Chapter One
Lies Told
Penelope
walked in the bull pen to find Hotch to give him the report he'd
been waiting for when she saw Morgan at his desk with JJ, who perched
on the edge of it. The pair were talking in hushed voices, their
heads close together; they suddenly stopped when JJ saw her approach.
She frowned wondering what the pair were up two. Morgan stood up to
greet his wife and kissed her on the cheek quickly as not to attract
attention. Their relationship was by no means a secret amongst the
BAU team; however it was made clear that they were to remain
professional at all times, and well public displays of affection were
definitely not classed as 'appropriate behaviour for the work
place'.
"What are you two up to?" she asked eyeing the pair
up.
"Nothing sweetness" Morgan said with a twinkle in his
eye
"We were just discussing a case..." JJ said .
"Then
why the whispering," she said frowning at them both "It's not
as if everyone in this room doesn't know about the cases we work
on"
"oh its not that...it's Ried, he's trying to...err
read" JJ said thinking on her feet, her face blushing slightly
giving her away.
"Yeah you know what genius boy's like, he
likes quite" Morgan said confidently, leaning back on his desk,
folding his arms nonchalantly against his chest.
"I heard
that!" said Ried from across the room without even looking up from
his paperwork.
"Hmmmm" Penelope said eyeing them both again,
before giving up, they weren't going to crack.
"You're up
to something, and I will find out, nothing gets past the Oracle of
Quantico" she said before walked up towards Hotch's office with a
determined air around her, they were hiding something and she was
going to find out what.
"God I thought we were so busted"
said JJ shaking her head. Morgan laugh,
"I think we almost
were, you need a better poker face." He said shaking his head. "She's right, nothing does get past her, so we need to make sure
that we cover our tracks."
"Yes, once she's got her mind
set they're no stopping her" JJ said laughing, "What time is
your flight?"
"3pm" Morgan said looking down at his watch,
there was only about an hour until he'd have to somehow get
Penelope outside to the car park. He'd planned a little 7 day break
for the two of them in Jamaica. Due to lack of cases, the team were
all at a bit of a loss, they were
all spending the majority of their time finishing off unfinished case files and catching up on paperwork. Hotch had agreed that he could spare the pair, only on the condition that they didn't decide they prefer it there and never come back to the BAU. So that's what Morgan has decided to do, he was going to take his princess away. He'd spent the past few weeks planning this with the help of all the team, every single one of them was in on it, all accept Penelope. He had managed to keep the planning process off her radar, well until this morning that was.
Penelope
was back in her little haven, she was leaning back in her chair armed
with her coffee cup. She blew across the hot liquid causing ripples
in it, while she pondered what her Adonis was up to. Then it hit her,
she had the fountain of endless knowledge at her fingertips...if she
just happened to come across something while she was researching. She
smiled and wheeled herself closer to her computer; she placed her
coffee cup down and began to catch up on her 'research'. Just as
she thought she was getting somewhere the phone rang. She sighed and
answered it, "speak" she said distractedly.
"Penelope its
Hotch, I need you to go with some of the team and help them to look
into a case with the local police." She sighed,
"But...can't
the phone me from the station to get me to..."
"No Penelope,
meet them in the car park in 5 minuets." And with that Hotch was
gone, Penelope looked at her screen and reluctantly closed them down
and headed out towards the elevator. She walked out towards the car
park and looked around for the car, when Morgan's car pulled up in
front of the building. He rolled the window down and lent over and
opened the door for her, "come on sweetness get in," Penelope
pulled the door open and climbed into the front seat next to him. As
soon as the door was shut, Morgan began to drive off, Penelope looked
behind her into the back seat and then back at Morgan, confusion
spreading over her face.
"Derek, what about the others?"
"Oh
JJ and Ried headed over earlier, we're meeting them there" he
said as he pulled out into the free flowing traffic, he slid his hand
over and rested it on her leg, she smiled. She loved the way his
touches still gave her butterflies after all these years, who ever
said marriage killed a relationship, had obviously never been in love
the way Penelope and Morgan were. Penelope sighed happily and rested
back in her seat as Morgan's hand continued to caress the skin of
her thigh softly.
