She was always there. Smiles, and loud spontaneous laughter! She was there when we walked into the office after a particularly long and hard case, smiling and handing out cookies as we walked by her. She was the light in our world. She made us smile just by walking into the room in her vibrant colored out fits, that would look horrible on most people, but on her they looked perfect. And now she was leaving, Penelope Garcia was asking for a transfer out of the BAU.

Standing Hotchner walked out of his office trying not to crumple her short but sweet resignation letter. As he walked down the hall to her room he looked out over the bull pen, they all seemed so happy so obviously she hadn't told them that she was leaving, or the whole team would be at her door asking why.

Not even thinking about knocking he opened her door.

"Sir…" she started but stopped when he turned and shut the door.

Looking back over at her he held up the letter "What is this?"

"My resignation letter Sir…" he shook my head and cut her off,

"I don't accept it" he said and put it on her desk "No transfer"

"But sir. I have a right to leave…" once again she was cut off

"You have the right?" he said starting to raise his voice "What's Wrong Garcia, are we treating you bad here? Are we not paying you enough? Is that it do you need a raise?"

"No.."

"or maybe an assistant. Please tell me what it is that I can do to get you to stay because I can't for the life of me imagine why you would want to leave…." And this time it was his turn to get cut off.

"I'M PREGNANT OKAY!" she shouted. And promptly turned red.

"Your what?" he asked dumbfounded "Oh well that's no reason to leave, JJ…"

"JJ had will, this was something that I did on my own because I knew I was never going to get married" she said and turned back to her computer.

"What do you mean?" he asked and looked at her quizzically,

" I went to a clinic. I'm six weeks today" turning back to him she smiled shyly " I wanted to have time for the baby so I thought by transferring to a slower unit would be better."

"Garcia, you don't have to transfer. We can work something out. You don't fly out with us very often so we can just nix that altogether until after the baby is born and you can have regular office ours when you get into your third trimester…" he said and pulled a chair over from the wall. " I know this is kind of late but, are you sure you want to do this alone?"

She nodded "Yes, I'm not getting any younger Hotch, and I want to be a mother."

"Okay" he said and stood up "So will you stay with us or do I have to go tell the rest of the team that you are trying to leave?"

"Oh you wouldn't!" she said and coverd her mouth in a gasp.

"Oh I would do just about anything to keep you here" he said and turned to leave.

"Thank you sir" He heard and turned back around

"For what?"

"talking some sense into me" she smiled up at him and then went back to her computers.

He stood there for a moment before he left and smiled at her back. He knew she would be a great mother and it tugged at his heart for a some strange reason that she would choose to do it alone.