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.