This is my second attempt at a Morgan/Garcia story, and this one is much happier than the first one! This is basically a song fic, well technically a multi-song fic. It's got a little angst, but it's just my favorite CM couple being in danger, nothing too terrible. I'll try to keep this AN short and sweet, so basically Garcia's been in a coma for a few months and Morgan's going crazy. He writes a song for her and sings it to her with the rest of the team watching. Oh, and since I haven't watched very many episodes, I'm sticking with the team I know, which means Hotch, Rossi, Emily, JJ, Reid, Morgan and Garcia. Enjoy!
AN: The song in this chapter is "Us Against The World" by Westlife, though pretend Morgan wrote it. Thanks!
It had been 4 months, nearly 126 days since Derek Morgan had seen those beautiful eyes of one Penelope Garcia. 130 days since that psychopath had kidnapped her and it took the BAU team 4 long, agonizing days to find her. And they found her beaten, battered and bloody. When he closed his eyes he could still visualize that day.
"FBI! ON THE FLOOR!" Emily and JJ screamed as Hotch viciously kicked the door in. The team rushed in, not having waited for SWAT to arrive. As Emily and JJ covered the man that was sitting on the couch, Rossi and Hotch swept the front rooms while Reid and Morgan covered the back rooms. They met up in the front room and Morgan took a chance, saying loudly,
"Baby girl, where you at? C'mon Garcia, make some noise for me!"
"You'll never find her," The psychopath rasped, and before JJ could slap her hand over his mouth Reid said quickly,
"Shut up!"
They all fell silent and Hotch motioned for Morgan to try again. "Sweetheart? You're safe now, baby, you just gotta let me know where you're at. You can do it, Pen, my Supreme Awesome Goddess,"
There was a faint tap and slowly the team fanned out, listening for the location. They heard it again and Hotch yelled, "The kitchen! There's a loose tile!"
Morgan barreled after Rossi into the kitchen and helped Hotch lift the tile. There was a ladder leading down into the basement. Without hesitation Morgan stepped gingerly on the first step, and then scaled down. The rest of the team followed while Morgan spun around, using his flashlight to look around. His beam swept over a door and he immediately bolted over to it, trying the handle and then kicking it down.
There were candles everywhere, and one of them had started a fire. As he began coughing Morgan ran into the room and whipped the covers off of the bed. Garcia was lying there, tied to the bed spread-eagled. Her terrified eyes met his before they drifted shut and as he yelled, "Penelope! Stay with me!" he began to search for his knife. JJ had run into the room and simply handed him hers. He made quick work of the ropes and carefully lifted his God-given solace into his arms, rushing out of the room. Emily came into the room with a fire extinguisher and she put the fire out. JJ then closed the door to the room that Garcia had been tortured in and ran over to the ladder and then into the kitchen. Morgan had laid Garcia onto the floor and was in the process of checking her pulse. Everyone else was standing back, a mixture of horror, fury and disbelief on their faces. Garcia's body was covered in bruises and her clothes, the same ones that she had been wearing when she was kidnapped, were dirty and torn. Her hair was chopped off and there was blood stains on her clothes and skin.
"Oh my God," JJ whispered, echoing everyone's thoughts.
It was never truly horrifying until it happened to someone you loved, Morgan thought as he scrubbed his face in the bathroom at the hospital. An ambulance had shown up minutes later and Penelope had been rushed to the hospital. After she was in surgery for hours on hours, the doctor had come out with a grave expression on his face. He had told the waiting agents that Penelope Garcia had slipped into a coma and there was a 50/50 chance that she would even wake up, let alone be able to face the long road to recovery ahead of her.
Derek Morgan was the name all of Garcia's nurses knew. He was there nearly 24/7, but his time there was dwindling as Hotch ordered him to work a few cases. What he needed was his baby girl to wake up. Without even thinking he strode out of the hospital and got into his car, driving to Penelope's apartment and he just sat there on the couch. He unconsciously brought out a pad of paper and a pencil and he began to scribble words down that formed into lyrics and eventually a song.
The next day Morgan grabbed the guitar that he had recently learned how to play and went into the hospital with the sole purpose of getting his Goddess to open those beautiful eyes of hers. He took the elevator up to Penelope's floor and surprisingly found the whole team there.
"You weren't here last night so we took turns keeping her company," JJ explained quietly, and Morgan nodded, looking inside the room and seeing Hotch in there with her. As Morgan opened the door and Hotch walked past him, he could've sworn he saw a tear on his boss's face. These 4 months had taken a major toll on everyone on the team.
Morgan sat on the chair and strummed his guitar. "Well, baby girl, I'm new to this guitar thing, but I'll give it my best shot. I wrote this for you last night, so it's not Billboard material, but," He shrugged and hummed a note before starting to play and sing,
"You and I, we've been at it so long, and still got the strongest fire,
You and I, we still know how to talk, know how to walk that wire,
Sometimes I feel like the world is against me
The sound of your voice, baby, that's what saves me
When we're together I feel so invincible,
'Cause it's us against the world, you and me against them all
If you're listening to these words, know that we are standing tall
I won't ever see the day that I won't catch you when you fall
'Cause it's us against the world, tonight,
There'll be days, we'll be on different sides but that doesn't last too long
We find ways, to get it on track, we know how to turn back on,
Sometimes I feel I can't keep it together
Then you hold me close and you make it better
When I'm with you I can feel so unbreakable
'Cause it's us against the world, you and me against them all
If you're listening to these words, know that we are standing tall
I won't ever see the day that I won't catch you when you fall
'Cause it's us against the world, tonight,
They're not gonna break us, we both still believe
We know what we've got, and we've got what we need
All right, we're doing something right
'Cause it's us against the world, you and me against them all
If you're listening to these words, know that we are standing tall
I won't ever see the day that I won't catch you when you fall
Us against the world, you and me against them all
If you're listening to these words, know that we are standing tall
I won't ever see the day that I won't catch you when you fall
Us against the world,
Yeah it's us against the world,
Baby
Us against the world, tonight,"
He finished with a final strum of his guitar and realized that his face was covered in tears. A glance towards the door showed him that the whole team was watching him and tears were silently pouring down JJ and Emily's faces. Emily had her hand on Hotch's shoulder, and he looked like he was ready to break down. Rossi had a similar look on his face and Emily had her other hand on his shoulder. JJ had grabbed onto Reid's hand and he looked like he was fighting back tears. Somehow JJ managed to wrap her arm around Emily's waist and Emily was resting her head on JJ's shoulder.
Morgan cleared his throat and tried to 'casually' wipe his eyes. "I know my voice isn't professional grade, baby, but I tried. I swear I tried," He didn't trust himself to speak anymore and he pressed his head down on her bed.
Suddenly he felt a hand press down on his head and he jerked his head up, seeing those eyes that he'd been missing for 126 days. "Penelope…" He breathed, and she smiled at him.
"Honey you could get a recording contract and light it out for Broadway anytime you wanted," She said, a sparkle in her eyes.
"Never. Smack me if I ever start thinking about that," He said and he couldn't help himself. He got up and wrapped his arms around his baby girl, holding her close for a long moment. She held onto him tightly and when she felt him press his lips to her forehead she closed her eyes.
Morgan forced himself to let go as JJ and Emily came barging in and they wrapped Garcia in a girls group hug, all three off them bawling. After a considerable amount of time the girls back away and Hotch and Rossi came in. "You've been out for 4 months, Penelope," Rossi said, rubbing his eyes. Hotch stepped closer and bent down, saying quietly to her,
"Don't do that to me again, to any of us, please? We can't handle it. You're our glue, Garcia," Her eyes filled again and before he could move away she wrapped her arms around his neck.
"I'll try not to," She said, sniffling, and let him go. Then she beckoned Rossi forward and she hugged him too. "Sorry. I'm in a huggy mood at the moment."
"That's fine. Reid, however, might have a problem with that…" He said with an easy grin and stepped back as Reid came in after talking to Penelope's doctor.
"The doctor wants us out of here as soon as possible because he needs to examine Garcia. But he said that all your injuries have healed and if the exam goes well then you can leave as early as tomorrow."
"All right, come here Dr. Genius," Garcia said, and Reid drew closer to her bed. She grabbed his arm, pulled him close and hugged him.
"I missed you, Penelope," Reid admitted quietly, and Garcia smiled.
"Aw, well now I'm back and you don't have to miss me anymore,"
Yeah this was definitely not a cliff-hanger. Usually I try to end all of my chapters with some kind of hanging, but this was not one of them. Ah well, you can't win them all. I know the part where they rescued Garcia might have been a little rushed, but I was desperate to get to the part after where he sings to her and she wakes up. And the little reunion with the rest of them team may be off too, since I'm not quite familiar with the characters yet. I really hope you enjoyed chapter 1 and thanks so much for reading! Please, leave me your thoughts on how I wrote this chapter and let me know how I did.