AN: What I would have loved to see as the ending of a recent episode (4.23 'Road Kill'). I own nothing that is familiar.
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"What do you mean you are taking the job?" Penelope said in an even calm voice, a voice that made Kevin shiver in fear. Emotions quickly passed over her face that confused him, joy and sympathy, but as soon as they had come they were covered in an anger so hot he shivered in fear again. Penelope could do scary things with a computer and he was about to get his dream job he did not want to be wiped out of existence and still be living.
"It is the perfect job for me Penny. I can't just sit around here waiting for another opportunity like this to come along, one that is closer to here. You could come with me…" Kevin started looking at her hopefully over the top of his glasses, almost looking like a sad lost puppy dog. Garcia did not even notice she was angry and trying to contain her temper.
"My name is Penelope not PENNY, You know that! You also know I would never leave the BAU. Yet you ask me to anyway! These people are my family and I will not leave them!" She told him stalking towards him, backing him into the doorway. "You started this interview not even telling me that you were thinking about this job. Then not until the seventh interview did you even think that maybe you should tell your girlfriend that you are leaving her…"
"Penny I'm not…" Kevin tried to reason with her.
"My name is PENELOPE! And of course you are leaving me. You knew that I would never leave the BAU, leave my family. You are going to some unknown place where you will not be able to communicate with anyone outside of the project! If that is not leaving someone I don't know what you think it is!" her voice was rising and the door being open allowed their conversation to carry into the bullpen, where the team was working on the reports for the last case. They had left them for today having not arrived back home until the wee hours of the morning.
Emily cringed for her friend knowing that this was strictly forbidden, the frat rules could cause her major problems if Strauss heard of this little screaming match. Reid hating to intrude on what should be a private conversation focused on his work and tried not to listen. Derek on the other hand was trying to hear every word and look like he was really working. This might just be his chance! He had been heartbroken after he had told her that he loves her and then she started going out with Kevin. But now they were breaking up and he would be there to comfort her, and hopefully get her to realize that he did not just love her like a sister or a friend but he was in love with her. And as much as he hated that this was hurting her he was a little excited.
Looking around himself he noticed that there was no one paying attention to him so he went online to a local flower shop and ordered what he hoped would be a beautiful bouquet, telling them to write on the card: I am Sorry for your Loss. Love, D. He then went to the website for her favorite gourmet chocolate and ordered her favorite Truffles to be sent here with a card saying: You are my God given Solace and I will never leave you. Love D. Flowers and Chocolates were sure to cheer her up. He noticed a fun game and a few other products that sounded extremely sexy on the website for her chocolates and ordered them to be shipped to his house for future use. Grinning he noticed that he could no longer hear them fighting which meant that either she had closed the door or it was over. As he walked to her bunker he tried to calm himself down and school his features to show caring comfort that he knew that she needed right now not his over eager excitement about her breaking up Kevin.
Kevin was still standing there staring at the closed door with the sad puppy look in his eyes, telling Morgan that he had not missed the end of the fight by long. Kevin glared at Morgan knowing why he was going to see Penelope, mad he would always hold the heart of the one he loved, and Derek did not even know it was his.
"I have only a few things to say to you right now the first is that I do not want you here when I open this door. Second the whole bullpen heard your break up, so you'll have some fun getting out of here, the instant they spot you the whole team will be down your throat. Third is that I would love to be there with them but Pen would hate me getting in trouble for what I would do right now and I would do anything to make her happy. Besides if I did anything right here she would always be reminded of you here and that is not what I want the woman I am in love with thinking about everyday at work. Forth is simple count yourself lucky that the team will most likely stay within any laws with you, but remember that I have not had my go with you yet." Derek told him right up in his face nearly growling out the words, it had the wanted effect of making him practically run from the hallway straight towards the waiting team who would handle Kevin for him while Derek was with Pen.
He knocked on the door, "Baby Girl it's me can I come in?" When she opened the door she was looking at him like he had grown a second head. "What's wrong Goddess, besides the fact that you just had a nasty break up; why are you looking at me that way?" Derek was worried; she was gaping at him and had yet to respond to his name calling usually shot one right back at him. "Alright you don't want to talk right now that's fine let's go in here had sit down." After closing the door behind them, and walking her to the couch he helped her sit and asked, "Penelope can you tell me what is wrong besides that the whole office just heard you break up with Lynch? I don't think he could cause this complete speechlessness."
"Nothing I just thought…" She paused and he could see that she was about to lie to him and it hurt a little, but he knew that she was having a bad day and prepared himself to let it slide, "I thought it was going to be him wanting to say something else after I did the dirty work that he couldn't and broke us up for good. I guess I just wasn't ready to talk to anyone else. What can I do for you Hot Stuff?" She asked remembering that he had come to see her in her office.
"I didn't need anything Goddess I told you the whole office heard your fight and I came to check on you. I know that you liked him and that this was sudden. You are my baby girl and I care about you. So how about we go out tonight as a team, you can drink and forget all about him…" Derek grinned at her trying to look like he was sorry but not doing a good job of it.
"I'm not so sure Handsome…" She started, but noticed that the grin on his face faded and after what she had just overheard him say she thought that maybe it would be okay to go out with the team. They would surely cheer her up even though she wasn't sure if she was really that down. She had already been thinking about breaking up with Kevin, she just wasn't in the relationship like he was. Then she thought she shouldn't have made such a big deal about him breaking up with her, but who really liked being dumped?
"Please Baby Girl, I promise it will be fun." Derek asked again knowing that she was fighting an internal battle and that he was winning her over.
"Alright, Hot Stuff I'll go on one condition, after I have had enough to drink to loosen my inhibitions you save me a dance or two." She flashed him a grin at him; he looked startled and confused by her condition.
"I am always willing to dance with you baby girl so why do we have to wait for you to drink that much? You forget that I have seen you drink before and I know that any normal person would have be passed out drunk with the amount of alcohol that it would take to have your inhibitions loosened. And just how far do you want those inhibitions to be loosened?" Derek asked trying to keep a straight face, torn between laughing with glee and being worried about her metal health, loosening inhibitions was not a normal Penelope Garcia behavior.
"Not that far, just to be able to dance without thinking that I look like a complete idiot while I am doing it. I never dance without alcohol in me, I feel like everyone is staring at me and I know that I am horrible at it." She explained herself looking away from him.
"You are not horrible and everyone is staring because you look great out there on the floor." Derek told her, gently taking her chin and making her look back at him before he told her this so that she would know he was being serious.
"You're sweet, Derek, but I think I will still do it my way with the alcohol." She told him caressing his cheek. "But for now I think that it is time for you to get back to work if you want to go out you'll need to be finished with your reports."
"Alright but after work we will drop Ester off at your apartment before meeting everyone else at the bar, you are not driving tonight." He told her giving her a stern there is no argument look.
"Fine, now go get your work done I have things to do." She told him glad that he was the one to try and cheer her up, he had done an excellent job, at least after the shock she had from overhearing what he had told Kevin.
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"Kevin can we have a word with you for a moment?" Hotch asked Lynch as he was trying to escape the bull pen with no one noticing him.
"What did we tell you when you started Going out with Garcia?" Rossi asked him when he had walked over to Hotch and the team, except Morgan, who had surrounded him.
"You told me that she was family to all of you and that trying to come between you and her would hurt her and that you could not allow any person hurt her. That Garcia was special to all of you and that I would be in big trouble if I ever did anything to hurt her." Fear was written clearly all over Kevin's face as he answered the question.
"What did we tell you about what we would do if you hurt her?" Hotch asked him.
"That your reach was far and very powerful, you have friends that owe favors in all parts of the world and I could not run nor hide. That if it was bad enough you would allow Penny to wipe me from existence." His voice was trebling as he answered and his eyes never moved from the floor.
"So what did you do?" Reid asked, his anger making his voice spike and some of the other agents turned to see what was the matter, he waved them off.
"I applied for a job my perfect job and didn't tell her. It is in an undisclosed location and she could go with me but I knew that she never would. Just like I knew if I got this job that I would go even without her." He said in a near whisper. Then in a moment of clarity it hit him as to why she was so mad and why the team was growling at him now. "Oh, God I forced her to choose, I did not mean to do that I thought we could do the long distance thing or that she would go with me to get away from the place that gives her the nightmares. But that means she would have to leave you and I didn't even think about that. All I saw was this job and how perfect it was!"
"Remember us while you are away and never forget that you are not going to find a place that is out of our reach. You wont know when or where but when it happens trust me you'll know it was us." Emily got in his face already planning what they would do to him while he was away from the FBI, they would never hurt him but physiological warfare can be just as harmful as any physical pain.
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The rest of the team had been agreeable to going out, when Derek had told them it was to cheer Penelope up after her break up with Kevin. He explained about Garcia drinking so they would take a little longer to get there, as they were dropping off her car. He had nearly forgotten his little gifts for Pen when he saw JJ grab Emily and drag her into Penelope's office. Derek was a little disappointed that he could not hear what they were saying, but knew that JJ and Emily would interrogate him about why he sent them to her, and how he knew just what to get and say.
Derek was alright with them interrogating him, he loved Pen and he was not letting her get away from him this time; especially not without a fight. After she was shot he had told her that he loved her and he knew now that she thought he had meant like a brother loves his sister. But he was in love with her and he was not sure if he cared who knew as long as she loved him back.
He was right. As soon as they saw that Garcia had closed the door to her office behind them JJ and Emily made a beeline to Derek's desk. Noticing they were coming he saved his work on his computer and leaned back in his chair waiting for their questions. Both stood there with their hands on their hips with matching curious looks.
"So Derek was there something you need to tell us, a certain life changing revelation?" Emily asked not intimidated by him in the least.
"Why, would I share a life changing revelation with you two unless I was ready for the whole world to know?" He asked grinning like the Cheshire cat.
"When did you figure it out?" JJ asked figuring he was just dodging their questions and knew what they were talking about, "And why on earth would you not tell her?"
"Tell who, what?" Derek asked them trying to sound confused, but he was having a hard time hiding his smile. Hoping to throw them off a little he looked across the desks to Reid for help, "Do you know what these two are talking about?" Reid caught his grin and surprisingly understood exactly what Derek wanted him to do but he sided with the girls on this one. They had been blind for way to long about one another.
Shaking his head at Derek that he was not going to help he answered aloud, "They want to know why you did not tell Penelope that you loved her." Reid grinned at the mock hurt look on his friend's face, before turning to the girls and explaining why he helped them, "He is just messing with you he knows exactly what you are talking about and I decided that I wasn't going to play along. I am on your side on this particular topic."
"Hey, way to switch teams buddy." Derek pouted then turned back to the girls and told them simply, "I did."
They looked shocked apparently Penelope had left that tidbit out of their little chat. Even Reid was amazed that nothing had happened if Derek had told her how he felt.
"When?" the girls asked simultaneously.
"After she was shot I realized that I didn't know what I would do if I lost her and after taking care of her I felt we were so much closer but then she was going out with Lynch and I don't know what happened. That is over now and I will not let her go without a fight." Derek told them the hurt flashing in his eyes before he quickly covered it. "I wanted her to be happy, even if that meant that she wasn't with me. I thought she was happy with Lynch. I never heard her complain about him. I never saw him do anything that would have made me think otherwise…"
"Derek, she is confused so somehow something got mixed around. She thought she heard you tell Lynch that you did not want the woman you loved to be reminded of what you would do to him there by her office everyday while she was at work and that you would do anything to make her happy, when you told him to go away and she was shocked, so much that she had a hard time just talking to you." Emily started.
"Yeah and then she got your little gifts, which were in no way subtle, so she has no idea what to think about you anymore. Be more straight forward, talk to her ask her out alone not some group date like you arranged tonight." JJ finished for her. Then noticing Reid's confused look, "He ordered her a large vase of her favorite flowers and chocolate both with cards, one said sorry for your loss and the other said that he would never leave her. Very well written, for the timing, I might add."
"Alright, guys I get it. I will try talking to her tonight, did she tell you about her plan for tonight. She wants to dance with me but not until she is uninhibited. I told her that maybe we should dance prior to that as that might take awhile with her tolerance." Derek told them sounding slightly worried. He was not ashamed to admit that they were family and they may help him in his quest to get his baby girl to see that he was in love with her and hopefully get her to love him as well.
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The car ride from her apartment to the bar was a quick one so Derek would not get much of a chance to talk to her but he would do his best. "Pen, help me understand something?" When she nodded he continued, "Why did you start going out with Kevin? I mean after what I told you." He asked after she was in the car and they were already moving, no running away from this conversation.
"You told me what?" She looked confused and then it dawned on her what he was referring to. Then she looked at him in shock her mouth hanging open and everything.
After a few moments of her staring at him he couldn't take it anymore. "You didn't believe me?" hurt filled his voice, when she saw the pain on his face she turned on the seat to face him, knowing that this would need to be a face to face conversation.
"Can we park somewhere for a second? Apparently we need to talk before we join everyone else." She was thinking that he couldn't possibly have meant that he was in love with her, why on earth would he have let her go out on even one date with loser Lynch if he was in love with her? Her serious expression scared him slightly but he agreed they really did need to talk, even though now was not a great time.
He pulled over into some shopping center and parked and turned in his seat as well then he waited for her to start this time.
"You love me, yeah like a sister or a friend…" that was as far as he let her get.
"No, Penelope I don't. I…" She was shocked at that and it was written all over her face. But she recovered and cut off his next sentence.
"Then why did you let me go out with Lynch?" She had a strange haunted expression that he wanted to know more about but he figured they could only deal with one problem at a time. "Why didn't you tell me what you really meant?" this time it was she that looked a little hurt.
"At first I was just shocked that you would even think about going out with some other guy after I told you that I loved you. Then I decided that all I wanted was to see you happy and if you were happy with him then I was happy for you, even though every time I saw you together I felt so sick I would have to leave. I had stopped going out with the team when I knew he was going, and staying as far away from you two as I could when I did not know that he would be there. But I told myself it was okay because you were happy with him." He told her his eyes never leaving hers letting her see all of the emotions in his that he was not hiding for the first time in a long while.
"How could I ever be happy with a man I barely even liked after the first few dates, we completely incompatible and I was happy that he was leaving?" He saw the strange flash of emotion that unsettled him again and wondered what she was hiding. "Besides I knew I was in love with someone else. But I thought you could never really be in love with me."
"Pen, what did Lynch do to you?" He asked ignoring her other comment for now, he was worried about her. She opened her mouth to say nothing but he cut her off, "and don't tell me nothing I can see it in your eyes he did something, please tell me Pen."
"You have to promise not to tell anyone else and to not hurt him…"
"Just for those to things I know I can not promise them Pen if it was nothing bad you would have never said them. You know you can't hide things like this from Hotch and Rossi. I bet they already have an idea and were just waiting for you to come to them. I promise I wont kill him, but I can not promise bodily harm or not to tell the team. We are family and we deal with problems together." Derek told her trying not to let her see the anger rising in him towards Lynch. He had truly hurt his baby girl and no one had seen it!
"Derek…"
"I wont bend on this Goddess. I love you, I am in love with you and if he did anything to hurt you or scare you I can't just do nothing, and I would have said that even if I was just your best friend and not in love with you, or even before I realized that I was." At her shocked look he pulled her into a tight hug whispering into her ear. "I would have thought you understood that I was in love with you by now Pen. Why don't you see that?" he released her back into her seat and waited for her answer.
"How could you be in love with me?" She asked tears in her eyes like she thought this was some cruel joke.
"Why would I not love you Pen? You are my best friend and I think I may have loved you from the first time we met. You truly are my God given solace and the only women I have truly loved besides my mother and sisters. Think back Pen did anyone have to ask me to stay with you when you were shot? No I volunteered because I had to be near you to reassure myself that you were okay. Did you notice that I have not been on a single date since you were shot? What is the point in dating someone I know that I would never love as I had already given my heart away? You know why I got in that bomb and drove it away from the team in New York? Because I knew that you would never let me die and even if by some off chance it did happen I was talking to you the whole time, you were the last person I would have talked to that day and I would have been alright with that even over my mom and sisters. You keep me calm and sane. I know that if something is wrong in my world I can grab some ice cream and a pizza and we'll watch movies until you fall asleep in my arms and that makes everything alright again. You know exactly what do and to say if I am feeling down after a case. You know which cases affect me the most and that what I need the most after one of those cases is just to sit with you holding me. I don't think I could do this job without you beside me keeping me sane." He answered never looking away from her allowing her inside his walls to see all of the emotions that he was feeling.
Tears were running down her face and she was shocked that he allowed a single tear to escape his own eyes, that her not believing him was causing the pain on his face hurt her deeply. "But how could you love someone like me? I am…" She started knowing that the question was going to hurt him even more.
"Stop that right this instant you are perfect just the way you are and never let anyone tell you any different." He told her after taking her face in his hands.
"But I am not your normal type…" she started again, this time he kissed her stopping the words dead in their tracks.
"I never loved a single one of them, I always ended up comparing them to you and none of them even came close to you. YOU ARE PERFECT PENELOPE!" He stressed that sentence drilling it into her head, "You are kind, loving, compassionate, and giving. Yes you may be too stubborn for your own good but I love you for it, you are constantly challenging me and I need that just as much as I need the grounding effect you have on me. You understand our job, and have similar hours that I do so you wont ever complain about that like every single last one them did. Besides I was never happy with a single one of them, I was always thinking about you when I was on dates and they hated me being distracted." He kissed her tenderly this time before letting go of her face.
He watched her eyes and saw when the tears switched from confusion and hurt to surprise and happiness. In awe she repeated, "You are in love with me. Derek Morgan, The Derek Morgan is in love with me!" then looking him right in the eyes she told him, "I love you too, I just didn't think that a guy like you who could have any girl that you wanted would ever love me, no matter what you said. That's why I agreed to go out with Kevin. He at least was a computer geek too and no where near as good looking as you. But he didn't love me I just amazed him, it was sort of hero worship and creepy. When I stared pulling back from him and going out with the team without him again he got scary."
"What do you mean scary?" Derek asked trying to school his features to be calm.
"He would just show up and end up scaring me when I realized he was there. He stole my keys and had one for my apartment and office made for himself. He tried to get me to quit my job at the BAU and move away from here with him. When I told him no he…" She stopped talking and looked away from him not wanting to say what had happened and ruin what they had just found with one another.
"HE HIT YOU?!" Derek yelped in angry surprise. Then he schooled his features and cleared his throat. "Did he ever hit you in the office?" thinking that if he had there would be evidence enough to go to Strauss and file charges that could not only lose him his job at the FBI but also with all other government projects and make it very hard to get hired at any company after his release because it is a felony to assault a federal officer. When she nodded not wanting him to see the shame she was feeling she kept her head turned away from him.
"Hey, Baby Girl you have nothing to be ashamed of. You did nothing wrong, no man should ever hit a woman for any reason, they have no right to. Lets put that behind us for right now we have a few more things to clear up before we go meet the team at the bar and as it is they are going to be sending a search party to find us. I was wondering Penelope if you would do me the honor of going on a date with me tomorrow night?"
"Of course I will go out with you." She told him looking at him like he had gone mad.
"I had to officially ask or I would have driven myself crazy tonight wondering what you would say when I did ask you out. How about I pick you up around 7 tomorrow night?" When she nodded he leaned in and kissed her one last time before refastening his seat belt and waiting for her to do the same. "We will talk more about Kevin later but now we are going to have a good time with our family. Oh and this may seem out of line until I finish so let me finish before you object okay. I want you to stay at my house tonight until I have a chance to change your locks. I will do it first thing in the morning but I want you to be able to feel safe in your own home and I don't want to worry about you there by yourself. You can sleep in my room; I will take the spare room."
"Derek no…"
"If you want we can stay at your place, I'll sleep on the couch. But I am not letting you stay there alone." That brought an evil smile to her face.
"Now don't take this the wrong way but no sleep in the bed with me could you imagine him seeing that? No big ideas we are going to sleep and cuddle nothing else." She told him sternly.
"I like it, but can we talk to at least one other person about the plan we'll need someone there to record what he does for evidence he'll notice if one of us whips out a camera, but if he is focused on us he might not notice someone else is there."
"Alright we'll talk to Hotch or Rossi, but you have to remember to keep your head cool if he does something no threatening no hitting as he could use that tape as evidence as well." She told him as they pulled into the parking lot of the bar, to see Reid outside holding his cell phone to his ear and looking frustrated. When he spotted them he closed his phone looking relieved. He was waiting for them when they got to the door.
"Where have you to been? It does not take that long to get to Garcia's and drop her car and get here."
"We were having a chat." Derek told him swinging their joined hands between them and Reid instantly understood. "Well then maybe the team wont eat you both alive when you get in there for not answering your cell phones."
Derek and Penelope looked at one another confused they had not heard or felt their phones going off while they were talking. They both pulled out their respective phones and sure enough they had at least one missed call from everyone on the team except each other.
"Sorry man, I guess it was on silent." Derek told Reid as he fixed his ring volume. Pen's had been on vibrate but in her purse and neither of them had noticed it. "Tell the team the next round is on me but Pen owes me a dance we'll come to the table in a minute."
"I said I would dance after I had some alcohol in me not before." Garcia reminded him.
"Alright we'll go to the bar and get you a couple of shots then no excuses you are dancing with me. I always want to dance with you but you never did so I am going to take full advantage of it tonight." He told her with a kiss, which made Reid turn away blushing and lead their little group into the bar.
The team watched them expectantly as the three of them went to the bar. Reid ordered the next another round for the rest of the team so that Derek could pay for them while they were at the bar. Derek ordered himself a beer, while Garcia ordered 3 shots of tequila along with a margarita for Reid to take to the table with the rest of the round. The bartender gave her a look wondering if she planned to be able to stand by the time she was done drinking, she was headed the right way if she did not. Derek nursed his beer as he watch his Baby Girl take all three shots right in a row with nothing to help the flavor at all and still she did not pull a face at all. The girl could drink her tequila.
"You two go and dance, I will call the team over to help me get these back to the table." Reid told them when she was finished with her shots.
Derek did not give Pen time to talk her way out of dancing he thanked Reid and pulled her behind him out onto the floor. The song was not great but it was fast and loud. They danced together until the band took a break and by that time they were both very worked up and unable to stop simply touching one another. They went to sit with the team to find that they had finished their drinks for them as they would have been warm by now or melted, so Derek gave Pen a quick kiss on the cheek before going over to the bar to get them both a drink.
"So Penelope was there something that kept you two from answering your cell phones earlier?" JJ asked knowing full well that Reid had told her that they had been talking about their relationship but she wanted details.
"Or maybe she should say someone?" Emily added grinning at her friend's embarrassment.
"Not really we were talking and didn't hear my phone on vibrate in my purse and his ringer was all the way off." She answered knowing they were digging for details and not playing along, the three of them would just have to talk later after there was more to say. They could guess that they had decided to see each other by the way they had been dancing. "Hotch do you have Jack this weekend?" JJ and Emily were put off by her ignoring them but were still curious about her talk with Morgan and why would she care if Hotch had Jack.
"Not until tomorrow. Why?" he answered as suspicious of the change of topic as the girls were.
"I need your help with something but I would have asked Rossi if you had Jack this evening. If you didn't have Jack then I would not bother taking Dave away from his wife anymore time then he already spends away from her." Garcia only half explained as she led him away from the table.
"Anything Garcia what can I help you with?" He told her once they had made it outside where they could hear each other talking.
"Morgan will be there too but we need one other person to assist. And we figured that it had better be either you boss man, or Rossi as the most senior agents on the team." Derek had come outside towards the end of her talking and figured she was not doing the best job of explaining herself.
"We need you to video tape for evidence. While we were talking I found out that Kevin stole her key and has been freaking her out by sneaking in and purposefully scaring her. Not to mention that he has been hitting her. She said that he has hit her in the office so we should be able to use that tape as evidence but I want this to be definite. When she told me that he had stolen a key I told her that I would sleep in my spare room and she could sleep in my at my place so that I would feel better about him having a key to her place until I had a chance to change the locks for her. She came up with the plan to bait him." Derek Elaborated.
"I suggested that we stay at my place and Derek said he would sleep on the couch, but I thought that would not get the reaction out of Kevin that we are looking for. I suggested that he sleep in the same bed as me, and now before you looked shocked boss man we promise nothing will happen between us. Knowing that Kevin does not understand what no means he will show up tonight and I was hoping that if you were there to tape he would not notice and react like he would if it was not being taped. I would like to just have him out of my life for good." Penelope finished now that Derek had explained the beginning.
"Of course I will help and I will be on hand to arrest him for breaking and entering and harassment, and depending on what he does assault on a federal agent." Hotch told them. "But for now lets go in and have a fun night with our family."
They went back in to curious looks from the rest of the table, Hotch ignored the looks and the questions as he went back to the table to sit and Derek and Penelope went back out onto the dance floor. They danced until the band quit for the night and both were wondering how they were going to keep to themselves while in the same bed together. They walked hand in hand back to the table not completely shocked to see that Rossi had left. But they were shocked to see that JJ had left before getting Penelope to share what they had talked about. The look on Emily's face told her that it was not over though. Reid was just waiting for them to say goodnight seeing as they had started towards the table.
"Goodnight guys, and congrats you two." He told them giving Pen a hug and a kiss on the cheek, patting Derek on the back. "See you both at work on Monday, have a fun weekend."
"Night Reid." They called after him.
"JJ told me to tell you miss that we are going to lunch on Monday and we will discuss this." Emily told Garcia. "We are not happy about being put to the side and being left out of things. We have been trying to get you two together for a long time now and it is not fair to leave out the details." Then forgetting that no one knew she turned and kissed Hotch before leaving telling him, "Call me tomorrow."
"And you are mad at me I think that you have just as much explaining to do as I do Missy!" Penelope said pointing at her and Hotch.
Emily to her credit blushed before telling Pen. "At least you have not been trying to get us together like JJ and I have been trying with you and Derek. Fine Monday we will talk about you and Derek, Tuesday we will talk about Hotch and I, and then maybe Wednesday you and I can start plotting Reid and JJ."
AN: Let me know what you think!