Open Your Eyes
Morgan and Garcia
Reid and Prentiss
Chapter Nine
July 2010
Reid was massaging Emily's shoulders and back as they sat in the hot tub. He had several reasons for doing this. One was very selfish. She looked sexy and wanton in her teeny red bikini with steam rising up to curl the tendrils of her dark hair.
His mind was still flashing back on earlier that day when he had unzipped her dress for her and saw her bare skin that was smooth, soft and creamy white. Then she had winked at him and said it was too bad he had never been attracted to her before.
He had always found her pretty but the world was full of pretty women. He didn't think of her in a sexual way. Not until today. He was a man and of course he had about a good thousand fantasies about her in the few hours between now and their sexy encounter that afternoon.
But he wasn't massaging her just for that reason though. It was something she said during the conversation they had when she was showing him her little black dress. Emily had said that she only dated losers in her past. He didn't like the idea of only men she now deemed beneath her being the only ones who had ever touched her.
And he didn't like her feeling like she couldn't have physical pleasure from someone she liked and respected. Maybe tonight was the only night he could give her a little bit of that but it was worth it to take this huge risk and ask to touch her because she deserved to be pampered.
Reid knew what loneliness felt like, what rejection felt like and what hopelessness felt like. In Emily's eyes earlier that day he saw all that reflected for the first time ever. She had let down a wall and revealed a little more of herself to him.
He didn't want to just ignore that and stay safe in his bubble, across the hot tub sprouting statistics till she passed out from boredom. He wanted to be the first man worth a damn who made her body feel boneless.
So he kept massaging with strong and steady strokes for long minutes. He even massaged her temples. When he did that she leaned back against him.
He looked down and saw her wet, glistening skin, a smattering of freckles over the swells of her breasts, and a beauty mark between them. He gulped.
Yes, he'd always known she was pretty but he had never really taken the time to notice she was also beautiful for more than just her profiling skills. Now he was seeing her with whole new eyes. She was gorgeous, as far as her body went, but also she had a tender, needy, heart and a lonely soul.
Reid had the overwhelming desire to pull her onto his lap and promise to make all her pain go away. But he wouldn't. He'd just keep massaging her and let her stress seep out of her body little by little.
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With his arms wrapped around Penelope, listening to the ocean lap the shore, the moon high in the sky and a cool breeze washing over them as they sat on a swing, Derek said "This is my idea of heaven."
"That will be certainly be revised the first time I get you between the sheets. That will be our own mutual heaven on earth."
"I have no doubt, Penelope," he murmured, his voice husky.
She wore a sweet smile as she leaned back against his chest. A minute or two passed in comfortable silence before she asked him "Do you know that when I broke up with Kevin I told myself I was okay with being alone for the rest of my life or just having meaningless flings? I was willing to short change myself in the worse way and that's not right because I know better. I know I deserve better and I should have told myself to hold out for the best."
"Was there any part of you at all that thought maybe we could finally take our chance to be together?"
"Not a day goes by that I don't think about being with you, Derek, but right after I think anything like that there's always this little voice in my head that says its not realistic and to forget it. You've been on my mind, under my skin, and rolling around all my thoughts, fantasies and dreams for years but I just never knew how big I should let myself dream for us."
"As big as you can imagine, baby girl."
Smiling happily she looked up at him. "Thank you."
"Please don't thank me for loving you. That comes natural."
"But I have to thank you. When someone gives you a gift its only right to say thank you and you've given me the most beautiful gift I have ever received. You're trusting me with all of your heart, handsome."
Cupping her chin he leaned down and covered her mouth with his. They shared a slow, soft kiss that promised more and more of the same for days, months and years to come between them.
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Emily was lost in a sensual haze as Reid massaged slowly down her spine. He explained about Shiatsu massage in a low, tranquil way that lulled her deeper in a different world.
But she wasn't getting sleepy. No, far from it. Her eyes were closed but she was very much wide awake. Her head was thrown back on his shoulder but then he whispered "Lean forward."
She could have put her arms on the side of the hot tub and rested her head on them but instead she gripped his thighs, squeezing them over and over as he moved lower on her back.
"God, Reid, you are a genius," she whispered in a lust drenched tone.
"It doesn't take a genius to give a good massage. Its more about knowing the right technique and having a desire to please."
"Well you are hitting it out of the ballpark."
"Can I ask you something personal?"
"If you keep doing what you're doing you can ask me whatever you want. Even the pin number to my bank card."
"I might have to go to Atlantic City and try my luck at the poker tables if you did that. I'd make you quite the hefty return on your investment too."
"Very funny...mmm, that feels so good. Don't ever stop." She let out a breathless, louder and longer than before, moan.
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"Did you just hear that?" Derek asked Penelope. "I think that was a moan. Prentiss moaned."
Penelope jumped up. Her eyes widened and then she smiled. "Baby, our plan worked!"
"Shhh, mama!"
"Lets go peek and see!"
Derek pulled Penelope on top of him, on the swing, and said "I'd rather kiss you then peep at anybody else getting it on. Come here, woman, your lips have Derek Morgan's name all over them." Their lips came together in another kiss. She straddled his lap, her purple silk gown flaring out around her and her panty clad ass resting on his thighs.
Derek kissed down her throat and over the swells of her breasts till she was letting out breathy sighs. Pushing down the material he gazed at her hardened nipple. "Oh, baby girl," he breathed out before licking at it, teasing her as his other hand massaged her other breast, and then he sucked her tit into his mouth.
Now it was Penelope's turn to moan.
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"Could you tell me about your past lovers?...Don't tense up. Just talk to me, if you are comfortable enough, and tell me if they really were as horrible as you made them out to be earlier today. Or was that over exaggerating on your part because you're frustrated with men presently?"
"I have a pretty rocky history, for sure."
"Tell me when was the last time a lover made you feel as good as you do right now. As cared for. As safe. As wanted."
"Reid," she whispered, forgetting all about past lovers and thinking of only his fingers still massaging up and down her spine and his words of wanting her.
"I don't like the idea that you've wasted your time on men who didn't treat you right. You deserve to be treated right. I'd treat you right, Emily."
She spun around, splashing the water in the hot tub, and looked into his eyes. They were darker and more lustful than she had ever saw them before and yet there was still a part of Reid that wasn't totally in control, despite seeming so seconds before, because he looked at her with a deer caught in headlights look in that moment.
"You would?" she asked
"Yeah cause I respect you and I wouldn't want to be labeled a douche later on like you called all your exes earlier today."
"Please tell me this is more than just you feeling sorry for me because if you dangle what I want most in front of my eyes and you're doing it all out of pity then I'll have to smack you silly and that would be a horrible end to a pretty awesome night cap." She reached up and ran her fingers over his hair. "So is that it? You feel bad cause I'm so down on love lately and you want to be a hero for me? Is that all this is about for you? Cause I don't need a hero, Reid. I really don't. I need a partner. Not a pity fuck that stays a secret, like what happens in Vegas."
"I shouldn't have said that. I just wanted you to know that me giving you a massage did not come with any strings attached."
"What if I want strings? Can I have them? Is that an option?"
In a fluid motion he slid his arm around her and urged her onto his lap, her legs spread and her center pushed against the bulge in his trunks. "Anything you want is an option right now. I'm not very good at this kind of stuff either...even though I am a certified genius. Pair bonding does not rely on brain power though to be successful." He rolled his hips forward and against her.
Emily moaned at the feel of his dick brushing against the thin fabric of her bikini bottoms. "Oh, I disagree, Dr. Reid. I'd say you do just fine with this kind of stuff."
"I meant relationships. Not sex. Sex I excel at, actually."
She gave him a mesmerized look and then went in for a kiss. And in that kiss they found a chemistry that would last long after their weekend at the beach.
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Note- This was almost my ending but there felt like more story to tell so I added a few more chapters to round this out more. Thanks for reading this fic. I almost didn't write it because I wasn't sure that Morgan/Garcia fans would also want to read Reid/Prentiss but since I enjoyed Fanatical Writer's M rated fic with these two pairings I figured it had worked there so it could work here too.
Sara
