Title: Rock Solid

Author: Sami Marie

Genre: Friendship/Romance/Drama

Rating: PG-13

Pairings; Morgan/Garcia

Summary: Morgan is there for Garcia in the aftermath of Kevin's unexpected death and when she finds out that she is pregnant. Secretly in love with her he offers to be a father to the baby. Stay tuned to see how this will all unfold.

A/N: Thanks for all the lovely reviews and it sounds like you guys are pretty excited about what's going to take place in this chapter. So with that in mind I give you the moment you've all been wanting. Enjoy and don't forget to leave a review.

Chapter 9:

Three days later…

Fate was good to them both because it allowed Morgan to keep his promise. It was now Friday and Garcia was excited because Morgan would be walking through her door any minute now.

As if on cue Garcia looked up from her spot on the couch just in time to see Morgan come through the front.

"Hey baby girl I'm home," He greeted as he looked over at the couch and noticed her slowly getting up.

Now at 5 ½ months pregnant that wasn't such an easy task so he quickly dropped his bag and moved over to help her.

"I missed you handsome," She murmured against his shoulder because as soon as she was standing he had pulled her into a hug,

"I missed both of my girls,' He said before looking down at her stomach, "Is she still kicking you?"

"No I think she's sleeping at the moment," Garcia answered, "But give her a couple of hours and she'll be up and ready to show you her new tricks. "

He nodded before settling down on the couch with her soon nestled against him she drifted off to sleep and after watching her for a few minutes he too drifted off.

Three hours later…

Sure enough a couple of hours later Garcia awoke and immediately felt the baby kicking. After just watching a still sleeping Morgan for a few minutes she moved one of his arms so that she could place his hand on her stomach. A few kicks later he himself awoke. "Whoa!" Was all he said as he opened his eyes all the way.

"I know," Garcia agreed, "Now you know why she keeps me up at night she starts about now and she keeps at it for hours.

"Does it hurt," Morgan his voice full of awe asked.

"Not really," Garcia answered truthfully as she watched him.

Nodding Morgan finally pulled his hand away and said, "Alright how about some dinner?"

"Sounds good," She agreed, "I've wanted a pizza all day so does that work for you?"

"Yeah sounds good," Morgan replied, "Why don't you go ahead and order it while I change out of these clothes."

Garcia nodded and picked up the phone as he grabbed his bag and headed towards the bedroom to change.

"It's ordered," She said moment later when he returned wearing sweats and an old t-shirt.

"Cool," He said as he sat back down beside her. Automatically he pulled her closer to him and wrapped an arm around her and they bantered back and forth for the next several minutes until the doorbell rang.

One slice of pizza each later Garcia paused and looked at before grabbing a second piece, "You know I've been thinking."

"About what," Morgan asked in between bites.

"That's it's probably been forever since you last had sex," Garcia answered truthfully.

"What," Morgan cried out nearly choking on some pizza.

"Well it's true," Garcia said carrying on despite his obvious discomfort about their current topic. "Ever since Kevin died you've spent all your free time with me so I know for a fact you haven't been with a woman in quite awhile. Seriously Derek you've been acting weird lately and I think that's what the problem is."

Morgan just shook his and didn't say a single word until she said, "Anyways as I said I've been thinking it's really not fair for you do be celibate just because you agreed to help me raise this baby. Therefore I want you to know its okay with me if you want to have your own life aside from me and the baby."

"Damn it," Morgan muttered to himself when she was finally finished.

"What was that," She asked.

"That was…" Morgan hesitated for a moment before telling himself to just go ahead and tell her, "Pen, baby girl I need you to listen to me here okay."

"Alright," She agreed urging him to just spit it out already.

"If I wanted to be with another woman believe I would, you and I both know that something I've never had a problem with. However the truth is I don't want to be with any other woman right now and more importantly I can't."

"Why not," Garcia asked.

"Because I'm so in love with I can't even look at another woman these days, " Morgan said after he sat both of their plates down on the coffee table and pulled her closer to him.

"You're what," Garcia asked, "Did you just say you're in love with me?"

"Yes," Morgan confirmed, "I'm in love with you and believe me when I say that I don't think I've ever felt this way before."

Morgan watched her eyes and all of the emotions that played across her face as she processed that information.

She then smiled before saying, "do you know how many times I wanted you to say those words in the past. So many times, Derek and when I never heard them I convinced myself that it was never going to be that way between you and I and that it didn't matter because our friendship was so great. So I told myself that Kevin was good to me, that I should just let myself be happy with him.

"I'm so sorry baby girl, " Morgan said as he leaned in and kissed her tenderly, "I'm sorry I wasted all this time fighting how I felt."

"It's alright handsome," Garcia reassured as this time she kissed him, "I think it worked out right for us in the end."

"So does that mean," Morgan asked almost shyly.

"Yes silly, it means I love you too," Garcia replied, "I'm pretty sure a part has been in love with you since the day we first met."

Smiling Morgan kissed her this time with all of the pent of passion he'd been feeling for months now. The kiss seemed to go on forever until breathless he finally pulled away. Smiling up at each other they each took a couple of deep breaths before their lips met again. One, two, three kisses later he pulled away again but it was only so that he could trial kisses down her neck.