Hey guys, I actually have an excuse for not updating. I was on vacation down in Florida, five days which included a lovely family reunion and Venice beach (I seriously recommend going their guys, I'm not a big fan of beaches but this one is amazing) and then I came home to no power (Thank you thunder storms) anyway power came on about 20 minutes ago so I revised the ending of this chapter a little and am now posting it. I hope you like it, please leave a review at the end!
Morgan walked into the BAU unusually early, especially for him. It didn't even look as if Hotch or JJ were in yet. With a shrug Morgan set his bag in his office before heading to the conference room to see what the rest of the team had figured out about their Unsub. When he walked in the door he immediately noticed his girlfriend sleeping on the couch, wearing the same clothes she was wearing yesterday. Morgan looked at the board and saw that she had made a pattern of sorts of the men's pictures and she had written all over the board. Smiling slightly Morgan walked over to the couch and bent down, reaching out a hand to shake Emily's shoulder softly.
"Hey princess" said Morgan softly, Emily didn't stir so Morgan shook her shoulder a little harder and said "hey Em, wake up sweetheart." Emily slowly opened her eyes and groaned.
"Morning" said Morgan, Helping Emily up from the couch and examining her face, her left cheek was a deep shade of purple.
"Crap, Hotch is gonna kill me. I wasn't supposed to stay late, and I don't have time to go home and change before the rest of the team get here." Said Emily.
"So don't go home, change into whatever's in your go bag." Said Morgan, Emily nodded.
"Yeah, I'll do that. I'll be back in a few minutes." Said Emily, kissing Morgan on the cheek.
"Kay" said Morgan as he watched Emily walk out of the room. Morgan walked over to the board and started reading what was written on it. Emily reappeared ten minutes later with two coffees in her hands.
"Here" said Emily, handing Morgan one of the cups and kissing him on the lips.
"Mmm thank you." Said Morgan before kissing Emily again.
"Anytime" said Emily with a smile, Morgan smiled back before turning to the board.
"So do you mind explaining what's going on here?" asked Morgan, gesturing at all of Emily's writing.
"Not yet, I'm going to wait until the whole team gets here, but I can explain what the rest of the team did. JJ traced the letters that each of the men got back to a single post office in Charlottesville, unfortunately that post office doesn't have any video cameras, she was going to drive over today to talk to anyone who may have been on duty and remember our Unsub. Reid was able to figure out a geographic profile as well. The post office is a small one with no parking space except for a few spaces reserved for employees, so odds are he walked there which means he either lives or works in that area." Said Emily, indicating the shaded circle on a city map of Charlottesville.
"Nice job, meanwhile I was babysitting your father, how you even lasted fifteen years I do not know." Said Morgan, Emily smirked.
"It wasn't too hard, he was never with us for more than a week or two at a time before going away for months. And when he was around it was all political dinners and social gatherings so he could use his 'charming daughter' to advance his career, my mother was just as bad." Said Emily.
"I'm sorry princess." Said Derek, Emily shook her head.
"Not your fault." Said Emily, walking over to the table and placing her coffee down on it, Morgan followed her and placed his coffee next to hers before placing his hands on her hips and turning her around to face him.
"It doesn't have to be my fault, for me to be sorry it happened Em." Said Morgan before kissing Emily softly on the lips
"I know. I'm sorry." Said Emily before placing her hands around his neck and kissing him again lightly and pulling him in tighter for a hug.
"Thank you" said Emily.
"Always" said Morgan. Emily broke the embrace.
"I wonder why no one else is here yet." Said Morgan as he looked at his watch.
"I think JJ was planning on just going straight to Charlottesville and not stopping in here first, as for the rest of them I have no idea. Let's go wait out in the bullpen." Said Emily, Morgan nodded and took her hand as they walked out together. Emily sat down at her desk as Morgan perched on top of it.
"You know my mama scolded me after I told her we were dating because I didn't bring you home with me. I wish you were there too." Said Morgan, Emily chuckled.
"What?" asked Derek.
"It's nothing, I just don't have a very good track record when it comes to meeting the family of the guy I'm dating or even of friends. I was dating this guy in my junior year of high school, and I swear his mother was the muggle reincarnation of Umbridge" said Emil, Morgan looked at her with a blank face. Emily stared at him, waiting for him to get the joke.
"You know, Professor Dolores Umbridge, from the fifth Harry Potter book?" said Emily, Morgan shook his head.
"I don't actually, I never re-" said Morgan before Emily interrupted him.
"You've never read Harry Potter? Please tell me you're joking!" said Emily.
"I'm not, I never read Harry Potter." Said Morgan just as Reid, Hotch, Rossi and Garcia walked in.
"Oh my god I do not believe this!" said Emily.
"Believe what?" asked Garcia at the same time Hotch said "Conference room in five".
"Morgan's never read Harry Potter' said Emily, Garcia gasped.
"Oh my Chocolate Adonis, how you have missed out!" said Garcia.
"How can you have not read Harry Potter? I don't read much other than technical books and even I've read Harry Potter." Said Reid.
"I enjoy those books as well." Said Rossi.
"This must be rectified immediately Mister." Said Emily, getting up from her chair and following the others to the conference room, Morgan chuckled.
"Well if my girlfriend insists then I will go to the bookstore during lunch and buy a copy of the first book." Said Morgan
"You better" said Emily, pointing a finger at him in.
"Ooh Em, do you know what House you're in?" asked Garcia.
"Pottermore said I'm a Gryffindor, what about you guys?" asked Emily.
"I'm a Hufflepuff" said Garcia.
"And I'm in Ravenclaw" said Reid.
"This Harry Potter? I just started to read the first book to Jack, I figure he's old enough now to fully appreciate it. It's a great story I can't believe you haven't read it." said Hotch.
"Alright, alright. I will read the series you guys have convinced me. Now can we get back to the case?" asked Morgan.
"Yeah Emily what did you figure out? It looks like you got a lot of work done yesterday" said Reid.
"Well besides my father, there are five other men. The first three victims had problems with alcohol and they would often get drunk in public. I found three newspaper articles that were never actually printed because the companies wouldn't let the article through so the writers posted them on blogs and because of that they lost their jobs. The next two were similar as well, their wives had problems with drugs. And finally my father, well his mark was my pregnancy and abortion. 3-2-1 right? Now look at these, these are pictures of the crime scenes. Look there is an open book in all of them, and looking closer you can see in all of them the word 'time' inked in. Time, like an hourglass." Began Emily.
On the board the victim's photos were arranged in a sort of pyramid. The first three on top, then next two in the middle, and Emily's father on the bottom. A symbol of each of their 'marks'.
"Now an hourglass can be seen as a mirror image of two pyramids, which makes me think that there are five or six more potential victims. This was planned, immensely planned. This guy resents these men, maybe was successful but then something like these 'marks' as he called them happened to him and that knocked him down off the social ladder." Said Emily.
"Would that really cause this much rage though?" asked Reid.
"Well, take a look at my father and how he reacted to not being able to attend a meeting today. Now think of how he might react if his career was over. All these men were roughly the same height, within a few inches of each other, they all had brown hair and were white. I think we can assume our Unsub is built the same way." Concluded Emily.
"Good findings, now tell me the truth. Did you stay here all night to figure this out?" asked Hotch, the entire team stared at Emily, after a minute of deliberating she answered.
"Yes sir, by the time I was done it was late and I was too tired to drive so I caught a few hours on the couch before Morgan came in and woke me up. I changed into the clothes in my ready bag," admitted Emily.
"Go home, get another couple hours of sleep, be back here around one. That's an order." Said Hotch.
"Yes sir, I will see you guys in a few hours." Said Emily, waving goodbye to her family.
Over the next few hours the team worked on building the profile, JJ had called and said that she was headed back and the Unsub had a distinguishing scar on his chin shaped like a crescent moon. He also had a white ink tattoo on his left forearm of heart with a name inside it and a jagged line down the middle. The name was 'Lily'. They needed to present the profile to the local police that caught the original cases.
"Morgan go and get Emily, I know it's two hours before she had to be back but we need her to help present the profile. Rossi go and update Emily's parents and the agent there." Said Hotch, Rossi and Morgan both nodded and left the room.
Morgan got to Emily's apartment twenty minutes later, knocking on the door so as not to scare her before he put in the key she gave him and opened up her door. Not seeing her in the living room or kitchen area he walked to her bedroom, the door was open so he walked in and found Emily tossing and turning on her bed.
"No…no…Declan…Doyle stop…please stop…please…Doyle" Emily was covering her stomach with her hands. Derek rushed to the side of the bed she was on when he realized what was going.
"Emily you're having a dream, it's just a dream! Please wake up Em! Come on Em open up those beautiful eyes for me." Said Derek, his voice rising in panic as he shook Emily's shoulder. Emily slowly woke up sobbing.
"D-Derek?" asked Emily in confusion.
"It's just me Princess, Doyle's gone, he's dead. He can't hurt you anymore. Declan's safe at his boarding school." Said Morgan, pulling Emily into a hug.
"It was just a dream, I'm sorry you had to see that. I'm ok." Said Emily, pulling away from Morgan. Morgan frowned and wiped away her tears.
"Emily never be afraid to cry, especially not in front of me. I just want to keep you safe and be able to help you. How long have you been having these dreams?" asked Morgan.
"They've been happening about once or twice a week ever since I came back, since Doyle died." Said Emily, Derek looked at her with sadness in his eyes before kissing her on her forehead.
"Have you talked to anyone about this?" asked Morgan, Emily shook her head.
"I'm glad you told me." Said Morgan, Emily got up.
"I'm glad that I have someone who I can talk to about this. Derek I… I love you" said Emily
"I love you too. So, so much princess." Said Derek softly before leaning in to give Emily a kiss.
"Really?" asked Emily when they broke apart a moment later. Morgan chuckled.
"Yes really, how could you ever doubt it?" asked Morgan.
"With the way you treat me? No I guess I can't" said Emily, Morgan leaned in to kiss her. Emily deepened the kiss and they didn't break apart until they both needed air.
"As much as I would like to continue this, we have to get back to the BAU before Hotch sends reinforcements." Said Morgan, breaking apart from Emily and searching for his keys, finding them on the ground next to Emily's bed.
"How about tonight then?" suggested Emily as she brushed her hair and pulled it back into a ponytail.
"Alright but I'm taking you on a proper date first." Said Morgan as he followed Emily out the door.
"You're on" said Emily as she walked to her own car and Morgan got in his.
So which house are you in? I'm in Ravenclaw. Being the potterhead I am I just couldn't resist adding in a reference. Did you guys like it? I promise more chapters to come!
