#so he was dead for 6 months. and some countries never aired past s2 and there he just died and the story ended lol

[bowletta]

"I am back, and this time, for good."

Happy 19th anniversary, The Savage Lands Part I & II! (October 24th, 2004)

[imagineshere-forall]

Derek Morgan Imagine

Pairing: Derek Morgan x Reader

Warnings: I don’t think so, just a bit sad

Word Count: 1.7k

Request: No request but I watched an episode of criminal minds and had an idea I couldn’t get out of my head. Based during the episode s2 ep11 ‘sex, birth, death’ this is the episode where someone is going round killing prostitutes and the team are surprised when you know some of the witnesses, especially your boyfriend derek.  

Sorry this is so long!!

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You had been working at the BAU for a couple of years. Since your time at the BAU you had grown more than friendly with another member of the team, Derek Morgan. He helped you adjust to working with the quirky team and experiencing the horrific crimes. You and the team had grown as close as a family, Spencer your peculiar brother, and Hotch and Gideon posed as father figures as you had lacked one for most of your upbringing.

Recently, Spencer had been approached by a teenager, hinting at the murders of prostitutes in the local area. You, Morgan, Reid and Hotch were walking up and down the allies where the second body had been found. You and Morgan were looking at the dead body, studying the position of the body. Feeling satisfied you had taken enough mental notes to start conducting a profile, you walked over to the other three men who were talking to two other women who had been working alongside the victim.

As soon as you walked up to the pair of women, you felt the air in your lungs constrict. You knew these girls. One of them you knew so well, she was almost your mentor, Debbie. You thought the chance of you ever coming into contact with them was so unlikely, you’d never have to worry about it. You attempted to shield your face without drawing too much attention to yourself, working with a team of behavioural analysists usually meant you could never keep anything from them. You and Derek had only been able to keep your relationship a secret for a matter of weeks until Spencer pointed changes in your behaviour out.  

“y/n it has been so long girl, I haven’t seen you in so long!” one of the girls smiled. The four men surrounding the pair of girls swivelled their heads to stare at you. You quickly plastered on a smile and hugged the girl coming close to you with open arms.  

“You guys know each other?” Hotch asked looking as the pair of you parted from a tight embrace.  

“We, uh, we use to work together, it’s good to see you Debbie,” you muttered, trying not to let anything on. You could see all four men’s burning stares at confusion as you swept a stray hair from your face. You began to feel intimidated, with your short stature they all towered above you.  

“Well, not together together, she used to work the corner up a couple of blocks,” Debbie said as she smacked her chewing gum back into her mouth.  

“What do you mean you use to work together?” Spencer asked, stuttering as though he knew the answer but didn’t quite want to draw conclusions.

“She used to mentor me, helped me save up enough and get me through college. If it weren’t for Debbie, I probably wouldn’t be working in the BAU with you guys,” you smiled, getting comfortable with your old friend. You had to admit you had missed her, you had great times together.  

“She was a natural though, this girl didn’t need much mentoring,” Debbie winked. You could feel your face heating up. As your heart started to race you felt your boyfriend’s hand placed on the small of your back. He was confused, he thought you had told him everything about your life.  

“I’m sorry, are you saying y/n, use to work with you, here?” Gideon asked, his eyes not leaving your heated face.  

“Surprised she hasn’t told you, one of the most successful girls to work this city,” Debbie exclaimed. You cringed, wishing she would stop talking; but from your long history with her, you knew she would never stop talking. She could talk for the country.  

As the men realised, you felt their stares changes from confusion. Derek’s hand left your body, a bit in shock.  

“I’m going to go for a walk,” you whispered as you felt your eyes welling up. You couldn’t get Hotch’s eyes out of your mind. He had helped you so much, you had babysat his kid for him and Hayley. He looked betrayed that he hadn’t know one of your deepest secrets. You wiped one of the tears leaking from the corner of your eyes, as you walked away you shook off Gideon’s hand trying to hold you back. You power walked towards the bustle of the city, just needing to get away from the tense situation.  

Panic was coursing through your body. Constant thoughts of worry, whether you still had a job, if Derek would leave you, if they would ever talk to you again.  

You heard footsteps chasing after you, and as someone grabbed your hands you went to shout your boyfriend away, not wanting to get into an argument. You silenced yourself as you were met with Spencer. You felt so weak you just collapsed into his chest, sobbing uncontrollably. Spencer never normally was good with contact; you just felt his hand rest on the back of your head and his head collapsing on your own.  

Once your tears had begun to slow, you unwrapped yourself from Spencer noticing the large wet patch you had left on his sweater.  

“I’m sorry,” you sniffed.

“It’s fine,” he smiled, brushing it off as if it were nothing “Let’s go get a drink,” he held out his hand, which you gladly accepted using your other hand to wipe your face.  

Once you had settled with a drink, you looked up seeing Spencer texting before placing his phone on the table. You had always been always to tell him everything, even before you told Derek.  

You looked at him, placing your drink down.  

“I had just graduated high school, and as someone who had been in and out of the foster system, I didn’t have much support. If I wanted to go to college, I had to get a decent job to keep up with costs of textbooks and food. I was working as a pole dancer, I made so much from tips on weekend nights, but it wasn’t enough. Debbie said if I needed more money, I could just go on dates with some men she knew and I'd get paid almost a thousand dollars a date. I was working part-time as a stripper, doing college full time and in one evening I managed to make what I would normally make in a month. All I had to do was dress nice and go to a fancy event with men and act a bit flirty.  

With one man, it went a little bit further, he offered me 10 grand to have sex with him. That meant I would be able to quit my stripping job completely and focus on my studies for a while. Every couple of months we would meet up and do it again, and every time I was paid enough to keep me going for a while. After a year, he moved away and I couldn’t find any higher paying customers. I had to work more often. I went back to Debbie and she helped me get more regular customers. I managed to still make about 6 thousand dollars on a Friday night, I'm not sure what it was but men always came to me.  

Once I got a steady job, and started moving up in law enforcement I could completely stop, no more escorting, no more stripping, I was finally making money my own way. The reason I chose law enforcement is because I had some bad experiences working in my field, and I wanted to stop other women going through it. Multiple times I was sexually assaulted by men, and attacked. I couldn’t stand to see it happen to other women. That’s how I decided to work in law enforcement.”

By the end of your speech, tears were streaming down your face again. You had to keep stopping during the story, the deeper you got into your past the more emotional you got. Reid stood up and pulled you standing to give you a tight hug. Obviously, he was speechless. The women he had been working with for several years had been hiding a secret like this from him. If she was able to hide this, what else was she hiding.  

The hug was interrupted as you heard a light cough behind you, you saw the three other men looking at you with pitiful eyes. You had a feeling they had listened to your story you had just spilled. Aaron just opened his arms wide; you did not hesitate as you wrapped yourself into his warm embrace. You felt Gideon hug you next, cradled you. He had been such a father figure to you over the past few years, he rocked you in his arms.  

As he released you, you turned to see Derek with his soft eyes looking at you. You barrelled into his arms. The tears spilling, once again.  

“I love you,” Derek whispered in your ear, rocking you softly. He knew it comforted you,  

He placed a kiss on your hair, whispering I love you over and over.  

“Baby, you didn’t have to keep this from me, I love you, and nothing can change that,” He pulled you apart so he could look into your eyes. You held his hand that was placed on your shoulder pressing your lips on his knuckles still looking into his eyes.  

“Now I know why you’re so good in bed,” Derek whispered in your ear, winking at you so none of your colleagues could hear you. You whacked his shoulder with the oversized sleeve of your jumper giggling.