AN: I want to say a huge thank you to everyone who has supported me with this story. Classes start today, so I might not be able to update as often but I will try.

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Morgan watched as JJ left with Penelope's belonging out of the bar door. "What the hell was that about?" he asked, turning to the group. "Does anyone know what is going on?"

"I have no idea," Hotch remarked, looking completely bewildered as the rest of the table. He knew Penelope had been acting off lately. He planned on talking to her in his office about what was going on with her, and what just happened proved he really needed to speak with her.

"She has been acting standoffish recently," Reid started. "The other day I brought her some files, but she seemed so distracted."

Morgan sat down, taking his beer in hand. "What a lousy best friend I've been. I didn't even notice a difference in her. I've been so preoccupied with other things, I've been giving her the brush off."

Rossi, not pulling any punches, looked directly at Morgan "You have been a lousy friend to her. She blames herself for the fallout you two had. The whole team has been a mess lately. If you haven't noticed, she hasn't been her normal self in the past couple of months. Did you ever even bother to ask why? As her self proclaimed best friend, I would have thought you'd be more attentive?"

"I get it alright. I was a shitty friend," Morgan said, angrily, "But if she needed me or any of us, for that matter, she could have come to us."

"Could she have?" Rossi continued, "Morgan, when she would walk into the room you wouldn't even look her way. Normally, you'd be the first to help her into her chair." Rossi shook his head, "This whole team has been at odds lately. She probably felt like she couldn't confide in any of us. No wonder why she worked so hard to hide the Kevin issue."

"What about Kevin?" Reid asked.

"He cheated on her," Rossi stated, "She hasn't talk to anyone about it. I only know because Strauss called me into her office about their dissolution of interoffice relationship agreement."

"What?" Morgan asked, completely blindsided.

"Because I was the one that vouched for their relationship to begin with, I now had to vouch for their separation. I had to put my career on the line saying the break up wouldn't effect their jobs."

"Okay," Hotch said, a little annoyed Rossi never told him. "But how do you know he cheated on her?"

Rossi gave Hotch an apologetic look for not telling him, but it wasn't his place to tell. "When she went to Strauss about the dissolution, she apparently broke down and told her everything about it. Strauss thought we all knew and mentioned it in passing while I was there."

"Agent Rossi, please have a seat." Strauss told him as he made his way into her office.

"What's this about, Erin?" Rossi didn't mind having to come up to her office, but the woman still irked him.

"I need you to sign these," she handed him the papers. Rossi took a quick glance at them, before looking up at Strauss. "They need to be signed by you seeing as you were the Agent that vouched for Ms. Garcia and Mr. Lynch's relationship to begin with."

"Oh, yes." Rossi said, he had no idea about the breakup. If he thought about it, though, Garcia had been acting off recently. "When did they file for their dissolution of relationship?"

Strauss looked Rossi up and down, before answering, "Ms. Garcia came in here the other day asking what she needed to do." Strauss' cold expression softened for a moment, "Between you and I Dave, I feel bad for her. My heart went out to her,"

Rossi gave her a strange expression,

"I know most of the bureau thinks I'm a heartless bitch, but no one deserves to be cheated on,"

Morgan saw red. How could he have been so blind to her pain? Once again, he felt like an ass for pushing her aside. "When did this happen?"

"A couple of months ago," Rossi said, taking a drink. "I tried to talk to her about it, but she put on a happy front and diverted the questions to something else. She's always been good at masking her pain to everyone but you, Morgan."

Rossi was right. She would put on a façade when she was hurting; she never wanted to be a burden on anyone. Morgan was always able to see past it, though, until now. "Why didn't you tell any of us?" Morgan stood up abruptly.

"It wasn't my place to tell." Rossi shrugged his shoulders, "When she's ready she'll talk about it.

"Bullshit," Morgan threw some bills on the table and grabbed his jacket.

"Where are you going?" Reid asked.

"I'm going to get some answers. Kevin cheating on her did not cause her to look and act like she just did," Morgan said angrily.

He left the bar without even a look back. He was pissed. How could she not tell him Kevin cheated on her? He would have dropped everything to help her. Was she too good to tell him now? Did she even value their friendship anymore?

Fuck! What was he thinking? Of course she didn't tell him anything. He had barely spoken to her in months. He was jackass. He threw her aside like some broken toy. She did absolutely nothing to cause the rift between them. He was the one that pushed her away.

He shook his head as he drove towards JJ's house. This ended tonight. He needed his best friend back.

They walked into JJ's house. "Let me make sure Henry is asleep and then we can talk, okay?"

Penelope nodded as she made her way into the living room. She felt so stupid right now. Her emotions were so raw that she felt like she was about to snap. She was thankful it was JJ that came into the bathroom to see if she was okay- not that I would have been anyone else.

"Hey, Garcia," Will said, walking into the living room. "You okay, Pen?" he asked, in his drawn out southern accent.

"I-" She started to say she was fine, but why lie? There was no reason to lie anymore. She was far from fine, "No, I'm not okay."

JJ came into the living room with a bottle of water and handed it to Penelope. She looked at her husband with a sad expression.

"If you two ladies need me, I'll be in the kitchen," he said, standing up to leave them to talk.

"No Will, it's okay. You can stay. You're going to hear about this sooner or later so you might as well hear it from me," Penelope said, in one of the saddest tones he had ever heard.

He looked back at JJ who nodded her head at him, "Okay, Pen."

Will took a seat in the chair while JJ sat next to Penelope, holding her hand. "Go ahead, Penelope. Start from the beginning."

Penelope gave a sad smile, "There were these two hippies who-"

"Penelope," Will said, mimicking her smile.

She took a deep breath. "Okay…" She looked into JJ's eyes before speaking,"… a couple of months ago I went over to Kevin's apartment to surprise him. When I walked in he was- he was cheating on me,"

"That bastard," JJ said, as she felt her anger rise.

Penelope, ignoring the comment, continued. "Turns out he had been cheating on me for six months. I was so devastated. I threw his key in his face and left. I had nowhere to go that night so I ended up walking around town, until I was so tired I had to go home."

"You could've come here," Will said, before JJ could.

"I didn't need to burden you guys that late at night. You have Henry to deal with."

"You aren't a burden, Pen. Ever," JJ agreed with Will.

"Could've, should've, would've…" she said, shrugging her shoulders. "There is more to this story."

"Please continue," JJ said.

"The next day at work I was still so distraught. I spent the whole day a complete mess. I saw Morgan was still in the office so I took a chance. I knocked on his office door, hoping he would take a look at me and realize I needed my best friend." She felt the tears start to prick her eyes. "I really needed him, but-" The tears started to spill out. "But he dismissed me, saying I was a bother to him and Roxana."

JJ stiffened in her seat. The next time she saw Morgan she was going to hit him up side his head.

"I decided to head to the bar and drown my pain in booze," Penelope said, shaking her head. "I was there for about an hour when a handsome man came up to me. He told me to stop drinking away my pain and get even instead. We danced for a couple of songs together and well…" She looked down, ashamed. "… I went home with him." She quickly looked up at Will and JJ, "I don't ever do that. I have actually never gone home with a random stranger before in my life," she said in a hurried panic, "but he made me feel so attractive and good. I don't know I just went with it." She was so ashamed and her emotions were so raw she felt like she needed to explain herself.

Penelope watched Will and JJ both nod their heads in understand. Neither of they faces held judgment, only compassion.

Penelope had been bottling everything up with no outlet for months now, so she decided to tell it all, "The next morning when I woke up, I was completely disgusted with myself." She shook her head, shame washing over her, "I finally got a good look at his face and he looked so much like Derek." She wiped away her tears, "God, I feel so stupid. That was probably one of the reasons I actually went home with him. Not only did he look like Derek, he treated me like Derek used to, when I meant something to him. I grabbed my clothes and left as fast as I could."

"It happens, Garcia. We all make mistakes," Will said.

Penelope looked at him, tears streaming down her face. "I started not feeling well a couple of weeks ago. I thought it was the flu or something, but then," she took a deep breath, "I realized I missed two periods."

Penelope looked back at JJ. "I had just taken the test when you came into my office to get me to go out tonight,"

"Oh honey," JJ said moving closer to her, to pull her into her arms.

Penelope started to sob against her. "I don't even know his name," she cried out, not meeting anyone's eyes. She didn't want to see the disappointment on their faces. She was so ashamed of her actions. How could she have been so stupid to go home with a complete stranger and then not use protection? "Oh God, what if he gave me something?"

"Shh, it's okay," JJ tried to sooth her.

Penelope pulled out of her arms. "It's not okay, JJ. I screwed a man I know nothing about. And now I'm having his baby… and… and… what if he gave me something?" She sobbed falling back into her arms.

"Penelope, you're going to be okay," Will spoke while getting up to move over to her.

"How can you say that? I don't know the father of my child. I have no way of supporting a baby. I've always wanted children, yes. But I don't want to do this alone. I don't want to be a single mother because of some one night stand that left me knocked up."

"Penelope, you're not alone. You got me and JJ here," Will said, softly.

"He's right, Garcie." JJ pulled her back into a hug. "First thing in the morning I'll call my doctor to get you an appointment."

Penelope nodded her head, "I don't know what to do."

"Right now, you need to get some sleep," Will said, grabbing her hand pulling her off the coach.

JJ led her to the guest room. Will was right. Garcia needed to get a good night sleep and in the morning they could work out what to do next.

Will was about to walk into the kitchen when he heard a knock at the door. He checked to see Morgan standing there before opening it. Instead of moving aside to let him in, he motioned for him to step back as Will walked out to the front porch closing the door behind him. "What can I do for you, Morgan?"

"Will, is Penelope here?"

Will, remembering Penelope's story, felt anger rise inside of him at the way Morgan had treated her. "Morgan, what do you need?"

Morgan was taken back by the bitterness in Will's voice. Will was always so calm and level headed. He never let his emotions take a hold of anything. "I need to see Penelope. Is she inside with JJ?"

"Penelope just went to bed, Morgan. I suggest you try and talk to her another time," Will drew out in his thick southern accent.

Morgan took a deep breath. "Can I please speak to JJ at least?"

Just then JJ opened the door. "Who are you talk- oh, Morgan it's you."

Morgan looked at the bitter expression on JJ's face. "JJ, can I talk to Penelope?"

"She just went to bed, Morgan," JJ spat a little.

"What is both of your problems?" Morgan asked, annoyed with their attitudes. Yeah, he was sure Penelope told them he had been an ass to her, but that still didn't warrant them to treat him like shit. He was there to fix what he messed up not start anything else.

JJ took a deep breath. "Sorry, Morgan. It's not completely directed at you. Some of it is…" she continued, giving him a look that spoke volumes. "But right now isn't the time, okay? Will and I have some stuff we need to work out. When Penelope can, I'll have her call you."

Morgan knew he wasn't going to get anywhere with either of them tonight so he sighed in defeat. "Please, have her call me when she wakes up."

Will nodded his head before turning to go inside leaving Morgan behind. A few moments later JJ followed him inside.

Will turned to her. "We have to help her,"

"I know," JJ agreed. "I'm glad she told us. Tomorrow I'll get her an appointment at the clinic and we can go from there. I'll also call Hotch to come over so she can tell him."

"Do you think she'll keep the baby?" Will asked.

"She has always wanted to be a mom, Will. There is no way she would give up the baby."

Penelope sat motionless in JJ's guest room. She finally told her secret and everything was out in the open: from Kevin cheating on her, Morgan dismissing her, her one night stand, and now her pregnancy.

She put her hand on her belly. "It's me and you kid. I know you being conceived wasn't planned, but I promise you I will do everything in my power to give you a happy life. I've only know about you for a couple of hours but, I love you just the same."