You gave me forever

Chapter one: grieve

"Emily, stay with me baby girl stay with me!" SSA Derek Morgan remembered the last words he had spoken to his partner Emily Prentiss. Derek sat heartbroken in his bedroom, he was staring at a photo of them taken last year at a New Year's party. He thought of all the great memories that they had made together but most of all, how he could of helped. The guilt was eating him alive, if only he arrived at the scene 3 minutes earlier! He could of stopped Ian Doyle.... saved Emily. Jj always told him not to blame himself in the field, but this was different. He knew Emily had been acting weird the past month, why didn't she tell him?

*BZZZZ* *BZZZZ* Derek's thoughts were interrupted by the ringing of his cell phone.

"Not now" he said to himself. How could Hotch be calling the team in now? The text message from Aaron Hotchner read "Meet me in my office, we have to talk." Derek Morgan picked himself up, grabbed his badge and gun then headed out the door. He had not been out of his apartment all weekend and he wasn't looking forward to if now.

While driving his black SUV, Derek could not concentrate on the road. Everything he saw reminded him of Emily. A few miles back was the little Chinese place they used to go to after they got home from work, the strip mall on the right was where they went shopping together from time to time. Even the stars reminded him of Emily! They were driving home from work once and he asked her why she loved them so much. Her hushed voice replied back "If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I bet they would live a lot differently." Derek never quite knew what the quote meant, some cheesy quote she used to make sense of things he supposed. But now looking up at the stars, he realized what great beauty they have and began to understand why she loved them so much before.

"Sit down" Hotch said as he pulled out a leather chair that sat facing his side of the desk. Derek looked around, not a single soul was in the building except for Hotch and himself.

"Hotch, what is this about?"

"Well I think that it would be best if...." Aaron looked down at his desk.

"Woah woah woah what are you trying to say?!" You could hear this anger building up as he spoke.

"I'm reassigning you."