Disclaimer again I'll tell you I don't own Criminal Minds but I can nick characters from you for a little while!

Penelope Garcia sat at her desk her laptop open, a search running on her computer. She'd been done with the case the team were on for an hour now but other work required her to stay in. She was tired but she had no other option but to stay around. She knew she was going to be there long after the team arrived back which she didn't mind at least she knew they would be home safe by then.

The searches that were running were ones she could do with her eyes closed so she'd gotten her own laptop out to check her personal emails among other things. She let her ring adorned fingers float above the keyboard before her ruby nails dropped and began to log into one of the sites she had up. Looking back the search she entered the new date into the search field and let it run off as she printed another lot of information that was ready for her. Looking back at her laptop she sighed.

'Let's see what oh so gorgeous men you give me today.' She muttered, so far she'd had far from good looking men and she was getting annoyed with it, she was losing more and more hope in finding the one man that made her truly happy.

It had been 7 months since she'd broken up with Kevin, 7 months since she'd dated and 7 long dry months since she'd felt any type of sexual gratification. So she'd joined a dating website to find men that were matches to her personality and so far she'd not done any good.

The first date she'd had, about a month ago, 3 weeks after joining and was with Paul. The lanky nerd, colourings like Kevin, a personality much like that of a spade. She'd found herself finding her drink more interesting than she had his conversation topics. She hadn't let that date go further than his car.

The second date had been with Terry, better looking, 3 second memory or so it seemed and he'd been more wrapped up on whether or not the food would upset than allergy than making sure she'd was having a good time. She'd finished that date early, feigning a sudden sickness bug.

She took a break after just those two, she was still raw from a lot of things and those two dates had done her in. She was still in the rebound from a 2 year relationship; she was dealing with her best friend being somewhat of an alien to her and to top it all her work load was slowly escalating.

Her thoughts went to her best friend, Derek Morgan had been her noir hero once upon a time, to some extent he still was but for intent and purposes he'd become yet another colleague. She missed their shameless flirting, their childish nickname, his smiles, his gentle kisses to her temple, his hugs, she missed him. He was, as each day passed, coming back to the old Derek, the Derek before he became acting chief. With Hotch back, Derek resumed his former post and Penelope had watched him near enough flourish once again.

Now he had Tamara Barnes, a woman that had basically driven a wedge between them nearly 8 months ago, she knew they still weren't fully dating but they went for meals and drinks together and Tamara was almost at team nights out. Without admitting it or not, Derek was dating and Penelope was happy for him.

She scrolled down the list more and let the mouse hover above one of the men, she laughed slightly. 'Eager.' She whispered and then declined. Samuel Harris, 38 year old, live at home with mom boy. He was good looking, smoking hot but he couldn't string two sentences together and blushed more times than she could count. Their date had been beyond disaster from the moment she stepped out of her apartment.

She thought to her other dates, she felt like a yoyo most times, there was Dean, star wars lover and then there was Darrell, had it all and an ego the size of Grand Canyon, then there as James the teacher, he had it all until he laughed. Now after going on her 11th date she felt like she was being picky but she really wasn't. Just she knew what she wanted and she wasn't going to get it. She wasn't Derek Morgan's type.

She declined more of the suggestions and froze on one, Eric, 35, Quantico. She looked closer, clicked his profile, Likes computers, film nights, long lie ins, walks on the beach. Penelope smiled; she was interested at the moment. Hates arguing, long hours, the cold. Well the long hours would cause a problem but she had to give him ago, she looked down more, liking what she had read she then responded, she accepted him and he popped up on the live chat only moments later, she got talking to him, learning the basics.

She'd been ignorant to the bleeping around and saw her phone flashing as well as her computers; absentmindedly she answered her phone as she sorted her computers out. 'Garcia.'

'Well it's not every day you get professional from Penelope Garcia.'

'Sorry sunshine but mama was distracted.' She'd replied, if anything was happening her flirtatious nature was back in tune.

'Aw Baby Girl I hope you weren't doing things on work hours.'

'Considering this is over time handsome, I think I'm allowed.' She only heard baby girl every once in while and every time she heard it she cherished it more and more. She jumped then as her laptop bleeped at her. 'For once the oracle is over powered.'

'Now that's not something I wanna hear unless it's me doing the over powering baby.'

'In your dreams Morgan, in your Penelope filled dreams.' She quipped as she looked at it. 'What can I do you for anyway handsome?'

'Just to let you know we're here.' He said as she turned up at her door, she looked over her shoulder the best she could, forgetting about all else but the man at her door. 'Well you are in a bit of a tiz in here.'

'I can get this sorted in no time.' She feigned as she finally put the phone down. 'Welcome back to the homeland.'

'Good to be back.' He said as he stepped in and looked at her computers. 'How much longer you gonna be working in here?'

'Erm... til about 6.' She said and looked at her laptop, she looked at the response she had and clicked minimised the site so Derek didn't get a better see.

'What was that?' He asked her quizzically.

'What was what?'

'That site you just hid?'

'It's nothing.' Penelope told him and then hit print to get the rest of the information for the other teams. 'So what brings you down here?'

He knew she wasn't going to be getting any answer any time soon and he'd hardly been the number one person of late to demand such answers. 'I came to see if you wanted to catch a drink, have a bit of down time like old time. Get some of what we had back.'

'I can't tonight, sorry Derek.' Penelope told him as she stood up and grabbed the files she needed. 'Tomorrow night?'

'Oh yeah of course.' Derek said as she left the office, he stood silent for a moment and then looked at her laptop; he went over to it and opened the minimised paged. 'Date tonight, Caesars on 54th 8pm?' He read out to himself. 'She's not with Kevin?' Was all he could ask himself, he straightened up, minimised the page and then went back to bullpen.

Penelope was still waiting for the elevator when Derek left, she knew what he'd done and she didn't feel bad for it, she had a right to move on with her life, it wasn't like she was his anymore. The baby girl claim wasn't as strong as it once was and he didn't hold that big of an influencing power over her like he once had.

She looked at her watch, she had just under 3 hours to answer Eric, round up work, get home, get showered and tart herself up the best she could before her date began. She entered the lift feeling more than confident about this date than she had the others.

A/N: So we have us a new story!! =) Let me know what you think!!