A Bad Week Turns Into 2
Chapter 3
The Team Arrives

AN: I don't own anything here. Some of the things that happened might be a little out of order than what happened on the show, but I was trying to go by memory. Let me know what you think.

Hotch called Garcia soon as they landed they were going to pick her up. He needed her there helping with the computer end. They had to find out why this detective believed that Morgan was their suspect. It pissed him off that some detective could think that a FBI profiler would do something like this. Besides taking down the bad guys, Morgan had done nothing wrong as far as he knew. He'd been the one that hired him, he'd done the interview, and their was nothing in Morgan's background that would say other wise either.

"What are we going to do if they don't let us question Morgan?" Reid asked.

"They called us in, and if I have to I'll use Garcia to get the information that we need, she can hack anything, I mean she hacked the FBI, that's how she got her job," Hotch said.

"How are we going to get Morgan to tell us what we need to know, this guy thinks Derek is their guy, but he's not giving us much room for any other suspects," Emily asked.

"I know Morgan he's not going to tell them anything, not till we get there, if he knows something, he's going to tell one of us," Gideon said.

"I'm with Hotch on this one, why would they even go after him, how did they know Morgan was even in town?" Reid asked, "I'm pretty sure he doesn't give his flight plans to that detective when he wants to visit," he added.

"He has been looking at Morgan for while now probably, JJ's been talking to the detective and he hasn't even looked at another suspect," Hotch said.

"We have to get answers, and they are not going to be that helpful if they don't even want to even think for a moment that Morgan's innocent," Gideon said as they pulled up to the police station.

"JJ should be here in couple minutes, we're going to wait on her before we go in," Hotch said.

Detective Gordinski walked back into the integration room this time he had a box with Morgan's name on it. He sat it on the table in front of him.

"What's this?" Morgan asked sitting back in the chair.

"I have everything there is to know about you, there are more of these…"

"A box with my name on it, wow, I'm impressed, but guess what the FBI invented it, we use it all the time, you are not fooling me and you are not scaring me," Morgan said.

"You think you're smart just because you are in the FBI?" he asked, "When this is over you're going to be locked up and everybody is going to know that you did this."

"I Did Not Do This, yes I gave him a ride home, but I don't know him, I just met him yesterday," Morgan said, he wasn't going to get anywhere with this guy.

"Just because you don't know him doesn't mean you couldn't have done this, two hours after you took him home he was murdered."

Trying to talk to this guy was like talking to a brick wall. He just wished the team would hurry up, he still didn't want them there, but he knew it was his only option at the moment. He wanted to be with Garcia at the moment cuddled up in his old bed and talking, even a movie would be good right about now.

"What are you going to stop talking now?" Gordinski asked.

"Let me know when my boss gets here, till then I'm done talking to you since apparently you don't understand a word I'm telling you," Morgan said sitting back in the chair. He was tired of this and if he had to say it one more time he was going to scream.

Hotch was trying not to go over the detective's head but right now he wanted to talk to Morgan and he wouldn't think twice about calling their supervisor if he was denied the right to talk to his own agent. The second in command had tried be nice, but he wasn't fooling them, he had accused Morgan just as much as the lead detective. The guy had just went to get Gordinski

Garcia was trying to act like nothing was wrong, but it was killing her to know that they were blaming this on her best friend, this wasn't right. She was also trying to act like she wasn't hiding anything that was harder than she thought. She'd asked JJ before they'd gotten out of the SUV if she could talk to Morgan, she had to somehow.

After the introductions Hotch followed Gordinski back to the interrogation rooms. "I want to talk to him alone," Hotch said before opening the door. Gideon was waiting on Gordinski to get back. Morgan was sitting with his eyes closed the pictures in front of him were getting to him.

"I didn't do it," Morgan said looking up seeing Hotch standing there.

"I have accused you of anything, they said you stopped talking?" Hotch asked.

"He wouldn't stop saying I killed this kid, I gave him a ride home that is all, he's a friend of a friend, I barely remember his last name," Morgan said, he was frustrated, hadn't eaten and he'd been stuck in here for at least four or five hours maybe more.

"We're going to get this straightened out, but you gotta give us something, he has you nailed to the wall for something you didn't do why?" Hotch asked.

"He has been following me since we got here, he's had me followed, none of these have Garcia in them though, she was with me here, and that was takin last night at my mom's house."

"Garcia's going over the police files, looking at what we have on the victim, but we don't have much to go on."

"So I'm screwed?" Morgan asked.

"I can't get you out of this room, but I can do the best I can to clear you, I don't know why this detective is fixated on you as the killer, just think of anything you can that might help."

"Just make it quick so I can get out of this place," he said before Hotch left the room.

Gideon was shocked he couldn't believe that he'd given the detective the profile that sent him after Morgan.

"But you're missing the one aspect of this, Morgan doesn't have a criminal record," Reid stated.

Garcia bit down on her bottom lip; she didn't want to be here at this moment. She needed to find something to distract her. "I can assure you that Derek Morgan has a criminal record," the detective said and with those words she knew that Morgan couldn't hide his past any more, it was out there now, but the record was sealed, nobody should know about it.

"What are you talking about?" She heard herself asked; she just hoped she sounded skeptical.

Gideon took the papers out the guy's hand looking at the record in front of him. He couldn't believe this could be Morgan's he was the opposite of what this said. He saw Hotch coming back towards them, but he also saw Garcia's face, she was in his line of sight and she didn't look surprised at all. Why didn't she looked shocked, they were best friends and he hadn't told them about this, but she looked like she'd just been given the news that Morgan was dead or something along those lines.

"What do you know?" Gideon asked looking at her.

"What, I don't know anything sir," Garcia said before turning around, "I'll start looking…" she started but Hotch was blocking her exit.

"Something's wrong, he's not telling me everything," Hotch said, "Garcia, there is a conference room back there on the right go in there and set up, I need you to find out whatever you can about Morgan."

"I think she already knows something," Gideon said to himself before sending Emily and Reid to Morgan's mom's house and JJ to go and help Garcia. Once the assignments were broken down he went to talk to Hotch. "I think our analyst knows something we don't."

"They're best friends, Gideon what do you expect, she knows him better than any of us, but that isn't the point right now, she's not in this, he is and I'm pretty sure if we don't figure this out soon ever who is framing him is going to dig and even deeper hole for him and us."

"Morgan has a record," Gideon said handing Hotch the papers.

"This is Morgan?" Hotch asked reading what was on the record, "Aggravated Battery?"

"It was when he was a Juvenile, look at the dates," Gideon said as JJ came out the conference room.

"JJ, I want you to dig into his past, find what you can," Hotch said, at the moment he wasn't sure if he knew one his best agents at all.

"Garcia asked me when we got here if she could talk to him, I told her I'd have to ask one of you first," JJ said.

"No, she's too close to this as it is, we're lucky she can still do this," Hotch said.

"Hotch, maybe we should, you said it yourself, she knows him, if he's hiding something maybe she can talk to him," Gideon suggested.

"She's our last option but for now, I'm not letting her in there because I don't need Gordinski on her case too, he doesn't know that they are engaged and I want to keep it that way," Hotch said before going back into the integration room, but he stated on the other side of the mirror this time.

JJ went back into the conference room sitting beside Garcia as she got into the database. "JJ, do you think Morgan would be mad at me if I told you all something that could possible save him?" she asked.

"Why would he be mad at you, Hotch let it slip you two are engaged, that's why we can't let you see him right now, the detective might get the wrong idea about it," she said.

"I didn't look surprised when the detective said Morgan had a record because I knew, I found out three months ago, we got to talking about pasts and I was talking about what happened when I was underground and he told me about his past too, I told him I'd never say anything, but you all know now, he's going to be pissed too," she added.

"Hotch can handle Morgan, but you gotta find anything you can to help him out," JJ said.

"I know, but how can I do this when I know everything about him already, there isn't anything I don't know about Derek," she said, of course she'd later find out that wasn't true. He still had one piece of his past tucked away tight and he wasn't going to let it out, but then again, Hotch knew how to push the wrong buttons sometimes.

Gideon was watching Morgan carefully. "We can't appear to be hiding something," he said looking for Derek's reaction.

"Are you trying to say something to me?" Morgan asked.

"Whatever it is that you're hiding you need to trust us enough to tell us about it," Gideon said back.

"It's not about trust," Morgan said, "It's about having a little privacy, I have a right to keep something to myself," he added looking at Gideon, "We practically live together already."

"Then the only way to clear you is to find the real unsub," Gideon stated, "Which means telling us what you're hiding, you know we're going to find out one way or another, Derek, I know that Garcia's hiding something too, she didn't even have a reaction when Gordinski told us you had a record."

"Leave her out of this, she doesn't know anything," Morgan was pissed, he couldn't let them start questioning her too, he knew that she loved him and she'd tried to hide it, but if one them pushed too hard she'd break.

"The fact that she knew you had a record and we didn't tells us that she not only is your best friend, but you tell her everything, I'm not going to use that angle, but you have to tell us what happened," Gideon said.

"Leave her alone, Gideon," he said with anger behind his words as he got up.

"I'm not going to use her to get to you, but Gordinski might, he does know she's your girlfriend, I can only protect one at a time and right now we're trying to get you off this hot seat that you somehow got yourself on." Gideon said before he walked out of the room.

"Are you trying to make him snap?" Hotch asked, "He already about bit my head off when I took his criminal record in there," he said.

"He doesn't want us to know about his life, I'd understand if he wasn't in there being framed for something he didn't do, we both know that he'd never forgive us if we used Garcia to get what we need, and I won't do that even if I had to," Gideon said, he knew that it would be hell to pay even if they were trying to get Morgan off. He'd rather be stuck in that room for life than have Garcia questioned on what she knew about him.

"I'm going to go talk to JJ, see if Garcia has anything more," Hotch said walking out of the room.

"What are you hiding?" Gideon asked before taking his phone out to call Emily see if she'd found anything out.

"He played football in college," Garcia said as JJ sat back down before Hotch came in the room.

"Why'd he quit?" Hotch asked.

"He didn't, he blew his knee out his sophomore year and couldn't play any more, that's when he decided to get his law degree," Garcia said with smile looking at the picture she'd found of her fiancé. "I unsealed that file like you ask," she said trying not to let her emotions show at the moment. She could cry later when she had Derek beside her and knew he was safe.

"We need to find somebody that knew Morgan then," Hotch said.

"He's already here," JJ stated, "He brought the latest victim's mom in, he's out there talking to Gordinski now."

"We need to talk to him then, what's his name?"

"Carl Buford," JJ said reading the name in the file.