Title: Oracle

Author: Sami Marie

Genre: Family/Friendship With a bit of romance and drama possibly thrown in

Pairings: None at the moment but there will be a lot of mentions of Morgan/Garcia

Rating: PG-13

Summary: Sequel to Rock Solid. Story is set 18 years down the road and will be told from Mags, Morgan and Garcia's daughter, point of view.

A/N: Thanks for the reviews on the last chapter everyone and speaking of the last chapter those of you that thought that Darron got off to easy will see in the chapter after this that that wasn't necessarily the case. Morgan calmed Garcia down quite a bit before they actually had that talk with Darron but you will see that even he realizes that she's still very much upset with him. As for this chapter it picks up where the last flashback chapter left off. Enjoy and as always do me a huge favor and review!

Chapter 20:

One of my biggest faults is probably that I am incredibly stubborn. So stubborn in fact that my mom often claims that it's something I got from my dad despite the fact that we aren't biologically related. My dad claims on the other hand that I definitely got my stubbornness from my mother so I'm guessing it's both an inherited and a learned trait I've developed over the years. Now the reason I'm telling you this is to explain why for the rest of the weekend after the dance I refused to talk to Henry. Furthermore I continued refusing to talk to my mom about the fight, even though I knew she really wanted to talk to me about it. Instead I talked to Sloan a couple of times and when I arrived at school on Monday I did so happily flattered by the fact that I thought a boy really liked me. That blissful happiness ended though at the end of the day when I heard a conversation I don't think I was supposed to have heard.

4 years earlier…

"There's no way," I heard Todd a member of our junior high's basketball team say to Sloan as I was just about to pass.

"You really don't think so," Sloan said almost cockily as I let my curiosity get the best of me and back tracked so I could remain unseen and hear the rest of the conversation.

"No I don't," Todd repeated, "In fact twenty bucks says there's no way you could get in her pants."

"Whose pants," I piped up with a fake smile from behind Sloan, finally alerting them of my presence.

"Umm, I'll see you later man," Todd said before making a quick get away.

Sheepishly Sloan turned to face me and I repeated my question.

"That wasn't what you think it was," Was all he said.

"It wasn't because it sounded to me like you were making a bet with Todd about me," I interrupted cutting off whatever lie he'd been about to say next. "FYI he was right, you don't stand a chance," I then added before quickly getting as far away from him as I could.

Henry was right. I thought to myself as I exited the school and got onto the bus that was my ride home. As the bus got closer and closer to my house I felt more and more like crap. This was probably exactly what Henry had been trying to warn me about and instead of listening I'd just gotten defensive and hung up on him. Mere minutes later when I stepped off the bus and made my way inside our house the tears I'd managed to hold in somehow began to fall.

"What's wrong," My mom asked from the couch when she saw that I was crying.

"I'm an idiot," Was all I mumbled before sitting my bag down and made my way over to her.

"Oh sweetie you're not an idiot," My mom reassured me as I leaned my head on her shoulder.

"Yes I am," I began to ramble, "I should've listened to listen to Henry. Instead I got mad at him and refused to talk to him. On top of that he was completely right about Sloan, all he wanted was to win a bet with his friends about getting in my pants. And now Henry's probably mad at me and I have no clue how to make this up to him."

Once I was finished I lifted my head off of my mom's shoulder and wiped away my tears before she spoke, "Sweetie do you remember me telling you about how I got shot."

I nodded remembering something she'd said about going out on a date with the guy and him shooting her at the end of the night while my dad and the team were away on a case.

"What you don't know is that I never intended to actually go out with him at first," My mom then said.

"You didn't?" I interrupted.

"Nope I had every intention of blowing him off until you're dad pulled a stunt similar to Henry," My mom finished, "So I agreed to the date to prove a point to your dad and I ended up paying dearly for it. Now point here is this, your dad wasn't mad at me afterwards he was mad at the guy who hurt me. Henry's going to be the same way."

"Are you sure," I asked not quite believing her.

"Yes I'm sure in fact tell you what why don't you go on up to your room and I'll call him and tell him to come over, alright," Was my mom's answer.

"Okay," I agreed with a small smile before doing just that.

About a half hour later there was a familiar knock on my door.

Climbing off of my bed I opened my door and quickly blurted out I'm sorry to Henry.

"Mags, there's nothing to be sorry for," Was Henry's reply as he stepped forward and wrapped an arm around me.

"For what it's worth I didn't want to be right," He whispered moments after we'd just stood there.

"But you were and from now on I promise to listen to you," I whispered back.

"And I promise to not get so jealous next time," Was his reply and with that we made our way over to my bed.

Once we were settled I remarked, "You know things were so much easier when we were younger and it was just us against the rest of the world."

"Yeah they were weren't they," He agreed with that grin of his that I love. and just like that we were back to being what we always were.