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Chapter 17

I have died every day waiting for you, darling don't be afraid. I have loved you for a thousand years, I'll love your for a thousand more. - Christina Perri.

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I heard people chattering around me, Hotch and JJ were trying to get me to adopt my two cousins, but with the line of work I work in. I was reluctant to let them into my hectic world. "Come on Auntie, please?" Begged Les as I looked over at her puppy face. 

I heard more feet and I turned round to face Morgan and my brother, "You've got to be kidding me." I said. 

"Come on babygirl, they obviously want you to look after them. They don't want to go into the foster care system." Said Morgan crossing his arms over his chest and I sighed.

"Fine," I stated and Les and Maddie screamed before wrapping their arms around me, letting me smile a proper smile that most of my family hadn't seen since Hali had died. I was scared, I was terrified but I was being strong for the two people that I now had to care about. 

"Hey," Said Rossi, "I'm having drinks at mine. You want to join?" Asked Rossi, I rubbed my chin in thought. Rossi looked at me with begging eyes and I sighed. 

"Of course I will," I said and looked at Les and Maddie. "You want to hang out with auntie Garcia?" I asked Maddie and she nodded as Les smiled down at her younger sister. I smiled at them both, I looked up to see Hotch smiling. 

"Your smiling," I muttered to him and he looked down at me, still smiling.

"I'm not that cold," He stated still smiling a little bit.

"Touche," I said as I looked back at my younger cousins, They were both smiling. Les had tears in her eyes because she was happy that I had told her that I would adopt the both of them, Maddie was just hugging onto Garcia's legs. 

They are definitely going to fit in well with the BAU team, They all love kids far to much. Their mum had been charged with kidnapping and attempted murder, I would care for these two as if they were my own.

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I took a sip of my beer that was in my hand, while Les and Maddie just drank their coke and diluting juice in silence while they drew. Morgan kept on staring over at me and I didn't know why, sometimes when I caught him looking over at me I would cock an eyebrow at him but he would move his head to the side so that I would miss the slight blush going over his face. I'm a profiler, I know when he blushes. 

I finally had enough and I grabbed Morgan and dragged him out into the back garden, "What's going on with you? You've been staring at me for the past 20 minutes?" I asked, I felt his gaze look over my body and I shivered a little. 

"Are you cold?" He asked, totally ignoring my question and I shook my head but he ignored me again and put his suit coat on me. I rolled my eyes before quietly thanking him, It was no question to me and the team that I had seriously fallen for Derek Morgan. I had been trying to ignore it for the past few weeks but it keeps pushing it's way through the cracks in my mind.

His hand reached up to touch the edge of my cheek, involuntary my body moved into the heat of his hand. I saw him smirk his normal smirk, I instantly know that he was trying to see if I liked him. So I went to pull back, but he quickly caught me in his embrace, he leaned forward a little as he did my eyes closed, he leaned forward and kissed me. 

"You owe me a tenner Aaron," Said Rossi's voice interrupting us. Making us both groan in sync. Damn those two profilers, I glared over at the two as they both backed away. 

Morgan's POV 

Reid's words repeated throughout my head. Break her heart, I will break you. Those words sent a chill up my spine, he may be skinny and lanky but he can sure as hell punch someone, I learned that the hard way. 

But the way her body reacted to my touch, her brown hair falling over the side of her face. The slight taint of a blush forming on her face, "I'm sorry, that was a --," She was about to say but he shut her up by kissing her again. My hands finding her waist and pulling her closer to me. 

"Don't even say those words that I think that were about to come out of your mouth," I muttered as I pulled away, pushing a stray hair away from her face. I heard her giggle, the one thing that I had been waiting to hear the whole night. These past few nights had been stressful for her with her auntie and her cousin going missing that she never once smiled nor laughed.

Rossi and Hotch are going to get an earful soon, but right now I just want to spend this time with the girl I liked. No screw that the girl that I had involuntary fallen in love for.