Disclaimer: I do not own Criminal Minds

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'They're alive.'

Her attention shifted then. 'They've been alive... all this time...They've been living their lives... I grew up and they were alive.' Penelope said aloud, obvious that her mind was trying to process everything that she had previously read.

'Alive?' Emily said, she looked from her side, Hotch's face answered it all, everything pieced together. Her mind finally caught up with reality as everything set in.

'Is that what was in that letter Garcia?' She nodded silently, now unable to speak as more tears fell, and handed all the paper work to him, Morgan put his arm around her and pulled her close, as she let some more sobs slip.

'Come here baby girl.'

'Sorry, I...I...' She sobbed harder as she tried to form a sentence.

'Hey it's okay.' Morgan tried to calm her, knowing she was in no state to make justifications for why she was here crying, not only that but she didn't need to do so.

'Garcia, how do you know it's legit?' Hotch said, after he had seen Rossi questioning if such a claim should be believed without complete verification.

'Keep reading.' Penelope said in a meek voice. She put her head on Morgan's shoulder, feeling better for not carry what felt like the biggest blow to her ever. She felt JJ take her hand, and saw in her peripheral, Emily scoot around so she was surrounded slightly rather than had them all sitting in a line either side of her. Then Reid took a seat next to Emily and gave his best Spencer Reid smile, the one that warmed Penelope's heart the most.

Hotch passed the finished paperwork to Rossi as he went, so he could see what they were dealing with, when he was done he was completely shocked. It took a few moments for his mind to entirely digest what he had just read, and a couple more to realise that Garcia's world was about to be whipped out from underneath her even more than what it had done when she was 18.

'What do you want to do Garcia?' Rossi asked, instead of Hotch.

'I honestly don't know.' Completely honesty filled her voice; she was at a loss at the moment.

'How about we get you back to yours, we get something to eat and we work through it like a family?' Penelope nodded. 'Morgan you drive Esther.'

'Got it... come on then baby girl.' Everyone stood, when Garcia was on her feet, Morgan pulled her into the embrace he knew she was yearning for.

'I need to speak to you two.' Hotch whispered.

'Oh?'

'Put your engagement ring on Garcia, your parents deserve to know who you have become and what family you have around you and they need to know who your fiancé is.' Hotch winked at the pair, smiled and walked towards the others.

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a/n: I know it's short...! I wanted to post another chapter and this is what came out of my creativity.