Chapter 5: Our Love
Emily couldn't sleep. It hurt her. What happened today hurt her feelings. The slap was felt by her too, as if Hotch had slapped her. She knew how sensitive her love was to such insults. But, she was a strong woman, unstoppable. So, in the middle of the night, she threw her blanket aside and jumped out of the bed. In the cold dark night, she felt lonely and wounded for some reason. What Hotch said and did to them surely had left internal wounds of disbelief. But she was not ready to let go of her new found love yet. They were everything to her, the entire meaning of her existence beautifully converged into them. The guilt of knowing how hurt Reid might be stole her sleep away. Without even putting the shoes on, she made her way out in the hallway to the room across her. she had the card to unlock room, they all shared such things with each other. She slowly let herself in the lightly dimmed light. The lamp on one of the side was still left on. She smiled at the sight of her love sleeping soundly. He was all the way to one side of bed. Emily gently lifted the warm blanket and got under it. She felt so good feeling another body nearby her. She slithered lightly until her hand could trace his right cheek. She signed as the slap scene snapped in her mind again. So, she bent and kissed his cheek light and he stirred a little. She then wrapped her arms around him, like she was with a cuddly teady. She hid her face in his messy hairs, smelling so nice and happy. She could lose her sanity right them. This was life for her, the calm that radiated when they were together. With him all around her, sleep slowly descended and she ran to the world of dreams.
She was lucky to have such people in her life. Morgan was what her heart wanted since she was a young girl, someone defined, dominating but gentle, wild lover but overly caring. And, when she grew up her ideals grew up as well. She was drawn to humble and intelligent man like Spencer Reid. Half of her heart wanted someone like him, smart, adorable, so full of life and himself. He was self-made person, someone hard working, empathetic and a very gentle lover. It's like Morgan was the beat to the slow violin of Spencer. Both together created the music Emily would die for. One without the other was not complete.
Emily woke up after hours. The curtains clearly showed the morning peeking behind. It was another day, they had to get the case done. She stirred up, untangling her limbs from Reid so unwillingly. He too stretched a little. Emily bent over the bed to pick the fallen teddy bear from the floor. It was what Garcia gave him on his birthday two years ago. He carried it everywhere with him. She placed the teddy on top of him. He finally opened his eyes.
"He wants to cuddle" She whispered pressing the bear unto him. He quickly wrapped his arms around it and smiled adorably. Emily quickly lowered to kiss his cute nose. She, then traced his cheek again.
"I'm sorry...on Hotch's behalf" She said. His sleepy eyes turned sad, realizing what yesterday unfolded for them. He looked away, certainly upset.
"Spencer...You know Hotch would never do such a thing without something being terribly wrong" Emily said while ceasing his hairs, trying to comfort him.
"I know" he exhaled.
"We will talk to him, ok" she kissed his cheek again but he turned away this time. Emily lifted a little, inches away from his face, trying to read the sadness on his face. And, suddenly the door flung open.
"Oh you guys are having party without me!" Morgan whined as he literally jumped on the bed.
"Just trying to cheer our genius here" Emily replied. Morgan lightened up and moved to the other side of the bed and strongly lifted his genius up to hug him.
"You cuddle the bear while I cuddle you" he whispered in Reid's ears. All three were now lying on the bed, trying to figure out the mess Hotch was creating in their lives.
"Wanna talk about it?" Morgan asked as he locked his legs between the warm legs of his love.
"NO" he replied. Morgan lifted on his elbow to see the sad eyes of his friend. It killed him to see him like that. He had promise to never let such gloom fall over his lovers until he's alive.
"I know, just how to fix it" He said cheerfully and started to tickle anything exposed of the genius.
"heyyyy!" Reid whined and moved away. Morgan quickly pulled him back.
"Not so fast" He said and started the tickling, pushing, shoving of each other. Emily watched the two boys laughing. It finally eased her heart. It was always a pleasure to watch them wrestle for tickle. She couldn't contain the laughter in her anymore. She too decided to join.
"Quick, grab his arms" Morgan said while stuck in Reid limbs and the blanket. Right now the genius had him under control. He wasn't going to just get tickled.
"No, Emily you're on my side" Reid spoke as he felt his arms being pulled back letting the tickling monster escape from under the blanket. She started to laugh while managing to get the genius lie back down on the bed. Morgan joined in.
"NO, STOOP!" Reid laughed and tugged, knowing he was falling back. Emily successfully pinned him down and Morgan sat on him. He wiggled his fingers in air and slowly lowered his hands toward the whining boy.
"AHHH!" Reid closed his eyes, hating the moment of anticipation for the tickling hell.
"hey, how did you get this bruise?" Emily suddenly broke the laughter staring down at the milky arms on the bed. The sleeve exposed bruises on Reid's both arms. Morgan too looked.
"What?" Reid asked staring at both their eyes. Morgan traced the marks with his finger. It looked fresh. A hiss escaped Reid's mouth. Morgan frowned.
"Reid?" He asked again. Emily let go of his wrists allowing Reid to examine his arms. He gulped down realizing how painfully Hotch had grabbed him. Should he tell them?
"Hmmm..." He could only say at that instant. Morgan grabbed the arm again, examining if the bruises were from a specific material.
"Stop!" Reid pulled back. He pushed Morgan off him.
"How did it happen? It wasn't there before" he said lifting himself off Reid and settling on the bed beside him.
"It's nothing new...no worries guy" Reid decided to not let them know yet. He didn't know how screwed Hotch was right now to betray his orders.
"Don't you lie to me now" Morgan spoke up, irritating the young Genius a lot.
"I'm not lying" he replied.
"Then how did you get bruised?" Emily asked.
"It's my body. I don't have to answer you" Reid said annoyingly and pushed himself off the bed. Morgan couldn't let it go this easy. He too got up and grabbed his love from behind.
"We care...that's why we are asking" Morgan said in his ear.
"Let go of me now" Reid madly stated.
"Morgan..."Emily called from behind and signaled him to stop harassing. He opened his arms and Reid quickly got away to the bathroom. Both Morgan and Emily eyed each other in frustration.
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The clone sat in his assigned room, not sure of how to approach his team today. He was so upset about yesterday night. He wanted to apologize to the young agent and let him know there was nothing wrong but instead he made it worse. He seemed to not know how to be nice. Could he trust the agent to remain quiet about this issue? What if he told the others? The whole plan would fall apart and the professor would surely kill him and the agent.
A knock on his door alerted him. He opened the door to see Agent Rossi smiling back at him. Oh no, he was not ready to face this mastermind yet. He thus far had managed to stay away from him but now he was standing in front of him. He cleared his mind quickly. He needed all his focus now.
"Just wanted to ask if you were ready to leave" Rossi asked. Hotch pulled a smile in return.
"Ready as ever" He showed his suit to him.
"Let's grab some breakfast then" Rossi said and the clone panicked again. He had no other choice but to go along.
Both sat on the counter in the main lobby ordering. The clone thought maybe the trio told this old man about yesterday's incident. He cursed himself. He should stay away from that doctor before everything is ruined. But, what if Rossi knows. He gulped down. This was becoming hell.
"Chief called me few days ago" He started. Rossi stared at him.
"He knows about the relationship between Morgan, Emily and Reid. They're threatening me to fire them" Hotch said all in one breath. He tried to pull a sad face. Rossi stilled.
"How did they come to know of it?" Rossi asked shifting right.
"I guess, they weren't careful enough" Hotch tried to sound sad and hopeless. Rossi continued to stare him. The clone was trying all his best not to look back. What was this profiler now doing?
"HOTCH!" Morgan shouted form a distance. Both turned back to see an angry agent folding his arm.
"How are you do that to Reid?" He asked "you know you left bruises". Rossi frowned.
"Oh.." The clone felt like he fell from a cliff. So, the young agent told them. Anger and stress collided inside him. Reid was going to pay a big price now.
"I wanted to clear things up with him. I was apologizing but he kept antagonizing me" He spoke. Rossi felt lost in all of this. How come no one told him anything.
"So you decide to hurt him" Morgan spat.
"Please, don't get me wrong. It wasn't my intent. I was simply trying to apologize" Hotch desperately tried to escape the profilers now.
"You slapped him first and then decided it wasn't enough and left those bruises on his arms!" Morgan raised his voice to which Rossi stood.
"Not here" He grabbed Morgan.
"Rossi, something is very wrong with our unit chief" Morgan explained to him. The clone wanted the earth to open up and engulf him but he rather stood up.
"All you guys care about is him..only him.. Does anyone even cares that I might be in trouble or something... No! I'm heartless or something, right!" Hotch spoke and left the scene. Rossi's eyes popped out of his head. Hotch never spoke such emotionally before. He surely was in grave trouble. Morgan too stared back at Rossi.
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The clone rushed towards the elevator trying to get to the phone as soon as possible. The doors slide open revealing Emily and Reid. Emily stepped out and out of chaos Hotch slammed inside the elevator and closed the door before Reid could step out. The elevator started to lift up. He forcefully pushed the agent back, knocking all air out of him.
"Hotch.." Reid whined.
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