Title: All or Nothing

Rating: PG-13 For the most part.

Pairing: Morgan and Garcia

Genre: Hurt/Comfort/Friendship. Romance in later chapters.

Summary: With the team on stand-down for a month following Hotch's shooting, Morgan decides to head home to Chicago in a long overdue attempt to clear his head. A worried Garcia ends up following him there. What will happen before that month is up? What will happen when it is?

A/N: Thanks once again for all the lovely reviews on the last chapter. The hotness at the end was not what I had originally had in mind but in the end it seemed to work out really well. Now back to the actual story the pace going to start picking up after this chapter because I'm trying to move further along in the month this story is taking place in. Therefore from now on chapters will cover more than one day. Enjoy as always and do me a favor and leave a review when you're done.

Chapter 9:

The next morning…

All her efforts and her prayer worked because Morgan did do just that, he slept through the rest of the night. In fact for once this morning he woke up before she did. Therefore it was also him that slipped out of the room quietly this time without waking her. After kissing his mom, who was already up, good morning he left the house for a run.

As always the run immediately began to clear his head and about forty-five minutes later he returned to the house sweaty and wide awake.

"Good morning, handsome," A freshly showered Garcia greeted him once he stepped inside the house

"Morning, baby girl," He greeted back leaning in to kiss her despite how sweaty he was.

"Hmm… That was nice handsome but you really need to shower," She said when he pulled away.

Nodding he flashed a grin before heading off to do just that.

Twenty minutes later he emerged all clean and dressed for the day.

"We have the house to ourselves for a bit," He heard Garcia say as she handed him a cup of coffee.

"We do?" He asked with a raised eyebrow as he took a sip of his coffee.

"Yep," She answered before going onto tell him that his mom was out running errands and his sister was spending the day with friends.

Moving closer to her he teasingly replied with, "Hmm… What should we do?"

"I don't know but I could go for another kiss right now," Was her response as he pulled her into his embrace.

The kiss they shared was long and sweet but eventually they parted, ate breakfast, and eventually they moved to the living room.

Two hours later…

"Derek you'll never guess who I ran into at the store," His mother said as he moved from the couch and took the bags of groceries she had in her hand.

"Who?" He found himself asking as he walked with her into the kitchen and set the bags on the counter.

"Jason, you both joined the force around the same time, remember," His mother answered as he followed her outside to get the rest of the groceries.

Damn he hadn't seen that man in about five years now but he had heard that he was a detective now. "How is he," Morgan he asked as he grabbed the last of the groceries.

"He's good about to be a father again," Fran answered as she shut her trunk.

"That's what their third isn't it," He replied as they made their way back inside.

"Yep, you need to hurry up if you plan on catching up with him," His mother teased as they entered the kitchen and found Garcia already at work putting the groceries.

"You don't have to do that dear," His mother said to her as he set more bags on the counter.

"I don't mind," Garcia replied, "Besides you wouldn't accept money from earlier so I figured I could at least put them away for you."

Morgan just shook his head as his mom gave in.

Once the groceries were all put away and they'd decided on chicken alfredo for dinner his mom turned to him and said, "Anyways when Jason asked about you I told him you were in town for the rest of the month and he wanted to know if you wanted to come over some night for dinner."

"That would be great," Morgan answered, "I should give him a call and set something up."

Fran nodded," Don't worry he's going to call later tonight."

"Alright sounds good," He replied, "Now if you ladies excuse me the lawn needs to be mowed."

With that he headed out the back door but he still heard his mom say to Garcia, "We won't see him the rest of the day. He'll find something else to do."

"I know," He also heard Garcia agree, "Every time he comes back from a visit here he's always telling me about the work he did around your house."

Later on that night…

Morgan had just cleared the last item off the dinner table when the phone rang. Figuring it was Jason he immediately answered the phone himself. "What's up man," He greeted.

"Not much, what about you," His old friend and former patrol partner greeted back.

"Same here, but I actually get some time off for once," Morgan answered.

"That's what your mom was saying," Jason replied. "She also said you brought some girl home with you. What's up with that is the infamous Derek Morgan finally settling down?"

Morgan laughed before saying, "Yeah I finally found the right woman."

"Good for you, bring her with you when you come for dinner," Was Jason's response.

"Will do," Morgan agreed and with that they decided on a day for dinner. Next Tuesday.

"See you then, man," Morgan said before hanging up.