Guilty Until Proven Innocent-Ch 1
It all happened so fast, Penelope found the information they needed and they all hopped into their SUV's and headed to the address she was able to find. When they arrived at the scene they all jumped out of the cars ready to go, Hotch, Dave and Emily went one way and Derek, Reid and JJ went the other.
Everything was going good as they went room by room searching for the unsub, how were they to know that he had already taken another victim, that he'd already kidnapped another terrified woman, how were they to know". Derek heard the floor screaking and turned around to see him, he saw the unsub with a gun to the womans head.
The man Freeman Walker said, "drop your gun agent or she dies", Derek shook his head and said, "I can't do that, come on Freeman, you don't want to hurt her". Freeman laughed and said, "ohhhh but I do, now drop the gun", Derek stood there thinking, "come on guys, I need you", he could see the fear in her eyes, as he saw the tears streaming down her face he knew what he had to do.
He looked at Freeman and said, "alright, alright" as he lowered the gun, the unsub smiled as he watched the big bad FBI agent lay his gun down of the floor. Freeman said, "good job, now kick it over here", Derek just stood there and when he didn't move the unsub punched the gun a little deeper in the side of his hostages head causing her to moan in pain.
It was then that everything started happening, JJ and Reid were making their way down the hall toward the talking and when the floor screaked again he turned enough so that he wasn't looking at Derek. Derek took the opportunity to drop to the floor and grab his gun, Freeman then whipped around and held the woman closer and started firing his gun.
Derek didn't have a shot, not a clear one anyway but he started shooting as did JJ and Reid, the woman fell to the side, out of the way and Derek thought it was over, boy was he wrong. Freeman fell to the floor and Derek dropped down to grab his gun and that's when Freeman and Derek started fighting over the gun.
JJ and Reid were afraid to fire, they didn't want to hit their friend, at that time all Derek could think of was getting the gun away from the unsub before he killed somebody else, that's when it happened, the gun fired. They heard the woman scream but at first they thought it was the sound of the gun firing but sadly it wasn't, she'd been hit and was dying on the floor in front of them.
Reid and JJ ran over and pulled the woman from the room and quickly tried to help her, by the time Derek was able to get the kill shot on Freeman the young, innocent victim was dead. Derek got up off the floor and ran over to his friends and JJ shook her head and said, "she's gone Morgan", his heart fell into his stomach, how could that have happened was all he could think as he looked down at the dead woman at his feet.
They all looked up at Hotch, Dave and Emily ran into the room, Dave looked at Derek and said, "are you alright son"?, Derek just stood there looking down at the dead woman. Hotch said, "Morgan, are you alright"?, Derek looked up and said, "yeah, yeah, I'm fine, I don't know what happened, one minute everything was fine and then the next it all went wrong".
Emily said, "come on let's go outside and wait for the locals, they'll be here in a few minutes", he nodded his head as he walked out of the room in front of his friends. While they were standing outside Derek kept trying to replay everything that happened, he needed to know what happened, how did things go so wrong so fast.
He looked up to see the husband of the victim getting out of a police car, he watched as the man ran over to the gurney his wife was on, the man was heartbroken as he looked down at his wife. The man then looked up and said, "who did this, who killed her"?, Derek felt grief, remorse and blame for it all, had he done it, had he accidently shot and killed the woman".
Hotch put his hand on Dereks shoulder and said, "come on Morgan let's get out of here, we need to get you back to the station and debrief you before things start going together". Derek nodded his head in agreement as he turned around and followed his friend to the SUV, the last thing he saw before he climbed in the back was the husband of the victim throwing his arms around his dead wife, Derek shook his head trying to shake off everything that happened, wondering if he did something wrong, something that cost an innocent woman her life.
The husband looked up and saw a look on one agents face, it was a look of shock, blame, he then asked one of the officers what the agents name was and that's when he heard a name, a name that he was going to make pay for his wifes death and that name was SSA Morgan, Derek Morgan and no matter what he had to do Derek was going to pay for taking his wife away.