Title: 10 Song Shuffle Meme
Author: muse127
Pairing: Morgan/Reid
Fandom: Criminal Minds
Raiting: PG-13
Spoilers: none
Warnings: drama, angst, fluff, comfort
Disclaimer: I do not own Criminal Minds nor do I own Morgan and Reid. If I did...oh, the fun we would have together!
A/N: This is the result of a music meme that I came across the other night and I thought that I'd share it with you guys. The idea is to put your music player on shuffle and write to the song that comes up. Apparently, my mp3 player likes mostly happy songs. Go figure. One more thing, these might be slightly OOC because this is my first posting of not only cm, but of any fandom and I am still trying to get their voices right. Let me know what you think.

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1. Crazy- Alanis Morissette

“Reid. You gotta relax, pretty boy.”

Dr. Spencer Reid looked up at his friend. No, not just friend now.

He couldn’t technically see Morgan with the mirrored glass and all, but he could hear him through his earpiece just fine. The unsub that Reid was interrogating was a narcissistic psychopath who was trying to get inside Spencer’s head to play with him. It had been working a little until Derek had brought him back to himself by uttering words that he knew would jog his genius back. Words that he had spoken in a moment of passion between the two of them. Spencer smiled and thought about the moment those words had been spoken.

He squared his shoulders and turned to the unsub, armed with the knowledge that someone loved him and would pull him back from the darkness. Always.

 

2. Miss California- Dante Thomas

“So have you heard from Lila lately?” Morgan asked the resident genius of the FBI.

Reid frowned at his friend. “No. Why?”

“Just curious, is all. I haven’t heard you talk about her in awhile.” Morgan said, trying to act all innocent…and probably failing.

“I called it off a long time ago.” Reid supplied knowing that his friend would be relentless if he didn‘t explain.

“What? Why?” Morgan asked confirming Spencer’s thoughts.

“She wasn’t my type. Besides, I have my eye on someone else now.”

Morgan raised an eyebrow and waited for an answer.

And Reid just kept looking at him.

 

3. Brighter Than Sunshine- Aqualung

Derek never thought that he would have this. This lying-in-bed-with-your-love feeling that seemed to erupt from his chest and made him smile brighter than the sun could shine.

Spencer did that to him. Made him feel like nothing in the world could hurt him, could touch him.

“Morning, love.” Said a sleepy voice that came somewhere from around Derek’s chest. An arm wrapped tighter around said chest and Morgan smiled.

Brighter than sunshine.

 

4. Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go- Wham!

Morgan stirred and stretched out an arm. His sleep-addled brain took a moment to realize that the other side of the bed was empty. It wasn’t really a new feeling. There had been plenty of women who had never stayed after the night’s events. But this was different.

“Hey.” He called out softly to the retreating figure in his room.

“Sorry. I-I didn’t want to wake you.” The thin, lanky ball of nerves replied.

“I only woke up because the one person that I have ever wanted to stay in the morning was trying to make a stealthy escape.”

“You- What? You want me to stay?”

“For someone so smart, you’ve a lot to learn, pretty boy.” Derek said as he pulled Spencer back into his bed.

 

5. Bad- Michael Jackson

Dr. Spencer Reid had seen a lot in his years of being a FBI profiler. He had seen into the minds of the worst serial killers and rapists in the country, the world.

However, all the time he had spent studying and catching those monsters had not prepared him for the horror in front of him.

“You don’t like it?”

“It’s not that I don’t like it…”

“Well what is it then, Reid? Is it the hair?”

“That’s part of it. I mean, it’s weird to see you with hair at all, Morgan, let alone…”

“It’s for the annual Halloween party.”

“You’ve already said that.”

“It’s a classic!”

“Dressing up as a mummy is a classic costume, dressing up as a vampire is a classic costume, but dressing up as Michael Jackson is not a classic Halloween costume.”

 

6. Will You Love Me Tomorrow- The Shirelles

Spencer lie awake on a bed that wasn’t his, listening to soft breathing that wasn’t his, either.

He looked over to the figure with whom he had shared so much with. His mind, and now his body.

Last night had been so amazing, but now, in the moonlit room, he could almost hear rejection echoing against the walls that hadn’t even been voiced yet. He was promised that this was real, not just a one-time thing. But that was in a moment’s passion.

Would his lover say the same thing in the harsh light of day?

 

7. White Wedding- Billy Idol

It was a typical Monday morning in the BAU.

JJ was walking around with a huge stack of files for Hotch to review for the next case, Elle was sitting at her desk with a cup of coffee acting like it was the drink of the gods, Gideon was-well he was doing whatever Gideon did on Monday mornings, and Reid was talking about some strange bit of trivia while Morgan sat listening to him with his eyes glazed over with sleep…or perhaps boredom.

Typical Monday.

That was until Penelope came bursting into the Bull Pin in a rush.

“Where’s the fire, Sweetness?” Morgan asked, startled.

“We did it!” She replied breathlessly.

“Who did what?” Elle asked, glaring at Garcia because she had the nerve to be so damn chipper this early in the morning.

“Steven, the tech supervisor for accounting that I’ve been seeing? He and I eloped this weekend!”

There was silence from her teammates.

“I’ll kill him.” Reid had to stop his lover from heading for the elevators in search of Steven.

“I know you don’t have happy time feelings for him, Derek, but could you give him a chance? For me?” Penelope looked so hopeful that Morgan couldn’t deny her that.

“Alright, baby girl. For you.” Garcia smiled and kissed him on the cheek, then headed to her office.

“And then I’ll kill him.”

 

8. Become- The Goo Goo Dolls

“Beautiful.”

“What?”

It was the beginning of a long flight home after the ending of an even longer case. A man had been kidnapping children, molesting them, and then dumping their battered bodies into a local river when he was finished with them.

It had been an emotionally draining case for all of them, but especially for Morgan. All the while, though, Derek had kept a cool head, trying to compensate for the burning anger that was coursing through him the whole time.

Spencer looked at the man before him and repeated his statement. “Beautiful.”

“What is?”

“You. Your determination, your strength.” Reid replied.

Derek snorted. “I’m not as strong as you think I am. I’m only human.”

“I know. That’s what’s beautiful.”

Morgan stared at him for a moment and then reached out a tentative hand and Reid took it.

“I’m not the only one who is beautiful.”

“Oh.”

“Yeah.”

 

9. Victoria- John Mayer

Derek looked at the piece of paper in his hand one more time. He couldn’t believe the words on the page. Wouldn’t believe. They said that Spencer was gone, that he couldn’t do it any longer. No matter how much he loved Derek.

“He said to not worry about him. That he’ll be fine.” JJ said softly.

Derek thought that they had been fine. That their combined demons could hold no sway on what they had. He had thought that they were winning.

Apparently, that’s what the demons had wanted him to believe.

 

 

10. Real World- Matchbox Twenty

“Earth to boy genius.” Derek Morgan waved his hand in front of a daydreaming Spencer Reid.

“What?” Reid started.

“Whatcha thinking so hard about?”

Reid looked down at his shoes, somewhat embarrassed. “Have you ever wondered what it would be like if I was someone else? Someone stronger, more outgoing?”

Morgan sighed. “Yeah, but I have to say that I wasn’t thrilled with the results.”

“Why not?” Reid asked, frowning.

“Because you wouldn’t be you and I’m quite fond of you just the way you are.” Morgan replied coming over to his lover and giving him a soft kiss on the lips.

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