So I know this story is different but I promise it will gain some momentum soon.

Morgan woke to the smell of pancakes cooking. He stretched his arms above his head while he sat up. He saw Garcia in the tiny kitchen with a stack of pancakes next to her. Smiling, Morgan stood up and walked over behind Garcia. "Good morning beautiful. How in the world did you manage to make pancakes in this tiny motel kitchen?" Morgan asked sneaking a small pancake from the stack.

"You don't even know what I can make in tiny kitchens." She replied giving Morgan a bright smile. "Hey you want to grab Nia? I left her sleeping on the bed." Morgan raised an eyebrow. "She came in half way through the night and was still out like a light when I woke up." Garcia explained.

Morgan gave her a smile and went to the bed to get Nia. Morgan found the dragon stretched out on the bed. He looked over her as he sat down on the edge of the bed. Her tail would occasionally twitch. He was reaching over to touch her when Nia squeezed her eyes shut and whimpered. He froze and watched her for a minute. She began to thrash her head back and forth, telling Morgan that she was having a nightmare. He decided that it was time to get her up. Morgan placed his hand on Nia's shoulder and was stunned when she bolted awake. Her eyes were wide with fear. She immediately backed away from Morgan and ended up falling off the bed in her attempt to get away from him.

"Hey easy, I am not going to hurt you." Morgan said trying to calm the frightened creature. Nia looked at him frightened and made herself as small as she could. Morgan moved toward her again but all he succeed in doing was backing Nia into a corner and having her make herself even smaller. He knew that making herself that small was pulling on her wound and not helping things. "Baby girl get in here please!" Morgan said as loud as he dared. Nia flinched away from Morgan as he talked.

Garcia came in and stopped when she saw what was going on. "What happened?" She asked worried.

"She was having a nightmare and I woke her up but I think that she thinks she is still with her captors." Morgan told Garcia with his best guess. Garcia looked at Nia and saw the fear in her eyes. Garcia slowly walked over to the corner she was in.

"Hey sweetie it's okay. No one here is going to hurt you." Garcia held out her hand to Nia. Nia flinched at her out stretched hand but let Garcia approach without backing further into the wall. Garcia was able to touch Nia and stroked Nia's neck. Garcia noticed a bruise starting to show around Nia's neck; evidence of a collar that had been on too tight while she was yanked around. "You are safe now. Shhh, now one is going to hurt you." Garcia said pulling Nia in her lab. Nia let herself be put in Garcia's lab. She had been shaking earlier and as Garcia held her, she began to calm down.

Morgan watched the scene with sad eyes. Whatever had happened to Nia with the man before she was rescued was more traumatizing than they had ever thought. The memories must have been bad because when Morgan walked over Nia shied away and started to shake again.

"Hey now it's just Derek. He won't hurt you." Garcia said trying to calm the poor thing down.

"Hold on I want to try something." Morgan said getting up and leaving for a minute. He was back with a pancake in his hands. Morgan slowly made his way over to Garcia and Nia. While Morgan had gone to get the food, Garcia had picked up Nia and they both sat on the bed. Morgan sat on the other side of the bed and held out a piece of pancake to Nia. First she shied away but after a bit of Garcia's coxing, she nervously and carefully took the piece from Morgan. He moved slowly so he didn't scare Nia. Nia stopped shaking but still flinched when Morgan moved a hand toward her.

It took a half hour but they were finally able to get Nia not to flinch when Morgan held out his hand. Garcia put Nia down on the floor and followed Morgan back out into the kitchen. Nia slowly followed behind them. Garcia was not as bubbly as she had been earlier but she was still happy. Nothing could keep Garcia down for long. Morgan kept a close eye on Nia as they ate breakfast. Nia stayed close to Garcia. Every once and a while when Morgan would offer Nia a piece of pancake she would nervously take it from him. They were just finishing up and had started to clean up when the rest of the team started to arrive. JJ and Emily were the first ones to arrive.

"Hey you guys started without us!" JJ exclaimed. Nia bolted at the sound and hid behind Garcia. They looked at Garcia and Morgan for an answer.

"She must have had a nightmare because when she woke this morning she wouldn't let Morgan anywhere near her. It took us a while but we got her to take some food from him." Garcia explained.

"She was just fine yesterday." Emily remarked as she and JJ grabbed some food.

"It must have been some pretty bad memories behind that nightmare she had." JJ said. Everyone nodded to that. Hotch and Rossi were the next to come.

"There's our newest addition." Rossi said holding a hand out to Nia who was still hiding behind Garcia. Nia shied away. Rossi and Hotch looked at the others in surprise. Yesterday, Nia had been letting the whole team be around her and even petting her. Now she would only let Garcia near her. Morgan was worried that there was serious trauma. The only reassurance he got that Nia could recover was that Garcia was able to calm her down. For now they just had to have hope that the damage wasn't permanent.

The team settled in and ate breakfast making small talk. JJ took Morgan's example and held out a piece of pancake out for Nia. Ever so slowly, Nia came out from behind Garcia and took the piece from JJ. Seeing the progress the whole team tried. Nia would rarely take food from the girls but she wouldn't go anywhere near Hotch and Rossi.

Reid walked in just as JJ was handing Nia some pancake. Nia paused before she took the piece and went behind Garcia before she ate it. Morgan explained to Reid what was going on as he got some food for Reid.

"That is not surprising if you think about it. Many victims are ok when they are rescued and don't show signs until later." Reid said taking the food from Morgan. Rossi scooted his chair back and it scrapped on the floor creating a wood on wood sound. Nia bolted from the room. They all froze. They knew that there must be a darn good reason as to why she would bolt at that sound.

A minute later Nia was back. She crawled over to Hotch and Rossi more Hotch and laid there. She moved her legs and tail into a certain position and the girls gasped. The bruises lined up when Nia was in that position. A large shoe print appeared and they knew some of what happened to Nia. As punishment, the people who she had been with before would have had Nia lay in that position and they would beat her and recently it had been with a shoe. They also knew that her attacker looked more like Hotch and Rossi because that was who she went to, to be punished. Hotch and Rossi stayed as still. Nia still just laid there waiting. Hotch leaned down and touched Nia gently.

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