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Chapter 1: Auto-pilot

Derek Morgan was on auto pilot as he got off the plane at 3am after their last case. He usually went home to sleep when it was this late instead of picking up Clooney from Garcia. He drove home , let himself in, dropped his ready bag, toed off his shoes and socks, then took of his coat and shirt, and crawled into bed behind Garcia, all without noticing where he was or waking her up. Clooney even raised his head and waged his tail in greeting but Derek had not seen it. As soon as he lay down he was asleep.

Usually Clooney barked at every little thing so Garcia would have woken up but seeing it was his master he did not make a sound, just went back to sleep at the foot of he bed. Garcia only woke when Morgan started snoring. She had an instant of panic thinking someone had broken in and was going to rape her as she could feel arms around her. But then she noticed that they were snoring and who had ever heard of a narcoleptic rapist? Moving careful so as to not wake them up, whomever it maybe, she rolled over and smiled at him her heart swelling, and she leaned up to kissed his lips.

He did not wake but he pulled her tighter to him and muttered, "Mmm, Baby Girl…" then continued to pull her with him as he rolled onto his back, so that she was laying half on him her head resting on his heart. She kissed his chest above where his heart would be and snuggled down to sleep again, her arms wrapped as tightly around him as his were around her.

Not surprisingly she woke first and lay there for a while feeling warm, and very loved even if she had no idea why he had crawled into bed with her. She could see Clooney waiting by the door so she pulled away from him, put some sweats on over her nightgown, and found the leash. He rolled to his side muttering her name again, he was so sexy while he was sleeping she thought as she unlocked the door and took Clooney out for his walk.

Derek did not hear her leave, but the door opening when she came back an hour later after her run with Clooney woke him. He was confused at first his sheets were not silk except on occasion, those though were most defiantly not purple, nor should they smell like flowers. Had someone abducted him or had they changed his apartment? Were his first to thoughts before her heard her.

"Hush Clooney let him sleep you were just outside now lets get you some breakfast." She was cooing to his dog, who had started to bark at something.

It clicked then that he must have driven to her apartment last night instead of his own, to pick up Clooney and he was on such auto pilot that he went to bed instead of getting his dog and going since he had planned to sleep before coming to get him. He could smell her making coffee and breakfast. Pancakes if he had to guess, and he groaned he had not had anything to eat since lunch yesterday. She turned on some light music in her kitchen and was softly humming to it. Then a thought hit him, he was in her bed, it had to have been 3am before he got back here so she had to have been in bed when he snuggled in with her. She hadn't kicked him out of the bed; she had let him sleep with her not even knowing why he was there.

He closed his eyes and savored the feel of her bed the smell of her around him; He did not hear her come back into her room. She petted a hand over his head then walked into her bathroom muttering about him being too sexy. He peaked with one eye to see what she was doing as she had not shut the door behind her. She was stripping out of the clothes she had on, and getting into the shower. When she was done she padded to her closet to pick out the clothes that she was going to wear. Giving him a great view of her scantily clad body. He tried not to groan but one came out anyway sounding pained. Which he was but not the way she thought.

"Oh, Angel nightmares? Poor baby!" She said turning and walking towards him again. She knelt by the bed as she caressed his head until he controlled his breathing and it returned to what looked like peaceful sleep to her. "Sleep now Angel you disserve it." She walked back to her closet never once suspecting that he was awake, this time he managed to not make a sound as he watched her walk around in only her underwear as she decided what to wear for the day. Finally she picked something and put it on then noticed Clooney was about to get on the bed with Derek again.

"Off you'll get up there and just wake him up come on out here and sit with me on the couch." She scolded the dog quietly but Derek took that as his chance to fake waking up.

"Baby Girl?" he asked sounding tired and trying to sound confused. As he pushed himself up to lean against the head board. "What am I doing here?" he asked looking around.

"I asked myself the same question last night when you crawled in behind me. But you fell asleep so fast I just left you that way. You really looked like you needed the rest."

"Sorry, and thanks I did I haven't slept well since New York…" He admitted not looking into her eyes knowing she was still mad at him for that, "Sorry for that again Baby Girl, I know I scared you but it was the only thing I could think of doing that would have the least number of casualties."

"But Derek I don't know what I would do without you. Do you know how scared I was while you were driving, what if I had miss calculated? What If you hadn't made it would have been my fault…" she was crying but she didn't care he had brought it up if he didn't want to see her cry then it was his own fault.

"Awe Baby," He said standing then and pulling her into his arms, "Listen to me you did not make me get into that ambulance. That was my choice and it was you that saved me because I would have done it either way. If you had told me that there wasn't a way I would have tried to get it away from that hospital with Hotch and the rest of the team inside not to mention all the other people there. You are my God given gift you kept me safe no matter that I was driving the death mobile. You saved me never ever think that something I choose to do is your fault." He pulled her back from him then to look into her eyes, "Understand?"

She just nodded but the tears were still in her eyes. "Derek I promise I will never stop talking to you but please don't put me thru that again. I was calling you and you didn't answer I saw it explode, I heard it explode but you didn't answer I thought you were dead!" She exclaimed fresh tears sprung into her eyes at the memory.

"I know and I'm sorry but I couldn't just let them blow up that hospital, all of those people our team. Hotch told me I have trust issues after that, but I trusted that you would keep me safe and you did no one died from the blast and I got out with just a few bumps and scrapes tell me that that wasn't trust."

"You trust me to keep you and everyone else alive? Do you know how much pressure that is? Why would you do that to me?"

"I wouldn't just trust you to do it Baby Girl. I would trust anyone on our team to. You were just the one that I needed right then. As for why I trust you that much maybe I will tell you some time. Now that coffee smells delicious could a guy get a cup?" He smiled and caressed the side of her face tucking a stray hair behind her ear.

"Sure sweetness." She said pulling from his embrace and leading him out to the kitchen. He stood there for a moment just watching her walk away from him and groaned silently to himself. As soon as he walked into the living room Clooney excitedly ran over to him and nearly knocked him on his ass for jumping on him. His puppy was getting to be huge, as he had got him from the pound there was no telling how big he would get.

"Hey, buddy I take it you missed me?" He said as he petted Clooney until the dog went and curled up with Garcia on her couch where she had sat down after pouring two mugs of coffee. "See you didn't miss me at all did you, just putting on a show for us aren't you? So what are you planning to do on this fine day off?" He asked her as he went to sit on the other end of the couch.

"I hadn't planned anything yet but I was thinking that I would walk to church. It starts soon if you'd like to come with me?"

"Sure, I have something in my ready bag that is okay to wear to church. Just let me go change and we can head out." He took his coffee with him as he stood and grabbed his ready bag and headed into her bathroom.

They walked arm in arm down to her church, he ignored the proud smiles of the congregation as they saw him with her but she was blushing, these were people that saw her every Sunday and never had she brought a man with her much less one that would have sat so close with his arm around her or walked with her hand in his.

He was enjoying acting like a couple with Garcia, holding her hand, putting his arm around her in the pew and holding her close to his side, it felt so right. She never once pulled away from him so she must not have minded either no matter how much she was blushing.

"Oh, Penelope you must introduce us to your man here he is so handsome." A little grandmotherly woman told her as she noticed who was in the pew she and two other women were walking past. When Garcia just blushed she held out her hand to Derek, "Hi, I'm Rose McClintock, this is Mildred Zahl, and this is Doris Fenstermaker. Who might you be that has our Penelope so tongue tide?"

"It's a pleasure to meet you all, I am Derek Morgan." He told her taking each of their hands and kissing the backs of them gently making the old women smile.

"What a gentleman you are, you call me Rose."

"Of Course Rose, then it was a pleasure to meet all of you." He said again, ignoring the pinch Garcia was giving him. When they finally walked away to greet others Garcia hissed in his ear.

"Did you have to go and flirt with them?"

"Awe Baby Girl are you jealous of me being nice to a little old lady?" whispered back then suddenly pulled away so that only the arm on the back of the pew was touching her. She looked around to see what had caused his sudden mood swing, and saw the pastor walking towards her. She knew what the problem was, Derek did not like them. In fact now that she thought about it, this was the first time since she had known him that she had heard of him going to a church of his own free will. It made her heart swell thinking that he had come to church for her!

"Good morning Penelope, I heard Miss Rose saying that your friend was a perfect Gentlemen and quite handsome. Since you have never brought anyone to church before I had to come meet this special man myself."

"Pastor Steve this is a friend of mine from work, Derek Morgan. Derek this is Pastor Steve Volks." Garcia introduced them and Derek reached out his hand to shake the other man's.

"It is nice to meet you pastor." Was all that he said never looking away from the man, the look in his eyes was unreadable. And his face was blank.

"Yes, well I hope to see you again some time Mr. Morgan, now if you'll excuse me I see someone that is waving me over." He said nervously as he extracted his hand from Derek's.

Again Garcia pinched him, "You couldn't have at least tried not to scare the poor man?"

"I'm sorry Goddess, and I was trying to be nice I promise. I didn't completely snub him. I said what was expected of me and I didn't explode with nonsense at him." He said trying to stay calm; churches were not a place he liked to be. He liked even less having to talk to pastors.

"Thank you for trying but next time try not giving him a death stare while doing it and he may not run away scared like he did this time."

"I don't think he will try and talk to me for a good long time with the way he ran away from me, sorry baby." He said giving her a squeeze with the arm he had wrapped around him.

No one else bothered them before the services started mainly because they started soon after that. The organ player had started her opening right then. But they did crowd in around them. The pew that they were in was full as were the ones in front of them and behind them. They sang together her holding one side of the songbook and he the other, their other arms wrapped around each other. They read the verses with the reader, and they listen intently to the sermon and never once paying any attention to the people around them until the pastor ended his sermon and told them to greet their neighbors. It was then that everyone around them appeared trying to form their own opinions of the man that Penelope had brought with her.

Derek could see that this was overwhelming her so he stood and held up his hands to show the people around him to slow down. "Alright, hello everyone my name is Derek Morgan and I work with Penelope it is nice to meet all of you." With that they one by one told him their names and shook his hand, any of the older women he would kiss their hands just to make them blush which they did. Once everyone around him had introduced themselves the ones without questions left and it was time for the interrogation.

"So how long have you worked with Penelope?" asked one, and he answered, "A few years now."

"What made you come to church today?" another asked, "We just finished a tough case and I went to her house to pick up my dog, she watches him while the team is out of town, and she asked me to come with her. Said it would make her feel better. How could I tell her no?" he lied but there was no way he could tell her church the truth of what happened? Even if nothing truly happened they would think it had and that was not something that he would put her thru.

"You seem close." It was a statement not a question but he answered it anyway, "Yeah she's my best friend. Our whole team is like a family."

"Your team? I thought you worked with computers. What kind of tough case?" this one was directed at Garcia so she answered, "I do work with computers but not the way I let you believe I find information about cases for our team at the FBI. Derek is a field agent with the rest of our team. When they need something they call me and I find out for them."

"The FBI wow no wonder you never say anything about work you probably can't." another statement but Garcia answered him as well, "Yes, its hard that way but we have our team and we are like family to one another so if one of us is having a hard time we pull together to fix it. So when I asked Derek to come with me he didn't even have to think about it before he said of course he would."

After a few more questions they seemed to have enough of the interrogation, since they weren't getting anything juicy out of the two of them. Once they were headed back to her apartment, hand in hand again. Derek had a thought, he didn't want this time with her to end.

"How about we go let Clooney out and then I take you somewhere for lunch?" he asked, she smiled sweetly up at him and said that would be nice. He leaned in then and kissed her forehead, not wanting to ruin this feeling he had with her either but he needed to kiss her. He could see her disappointment in that so as soon as they were inside her apartment he pulled her to a stop and held her close as he kissed her tenderly. When it ended he looked into her eyes. To tell her,

"I figured that since I am just a team member that we might not want to chance a member of your church passing as we did that on the street." He told her then kissed her again. Clooney broke them up this time making it known that he had to go outside.

They walked him together hand in hand still thru the little park that was behind her apartment complex. Her neighbors waved from a distance but did not intrude on their bubble of happiness. Everything was going great until they headed back up to her apartment to put Clooney in before they headed out. They hadn't said much content to just be with one another but they were still close together and holding hands when they got off the elevator, they didn't notice him at first until Clooney started growling which put them both on edge as he rarely acted that way and always with good reason. Derek instinctively pulled her behind himself and reached for his weapon before noticing who was at her door. When Derek relaxed Garcia walked around him to see who it was.

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