* @dencuement : / / plotted.
it’s a small room. it’s a small hotel, too, a small hotel with not enough rooms in a small town being ripped apart at the seams, and really, he’s not sure how this happened except this time garcia’s not here and morgan’s protests had fallen on deaf ears and now the two of them are here. gazing out over a tiny room, go - bags in hand. he drops his on the table crammed in a corner, looks at the queen - sized bed stuffed in the middle. unimpressed.
( and maybe there’s a flutter in his chest, the kind he can’t identify, the kind that makes his heart pound a little bit harder, but if there is it’s buried down deep and locked away and covered up under layers of doubt held on to for so long it’s hard to move around. )
“ there’s, ah —– there’s no couch, “ he comments, because they’ve been bickering for the past twenty minutes about who gets to sleep where and whatever resolution they’d come to has just been thrown out the window in one fell swoop. it’s late and they’re tired, all of them are tired, it’s been a long case and they’ve been working nonstop and the unsub’s still out there and it had taken hotch’s insistence just for them to call it a night.
and now there’s no couch. he lets out a breath. stubborn, and only half kidding ——— “ i’m not sleeping on the floor, morgan. “
he doesn’t like to complain. really, derek considers himself a fairly easy to please person when it comes to accommodations while on a case. worst case scenario, he’ll make do with a chair. but he supposes when you get told you get a room, you sort of assume it comes with a bed. or at least some sort of furniture piece to sleep on for every person supposed to stay in said room. but as he stands beside reid and glances out across the closet of a room, he comes to realize that this, clearly, is not always the case.
derek sighs, takes a step forward ( because really that’s all it takes to cross half the room in this place ) and drops his won bag onto the foot of the bed. he’s admittedly tired, especially now that he’s given into the idea of taking a break and although new revelations could probably wake him up enough to go back to work -- he does want to make the most of whatever few hours of rest they may get. and sure, this isn’t ideal but derek does realize kicking up a fuss about the sleeping situation when there’s a serial killer on the loose would be more than a little over-dramatic.
so he shoots reid a quick look, then focuses on unzipping his bag and finding some suitable sleepwear. ❝ don’t snore and you won’t have to. ❞
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