SSA Derek Morgan - Criminal Minds - that bartype place thing

[mm_danii]

Morgan was beat. He unlocked the door to his home, hoping that his neighbor had already walked Clooney for the night as much as he'd missed his dog. His readybag was dropped next to the door and he stumbled in for a few steps before hitting... a chair

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[bau_woobie]

That familiar voice was all it took to attract Reid's attention.

A quick assessment showed that he looked right, but Reid knew that in this place, appearances could be deceiving. Still, he decided it was worth the risk.

"Morgan?" he called.

[bau_beefcake]

"Reid?" came the immediate reply. This was Weird and Reid was here.

Why wasn't he surprised? Well, more surprised, because he was definitely surprised.

[bau_woobie]

A wave of relief flowed over him like water, and it showed on his face.

"Yep. That's me," he replied, waving Morgan over.

[bau_beefcake]

"Who else was it gonna be?" he asked, leaning back to grab his bag before heading for Reid.

"Reid, what's going on? Why is there a bar in my house?"

...not that it wasn't a bad idea, of course.

[bau_woobie]

"Um... You... Might want to sit down," Reid suggested.

He was trying to think of a good way - a not-crazy way - to explain it to Morgan, and unfortunately, his brain was failing to supply him with an adequate solution.

[bau_beefcake]

He dropped the bag next to the table Reid was sitting at and chose to remain standing. He did, however, lean against the booth.

"I'm listening."

[bau_woobie]

"You're not in your house anymore," he started. And took a sip of his ever-present coffee to stall for time.

"Um... Did you ever read Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?"

[bau_beefcake]

He nodded.

"Yeah. Read it in college. I got through the 'trilogy' while I was getting over a knee injury."

Morgan looked around the room, trying to figure out where Reid might be going with this.

"Where are you going with this?"

[bau_woobie]

"...Do you remember Milliways?"

[bau_beefcake]

"Yeah," he told Reid, leaning a little closer, "restaurant at the end of the universe. They go there in the second book, right?"

No, he hadn't made the connection yet. After all, it wasn't as if the Milliways in the book abducted people from their front rooms, and he hadn't seen the window yet.

[bau_woobie]

"Uh, well. We're there. Here. Is there."

There was no softer way to put it. He had warned Morgan to sit down first, and tried to lead him to the conclusion on his own.

[bau_beefcake]

Oh man. Oh man. He didn't know how to say this, especially considering all that freaky shit with Reid's mom and Randall Garner a couple of years back, but--

"We're in Milliways," he said slowly, looking at Reid, making sure he was getting this right.

"Reid" shit "...you know Milliways isn't real, right?"

[bau_woobie]

"That's what I thought, until I got here myself. Until I had food and drink delivered by sapient rats, and produced ex nihilo at the bar. Until," he continued. "I looked out there."

And he pointed off to the left, where the 'show' was just getting started again.

[bau_beefcake]

"Ex ni-what?" was the first question, because he could at least understand what sapient rats would be (and the mental image of Mickey Mouse busing tables needed a few minutes to settle in) but then he was turning to look at the window.

Yeah, that was going to take a minute.

[bau_woobie]

"Ex nihilo, from nothing," Reid explained. "Often used as a argument for the existence of God; that the universe came to be ex nihilo."

He smiled behind his coffee, and waited for Morgan to finish staring. It was worth staring at.

[bau_beefcake]

Morgan was still staring. It was quite a show, after all. And there was something to it, something he could see that made him believe it was real as opposed to some Lucas-junkie's special effects that shook him to the core.

Eventually, he came back to himself and turned to Reid again.

"What?"

He'd kind of missed it in the End of the Universe and everything.