MoReid Oneshot Book

Promise- Fluff/Angst

A/N: Okay my apologies this one also kind of sucks and sorry for the slow updates school's crazy right now

T.W. - Past Abuse

takes place in earlier seasons

Third P.O.V.

It has been three months since the hospital bedside love confession from Spencer Reid, after Derek Morgan had been shot on a case. Very dramatic and cliché, Spencer knew, but seeing Derek laying in that hospital bed made him realize that if he didn't tell him right then he never would. Spencer was surprised and more then excited when Derek admitted he returned those feelings, and that began a real relationship between the two. The first couple weeks had been a little awkward switching from friends to lovers, and dealing with telling the team and families about the two. But, with everyone's support and a little bit of time things had become comfortable between the two.

Just two months into the relationship it had felt like they had been together for years. They told each other everything, from their messed up childhoods to what they saw in their futures and every good, messy, or downright horrible thing in between. The only thing that Spencer refused to talk about was his past romantic relationship with his Ethan, who he had met in college. Whenever Derek tried to bring it up Spencer shut down. Derek came to the conclusion that it was probably just a messy ending to a messy relationship that Spencer wasn't really wanting to talk about.

But now, three months into the relationship they were having their first real fight. it was about something stupid, as most fights usually are. Derek was mad at Spencer for putting himself in danger while on a case, and he had to wait until they got home to talk to him about it so it wouldn't effect their work. The fight itself wasn't significant, they had fought before about this back when they were just friends, Spencer was always putting himself in danger, but this was their first fight as a couple so obviously a lot of emotions were involved.

Derek managed to start of calmly, which was kind of a surprise since he was usually so hot headed, "What were you thinking?" he began, "you could have gotten seriously hurt or died Spencer".

"Right like you've never put yourself in danger on a job" Spencer argued back, defensive.

"You made a stupid reckless  decision" Derek's voice rose, "We specifically told you not to go in without backup and you did and that got you facing down the barrel of a serial killers gun" Derek paused for a second before continuing "you were being stubborn and directly went against Hotches orders, you're lucky he's not more upset"

"He's not upset because I SAVED HER LIFE DEREK" Spencer was attempted to keep his voice calm and even "This has nothing to do with me putting my life in danger, you're upset because you don't trust me or think I'm good at my job" Spencer was angier now "I'm not a child Derek and you're not the only one who can be the hero and if this is about your ego.."

"YOU THINK THIS IS ABOUT ME" Derek interrupted, the adrenaline of watching Spencer almost die coming back, leading Derek to start yelling "YOU ALMOST DIED FOR AT LEAST THE TENTH TIME THIS YEAR, YOU'RE RECKLESS WITH YOUR OWN LIFE" Derek started angrily gesturing with his arms, trying to emphasize his point, "THE ONLY WAY THIS IS EVEN REMOTELY ABOUT ME.." Derek stepped forward, towards Spencer "IS THAT I ALMOST LOST YOU, YOU SCARED ME SPENCER, YOU...." On the last "you" Derek had raised his arm extending it to point at Spencer in an accusatory way.

But Derek had trailed off and stopped yelling or moving at Spencer's reaction. Spencer had covered his face with both of his arms, putting them in front of him to protect himself from the blow he was sure was coming. He had also made himself as small as possible while still standing, slightly crouching, trying to protect himself from however he thought Derek was going to hurt him.

Derek took a step back "Spence?" he asked in a extremely soft, gentle voice.

Spencer slowly lowered his arms and straightened up how he was standing. He let his hands stay together, right in front of his waist, nervously interlocking and separating his fingers repeatedly. His head was titled straight towards the ground and he refused to look up at Derek. 

"Spencer, did you think I was going to hit you?" Derek had never spoken this softly to anybody "Hey, look at me baby" Derek slowly stepped forward until he was about a foot away from Spencer. "Talk to me Spence"

Spencer didn't move.

"Come on, look at me" Derek moved slightly closer and lowered his voice even more "Baby please"

Spencer slowly raised his head to look at Derek, his eyes were full of tears and Derek could see a slight tremble in his body. Derek slowly moved his hand toward Spencer, giving Spencer the chance to move away, before resting it gently on Spencers jaw, using his thumb to stroke the younger man's cheek, making direct eye contact with him.

"I would never hurt you Spencer" Derek tried to keep his voice from breaking from the idea Spencer thought Derek would ever hurt him "I need you to know I will never hurt you, please talk to me"

Spencer finally spoke "I know Derek, it wasn't you" Spencer paused for a second before continuing "Ethan used to get mad and he...." Spencer voice broke and he stopped.

"Spencer I'm so sorry... I didn't know" Derek didn't know what to say

"Not your fault" Spencer responded honestly

"Hey, we don't have to talk about this right now, we can whenever you're ready" Derek ran his other hand through Spencer hair "but I promise I will never yell at you again"

"You can't promise that" Spencer weakly argued more tears coming to his eyes.

"Yes I can" Derek responded "I will handle things better from now on I promise you Spencer, I will never make you feel like this again, and I'll talk to you about what happened whenever you're ready and if I ever see Ethan..." Derek's eyes darkened but he didn't continue

Spencer started crying from his biggest secret finally being brought to the surface "you promise?" he hated how much he needed Derek to confirm that.

Derek wrapped his arms fully around Spencer. One hand in the smaller man's hair, the other rubbing his back. Spencer nuzzled his head into Derek's neck, tears dampening Derek's shirt.

"I promise"