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Chapter2:
When Morgan and Prentiss left their own houses the following morning, they still were in a bad mood, those few minutes of sleep they had were not served to alleviate their concerns or their nervousness.
When they arrived at the Bureau in Quantico, they both immersed themselves in paperwork, in hope to push away their thoughts at least at work. But, while Prentiss, as usual, managed to turn off the part of the brain where resided all those sentiments which could interfere with her performance at work, Morgan wasn't so good in partitioning so he decided to go to one of the few people who could always put him in a good mood.
"Hey baby girl!" he said entering in computer technician's office
"Good morning hot stuff! Is something up with you? What you did wrong yesterday?"
"Why everyone keep saying that yesterday I had something wrong?"
"Because it was pretty obvious, minnow! So, do you wanna tell divine Penelope what is bothering you? It's about Emily's boyfriend, isn't it?"
"What the..." Morgan expressed, he hasn't ever realized to be so transparent
"What? Did you really think you could hide something from me? I've never studied 'Profiling' but your behaviour last night was very evident, you could noticed it from how you looked at him, if you had the power to incinerate him with a glance, they were picking him up with broom and dustpan still now! So, talk to me, tell me everything I wanna and I have to know!"
"Mama, there is nothing to tell. Merely I don't like that guy, there isn't a law which requires me that I have to like everyone or I am wrong?"
"Well, probably no one taught you that in profiling classes so I'll tell you: the cause of all this is the jealousy"
"What is that fixation for the jealousy that everyone have?" Morgan said pissed
"What are you talking about?"
"Nothing, please pretend that I haven't said anything. You should stop attending the profilers" he joked shortly before returning seriously to ask her something meaningful "Listen carefully, I have to tell you something important...well, more than talk I have a question to ask you. How would you feel if a friend of yours invaded your privacy only for your own good?"
"Explain yourself better..." Garcia invited him in a fit of curiosity
"Ok, let's say for example, hypothetically speaking, let's pretend that I don't like Kevin. What you would think if, for example, just for talking, I used my job like Federal Agent to discover something about Kevin? For example..." Derek added again, feigning to have no intention to investigate on Andrew
"Oh no, my charming prince, I've understood what you wanna do and I don't I might let you! You can't inquire into Emily's boyfriend behind her. Do not think about how badly she would feel? Sure, in your mind you would do that for her own good, but believe me if I told you she wouldn't see it that way. You are one of the few people she trust in, please, don't hurt her!".
That words hit him like a train on a track, Garcia was perfectly right, what was he thinking of investigating Andrew? Has he thought to discover some shocking secret about his life so that Emily could break up with him and start dating him? Well, one of the reasons was also that and he would have lied to himself if he had not admitted it too himself, but it was the truth, if Derek had actually been looking for something about Andrew, he would have behaved like a selfish idiot who didn't take into account Emily's feelings and when he told her he would get the opposite effect: Emily would be withdrawn from him.
But this could not relieve the bad feeling he had in his stomach that Morgan felt, something in Andrew didn't convince him and that wasn't for the jealousy!
He felt bad for what he had thought but he had to be honest with Prentiss, she deserved it, she had to know why he could never endure Andrew and if he wanted to have Emily in his life, he wouldn't play a battle with dirty rules, he would do it like a real man to impress the woman of his life.
"Thanks Garcia, you have been very helpful! Now forgive me, I have to do one thing..." Morgan said
"You're welcome...but don't do nothing stupid!" Penelope answered but he couldn't hear, he already closed the door.
When he left Garcia's office, almost collided with Prentiss who was looking for him. After that both they apologized to each other and a little awkward moment, Emily was the first one to break the silence:
"May I talk to you for a minute, please?"
"Sure, come into my office. I was looking for you too. Emily, is everything alright?" Derek asked letting her into his job place and closing the door
"Yes...no...I dunno, maybe"
"What's up? Problems in Heaven?" Morgan said not even realizing that he has thought it "Sorry, I didn't mean to. Tell me, you need something?"
"Nope. I just wanted to apologize for Andrew's behaviour last night. I dunno why he behaved in that way, he didn't need to answer you like he did, so badly. And about me, I wanted to thank you for your proposal last night even if it did go down like it did." Emily said slightly embarrassed
"Thanks Emily, but you don't need to apologize, I'm not angry" he wanted to add "At least, not with you!" but then he desist from his intention
"No, instead I had to do it. I didn't want you to think something bad about me...or Andrew, he is a good guy"
"Think something bad about you? Never, I could never do it!" Derek explained
"Ok, good. I hope that about it everything is fixed"
"Sure!" Morgan calmed her
"Great! I was so worried that you were angry with me..." Emily admitted "What about you? What you wanted to tell me?" the woman asked, noting the change of expression on Derek's face, she could easily see his nervousness
"Emily, do you know how much I care about you, don't you? You know that you're one of my best friends, right?"
"Yes. And so do I but I don't understand the reason of this premise"
"You will. I only ask you the huge favor to let me speak and don't get angry. Got it?"
"Yep, got it!"
"Good. So, I really care about you and the last thing that I want is see you suffer. Okay, now I wanna show you the enormous respect I feel for you being completely honest: I don't like Andrew, he seems false to me. I've known a lot of people like him and I wouldn't that you let yourself be fooled by people like him. That's all"
"I'm sorry, would you mind repeating?" Prentiss asked visibly upset
"I don't like Andrew: nothing more, nothing less"
"I'm sorry, by what authority you tell me that Andrew is not the right guy for me? I cannot believe it... I finally find a good and serious guy who really cares about me, I introduce him to you all, and you know how hard to do that with the public and priavate, in the belief that you all are happy for me and you come and tell me this?" Prentiss almost yelled angry
"Emily, I'm telling you this because you're important to me, to all of us. And then I asked you not to get angry..."
"Yeah, but I didn't know what would you have said to me. Morgan do me a favor, next time you decide to be interested in others' affairs, think it twice before you do anything!"
The discussion was interrupted by Garcia who informed them of the presence of a new case.
Before Emily could leave Derek's office to join the rest of the team, the man said:
"Wait, let me explain myself..."
"We don't have time, did you hear Garcia, we got case. If I want to hear your pathetic excuses, I'll do when we concluded the case" Prentiss said cold and bitter going away from him, who followed her soon after cursing himself.
In the meeting room, every Agent sat around the round table, hearing Garcia to present the happening:
"We have been called by Little Rock PD, Arkansas, where Marcia Dowdy, Gertrude Flynn and Claudia Hamrick were, in the order, raped, stalked and robbed several times and, in the end, killed within a few months between an offender and the other. The bastard responsible is always the same but we don't have nothing to catch him, during the rape he used a condom. I hate when they are so good." Garcia said
"No one is good enough for us!" Reid calmed her getting a look of thanks from the technical analyst
"Did the victims have something in common?" JJ questioned
"No, they practically don't have nothing in common but being woman who they live in the same city..." Garcia began to speak when she was interrupted by Doctor Reid's statistics
"Statistically, people have more in common than you think, in fact -" but even him was interrupted, by Hotch, who said:
"Reid, we will have time later for your statistics. Garcia, go ahead"
"Thanks Sir. Good, I was about to say that I haven't found nothing in common between victims yet. Marcia Dowdy was married with the lawyer Archie Dowdy, housewife, 40; when she don't spent her time at home or with the husband she go out with her friends. Gertrude Flynn, 21, University student, she didn't have the same Mrs. Dowdy's economic fortunes, she had two jobs to support herself. Meanwhile Claudia Hamrick had just moved from Lubbock, Texas, with her son and fiancè to work in a big insurance company. As you have surely noticed there are not even physical similarities but keep searching for other points in common."
"Perfect Garcia. As soon as you will find new informations, call us"
"As usual!"
"For the others, wheels up in 30" Hotch said before leaving the room; Rossi, Reid, Prentiss and JJ imitated him.
When also Morgan was about to leave the room, was stopped by Garcia who asked him:
"What have you done with Emily?"
"Nothing, why?"
"Derek, please, don't lie to me! Let's try again: what have you done with Emily?"
"Penelope, I promise you, I haven't done nothing that I can't repair! Now excuse me, I have a plane to catch. I'll see you when I'll come back"
"Deal. But try to fix the situation...and try not to mix other shit".
Having retrieved his to-go-bag from his office, Derek went in the bullpen.
Waiting for the car that would take them to the airport, Derek sat on Reid's desk with the excuse to keep company with him when, indeed, he was more curious to know who was calling Prentiss and the argument of the conversation.
For the third time, Emily, tried to call Andrew, whose cellular ringing always vacuum.
She hoped that the justification was his work commitments and not because he was angry at her, although she had still not clear the reason why.
Prentiss was still immersed in her thoughts when she heard Andrew's voice on the other side of the instrument:
"Hello?"
"Hey Andrew, it's me, it's Emily"
"Finally ready for your apologies?"
"Sorry, what? Never mind...I called you just to warn you that I'm leaving for work, I'll see you when I'll come back...if you will be at home..."
"Where you going this time?"
"Arkansas"
"Oh, Arkansas...r-really? Where in Arkansas? What is it about? Is it a difficult case?"
"You know that I can't talk about an open case. But what are all these questions?"
"Nothing, I'm just curious! Well, you do a good job! I think that I'll miss you..."
"Me too! And thanks. Bye" Emily said ending the phone call.
Soon after, the team was on the jet, where they went through the case and Reid was very happy to talk about his statistics, directed to Little Rock, ready to face a new case, with the same hope to solve it before to have other victims.
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