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A.N: Right so this one's kinder of a mixed bag of genre but I hope you enjoy nonetheless!
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Joyce Brothers wrote that "When you look at your life, the greatest happiness's are family happiness's."
Penelope Garcia had valued family all her life, even more so after she lost her parents. However big the BAU grew to it never filled the void that had been made when she was 18 years old. She felt the void begin to fill some when she met her long term boyfriend Kevin but that never stuck and now she was coming up 33 and she was single again. Some days she knew she was never meant for love, others she knew she deserved it.
But as she looked at Derek's sister opposite her, tears streaming down her youthful and bruised face she knew she couldn't let Derek's void of loss grow to surmount to what hers felt like, she couldn't have him lose his dad and sister in his world so she took the next actions upon herself. She had to be selfless and if it meant she died she would've been happy knowing that she'd saved a family from further heartache.
Her selflessness got rewarded, she felt fist after fist hit her face, multiple times she felt kicks come to blow with her ribs, she knew it'd only get worse but she'd take it to see Derek's little sister safe and at home.
She never envisioned her trip of support to Chicago to turn out like this but if she could have a hand in helping to get one of the very few people that Derek loved and trusted back she would've chosen to have been there all over again. Never would she regret this if Derek's sister could be given back to her family. For she stood by the term family strongly, she believed in them, she might have lost hers but she wasn't about to allow anyone else to lose theirs.
Her past with Derek was a rocky one but an influential one at that. One she couldn't and wouldn't imagine not living within. It might have been 9 years and tireless triumphs and minor let downs but she could safely say she loved and was still wholeheartedly in love with her best friend. She just hoped that if her last moments on this earth were spent keeping a family together then she'd known she had succeeded.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton once said "The best protection any woman can have . . . is courage."
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A/N: Hope you liked!
Thanks KricketWilliams for 'seconding' the idea of starting and ending the chapter like a normal CM episode!
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