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The Journey to Love: Seaching For A Soulmate	By : sissouthernink1994 Category: 1 through F > Criminal Minds Views: 2088 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter 9: A Day at the Zoo

                FBI SSA Agent Derek J. Morgan always loved going to the zoo as a child. The city of Chicago had one of the most famous zoos in the country and the world. His parents took him as a child and now he was returning the favor. A cute little four-year-old girl dressed in purple tugged his right hand.
“Daddy, do we have to go in the reptile house?” Another equally cute little girl dressed in yellow tugged his left hand.
“Yeah, daddy do we have to?” Bianca and Fiona MarKes, the daughters of Sheldon and Derek, asked these questions.
“No, princesses we don’t have to. We can go and look at something else.”
“Oh you’re just being a fraidy cat!” Mocked the little boy walking behind them, holding Sheldon’s left hand.
“Am not!” Bianca yelled back.
“Are too.” Said the little boy holding Sheldon’s right hand.
“We’re not fraidy cats.” Fiona spat back, showing angry eyes.
“Hey, hey. Stop that right now.” Derek stopped walking and turned to his and Sheldon’s sons. “You know we don’t tease each other. It’s not fair for you to make fun of your sisters because they don’t want to go in the reptile house.” He looked sternly at Benjamin and Douglas. “They didn’t tease you when you didn’t want to go in and see the birds, did they?”
“No sir.” They replied.
“Ok, what do we say?” They apologized to their sisters. “Now if you want to, you can go in with Papa, and we’ll wait out here for you to come out.”
“Can we go Papa?” Ben asked.
“I don’t know. Can you?” Sheldon asked. They thought for a second about their question.
“Oh, may we go Papa?” He nodded that Doug had corrected his phrase.
“Yes, you may. Let’s go and get out quickly. I’m not that fond of snakes either.” They turned and walked into the reptile house.
“Well, ladies it’s just us.” Derek was looking for a bench or table for them to sit and wait.
“Daddy, I have to use it.” Fiona said.
“Me too.” Derek looked around for the restrooms sign.
“Over here.” He directed them over to his right. “Excuse me; are any of these restrooms Family Restrooms?” He asked a zoo employee.
“Yes sir, the one with Koala on the door.”
“Thanks.” He started to walk over with them.
“Uh, sir I’m not sure if you can go in with them.” The employee sounded unsure, thinking that maybe Derek was a pedophile. Derek thought he would have gotten used to those looks and those questions by now. Today wasn’t one of those days. It was times like these that him feel like Gay Couples and their families hadn’t made much progress in the world of straight and “normal”.
“It’s a family restroom. I want to make sure my daughters are safe so I’m going in.”
“It’s ok Daddy, we’re big girls. We can go by ourselves.” Bianca stated.
“Yes, at home with us, at school and with Mommy and your grandmothers. But this is a public place and I know not so nice people hang out here.”
“Like the bad guys you catch?”
“Yeah, baby like those bad guys.”
“We can try this one time right?” Fiona asked. His daughters had him wrapped around their fingers from the minute they arrived. He seriously thought about it. He couldn’t keep them at age four forever. He sighed.
“Ok, we’ll try this one time. Only in the family restroom. You remember our code word?”
“Yes sir.” He nodded and let them go into the restroom. He kind of glared at the employee as he waited for his little princesses. Maybe she doesn’t know the reason behind the family restroom. It’s for more than just women with babies, he thought. He made a mental note of her name and decided to e-mail a concern/complaint to the zoo management when he got back to his mom’s house. Derek listened intently for the word “dictionary”. That was the girls’ code word if they felt uncomfortable in a situation. They had only used it once and it was rightly used.
                They were on a church outing. The Youth Department had gone to the Children’s Museum of Memphis and they were having a picnic lunch outside. They had seen a strange woman hanging around them at the park. The weather was very spring like and she was dressed in a full-length fur coat and fur-lined boots as if it were a snowy January day in Chicago. She had a basket full of stuffed animals and toy cars. She was approaching the swings, trying to give away the toys in exchange for a child to help her cheer up a friend who was supposed to be sick and not able to walk. She pointed to a van parked at the side of the park. Someone in the front sat waved anytime a child looked in that direction. Bianca felt scared and yelled “dictionary” as loud as she could. Derek and Sheldon both heard it and looked in the direction of the swings.
                The adults hearing the commotion only looked at the woman in the fur coat. Their untrained eyes couldn’t see the two male abductors, closely walking in the area behind the swings that they saw. Deacon Daye, a Memphis Police Officer and Deacon Sharp, the church’s security director saw them too. Daye was already at the van calling for back up. Each of the officers yelled their credentials and pulled their guns on the perps. The youth directors moved the children away from the swings and soon sirens from the police cars were heard and approaching the park.
                As men of the law, Derek and Sheldon never went anywhere without their credentials and guns. They were licensed to carry; they had their cards saying so and their FBI Badges. Even if they were just going to church or the grocery store. Deacons Daye and Sharp were the same way. When church members saw that one or more of these men were chaperoning a youth trip, or any trip for that matter, they felt safer.
                Just before Bianca and Fiona came out of the restroom, Sheldon and the boys found them.
“Out so soon?” Derek asked.
“Yeah, our boys are not as brave as they thought they were. Hey, where are the girls?” Sheldon asked.
“In the restroom.” Derek said, trying not to take his attention from the door.
“Then why are you out here? It’s a Family Restroom right?”
“Yes, but the employee said I couldn’t go in.” Sheldon had a confused look on his face. “I know, I know. The girls should be out any minute.” Sheldon shook his head.
“Do either of you need to go while we’re here?” He asked Ben and Doug.
“I do Papa.”Ben said.
“Do we have to go in there?” Doug asked.
“No, we only have to use Family Restrooms when Daddy or I are out with your sisters. They can’t go in the men’s room and we can’t go in the ladies room, ok?” The boys nodded and Sheldon moved them towards the men’s room. “Back in a minute.” Bianca and Fiona came out of the restrooms with their shirts a little wet.
“What happened Fi?”
“We couldn’t quite reach the sink Daddy.” She replied.
“That’s ok baby. It’ll dry. Let’s wait over here for them out of the way so other people can get to the restrooms, ok?” They moved to wait for the rest of their family. While waiting Derek’s stepfather Maxwell and his mom came over to them.
“There you are. We got lost. Where are Sheldon and the boys?” She asked.
“In the restroom.”
“Grandma did you know that Daddy couldn’t go in the Family Restroom with us? He goes with us all the time at home.”
“No, I didn’t sweetie. Why not?”
“The lady said he couldn’t.” Max looked around to find an employee.
“Which employee Derek?” He pointed her out.
Max walked up to her and asked if she could use the radio to ask the closest manager on duty to meet him near the reptile house. She did so and when the manager arrived, he looked pleasantly surprised and excitedly shook Max’s hand. What the employee didn’t know was that Max was Chicago’s Parks and Recreation Director. He asked the manager about the signage for the Family Restroom, if the employees knew the proper procedures and whom the restrooms were actually for. Max noticed the sign that said “Same Sex Couples with Children Welcome” was missing. The manager got on the radio, called someone in the office, and confirmed they had the signs. Max told him to get the signs up as quickly as possible. He left to get the job done.
Sheldon and the boys came out and by that time Sarah, her husband and children had caught up with them. Now that everyone had seen the entire zoo, they set off to find place to picnic. The kids just really wanted to play. Soon everyone was full and the kids were getting tired. As they were leaving the zoo, Max checked Family Restrooms along the way to make sure the proper signs had been posted and most were. He would send an e-mail for someone to come out and inspect the zoo the upcoming week to make sure the zoo was in full compliance.
Sarah and her family left and Derek and Sheldon drove back to his mother’s house. He sold a couple of his properties in Quantico before he moved to New York with Sheldon for six months. Luckily, he was ale to strike a deal with the people who were already renting the houses. And when they moved back to Quantico, he had a year to sell the rest before they moved to Memphis. With the extra money he had, he helped his mother and stepfather buy a bigger house. He knew that since he and Sheldon were going to get married, they definitely wanted a family- as many kids as they could handle. They didn’t know it was going to be four at the same time. A big family would definitely need a big place to stay when they came to visit.
His mother had never thought about owning an eight bedroom house before, never thought it was possible. But Derek knew the sacrifices his mom made for him and his sisters after their dad died. And if Max could provide her with the day-to-day things and love, he was more than happy to buy a house for her and him. He accepted him, Desi, Sarah and Sheldon as if they were his own children and he made their mother happy.
Derek and Sheldon put the children down for nap in the playroom they made up. When she married Max, the number of grandchildren went from Sarah’s two to twelve. Derek and Sheldon had four, Max’s daughters Jess and Kelly had two each and his sons Paul and Allen one each. Everyone seemed in need of a nap.
Derek had a greater appreciation for his husband. On the days that his BAU team was out in the field, Sheldon often had all four kids to deal with, especially if it was Pen’s turn to travel with the team. Bathing them, making lunches, doing laundry, getting them ready for school, shopping, keeping order. Sheldon would work half days on those days. He was in charge of the new FBI Lab in Memphis, he could do that. Derek was so tired after just dealing with the two girls. He made a mental note to talk with Sheldon and Pen about a part-time babysitter for those rare occasions.
The pitter-patter- no more like running of little feet- woke Derek up from his nap, but he didn’t get up until bodies starting attacking them in the bed.
“Daddy, Papa, wake up! Dinner time!!” Was all he what he heard in various pitches. “Come on Daddy.” Ben was trying to get him to sit up by pulling his arm.
“Ok, Ben, I’m up, I’m up.”
“Come on Papa it’s spastetti and meatballs!” Fiona exclaimed, with her speech impediment. Sheldon rubbed his eyes and leaned on his shoulder.
“Ok, you guys wash up and we’ll be down in a minute.”Sheldon said and the little feet bounded down the stairs. Derek looked at his husband and kissed him.
“We did decide four was good right?”
“Yes.”
“Ok, just checking.”

                Derek liked hearing the name Daddy. He never thought he would hear it, never thought wanted to hear it until Micah and Sheldon. Micah made him want to be a dad and a good one. A dad who wanted to protect someone, wanted to help someone grow and learn. Sheldon saw the potential for him to be a great parent. And between the two of them, they were.
Derek woke up as if someone had jumped on his bed and pulled his arm. He sat straight up only to find Reid sitting at the table of the hotel room, reading. He rubbed his eyes, not believing the dream he just had.
“Morning.” Reid said.
“Morning.” He blinked his eyes. “Let me ask you something. You ever had a dream about Lilli or Daniel before you guys even thought about kids?”
“Not really. I dreamed that we would have them, because we wanted them. Why?”
“I just had a dream that Sheldon and I were married. We were visiting my mom and my stepfather, which is weird because Max hasn’t asked her to marry him. And we were taking our four kids to the zoo. I could clearly see how they looked and heard them speak. I even know their names. We each had a backpack with changes of clothes, medicine and snacks. Is that wishful thinking or a premonition?”
“You got me there. Wait, did you say you knew their names?”
“Yea, Benjamin, Douglas, Bianca and Fiona. Weird, huh?”
“Most certainly. Wonder if Sheldon had a similar dream? Garcia or Rossi might be a better person to ask about dream interpretation, being of gypsy spirits and so forth.”
“Yeah, I just might have to do that.”
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