The Path We Take

(Garcia's POV)

You have no idea how freaking happy I am right now. I had gotten word from JJ that a case we have been constantly working on for a solid month now, has been closed due to your's truly. See the team was in nearby Langley Virginia where the UNSUB would go to a single women's home with a video camera. With that video camera he would attack the women and while it was recording, would repeatedly rape her then strangle her with a rope. He had done this to a total of 3 women.

What I did was I went over every frame of every video (which believe me I will never be able to unsee the things I had seen). I had finally gotten something on the suspect when I noticed that in a few frames of the second video, there was a sticker on the pants he was wearing, with the bar code on it. I ran that through the system and came up with the name of James Palin. Apparently, he was the guy. That literally made my day.

I was busy relishing in the sweet satisfaction that I had a major contribution in solving the case when there was a knock on the door of my office. I turned around to see a smiling Derek Morgan standing in the doorway.

"There's the case closer I've been dying to see." He steps into my office and walks towards me, the smile on his face getting even bigger.

"I wouldn't go that far..." I responded so I didn't make it seem like I had a huge ego.

"Stop being modest baby girl, you basically put that psychopath behind bars." Morgan leaned forward to press his lips against my forehead. Ohh I forgot to mention, I'm in love with Morgan.

Yep, that's me the girl in love with her best friend! He has no idea, nor will he ever have the thought in his head that I love him because let's face it, he doesn't think of me that way. Derek only thinks of me as his best friend, that's about it. I've been in love with him ever since he drove that ambulance that had a bomb in it into Central Park, then it blew up with me thinking he was in it.

I knew I was in love with him at that moment because I literally started panicking on what the hell might have even happened with him. I honestly thought that he had blown up to pieces, along with the ambulance.

My mind is brought back to the present when Morgan lightly pushes a strand of my hair off my face.

"Hotch had told me to tell you that since we had worked so long on this case and that tomorrow's a Saturday, he decided to give us the weekend off."

"Well, that was nice of him. What exactly will you be doing with that time?"

"I'm going to go to New York." Well, shit that was not what I was expecting. I thought he was going to say go to the gym, or work on this piece of property I own. Not under ANY circumstances go to New York.

I don't even bother hiding my confusion as I ask "Why New York?"

"I have a good friend out there I'm going to visit. His name is Don Flack."

I didn't mean for this to come out the way it did but I said "You have friends, in New York?"

"I have a life outside of the BAU you know.." Derek walks over to a chair in my office and sits down. "We've been friends since we were kids. He had an uncle that lived in Chicago so he spent like a 1/3 of his childhood in Chicago. Whenever he was here, I was always with him. Him and I kept in touch over the years. Turns out Don now is a New York Detective, a pretty damn good one from what I've heard."

"Not that I don't appreciate you telling me about this 'friend', because I really do but why are you telling me?" I asked Morgan as I looked at him.

"Can't I tell my best friend about another one of my friends?" Derek had now gotten up from the chair and proceeded to walk towards me with a smirk on his face.

"Yeah you can but you have that look on your face, which means you're not telling me everything."

"God, I love how you can read me like a book." Morgan had given me the most heart melting smile ever. See?! This is what happens when you're in love with your fucking best friend. "The thing is... I told Don that you were coming with." He WHAT?

"I'm sorry, but what? Derek, why did you tell him I was coming?"

"Because I talk about you a lot of the time with him, and he wanted to meet you." Awww he talked about me with him and WOAH FORGETTING THE POINT HERE.

"So you decided to tell him that I would be going to New York, without warning me?" I crossed my arms over my chest to convey my aggravation.

"Come on Pen, I didn't mean it like that. I couldn't disappoint him like that. I'm sorry I put you in the middle of all this. I should have asked you first, in fact I'll ask you now. Penelope, would you like to come to New York with me so Don can meet you?" As he was looking at me, his gaze started to soften as he continued to stare at me to wait for me to respond.

"You'd get to sleep in a room with me." He raised his eyebrows suggestively as I started to smile. God damn it I hate it when he does that. Only because that gets me almost every time.

"It's two days, it won't be that bad Garcia." I mentally debated in my head for a minute before I groaned.

"All right, I'll go." I looked at Morgan to see a grin light up his face.

"Baby girl you are the best! I'll call you later tonight." He kissed my cheek before walking out of my office. Once he was out of view, I turned around and looked where he had gone. Being in love with Morgan was hard, but it just got harder.

I apologise I went AWOL on ya guys, a lot of personal stuff was going on but I promise I'm back :) I realise that Flack does not have an uncle in Chicago, that is strictly for creative writing purposes only hahaha Anyways, I wanna know what you guys think so far?