A/N: I always liked a sarcastic Reid. And couldn't resist in this chapter...


Morgan was not entirely sure whether he just imaged what was happening or whether this really was happening indeed. When Penelope walked towards the table, just as the hypnotist had said she would he expected her – like probably everyone else, including Lynch – to walk, or rather run, to Lynch and throw herself at him, saying what she had been saying to Morgan to Lynch. After all he was the boyfriend. So imagine his surprise when instead of launching herself at Kevin Lynch in full throttle, she threw herself in Derek Morgan's arms.

Morgan took pride in his appearance. He knew he most likely could spent his days in different ways than working out in the gym, but it certainly had his perks. With the ladies and with his job. Being as fit as he was made chasing after yet another Unsub on the run so much easier. He was able to lift easily quite a lot of weight, but even if he had spent the last two years 24hrs a day in a gym working out it wouldn't have prepared him for the force Penelope threw herself with in his arms. He actually had to stagger back a couple of steps to accommodate her and not have both of them fall over backwards.

He heard her rambling and mumbling, felt her lips press kisses against all parts of his face and managed just a side glance, seeing Kevin Lynch at first just surprised, before he looked like his eyes shot daggers at Morgan. Oh great, as if it was his fault that his girlfriend threw herself at Morgan instead of Lynch. Well… technically it probably was one way or the other, but that was neither here nor there. And Morgan knew he should feel bad. Here he was, getting finally a taste of what he wanted for so long, and the actual boyfriend next to him had probably an eye-opening revelation right this moment.

He knew from Penelope's occasional comments that Kevin Lynch always was suspicious about the relationship between Morgan and Penelope. Nothing had ever happened though – well, if it had been the way Morgan wanted things that would have been different as well. He knew Penelope had rather often spent an enormous amount of time trying to talk Kevin out of the idea that there was something between Penelope and Morgan. So having her throw himself in his arms certainly did not rest her case. And the evil eyes she gave Lynch every time he tried to get her attention or tried to interrupt certainly didn't help either. Morgan had a feeling that after tonight Penelope would be fighting a losing battle. He had always carried a torch for his best friend and wanted them to go further with their relationship now for so long. But so far he never really knew whether that was an option. Whether whatever he was feeling was reciprocated by his best friend. All his previous tries in testing the water usually had always ended with him being left feeling like Penelope only saw him as her best friend. Well, after tonight he was pretty certain that this was not the case. He wanted her for so long and finally he actually saw it happening. Maybe. Since there was still Kevin Lynch. And Morgan might have been a ladies magnet, but one of his few rules were to never engage with a taken woman.

There was a lot of buzz – mainly confusion and surprise – around them, especially by their hypnotist who seemed to have expected a slightly different outcome. Sure, her reaction was as planned, but it somehow was directed at the wrong person.

While the whole team found it rather funny in one way or another, especially since most of them always had expected that Penelope's and Derek's daily display of inappropriate phone conversations would get at some point a follow up. With actions rather than words

"I don't think this is funny…" Kevin all of a sudden, making everyone looking at him. For a moment they actually had forgotten about him. And looking at him now he certainly did not look happy.

"We know and we… understand that much … this must look really strange…" Emily started saying when Penelope was asked back on stage to be woken up again. Emily knew leaving this whole mess to be cleaned up by their friend – who would probably not remember a thing at all – would seem a bit unfair. And Emily also felt slightly guilty. After all she was the one that 'forced' Penelope to participate.

"What exactly? That my girlfriend was supposed to be all teary eyed and loved up about me, but then confessed her dying love for SSA Morgan?" Lynch asked.

There was a moment of silence.

"You know… this is just more like a kind of dream state. It's not really real," Emily tried to argue, and the rest of the team was glad that she seemed to try and take the lead in this.

"So what you are saying that this is more like a dream-thing for her?" Kevin asked, and saw the rest of the BAU team nod. "So basically my girlfriend is dreaming about SSA Morgan…"

Emily was about to nod, just like the rest of them before realizing. "No… wait, wait, that's not what I meant. I mean… she kind of… well…" Emily babbled, looking at her coworkers for some help with this and was glad when Reid decided to jump into this conversation.

"Actually dreams reflect the greatest desires we have for something or someone. Dreams are also a way of processing things we might not think are possible in the real world, things we think we can't reach, achieve or that will not happen …"

All of a sudden he felt someone's foot hitting his shin and Emily looking at him scarily.

"Don't listen to him…." Emily encouraged Kevin.

"Yes, because I only hold three PhDs and another three Bachelor's degree's. So that does not qualify me in the least…" Reid interrupted Emily, which got him another evil look from the brunette.

"Don't listen to him. He even says it himself that dream analysis aren't as reliable as they are made out to be and plenty is left to guessing at best…" Emily went on and looked at Lynch, who still did not look very convinced. The rest of her co-workers at least nodded agreeing with her, not that it seemed to make a big difference with Kevin. Well… at least she had tried.