Characters: Derek Morgan/Elle Greenaway
Disclaimer: Not my characters.
Word count: 100
A/N: Written for Shirasade for Yuletide 2007.

Sometimes he'll see someone in the corner of his eye and for a moment he thinks it's Elle, but it never is.

She was never the same after being shot and Morgan knows Elle needed the time away, knows she needed time to heal from wounds none of the others could see.

He saw; he always sees everything when it comes to Elle.

And he wishes she'd come back.

He wishes he had the nerve to phone her and tell her he misses her.

He wonders if she'll say she misses him too.