Okay sorry I haven't updated in almost a month but I only just got back from Ottawa. I actually have no idea where I am going with this story and I am just winging it. I'm kind of sad though because I only got 2 reviews on the last chapter!
Derek Morgan sat on the bench pretending to read a newspaper. It had been 2 weeks since he had seen his expartner, Emily Prentiss, and ever since then he had spent all his free time on the street where he had seen her, hoping that she would come again. So far his search had been fruitless, he had not seen her and the few people he had talked to did not know who she was.

He was starting to doubt himself, thinking that maybe everyone had been right and he had just imagined it was her and that he was being crazy and stalkerish to sit and walk around the area all the time hoping to see her. Or maybe he really did see her but this street was somewhere she had been only that once, a random shopping trip. But he remembered how gaunt and weak Emily had looked and the unsteady way she had walked,it didn't look like she was in any shape to go on a shopping trip around the city. He had to keep hope, he had to believe that he would see her.

Derek was so lost in his thoughts that he didn't even notice the woman turning the corner until she stumbled and he caught the movement out of the corner of his eye. He quickly looked up while hiding behind the newspaper and saw her. Emily. She looked even worse then she had 2 weeks ago, though he wouldn't have thought that possible, she was so pale that she made her previous self look tan and she seemed even skinnier then before.

His first instinct was to run out, grab her arm, hug her, and demand answers but he cautioned himself. From her reaction last time he was sure that she didn't want to talk to him or let him see her and he didn't want her running off again. So he sat and waited, discretely watching as she slowly made her way into a small grocery store and came out moments later holding a grocery bag and struggling with it. Once again he wanted to run to her, this time to help, but he knew he couldn't so he sat pretending to read until she made it to the corner, which took quite long, before getting up and walking a discreet distance behind her.

He followed her for a couple blocks, getting quite worried about how difficult it was for her to walk and the fact that she didn't notice him following her, she was a trained agent of both the FBI and the CIA afterall. He watched as she turned and walked into a apartment building and noticed that while small it looked well taken care of and had a buzzer system with keyholes for the occupants. After waiting for Emily to let herself in and walk out of sight Derek walked up to the list of occupants and rooms. As he expected 'Emily Prentiss' wasn't on there, but as he scanned the names he actually smiled when he saw the name 'Jennifer Morgan', he knew that it was her and it made him happy that instead of using some random alias she had used the names of her friends, though it confused him even more about her silence and lies.

Knowing that he could never get her to unlock the door for him, Derek pressed evey button knowing that someone would let him in. He was proved right when he heard the lock click so after checking 'Jennifer Morgans' apartment number (3B) he opened the door and walked in. He took note of the elevator that he assumed was how Emily managed to get to the 3rd floor but decided on the stairs instead to work off some of his nervous energy.

He stopped in front of her door suddenly unsure of himself, wondering if it was really a good idea for him to be doing this, she obviously had reasons for not wanting to talk to the team and he didn't really want to tell her that he had stalked her...but he had to know the truth and more then anything he just wanted his partner, his friend back.
Before he could chicken out he reached out and knocked on the door. After waiting a few excrutiatingly long minutes the door slowly opened...

So how was that? I bet everyone was expecting them to finally talk but I figured it would be better this way. I'm going to try to get another chapter posted in a couple days which will have the long awaited talk. It'll only take a minute to leave a review but it might get a new chapter posted sooner! :)