Chapter 122 - Derek
Elijah had taken the day off work so he could hang out with Fleur, who was also staying off work due to her not feeling great. He had a bag of all the supplies they'd need for their day and evening together. Fleur, unknown to Elijah coming over, was sitting on the couch watching a show.
Elijah knocked on the door,"Fleur, open up. Your best friend has arrived."
Fleur wandered over to the front door, opening it up,"Hey, what are you doing here? I thought you guys had a case."
"We do.. But you said you weren't feeling well so I decided to come spend the day with you." Elijah held up the bag.
"Eli." Fleur smiled, opening her arms for a hug,"You'll make me cry."
"Aw, don't cry." Elijah chuckled as he hugged her.
"Not my fault." Fleur shook her head.
"I know." He hummed.
"Are you okay?" Fleur pulled away from the hug.
"Of course. Why wouldn't I be okay?" Elijah asked.
"I'm just asking." Fleur closed the door,"Bedroom, or living room for movies?"
"Anywhere you want, love." He shrugged.
"Living room, bedroom's a mess." Fleur pointed.
"Good idea." Elijah nodded.
While walking through to the living room, Beau ran through, jumping up at Elijah.
"Hello, boy." Elijah smiled and petted him.
"He missed you." Fleur chuckled.
"I missed you too." Elijah hummed.
"And Marie is somewhere." Fleur chuckled.
"She's always lurking." He nodded.
"Waiting to pounce." She joked.
"When we least expect it.: Elijah added.
"Sincs you brought snacks.. You can choose the movie." Fleur nodded, sitting on the couch.
"Yes." Elijah cheered as he sat down,"I made sure to bring ice cream."
"I love you." Fleur gasped.
"I do try." Elijah winked.
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"I think.. I might make dinner and tell him." Fleur looked at Elijah.
"Oh, good idea." Elijah hummed.
Fleur hesitated before she texted Morgan.
'Dinner tonight? We need to talk.' She typed.
A few minutes later, Morgan called her.
"Shit." Fleur sat up,"Shh." She pointed at Elijah before she answered,"Hey there."
"Well, hey yourself." Morgan sighed,"Baby, listen.."
"Don't tell me you have another case." Fleur cursed.
"No! No, no, no. I'm on my way home." Morgan told her,"I swear, I'm coming home."
"Good." Fleur chuckled.
"Look, Flo, you know how you texted me, uhm.. You know, you said we needed to talk?" He asked.
"Mhm." Fleur nodded.
"Come on, now."
"What?" She chuckled.
"Flo, you gotta tell me what this is about. At least give me a hint." Morgan sighed.
"Nope." Fleur hummed.
"Look, if I'm coming home to a firing line, I think I deserve to know that. Baby, seriously, look... Are you unhappy? Fleur, is it over?" Morgan questioned.
Fleur looked at Elijah,"No. I just want to tell you I'm happy. And maybe.. I'll show you how happy when you get home."
"Well, okay, I think I like the sound of that." Morgan chuckled.
"You better check yourself. It is not what you think." Fleur laughed.
"Woman, you are driving me crazy, you know that?" Morgan laughed before.. The phone was lowered and they could hear what seemed to be an argument.
"Derek?" Fleur spoke into the phone,"Who are you talking to?"
"It's nothing, baby.. It's nobody." Morgan assured her, his voice starting to sound shaky.
Fleur looked at Elijah as she heard Derek's voice,"What's going on?"
"I don't know- I was just... Baby, I was just.. I was just walking." Morgan stammered.
"You sure you got him?" They heard a man in the background.
"Derek, talk to me." Fleur panicked.
"Flo, call Hotch- Call Hotch! Call Hotch!" Morgan yelled.
"Are you there? What's wrong?..Derek?" Fleur stood up, she could hear grunting, fighting,"Derek!"
Then... The phone call cut off.
"Flo.. What happened?" Elijah looked up at her.
Fleur's hand instinctively went over her stomach, her bump,"..I don't know.. We need to get Hotch and the others.
"You- Right, you sit down. I'll call him. Everything's gonna be fine." Elijah assured her.
"I'm not just going to sit." Fleur shook her head,"We need to go to the BAU."
"Then I'm driving. I need to look after the precious cargo." Elijah pointed.
"Let's go." Fleur nodded.
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"What did you find?" Hotch questioned Reid and JJ as they walked back in.
They'd been sent to check the parking lot that Morgan should have been at after Elijah brought Fleur to the BAU.
"No sign of him. But they left this in the car at the parking lot." Reid held up Derek's phone,"Flo, can you tell us anything?"
"I think there was three attackers.. He sounded drugged." Fleur spoke from her desk.
"Then it's a coordinated, planned attack, most likely professional." JJ pointed.
"We did just take down a network of online hitmen, but if this is blowback, why Morgan?" Reid wondered.
"Well, we have to assume that we're all targeted. I've put protective details on each of our families.. And I want Fleur staying here." Hotch sighed.
"Come on.". Fleur sighed,"I'm a Profiler, I can do this.. If they wanted Derek dead, they'd have him dead already."
"That's right." Elijah shook his head.
"Guys?" Garcia walked through,"Need you."
The group all looked between each other before heading to the Conference Room with Garcia.
"This is the block Derek was taken from. Thar blue dot is him. And then at 9:23, we lose him." Garcia pointed,"So I checked all other cell signals in the area. They're all legit, aside from one that I was only able to find thanks to some technology no one outside this room needs to know about."
"What is that?" Reid asked.
"An encrypted signal, most likely bouncing off a satellite." Hotch explained.
"I know we're thinking this would be tied to our darknet investigation, but satellite encryption is much higher-end technology than most online crime." Elijah pointed out.
"That's true, but the hitmen are still our best lead. We need to exhaust that before we move on to other theories. JJ, you and Garcia will take a armed agent to Fleurs house. Fleur, you can pack a bag." Hotch sighed.
"Yes, sir, absolutely. But why me?" Garcia asked.
"While I get my things you can see if we were under surveillance." Fleur shook her head.
"Whoever's behind this has been planning this for weeks, if not months. We have no time to catch up. Let's move." Hotch sighed.
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"Thanks." JJ walked into the Morgan house where Fleur was, gathering up Beau and Marie,"Hey, I just talked to your neighbors. They didn't see anything, and I didn't find anything forensic outside."
"So they weren't peeping on us." Fleur sighed of relief, on the other hand, it made her think of how they had been watching.
"That leaves you, Penelope." JJ walked over to her.
"I'm finishing my diagnostic now. I think I have something. Do you have a wireless router on your DVR?" Garcia asked Fleur.
"I think so?" Fleur rubbed her head.
"Okay. They used it as their backdoor. And the encrypted phone call, this is the hacking version of that same thing and.. Oh man, they were all up in my business." Garcia shook her head.
"Was it the same UnSubs?" Fleur turned to her.
"My money says yes, but what's weird is they used an intranet." Garcia told them.
"What's that?" JJ blinked.
"An intranet is a private closed system. But here's a portal to a public page.." Garcia clicked on it and it lead... To the CIA website.
"Why would the CIA abduct Derek?" Fleur looked at Garcia as JJ walked off.
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"I may have a line on him!" Garcia hurried into the Conference Room,"I just got notification from Fort Eustis. That encrypted sat phone, it became active again and we managed to pin one side down to here. It is a 20-mile radius of woods down in Virginia. The other side was to a contractor who didn't even bother not to use his own cellphone."
"Arrogant. He thinks we can't find him." Rossi scoffed.
"And he would be wrong. He being John Bradley, not SAS as we suspected. Bradley and Mr Who Dares Wins tried to become SAS, but they couldn't cut it. Not to mention people that are SAS don't get tattoos saying SAS because SAS is covert. That is the point. But apparently people who are dishonorably discharged from the British Royal Marines do get taht tattoo." Garcia explained.
"Your last ping has him in Derek's direction. He's probably on his way to him now." Reid realised.
"We've got helos on the roof on standby for immediate transport." Hotch nodded.
"Any way we can narrow down the search?" Fleur sighed.
"Yes, their encryption algorithms are dust. If and when the sat phone connects, I've got him." Garcia nodded.
That's when on the screen, the red dot appeared.
"Sir.. It just went live." Garcia looked up at him.
"Let's go." Hotch stood up.
"I'm coming." Fleur shook her head.
"Flo, are you sure?" Eliajh asked her.
"I'd rather you didn't.. Given your case." Hotch sighed.
"Listen to me, we'll get him home safe and sound." Elijah told her,"I just need you to trust me.. Trust us."
"But-" Fleur tried to protest.
"No buts."
"Promise you'll bring him back." Fleur shook her head.
"I promise." Elijah told her, holding put his pinky.
Fleur linked their pinkies,"Okay.."
With that, the team hurried to the elevator and up to the roof, getting into the helicopters and flying off to get Morgan. Eventually, they reachee the cabin, Derek was on the floor with one of the UnSubs in front of him.
"Time to die."
"Not yet." Morgan shook his head.
Reid was the first in, shooting the UnSub dead.
"Get medical in here." Hotch instructed as they all hurried inside.
Derek had been tortured, his skin burned and his hand was stabbed into a table. The team watched as medical freed Morgan's hand and bandaged it beofr loading my onto a stretcher and carrying him out to the ambulance.
Morgan began to mumble as he lay in the stretcher,"Pops.."
"What is it, Morgan? What is it?" Reid asked him.
"I'm sorry, Pops.." Morgan whispered, he was out of it.
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Morgan slowly opened his eyes in.. A hospital, with Fleur asleep holding his hand.
Garcia was sitting in the chair beside them, awake as she saw Morgan,"Hi." She gasped.
"How long?" He asked.
"Three days." She sighed.
"Thank you." Morgan smiled softly.
Garcia blew a kiss before she quickly ran out the room.
Fleur shifted upon hearing Derek's voice, looking up at him,"Derek."
"Fleur."
"You're okay."
"I'm sorry.." Morgan told her.
"For what?" Fleur shook her head, taking his hand.
"I was late for dinner." Morgan forced out.
"You made it." Fleur smiled.
"No. The next time you ask, I will not be layer for you." Morgan told her as his eyes welled up,"For our son."
Fleurs eyes widened slightly,"How did you know? Did Eli-"
"I figured it out." Morgan smiled softly.
Fleur chuckled,"Then I guess I should probably tell you I don't know if it's a a boy. It might be a girl."
"Do you know how much I love you? How much I appreciate everything you that you do?" Morgan asked her,"..Will you marry me?"
"Yes." Fleur smiled, happy tears falling from eyes as she leaned forward and kissed his head.
Morgan smiled, looking up at her as he cupped her face. They were going to be married.
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