Hindsight – chapter 6
Morgan turned up to work Monday morning feeling much better. He had spent the rest of the day listening to Reid. The younger man lit up speaking about Maeve, he wasn't focused on her death but the memories they shared. When he'd left that night, Spencer had promised he wouldn't turn to drugs as the solution. Spencer may not have been ready to talk about Maeve's death, but he knew Morgan would be there to listen when he was.
Opening his office door, Morgan's gaze fell on the white envelope on his desk. Dropping into his chair he lifted it up.
'You provided me with an opportunity to talk without pressure, in return I'm providing you with an opportunity to have a conversation you need to have in person. Don't let your second chance end like your first.'
He opened the envelope to reveal an undated, open ended return flight to London.
He looked at it for a few minutes, before laughter from the bullpen caught his attention. Penelope was standing over Reid poking and pulling at his hair, complaining that he had let it grow long again, offering to cut for him. JJ and Blake were trying and failing to contain their laughter as the young doctor squirmed away. Reid stood and turned to Penelope, laughter in his own eyes, to say something Morgan couldn't quite hear. JJ obviously had, and she couldn't hold her laughter back.
Penelope stood there with a smile on her face. She knew her Boy Wonder was coming back to them.
As she turned to Blake and JJ mentioning something about getting the scissors, Reid glanced towards Morgan's office. Catching his gaze, he offered a guilty smile, wondering if he'd overstepped his bounds. The tip of the envelope and nod of thanks told him he hadn't.
'Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone. We find it with another.'
Thomas Merton
Author Note – That's where I'm going to leave this for now. I definitely have thoughts for a sequel, but I think I need more practice writing Derek and Emily scenes before I get to that, this is the first thing I've written in over ten years. All of the reviews have been so positive, and I'm very grateful. However, there is one thing I would like to say to Guests – amazing :D, :)).