Later that night:
"Okay, people. Emily, Hotch, Derek and JJ are going. Emily has to go, Hotch is never going to let Emily out of his sight, JJ's people skills are going to gain you access to places and people and Derek's manly physique is going to grant you the answers that you seek. I can fake Emily's death, put in for a leave of absence for Hotch, I can book you plane tickets and hotel reservations for Spain. I already called Jessica and explained to her she has to take Jack to New Mexico for as long as it takes. I've already shiped the necessary text books to Jessica's parent's house out there. Rudy and Marge and wonderful people by the way- I will leave explaining it all to Jack to you. If anyone at the Bureau asks, Jack did a project for school and you are feeling burnt out-it's a win-win." Penelope paused to type in a few notes into her laptop and looked up at the stunned faces of her team. "What's wrong lollipops?"
"I think we are just surprised that you already have a plan." JJ cautiously said.
"Of course I have a plan, gumdrop. It's my job to be prepared." Penelope said without pause. "Are you two okay with staying put?" She indicated Rossi and Reid with a flick of her fluffy duck pen. "Agent Tall Dark and Italian would probably be better use here with me, providing interference with Strauss. And Reid can use his genius powers for good and help me make sense of the information that you guys will inevitably find." Penelope finished her spiel and looked around for signs of disapproval. "Everyone good?"
"I need everyone to listen to what I have to say." Emily began and even though everyone knew where she was going with this, they let her continue. "I need to make sure that everyone realizes the effect this can have on the rest of their lives. Careers can and probably will, be ended over this. Doyle is my mess-I should clean it up myself. I love each and every one of you and I don't know what I would do without any of you. I promise I won't be offended if you decide that you can't or shouldn't help me."
"Are you done?" Dave asked and when Emily nodded, he continued. "I'm in Prentiss. And before you argue with any of us anymore about staying behind, what would you do if the roles were reversed?" Dave folded his arms and waited for her response.
Emily shook her head, "That's different."
"The hell it is!" Hotch proclaimed. "We're a family and anyone dumb enough to mess with one of us-gets all of us. Doyle isn't going to know what hit him." Dave raised his eyebrows at Aaron's fierce tone and stored the info for later.
Derek, Reid and JJ nodded their agreement and Emily smiled at them.
"Thanks guys." Em whispered and JJ pulled her into a tight hug.
"Alright lovies, back to the plan. Emily is going to have to go under first, Hotch can meet up with her about two weeks later." Seeing the shocked look on Emily's face she rushed to say, "I'm sorry lovebug but if I put him under any sooner, it will arise suspicion." Seeing Emily reluctantly nod, Penelope continued detailing her plan. "JJ is going to claim to have a mental break following the "death" of Emily. She is going to Pennsylvania to reconnect with family and find herself again. She's going to take a plane into Pittsburg and there you will take a flight to Germany using the first fake passport in your envelope. All you physical characteristics are the same so anything short of a fingerprint scan and we are golden. You will connect with Hotch and Emily on the 26th in Frankfurt, Germany. I already booked tickets to Chicago for Derek, arriving in Chicago on the 25th and returning sometime in March. Alright, handsome, once your plane touches down in Chicago, you have an hour to collect your bags, switch out your baggage tags with the new ones and use the new passport to fly to Germany with ticket also in your envelope." Penelope handed Hotch, Emily, Derek and JJ matching manila envelopes. "Inside each envelope are plane tickets that match your new identities and two different prepaid cell phones. They are all charged, activated and have the other three cell numbers programed into them and my untraceable line is number one on all of the speed dials. The four of you will meet in Frankfurt at the airport on the 28th. I have JJ on one flight, Derek on another. Your two flights land within 20 minutes of each other and Emily and Hotch's flight lands 40 minutes after that. Once you guys have all landed, inside Emily's envelope is the business card for a spa in Frankfurt. An old friend of mine will set you all up with new looks that suit your new identity. Once the makeovers are finished, Helora will take pictures of you and forward them to me here. I will make new identities and passports and have them overnighted to a PO box. PO box # 23487 at the central postal office in Frankfurt. Helora owes me big, she's going to have the back room set up with beds and a bathroom for you guys to use for a day or so until I can get you the new paperwork." Penelope paused for a moment to type some more on one of her laptops and let them look over their envelope contents.
"What do you have planned for us, Penelope?" Reid questioned as he gestured between himself and Rossi.
"You my little genius are requesting a removal from field duties. You unfortunately are suffering paralyzing migranes at the moment and consider yourself a risk to the rest of your team. It's effective Monday which leaves us the rest of the week to fake Emily's "death" and get her underground. Rossi is going to behave like its business as usual and try to make Erin Stauss as pissed off as possible." Penelope smiled and looked at the older man over the rim of her glasses. "We want her off her game, not nuclear." Pen cautioned.
"Then next weekend, JJ is going to have a breakdown and you're going to have to be convincing cupcake. I recommend not sleeping the night before, maybe a few energy drinks to keep you going and honestly just keep crying and talking. Don't make any effort to make sense, just go with it. It's a good thing you were a theatre major before you switched to public relations isn't?"
"Excuse me, how the hell did you-never mind." JJ muttered as she remembered to never doubt Penelope's hacking skills. She rolled her eyes in Rossi's direction and was shocked to see a heated lustful look in his eyes as he checked her out. Looking her eyes with his, she expected him to look away quickly but instead Dave dared her to blink first and JJ didn't look away until she felt a shiver work its way over her entire body and she felt hot, hot all over and judging by the smug look on his face, Rossi knew exactly what he did to her.
Penelope's voice brought her out of her daze. "You guys look over the plan with your brilliant profiler minds and let me know lickety split if I missed anything and I will fix it as fast as lightning." Penelope cheerily said as she walked out of the room to get a new cup of coffee.
"You're amazing." Derek said to Penelope as he came up behind her in the kitchen.
"You're supposed to be going over your files, Hot Stuff." Penelope replied as she smiled at him.
"You are much better to look at momma." He flirted.
"And anyone who has ever met you could vouch for your physicality, Handsome but looking over the files is important." Penelope said back as she handed him his file that he had placed on the counter. "Come on Derek, I couldn't live with myself if something happened to you that I could have prevented."
Derek saw in her eyes that she meant every word. "Slow your roll, woman. There is no way in hell that anything, that may or may not happen in the future, could be your fault. You came up with these detailed plans, passports and plane tickets in a few hours time. And you are a genius baby girl." Derek lifted her chin to lock her eyes with his. "I want you to promise me that you won't blame yourself for anything that might happen. You've done everything you can and now it's time for us to do our part. You're not responsible for the safety of everybody. It's too much pressure baby, I don't want you to worry about anything." Derek leaned in a kissed her softly. Penelope responded to his kiss this time and leaned in closer and kissed him back fiercely.
"Thank you, Handsome." Penelope whispered against his lips.
"I love you baby girl." Derek whispered back.
"I love you too handsome." She whispered back before leaning in and kissing him again. "How about we have that date tonight? I'd rather be distracted by visions of your sexy body when we are chasing down the international creeper and the only way that we are going to get to have some mind blowing sex before all of this gets into motion is if you buy me dinner tomorrow night."
"I'll pick you up at 7 baby." Derek kissed her hard again before regretfully picking up the file again and heading back to meet with the team.