Defying The Rules

Chapter 1

Prologue

AN: This is almost completely AU, the BAU will be their future, but it won't show it in the story. I'm craving Derek and Penelope and when they were younger.

Summary:

Penelope is graduating high school come June, however the day that her Psychology teacher who is also her softball coach gets sick and isn't coming back for the rest of the year; she finds that life might not be so bad after all, even though it's only been few months since her parents died.

Derek is in graduate school working on his law degree and a minor in psychology so when he gets the chance to fill in for the psych teacher he doesn't pass it up.

"Jeff, remind me again why I agreed to this?" Derek asked into his phone as he was trying to find something to wear.

"Simple you need a job right now and you owe me a favor," Jeff Daniels who was pretty much like Derek's dad since his had died when he was ten, said.

"I know, but high school, you do know I graduated from this high school," Derek said, "I know all the teachers there," he said.

"You got a year left of college, and you need a job seeing as how you blew your arm out last spring," Jeff said.

Derek sat down on his bed, "Yeah I know, trust me just thinking about the sound my shoulder made throwing that last ball still makes chills go through me," he admitted. Derek had been getting his law degree while he was playing baseball in college at Northwestern University. He'd gotten a full ride, and everything, but the year before he'd injured his shoulder and the odds of him playing again were slim, and he didn't want to risk it so he gave it up.

It had taken three surgeries to repair the torn rotator cuff, and the ligaments in his arm and shoulder, six months of physical therapy too, he wasn't going to go through that pain again, not if he didn't have to.

"I'm pretty sure your mom would kill you if you tried it too," Jeff said, "Right after I gave you a good kick in the ass," he said.

"I'm not going to, and being the girls' softball coach I got the assistant coach there and I told him already that if somebody's throwing the balls he will, because I can't, not now at least," he said.

"I'll be at the bomb squad till six today come by and let me know how things go," Jeff said, "I can't believe your going to be teaching, seems like just yesterday your parents were dropping you off at kindergarden," he said with a smile, even though Derek couldn't see it.

"I know, and thanks for the help on getting the job, and I'll see you at five probably," Derek said before he hung up the phone tossing it on the bed.

Derek got up taking his shirt off going to get a shower before he had to be at the high school. He had only two classes to finish this year and both them were internships, but his teacher had told him he could go ahead and take the jobs and they would count. His shoulder still hurt some days, but luckily today wasn't one those days.

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Penelope Garcia was sitting in her apartment; the last three months of summer had gone from wonderful to hell, in a matter of days. She lost her parents in June, and July her brother moved away for a better job and she'd wanted to go, but she only had year of high school left, and she finally had her life back on track somewhat.

A year ago her then boyfriend, Travis pushed her into having sex with him, she'd been half drunk at the time too, she'd gone to one party with him, hoping to maybe have fun for a change, but it turned into hell. She'd woken up the next morning in her own bed naked and she knew that something had happened.

Nine months later she had her little girl Rachel Callie and three days later her parents died leaving her brothers and her to take care of themselves and Rachel. Now she was going back to high school, the last year and she'd be graduating and going to college, she'd promised her mom she'd go and she was.

She was seventeen now, but in about two days she'd be eighteen. Pen was literally on her own at the moment, her friends didn't live in Chicago, they'd lived in San Francisco, but she'd moved here when her parents died with her youngest brother who was only twelve, however he'd gone with their older brother when he moved to Virginia for a better job. He was sending her money once a month to help with Rachel, but it wasn't the same.

She wasn't sure how she was going to the school and who was going to baby sit her daughter who was only three months old. The last three days had been full of nothing but sitting around the apartment and between her and Rachel she wasn't sure who'd cried more. Normal was what she was trying for this year, she had till spring to figure out things since she wanted to be on the high school's softball team. She'd done it at her old high school before Rachel, and that would be even more normal for her.

"What you say about going to see if Ruth can baby sit you today?" Pen asked Rachel who was lying in the crib at the moment. She'd fed, changed and now was ready to go. Ruth worked at a local diner and she was the only person that Penelope trusted with her daughter, she'd offered her a job there, and she'd taken it. The diner job let her to have Rachel there with her when she wasn't at the high school.

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Derek had talked to the principal of the high school that morning, and after the meeting he found out he had couple more days before he had to start teaching the psych classes at the local high school. He was just glad that it was a different principal than when he'd graduated from there.

Right now Derek was sitting at the counter at the diner that Ruth owned, she was Jeff's wife and up till last year he'd worked here during the summer and when he wasn't in college. He looked around seeing if he could see any new faces, but the only one he saw was the same girl that came in there every day, she was also the waitress during the week there.

He was trying to remember her name; he'd seen her every day this past summer since he'd taken it off from college to finish healing his shoulder. "She's jail bait for you Derek Morgan," Ruth said with a smile, but two days she'll be eighteen," she said with smile.

"That's not long," Derek said with smile back at Ruth, "I didn't know she had a kid though, she's seventeen," he said.

"Ass of an ex boyfriend," Ruth said.

"Asshole," Derek said before he got his plate and walked over to the table, "Hi," he said.

Pen was trying to feed Rachel her bottle, she refused breast milk she'd tried till they were both going crazy she'd just puke it back up, Ruth told her about formula, even helped her find the right kind. Pen looked up seeing the really cute guy she'd always seen talking to Ruth and she'd taken his order once or twice over the summer.

"Hi," Pen said, "Did you need something?" She asked.

"No, um can I sit here with you?" Derek asked her.

"I guess, free country last I checked," Penelope said but she had a smile on her face, "I'm guessing you're not in high school any more," Pen said.

"No, about to graduate college this spring," Derek said, "I've seen you in here all summer and I thought that maybe today I could actually talk to you, I didn't know you had a daughter," he said.

"Yeah, she's my little girl," Pen said, "I'm Penelope Garcia by the way, or Pen if you like," she said, "I'd shake your hand but if I move then she's going to wake up," she said watching as her daughter drifted to sleep.

"I'm Derek Morgan, which high school you go to?" he asked.

"That one a mile from here, that's all I know," Pen said, "I'm thinking about doing that home schooling thing myself, but I want to play on the softball team," she said.

"Cool, pitcher or catcher?" Derek asked.

"Pitcher, I played back before I moved here and before this little girl was born," Pen said.

"Cool, I used to be the pitcher too, but I threw my shoulder out this past spring at NWU," he said.

"I remember Ruth telling me about that, she said you gave it up for your health not wanting to have to go through that again, I wouldn't blame you, I just like it for fun, but with this one I doubt I can," Penelope said.

"I'm sure you could," he said.

"I'm glad you think so, but I got this little girl to take care of so less the coach is really cool, I don't think that will happen," Penelope said trying to hold Rachel and finish her own breakfast.

"I'll take her," Ruth said, "That way you can eat and you better go meet Jeff before he wonders what happened to you," she said to Derek.

"He knows where I'm at," Derek said, "But I do have to meet my mom, maybe I'll see you this after noon," he said before he got up.

"I'll be here," Pen said with grin before Derek walked away, "Okay sit and tell me if he's single, because I want him," she said to Ruth.

"Derek is single," Ruth said before Penelope gave her a grin moving out of the booth letting her take Rachel before she took off out the door.

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Derek was about to get in his truck, when Penelope got there, "Something wrong?" he asked.

"This is like out of left field I think, or right, I play ball and I still don't' know those sayings," Penelope said, "But would you go out with me, I mean after tomorrow night that is since I'll be eighteen, and if it's a no I'll understand and all but I'm like never dated in over a year…" Pen said

Derek gave her a huge grin before he gave her the answer, "Yeah, you turn eighteen couple days, we can do something," he replied.

"Cool," she said.

"Your daughter can come too, if Ruth can't baby sit, I wouldn't mind," Derek said.

"Okay, and thanks handsome," Pen said before going back in the diner.

"I guess it was a yes to the date," Ruth said.

"Yes, my birthday actually, and Rachel can come with, first guy in a year and he said I could bring her with me, nobody has said that in three months let alone tell me to bring her," she said.

"You better finish and get to the high school, before it gets too late," Ruth said, "I got her and maybe this afternoon you can meet my husband finally," she said.

"Cool," Pen said.

TBC

AN: I hope you like where this is going if you know where it is going.