Gideon Left Two Letters
Chapter one
Rossi starts at the BAU
AN: This is somewhat of a sequel to my other story A Bad Week turns into two. You may want to read that story first before reading this one. It will help on some of the things in this story. Morgan and Garcia already have their daughter, Gideon has left, Rossi is about to start at the BAU again. There is no case the day that Rossi starts instead I'm going to have them be around the office for a week first. Reid wasn't the only one that got a letter from Gideon when he left. Enjoy and let me know what you think. I own nothing.
It had been a month since Gideon had left, but it still hadn't gotten any easier on the team, but two members of the team the most. Gideon had left without warning, leaving his credentials and gun behind. Reid wasn't the only one that had gotten a letter though; there had been two letters at the cabin. One marked Spencer; the second one was for Derek. Reid was starting to put it behind him, but Morgan was still dealing with it, he'd been closer to Gideon that Reid had. Ever since Buford's trial they had gotten together once a week to just talk and have some fun. James had come along few times when he'd been visiting Morgan and Garcia. Morgan had tried to close down and back away from the others, but they wouldn't let him. Garcia had made him talk and it was starting to help, but Gideon's leaving was still eating away at him. It really wasn't helping that today his replacement was going to start at the BAU.
Morgan woke up to the sound of his six month old daughter crying. He turned the baby monitor off before going to check on her. "I got you," he said picking her up and she stopped crying. It was like she knew she was safe now.
They had named her Jamie Ariel Morgan, after debating on the middle name Garcia gave in and named her daughter after her favorite Disney character. She had her dad's eyes and her mom's hair. He had two baby girls now and he was happy, just having them was helping with some of the pain still inside of his heart.
Morgan sat down in the rocker after he'd changed and fed her. She had a mixed skin tone, and she was already clinging to Morgan. The team teased him every chance they got over her already being a daddy's girl. He didn't care though, he'd do anything for his little girl, and his baby girl too. It wasn't long before Jamie was fast asleep again, but Derek didn't put her back in the crib, he sat there rocking her holding her in his arms. He needed her comfort right now; just having her here did that.
Hotch was in his office later that morning, he'd wanted to talk to Morgan before Rossi showed up with Straus. He knew that Morgan was still dealing with Gideon's leaving, he'd been talking to Garcia to see how he was doing, he'd known that Gideon had been spending time with Morgan and James in the last year since they'd come back from Chicago after Buford's trial. He'd been sent to prison not only for the murders but for what he'd done to James and the other boys. He wasn't getting out, he had been charged with the three murders, which had gotten him a sentence which he wouldn't see anything besides bars for the rest of his life, he'd gotten more time for the molestation charges.
Morgan had went to be there for James, along with Garcia and Gideon, but Derek ended up getting subpoenaed to testify on James behave which had also lead to Buford's lawyer going after him too. In the end James and Morgan got what they'd really needed their abuser locked up with no chance of parole of getting out.
Hotch went to see if Morgan and Garcia had gotten there yet, he noticed that Emily and JJ were already there. "You seen Morgan or Garcia?" he asked them.
"Garcia's just called they are dropping Jamie off now, they should be up here in few minutes," JJ said.
"Tell them to come see me when they get here," Hotch said before going to his office.
Five minutes later Morgan and Garcia stepped out of the elevator. The director had banished the frat rules when they'd gotten married nine months ago, and they kept it to a minimum when at work. They still flirted on the phone and called each other their nicknames, but now they held hands and didn't care who knew. They were together and everybody that worked at the FBI knew. Today wasn't different they were holding hands walking towards Penelope's office.
"Hotch wants to see you two before you go hide out for the next ten minutes," Emily said.
"Come on," Garcia said before Derek could object, "I want this over with, and now," she added.
"Fine, but I can't promise you I'm going to like it," Morgan said back as they went towards Hotch's office. He knocked on the door before opening it.
"You wanted to see us?" Garcia asked him.
"Shut the door and have a seat," Hotch said, "First I have your new badge, sorry took so long," he said giving Garcia her new badge.
"Thanks Hotch, you didn't have to go through hell for this did you?" she asked with smile seeing her last name finally changed on her badge.
"No," Hotch said, "How are you doing?" he asked looking at Morgan.
"I'm fine and wish you'd stop asking me that, I'm dealing with the fact he just left Reid and me with a damn letter instead of saying something to us instead," he said about to leave but Garcia grabbed his hand refusing to let him go.
"Okay, I'll stop asking after this week I promise, and if you get the sudden urge to punch something go talk to your wife," Hotch said.
"Are we done?" Morgan asked.
"With that yes, now, Penelope said something about drinks tonight?" he asked.
"No I said pizza and movies, non alcoholic drinks, James is coming to visit, he called yesterday said he really needed to see us, and he didn't want to talk over the phone," Pen said.
"How's his mom been?" Hotch asked.
"We don't know, I called yesterday, but they said right now she's still in ICU, James' been staying with friend for the last few weeks now," Morgan said, "I'm going up there next weekend for my mom's birthday, I was thinking about just bringing him back here, I talked to his Uncle, he can't take care of him right now and with them not knowing if his mom's going to recover," he said.
"Let me know if you need anything," Hotch said.
Pen knew that the doctors had said that James' mom wasn't going to wake up, she'd been shot in a drive by three weeks earlier and she was technically brain dead. Her brother was close to her and refused to give up on her, and since James was still a minor he couldn't make the decision to take her off the machines or not. Derek had been talking to her about letting James come live with them. "What do we have to do to adopt?" she asked.
"What?" Hotch asked.
"Dana's not going to wake up from this and we know that, James knows that, his uncle can't take him and his sister too, she's younger, she's nine and James can't continue living with his friends, he needs normal and with everything that happened last year and now this, we talked to his uncle, and we've talked to child services in Chicago," Pen said.
"My mom's going trying to work something out with them until I can get up there, but then he called last night and said he needed to come here, Desiree's flying down with him, I can't let him get stuck in the system, we all know that you never get out until you're eighteen and I want him to have normal, he's sixteen," Morgan said.
"I'll look into it, before he leaves I'm sure we can have something worked out," Hotch said. James had become like a part of their family, his mom had come down few times with him during the summer.
"Thanks boss man," Penelope said before somebody knocked on the door, "We'll go now," she added seeing Straus at the door.
"Agents," Straus said.
"Ma'am," they both said before exiting the office seeing Rossi standing there too. "Sir," Pen said before Morgan and she went to her office.
Hotch introduced Rossi to the team after they'd talked in his office catching up some. "Where's Morgan at?" Emily asked when Penelope came in.
"He had to take care of something," Hotch answered for her, "Rossi, this is, SSA Emily Prentiss, SSA Spencer Reid, Agent Jennifer Jareau, and our technical annalist, Penelope Morgan," Hotch said.
"Morgan, as in Derek Morgan's wife?" Rossi asked wanting to make sure he hadn't miss understood Hotch.
"Yes, nine months now, but no worries if you say Morgan I don't answer," she replied with smile, "I just wanted to say hi, I have something to take care of," Penelope said before she left the conference room.
The others talked while longer before Hotch's phone started ringing he stepped out to answer it. "Where did you go?" he asked.
"I'm sorry sir," Pen said into the phone, "Morgan had to go to the airport to get James, Des couldn't make it and I just got the phone call that his mom passes away last night, that's why he called," she said.
"Okay, call Derek tell him to bring James here, I'm going to look into what we talked about earlier now, tell him to come see me when he gets back," Hotch said before hanging up the phone. Rossi starting today and Dana dying too, this was going to be one helluva week, and he knew that Rossi and Morgan were alike in some ways they both didn't give up when they wanted to know what somebody was hiding, he just hoped that David didn't start asking questions right now.
"You can have seat at my desk, I'll be back soon as I can," Morgan said, "If you get bored just tell Reid, I'm sure he can do some magic or something," he said.
"I'll be fine, go," James said.
"Okay, kid," Derek said going to Hotch's office first.
Rossi was using the conference room right now since the office he was going to be using was not ready yet; he went down the stairs to the kitchen area to get himself some coffee before going back up. Reid was in the kitchen too about to leave with two bottles of water. "Are you that thirsty?" Rossi asked.
"No, I just thought James would want something to drink," Reid said leaving.
"James?" Rossi asked to the empty kitchen area before he got himself the coffee he'd come after before going to the bull pen. He noticed somebody sitting at the desk he'd seen Morgan at earlier. He went over to the desk to see who the person was.
"Reid, you're getting better at this," James said watching Reid do some more magic.
"Thanks, I've been practicing," Reid said before noticing that Rossi was standing beside him now.
"Hi, I'm Agent Rossi, who are you?" Rossi asked James.
"James Barfield, I'm a friend of Derek's,"
"Nice to meet you James, did you need him?"
"No, he's talking to Hotch before we leave," James replied, he wasn't too thrilled about Rossi joining the team either; he didn't know what had been going on in the last year and didn't want to have to tell somebody else.
Rossi knew there was more too it by the way that James was hesitant to meet his eyes at first. He saw Morgan coming over and since he hadn't met the other Agent yet stayed.
"You ready to get out of here?" Morgan asked.
"Yeah, nice to meet you Agent Rossi; see you later Spencer," he said before going towards the elevators to wait on Derek.
"If case comes up call me, Reid, I just want to get James home," Morgan said.
"Okay," Reid replied.
"Before you take off I thought I'd introduce myself," Rossi started.
"I know who you are, you founded the BAU with few other members, and you're Gideon's replacement," Morgan said try to get it out calmly.
"I met your wife earlier but I didn't get chance to meet you," Rossi said.
"That reminds me, tell Pen that I'm taking Ariel home too," Morgan said.
"Okay, I'll tell JJ or Emily too, since you're taking her car," Reid added before going towards JJ's office.
Rossi was left standing in the bull pen and now he had another question, who was Ariel?
AN: Okay, I couldn't figure out how to get James to be a part of this story more and I also remembered about Rodney and his gang, so I went with that. In the next chapter Rossi gets some answers to the questions he has. Who's James, Who's Ariel? Enjoy.