Chapter seventeen
Author: it's been about three months since I've last written. Half of you probably though I was dead and the other half must of though me a lazy inconsistent person(the latter is somewhat true). But enough of my prattling (you did not wait three months for my babbling) let the story continue.
Disclaimer: sad to say that I don't own criminal minds
Coroner Olive Steghen carefully tweezed a bullet out of the second seemingly random shooting victim Harry Bukk.
"Almost got it..." Olive said to herself.
Being surrounded by people who don't talk can be unnerving, especially the dead, so she had gotten into the habit of keeping herself compony.
She shrugged "keeps me sane"
Just then the bullet came free " Ha-za!" Olive exclaimed as she place Harry Bukk's bullet next to Richard Nicklson's, the first victim.
"Let's take a look-see" Squinting she held first one and then the other bullet under a magnifier "what..." She looked closer at the butts of the bullets "...are those wings?"
Hadn't special agent David Rossi said something about wings?
he marks all his victims with wings
"The Angel taker" she gasped as she ripped off her gloves.
Patting her pockets wildly as if being attack by a swarm of bees she felt for her cell, once she'd found it Olive called agent Rossi.
The first thing Hotch did once he was off the plane was to call Jack even though he had talked to him not even twelve hours ago. Only after talking to Jessica, the doctors, and jack did Hotch try and get his head back in to Penny's and now Garcia's case.
Why would Nicky Manathy risk discovery by taking Garcia?
Why even take the funky hacker?
Deciding he need more details Hotch called Rossi
"Hotch?" Rossi asked picking before the second ring "are you back in Illinois?"
"Yeah. Where are you now? I need more details on whats happened since I left"
"I'm at the morgue"
"See you in fifteen" Hotch said before hanging up.
Hotch made it there in half the time.
Flashing his badge he made his way to where Rossi and the coroner Olive Steghen waited.
"Wings!" Olive blurted as soon as he walked in the door. The coroner looked excited and a green around the gills.
Hotch cocked an eyebrow at Rossi.
"There having been very random looking shootings the last few days" Rossi said "it seems they might not be so random after all"
"The bullets have wings curved in to the bottom" Olive supplied, her fingers twitched nervously.
"Who are the victims?" Hotch asked
"Two middle aged men. Both from very different life styles"
"Why would Nicky Manathy kill them?"
Rossi gave a little shrug "Stansin says he has someone who could run the names for us. We should know in less then an hour"
They stood in silence for a moment as Hotch thought everything over.
"Where are JJ, Reid, and Morgan?"
"They went to double check Nicky Manathy's properties, nothing else they could really do"
Morgan stared down the small house that he and JJ had found the girls in. Emma had said that Nicky Manathy hadn't been gone more then twenty minutes when they had arrived.
Could there be a an escape route or a hiding spot? If it was just the Unsub (Unsub A) Morgan might of thought that he had taken his changes and left. But he had two little girls with him that he ether had drugged or carried.
Morgan stared walking around the shed like house in a slow spiral, he watch the ground and the trees and the shed. After several minutes he felt the bottom of his shoe snag on something. Dropping to his knees he started digging. He didn't have to dig far, about two inches under a layer is dirt was a door. It looked like a storm door the kind that lead to underground bunkers to hide during a tornado.
Using strength and adrenalin he retch the door open.
It was dark behind the door. Hoping he had a flash light he ran back to his car, no such luck. Returning to the storm seller he turned up the brightness on his phone he descended into what felt like the pits of hell.
What was once a storm bunker Had been remade in to a maze. There were unfinished tunnels and passages in the proses of being dug. His phone not being much help Morgan navigated his way by touch.
"...Four and twenty black birds..."
He froze.
"...baked in a pie..."
He felt tears prick his eyes as he ran toward a familiar but shaky voice singing that stupid but familiar song.
"...when...when...whe-" the song suddenly cut off as the singer burst in to tears.
Morgan skidded around a corner and kicked down the door that blocked him from Penny.
He stood just in the door way panting "P-penny?"
"Mr. Derek?"
He held up his less then efficient light to see Penny and Garcia.
He rushed forward pulling penny and a half conscious Penelope on to his arms.
He cried and soon his girls were doing the same.
"I love you" he said fiercely not caring if Garcia took it as just friendship "I love you"
Penny gave him a wobbly smile "I love you too"
He kissed the small girls forehead "can you stand?" He asked Penny as he gathered Garcia up in his arms.
She nodded then giggled weakly "Ms. Penelope's a princess"
Morgan silently agreed and not just because he was carring her like one.
Penny walked a little ahead of him as they tried to find their way out of the maze.
"Penelope" Morgan whispered kissing her forehead gently "you are going to stay locked up in Your computer room and never scare me like this again"
Garcia mumbled something before snuggling closer to him.
"I love you" he said again even though he didn't think she could hear him "I love you" now that he said it Morgan wasn't quite sure he could stop. At lest not until she said it back to him.
"Mr. Derek I see some light!" Penny called back to him excitedly.
He smiled, that sounded like his little Penny "Dad" he suddenly said.
"What?" Penny tripped before stopping to face him
He smiled lovingly at the little girl "would you call me dad?"
Her big brown eye widened "does that mean I can stay with you?"
He blinked in surprise "of course your going to stay with me"
Then penny made the most wonderful sound; she laughed, it was a joyous happy sound.
She gave him a big goofy grin "dad, thank you dad" she skipped ahead "dad" she said again.
Finally they made it out of the storm bunker.
After gingerly placing Garcia in the back sit Morgan called the team to tell them the good news.
"Oh!" Penny gasped "he had another girl too"
"Don't worry help is on The way" Morgan reassured her.
She nodded then closed her eyes and curled up next to Garcia.
Kissing them both on the cheek he whispered "I love you"
Author: ta-ta chapter 17!(I just couldn't leave the girls in there a second longer)