Her life seemed to be crumbling all around her, and yet she was to be blamed for it all. First of all Eric was planning on leaving her because he reasoned that she was spending too much time at the office than being with him or the children; and then theres the children they seem to despise her because of the same reason. If she was being honest she was disgusted with herself, not for letting her marriage fail but because the hatred in her children's eyes was unbearable.
Just thinking about the look in their eyes made her slouch down in the elevator and form a massive heap of crying mess. Thank God she was alone in the elevator! Her loneliness didn't seem to last long though as she heard the elevator doors open and shut.
Feeling the heated eyes on her she decided to look up from her slouched position. Oh great just what she needed right now! Ms Garcia stood close to the doors looking at her with concern. The woman was always a ray of sunshine in everyone at the BAU's lives, but right now she couldn't stand to be the target of that sunshine or optimism, she just wanted to be alone to scold herself on how much of an idiot she truly was.
"Ma,am are you alright" she said her voice low.
"Do i look alright to you Ms Garcia?" She knew it sounded harsh as soon as the words left her mouth. It wasn't the woman's fault that her life was falling apart. As soon as she was going to open her mouth to apologise, she saw the fury in the woman's eyes and shrank back, truly afraid of her in that moment.
"Ma,am i asked if you were alright not if you looked it, can you not try to at least be a little less of a bitch to people that are trying to offer you shoulder to cry on, but if you don't want that fine ill leave you alone!" Penelope turned away and started fishing through her bag, after a few minutes she pulled out her phone along with the earphones. After she had connected the earphones into her phone she put them into her ears essentially blocking her out.
Deciding that she should at least apologise and explain to Penelope why she is in such a crabby mood, she got up and hit the emergency stop button, which paused there descent to the parking lot. She saw Penelope looking at her in confusion and then she pulled her earphones out of her ear.
"What are you doing?" She asked.
"I just... I wanted to apologise for what i said a few minutes ago, i should have accepted your offer to listen but i was too busy wallowing in my own self-pity.. So I'm sorry for the way that i reacted" she looked at Penelope through watered eye lashes.
Without warning Penelope had pulled her into a hug. She was engulfed by the woman's perfume and when Penelope pulled back she missed the human contact she almost wanted to pull her into another hug.
"Oh honey, you never have to apologise to me for being upset, although it should be me apologising to you for being an idiot and shouting at you when clearly you were upset.. Now whats this with self-pity? I mean you can tell me if you want, I'm not going to force to tell me or anything because that would totally be a bad thing to do, its your choice to talk to me"
She couldn't help but giggle a little at Penelope's blabbing, it was so cute to watch her stammer. Hold up a second did she just call Penelope's blabbing cute! What was she thinking she just found out her husband was leaving her and her kids hated her but here she is fawning over a woman that is 15 years younger than her. She had never found another woman attractive until Penelope started working for the BAU, of course she couldn't say anything about it because 1. Shes her boss and 2. She had a husband and children to look after and she quickly had to bury the attraction, but it seemed to be bubbling to the surface now that she was available and the person she was attracted to was standing right in front of her.
"Its ok Penelope you were right to talk to me like that when i was being such as heartless bitch when someone was just looking out for me, but well my husband called earlier and told me he was leaving me and i know my children hate me because i spend more time at work that what i do with them at home." At this point she was crying again and Penelope handed her a tissue that she had taken from her bag.
After she had wiped her eyes, she looked up at Penelope and found that she was smiling back at her. Erin looked at her with confusion etched on her face. Penelope saw the question coming and answered quickly.
"I was thinking since you shouldn't be alone right now... So how about you come stay in my house for the weekend, while Eric begins to move out and that way it wont be hard on both of you?"
"I don't..." She was about to refuse when she looked up and saw Penelope's face how could she refuse her when she desperately wanted to be the object of her affection. So she plastered a smile on her face and continued "think that would be a bad idea, after all i do need a break from everything. Thank you."
"No need to thank me, buttercup. But now since you probably know where my apartment is, how about you go home and grab some fresh clothes and pj's and meet me at my apartment at about eight thirty? Unless of course you'd like me to go with you?"
"Its ok ill meet you at your apartment at eight thirty, thanks again Penelope" she stepped forward and hit the emergency stop button and they continued to descend into the parking lot and soon the doors where sliding open. Erin stayed in the elevator and watched as Penelope walked away, her hips swaying.