A/N: This is an idea which I had quite a while ago. It is mainly fluffy-ish, there is always a tiny bit amount of angst laying beneath it but nothing too bad, I promise. Also, there will be some violence at a later stage. Nothing too major though. I just want to bring the warning out already just in case, but will say it again once we get to the chapter. I hope you enjoy it ...

Derek Morgan hated surprises. Well at least when they involved his Baby Girl and were not pleasant. Like the one this morning. He was on his way to the office, making a quick stop at the coffee shop en route like every morning to get two cups of coffee. One for him and one for Penelope. He always did it, and it was by now a tradition.

Knocking on her office door, ready to enter, he stopped dead in his tracks when he saw that instead of his favorite blonde sitting there he was eye-to-eye with Kevin Lynch in front of him, and Penelope was nowhere to be seen. In fact there was no trace of her in the office at all- not her purse or coat hanging on the hook inside the door.

"Agent Morgan," Kevin Lynch said.

"Lynch," Morgan acknowledged quickly. "I was actually … um … looking for Penelope," he continued, not sure what to say actually. Fact was he didn't like Kevin Lynch much, mainly for the reason that he was dating Penelope and in Morgan's opinion was a total idiot. All the stories he had heard over the years about him from Penelope made him dislike him more with every day that went by. Lynch just wasn't a perfect fit for his Goddess and Derek had no problem telling her that as often as possible. Why she was still with him was a mystery to Morgan.

"Well, as you can see, she's not in yet," Lynch said, kinda smugly as if he had more claim to being in her office than Derek did.

Hearing that Derek turned and headed back down the hall without another word to Lynch.

"Hotch, why is Kevin Lynch in Penelope's office?" Morgan asked, once entering his superior's office. It probably looked stupid, especially since she could have just stepped out for a moment, but Lynch looked like he was settling down in there.

"He is covering for Penelope for the day," Hotch replied, looking at Morgan slightly irritated. He knew that Morgan was rather particular about Penelope but his almost blantant desperation to see her today was a little intense, even for Derek.

"Is she okay?" Morgan asked instantly, sounding concerned.

Hotch's expression didn't change much. He had seen them together over the years after all, and although it seemed rather strange in the beginning with the constant flirting and sometimes maybe a bit inappropriate way of having a conversation they all got used to it over the years. So Morgan barging in his office like that, acting like this ,was nothing he was too surprised about. Even if Derek was a little more forceful about it than usual.

"Yes, she is okay. She just asked for taking the day off. Seeing how hard she had worked over the last few weeks I thought it would be a good thing as well."

"Did she say why? I mean ... did she just needed a break or … did something happen?" Morgan was quick to ask. He couldn't blame her if she needed a break, she had been seeing, working and helping so much over the last few weeks, months even. But usually she would tell him if there was a problem.

Hotch looked up from his file again, studying Morgan for a moment, before looking back down.

"She mentioned she's having one of her migraines…" was all Hotch needed to say before Morgan was nearly flying out of the door. And that he should have seen coming as well. Every time Penelope was suffering from a migraine Morgan's general mode for wanting to take care of her switched to overdrive.

He also knew he wouldn't be seeing him for the rest of this Friday again. He was on his way to Penelope and nothing could probably stop him.