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. So this is part two of Friday night for both our two couples and it picks up right where we left off in part one. Included is the moment you've all been waiting for, Garcia coming to her bloody senses, lol.
Chapter 18: This Is Our Moment
Morgan's Apartment minutes later…
Morgan let his head rest on her shoulder and soaked up all the comfort she offered for the next few minutes in silence.
As she held him Garcia's mind wandered. She knew her seeing him like this was hard for him because if he had it his way he'd be dealing with all his demons on his own. Just like he had most of his life; however, if she was honest it was just as hard for her to see him this way. So broken, that was the only way to describe it.
As if sensing her thoughts he lifted his head up and began to pull away, quietly whispering, "I'm sorry."
Garcia shook her head in exasperation and was unable to stop form sounding almost angry when she said, "Damn it Derek Morgan if you're trying to apologize for having a nightmare in front of me after everything we've been through together. So help me God I might just have to slap you."
"Baby girl that's not what I meant." Morgan said startled by her outburst.
"Good now do you want to talk about it," She said calming down just as quickly as she'd gotten riled up.
"No.," He said with a shake of his head, "I just want to forget about it, forget this whole nightmare happened."
"I know you do sugar," Garcia said squeezing his hand. "But just like you told me after I got shot ignoring it won't make it go away."
"I know but this night was just supposed to be us watching movies, getting back to what we were before I went and told you how I felt," Morgan said.
Garcia shook her head if that was his way of trying to take back what he'd said to her in Chicago she just might have to slap him after all. And then it hit her the only way to stop this madness was to gather up her courage and do what everyone had been telling her to do. Let go of her fear and love him the way she really wanted too, not just as a friend but in everyway a woman can love a man.
With that in mind Garcia took a deep breath, pausing only to look him deeply in his eyes before saying, "I've been so stupid, I'm the one that should be sorry."
Morgan went to interrupt her but she stopped by saying, "No let me finish I somehow thought that admitting I've been in love with you for what seems like forever now would change everything between us. But Rossi was right it doesn't change anything, if anything were lucky because it makes what we already have even better."
The more she talked the bigger his smile got as he listened to her. It was hard to believe less than a half hour ago he'd been in depths of a nightmare and now he was listening to her tell him that she felt the same way he did.
When she stopped talking she looked at his smiling face and swore to herself he'd never looked more beautiful than he did at that moment.
"So I guess this is our moment isn't it?" He said as she continued to stare at him.
She nodded before lowering her mouth to his. Once their lips met passion took over as they each tried to convey what they couldn't quite put into words. And when they finally broke apart for air they each breathlessly whispered, "I love you."
Across town meanwhile…
"You're a prince you know that," Des said to the man holding her hand.
They'd finished up dinner about twenty minutes ago and now were taking a moonlit stroll through a nearby park.
Reid stopped suddenly and looked at her before saying, "No I'm not Des, not even close, just last year I was a drug addict for crying out "
Des shook her head, "You know my first boyfriend was a junkie. I didn't realize it until we'd been going out for about three months. And you want to know what he did when I confronted him about it?"
"What'd he do," Reid asked even though he was sure he didn't want to know.
"He hit me," Des answered honestly. "I was 17 and when I picked myself up off the floor I ran, all the way to Derek's."
"Des I'm so sorry," Reid said when she finished.
"It's alright like I've told you I'm not known for my great taste in men. That's why being with you is such a nice change." Des replied. "For the first time in my life I'm with a guy my brother won't have to rescue me from."
Reid smiled vowing to himself that would remain true before he pulled her gently into his arms and kissed her.
"See you're my prince," Des whispered when he pulled away.
"Okay," He conceded breathlessly, "But what does that make you?"
"Whatever you want me to be," Was her answer before kissing him once again.
And with that squared away the gentleman in him decided to call it a night as he escorted her back to his car.
Twenty minutes later his car came to a stop outside Morgan's apartment building. As he walked her up to her brother's she paused about halfway and said, "You know we could've gone back to your place."
"Yeah we could've but then I'd be just like every other guy you've been with wouldn't I," Was his reply as they approached Morgan's apartment door.
She nodded and then kissed him goodnight before letting herself inside.
Once inside she smiled to herself. The date had been better than even she had imagined was her final thought when she climbed into bed.