Kryptonite 1
Title: Kryptonite
Summary: This is an x-over with x-men origins, I hope that´s okay.
A great part of it is the beginning romantic relationship of Reid and Morgan that is overshadowed by their newest case involving mutants. Derek soon has to ask himself just how Reid knows Logan and Victor so well and if they might be suspects on top of it all.
Can he protect Reid when Reid doesnt even realize he needs protecting?
Warnings: PG 13?
hey there:-)
So, I´m technically in the middle of writing another CM fic right now but this just wouldnt leave me alone.
The beginning his just Reid and Morgan and the next chapter will feature Logan and Victor, yay. I plan to alternate between the present day and case and the past of how everything started. You might need a while to get into the flow of it but I think it will be worth it.
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Something was foul.
He could feel it in his bones, tingling at the base of his spine.
Spencer Reid sunk deeper into his car seat, scanning the dark street around him with watchful eyes. No one was there but him. Something was very foul indeed.
"What do you mean you´re not coming?", he repeated incredulously, clutching his cell phone tighter to his ear: "Garcia, you arranged this. Remember? I said no, I just want to stay home and read a book, but you black mailed everybody into seeing Red Riding Hood with you. Now, Hotch and JJ made up some excuse about watching Jack and Henry, Emily suddenly needs to visit her mom and Rossi hasn't even bothered with an excuse. He just called me saying he was too old to waste two hours of his life on a werewolf movie while watching Morgan wolf down a bucket of popcorn."
Garcia laughed nervously on the other line but she was just as quick to shoot him down.
"Now, don't get your knickers in a twist, sweetie pie.", she chirped, completely ignoring his foul mood: "I have women's things to tend to tonight and you should know better than to ask me what those are."
Reid rolled his eyes but didn't protest. He did know better.
"So I came down all the way to the movie theatre for nothing, is that it?", he sighed instead, already cursing the traffic he would have to drive through on his way home.
"Of course not.", Garcia replied confidently: "Morgan is still going. You can spend the evening with him."
"Wha-?" Reid halted. And just like that the last penny dropped.
"You planned this!", he immediately accused his friend, full of indignation: "You made everybody say they would come, and…and then you made them…not! Argh! Garcia! I told you to stay out of this…"
He couldn't believe this was happening. He couldn't believe he hadn't realized it immediately. He made a churning sound in his throat, terrified. This couldn't be happening.
He wasn't ready. Not today. Not ever.
"I gotta go…", he gasped, staring to panic, talking more to himself than Garcia. If he didn't this would be the most embarrassing night since he had been delusional enough to ask out Sara Teasdale in 6th grade.
"No, you don't." the blonde woman immediately scolded: "And if you chicken out again I will personally tell him in the office on Monday."
"You wouldn't.", he hissed.
"Oh, try me, sweetie."
Reid sighed in desperation, banging his head against the steering wheel. He knew she would.
"Oh, come on now, Reid. ", Garcia said, trying to cheer him up now: "You're my baby and I have to take care of you. And Morgan would never get up the guts to just ask you out, I know him too well for that. So, you're welcome."
At the mention of Morgan's name, Reid finally felt something in his stomach that wasn't nausea. At the same time his knees started trembling. Great.
He straightened up at bit, trying to get himself together.
"I´m still mad at you.", he finally pouted, trying to sound the part.
"No, you're not.", Garcia laughed, entirely unimpressed: "And now get your cute little butt out of the car, Morgan is coming."
"How do you…?", he started asking, before giving up on the question: "Never mind. I´ll see you tomorrow."
"Tic-tac's are in your glove department.", she chirped.
Reid hung up without another word.
Then he took a deep breath and gathered his spirits for a moment, trying foolishly to get some sort of order in his unruly, long hair. Deciding there wasn't much he could do at this point, he finally opened the car door and getting out.
Sure enough, Morgan was just getting off his bike a few parking spaces to the right. When he looked up and saw Reid, the young doctor waved awkwardly at waist height and made himself walk over to him instead of standing there like an insecure fool.
Garcia would so pay for putting him on the spot like this.
If he didn't´ die of embarrassment, that was.
Morgan smiled at him when he stopped next to him: "Hey there, pretty boy. Ready to suffer through Twilight 2?"
Reid returned his smile, even though it felt a bit strained even to him. Damn that hacker, she hadn't even clued Morgan in. Now it would be up to him to embarrass himself.
"Ah, sure.", he replied: "You know me. Nothing like monsters with claws and some sugary soda to relax after a long day."
Morgan actually had the decency to chuckle at that. Then he looked behind Reid, his face turning confused: "Where is everyone? I´m ten minutes late already."
"They… uhm…had things. Garcia called me just now. They're not coming."
"What? Why didn't she tell me?", Morgan asked incredulously.
Probably for the same reason she didn't tell me, Reid thought, but then he just shrugged like he had no idea. And there it was, sure enough. The awkward silence.
Reid looked anywhere but at Morgan, suddenly feeling miserable as he waited for the man to also make up an excuse to leave. He felt incredibly stupid for even having hoped differently, even if it had just been for a tiny second.
They stood together in silence for a moment and Reid could practically see the wheels in Morgan's head turning. He decided to bolt before he came to the right conclusion and embarrassed them both even further.
"I… uh, you know…we don't have to watch the movie…", he all but stammered, already half turning around to walk back to his car: "I know you didn't want to in the first place and…"
"No.", Morgan surprised him when he interrupted him rather quickly, and even more by grabbing the sleeve of his jacket to hold him there.
Reid turned around, eyes flickering to Morgan's hand on his arm in something like disbelieving shock and the older man pulled it back, suddenly looking somewhat flustered himself. He rubbed his neck, looking to the side nervously: "No, I mean…lets watch the movie. After all, were here already."
He dared to look at Reid then who failed to react at all in his utter surprise. Unfortunately, Morgan interpreted just that as his reaction and quickly backpedalled: "Unless you don't want to I mean…"
"Yes.", this time it was on Reid to interrupt him hastily: "I…yes, let's watch the movie."
They both looked at each other for a moment, not used to this kind of awkwardness. Then Morgan got himself together and smiled softly but confidently, making Reid's stomach flip once more. "Alright.", he said: "What are we waiting for then?"
After they had gotten pop corn, they finally sat down and things got a little more relaxed. Reid finally managed to tell himself that even if Morgan was just here as a friend, at least he wouldn't be put on the spot for wanting more. They were just watching movie.
He even perked up a bit at seeing Morgan jump every time the werewolf came on even as he tried not to show it. Reid couldn't help but smile at how adorable it was and he was glad for the lack of light around them. Morgan turned towards him to grin every once in a while and let him snack off his pop corn.
Reid was beginning to think that maybe he had overreacted. Morgan clearly had no idea that this was supposed to be a date.
Or so he thought. Until during an especially scary scene, Morgan suddenly jumped terribly spoiling half of his snack over both of them and the seat. Reid flinched, not because of the fake monster, but because there were tiny bits of exploded corn on his face and in his hair suddenly.
Morgan turned around to him, grimacing guilty when he saw what he´d done.
"Oh, I'm sorry, pretty boy."; he apologized.
Reid was just about to shrug it off when Morgan suddenly leaned in, his fingers gently picking a piece of corn out of his hair.
Reid actually stopped breathing at how close the other man suddenly was, not trusting his eyes when Morgan picked another piece of pop corn off his cheek and actually popped it into his mouth.
After that, he didn't see much of the movie.
Even though Morgan had eventually leaned back like nothing had happened, Reid couldn't help but sit there -completely frozen and with his mind spinning.
So much for mixed signals.
When they finally left the movie theatre, it was raining outside, people hurrying towards their cars as they passed them. Morgan groaned when he saw his bike and then the shiny street.
"You know.", Reid said before he could change his mind, surprised at his own courage: "I could give you a ride."
Morgan looked over to him then the bike; he seemed to want to say yes but he still hesitated: "You don't have to do that, I live in the opposite direction of your apartment. I'll be fine riding the bike."
"Don't be ridiculous, Morgan.", Reid heard himself say: "If you take the bike you'll get soaked."
Morgan didn't take much longer to protest then. They walked over to Reid´s car, chatting on about the movie and scenes they had liked. It wasn't raining that much anymore but neither of them mentioned it.
The conversation was briefly interrupted when they walked past two young women, one of which had projected something like an invisible barrier around her head and shoulders, shielding her from the rain. Reid looked surprised when Morgan frowned and pulled him along faster in the opposite direction.
"What's wrong?", he asked.
Morgan looked away from the girls, snapping out of his mood immediately and merely shaking his head: "Nothing. Come on."
By the time they arrived at the car Reid was so busy trying o figure out what and if something would happened next that he had all but forgotten about the girls.
Damnit, why couldn't Garcia have left instructions for after the movie if she had to go and mess with his private life in the first place? It wasn't like she didn´t know how awkward he was in social situations, not to mention when it came to dating.
Hell, he didn't even know if Morgan had caught on to the whole date-thing at all. The last thing he wanted to do was embarrass himself by being to forward and then get rejected.
So deep in thought, he was about to open the door on the driver's side when Morgan called his name. Reid snapped out of his trance, cheeks flushing slightly in embarrassment.
"What?"
"I said there's something wrong with the door.", Morgan repeated from the passenger side: "It won't open."
"Oh, right.", Reid nodded, walking around the car quickly to help him: "I forgot that, it jams sometimes. The car is rather old, you know."
He moved next to Morgan and reached for the car handle: "You have to lift it and then pull…"
He stopped speaking abruptly when he realized he had reached out for the handle but Morgan still hadn't let go of it, resulting in his fingers lightly resting on the larger, darker hand of his co-worker.
His first instinct was to pull back -but Morgan unexpectedly turned his hand around, thereby interlacing their fingers and holding on to him.
Reid´s heart did a sudden salto as he looked up at Morgan, breath catching in his throat.
"Reid.", Morgan said quietly, sounding a little nervous but nonetheless very determined. He took a step closer and Reid suddenly found himself in-between the closed car door and the other man's body, just inches separating them.
He dared not to breathe as he stared up into Morgan´s dark eyes, gleaming warmly down on him, he didn't even dare to move or speak, afraid to destroy the moment. Even he didn't mistake the signs now, especially not when he felt Morgan's free hand somehow land on his shoulder, fingers flexing against the nape of his neck.
"Morgan."; he whispered breathlessly, suddenly feeling lightheaded. And then, just as Morgan finally leaned in, his lips inches from Reid´s mouth -their phones rang simultaneously.
Both agents jumped apart like they had been electro shocked, hastily searching for their phones, the moment broken.
"What is it Hotch?", Morgan sounded both breathless and sort of pissed off, which made Reid´s stomach flutter just the slightest bit.
"JJ."; he said into his own phone, hoping he didn't sound as flushed as he was: "What happened?"
"I´m sorry.", the blonde media liaison told him: "But you two need to come in right away. We have a new case concerning mutants. It´s pretty bad, Reid."
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Mean way to stop, I know. But if you want to know what happens next i suggest you just let me know ;-)
Next time: How did Reid meet Logan and Victor and what do they have to do with the BAU´s case?
Summary: This is an x-over with x-men origins, I hope that´s okay.
A great part of it is the beginning romantic relationship of Reid and Morgan that is overshadowed by their newest case involving mutants. Derek soon has to ask himself just how Reid knows Logan and Victor so well and if they might be suspects on top of it all.
Can he protect Reid when Reid doesnt even realize he needs protecting?
Warnings: PG 13?
hey there:-)
So, I´m technically in the middle of writing another CM fic right now but this just wouldnt leave me alone.
The beginning his just Reid and Morgan and the next chapter will feature Logan and Victor, yay. I plan to alternate between the present day and case and the past of how everything started. You might need a while to get into the flow of it but I think it will be worth it.
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Something was foul.
He could feel it in his bones, tingling at the base of his spine.
Spencer Reid sunk deeper into his car seat, scanning the dark street around him with watchful eyes. No one was there but him. Something was very foul indeed.
"What do you mean you´re not coming?", he repeated incredulously, clutching his cell phone tighter to his ear: "Garcia, you arranged this. Remember? I said no, I just want to stay home and read a book, but you black mailed everybody into seeing Red Riding Hood with you. Now, Hotch and JJ made up some excuse about watching Jack and Henry, Emily suddenly needs to visit her mom and Rossi hasn't even bothered with an excuse. He just called me saying he was too old to waste two hours of his life on a werewolf movie while watching Morgan wolf down a bucket of popcorn."
Garcia laughed nervously on the other line but she was just as quick to shoot him down.
"Now, don't get your knickers in a twist, sweetie pie.", she chirped, completely ignoring his foul mood: "I have women's things to tend to tonight and you should know better than to ask me what those are."
Reid rolled his eyes but didn't protest. He did know better.
"So I came down all the way to the movie theatre for nothing, is that it?", he sighed instead, already cursing the traffic he would have to drive through on his way home.
"Of course not.", Garcia replied confidently: "Morgan is still going. You can spend the evening with him."
"Wha-?" Reid halted. And just like that the last penny dropped.
"You planned this!", he immediately accused his friend, full of indignation: "You made everybody say they would come, and…and then you made them…not! Argh! Garcia! I told you to stay out of this…"
He couldn't believe this was happening. He couldn't believe he hadn't realized it immediately. He made a churning sound in his throat, terrified. This couldn't be happening.
He wasn't ready. Not today. Not ever.
"I gotta go…", he gasped, staring to panic, talking more to himself than Garcia. If he didn't this would be the most embarrassing night since he had been delusional enough to ask out Sara Teasdale in 6th grade.
"No, you don't." the blonde woman immediately scolded: "And if you chicken out again I will personally tell him in the office on Monday."
"You wouldn't.", he hissed.
"Oh, try me, sweetie."
Reid sighed in desperation, banging his head against the steering wheel. He knew she would.
"Oh, come on now, Reid. ", Garcia said, trying to cheer him up now: "You're my baby and I have to take care of you. And Morgan would never get up the guts to just ask you out, I know him too well for that. So, you're welcome."
At the mention of Morgan's name, Reid finally felt something in his stomach that wasn't nausea. At the same time his knees started trembling. Great.
He straightened up at bit, trying to get himself together.
"I´m still mad at you.", he finally pouted, trying to sound the part.
"No, you're not.", Garcia laughed, entirely unimpressed: "And now get your cute little butt out of the car, Morgan is coming."
"How do you…?", he started asking, before giving up on the question: "Never mind. I´ll see you tomorrow."
"Tic-tac's are in your glove department.", she chirped.
Reid hung up without another word.
Then he took a deep breath and gathered his spirits for a moment, trying foolishly to get some sort of order in his unruly, long hair. Deciding there wasn't much he could do at this point, he finally opened the car door and getting out.
Sure enough, Morgan was just getting off his bike a few parking spaces to the right. When he looked up and saw Reid, the young doctor waved awkwardly at waist height and made himself walk over to him instead of standing there like an insecure fool.
Garcia would so pay for putting him on the spot like this.
If he didn't´ die of embarrassment, that was.
Morgan smiled at him when he stopped next to him: "Hey there, pretty boy. Ready to suffer through Twilight 2?"
Reid returned his smile, even though it felt a bit strained even to him. Damn that hacker, she hadn't even clued Morgan in. Now it would be up to him to embarrass himself.
"Ah, sure.", he replied: "You know me. Nothing like monsters with claws and some sugary soda to relax after a long day."
Morgan actually had the decency to chuckle at that. Then he looked behind Reid, his face turning confused: "Where is everyone? I´m ten minutes late already."
"They… uhm…had things. Garcia called me just now. They're not coming."
"What? Why didn't she tell me?", Morgan asked incredulously.
Probably for the same reason she didn't tell me, Reid thought, but then he just shrugged like he had no idea. And there it was, sure enough. The awkward silence.
Reid looked anywhere but at Morgan, suddenly feeling miserable as he waited for the man to also make up an excuse to leave. He felt incredibly stupid for even having hoped differently, even if it had just been for a tiny second.
They stood together in silence for a moment and Reid could practically see the wheels in Morgan's head turning. He decided to bolt before he came to the right conclusion and embarrassed them both even further.
"I… uh, you know…we don't have to watch the movie…", he all but stammered, already half turning around to walk back to his car: "I know you didn't want to in the first place and…"
"No.", Morgan surprised him when he interrupted him rather quickly, and even more by grabbing the sleeve of his jacket to hold him there.
Reid turned around, eyes flickering to Morgan's hand on his arm in something like disbelieving shock and the older man pulled it back, suddenly looking somewhat flustered himself. He rubbed his neck, looking to the side nervously: "No, I mean…lets watch the movie. After all, were here already."
He dared to look at Reid then who failed to react at all in his utter surprise. Unfortunately, Morgan interpreted just that as his reaction and quickly backpedalled: "Unless you don't want to I mean…"
"Yes.", this time it was on Reid to interrupt him hastily: "I…yes, let's watch the movie."
They both looked at each other for a moment, not used to this kind of awkwardness. Then Morgan got himself together and smiled softly but confidently, making Reid's stomach flip once more. "Alright.", he said: "What are we waiting for then?"
After they had gotten pop corn, they finally sat down and things got a little more relaxed. Reid finally managed to tell himself that even if Morgan was just here as a friend, at least he wouldn't be put on the spot for wanting more. They were just watching movie.
He even perked up a bit at seeing Morgan jump every time the werewolf came on even as he tried not to show it. Reid couldn't help but smile at how adorable it was and he was glad for the lack of light around them. Morgan turned towards him to grin every once in a while and let him snack off his pop corn.
Reid was beginning to think that maybe he had overreacted. Morgan clearly had no idea that this was supposed to be a date.
Or so he thought. Until during an especially scary scene, Morgan suddenly jumped terribly spoiling half of his snack over both of them and the seat. Reid flinched, not because of the fake monster, but because there were tiny bits of exploded corn on his face and in his hair suddenly.
Morgan turned around to him, grimacing guilty when he saw what he´d done.
"Oh, I'm sorry, pretty boy."; he apologized.
Reid was just about to shrug it off when Morgan suddenly leaned in, his fingers gently picking a piece of corn out of his hair.
Reid actually stopped breathing at how close the other man suddenly was, not trusting his eyes when Morgan picked another piece of pop corn off his cheek and actually popped it into his mouth.
After that, he didn't see much of the movie.
Even though Morgan had eventually leaned back like nothing had happened, Reid couldn't help but sit there -completely frozen and with his mind spinning.
So much for mixed signals.
When they finally left the movie theatre, it was raining outside, people hurrying towards their cars as they passed them. Morgan groaned when he saw his bike and then the shiny street.
"You know.", Reid said before he could change his mind, surprised at his own courage: "I could give you a ride."
Morgan looked over to him then the bike; he seemed to want to say yes but he still hesitated: "You don't have to do that, I live in the opposite direction of your apartment. I'll be fine riding the bike."
"Don't be ridiculous, Morgan.", Reid heard himself say: "If you take the bike you'll get soaked."
Morgan didn't take much longer to protest then. They walked over to Reid´s car, chatting on about the movie and scenes they had liked. It wasn't raining that much anymore but neither of them mentioned it.
The conversation was briefly interrupted when they walked past two young women, one of which had projected something like an invisible barrier around her head and shoulders, shielding her from the rain. Reid looked surprised when Morgan frowned and pulled him along faster in the opposite direction.
"What's wrong?", he asked.
Morgan looked away from the girls, snapping out of his mood immediately and merely shaking his head: "Nothing. Come on."
By the time they arrived at the car Reid was so busy trying o figure out what and if something would happened next that he had all but forgotten about the girls.
Damnit, why couldn't Garcia have left instructions for after the movie if she had to go and mess with his private life in the first place? It wasn't like she didn´t know how awkward he was in social situations, not to mention when it came to dating.
Hell, he didn't even know if Morgan had caught on to the whole date-thing at all. The last thing he wanted to do was embarrass himself by being to forward and then get rejected.
So deep in thought, he was about to open the door on the driver's side when Morgan called his name. Reid snapped out of his trance, cheeks flushing slightly in embarrassment.
"What?"
"I said there's something wrong with the door.", Morgan repeated from the passenger side: "It won't open."
"Oh, right.", Reid nodded, walking around the car quickly to help him: "I forgot that, it jams sometimes. The car is rather old, you know."
He moved next to Morgan and reached for the car handle: "You have to lift it and then pull…"
He stopped speaking abruptly when he realized he had reached out for the handle but Morgan still hadn't let go of it, resulting in his fingers lightly resting on the larger, darker hand of his co-worker.
His first instinct was to pull back -but Morgan unexpectedly turned his hand around, thereby interlacing their fingers and holding on to him.
Reid´s heart did a sudden salto as he looked up at Morgan, breath catching in his throat.
"Reid.", Morgan said quietly, sounding a little nervous but nonetheless very determined. He took a step closer and Reid suddenly found himself in-between the closed car door and the other man's body, just inches separating them.
He dared not to breathe as he stared up into Morgan´s dark eyes, gleaming warmly down on him, he didn't even dare to move or speak, afraid to destroy the moment. Even he didn't mistake the signs now, especially not when he felt Morgan's free hand somehow land on his shoulder, fingers flexing against the nape of his neck.
"Morgan."; he whispered breathlessly, suddenly feeling lightheaded. And then, just as Morgan finally leaned in, his lips inches from Reid´s mouth -their phones rang simultaneously.
Both agents jumped apart like they had been electro shocked, hastily searching for their phones, the moment broken.
"What is it Hotch?", Morgan sounded both breathless and sort of pissed off, which made Reid´s stomach flutter just the slightest bit.
"JJ."; he said into his own phone, hoping he didn't sound as flushed as he was: "What happened?"
"I´m sorry.", the blonde media liaison told him: "But you two need to come in right away. We have a new case concerning mutants. It´s pretty bad, Reid."
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Mean way to stop, I know. But if you want to know what happens next i suggest you just let me know ;-)
Next time: How did Reid meet Logan and Victor and what do they have to do with the BAU´s case?