Disclaimer: I do not now nor have I ever owned Criminal Minds. If I did it would be a lot different. I am making no money off this story.
A/N: This story is co-wrote By the amazing PolHop. Thanks for all you do. Hope you all enjoy. Please R/R
Family Lost Chapter One
Garcia had been sitting in her lair, running searches for Sam, her boss of the Red Team.. As she was waiting she was thinking about her options. She was thinking of the best route for her to take next. It had been six months since Strauss had finally won her war and split her original team up. As the searches continued she let her mind drift to her old team, her once strong family unit. There was only one person left from her team still at the FBI, and her relationship with that person had all but disappeared.
When Strauss dislodged the team, she decided to make Morgan the new Unit Chief of the BAU, while sending Garcia to solely work with the Red Team. For a while, things seemed to stay the same between her and Derek. They would still laugh and have their movies nights. They continued to flirt even with her being assigned to a different team. It was all going great until one day, he called her into his new office. Garica thought he wanted to talk about their plans for their next night. Boy- was she wrong.
Flash Back
She walked into his office, a huge smile on her face, "Hey Hot Stuff.,"
She watched as Morgan turned to her, a stern expression on his face, "Garcia, please sit."
That was the beginning of their down fall, the making plans together stopped, and the flirting become nonexistent. They only talked now when he needed a search done.
Penelope let her mind slowly drift from Morgan to JJ. Shortly after Strauss broke the team apart, JJ and Will decided they were going to make the move back to New Orleans. At first JJ made sure they talked at least twice a week to keep up on life and Henry. As much as Penelope missed JJ, she missed her beautiful godson more. They still talked but now it was less frequent and more often than not it was Garcia who initiated the calls. Her heart was starting to break again just thinking about the people she had lost the ones who were supposed to be her family.
Penelope knew why she hadn't heard from Rossi lately. After he left the BAU, he started writing another book. This one had become more popular than all of his other books combined. He was now currently traveling for promoting his book, A Profiler's Life Profiled, across the country. He made sure he sent her a copy and every so often sent her new fuzzy pens. Her heart continued to hurt, thinking of the past.
Penelope let her mind drift to her Boy Wonder. As she thought of him, she felt herself start to smile. He was the only person from her team who keep in regular contact with her. She let herself chuckle a little bit when she thought about how he was the only one who would still send her snail mail in these days of technology. He was now back at Cal Teach, working and studying for yet another PhD. He often sent her letters and called when he was struggling. She loved having one of her family that still missed her as much as she missed them.
Penelope was suddenly pulled from her thoughts by the sound of one of her babies going off behind her. As she spun around in her chair, she reached for her phone only to have it drop as her heart started racing. What she thought was her search results was in fact, an alert going off that she had set in place regarding her old team. When the team was separated she had created a program that would alert her to anything that went wrong with one of her heroes.
Her mind started racing, no anyone but Hotch.
