Chapter 1: So Proud

It was 10pm and Morgan was in his small hostel room. It wasn't a particularly hard case, in fact most of the victims were jerks but weirdly, it seems that it had affected Prentiss's mood. She's been irritable all day long. Maybe it was her periods or something? Morgan smiled at the machismo of his thought and slipped into bed, telling himself that if she was still like that in the morning he will go and talk to her.

At 3am Morgan woke up in a jump. Did he real hear a gunshot?

Bang! Bang!

The noise was coming from behind the wall, from Prentiss's room! In less than a second he jump out of bed, ran to her door and kicked it down. Prentiss woke up with a scream, her eyes wide open and full of fear. Morgan rushed to the bed and took her in his arms. There was nobody in the room except for them.

Prentiss hysterically fought back at Morgan, starting to scream again but he held her tight.

"Hey, hey calm down. It's me, it's Derek. Everything is ok. You're safe."

She stopped fighting, curling against his body and started crying slowly. He held her close, swinging gently to calm her down. JJ rushed into the room, soon fooled by Reid and Hotch, all in their sleeping clothes. The crisis has had last less than 5 seconds and now Prentiss was silently crying in Morgan's arms.

"It's ok guys, I got it. She had a nightmare. Just a nightmare. " He wisped the last sentence for her.

"Are you sure it's…"

"Yes, yes Reid," interfered JJ, "it's fine. Let's go back to our beds." She leaded him out of the room, knowing that Emily wouldn't like them to see her like that.

Hotch stayed back for a minute, checking the windows, the cupboard and the bathroom before leaving. Prentiss had already stopped crying and was pretty much calm, but she didn't pull out of Morgan's embrace so that her boss wouldn't see her like that.

"Hey, you're ok?" asked Morgan when she gently pulled back.

"Yes, I'm fine. I guess it was just a hell of a bad dream."

"That's for sure. You banged on the wall like mad and I thought there were gun shots in your room."

He smiled at her, still sitting on the bed, with her really close.

"Yea, I'm sorry for the mess. Thanks." She was wiping her tears away from her cheeks, trying to regain a little bit of her dignity.

"Any time you know that."

"Yes I do." She was smiling back at him now. "You can go, I'm fine. Get some sleep."

"You're sure about that?" She shook her head and moved away from him, encouraging him to leave. "Ok, I'll let you sleep." He softly squeezed her hand and then looked at her with wide eyes. She pulled back her hand but it was way too late.

"For God sakes Prentiss you're freezing cold!" She was about to say something but he banded over her and put his other hand on her forehead, making her blush a little.

"I'm fine Morgan…"

"Yea you're fine my ass! You have a hell of a fever! I should call a doct…"

"Morgan Stop!" her voice has so authoritarian that he froze. "If you do that Hotch will make me stay in bed for the rest of the case and I don't want that to happen."

She was looking straight at him, with a dark cold glare. Morgan hesitated. With any other woman, including Reid, he would just have reached for the phone and called a doctor. But he understood her. She wanted the job done and she knew it would go faster with her. And, she didn't want to look like a poor sick five year old school girl.

"Ok. But you tell me exactly how you fell so I can go and get you some meds. I won't talk to Hotch but you do not lie to me about your health ok?"

"Deal. But I do have some pills thanks. It's just a headache and a sore stomach, nothing to worry about."

Morgan stayed a little longer, to check if she was indeed taking her medicine, and left her for the night.

The following day the members of the team all discreetly inquired about Emily's well being. Rossi half apologize for not waking up and even Garcia was aware of what happened. She teased a bit but mostly complains of not being the one Derek saved from a nightmare. They would all have joked far more about it, especially about the fact that Morgan rushed like a fury in Prentiss's room with her not really dressed in it if she hadn't look that bad.

Even if she acted normal she was very pale and had rings below her eyes. Reid noticed that she was a little bit slower in everything she did. But they all silently agreed not to bother her to much with that. She was a big girl, and would have hated it.

In the afternoon there were getting closer and closer to their Unsub but the father of one of the victims lost patience and unfortunately it was Prentiss who tried to get him to calm down. He started yelling at her and she lost her self control, yelling back at him like a fury. Hotch and Morgan interfered immediately, getting the guy to leave the room.

When they turned back to Prentiss, Hotch was ready to dress down her but they both froze. She was as pale as death and dangerously swaying back and forth. "Emily?"

She fainted. Derek managed to grab her before she reached the floor. He put one hand on her forehead. "Hotch she's boiling hot. She must see a doctor now!"

"You knew she was sick." Hotch was looking straight at Morgan. "Lay her on the couch in the waiting room. I'll take care of the doctor."

Morgan grabbed her in his arms and rushed to the waiting room.

"Hotch we got him! Garcia man…Emily? What happened?" JJ looked completely terrified.

"She hide us she was sick. Call a doctor. Reid, Rossi, focus. JJ said we got him..."

A/N: If sometimes you find the sentences a little bit weird it's because I'm French so I may confuse some words. Hope it didn't interfered with the reading.