Disclaimed!
No Jotchness in this chapter, so we're basically left with the character's I'm not that confident writing. Also no Will/Prentiss, so I'm really left with the character's I haven't really wrote in this fic, yet.
However, I think we need more drama :P
Let me know what you think!
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Garcia, Reid and Morgan sat around a table in their local Irish pub, gossiping about their absent colleagues along with Kevin who had joined the three BAU agents for a much needed night out after a slow week at work.
Kevin and Garcia had quietly announced their engagement a few weeks ago and Morgan had gone out of his way to vet the younger man, to make sure he was good enough for his baby girl. So as the two men sat on either side of Penelope a slight tension had overcome the table.
"Anyone else noticed Rossi's strange behaviour lately?" Morgan asked with a raised eye after watching the two analysts snuggle up closely together.
Reid's head shot up from the book he had brought along with him. "Well, men of a certain age do go through a dramatic..."
"Kid, I don't want to know the disturbing theories about my life in twenty years time, my bets are on the fact that Will, has been driving Prentiss to work on a morning." Morgan grinned as Garcia raised an eye.
"You think Rossi and Prentiss..?" The blonde smirked as Kevin and Morgan chuckled.
The eldest profiler at the table shrugged. "I wouldn't put it past either of them."
A few hours later and after many rounds of drinks, Morgan and Kevin played pool together civilly as Garcia stumbled out of the bar inebriated. Looking around the relatively quiet street, she found Reid sitting on the bench outside of the bar, watching his feet kick a stone back and forth.
Slowly she came and took a seat next to him, smiling brightly as he chuckled at her drunken sway.
"What's up long legs?" Garcia asked in amusement at her new nickname for the younger man.
Reid shrugged as he looked behind him at the empty space between where they sat and the entrance to the building. "Nothing is wrong, Garcia. You look happy"
"I am, but I think the alcohol has made my head a little fuzzy..." She began to sing but became perplexed when she forgot the next line.
Sniggering, Reid looked down as the tipsy analyst placed her hand on top of his making words came out a little nervous. "I'm glad you're happy Garcia, you erm, deserve to be happy."
"What's going on with you, my brainy G man?" Garcia nudged him with her shoulder, her cats' ears headband slipped slightly with the movement.
Looking away from the eccentrically dressed woman, Reid sighed. "I don't know, I guess this year has just been a little strange so far."
"I know but things are looking up. Hotch and JJ are in Pennsylvania, together and alone... Something's going on there." Garcia raised her eyes suggestively.
Reid scrunched his eyes in confusion at Penelope's mischievous eyes. "You think JJ and Hotch, like each other... romantically?"
"Oh, Reid, you're so cute do you know that?" Garcia beamed in a giggle.
"You are too Garcia." Reid smiled awkwardly. The pair fell into a comfortable silence and before she knew it, Garcia was leaning in connecting their lips in a sloppy kiss.
Getting lost in the intimate moment, the kiss deepened and neither noticed the shuffling of feet behind them.
"PENELOPE!" Kevin's voice behind her startled the pair.
Breaking apart from the younger man, the analyst shot up and wobbled slightly as she moved around to her fiancé who was staring at her in disbelief. "Kev, oh my, sweetie pie, not what you think!"
The blonde looked at Reid in panic. "Erm Kevin, what that was, was nothing erm..."
Before he could finish his sentence the scrawny computer expert took a step forward and collided his fist with the young doctor's face angrily. "YOU KISSED MY FIANCEE!"
From nowhere Morgan rushed in between the feeble fight between the two men and pulled them a part. "What the hell is going on?"
Everyone turned to Garcia who was twirling her hair in between her fingers innocently. "I'm drunk."
"Do you even want to get married?" Kevin asked in hurt as Garcia's face froze in sadness.
Tilting her head, she tried to reach out for her partner but he pulled away. "Of course I want to marry you. Kevin, what you saw..."
"You kissed Reid in the middle of the street." Morgan looked between his two colleagues in disbelief and then took a step back from Kevin to give him some space to talk to the cat's ears, wearing woman. "What's going on with you?"
Garcia shook her head and laced her hands around his thin tie. "It's not like that, Kev. I kissed Reid. It didn't mean anything. He was being nice and I'm drunk"
"He was nice so you kissed him?" Kevin asked with disbelieving eyes.
Shaking her head, Garcia felt tears spring to her eyes. "I'm just scared."
"Scared of what, Pen? I love you, I thought you loved me?" Kevin stated with a confused and hurt expression.
Reaching out for her fiancé the blonde whimpered as he backed away. "Kevin, I do love you. I'm just scared we're not going to work out and I drank too much and I thought..."
"You're trying to ruin everything. I don't understand why, I thought. I thought you were happy, I thought..." Kevin stumbled over his words as the other analyst began to sob.
Wiping away a tear, the thirty-something took a step forward. "I love you, I'm just confused. Everything is getting real and what if you stop loving me? I only kissed Reid. It didn't mean... I'm drunk and you're amazing, I'm not thinking straight. I'm scared, everything's getting too real."
"I need to think." Leaving Garcia dumbfounded, Kevin walked away from the small group into the dark, leaving the eccentric blonde swaying between Morgan and a quickly, bruising Reid.
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I have no idea where this came from, it just did!
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