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A/N:Thanks for the reviews, this seems to be sparking them same emotion in you all!
For Harleyzgirl... I'll be sending tissues on as and when you need them =)
I apologise for not updating yesterday! I was supposed to when I got home from a mini trip out and before I went out for the night, but I got stuck in over three hours worth of traffic and ran out of time by the time I actually got home!
I hope the chapter makes up for the no update yesterday =P
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"You need to get out more." JJ said as she sat in Penelope's office, she sat back with her coffee, her hands clasped around it, she breathed in its strong aroma before taking a leisurely sip. "I don't like you at home alone, it's not good." She finished saying after she swallowed her gulp of the hot drink.
"I just don't want to go out." Penelope told her, she was lacking her sparkle so much lately. "I went to see the solicitor, Jayje."
JJ sat forward serious then. "Oh." Was all she managed.
"Derek's seen his too; it's going to be over soon." Penelope said and her tone began to dissolve with tears. "Working it out, after the fees, I'm going to have to move, I'm going back to the apartment size I had before." Penelope looked at JJ fearful. "I'm scared to be single. I mean I realise I haven't shared a bed with him properly in over nearly 2 months but going from married to divorced is scaring me."
"We're having a girl's night, I know you don't want to hear it, but you're at home too much, you're procrastinating in that place, Garcie. It's not going to do you any good."
"It's all I've got left." Penelope told her friend and rubbed her finger to her temple as another headache crept in; she closed her eyes as the pain struck her again.
"Penelope, you okay?" JJ asked getting closer.
"No, I keep getting these headaches." She said and moments later she was running from the door and towards the bathroom.
JJ worried immediately, she picked up a bottle of water and ran after her, she could see the team in the bull pen looking and she could tell they'd seen the flash of subdue colours fly passed. JJ found Penelope in the bathroom throwing up. Her headaches were getting worse if she was throwing up. JJ knew Penelope only did this when she was really stressing out over things.
"You okay?" She asked gently as silence fell in and Penelope ripped some paper off.
"I will be." Penelope muttered through the cubicle's wall.
"Here." JJ said as she crouched down and passed a bottle of water under the walls and looked at the wall ahead as she waited. "It'll get better."
"When?" Penelope almost demanded, and JJ sighed. "It's not, it's over." Penelope said and nausea hit her again.
"I'm getting you signed off for the day." JJ told her and stood, she was taking her friend home and that was it.
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"Is she okay?" Derek asked as JJ came through the doors, she could read that the strain of all this was pulling him down.
She could also see that two of her friends were getting a divorce for all the wrong reasons. They were getting it because life had seemingly killed what love they had. That it had buried it too deep for either to get it back.
"She's got a headache, I think it's one of her migraines, I'm gonna get her home." JJ told him and went up to Hotch's office.
Derek left the bullpen and went to Penelope's office, he knew where she kept her emergency supply of pills for this type of headache and he grabbed them and bolted for the ladies toilets just around the corner.
He didn't care about anything in that moment, he just went in and heard her gently crying and his heart panged in his chest.
"Baby Girl..." He called out and the crying stopped.
"Is there a case?" Penelope asked out, her tone dreading the answer already.
Derek crouched down, "No, I just bought you some of your pills." He said and passed them under. "JJ's getting you home."
"I know." She cut him off and took the pills. "Thanks." She paused slightly. "Did you get the papers okay?"
"That doesn't matter right now, your health is a bigger an importance to me." Derek worried about her more, he knew this type of situation wouldn't last, a case would come in, and the divide would grow again.
"I'm fine really." Penelope deflected, but she still felt ready to throw up. "Larry said it's all about signatures and then it's done. I'm giving you Clooney, he was yours first."
"But he was ours more importantly." Derek told her. "I saw that you're looking for a new house."
Penelope finally ventured out of the cubicle she'd been hauled up in, and she looked at Derek.
He could see immediately she wasn't feeling great, her face was flushed, her eyes were ill looking, her lip was quivering with the holding in of tears and he could see her walls her up, making her completely unreadable.
"I can't afford that house on my own, and I think I've found an apartment. It'll work out okay in the end, I guess. I'm seeing it as a clean start from everything." The moment she said it she regretted it but she had to smile a little at him, trying to ease the sentence's effect.
JJ was her saviour, appearing in the doorway.
JJ froze in the doorway, "Everything okay?"
"Get her home." Derek said and then went to the door; JJ moved and let him go out of the door.
"Come on." JJ motioned to the door; she smiled at her friend and opened the door. "I'm not leaving you until you stop throwing up."
Penelope looked longingly at the floor, then at the doorway, and she felt another part of her chip away. That was exactly how they'd become. One moment they'd be attentive with one another and then like a switch it was gone. Or there'd be one being nice, and the other giving the cold shoulder. The moment between her and Derek had been a mix.
Derek was being sweet, and although she felt it nice and everything, she'd kept it all at arm's length. To be attentive back left her for a bigger fall afterwards, one that would hurt her no doubt as it always did.
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Derek stood outside the office door at first hesitant, but Penelope's words were still burning strong. I'm seeing it as a new start from everything. Now he was finally taking his slate and cleaning it.
He knocked, waited for the summoning answer and then entered.
"Ah, Agent Morgan, what can I do for you?" Strauss asked as she sat behind her desk, paperwork in front of her, ready for his obviously.
"You know what I'm here for; I want to take one of those transfer promotions that were offered to me." Derek told her and stood up straight and tall. "I want those offers now."
"Okay..." She said and smirked, turning to her computer. "Will Penelope be going with you?"
"No Ma'am, we're currently seeking a divorce so this will be a lone transfer."
"Very well." Was all she said as she starting to key in letters to the computer. Moments later she looked up at him. "There's California, Maine, Texas, or New York."
"Is there anything in Chicago or closer to there?" He asked her, "I'd ideally want to be nearer my family."
"Of course," she clicked a few buttons, "the job offer you had is gone, it's all demotions and the pay is dire in comparison to your salary now."
Derek ran a hand over his head, he was at a loss wherever he went, and it wasn't just money wise.
"What about your family here? Surely Penelope will still be a priority to you." She assumed at him, almost slyly.
"I need a clean break, Ma'am, and a new job will give it." He sidestepped the question.
"Okay so what's your choice? New York will keep you close, but far at the same time, and California is the other side of the country if so wish to be that far."
"Can I not wait and look into them?"
"Afraid not, Morgan, the jobs don't wait around remember." She told him seriously.
"New York." He said and left the office. He couldn't bear to be further than that, not until he was fully ready. When the right job came then he'd move again.
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Penelope was still being sick when she got her to the house and JJ was reaching her last worry nerve.
"I'm gonna take you to the hospital, Pen." JJ said as she sat on the sidelines ready with a towel and drink. "It's usually eased by now."
"I need sleep." Penelope deflected, something in her gut told her things were going wrong. "I think Derek's transferring out."
"From the team?" JJ asked and Penelope nodded as she closed her eyes with exhaustion. JJ moved a little closer, "you okay to get to the bed?"
Penelope went to answer and threw up, that was when JJ called the shots. She got a bag for Penelope just in case and helped her up and took her towards her SUV downstairs.
"Jayje, honey, you don't need to do this." Penelope told her friend, because she didn't need to do this. "It's probably a bug or something."
"You've been throwing up for nearly an hour, I am not leaving this."
Penelope gave up then and went to the hospital. JJ stuck with her and even took over when they finally got to see a doctor.
Immediate course of action was to get Penelope set up on a drip, to get her body the fluids she was losing, and give her something that would help settle her a little.
"See, he thinks it's pretty routine and easily explained." JJ told her as she got up and sat on the bed. "So I can get you home and feel settled about it."
"I'm kicking you out at Henry's bath time."
"If I'm looking after you, he'll be more than okay with me stopping over." JJ breezed with a smile. "I think you've had enough lonely nights."
"Start of many." Penelope told her with a shrug, and looked as the doctor came back in reading a chart.
"Mrs Morgan, congratulations you're pregnant, we'll need to do an ultrasound to verify how far along, but your bloods and your symptoms say pregnancy."
"Is that it? I'm pregnant?" Penelope asked in near enough horror.
"Yes, its morning sickness, we'll prescribe tablets to help with that, but I'll sort the ultrasound out and you can head home."
He left with a small smile, while Penelope just burst into tears.
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A/N:Now do you want more?