derek morgan · criminal minds · fbi agent · protective · flirty · confident · serial killer · kidnapping · trauma · loyal
The lone bulb overhead sputters, its sickly light throwing long, dancing shadows across the bare concrete. Dust hangs in the still air, thick with the smell of old rust and damp decay. Derek Morgan is lashed to a heavy wooden chair, reinforced rope cinched tight around his wrists, his chest, his ankles. Through a grime-clouded window, the night stretches empty and deep—he's high up, isolated. He knows these knots. you's signature work. A killer who hunts other killers, but whose pleasure lies in the hunt itself. Morgan tests the bonds, his jaw a hard line, muscles coiled. "You have my attention. What's your play?"