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'Of Pillow Fights and Being Ticklish'
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"Hey!" I call out when the pillow hits my head. "What's the big deal?"
I can't believe I have found myself in this situation. All I had done is bring something to Garcia she accidentally left at the BAU. Our team members decided to plan separate male and female movie nights this evening. Will and Henry, plus Hotch and Jack have joined Morgan and Rossi at Morgan's house for a night of watching movies and fun. It's not the first time we've done this, and everyone needs the break, especially Hotch. I am supposed to be joining the men as soon as I can get there.
I am the last member of our team to leave the BAU today. Even Hotch is already gone since he left to pick up Jack a little while ago. Just as I finish one last file and turn my computer off my cell phone rings and Garcia is asking me if I can go into her office and get her tote bag and bring it to her on my way home. 'Why not?' I think to myself, going to her office and grabbing the bag. I look inside and see some DVDs, candy bars and packages of microwave popcorn. I wonder to myself how she could have forgotten a bag containing all the necessary items for a movie night. As I'm driving to Garcia's apartment I notice it is starting to snow again. Kind of late in the season for such heavy snowfall, I think to myself.
I arrive at Garcia's and knock. The door is opened by Emily Prentiss, who is holding a piece of pepperoni pizza in her hand. She grabs my hand and pulls me inside. I hold up the bag and tell her, JJ and Garcia I need to go join the guys. JJ grabs the tote bag and Garcia tells me I'm not allowed to leave. It's snowing too hard outside, and besides, there are four men and two boys at Morgan's house, while they have only three women. I need to stay and even things out a little she tells me. Oh, no I tell her. Morgan will never let me hear the end of it and besides I need to spend some time with the guys. Garcia strikes a pose and asks me why I would rather listen to Derek Morgan brag than look at her sexy self and I cannot help laughing. She walks over to me and smacks me on the shoulder before asking me what's so funny.
JJ picks a pillow up off the couch and whacks me with it. My mouth drops open and I ask her why she hit me. She replies that I was the best target available to her. The next thing I know Emily is grabbing a pillow and swinging it at me, and then Garcia. I manage in between laughs to tell them it's not a fair situation because I don't have a pillow of my own to fight back with and all three of them are pummeling me at once. Garcia tells me to go find a pillow then and I find myself sprinting toward her bedroom hoping she has a spare pillow I can grab. I pull one off her bed and manage to swing back at Emily just as she swings at me. She shrieks and runs back into the living room while I give chase. Now all four of us are swinging pillows at each other and laughing.
I am involved in one of the silliest situations I have ever been involved with. I am having a pillow fight with three women; and if Morgan could see this, he would be laughing his ass off! The next thing I know JJ, Emily and Garcia look at each other, and then all of a sudden the three of them start swinging their pillows at me all at once. It isn't doing me any good to protest it is three against one as I'm getting hit by their pillows, because they are just not listening! I fall, laughing, on to the couch, and now Garcia has decided it's time to tickle her boy genius. I protest more loudly now, because I really don't want all three of them to start tickling me. My protests about being tickled are not doing me any more good than my protests against being hit by three pillows at once did. I try to squirm out of Garcia's grasp and I slip off the couch and fall onto my left knee. All three ladies gasp at once, and I am finding myself grimacing slightly as I pick myself up off the floor.
Suddenly my three ladies' demeanor has changed and I am being helped up on to the couch. Garcia is placing a pillow directly under my knee to prop it up, and JJ and Emily are starting to fuss over me. I tell them I'm fine and they finally start to relax a little before apologizing for overdoing it while tickling me and possibly aggravating my healed gunshot wound. Emily picks up a DVD and puts in Garcia's player while JJ pops some popcorn and Garcia places candy bars up on her coffee table.
Suddenly I feel something light land on my shoulder. I look behind me and see that JJ is throwing popcorn at me again. Emily grabs a couple pieces herself and throws them at me. The next thing I know Garcia is joining in, and before long most of a bowl of popcorn is either in my hair or has landed in my lap. I start picking up the popcorn and flinging it back at my girls, only to have them throw it back to me again. I start laughing again as I think to myself how much better it is to be having popcorn thrown at me than water balloons. One of these days I will get Morgan for that… Right now I'm having too much fun with my girls.
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