In Love and War
Chapter 1
Old Friends and New
AN: This is little different than my usual stories. I don't own anything though. Thanks Kathy for the help on expanding my idea and just so you all know I'm using David Boreanaz that plays in Bones and that played in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel as Morgan's friend Nick. This starts between season two and three, but it won't be keeping with the show. Gideon has already left the BAU. Rossi will be in this eventually, and since I love Haley and Hotch together she doesn't leave, they work things out.
Morgan and Garcia had gone to Chicago for the week since the team was under review to see if the BAU was worth saving. They hadn't wanted to be there, and it was the week of his birthday so Penelope had suggested they spend the time with his family for change instead of their other family, which was the team. Hotch and Haley was working through problems in their marriage, Gideon had left them not saying much anything besides a letter to Reid. JJ and Reid were spending the week together watching TiVo games of the Redskins from the past season when they couldn't see them, since they'd been working, and Emily had decided to go see her mom.
They'd decided to get together before the two weeks were up, which was how long they had off all together. None of them really wanted to think about the out come of not being with the BAU any more, one the reasons that Garcia had practically shoved Derek out the door when he asked if she wanted to go home with him.
The two them had spent the last two days having fun and last night some his friends from college had thrown a party, which had been crazy, few guys from the bomb squad had also been there celebrating with them too. His mom and sisters had given him a less wild party on his actual birthday, the afternoon they'd gotten to Chicago on Monday.
"What we doing tonight another wild time with your friends from here?" Garcia asked him. They'd been sitting in his old bedroom for the last hour going through old pictures of him on his previous birthdays.
"No, I thought we'd meet up with Nick, he couldn't make in last night since he was working," Morgan said.
"Long as he doesn't think having fun means screaming in my ear every ten minutes I'll be fine," she said with smile.
"Nick's not as crazy as Jessie is, I told you he's not big on partying, and he'd never try and grab your ass like that, I promise," Morgan said trying not to laugh, but seeing Jess get slapped because he'd grabbed Garcia's ass had been too funny.
"What happened to defending me?" She asked.
"I was going to, but baby girl, you slapped him yourself, and I did warn him to keep his hands off you," Morgan said, "However soon as you said we were just friends, it was fair game for him."
"So I should just say we're dating and have hot sex every night?" Pen asked with laugh not seeing the look on Derek's face when she did. He would love to be with her, she was the only one he wanted and he'd brought her home hoping maybe something could happen.
"Come on, we gotta go meet him, and it's hour drive from here to his place, he said give him hour, and by the time we get there it will be hour," Morgan said standing up before grabbing their bags. They were staying at Nick's house for the next three days since they hadn't had time to see each other in over year. Before they left they were coming back to his mom's but just in case Morgan was taking their stuff since it had what they needed.
"Remind me again why you talked me into staying with your friend and not staying here?" Garcia asked him.
"Because, baby girl, you are not staying here by your self, and you came to spend time with me, I promise you'll love Nick, he's not party animal, but he's lot fun, my mom pretty much adopted him the first time she met him," Morgan said.
"Okay, if you mom hasn't threatened him then I'm good, hot stuff," Pen said.
Hour later they were pulling up to Nick's place, which was just outside of Chicago. It was nice place which he'd fixed up and it was right on the lake, which was another reason he'd invited them there. It was prefect place to cut loose had, and have some fun and forget about work for while.
"Damn, you weren't kidding when you said he had great place out here," Garcia said looking around.
"That's why I decided to drive up here, can't get here less you got a truck," Morgan said turning off the engine and taking out his cell turning it to off and putting it in the glove department, "No signal, no phone either, it's perfect get away, and sorry baby girl, no internet either," he added looking at her with smile.
"Well I could always make you dress up and entertain me," She teased.
"Nope, but your ass is going into that lake," Derek said.
"The hell I am," Penelope said.
"Oh trust me baby girl, you are going in that lake and I'll throw you in, I know you can swim cause we've been before, when I drug you to the beach with me last summer, we had fun," He said.
"You Derek Morgan are not getting me in that lake," she repeated.
"Yes you are," Derek said before picking her up fireman style making her scream out.
"Put me down," she squealed.
"Hey Nick, you think I should throw her in the lake now or later?" Derek asked seeing his friend coming out the door.
"She's your girl be my guest," Nick Wells said with smile.
"He said I could, so it's two against one, baby girl, you're getting wet," Morgan said.
"Don't you dare," Pen yelled out trying to get down.
"Well maybe you could introduce me to her before you toss her into the water," Nick replied.
Morgan sat her on her feet again, "Sorry, Nick, this is Penelope, Pen this is Nick," he said.
"Hi, you can call me Garcia or Pen, if you like," Garcia said.
"Garcia it is then, so how'd you meet Morgan, somebody set you two up?" Nick asked.
"Ha, he wishes, I'm his best friend," Pen said.
"Oh so you're the one he's always calling baby girl," Nick asked.
"Yes, and only I can call her that," Morgan said.
"Fair enough, you two want to put your stuff inside before I get the grill going?" he asked.
"Yeah, I'll grab the bags," Morgan said.
They were sitting around on the back of Nick's deck few hours later. Few beers in all three them, and Nick was already telling stories about their college days and while they were both on the bomb squad. Derek was sitting in one the loungers and he'd pulled Garcia into his lap hour before.
"There was this one time, that our captain, was in his office and couple the guys decided to try and scare the shit out of him," Nick said, "Morgan had just gotten back from the eighteen months of undercover work, and he was in James' office, our captain at the time, he didn't know about the prank wars we'd all been playing for the last month," Nick said with laugh, "Jessica decided to get him too, she put this balloon outside the office and that thing went off when she touched it with the magnet full of nails, this nut came out that chair so fast, I was about to die laughing," he said laughing.
"I still haven't gotten you back for that yet, it was his idea to do it, Jess was just the one who did it," Morgan said, "They thought it was funny hell even James was about to die laughing," he said with smile.
"Seems like you two had lot fun together," Pen said.
"Yeah we did, but FBI over there left to join the BAU, and apparently that's were all the good women are," Nick said with smile looking at Penelope. He'd asked Morgan earlier if they were together, he'd said no and soon as Nick had heard that word, he'd decided maybe he'd ask her out if she wasn't with Derek.
Derek knew soon as he said no it was the wrong word, Nick was wonderful friend, hell he was his guy best friend, but when it came to women he was the opposite, if he asked Pen out he knew it wasn't going to be just for sex, it would be because he actually liked her, and she'd go for him, because he was that good looking, but Morgan wanted her. He loved his best friend, just hadn't told her what he really meant by those three words.
"Well, I don't know about you two, but I'm going to go to bed," Garcia said.
"Want company?" Morgan asked her.
"No, you two catch up, I'll keep the bed warm for you handsome," She teased, but she knew he'd end up in her room later, it was always the same when they went away together, it was always something there, but he didn't act and she didn't want to screw their friendship up so she just took what he gave her, cuddling up together, hugs here and there and the flirting they did.
"One these nights I'm going to believe you, baby girl," Morgan said back with smile as she got up going to the house.
"Thought you two weren't together, if you share a bed, then the only thing missing is you doing her," Nick said.
"I had share bed with your ass once, and we're friends," Derek said.
"That's different we both go for women, your best friend is one those women," Nick replied.
"The day she stops flirting and crawls in that bed for real not just as a friend, then you'll now," Morgan said.
"Fine, but till then she fair game, since apparently Desiree is off limits," Nick asked him.
"She turned your ass down cold, I didn't even have to say no," Morgan said laughing, "And no she's not fair game, there is no game," he said.
"Look, it's obvious you love her more than a friend, you been holding her for the last hour over there and she looked right at home," Nick said, "I mean if you two are seriously not together then you know I'm going to ask her out, somebody like her is once in lifetime."
"What you asking for my permission or something?" Derek asked, if it was anybody else he wouldn't asked twice, but it was his baby girl.
"Fine, I'll back off, but hey, she asks me out I'm not saying no," Nick said before calling it a night too, "See you in the morning,"
"You know Nick is great guy, and you're right, he's not like those other crazy friends of yours, he's wonderful, hell he could be your brother," Penelope said.
"What?" Morgan asked, they were talking the next morning still in bed.
"I'm just saying, he's hot, not hot like you, but pretty damn close," Pen said snuggling into his side.
"So if he asked you out you'd say yes?" Derek asked.
"I wouldn't think twice, hot stuff, I'd say yes in heart beat, only one other guy I know that damn good looking, and he's not my best friend," she replied not seeing the hurt look that went through Derek's eyes, but he wouldn't let her know, he'd just have to figure a way to get her to see that he did love her, not just as a friend either.
"Sure he is, that's why Desiree turned him down cold," he said with laugh.
"Ha, he's the kind of guy that Des would run from, that's why she turned him down, she's all for the bad boys, just like her big brother used to be," Pen teased.
"Oh I'm still bad," Morgan said with smile
"Yeah sure you are, you don't leave the toilet seat up, you take your boots off at the door, you still ask me before you let Clooney onto the bed when you two stay over, which reminds me, why did you let him stay with JJ?" she asked.
"Because he hates long trips and we were driving, not flying other wise I would brought him, last time I drove home, he got car sick, and JJ wanted some company besides Reid," he said.
"You mean she wanted a reason to get up when things got really tense between the two them and she could say she had to get him something," Pen said.
"I did not say that, you did," Morgan said.
"We gotta get up eventually and seeing as how I can't cook you gotta get me some kind of food," she replied.
"You the one that is still laying here, I'm just enjoying the view," he said.
"Funny, I'm up, does Nick cook?" She asked.
"Yeah, why?" Morgan asked.
"Another reason to say yes," Pen said.
"You'd choice him over me, woman?" Morgan asked her before he started tickling her.
"I never said that," She squealed before tickling him right back.
"I give," Garcia said five minutes later when she was trapped and couldn't get to him any more.
"That's what I thought, baby girl." He replied before getting up, "Come on let's see what he's making,"
Nick was standing in the kitchen in only pair of jeans and his boots when they came down. "I was wondering if you two were ever coming down, I been up since seven went for run and everything," he said.
"What I'm taking it easy," Derek said, "You had our job you would too,"
"Whatever you say, catching those bad guys is one thing, disarming their bombs is another, any time you want to join me again, just say the word," Nick said.
"Any time you want to join the real boys club, just let me know," Morgan said back.
"Would I get your best friend, because if so sign me up," Nick teased, but he did want Penelope.
"Ah, I feel special you two fighting over me, but I told you, we're just best friends," she said, but she was hoping there was more, however, he'd never tried anything and she'd tried again.
Nick smiled at that, he couldn't help but tease her right back, not expecting the answer he got afterwards. "Then go out with me," he said.
"Okay," she said with smile.
"What?" Both Nick and Morgan said.
TBC
AN: I promise this will be Morgan and Garcia, you just gotta hang on.