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Penelope stood floored for a moment, she'd gone to see her best friend, seek some comfort but she'd just walked in on the punch line.

'I'm pregnant honey!' Sam said happily and spun around when she felt a presence behind her. 'Oh, Penelope!' Sam exclaimed excitedly. 'Keep this to yourself but we're expecting!'

Derek stood as shocked as Penelope, they looked from Sam to each other and although they both picked up something wasn't right with one another, they just stayed silent but Penelope broke the shock first. 'Congrats and mom's the word... well, erm, I'll let you get to celebrating.'

'Hey baby girl.' Penelope felt the words sting; he'd hardly used it on her since he started dating Sam. 'Everything okay?' He asked concerned.

'Absolutely, nothing that needs you to worry over.' She smiled and left his office and went back to hers. Lately her feelings for Derek had crept up and taken her over, she knew she shouldn't be thinking of other men when she was with a man, a man she'd been with for nearly 2 years but lately, just before Sam entered the scene, Penelope had contemplated stepping up and outing her feelings to her best friend but every time her confidence faltered and now Kevin was gone and Sam was still around and she hated herself for her lack of confidence, she'd missed her chance.

Derek stood in his office with his girlfriend of 3 months opposite him and he was beyond shocked at this news, he wasn't ready to settle, let alone with Sam, she wasn't the girl for him but he couldn't just walk out on his own child.

'Baby?' Sam said after his silence became too much.

'Sorry... when did you find out?' As he watched her walk around the side of his desk, pulling him out and sit down on his lap.

'A couple of days ago, I didn't want to tell you while you were on the case, I wanted to tell you to your face.'

'It's fantastic news.' He told her. 'How far gone?'

'6 weeks, so not long but can you believe it, you'll have to take me to Chicago now... you're mom's going to want to know the mother of your first born.'

First born. That hit him hard.

'You don't think Penelope will spread it around will she?'

He looked up at her shocked; Penelope wasn't some type of gossip. 'No, she won't, I can promise you that. Why can't we exactly spread it?'

'Because I want us to get used to the idea, you and me, parents.' He smiled at her but it didn't reach his maximum and she could tell. 'What's wrong? Don't you want my baby?'

'I'm just a little shocked that's all, and I've got all this work to do.'

'Well I better leave you so that the daddy to be can get home.' She told him with a seductive smile. 'I'll wait at yours.' And she left; he just continued to sit there completely shell shocked at the news, he then stood, he had no work to do, he used it to his advantage to get some personal space back. He just stood shrugged his coat on and grabbed his stuff before leaving.

As he walked down the corridor he saw Penelope locking up, her look was not her usual happy one. 'Not happy for me baby girl?' He teased his heart not totally in it. 'There's going to be a baby Morgan running around.'

'Course I'm happy for you.'

'Well why does your face look completely shattered?'

'It's got nothing to do with your sperm Derek.' She told him and straightened up. 'It's my problem but what goes with it is why don't you seem so happy by the fact you've got a child on the way?'

'Can we go to yours and talk this through?' He asked her and she nodded and accepted his offer. 30 minutes later they were both in her apartment, he was settled with a beer, her with a glass of wine, she needed it, or 3 she was undecided.

'So what's a matter?'

'Sam's not the one.' Derek replied automatically. 'I was gonna finish us, I'm not all in, I can't be.'

'I'm sure you'll learn to love her, she's the mother of your child, there's going to be some major pullage coming up handsome.' Penelope abruptly stopped talking there; she'd reframed from calling him any of her nicknames when Sam had voiced her discomfort at the pairs banter.

'What if I don't?'

'Gimme that beer.' She put her hand out, her qualms forgotten, he handed her the beer and she put it down. 'Right, you listened here, you go to yours or hers wherever it is that she'll be and really try hard Derek, this is your chance at a family.'

'Is this you kicking me out?'

'I believe it is; you've got a good thing there, go to it.' She said, lying spot on and she could tell Derek wasn't his normal self, he would've picked up her lies before but she was going to play on it, she was not going to wreck a potential family here. 'You'll see in a couple of weeks when she starts to show, you won't look elsewhere.'

He smiled at her, but he didn't believe it. 'I'll try.' He muttered and stood up but paused. 'What's your problem?'

'Pardon?'

'Earlier, you told me it was your problem that goes with me being unhappy.'

'That Agent Morgan is none of you business for tonight, go...'

'You're one in a million Garcia.'

'So I'm told, now shoo!' She told him and he left her be, she just shut her door, and kept it like, she was not going to leave this apartment until the morning when work beckoned.