AN: So I Got such positive feedback from my Oneshot His Baby Girls, that I decided to try to write a multi-chapter fic for you guys. I just want to warn you that it may be long periods in between updates. But I will keep working on it for you because I love sharing my work with others and getting feedback about it. Anyway onto the Story!

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Story Summary: The team arrives back at the BAU after some much-needed vacation time. One of the team doesn't return and another one tries to track them down to find out what is going on.

Disclaimer: I own no one.

Garcia's Family:

Brothers & Wives Nieces/Nephews

Tim & Shelley Jazlynn (9) Skylar (15)

Michael & Sarah Hannah (10)

Joe & Allison Tanner (13)

Mitchell Jr. & Olivia Elizabeth (21) Daniel (14)


Chapter 1

Penelope Garcia walked through the door of her apartment with her arms full of shopping bags. She took them all to her bedroom where her luggage was sitting open on her bed. She placed her new purchases in the suitcase and zipped up the bags.

A few hours later, Penelope boarded a plane that would take her across the country, and far away from Quantico. She knew that it was only a matter of time before the team returned to the BAU and found the paperwork that she had left on Hotch's desk. She needed to be far away from here before it was all discovered.

Oh how things had changed in the last couple of months….

A couple of months ago she looked forward to work. A couple of months ago her and Derek Morgan were the best of friends. Then everything changed.

The team had just gotten back after a tiresome and grueling case involving a child kidnapping ring. Hotch had given them a couple days off before they had to be back in for the next case, so they all ended up at their favorite bar to unwind and let loose. Penelope had a little too much to drink and Derek offered to take her home to make sure she arrived there safely.

The next morning, she woke up in her apartment alone and with vague memories of what had happened the night before. A couple days later, she showed up at work like normal anxious to find out what exactly happened, but was informed that Morgan took a few personal days off.

When he finally returned to work, he ignored Penelope. Whenever they needed help with a case, he would have Prentiss or Reid call. It got to be too much for her, and she was constantly found bursting into tears or crying in her office.

Emily and JJ finally decided to get to the bottom of it with some gentle nudging from both Hotch and Rossi. They took her out to lunch one day and she broke down and told them everything. When they returned to work, Penelope retreated to her office and Emily cornered Derek.

He got defensive until JJ appeared as well, and realized that the both of them were not going to let him leave the area until he started talking. He finally revealed that he thought he made a mistake by taking advantage of his best friend in the state that she was in that night. It took a few weeks, but eventually Penelope and Derek got their friendship back. Things weren't completely back to the way things were before, but they were slowly getting there.

Then the warning signs arrived. Penelope was constantly run-down no matter how much sleep she got and she started having aversions to foods that she had enjoyed for years. The vomiting didn't start until the day everyone was scheduled to leave for their vacations.

Both JJ and Derek said they would cancel their plans and stay and take care of her. Penelope forced them to keep their plans and promised to get checked out as soon as possible. They reluctantly left for their trips promising to stay in touch with Penelope.

After the test results came back, Penelope cried for three days straight. When JJ and Derek called to see how she was doing, she assured them that everything was fine. She sent them texts periodically to keep them updated with what she was doing, until a few days ago when she had her service disconnected.

A few hours later, the plane landed and Penelope gathered her things and followed the queue of people trying to get off the plane. She went to baggage claim and quickly claimed her belongings and went out to hail a cab. The ride was silent with the driver trying to make conversation, but Penelope wasn't up to talking.

The cab pulled up to a building and Penelope grabbed her things before climbing out and heading towards the abandoned restaurant that was in the middle of renovations. She slowly opened the door and saw all the disarray of boxes, paints, and tarps covering all the furniture. Someone approached where she was and she smiled.

"Aunt Pen?"

"Hey, Jazzy." She embraced her nine-year-old niece.

"It's been so long. What are you doing here?"

"I came for a visit. I had some time off from work."

"Jazlynn, who are you talking to?" a woman came out of the back.

"We have a special visitor."

"Oh my god, Penelope."

"Hey Shelley," Penelope hugged her sister-in-law.

"What are you guys doing out here?" Penelope heard an irritated male voice and turned to see one of her brothers.

"Greeting your sister," Shelley told him and he finally looked up.

"Hey bro," Penelope smiled at him.

"What are you doing here?" Tim hugged her. "Not that I'm not happy to see you."

"We'll go set up a room for you at the house," Shelley led Jazlynn out as they grabbed Penelope's things. "You two just catch up."

Tim waited until his wife and daughter closed the door behind them before he cleared off a nearby table and sat with Penelope.

"So what's really going on sis?" he asked her. "You don't pack that much luggage for just a short trip. And I know your bosses wouldn't approve a long vacation like that."

"You can always sense things," Penelope mumbled.

"So tell me what's going on," he told her.

"I think I'm in trouble," she told him. "And I'm going to need your help to get through this."

"All right, lay it on me. What's going on?" Penelope started telling him every shocking detail.

He remained silent, letting her get it all out into the open. When she was finished, he promised her that he would try to help her out in any way that he possibly could.


Everyone arrived at the BAU, refreshed from their vacations and ready to get back to work. Derek arrived later than the others, having just gotten back into town a few hours prior. He headed for Penelope's office, curious to see if she was all right. He had tried calling her since he arrived back from Chicago where he had been visiting his family, but he couldn't get through to her.

"She's not here," he heard behind him and saw JJ approaching him.

"Where is she?" he asked her.

"I'm not sure,"

"Have you heard from her recently?" he started to follow her back down into the bullpen.

"Roughly a week ago," she told him. "I just tried calling her, but her phone's been disconnected."

"Is everyone else here?"

"They all just arrived. Hotch has been here for hours. He's been in his office the whole time. I can tell there's something going on."

"Team meeting!" Hotch opened his office door. "Everyone in the conference room now!"

Rossi came out of his office as well and Reid and Prentiss exchanged looks with Derek and JJ. They all started into the meeting room and saw Hotch going through a stack of papers. They all silently sat down and waited for Hotch to start talking.

"First, this isn't about a case," he started. "But it is something that affects this entire team."

"Then where is Garcia?" Reid spoke the question that was on everybody's mind.

"This is about Garcia," Hotch placed the stack of papers in the middle of the table. "I found this on my desk when I arrived this morning."

"She resigned?" JJ took the paperwork and skimmed through it.

"What?" Derek looked at it over JJ's shoulder.

"We've all noticed things about her these last several weeks," Hotch looked right at Morgan. "Now I need to know when everyone here talked to her last."

"She sent us off on our vacations," Emily spoke up and Reid nodded.

"JJ? Morgan?"

"Right before we left," JJ answered.

"We didn't want to leave," Derek spoke up. "She got some kind of stomach flu or something, so we were going to cancel our plans."

"She insisted that we go through with our plans," JJ added. "But we made her promise that she would see a doctor as soon as possible and to let us know what he told her."

"She called us a couple days later to let us know that everything was all right." Derek added. "We figured she'd tell us all the details when we returned."

"Did she text or call you after that?" Rossi asked them.

"Periodically until a few days ago."

"She's had her phone disconnected." Derek told them.

"I hate to even imagine this scenario," Reid spoke up. "But what if she got some really bad news from the doctor, but told you guys that everything was fine so that you wouldn't worry."

"That is a definite possibility," Hotch told them.

"And something that she would do if she didn't want to worry us too much with her health issues," Rossi added.

"We can't really do anything right now," Hotch told them. "But we can search for Penelope online."

"What do you mean?"

"We all know that she's into some of those social media sites," Hotch informed them. "We need to search Facebook, Twitter, and sites that she visits regularly, if she has a blog we need to find it."

"I hate to state the obvious," Emily spoke up. "But Garcia is a hacker. She knows how to cover her tracks very well."

"We still need to look. She may have left something unhidden, a family member may know something. We need to find her." They all nodded as Hotch dismissed them and they started to file out of the room.

"Morgan, I need to talk to you in private for a moment," Hotch stopped him as the others left the room.

"What is it?" Derek looked at Hotch as he gestured for Morgan to sit back down. "I need to be helping the others to find Garcia."

"This will only take a minute," Hotch assured him. "I'll just get straight to the point. What's going on with you and Garcia?"

"What do you mean?"

"I may have pretended that I had no idea what happened a few months ago, but I'm well aware of the situation."

"You mean-"

"After you drove her home from the bar that night yes," Hotch sat across from him. "Now I need to be updated it appears."

"All right, at first I thought that we could go back to the way things were." Morgan started. "That we could just agree that night was a mistake and pretend that it never happened so that we could get back to how we usually are."

"But something has changed." It was more of a statement than a question.

"I went to Chicago to visit my family," he started. "My mom could tell that something was bothering me so she demanded that I talk until she got the whole thing out of me. She made me realize that I don't want to just be Penelope's friend."

"So what was your plan when you arrived here this morning?"

"I was going to talk to her about it first. Then depending on how it went, we both were going to talk to you. I know how you feel about inter-department fraternization."

"For the record, I wouldn't have stood in your way." Hotch told him.

"You wouldn't have?" Derek looked across the table at him.

"You two have been dancing around each other for years. It intensified when you helped her get through the shooting."

"So you wouldn't mind if we-"

"Just try to keep it out of the office, and we won't have a problem."

"We need to find her so that I can tell her how I feel," Derek got up.

"Get on it," Hotch told him. "I will try to delay this paperwork for as long as I can."

"Thank you," Derek rushed out of the room and ran into JJ. "Did you think of anything?"

"Maybe," she told him. "Come into my office. I think I may have figured out why she left."

"Why?" he followed her down to her office.

"Just come in here," JJ shut the door behind them and closed the blinds before turning to look at Derek.


AN: Sorry about the cliffhanger guys, but I have to leave you wanting more.

As for the brothers, I remember in an episode in the first couple seasons Penelope said that she had four brothers. In later episodes though, she kept saying that she was an only child. Well I decided that I would run with the brother story.

Anyway, PLZ R&R!