Halloween Drabble Prompt: Your characters go to a haunted house.

(Challenge/Competition on the CM Weekly Prompts forum)

I'm not sure how I feel about this one. I may have to try again.

Word Count: 496

Spooktacular Hauntings

Morgan and Reid met the team, plus a few others from the bureau, at the entrance of the Haunted House called, Spooktacular Hauntings.

"Did they all have to be invited?" growled Morgan at no one in particular.

"Don't get your underwear in a jumble, Hot Stuff. Reid will take care of you."

He heard some chuckling and sarcastic remarks about the tables being turned on who was protecting who and he pinned his glare on a couple of them which quieted them quickly.

"We'll just meet you at the exit," drawled Rossi. "If you're a little freaked out at the end, I'll give you an Italian double cheek kiss for your effort," he added with a wink.

"Oh hell, no!"

"Good to hear it. That now gives me 50% odds of winning."

~oOo~

The first trouble Morgan encountered was a masked man grabbing at him. Morgan reached for the gun that wasn't there. Reid had the foresight to leave it locked in the glove compartment of the SUV.

"Hey man, relax! Are you a cop?"

"We're FBI," said Reid from behind Morgan. "Macho man doesn't like masks and he's been dared to go through," yelled Reid above the noise.

"Watch it, Reid, or you may find yourself not making it through," Morgan growled back.

The teen decided this was something he needed to see and followed behind the two men.

What Morgan didn't know was that Reid went through the haunted house the night before to be aware of what was coming. He knew around the next corner, someone would pop out screaming. To prevent the young worker from getting punched by Morgan's reflexes, he distracted him from holding him around the waist from behind. The screaming man found it amusing that such a muscular man was being held back by a pipe cleaner looking man and asked his co-worker what was going on.

As they continued through the house with squeaky floor boards and drooping floors, Reid took care of Morgan and relaxed him the best way he knew how.

~oOo~

Twenty minutes later, Morgan and Reid finally made their way out the exit on the other end of the make-shift house.

"That's a new one. Walk through a haunted house and get aroused," teased Prentiss.

"I'm pretty sure that has more to do with Reid than the haunting," said Garcia.

Hotch winced and Rossi choked on his apple cider.

"I really did not need to know that," groaned Hotch.

"What's going on here?" shouted the manager. "You're all supposed to be working not playing," he yelled at the line of about 5 play actors from the house. "If I'm giving refunds tonight, it's coming out of your pay!"

The teenagers groaned and hurried back to their stations.

"It looks like we missed all the fun standing out here," mused Anderson.

"I think it's safe to say, no one wins the bet," pouted Garcia.

"Does this mean I win everyone's money," Reid asked hopefully?

~oOo~

Thank you so much for your awesome Morgan/Reid goodness reviews! It's difficult not to keep coming back to writing for this pair with reviewers like you… seriously. I really should be working on my original piece based on an adapted multi-chapter MoReid story I want to get published, but you keep me motivated.

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