CHPTR 6-Criminal Minds + Tony
Tony lay on his hotel bed. After the drama of this morning he had come back here to hopefully sleep but that hadn't worked. So he lay there thinking about Gibbs and finally letting himself cry. It was several hours before he got a call. He had fallen into a light doze and it startled him into full wakefulness. He scrambled for the hotel phone. "'ello?"
"Hi, Tony? It's Spencer Reid."
"How can I help you Spencer?"
"I've got some questions about dog tags. Is there any reason the name and unit would be scratched out?"
Tony yawned "They scratch out the name if you get dishonorably discharged, as well as the rank and number, I don't know about unit though, I'd have to see them to know if it was professional or not."
"Could you come take a look at them?"
"Sure I'll be there in a sec." Tony hung up and got dressed, he sighed; at least if he was working he wouldn't be thinking about Gibbs.
10 minutes later Tony was sat in a conference room with Reid and the dog tags. "Those are defiantly not supposed to scratched out. You can tell because they use a special tool to cross it out and these look more like scratched than hammered. I'd say that whoever did this knows military protocol but not enough to know not to cross out the unit."
"Thanks for your help Tony. This could narrow down a suspect pool significantly."
"So are you and agent Morgan dating?" Tony smirked, he had seen the way they looked at each other. Even now he knew Derek was keeping a close eye on them.
"whaa what? No!" Spencer stuttered out.
"Really? Because I think he likes you" Tony smiled and walked out to get more coffee, running straight into Special Agent Derek Morgan. "How's it going?" Tony asked with his patented smirk in place.
"Just fine" Morgan was tight lipped.
"He likes you, you know?"
Morgan spluttered and cleaned coffee from his face.
"He does, I can see it when he looks at you, and you should ask him out." Tony grimaced "trust me I know one sided love and this isn't it."
"How do you mean?" Morgan interest was stirred now.
"Promise not to tell anyone?" Morgan nodded and Tony launched into the whole long and sad story. When he finished he asked "Can you convince your boss not to call my old work place, I really don't want them to know where I am, at least not until I'm ready."
"Sure Tony, no problem, we can check your alibi with your phone records anyway."
Morgan headed toward Reid and Tony watched from a far as Morgan asked Spencer out. He saw the Blush as he stammered out a yes. Tony looked away; it made him think of Gibbs.