Fear - S04E03 Minimal Loss

JJ came straight to him. Maybe because he was the one out in the bullpen, maybe because now was not the time to pretend she didn't know. It didn't matter; Reid and Prentiss were both in trouble and it was up to the team to get them out safely.

Morgan knew he wasn't the only one worried about those two, about Reid and Prentiss, people he cared for. That moment, when Cyrus told them one of the social workers was dead, was suffocating. Not until he named Nancy Lunde did any of them dare to breathe again. It was awful, but it wasn't either of them.

It was torture, knowing they couldn't do anything either. Listening to Emily's beating, worrying over where Reid was and if he would be able to give them anything. When they could finally move in, it was a relief, albeit a short-lived one. It meant that Cyrus was executing his end-game, but they could finally get Reid and Prentiss out of there.

Distress - S04E06 The Instincts

So Morgan finally found out the reason Reid had been staying at his own house for the past couple of days. He just hadn't expected it to be dreams again. He remembered talking to the kid about nightmares, back when Gideon was still around, but these seemed different. Less nightmarish and more… well, he didn't exactly know. But different anyways.

They only seemed to get worse as the case went on, and after the dream at the Bridges' house, with Reid looking so helpless, he had to do something. Of course though, the case took precedence and Morgan didn't know the details of every case like his boy. So, he got one of the other detectives to look into it. Any murders that contained the vague details he knew about the dreams; body found in the basement, the victim a child, occurring in Las Vegas. It wasn't much, but with a little bit of Garcia's help, he found one that matched. Hopefully, it would be the start to fixing things.

In the end, with him and Rossi staying behind to help and going so far as to interrogate Reid's father, it was enough.

Introductions - S04E09 52 Pickup

Austin was the second girl on a case that had been attracted to Reid. She was the first that Morgan had pushed the genius towards. Why? Because he wanted Reid to explore himself a bit more; his sexuality, his interests, what worked and what didn't and everything in between. He wanted his pretty boy to be more confident in himself and their relationship, and it was part of a mutual agreement they'd made some time ago. Reid didn't want him to change, didn't care that he flirted, because it was part of why he loved Morgan. Morgan told the younger man that if there was another person that may be interested in him, that he should go for it, to test his own limits and get a feel for what and who he liked. He was inexperienced, and that type of experience could only come from multiple interactions, not just with the same person over and over.

So, when they were going through clubs and handing out flyers, Morgan set his boy up to 'do his thing' with the bar waitress. And he could honestly say that he was extremely proud to watch Reid pull it off so well. His magic bit was certainly a hit, and he was good at it too. He'd call the whole night a rousing success.

Sarcasm - S04E12 Soul Mates

It didn't drip from every word. It didn't coat sounds and syllables. It didn't scream or bite, wasn't vicious or sneering or cutting. It was subtle, subtle enough to be missed even by a man of William's intelligence.

When Morgan said that he had no idea what it was like to be in love with another man, the only people who could tell that he was being utterly sarcastic were his team, a couple of which he didn't doubt were behind the two-way mirror. They wouldn't say anything about it, because no one else would catch it, but they'd know. They would also know that Morgan was, in a certain way, telling the truth. He really didn't have any idea what it was like to be in love with another man in the way that William was. Couldn't fathom getting off on killing people with his partner, couldn't imagine getting closer to someone by raping and murdering girls. William and his partner were sick and pathetic and Morgan didn't want to try to 'love' like they did.

That didn't mean he didn't know what it was like to love another man though. Anyone who thought he was serious didn't know him at all.

Worry - S04E18 Omnivore (Reid's POV)

Reid had experienced fear before; it came with the job. He'd even gone through the fear for a loved one, whenever his mom had had an attack, or when Morgan had driven that ambulance out to a field where it could safely explode. Fear for his life or sanity whenever he faced down an unsub or his own fears. But he hadn't felt anything quite like this. The cloying thing that skittered up from his stomach to his throat and stuck there. The tightness in his chest and breath when he'd heard that Morgan had been attacked by the Reaper. It was different, different from the ambulance. Then, he'd had Garcia. Then, he hadn't been attacked, knocked unconscious, at the mercy of a merciless killer. It only lasted for a moment, just the time it took for the reassurance that he was okay to come out. But it was long enough that he already knew he didn't want to feel it again. He just hoped the psychological torture wouldn't leave too big of a mark on Morgan. No… Reid was sure it wouldn't.

Too Soon - S04E19 House on Fire

The call from JJ came when both of them were getting ready for bed, and it sounded urgent enough that they pretty much just left Morgan's place on the spot. Hence why Morgan was only wearing a hoodie with no shirt under it, and Reid not only had his shirt untucked with a couple of the buttons undone, but his characteristic tie was missing, leaving the collar of his shirt hanging open.

Diligence - S04E24 Amplification (Reid's POV)

He'd messed up. More than at any other point in the past. He'd gotten himself infected with a thus-far untreatable strain of Anthrax by blindly walking into an unchecked area. The only thing Reid was relieved about, the only thing he could be relieved about, was that Morgan hadn't gotten infected too. It was just him.

That didn't stop the guilt over making everyone worry about him. He could only imagine what they must be going through, knowing where he was and what happened to every other patient like him. But Reid wasn't about to let that stop him from doing his job anyways; not the guilt, and not the fear.

It was funny to him though, that he wasn't actually more afraid of the Anthrax than he was of the narcotics offered to him by Dr. Kimura. He didn't explain himself when he snapped at her, didn't even want to think about it. He'd defeated his drug addiction and he hadn't done that just to get hooked again; Reid knew the statistics.

In the end, after some amount of panic in the ambulance, Kimura's quick thinking about the cure being in Dr. Nichols' inhaler saved his life. And seeing Morgan (and jello) upon waking up was about as good of a sight as he could've asked for.

AN: Thought I had put this one up a long while ago. Sorry for the wait!

-Sable