derek morgan @p226r said ❝ you wanted to talk to me ? ❞
hotch glanced up, but only for a moment as he heard morgan’s voice, as if double checking that it was just who he was expecting. it was –– it rarely wasn’t. most of the members of the team didn’t like to be in attendance to his office if they could help it; he’d long since learned not to take it personally. ❝ it’s nothing to be worried about. ❞ though in comparison to the other members of the unit, he doubted that worry had been morgan’s first instinct upon being summoned to his office. ❝ i’m taking a leave of absence. a week, maybe two. ❞ mandated, but that part was left in the silence between his words. ❝ i’m recommending you step in as interim chief, and i wanted you to hear it from me first. ❞


















