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AN/ Hey! So this chapter is a little shorter than I wished it was but I'm going on vacation tomorrow and I wanted to get what I had out there before I was without internet for a week. Not only that but school will be starting when I get back so updates will unfortunately be a little slower than usual.

NOTE: All the adoption/emancipation stuff is completely made up and totally non-accurate! I got a couple comments about that on the last chapter and I realized that I had forgotten to say that so this goes for the last chapter as well. If I did things how they really worked I wouldn't be able to push the story in the direction that I wanted so I took a little creative license with it.

Another thank you to all my lovely readers and reviewers, I really appreciate you all. Please enjoy the story.

Chapter Eleven

Morgan purposefully walked towards the cafeteria, he'd seen a woman leaving Harrison's room headed in that direction and was willing to bet that it had been Mrs. DeLay. As the man arrived at the café he looked around the room before easily spotting the woman that he'd seen before, calmly sipping a cup of coffee.

Morgan took a moment to calm himself before heading in the woman's direction, it wouldn't do for him to blow up at her and give her a bad first impression. He needed her to see his suggestions as a possibility and the probability of that happening was much lower if she disliked him right off the bat.

"Mrs. DeLay?" Questioned Morgan as he slid into the seat across from the woman.

"Yes?" Snapped back DeLay, obviously peeved at her coffee break being interrupted.

"I'm Agent Morgan with the FBI. I was just talking with Harrison Evans and he said that you decided to revoke his emancipation. Is this correct?"

The woman stiffened hearing those words, smoothly transitioning into her professional persona. "Yes it is, though I can't see why the FBI would care."

"It isn't so much the FBI caring as me personally having an issue with that decision. I've met Harrison before when he was younger and have spent the past few days inspecting his life and the people around him in order to catch the man who kidnapped him and from what I've seen Harrison is perfectly capable of taking care of himself and shouldn't be thrust back into the foster system after he worked so hard for that."

"Look, nothing you say will change my mind about my decision regarding Harrison's emancipation. He is suffering from PTSD and has been kidnapped not once, but twice since his emancipation. I, personally, don't agree in the principal of emancipation much anyway and only when there is no shadow of a doubt of their ability to care for themselves do I think that they can be granted the privilege of emancipation." Responded Mrs. DeLay sternly.

"Fine." Answered Morgan, annoyed that his first option hadn't worked out, "Then I'd like to adopt Harrison."

Shock clearly showed on the woman's face as she processed his words. "You wouldn't be able to take him right away, you'd have to get a complete background check as well as conformation that you have the time and resources to look after a teenager full time."

"I know that. He's a good boy and I don't want him to be forced into a home that might abuse him or force him away from his schooling." Responded Morgan coolly. Truthfully, while he was annoyed that this woman was refusing to allow Harrison to look after himself, he was also secretly glad that he might have the opportunity to help and raise the teen. He really liked Harrison as a person and he had a bit of a soft spot for children in the first place.

"Your job might interfere with your ability to care for a teenager. It is my understanding that it requires you to travel quite a bit." Rebutted Mrs. DeLay.

"That is true but I know others in this line of work that have children without having a partner to help them care for them and it works out fine for them."

The social worker pursed her lips together in silent disagreement as she listened to Morgan speak. It wasn't that she didn't want the kid to find a good home, it was just that she wasn't sure that someone who had to travel constantly for work could independently give the care that this kid needed.

"Well, luckily for you, that isn't my call to make." She continued while reaching into the bag beside her chair. "Here is some paperwork you will have to fill out before we evaluate whether you are fit to take care of a teenager or not."

"Thank you." Responded the FBI agent as he took the papers from her, "If you don't mind me asking, how fast would you be able to get me evaluated and where will Harrison be while this is happening?"

"I really don't know how backed up the system is at the moment, it could be anywhere from a few days to several months. As for Harrison, he will be placed back into the foster care until the time that he is legally adopted."

"Thank you for your help." Responded Morgan as he got up and walked out of the café. He knew that he had to get the paper work filled out as soon as possible so that Harrison would spend as little time as possible in the foster system but first he wanted to make sure that it was okay with the teen that he was adopting him.

He knew that when he had walked out of the room earlier he hadn't really given the teen a chance to respond to this possibility of Morgan adopting him and that he'd still had a slight hope of Morgan changing Mrs. DeLay's mind about the emancipation. The man wanted to let Harrison know what had happened during his discussion with Mrs. DeLay as soon as possible in order to stop him from having false hopes as well as keeping him in the loop of things.

Derek thought this was very important because he could tell that Harrison was a very independent person, he had been emancipated for over a year now after all, and that would only add to the distain that teenagers usually had to adults keeping things from them.

With that in mind Morgan headed back in the direction of Harrison's hospital room, mindful of the fact that visiting hours were coming to an end and that he would only have minimal time with the teen.

Yet as Morgan reached the teen's hospital room he found Harrison sound asleep on his hospital bed. The pen and paper that the emerald eyed boy had been communicating with earlier were on the ground, clearly having fallen from his open hand as he fell into the dream world.

Morgan smiled as he took in the teen. He looked so young and innocent when he was sleeping. There were no stress lines marring his young face and he looked so small on the white bed. Seeing this only served to increase Morgan's protective instincts and firm his resolve to adopt the boy.

The man hunched over and picked up the pen and paper, placing it on the nightstand so that Harrison would be able to easily reach it in the morning. Even though Morgan really didn't want to exclude Harrison from his own adoption he decided to leave the teen for now and come back tomorrow to talk to him. He just couldn't bear to wake up the teen once he had finally gotten some rest. Besides it would give him some time to fill out the paperwork and consult his team on his decision before anything was set in stone.

With that in mind Morgan turned around and left the hospital, determined to protect Harrison from the horrors of the world in any way that he could.

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Morgan walked into his hotel room that he was sharing with Reid and sat down on his bed. Reid, who was packing up the small amount of clothing that had left his bag during their stay, looked up briefly before returning to his task.

"I'm going to adopt Harrison." Announced Morgan impulsively, his heart bearing wildly as he awaited Reid's judgment.

"That's great." Responded the young genius without pause, causing Morgan to look at him in surprise.

"Nothing? I thought you would have had a little more to say on the matter than that's great."

Spencer shrugged as he turned towards Morgan, "Hotch and JJ can both manage work with a kid so I doubt it would affect you in the office seeing as Harrison is a lot older than both of their kids and therefore will require less care. He's also a smart kid and I would look forward to holding intellectual discussions with him."

"Good." Answered Morgan, relieved that at least one of the team wasn't going to think that it was a rash decision.

"I-I just really like the kid and I would hate for him to be put into harm's way again. I have an urge to protect him." Continued Morgan, attempting to explain how he felt about the teen.

"That makes sense. After all, your need to help and protect people was one of the things that pushed you to join the FBI, wasn't it?" Questioned Reid.

"Yeah." Huffed Morgan, "I feel like I made the right decision but I'm still going to sleep on it just to make sure."

"If that's what you feel is best." Said Reid before gathering his pajamas and heading to the bathroom. The team had decided to stay another day because of both the late hour and the fact the uniquely intimate relationship that the team shared with Harrison after saving him not once but twice, where he had been kidnapped for several days both times.

Morgan sighed, he knew that he wouldn't change his mind about the adoption but he hoped that everyone else was as excepting of the possibility as Reid. That and the hope that Harrison would, in fact, even agree to the adoption in the first place. He worried that he was getting ahead of himself a little bit with wondering other's reactions when he wasn't sure that the teen would even agree to let Morgan try to adopt him. As much as Derek wanted to care for the teen and keep him safe he knew that he would have to abide by Harrison's wishes if he wanted to go back to foster care rather than live with the FBI agent.

Vowing to be at the hospital as soon as visiting hours started, Morgan pulled out the necessary paperwork and a pen, starting on the mountains of information he had to fill out to even be allowed to adopt.

AN/ So again, I'm sorry that this turned out kind of short and a bit of a filler but I'll try hard to get out another chapter in a speedy fashion once I'm back from my vacation.

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