Title: Learning the Hard Way.

Pairings: Primarily team centric, but will eventually be Morgan/Garcia

Summary: Morgan is forced to trust that his team will be the ones to rescue him this time, not the other way around, when he is unexpectedly kidnapped out of the blue. Will the team find him before too much damage is done?

A/N: Thank you once again for the reviews, alerts and what not. Sorry about the lack of updates over the weekend. On top of that I actually would've had this chapter up earlier today but I haven't been happy with it so I had play around with it some more. However the good news is that I am finally happy with it and that updates will be back to at least once a day, possibly more depending on how much I'm able to get typed up. And with that in mind here's the next chapter. Enjoy!

Chapter 8: Moving Forward

Wednesday morning Morgan family home…

"Good Morning, Spence," Des said to the young man just now waking beside her.

Despite how late it had been when they'd all arrived back at the house last night neither one of them had been able too sleep. Therefore they ended up in Des's room long after everyone else had drifted off. For the most part the conversation had centered on her brother, more specifically about how this whole situation had been a huge wake up call for them both. Her being 26 and him being only a year older at 27 they each saw Morgan as an older pillar of strength, and because of that they had each allowed themselves to believe that nothing could get to him; that he was invincible. Morgan getting kidnapped definitely disproved that theory though.

As they continued to talk however the conversation turned more towards them and their growing relationship. Both almost shyly admitted to liking one another despite the fact that normally they wouldn't be each other's type. Des fully admitting that she usually fell for the guy who would end up treating her the worst because she knew darn well her big brother would come to her rescue. Reid, on the other hand, well he just admitted that he'd always been too much of a geek to ever really get involved with anyone. Finally around 2am they became too tired to talk and eventually dosed off in each others arms.

"Good morning," He started to say but he was surprisingly stopped by a kiss from her.

"Wh…what was that for," he stammered once she pulled away only mere seconds later.

'I just felt like it," Des replied with an innocent smile before they were interrupted by a knock on the door.

"Hey lovebirds, Derek's awake. We're heady to the hospital pretty quick here." Des heard her older sister say.

"Umm we'll talk later," Reid said before quickly heading out the door.

Des nodded, smiling to herself as she watched him leave.

Morgan's Hospital room…

"Hey what's with the tears, Mama," Morgan said to Garcia as he tried to reach out and comfort her. Something was stopping him though. Pain, that's what it was. Why did he hurt so much? He'd come out the incident in New York fine that he knew because he remembered driving Hotch back to Quantico. So why was he here in a hospital room?

Through her tears Garcia saw the confusion on his face and for a moment she was almost glad he didn't seem to remember all the torture he'd just been through. "Don't try and move sweetness," She said when she saw him wince. "You took quite a beating," She then said as she began to explain what had happened.

She didn't get even halfway through her explanation before the memory of what happened came back to him. "Being back there was the worst part," he whispered al most inaudibly.

Garcia nodded knowing he was referring to the cabin as she leaned over and tried her best to wrap arms around him. It was hard given his shoulder and the tube in his chest but somehow she managed to get close enough to give him the comfort he needed.

And that's how everyone found them when they arrived less than an hour later.

"I don't think we're alone anymore," Garcia whispered in his ear when she heard the door open.

He just grinned and was about to say something when des spoke up instead, "You know bro I'm pretty sure the doctor didn't order this as a part of your recovery."

"Yeah well doctors don't know everything," He quipped back softly making everyone smile.

"Alright we'll let it slide this time," Sarah replied, "But only if you promise the next family reunion won't be in hospital."

"Deal," Morgan replied wincing at that moment because his shoulder was beginning to throb.

Morgan tried unsuccessfully to hide the pain, but he couldn't, and it was Hotch who slipped out of the room in search of a nurse.

It didn't take long for a nurse to come and up his meds immediately bringing him some relief from the pain.

"Dr. Johnston will be in to check on him in a couple of hours," The nurse said as she checked his vitals.

Not long after she left Morgan drifted back off to sleep under the watchful eyes of everyone he cared about.

"I thought for a minute he didn't remember what had happened," Garcia said to Hotch specifically explaining how confused he'd been at first.

"Yeah well it's not like he wants to remember," Reid said drawing reference from him own experience with Hankel, "It's just that the more you try to forget the more you remember."

"Did he remember the videos at all?" Des asked.

"I don't think so," Garcia replied, "But I didn't even bring them up."

Des nodded and leaned against Reid thankful that he didn't appear to remember the messages he'd been forced to give.

They all watched over Morgan and chatted quietly amongst themselves until the doctor ushered them all out a couple of hours later. Leaving the doctor to his job the gang all headed down to the cafeteria for lunch and hoped that when they got back that Dr. Johnston would have nothing but good things to say.