"With all due respect sir, we've barely told you anything. How can you be so sure?" Reid asked.

Taylor looked extremely uncomfortable, even sitting behind the principal's desk. "I fired him a couple of months ago. He was a janitor. He was... unstable. And he seemed to have an... interest in Miss Simmons."

"And this didn't come up before?" Morgan asked, angrily. "You didn't feel the need to mention this to the police after she was brutally raped and murdered?"

Morgan don't hit him, you'll lose your job... You'll lose everything... Spencer thought. Fortunately, Morgan found some way to hold himself back from doing exactly that. Morgan was thinking Taylor was every bit the ass that he had originally thought.

"I didn't have any legally incriminating reason to suspect him. It was just a feeling. Like he spent too much time around her. Nothing he did could be held against him in court," Taylor said, trying madly to defend himself.

Reid, the calm voice of reason spoke up. "Is there anything else you can tell us about Mark?"

"There was something wrong with him. Like he didn't have all his eggs in one basket, if you know what I'm saying. I thought maybe he could lash out and hurt someone..." Like Taylor sensed Morgan's anger for not mentioning this. "But not Katie Simmons, he was nothing but nice to her."

"Yeah, well he was very nice to her when he held he down and raped her. And when he killed her and stabbed her three times. A true gentleman," Morgan said angrily.

Spencer got up to his feet. "That'll be all for now. We may get in contact with you later. Thank you for your time."

They both walked out and as soon as they were alone, Reid said, "What was that? I know you're angry, but you can't be like that at work. You'll get fired."

Morgan bit back the urge to ask what if he was like that at home? What would it take for you to fire me, Spence? "I know. It was stupid. Not as stupid as what he did, but still stupid. I'm going to call Hotch and tell him about Mark."

"I'll call Rossi and tell him that him and Prentiss we potentially have an unsub," Reid replied. He continued softly. "Are you going to be alright, honey?"

"Yeah, fine," Morgan said, wondering if he was lying or not.


It was astoundingly easy to take Mark George into custody. It was also astoundingly easy to prove that he was the killer, at least for the last body. He still had the knife covered in the third victim's blood and his fingerprints. And considering the similarities between murders, and how he worked at the school Katie Simmons went to, he was sure to go down for all three murders.

On the plane ride home, Morgan didn't look any happier. Spencer took a seat next to him and intercepted him before he could put his headphones on. "We got him before he had a chance to take any other girls. That's the best we could have done, right?" Spencer said.

"Yeah, try telling that to those girls families," Morgan said. "They'll never be happy again."

"I know. But this is a hard job. We did everything we could. There was no way we could have done anything more," Spencer said.

Morgan looked around to see if anyone was looking, but they all seemed to be on the opposite side of the plane. "What about you and me?"

Spencer didn't quite understand what he was asking. "What about you and me?"

"Will we be okay?" Morgan asked quietly.

Spencer grabbed Morgan's hands and intertwined their fingers, leaning a bit closer to him. "Of course we'll be okay. Morgan it was just one mistake, that doesn't erase everything else."

"It seems like a pretty big mistake to me," Morgan said.

Reid nodded. "Yeah, it was. I'm not going to pretend it wasn't. But I forgive you, all that's left is to forgive yourself. Can you do that for me?"

"Anything for you, baby," Morgan said and winked. "You and me are the dream team, of course we'll make it."

"Good," Spencer said, resting his head on Morgan's shoulder. "I love you, Derek."

"And I love you, Spencer," Morgan said, putting his arm around his lover, despite what anyone else on the plane might think. "We're going to be fine."

They were both starting to actually believe that.


A/N: Hi, everyone. Sorry it's been a brutally long time, but life has been complicated. I've already written the next chapter, but after that I have no idea what I'm going to do. Thanks for sticking with it and reading this far. I love you all!

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