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criminal minds - derek morgan

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I'm going out for drinks and maybe some dancing tonight if anyone wants to join. I'll be at The Blue Light at seven tonight.

Also, don't guess anyone's seen Faith around, have you?

[ FILTERED TO DEAN WINCHESTER ]
Hey, we've gotta talk. Police stuff so use a filter here or meet me and we'll have a beer and chat tonight.

[ FILTERED TO CHARLIE MCGEE ]
Hey Charlie. Finished carving out the tree trunk. Anytime you wanna come by the Center to take some measurements, I'm good with that. I'll be there 'till about six-thirty tonight.

[ FILTERED TO PIGLET ]
Piglet, got a tree carved out for you. Charlie's gonna make some bedding and pillows for the furniture, maybe some curtains. Might wanna talk to her about what colors you want.

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[Derek of course already has a beer, his second one of the night. He greets Dean with a smile and a handshake, but sobers once Dean has his own beer and asks how screwed they are.]

Well, we know who kidnapped Cain Hargreaves now. It's just a matter of what you wanna do about it. Seems Hargreaves recognized this guys voice over the network this past week. He isn't worried about pressing charges. But he, along with the rest of us, don't want it to happen again.

Sometimes it's good to just let these guys know that we know. Thwarts the possibility that it might happen again. But I don't know. You might wanna chat this guy up. Get a feeling for what state of mind he's in.

Talking to him would be a good start. Might put some officers on to watch him.

[He takes a sip of his beer. It's a good thing really, particularly that Cain doesn't want to press charges. There isn't a lot they can do in this place in the way of punishment.]

[It is kind of s double-edged sword with the police force here in the City. It was nice to have around but at the same time, there wasn't a whole lot they could do aside from play good to the evil. They just didn't have a whole lot of power here.

Derek picks up his device and sends Dean a file.] [ FILE DOWNLOAD ]

Alright. So this is the post with the voice that Hargreaves recognized. I've never met this guy before. Have you?

Nah, never talked to him but I will be talking to him, see what he knows about Hargreaves anyway.

[So maybe this guy knew enough to stay away from law enforcement types, which didn't bode well for any conversation between him and Dean. He could even go so far as deny that he'd done anything wrong. Derek could see that happening.]

Well, when you talk to him you'll let me know how it goes? He didn't do anything to Hargreaves but kidnap him, hold him for a few days, and let him go. There was no obvious reason for it which isn't logical. Most abductors have a logical, to them at least, thought process or reason for doing what they're doing. This has no reason to it. He just held his abductee and let him go.

[Add in the fact that Dean's about as subtle as a bulldozer, and he's not likely to get anything out of the guy. He can keep some uniforms on the guy for a while though.]

Will do. Yeah, I can't figure the guy out. Maybe he had something planned for him and we interrupted but it seems to me, he had plenty of time to do whatever he wanted to do before we got there.

Alright, and Cain wanted to be kept in the loop too. I don't see any reason why he can't be. Might make him feel safer to know what goes on after you talk to this guy too.

[Cause while Derek was all big and tough on the outside he was also very empathetic toward both the good and the bad guys. It was what made him a good profiler, honestly. He was just as concerned with Cain as he was with the asshole who'd kidnapped him for seemingly no rhyme or reason.]

Yeah, I'll definitely keep him in the loop.

[Derek finished off his beer and ordered another one, for both himself and Dean. It seemed like Dean could use one. In fact it always seemed that way when he spoke with Dean.]

I'll get this round. You look like you could use it. You know that this will all be okay, right? I mean we'll do what we can do and the rest, well... it'll handle itself. We can only do so much.

[It's pretty much a given with Dean. Life, outside of the City, beat him down so thoroughly that he needs whiskey to wake up in the morning. The City hasn't done much to counteract that and in some cases has only contributed to it. Never to the extent that his life has, but when you're as far down as Dean is, it doesn't take much. He never stops trying to make it better, here or in his life. He just keeps trying with more whiskey in him.]

Yeah. Everything's going to turn out hunky dory and the moon's made of freakin' green cheese. [It comes out sarcastic and bitter.] Look, Dude, I didn't mean it like that. I'm not twelve though. I know sometimes life sucks and it just keeps sucking. You keep fighting back though 'cause what the hell else are you gonna do? [And there's no answer to the question because in Dean's mind there's nothing else to do. You keep fighting. End of the story. Even if it never pays off, if you never win, if life never gets better. You keep fighting.]

Look, I've seen some of the worst things humans can do to each other. As much as all this demon stuff shocks me, it's the humans that scare me more than them. But you know, I've also seen humans do some amazing things. I've met some amazing people, like you, who keep fighting no matter how beat down they get.

But even you can't tell me that you don't see that some of that green cheese out there is just cheese. People don't keep fighting like you do if they don't have and recognize a few things that are made of good that keep you fighting.

[Derek shakes his head.] I'm not saying things are hunky dory or that you're a child. Didn't mean to imply that. But I am saying that I've seen good people come out on top more times than I've seen the bad get their way. And that's reason enough to keep fighting, just to keep those statistics in line, just to keep the good overpowering the bad. Like I said, we do what we can and that's all anyone can ask of us.

[Dean just listens, sipping at his beer as he does. In some ways, Derek is right. He keeps fighting for Sam. He keeps fighting for people like Lisa and Ben. He keeps fighting because his dad would be so damned disappointed if he stopped. Bobby would be disappointed and those are people Dean doesn't want to disappoint.]

Hey, at least I'm getting to be the friggin' hero of the day, right? [And this is Dean pushing anything he might have let slip down further. Derek didn't deserve to deal with Dean's crap. It just sort of slipped out.]

[Derek recognizes a metaphorical switch being shut off when he sees one. Lord knows he's shut enough people out to see it, profiling skills aside. So yeah, he gets it and he understands it. Sometimes there were those moments of weakness where words and feeling bubble over, but more often than not, they're locked down deep inside. Derek and Dean are very much the same person in that regard. So he recognizes that Dean has opened up to him, albeit briefly, and he respects the door closing as well. He'd be kind of a hypocrite if he didn't.]

The hero gig isn't a bad one to play at. Better than the alternative. [Because another way that Derek and Dean were alike, is that they both could so easily slip over to the other side of the line if circumstances pushed them too hard.]

[It's sort of what Dean does.]

Nah, hero gets the girl, right? You can't say that about the bad guy.

[Just one step in the wrong direction.]

[For a brief moment the serial case of Frank Breitkopf runs through Derek's mind. For a time he had gotten the girl he'd wanted and obsessed over. But eventually even Jane Hanratty had turned away from him, realizing how crazy he was. Derek smirks and the memory and shakes his head.]

Not unless the bad guy has a bad girl to go with him. [Because there had also been Sydney Manning, who had been the modern day Bonnie to her Clyde, Raymond Donovan.] Or unless the girl just doesn't know she's with the bad guy... which I've seen happen too.

[Dean thinks about that, pursing his lips and raising his eyebrows before he frowned and nodded.]

Ran into a few of those. On both ends. Lots of girls who didn't know they're with the bad guy. Never got that. If I can tell the guy's a jackass, why can't they?

Love will do that to people, or just trying to keep a family together. Hardly anybody will suspect their significant other is a serial killer until they find the body in the basement, you know?

[It's a joke kind of, trying to make it lighter again. But then he continues, of course. It isn't often he gets to psychoanalyze even theoretical people anymore.] Same thing applies to most families. Siblings, my sisters and my momma never think I can do any wrong. I know I'm capable of it though. Anyone is capable of it.

[Dean makes a little 'huh, yeah' sound.]

Even when you know your family can do wrong, you don't want to believe it.

[God knows he gives Sam every chance he can even when he knows what he's capable of.]

Exactly. Tough to imagine those you love doing bad things. Something most people would turn a blind eye to.

[Derek takes a healthy swig of his fresh beer that the tender has placed in front of him. Dean has a new one too. It occurs to him that he and Dean don't really know that much about each other outside of the cases they've worked in the City. So he decides to see if he can remedy that right now.]

So where are you from, Dean? You a cop back home? [Dean doesn't really strike Derek as a by the book type so it would surprise him if Dean was in any branch of law enforcement.]

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