DISCLAIMER: I dont NOT own Derek Morgan or any of the BAU team, I ONLY OWN Nikki, Mary King, Lisa Levy, Mark Levy, and Victors Law Firm! Criminals Minds is a TV Series and I do not own any of it, I simply use it for inspiration.

NOTE: Italicized are dreams and/or flashbacks. Bold and italicized words are thoughts from certain characters.

Chapter 7: The Unsub

Nikki`s POV

"NOO, MY BABY!" I screamed and with that scream I jolted upright from my laid position on the couch. I lifted my hand to my forehead and felt it glistening with sweat, I looked down at my tank top and basketball shorts, my tank top trickled with beads of concentration on them, or at least that's what I felt was on it, I could hardly see as it was pitch black in the living room. I took a long and deep sigh and swept falling pieces of hair from my face back to its original place on my head.

Lifting the blanket from over my figure and gently rubbed my eyes and squinted looking around the house, I lifted from the couch and walked over to the other side of the room, flicking on the light switch to light the entire living room, making sure that I was making no noise for the others sleeping in the house. I need to calm down and take a breath, after these nightmares it always takes awhile for me to get back to sleep and normally a glass of water and an episode of the nightly shows that are on is what puts me back to sleep. I pressed the button on the side of my phone, which made it light up instantly and the time blinked in my face 12:03AM.

It was still early meaning I must have fallen asleep about an hour or so ago on the couch, I wasn't asleep for too long. I poured myself a glass of water and took a long drink, setting the glass down on the counter top near the fridge I looked down at my belly and gently brought my hands up to it and began rubbing small circles around it as if my baby were still in there "Its like I can still feel you…" I whispered to myself. I took another sip of water and the thought passed my mind about going to see Katie`s grave site tomorrow morning after breakfast, and maybe I could take Desiree with me. Even though Katie hadn`t had hours to even live a grave site was the best thing to show respect and honor for my baby girl and I make it a habit to go see her every weekend, when the still birth first happened I was there everyday but momma Fran became very worried and said it wasn't good for me to keep reliving it.

Steps being heard by the porch on the front door stopped my thoughts immediately. I set the glass of water down again and my facial expression turned to worry, who would be coming here at 12 mid-night? I then heard the lock turning on the door, I gasped and quickly opened the cabinet drawer and grabbed a knife for protection…with what`s been going on lately you never know, it gave me the chills thinking about what they did to Lisa Levy and Mary King, I wasn't going down not protecting myself.

The knife shook nervously in my hand as I slowly continued towards the door, I stood behind the wall that was connected to the staircase and waited for the door to open. I heard the creek from the door being swung open and a long sigh come from the intruder, I slowly peeked around the corner wall to see if I can make out the figure but it was very dim from the light being shown from the kitchen and I could still not see to well. I had to do something; this guy was going to attack anyone of us in the house if I didn't. it was now or never!

I came from behind the wall with my knife in my right hand extended forward "Who`s there!?" I exclaimed

"Hey Hey Hey!" the voice paused but I've heard that voice before, in fact I could pick it out of a line up "Hey! Its Derek!"

I put the knife down to my side and let out a long deep breath as the light turned on and shown through the living room. I ran a frustrated hand over my hair and looked up into the most beautiful brown eyes of Derek Morgan. He inched closer to me and grabbed the knife from my hand with his right hand while the left hand rubbed my arm "Damn girl, you gave me a heart attack!"

I gently shrugged his hand away and wrapped both my arms around myself as if I were afraid for him to see me in my sleep shirt and shorts, I cleared my throat and looked at the ground, unable to keep eye contact with him afraid knowing my heart would start racing under her gaze "What are you doing here?" I asked softly

He laughed softly, almost sarcastically "Well this is my mothers home, I think I would be allowed here, don't you?" he spoke with a gentle tone while turning around and making his way into the living room.

I decided to follow him knowing I had no other choice, did Desiree and momma Fran know he was coming here? I wondered to myself. I kept my gaze down on the floor as he sat down on he couch, it was extremely quiet for two minutes strait, uncomfortably quiet as if we didn't know what to say or we were waiting for the other to begin talking. I felt his eyes on me the whole two minutes, I swallowed the lump in my throat and finally looked up at him and when I did he was just gazing at me as if he was almost trying to inject my image into his brain, what I was wearing, what I looked like, and the worst part how I was feeling.

"Those eyes…I have yet to see those eyes smile the way they used to." He let a small smile spread on his face as he said this.

"Yeah well…" I began grabbing my hooded sweatshirt off the back of the loveseat sofa on slowly pulling it on and over my head "There has been a lot you haven't seen."

He raised a brow and leaned over resting his elbows on his knees "Oh and I supposed that's my fault?"

I bit my lip and took a seat on the loveseat by myself "Well if the shoe fits…" I replied metaphorically.

He shook his head with a soft chuckle "Oh ok, so I was the one who broke complete contact with you?" he asked "I was the one who never contacted you, never let you know where I was or who I was with for the past 8 or so years?" he shot my a questioning look.

I just sighed and fidgeted in my seat "You gave me no choice Derek…" I began biting my lip looking towards the kitchen at nothing in particular just not into his gaze "I felt hopeless, I felt like I did something wrong for you to leave to the BAU and not even give our relationship a chance to work."

"Nikki, do you understand how hard and how time consuming this job is? I don't know when I may get a free day, I don't know the next time I would be able to spend a couple of minutes on the couch with my girlfriend, the BAU takes your life, most men in there are either married and have issues, are divorced or have been single for that exact reason Nicole." He explained thoroughly.

I let a single tear roll down my cheek with my face still turned to the kitchen, I didn't want him to see me cry, it was like giving in to my fears, my fears of allowing him to know how much I still ache for him. "Stop thinking like a damn profiler and think like the man I fell in love with…" I exclaimed running my fingers through my hair. "You didn't give us a chance to see if we could fail or succeed, having faith in us that we would succeed would have meant the world to me but you didn't even want to try, there was no reasoning with you." I whispered in pain.

"Nikki…" he said softly and I heard his footsteps coming towards me "Why wouldn't you come to me and tell me these things?" he kneeled down beside me, my face still not being shown to him.

I sniffled and let more tears roll down "I shouldn't have had to…" I replied softly

He sighed and let his head fall down on my lap, I was going to move away but I was too weak and tired I just let it rest there "Baby…I`m so sorry" he looked up and I felt his finger graze the bottom of my chin "Please look at me…"

I sniffled and turned my face to face his, my eyes met his beautiful brown ones and even in times of heartache I still felt like I could melt just looking into them. My eyes were drenched in tears and most likely bloodshot, he looked at me with his eyes in pain and his thumbs padded the tears away from my cheeks "Baby, please don't cry because of me."

I gently tugged his hands away from my face, I couldn't let him know how weak I was or how much I missed him, I couldn't let him see my true emotions, I had to be strong in order not to get hurt again. I slowly got up off the loveseat couch and walked away from him "I think I`m just going to go home and spend the rest of my night there."

He sighed and I could feel his eyes on me "Nikki, come on you don't have to leave, why must you run from me?"

I wrapped the sweater tighter around me and licked me lips, turning to face him "I am not running from you Derek…" I paused, grabbing my purse, my keys, and my cell phone "I am protecting myself."

I said this as I walked through the living room to the hallway and as I reached for the door knob to open the door I felt Derek`s hand wrap around my arm and pull me back a little towards him, he looked me in the eyes, his eyes giving me a questioning look "Protecting yourself?" he paused and gave me a confused look this time "From what exactly?"

'Loving you unconditionally' I thought to myself while giving a long sigh "Listen Derek, I really am going to go now, just please tell your sisters and your mom I had to leave in a rush." I stated removing his grip from my arm and walking out the door, leaving Derek alone to his thoughts.

Derek`s POV:

-The Next Morning-

I woke up to the ringing of my phone on my bedside. I groaned turning over in my place on the bed and reached for my cell phone, before flipping it open I saw the time and it read 6:30AM, I sat up in bed with a long sigh, it was Hotchner. "Morgan." I replied wearily.

"We need you here by 7:30, something has come up, we may have been wrong about our unsubs profile." He explained

I raised a brow and got up off the bed "You think it may not be Mark Levy?"

"No but there is a possibility we got his motives all wrong, you really need to get down here."

"Be there in 15" I replied while flipping my phone shut. This case was just getting worse and worse, one thing led to another and it changed the whole script, what exactly was Mark Levy`s idea in killing these two women? Did we even get the DNA back to make absolute sure it was him, I mean police can only hold him for 72 hours and a day has already passed.

I quickly got dressed In the first thing I could find and placed my glock 35 on its holster and my cell phone on the other side it its holster. I walked out the bedroom door to find my mother sitting in the kitchen with a cup of coffee and some toast with butter on the table. I smiled at the sight "Mornin` mama."

I saw my mother look up at me and smiled, I leaned down and she placed a kiss on my cheek "Hey baby, how's this case going?"

"Could be better" I sighed grabbing my file on the case that was placed on the counter. "I wish I could stay longer but I'm in a real rush mama." I explained as my feet took me to the door.

I heard my moms feet following behind mine "Ok, but Derek wait a minute…"

I turned around with one hand on the door "Yeah?"

My mom looked me in the eyes, I knew that look, and the look meant she had something serious on her mind "Where is Nikki?"

I sighed and licked my lips, almost in frustration, I knew this question would come up "Shit, momma I don't have time for this right now." I spoke about to head out the door.

"Derek Morgan get you butt back here" I turned around with one foot at the door "I'm going to be late!" I replied to her.

She came a bit closer to me and searched my eyes "Derek you treat Nikki with respect understand me? You were not here for 8 years and all the shit she`s been through, you are my son and I love you but what you did, leaving like that and not giving your relationship a chance was wrong."

I didn't say anything I just sighed, looking down at the ground almost embarrassed of myself but then I remembered and my head shot up "Wait a minute!" I paused "What about you Desiree and Sarah? Knowing all about where Nikki was and spending almost everyday with her but yet none of you could tell me about her."

I heard my momma sigh and switch her coffee cup to the other hand "Those were Nikki`s wishes and we resected them."

I just shook my head in disbelief "Maybe if you hadn't, things would be different." I said and she just stood there knowing this may be true and there was nothing she could do about it now. I spoke up again "I gotta get to work momma, ill see you later."

"Alright be safe…" she replied gently rubbing my arm before I left and got up in the black SUV.

15 minutes later I pulled up to FBI headquarters to meet up with the team. I walked in my coffee in one hand and the files for the case in the other, Hotchner and Agent Harris were discussing some things pertaining to the case and Spencer was sat on a desk with Prentiss and J.J writing some notes on the dry erase board.

"What do we got?" I asked walking up to the group.

J.J had her back turned to me but suddenly whipped around hearing my voice, she nodded her head and walked over to the phone "We have Garcia on line 1."

I walked closer to the phone and spoke "Talk to me baby girl."

"Alright so it seems as if our unsub has been contacting someone through email and here is the tricky part, he keeps emailing her these outrageous emails such as "I`m watching you and I love the way your hair falls in your face when you read" he has been watching this this girl and stalking her." Garcia finished

J.J followed up behind her saying "And that is not all, apparently he has a notebook that he writes her every step, we found hidden in his safe when we got the warrant to search his house."

I put my hands on my hips with a nod "So he didn't kill Mary King and Lisa Levy due to religious purposes…"

J.J bit her lip and looked over at Hotch who looked at me, It's a if they were keeping something from me and afraid to tell me, the air was thick and it was making me more worried than anxious, I raised a brow "What? What is it?"

J.J sighed and opened her mouth to speak but its almost as if she couldn't say the words, she then looked at Prentiss almost saying for her to explain the situation and help her out. "The girl he has been sending these emails to and writing about in this notebook, he is obsessed with, so obsessed in fact that it may be a danger to anyone standing in his way of him and her being together…"

I looked at Prentiss with a shrug and a nod of the head "Okay so can we get him for these murders, now that we have motive, do we have DNA?"

Prentiss cut in front before I said anything else "Derek, I wasn't finished…" she paused and sighed "The girl he has been stalking and killing to get close to is…Nikki."

My head shot up and the rage within me began to boil, I felt my blood getting hotter and my heart escalating its pace, I was furiously pissed, I didn't know which way to turn or what to do, I turned my body to the side and connected my fist with the wall behind the dry erase board.

I felt Hotch come up behind me "Hey Morgan!" he paused and turned my body to face him "You need to pull it together, this is a very important case and if someone you love is involved it makes it that much more serious!"

Garcia then spoke up from the speakerphone, having heard everything from this point on "Hey guys, I have been tracking his phone GPS and it seems that he is headed down Market Street towards this cemetery on Chicago Ave."

I walked very fast paced over to the speaker, with Hotch behind me "What would he want to do at a cemetery?" Hotch asked

I shook my head "I don't know but we cant just sit here and find out, we have to get moving."

As soon as we were about to get ready to go, J.J spoke up "Wait, Wait guys! Mark is obsessed with Nikki, wouldn't he take the chance to go anywhere where she is at and take notes of her movements?" she questioned and didn't really wait for a response she just spoke back into the speaker phone "Hey Garcia one last thing before you go, can you track Nikki`s location with the GPS on her phone?"

"Yeah I just need her number."

J.J looked over at me and I sighed "I`m not sure I know it."

J.J looked at me in shock and shook her head in disappointment "Can you do a search on her Garcia and retrieve it?"

Garcia nodded "Yeah give me a minute." Everyone waited patiently on Garcia for an answer and with this wait there was so much tension in the room, we all knew where J.J was headed with this and we were all worried.

"Okay" Garcia began "So I got her number and started the tracking it and, oh god…" she paused "She is at Calvary Catholic Cemetery."

J.J looked up at me and I ran, my first instinct was to run out those FBI headquarters and race to that cemetery and save Nikki. "Morgan! Wait!" I heard Hotchner scream behind me and the res of the team follow him.

Nikki`s POV:

With pink and white carnations in one hand, I smiled softly walking over to the headstone of my beautiful baby Katie. As I reached the gravestone I kneeled down and brushed a small amount of the dust that was covered on the tombstone. I took a deep sigh and removed the almost dead flowers that were in the current vase, placing new the new flowers that were in my hand it the old ones place. 'Katie Morgan: Heaven Has Gained Another Angel: April 8th, 2000 – April 9th, 2000'. I let tears stream slowly down my face reading this again in my head, it didn't matter how many times I read it, until this day it still makes me cry.

"Baby I love you so much…" I paused getting choked on my words "I want you to remember that and remember I will never forget you, I will always be here, even though sometimes it may seem that you are always here to protect me." I finished off with a whisper.

I felt the wind blow through my hair and the leaves dust off the trees, not paying any attention to my surroundings I soon jumped in my spot feeling a hand rest on my shoulder. I turned around to face the person and just stood there frozen seeing Mark Levy. "Mark…Hey." I spoke up, lifting myself from off the ground "What are you doing here?"

He looked over at me and gave a small smile "Visiting Lisa, she`s at this cemetery too."

I nodded "Oh I see…" I paused and wrapped my cardigan around me some more "Did they find out who did this to her and if it is linked to Mary`s death as well?"

He shook his head and looked down on the floor "No, no news yet." He then looked back up at me and walked a little closer "So who are you visiting here?"

I felt a knot in my stomach as he asked me that question 'Oh shit' I thought to myself, what the hell was I going to say, I opened my mouth to reply but before I could he looked at the grave stone, he looked up at me and then thought to himself "Katie Morgan." He whispered, "Why do I know that last name?"

I cleared my throat and looked everywhere but at him and shrugged my shoulders "Uhmm…"

He then looked up at me shocked "Wait a minute, that Agent…that's his last name!" he exclaimed and my eyes widened, I cant believe he put those pieces together "and only a mother would come here every weekend to refill the flowers… this is his and your child, isn't it ?!" he exclaimed seeming to get more angry.

I backed away from him now scared as to why he was getting so mad "Mark relax, please don't tell…" I paused and thought, wait, how did he know who Derek was? And how did he know I came here every weekend? 'Oh my god! It`s him! He`s the suspected killer!' I turned on my heel and began to run as fast as I can. I looked back and saw him chasing after me, not too far behind, I tried to run to my car as fast as I could but the cold temperature was getting to me and my lungs started to get pained, I soon felt his arms grab my shoulders and pull me down to floor "NOOO!" I screamed.

He looked down at me with this satisfied smirk on his face and I looked at him with disgust "NO HEL-" then everything went dark, quiet and dark.