Prompt: "You don't have to play coy with me - what do you really want?", requested by MizukixTsukiyomi
For someone so perceptive she sure was blind. Derek almost wanted to pout into his coffee. JJ, Kate, and Garcia had been making fun of him nonstop, while Reid was left initially confused of the man's dilemma, seeing Derek's frustration, before the ladies explained.
All he had to say was a, "Oh", before turning around back to his cubic office and reread his book, One Thousand and One Nights yet again. Somehow his bland reaction annoyed Derek Morgan more than it should, though he understood why. Love was never Reid's best subject, for all the things he relentlessly studied.
Hotchner, somewhat amused, had shook his head and left him be, while Rossi offered to buy him a, or rather, several drinks so Derek could distress from his lady woes. Derek Morgan was seriously contemplating taking him up for his offer. After all Rossi knew best from his failed relationships and having a romantic heart.
The source of all of his problems?
Dr. Kagome Higurashi, the Japanese linguist professor from a local private university, known for her ability to communicate multiple languages, cultural understandings, and excellent set of other various skills. Being an eagle-eyed sniper was one of them.
Yeah, a sniper who shot my heart. Derek Morgan sarcastically thought. It was certainly one of her more memorable talents.
After an incident involving an unsub who was stalking one of her students it was that sniping skill that caught the FBI's eyes. Apparently Dr. Higurashi had been involved in a war or two, becoming one of the most skilled snipers they had—however she refused to continue her career in wars, to remain a tool of death, and moved on to become a multi-language translator. She eventually decided to take up a position as a professor afterward. Knowing then of her history the FBI pursued her to have her onto their staffs since. Hotchner and Rossi managed to wear her down enough to agree to be a part of BAU.
Derek Morgan had his eyes on her since.
He couldn't help it. There was just something about her that attracted him like a moth to flame, that no women he was involved with before ever did. But, Dr. Higurashi kept failing to catch his god-damned cues!
His good ol' fashioned flirting methods kept flying over her pretty little head. Derek Morgan, for the very first time in years, was at loss at what to do to woo a lady. Him, a proclaimed ladies' man, failing to seduce?
"Maybe you could be blunt?" JJ kindly offered, once their snickering diminished.
Kate shrugged, lending heavily against her desk and patting fondly on her belly, "Seems like the only logical thing you could do at this point."
"At this rate, I'd do anything not to stay as the laughing stock of this team." Derek muttered sourly, emptying his styrofoam cup of its black coffee. The blackest of black coffee he could get his hands on—straight off from the coffee maker.
"Daw Morgannnn, you know we didn't mean to…" Garcia pouted, feeling very guilty after they stopped picking on the tall agent. She hugged his free arm to her chest, a show of her apology, "You know we love you, right?"
He resisted the temptation to roll his eyes, "Sure doesn't feel like it, Baby Girl."
JJ clasped onto her cup, looking offended at Derek's remark, "Oh come on! You know we do!" Kate made agreeing sounds.
Before Derek could send back a scathing comment, Garcia wagged her bobbing furry-ended pen at him, gesturing at the glass doors beyond, "Oh, oh, I see Dr. Higurashi!" She promptly released her hold on him and instead pushed him into the Japanese woman's direction, her coiled pink-streaked blond hair bounced from her excitement, "Shoo, shoo! Go woo the lady!"
"Hey, hey! Could you jus—?!" Derek tried to protest.
The ladies chorused, their faces all looking annoyed at Derek's resistances, "Go!"
Fearing for his life and his reputation, Derek took off and rushing up the short flight of stairs, muttering and grumbling all at once with something about evil ladies from hell under his breaths.
"You guys are scary…" Reid shrink into his seat, pushing his book to his face. It was clearly a poor attempt to ignore his coworkers' deadpanned faces.
Dr. Higurashi stopped just short of pulling open the door when Derek breathlessly popped in front of her, "Oh, Morgan!" She clasped back her file folders, blinking at his flustered appearance, "What can I do for you?"
Clearing his throat Derek gestured, "Can we speak in my office? In private?"
"Is everything alright?" Kagome slipped past him toward the said room, all the while blinking at his strange behaviors. The signals he was giving was mixed, confusing her. If there was ever one thing she will never get, it was men. Like aliens on the planet of Venus.
Behind her Derek glared at his coworkers, all who send him a thumb-up and a big confident smile. Garcia even clapped and bounced at her feet only a Penelope Garcia could've pulled off. She mouthed, You can do it!
Derek shook his head and hurried to open the door of his office, "Yeah, it will be. Come in."
"'It will be?' That's an odd way to phasing it," Kagome entered, her steps graceful. She narrowly missed a pinched-back wince from Derek at his absent-minded reply, "but alright."
Drawing the shutters close and sending the women outside one final glare before he concealed his office, Derek sighed, "Don't worry too much about that. Take a seat." He patted at a leather seat while taking his spot on the desk, making sure to keep some space away from Dr. Higurashi so to not intimidate her.
Screwing up her mouth at the uncertainty at this strange situation, she yet again agreed, "Alright, so what's going on?" She settled into the chair, resting her files onto her laps, and folded her hands over it. Like a proper lady she always was, Derek mused.
"Well," Derek crossed his arms, pinning together words, "how did you perceive our," there was an accidental pause in between his question, "relationship?"
One of Kagome's eyebrows lifted at his question, before frustration settled in. She always felt she was missing something big from Derek Morgan and she hated not getting it. Giving an irritated sigh she fixated her eyes on him, "You don't have to play coy with me—what do you really want?"
Busted. Derek almost smiled. An opening! "How blunt do you want me to be?"
"What kind of question is that?" Kagome retorted back.
He nodded, humming, dropping his arms, "Alright, very blunt it is."
Kagome thought he moved like lightning. She barely registered his large hands grappling at her sidearms, caging her in, and remembered nothing but heavy warm weight on her lips.
"Where's Morgan and Dr. Higurashi?" Hotchner scanned around the busy room. He then blinked at Morgan's closed-shuttered office. Turning to his team and gestured his folder at it, "Is everything alright with Morgan?"
Garcia squeaked out a weak giggle. Kate flashed an amused look and another fond pat on her growing belly. JJ sighed, almost exasperated. They all awaited for a predicted answer from Reid, to break their silence.
"Um, I think they both are in Morgan's office…" Reid slowly said, sliding in his bookmark into his book, "They've been in there for," he checked his watch, "11 minutes."
Understanding lit up his eyes, "Ah, I see." Hotchner nodded, "Well, tell them they'd need to catch up to this case, wheel's up in forty. Let's talk case now." He ignored Rossi's quiet snickering, when he passed by him to the conference room.
"Well," Rossi started, "we might need to help our new lovebirds to find loopholes around the protocols, hm?" He grinned at the ladies, before scurrying after Hotchner.
Kate rubbed her hands eagerly, jumping to her feet to trail after Rossi, "Things'll be entertaining around here!"
"Like it hadn't enough?" JJ teased back.