A/N: Here's the next chapter guys! There isn't any smut quite yet, but fret not- it is definitely coming in the next chapter! :P And our favourite technical analyst finally makes another appearance in this chapter- I keep going to long without her, and as a big Garcia fan that's kinda bad on my part. Oh well, on with the story!
Disclaimer: I do not own Criminal Minds or any of its characters.
Reid woke up the next morning feeling intensely happy. They weren't in Milwaukee anymore- they were finally back in DC, back in their own beds. Except in Reid's case, he wasn't in his own bed- he was in Morgan's.
Reid was still lying in Morgan's arms, pressed close to his chest. The older man was asleep, a content expression on his face. He would never admit it to Morgan, but Reid actually liked watching him sleep. He looked so peaceful and so relaxed.
Reid managed to free one of his arms, without waking the older man, and ran a hand lightly down the side of Morgan's face. Despite Reid's gentleness, Morgan's eyes flickered open. As soon as he saw Reid, he smiled sleepily. "Hey, pretty boy," he whispered.
"Hey yourself," Reid replied, returning Morgan's smile. "You feeling any better?"
"A little," was Morgan's answer. "It's still sore, but it's more of a dull ache rather than the kind of jabbing pain it was yesterday. And it doesn't hurt as much as it did."
"That's good," said Reid. "So you think you'll be back to full strength soon? Be able to- to do what you did before?"
Morgan chuckled. "You know, you can just say the word, Spencer. It's not that hard."
"I know," said Reid. "But I've only- only had sex once, Derek. I'm no expert."
"You want it again, don't you?" Morgan guessed. "You want me again." Morgan could tell by the way Reid was squirming that he was right. "It's only natural to want to have sex again. It's basic human instinct, kid."
"I know that, Derek," said Reid. "I just… I've never felt like this before. I've never wanted somebody the way that I want you. I've never loved somebody the way I love you."
"I know what you mean," Morgan said. "Believe it or not, I've never felt about someone the way I feel about you."
"But… but you've been with so many women," Reid pointed out, confused.
"Just because I've been with those women, doesn't mean I really felt anything for them," Morgan countered. "It's just… with this life we lead, the job we have, I never thought I could be with someone who could accept our life. I mean, look what happened to Hotch and Haley. So I had one night stands, and flings… it wasn't until you that I really, truly, was with somebody I loved."
"Derek…" Reid whispered. "I… I don't know what to say. I don't think there is anything to say."
"You don't need to say anything," Morgan said. "Your face is answer enough." Morgan kissed Reid softly, gently- a kiss full of warmth and love.
Almost as soon as the two of them broke apart, Morgan's phone began to ring. He sighed and picked it up. "Morgan," he said. "Please don't say we have a case. Okay, we'll be ready then." He hung up and looked back at Reid.
"Was that JJ?" Reid asked. Morgan nodded. "Do we have a case?"
"No, thank god," Morgan replied. "She's about to leave to pick us up."
Reid sighed, although he made no move to get up. Morgan smiled, and trailed a hand down Reid's face, his neck and onto his chest. Reid shivered, pleasure running through his body. "This is where I'd normally say we should get up and get ready for work," Reid said.
Morgan laughed. "Like you said last night, JJ would get really mad if we made her late, too." Morgan kissed Reid again, more passionately this time, before regretfully extricating himself from Reid's arms. Reid weakly tried to hold on to Morgan, but he had a smirk on his face.
"What do you think would happen if I didn't keep reminding you that we had to go to work, every morning when we woke up together?" Reid asked, as the two of them got out of bed and began getting dressed.
"We would start kissing, and we wouldn't be able to stop, which would lead to us having sex. Then we'd never get out of bed, so the others would come looking for us, then they'd find us in bed together, and the secret would come out," Morgan answered.
Reid looked slightly shocked. "Wow. You've really thought this through."
Morgan smiled. "I've gotta admit, I've had fantasies about spending all day in bed with you, pretty boy," he confessed. "One of these days, they're going to come true." Reid smiled, but didn't answer Morgan. "What?"
"I may have had that same fantasy, Derek," Reid admitted, looking down at his feet but with the smile still on his face.
"Wow, kid," said Morgan, shaking his head. "You're definitely become a lot more… candid lately."
"I learnt that from you," Reid joked, before reaching into his go bag and pulling out his vest. "I'm wearing it today, Derek. Don't try to argue."
"I wasn't going to," Morgan protested, but relented when he saw the look on Reid's face. "Okay, yes, it may make it take longer for me to take your clothes off, but it looks cute on you."
"Just don't tell anyone else that, especially Garcia," Reid suggested. "She'd never let you live it down."
"That woman…" Morgan sighed, shaking his head. "She's probably going to find us the minute we get into work, drag us into her office and make us tell her exactly what we did last night and in Milwaukee."
"She wouldn't, would she?" Reid said, worried.
"She most definitely would," Morgan replied. "Don't worry, I won't tell her anything too… graphic."
"Well that's really assuring," Reid said sarcastically as Morgan's doorbell rang. Morgan left the bedroom, Reid following close behind him. Morgan opened the door and JJ stood there, a smile on her face.
"Ready to go?" she asked.
"Yeah," said Morgan. He and Reid stepped out of the house, closing the door behind them.
"You have a good night last night?" JJ asked the two men with a smile on her face, as they climbed into her car.
"I thought you didn't want to know anything, JJ?" Morgan reminded her.
"By that, Morgan, I meant I don't want to know the… finer details," JJ explained. "Doesn't mean I don't want to know some things."
"Well we didn't have sex, if that's what you were wondering," said Morgan. "Pretty boy here wouldn't allow it."
"You hurt your shoulder, Derek," Reid protested. "You were in pain."
"Relax, Spencer, I know that," Morgan said as JJ laughed. "You like being the protector for once."
"That's kinda cute," JJ said from the front seat. "And it's true, too; it is usually you that's getting injured or kidnapped, Spence."
Reid scowled. "Don't remind me, please," he said.
Morgan, who was once again sitting in the backseat with Reid, pulled the young genius close to him. "While I have never liked you getting hurt or getting kidnapped or getting into stupid situations, I do like looking after you afterwards."
Reid smiled and snuggled into Morgan's side. "Well, I guess I wouldn't mind that…" he relented.
Morgan kissed Reid passionately, laughing to himself when Reid reacted almost instantly and began kissing him back.
"I'm sure you guys are having a fantastic make-out session back there," JJ spoke up after a moment, "but I'm about to drive into the Bureau car park, and I'm pretty sure I can see Hotch just over there."
As soon as JJ mentioned Hotch, Reid sprang away from Morgan and moved as far to the other side of the car as possible. He shot an apologetic look back at the older man as he did so, but Morgan completely understood- they definitely could not risk Hotch seeing them.
"Morning guys," Hotch said in his usual gruff tone. He frowned when he saw both Morgan and Reid climb out of the back seat. "Why aren't either of you sitting in the front?" he asked.
"Reid always sits in the back," Morgan replied. "And it was more comfortable for my shoulder in the back."
Hotch looked as if he didn't believe Morgan's explanation, but he didn't press the issue further. "You should have time to rest your shoulder today, Morgan; we're going to have a long day of paperwork ahead of us," Hotch announced.
Morgan groaned rather loudly and exaggeratedly. "Seriously?" he moaned. "I think I'd rather be on a case, to be honest."
"No, you wouldn't, Morgan," Reid said. Morgan looked at him, both confused and shocked, and the genius smirked. Morgan chuckled under his breath; he knew what Reid meant.
The four agents arrived upstairs in the elevator and walked into the bullpen, where Rossi, Prentiss and Garcia were talking around Prentiss's desk. "Morning, my lovelies!" Garcia called brightly. "Good to have you back here with me!"
"It's good to be back, baby girl," Morgan agreed, hugging Garcia with his good arm.
"Weren't you saying that you'd rather be on a case than here doing paperwork not five minutes ago, Morgan?" JJ reminded him.
"It's called sarcasm, JJ," Morgan said. "You should try it sometime."
"Besides, nobody could resist me, could they?" Garcia laughed. "Admit it, Derek. You missed me."
"Some parts, yes," Morgan agreed. "Others, not so much."
"Speaking of parts about me you may or may not miss, we need to talk, my chocolate god," Garcia declared, grabbing Morgan's arm and dragging him off to her office.
"What does Garcia want?" Prentiss asked, curious.
"I have no idea," Reid lied. He knew exactly what Garcia wanted to talk to Morgan about. And he was kinda scared about it.
As soon as she dragged Morgan into her office, Garcia slammed the door and turned to face him. "Okay, so spill," she demanded.
"I have no idea what you're talking about," Morgan claimed, holding his palms out. Garcia stared him down, until he finally relented. "Okay, okay. What do you want to know?"
"Exactly what you and our junior G-man did in Milwaukee," Garcia said. "And you cannot omit any details. Tell me everything."
"I don't think Reid would like it if I told you everything," Morgan said. "He'd get embarrassed, and he wouldn't even talk to me. He'd try to resist how he was feeling- not that that's easy for him anymore, of course."
"So what are you saying, that Reid has an amazing sex drive?" Garcia said, not even the tiniest bit embarrassed.
"No, I'm saying that the more time he spends with me or thinking about me- which according to him, is pretty much all the time- the more he wants to, you know…" Morgan trailed off, not sure he wanted to finish the sentence.
Garcia wasn't so reserved, though. "The more he wants to have sex with you?" she suggested. Morgan nodded. "Okay, so you don't have to tell me the exact details of what you did. But I still wanna know."
"Hmm, then maybe I should tell you how every night, as soon as we got into our room, we started making out against the door?" Morgan said, smiling at Garcia's face.
"No way?" Garcia gasped. "You really did that? Reid really did that?"
Morgan could understand Garcia's shock; that definitely did not sound like something Reid would do. "The kid's changed," Morgan admitted. "In a good way, of course. At least he has with me."
"What do you mean?" Garcia asked.
"He's a lot less… inhibited, I guess you would say," Morgan answered. "He doesn't feel like he has to hide who he is anymore, and I think he's less awkward than he was. He's definitely a lot less shy," he added with a grin.
"You're good for him," Garcia told Morgan. "You make him feel happy to just be himself, and I don't know whether he's ever felt like that before."
"He's good for me too," said Morgan. "I've never had somebody love me the way he does. Never have I felt so strongly with someone that I want a future with them; that I can see a future with them."
Garcia smiled; Morgan was not obviously sentimental or so caring very often, and never as strongly as this. "You really, really love him," Garcia realised.
"Yeah, I do," Morgan replied. "More than I originally thought.
"Okay, okay, Derek, enough dwelling on how much you love our boy genius, and back to what happened in the hotel room," Garcia said. "So you kept making out against the door?"
"Not on the first night," Morgan confessed. "That was when we found out there was only one bed and a couch in the hotel room, and understandably Reid was kind of… nervous."
"So you were the gallant hero and said you'd sleep on the couch?" Garcia laughed.
"I offered, yes," Morgan confirmed. "Spencer said no."
"So you let him sleep on the couch?" Garcia scoffed. "C'mon, Derek! Some kind of boyfriend you are!"
"I said that Spencer wouldn't let me sleep on the couch," Morgan reminded Garcia. "I didn't say that he slept there. For someone who claims to have a dirty mind, Garcia, you don't catch on to what me and pretty boy are doing."
Garcia's eyebrows shot up at Morgan's words. "So what you're saying is that Reid wanted to sleep in the same bed as you the first night there?" Morgan nodded. "Did you have sex?"
"What? Garcia, no!" Morgan cried. "I wouldn't rush Spencer like that. He wasn't ready."
"So… back to the making out again," Garcia said.
"Well, we'd start against the door, and then move to the bed when it got too uncomfortable. Admittedly, we began spending more and more time on the bed, and less and less against the door," Morgan remembered with a grin.
"The day you called me then… was that the first time?" Garcia asked. Morgan nodded, the grin still on his face as he remembered. "And how was it?"
"The best I've ever had," Morgan admitted.
No sooner had Morgan spoken, then there was a tentative knock on the office door and it opened slowly, Reid's head appearing around the side. He couldn't help but smile when he saw Morgan. "There you guys are!" he said. "Hotch sent me to find you."
"Please don't tell me you guys have to go catch some horrible serial killer or something, and you're leaving me all by my lonesome again?" Garcia whined.
"He didn't tell me why he sent me to find you, but I pretty sure it wasn't about a case," said Reid. "It sounded like- well, as much as you can tell from Hotch, anyway- that he actually has good news."
"Good news?" Garcia gasped. "Well, this I gotta hear!" She almost ran from her office, pausing only to turn to Reid and Morgan with her hands on her hips. "You guys coming or not?" she demanded. Reid and Morgan looked at each other, shaking their heads at Garcia's antics, before following the technical analyst out of her office.
"I found them, Hotch," Reid announced as they walked into the BAU meeting room, where the rest of the team was waiting. "What did you want to tell us?"
"It's something none of us hear very often, that none of us get very often," Hotch began. "For most people it wouldn't be that big of a deal, but we're not most people."
"Stop beating around the bush, Hotch!" Prentiss cried. "Please, please, tell us what it is, and please say it's good news!"
"It's definitely good news, Prentiss," Hotch said. "We're all getting this weekend off."
Both Garcia and Prentiss squealed in delight, and the rest of the team all wore identical grins- even Hotch, who rarely smiled at all. "There's no chance we're going to get… interrupted, are we?" Rossi asked, voicing the concern that everyone held.
"I've spoken to Strauss," Hotch replied. "There are definitely other teams available this weekend and this week, and if a case comes in it will go to them. We've just got to get through to Friday, and then I don't want any of you hear until Monday, got it?"
"You don't need to tell us twice," said Morgan, laughing.
The team moved back to their desks and offices, happily discussing their possible plans for the very rare free weekend ahead. When the rest of the team was out of earshot, Morgan moved closer to Reid. "I'm assuming you don't have any other plans for this weekend," he said.
"No, I don't," Reid confirmed. "What did you have in mind?"
"You. Me. My place. Entire weekend," Morgan replied. "My shoulder should be healed enough by Friday to do some more physical activity…" Reid's expression instantly changed to one of eager anticipation and longing. "So that's a yes, then?" said Morgan.
Reid nodded. "Definitely," he agreed. "And maybe, in between our… other activities, we can discuss when we're going to tell the others?"
"Of course," said Morgan. "I can't wait til this weekend, pretty boy." Making sure the others weren't looking, Morgan squeezed Reid's hand quickly and gently before letting go. "I love you," he whispered.
"I love you too, Derek," Reid whispered back, before they headed off to their desks to tackle the mountain of paperwork that loomed over them.
A/N: Well there's the chapter guys! What did you think: love, hate, meh? Please review as always, I always love to hear what you think! I'm also thinking that there will be three or four chapters left in this story, maybe five. But fret not! I am already working on a oneshot to quickly follow this one, and then the next multi-chapter to follow that oneshot! I already have a number of ideas for sequels ready and raring to go! :D
Note from Diamond Cobra:
To answer v-girl98, I've never seen the show in my life x3. (I'm working on it, guys! I'm working on it! She WILL watch this show! I got her hooked on Glee, I can get her to like Criminal Minds too :P)
Onto other stuff, I wrote a chapter! It should be coming soon, I'm sure Eternal will tell you exactly. Looking at all the previous sections I've written for this story I'm sure you can guess the contents of said chapter :3. (Well technically I gave you the gist of it, missy :P And I still have some stuff to add in it. But it is awesome! Oh, and Diamond Cobra is disturbed. That is all.)
Time to review, guys! :D