He knows he shouldn't be doing this. But he's desperate, he's scared, he's shaking, he can't think straight and this is all he can think of.

So when he sees Garcia walk slowly from the room he steps into it quickly, closing the door quietly. He knows no one would really try and stop him, but he doesn't want to risk it. Or maybe he just doesn't want to share this, he wants this to just be them.

He falls into the chair of the victim and leans down at the camera, he doesn't know if this will even work. After Gideon's attempt Hankel probably shut it down…but he has to try.

He leans into the camera and whispers. "Reid? Reid, if you're there…you pay attention to what I'm saying. I don't know if you're getting this or not….but we're out here. And we're gonna find you. I'm gonna find you. And I'm going to take care of you. You're going to make it out of there." He feels his throat clench and unclench with the urge to cry, but he his voice doesn't falter, and for that he's grateful. "And when we get back home you're going to stay with Clonney and I for a while. Just until you're feeling better." He knows Reid won't like it, he knows it probably won't really happen, but he has to say it-because it's what he wants. "Clooney will jump on you while you're trying to read a book a minute and I'm making dinner because you're a amateur recluse and we never go out."

He chuckles at himself, ignoring the painful tears that roll from his eyes. He knows the camera can easily see them, and he makes no attempt to hide them. This is how he is…this is how much he loves him.

"I know you'll fight me ever step of the way…but that's what we're gonna have when we get out of this Reid, this is what we're going to have."

He makes a gesture that could have been anything, it could have been a wave to a friend, a flex of fingers to relieve muscles…but from Morgan to Reid it was something more, it was a half blown kiss, a signal that meant more would come.

When he stepped away, he didn't know that both Hankel and Reid had been watching.

He didn't know that Reid received a beating for it, he didn't know that Hankel screamed at him the whole while. "Pervert! Sinful! Disgusting."

But later…after the drugs had been flushed of Reid's system. After the nightmares had faded into the haze of bad memories, Reid had buried his face in Morgan's shoulder and whispered it had been worth it.