A/N: Vacation's over and I can finally spent my time with writting again instead of sightseeing and sun-bathing. Yes, I lead a very hard life. LOL This story's just a short one, with six chapters. Figured I get back with something not TOO epic yet LOL

There had been only few situations in Penelope Garcia's life where she felt rather lost and maybe a bit helpless and right now certainly was one of them. Flanked by her two best friends in some booth in the back of their favorite diner neither Emily nor JJ looked very impressed at her right now.

"What do you mean you slept with Kevin Lynch?" JJ repeated her question once more after Penelope couldn't really provide a good enough answer. Or any answer at all for that matter.

"Well… it just… happened," Penelope said quietly, shrugging as if she herself couldn't really explain it.

"But didn't you break up? Like a month ago?" Emily asked confused at which Penelope just nodded rather reluctantly.

"Yeah," she just said after a few nods.

"So… what … um… what made you go for him again?"

"Well… I … well… I saw him the other day at a bar where I was supposed to meet Morgan. But you guys got called in for a case and well… he looked so sad and depressed and I … I kind of felt bad for a moment. Plus I probably had half a bottle of tequila that night already…"

"You slept with him out of guilt?" Emily asked astonished.

Penelope shook her head a few times, before giving up and nodding. "Technically it wasn't entirely out of guilt," she said, looking at her two friends. "Okay, maybe it was, but… that's not the point…"

"What is?" Emily asked curiously. "I thought you sleeping with Lynch was the point of this conversation."

"No, not really, that was just… part of the story."

"There's more?" JJ asked surprised, looking at Emily, who looked equally surprised.

"He… well… he kind of seems to think now that there will be more again…." Penelope explained.

"May we remind you, he was the one who ended things because he didn't 'Feel the love' anymore?" Emily said, looking together with JJ serious at Penelope.

"I know…" Penelope sighed. "But when he sat there, in that bar, all sad and lonely and… I don't know what happened. I just … felt so bad…"

"But he left you. What are you feeling bad about?" Emily wondered.

"Okay, maybe I wasn't feeling too sad and more… needy," Penelope rolled her eyes at her friends and both JJ and Emily needed to smile.

"You mean needy as in 'scratch an itch'?" Emily asked, making JJ snicker. "But from… all the people you could have picked from it had to be Kevin Lynch?"

"He … I mean, I was and he… and… ah whatever," Penelope tried to explain, before throwing her hands in the air, giving up.

"Okay… and now?" JJ asked carefully, sensing there was more to this than just the one-night-stand.

"Well… he kind of… I mean… well, he … he does seem to think we can get back together," Penelope answered quickly, knowing exactly what her friends would say next.

"But you made it clear that this won't happen, right?" Emily asked confident.

"Well… I…" Penelope started, before JJ interrupted her.

"You didn't tell him?"

"I did, but he… seems to not really get it."

"How did you say it?" Emily wanted to know.

"Well…. I told him that I thought the night was not really the best idea…."

"That's it? That's all you told him?" JJ asked surprised, seeing Emily being equally surprised.

"I couldn't tell him really that after I spent the night with him he sucked and I hated him, could I?" Penelope asked, at which JJ and Emily rolled their eyes.

"No, you rather let him think after the crap he pulled he can … get that easily back in your life and… bed," Emily remarked. "Why are you doing this to yourself? I mean… seriously. Hasn't he done enough to you already for you to kick his sorry ass to the other side of this world?"

Penelope let out a sigh. She should have known that it would have gone down like this or similar. It had been a few months now since their split Emily still seemed angry.

"So how do I make it obvious that this will lead nowhere?" Penelope asked, choosing to ignore Emily for now.

"Maybe a swift kick in his butt would help you get the message across," Emily suggested.

"Emily, I am a strong believer of non-violent conflict resolution. I certainly will not start now, especially not with someone like my ex-boyfriend – who I couldn't care less about," Penelope argued.

"Non-violent conflict resolution?" Emily asked with a grin. "You spent way too much time with Reid, my friend."

Before Penelope could respond to Emily, JJ was cutting her off.

"If you don't care about Kevin Lynch, why did you sleep with him then?" JJ asked.

"Honestly? I don't know… I just… I felt somehow sorry for him that night, looking somehow broke and also I had already a couple of drinks and maybe… I don't know, maybe there are still some issues and feeling involved," Penelope admitted, looking at her friends. Before either of them could say anything Penelope was quick in adding "Not that I want to get back with him. I seriously don't. And seriously… when I woke up the next morning it was like a bad hangover."

"Well…. case closed than. You'll just tell him that was it, a one-night-only thing and… well, that's the end of that chapter then," Emily smiled at her friend and Penelope somehow couldn't help but think her friend sounded a bit relieved there for a moment.