I want to give a special shout out to Karen LaManna for her idea for this story and for co-writing it with me

The State Verses Derek Morgan-Ch 1

The day started out like an ordinary day, the sun was shining, the birds were chirping and the team was working on paperwork because they had just returned from being gone on a case for over a week. Plans were that after the paperwork was finished that they would head out and have a few drinks together and dance a few dances to blow off some steam after the long case.

At the bar the team was sitting in their normal booth, Derek and his baby girl together, Hotch and Em on one side of them and JJ and Reid on the other with Dave sitting on the end of the booth. They'd had several drinks and danced a few dances and were going to call it a night but tonight of all nights Derek decided to dance a slow dance with Penelope, it took him all night and several drinks to work up the courage to ask and he was surprised when she said yes.

He took her by the hand and led her to the center of the dance floor where he pulled her into his arms, he grinned down at her and said, "thanks for agreeing to dance with me goddess, you usually don't dance much". She said, "welllll after the week we've had a didn't think that a dance or two would kill me", the both laughed as they danced their way through not one, not two but three songs.

JJ and Emily smiled as they looked up at one point and saw Derek and Penelope kissing, they pointed at the couple and Dave said, "well it's about time, wonder what got into them?", Reid said, "whatever it is I hope it stays with them for a while". Hotch and the others nodded their heads yes as they continued to watch the couple who was still kissing in the center of the very empty dance floor,'

Dave said, "it's getting late, we better get cabs, because it's not safe for us to drive, not after a few drinks", Hotch said, "already taken care of the cabs should be outside, I got one for us, one for JJ and Reid, one for you and one for Derek and Penelope". Dave said, "well be better get them to the cab or they might spend the night like that", he grinned and then looked at his friends and said, "not that there is anything wrong with them staying like that".

Everybody got into their cabs and pulled away from the front of the bar, at the intersection the cars went in separate directions as the exhausted team headed home to get some much needed sleep. However, the cab carrying Derek and Penelope turned off of the main road after the driver saw that they were sleeping in the backseat, he put the cab in park and got out of the car and walked around to back door and opened it.

He then reached into his pocket and pulled out a syringe and injected the medication into Derek's arm, him being wasted meant that he wouldn't fight much and it didn't hurt that the driver had snuck into the bar earlier and drugged not only Derek's drink but Penelope's too so that his job would be easier at the end of the night.

After injecting the sleeping agent he climbed back into the cab and pulled out onto the road, he grinned and said, "now the fun begins", as he went a few miles up the road and then turned right onto an old hidden road. He'd driven for about 15 minutes before he pulled up into an old rickety garage, he got out and then helped first Penelope and then Derek inside the run down house that was attached to the garage.

He laid :Penelope down on the bed and looked down at her, he ran his hand up her thigh, raising her dress up, he licked his lips and said, "ohhhhh I wish that had time to do this but sadly darlin I don't". He then walked back out to the cab and got Derek out and dragged him inside where he injected him with more drugs, he smiled at Derek and said, "you don't know it yet boy but life as you knew it a few hours ago is over".

While he was giving the meds a chance to kick in on Derek he looked at Penelope and laid her on the side of the bed, he then touched her cheek and said, "it's too bad that I can't do you because if I do you and he finds out it's just gonna break his heart". The man then leaned down and forcefully kissed the sleeping blonde, his hands roaming all over her body, ohhhh how easy it would be to just take you, so so easy but that's not part of the plan".

The man grinned as he looked down at his watch, he then looked from Derek to Penelope and said, "I've got to hurry because I'm about to get some help sooooo let's get this party started shall we?" as he made sure that Penelope was laying on the bed, he didn't want her to fall off, ohhhh no they had big plans for her.

He then walked over and stripped down naked and tossed him on the bed beside an unsuspecting Penelope and said, "now it's time to get this party started", he then started talking to Derek. Derek would half way respond and the man grinned, knowing that the drugs were taking effect and the rest as they say would be childs play.

A couple of hours later Derek woke up to the sight of several police officers standing beside the bed with their guns pointed at him, he rubbed his eyes and said, "wh what happened, where am I?", one of the officers said, "what is the last thing that you remember?", Derek said, "out drinking and dancing at the bar with my team"

The officers looked at the badge sticking out of his pocket, one looked at another and said, "he's FBI, a member of the BAU", Derek raised up and then wished he hadn't when he got dizzy and suddenly felt the need to vomit. The officers helped him up and he ran toward the door where he emptied the contents of his stomach onto the ground at his feet, when he was done the officers led him back to the room where they had found him.

Derek noticed that they were taking a lot of notes and that they kept looking at him, he then said, "what's going on, why are you looking at me like that?", the officers said, "well you have scratch marks all over you sir". Derek said, "all over me, like where?" as he tried to look at the multiple scratches that they said was all over his body, one officer said, "you have scratches on your neck, arms, ohhhh and here are some on your back"

Another officer said, "he has some on his chest too and his chest is red with hints of bruising like maybe a fight", another officer walked over and said, "we'll get every cut, scratch and bruise photographed and wrote down once we get to the station". The other officers helped Derek put his clothes on and ut him back down on the side of the bed, he was so out of it that he didn't see half of what was going on around him.

Derek watched as several officers loaded a body bag onto a gurney, he said,. "what happened, who is that?", one of the officers looked down at his notebook and said, "Penelope G Garcia". Derek said, "wait, what?", he got up and ran over to the gurney and shakily unzipped the body bag, his heart sank and tears started streaming down his face when he saw her.

There in the body bag was his beautiful best friend, she had been beaten and it looked like she'd been strangled to death from the bruises around her neck, Derek shook his head and said, "who did this to her, whoooooo did this to herrrrrrr?, one of the officers said, "apparently you did sir", Derek's mouth flew open and he sank to the floor as news that he'd killed his baby girl started sinking in.

All he could do was cry and say, "I didn't do it, I didn't do it" over and over while the officers did their jobs and started reading him his rights so that they could take him to the station for a more exact examination. The entire ride back to the police station Derek sat in shock, how could they ever thing that he would hurt his baby girl, he loved her, he was in love with her and he would never ever hurt her much less kill her.

He hoped that somebody somewhere would help prove that he was innocent but from the way things are looking he knew that it would take a miracle to get him out of this one.