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DISCLAIMER: I don't own Criminal Minds, or Derek Morgan, or Spencer Reid, or Lila and Austin, or anything affiliated (I really love that word, by the way, it's kinda funny to me.) with Criminal Minds. The end.
Here it is! Enjoy!
J is for Jealousy
Jealousy wasn't an emotion that crossed Derek Morgan's path much. Hardly ever, actually. In fact, there were only two instances in the past few years that he could really recall feeling extremely jealous, and each of those times could be wrapped up in their own specific names: Lila and Austin.
Lila had been a bit of a shock. Morgan hadn't expected a semi-famous movie star to flirt with Reid, his Reid... Well, not really his Reid....It wasn't that he couldn't see the attraction; because really, he could. More than anyone ever suspected. It was that he hadn't really thought Reid would actually flirt back. It was hard, seeing Reid be so openly happy with someone, when he wouldn't even spare Morgan a look that wasn't brotherly, that wasn't anything more than friendly.
Morgan had denied jealousy for a long time. He wasn't jealous, just over protective for the young genius; he was the Pretty Boy, the Kid of the team. It was completely and utterly natural for Morgan to want to step in between the small space between Reid and Lila and never, ever move. Absolutely Natural… right?
Austin was a harder blow to handle, very bittersweet. After all, Morgan had pushed Reid towards her; he'd been trying to help, and truth be told, he hadn't really expected it to work as well as it did. But then again, Spencer was amazing at everything. So it didn't really come as a surprise when she began to smile back at him, to trust him. It was difficult for Derek. He wanted so much to be close to Reid, and he had just completely steered him away, and into the arms of someone different, someone who didn't know him.
Now, Derek Morgan had no feelings toward Spencer Reid that weren't out of the ordinary. That was what he told himself, anyways. None at all. It was completely normal for him to want to protect Spencer, to wrap his arms around the tall doctor and never let go, to be there for him always, to be the one he turned to when he was sad, and celebrated with when he was happy, and thought of when he was alone, and-
… No. Nothing out of the ordinary at all…
So when Lila tells Reid that he's welcome to stay at her place whenever he's in LA, and Reid says he might just take her up on that offer, Morgan isn't upset by it. No. And when Reid starts talking to Austin on the phone almost every other day, and seems so happy just to hear her voice, Morgan doesn't feel heartbroken, or left out, or sad. No, Morgan didn't feel any of that, especially not jealousy.
Because Derek Morgan simply wasn't jealous.