Samantha had already seen. She called him a cheating bastard and to leave her alone and to go and rot in hell and that they were through. That was when he had gotten hurt and is football career was through. He had hurt his knee pretty badly and it ended there.
Soon the plane landed and they went to the work station. The police department had been so kind as to set up a room for them to work in at City Hall. They started discussing the case and two little girls walked in to be interviewed. They were Sam's daughters.
The first one had shining green eyes and light brown hair that went to her shoulders. She had light tannish-olive skin like Sam had. The second one had pitch black eyes that were to be honest, a little creepy in Derek's mind. She also had long black hair that went to her stomach. It was in a tight braid at the back of her head to keep it out of her face. She had browner skin like Derek.
They had little similarity except for Sam's long dancer legs, her high cheek bones and Derek's perfect face. The first one had Derek's eyes while the second had Sam's. They were both beautiful despite having unsimilar features.
"I'm Veronica," the second one introduced herself loudly.
"Christi," the first said. They both seemed rather bold, while sad about their mother's tragic death.
"Hi girls, my name is Derek, do you want to talk about what happened? I know what you're feeling. My dad died when I was your age as well, but he was killed right in front of me, he was a police officer and he was trying to stop a bad guy from taking something that didn't belong to him." Derek said kneeling down to be eye level with the twins.
Christi shook her head not wanting to talk just wanting her mom.
"Fine. But will my sister be okay?" Veronica asks.
"She'll be fine sweetie, she can hang out with my friend Spencer." He said pointing to Spencer.
Veronica nods and hugs Christi then proceeds to take Derek's hand and walk with him to the room where they were going to talk.
Spencer goes over to Christi and looks at her.
"Hey I'm Spencer."
"Hi." She says quietly.
"Do you want to see some Psychics magic?" he asks.
"what's that?" she asks.
"It's a magic trick that uses science." Spencer said.
"Okay." She said taking his hand and they walk over to a desk and he pulls the trick out of his bag and sets it up.
"Close your eyes." He says smiling at her softly trying to make she feel comfortable.
"Why?" she asks closing her eyes tightly.
"Because a good magician never reveals on how he does his tricks."
She nods.
"Okay you can open them now." He said.
She opens and watches as the film canister bubbles then a few seconds later it pops and goes flying across the room hitting Hotch on the back of the head making her giggle.
"That was so cool!" she laughs.
Veronica looks out the window of the room and sees this.
"Excuse my sister, she's simple minded." Veronica smiles.
"You seem very advanced." Derek said.
"Sam homeschooled me after I got kicked out of every school she tried forcing me into. I don't like people. My sister on the other hand, is rather social."
"Homeschool?"
"Advanced homeschool. I could get two or three lessons done in a day with no help from Sam."
"Why do you call her by her first name?"
"It's something we grew up with. She never called us sweetie or darling, so we didn't call her 'mommy dearest'." Veronica scowled, "We both know she didn't want us without our dad. She said he left her though, something we still didn't believe. How many times she lied to us, we stopped counting."
"Sounds like she wasn't all that great." Derek said.
"Oh, she was a great mother. Gave us all we ever wanted, all to make up for our lack of a father. She never made me cut my hair." Veronica smiled and motioned to her long locks, "Something I enjoyed greatly."
"Did she have any enemies?"
"Only every mother on the block, plus three neighborhoods close to us. All of our friends' mom hated our mother, which is why I myself am so antisocial. Our mom was a slut."
"You know a lot of words," he chuckled nervously.
"Shouldn't you be asking about my mother?"
"Ahh, yes," he said and continued with the questions.
They finished up with the questions and then Derek looked at Veronica.
"Did you mom ever mention your dad's name?"
"No. She kept out birth certificates hidden so that we couldn't figure out his name. We don't have any other family. But I have to stay with my sister. We can't be separated. We need each other."
"Okay, let me go and find your birth certificates and find out who your dad is and contact him."
She nods and looks at Derek and says, "Can I go and be with my sister?"
"Sure." He said leading her out.
She goes and sits next to Christi and watches as Spencer does a few more tricks for her making her giggle and get her to open up to him and talk to him about what happened and he basically asked all the same questions Derek did with Veronica. XXXX
Nearly a two weeks had passed and the crime lab DNA results had finally come in from the sample from the girls and from Derek, as done by Hotch secretly.
"Agent Hotchner, I have those DNA results you requested." The leading officer said coming and handing them to him.
"Thank you Detective." He said taking them and opening the file.
"Derek Anthony Morgan paternal match to Veronica Theresa Caprice Jimenez and Christina Theresa-Marie Jimenez."
Hotch nods and he goes and finds Derek who was keeping Christi entertained by playing slap jack with her making her laugh and giggle every time she beat him and pout every time he beat her.
"Derek can you come here for a moment?" Hotch asks.
"Sure Hotch." He said getting up after he tells Christi he would be right back.
"What's up Hotch?"
Hotch hands Derek the DNA results.
"Holy crap," Derek says. He explains everything to Hotch about what happened in college.
"Well it's your responsibility now." Hotch said.
"I'm glad to have kids,"
"They've been through a lot."
"I know, I understand."
They have the girls brought into the room where Derek first interviewed Veronica.
"What's going on?" Veronica asks.
"Well girls we found your father."
"REALLY!" Christi asks perking up happily.
"Yup and you're talking to him." Derek said.
"Oh, you're our father," Veronica said calmly, "Well at least we won't be separated now."
"Sorry about her. She has no personality." Christi teased.
"For the record, she's the younger one."
"While she, being the older one," Christi said, leaving Veronica to finish.
"Is so calm and mature, I could be in one of those sixties, seventies, eighties, nineties movies like Jawbreak because I'm so like that." Veronica smiled, "She always says this."
"We love those movies. Our favorites are Breakfast at Tiffany's," Christi said.
"Jawbreaker, of course,"
"Pretty in Pink,"
"Heathers, however angsty it may be,"
"Breakfast Club,"
"Sixteen Candles,"
"Okay," Hotch interrupted the twins, "We're simply trying to arrange your housing plans. You will move you Quantico with Derek and live with him."
"We can't leave Brooklyn! All out friends are here!" Christi exclaimed. Veronica looked at her with a serious look and puckered lips.
"I'm your only true friend." she says. Christi scoffs and rolls her eyes.
"I need more than just you."
"We share everything, except for DNA."
"Is she always like this?" Derek asks.
"Yes, she's always very calm and serious. Like the mean girls in the movies we like."
"But I was born this way, calm and collected. I don't overreact to anything, which shocks people." Veronica said. She was indeed shockingly calm and mysterious, for a ten year old.
"I can't really explain the way she is, just polar opposite from me." Christi smiled.
"We have our differences, while we have little same things in our persons." Veronica said.
"Well act for a normal kid, just for a little bit." Derek said. Veronica laughed and smiled.
"You know exactly how to talk to her." Christi said.
They get everything sorted out for the girls and head over to the apartment where the girls lived and gathered their stuff which basically all fit into one box all their clothes into two bags each.
It broke Derek's heart to see what so little they had. He knew for a fact as soon as they got back to Quantico and he took the girls shopping he would buy them everything they wanted and hell if they wanted the entire store they were getting it.