AN: Another update for all of you. I meant to post this over the weekend, but I had a lot of tweaking and re-tweaking to do with it. I hope you like how this chapter turned out. PLZ R&R!

Disclaimer: See first chapter.

Chapter 4

They all sat around talking while they ate lunch-mostly about Jamie-and getting reacquainted with Penelope. They all finally decided that it was time to clear off the table when Jamie had dumped the last of his lunch all over the floor. Penelope started to lift Jamie out of the high chair to clean him off, but JJ put her hand out to stop her from getting up as she smiled at her.

"Let Auntie JJ take care of this," she took Jamie out of the high chair and started into the kitchen. "I think Daddy should clean up the mess while Mommy takes a break in the living room."

"On it," Derek got up and went to go find a broom and a mop.

"He's being extremely helpful right now," Emily looked at Penelope. "I'm waiting for him to have a breakdown."

"Want to take bets on how long it will take him to ask for help?" Penelope smiled.

"First diaper change," Emily told her.

"Bedtime," Dave stated

"First tantrum of the night," Hotch added.

"What's your take Garcia?" Reid asked her.

"Bath time," she smiled as Derek came out of the kitchen with a broom.

"What about bath time?" He looked at them all.

"Nothing, Handsome." Penelope smiled sweetly.

"Riiiiight," he started cleaning up the mess from lunch.

"If everyone is done, I will clean all this up." Dave started to clear the table.

"You made the meal. You shouldn't have to clean up." Penelope told him.

"I insist," he took her plate. "Go and relax. Catch up with everyone."

"Come on," Emily started to pull her towards the living room. "When someone tells you that they want you to sit while they clean for you, jump at it."

"I'll try harder," Penelope told her as they sat in the living room.

"All sprayed down," JJ came out with Jamie. "He does need a diaper change though. And no you aren't doing it. I can do it. Just tell me where the diapers are."

"In his room upstairs," Penelope told her.

"Should I try to lay him down for a nap?"

"I doubt that he'll take one since he woke up just a couple hours ago."

"Right," JJ nodded as she started up the stairs.

"So do you get any channels on this?" Reid came into them and picked up the TV remote. "Or is it just for show?"

"It works," Penelope told him. "But the only channels I ever watch are Nick Junior or Disney Junior. Or I have a few movies for Jamie too, which we watch a lot."

"Does he have a favorite movie?" Hotch asked.

"Cars all the way. He watches it at least once a day."

"All right, he is all clean and dry." JJ brought Jamie back down and Penelope took him and got him back into his clothes.

Derek and Rossi finished cleaning up the kitchen as they heard everyone having a good time in the living room. He could hear Penelope talking animatedly and everyone else laughing at what she was saying. Hotch finally came in to give them a hand after a long while as he saw Dave talking with Derek quietly.

"What's going on?" he interrupted them.

"Penelope," Derek sighed.

"We're going to keep her safe Morgan," Rossi assured him. "Her and your son."

"It's not that exactly." He looked at them. "I heard you and Paul talking a little bit ago. We're supposed to leave and go back to the BAU tonight."

"Yeah," Hotch sighed. "I was trying to find a way to tell everyone, but I knew that you wouldn't take it well."

"Look I've already missed too much," Derek started. "Almost a year of Jamie's life. I missed going through the pregnancy with Garcia, helping her during childbirth, taking over Dad Duty when she felt like she couldn't handle him, I'm not leaving."

"Morgan-"

"What if I stay here and be on protective detail? She told me that Paul is constantly coming and going running back and forth between the safe houses and his headquarters. That means that they're both constantly alone. With just a month left before the trial, I think the Santival's will up their strategy to make sure that she can't testify against them."

"He has a point," Rossi stated. "We can find ways to keep in touch with each other."

"I'll run it by Paul," Hotch conceded. "But if we do this, the only ones that you should be communicating with is either this team or Paul. He thinks that there's a mole on the inside feeding information to the Santival's."

"Deal," Derek agreed.

"Hey Morgan," Reid appeared in the doorway. "You should come in here. There's something you need to see."

"What's going on?" The three of them followed Reid back into the living room.

"I was able to find all the pictures and footage I told you about earlier," Penelope smiled at him as she opened a box and pulled out the album on top and handed it over to him. "This is the one that I kept during my pregnancy."

"Look at all these scrapbooks," JJ commented. "You certainly put a lot of detail into these."

"I didn't have much else to do to keep me occupied this whole time," Penelope stood up. "You guys go ahead and look through all of those. I need to make out a shopping list for Paul."

Derek spotted Jamie sitting on the couch with his stuffed dog and covered with his blanket. He slowly sat beside him as he opened up the scrapbook that Penelope made while she was pregnant. He smiled as he saw all the ultrasound scans and Penelope's notes about her morning sickness and other symptoms. He got to the back where there was a list of possible baby names that she had considered next to a 3D Ultrasound picture with Penelope's handwriting underneath it with the words, 'IT'S A BOY!'.

Penelope came back in to them with a small pad of paper that she had scrawled out the shopping list on. She sat down next to Derek again and he glanced at the list in confusion.

"I have no idea what half that stuff is," he gestured to the list.

"This is all for Jamie," she told him. "All of his food and snacks."

"I guess you'll have to educate me on all things Jamie."

"Hey Garcia," she looked up at JJ and saw that Jamie was near her holding a movie case. "I think he wants movie time."

"I didn't even see him get down," Derek looked next to him. "He's sneaky."

"Just like his daddy," Penelope told him. "Reid can you put that in since you're right by the TV?"

"Got it," he booted up the DVD player and inserted the disc.

As soon as the opening scene of Cars started playing, Jamie turned his attention to the TV. Penelope handed over the blanket and dog to Reid and he got Jamie situated a few more feet back from the TV.

"I take it that those are his security blankets." Emily stated.

"Yep," Penelope nodded. "He won't sleep unless he has them both. Which is why he didn't sleep on the way here; they were packed up."

Penelope finally started to relax as they all continued to look through the pictures and asked Penelope to explain each one. She kept yawning as she laid her head against Derek's shoulder and her eyes slowly started to close.

"Morgan," Hotch gestured next to him and he glanced down and saw Penelope sound asleep.

"She looks like she needs her rest," Rossi commented.

"She does," Paul came back into them. "I think she only averages about two to three hours of sleep a night."

"Let's let her sleep then," Hotch told them. "We should get back to the case anyway."

The others walked back to the table as Derek slowly got himself untangled from Penelope. He slowly lay her down across the couch and covered her with a blanket. She started to stir and he cursed under his breath as her eyes fluttered open.

"What-" she started to sit back up.

"Lay back down," he ordered her. "You need to get some sleep, Baby Girl."

"Jamie," she mumbled.

"His daddy and aunties and uncles will take care of him," he told her as he pressed a soft kiss to her cheek. "Just sleep, Baby Girl."

"Ok," she nodded as her eyes closed again.

"Is she asleep?" JJ asked as he joined them at the table.

"Yeah," he sighed as he took one of the files. "So what do we have?"

"Just prepare yourself," Emily warned him.

"Because you will get upset." Rossi added.

"We all did earlier," Reid told him.

They were all right; he did get upset. To think that Penelope had lived in fear for months and months; fear that someone would find her and end everything. The majority of the threats happened while she was pregnant though. What kind of state had she been in? When she realized how much danger that she was really in. He glared across the table at Paul.

"The only reason that I'm not saying what I really want to say to you is because I promised her that I would not yell in front of our son." He stated.

"Understood," Paul nodded.

"I'd expect an explosion after all this is over."

"We've already warned him," Rossi told him. "But you should calm down unless you want to wake her up. I think she needs her rest right now."

"Right," he spotted Penelope still sleeping soundly on the couch.

"He is getting antsy," Emily held Jamie out for Derek to take, which he gladly accepted his son into his arms.

"Maybe it's snacktime or something," Derek commented.

"I'll see what I can find," Rossi got up and went into the kitchen.

"So I know that we all want to stay here and be with Garcia," Hotch started to tell them all. "But we have better resources at the BAU. We need to pull everything we have into this case."

"So that means that we're leaving," Reid stated.

"We have to," JJ told them. "If we want to help Garcia."

"But I have thought a lot about this," Paul spoke up. "Agent Morgan can stay. I never feel comfortable leaving Penelope here with just the armed guards and truthfully, I've never seen her smile as much as she has today when she was reunited with all of you. Unless it's because she's with Jamie."

"You're really letting me stay with them?" Morgan asked.

"We will continually check in with you," Hotch told him. "You will have an untraceable, throwaway cell phone. The only ones you should be contacting on it is this team."

"Deal," Morgan agreed as Rossi came out of the kitchen with Jamie's filled sippy cup and a small cup of animal crackers that he had managed to find.

Penelope awoke suddenly when she felt something hit her arm. She blinked her eyes open and smiled as she saw Jamie standing before her as he kept lightly smacking her arm.

"Mama," he giggled.

"Hey sweetie," she smiled as she slowly sat up.

"Hey Little Man," Derek came in. "Don't wake up your Mama."

"It's all right," she placed Jamie in her lap. "It's the perfect way to wake up. One of the ways anyway. How long did I sleep?"

"A few hours," Derek sat beside her as he gave Jamie a small cup that he had refilled with animal crackers. "I guess you needed it."

"Where is everyone?"

"They're in the back. Hotch and Paul are discussing some things."

"Garcia you're awake," JJ came in with Emily. "How'd you sleep?"

"Good," she smiled at them. "So what's going on?"

"Good you're awake," Hotch came in with Rossi and Reid. "We're going to be leaving in a little while and going back to the BAU so that we can pull all our resources to keep you safe."

"So…you're all leaving?" Penelope looked at Derek.

"I'm staying," he told her. "We already discussed it. I've already missed too much. I'm not missing anymore. This way I can make sure that you're safe."

"We'll communicate with each other by calls or texts on untraceable, throwaway cell phones," Hotch told them. "But only if it pertains to this case. We don't need anyone compromising your location."

"Got it," Penelope nodded her head as she smiled at Derek.

A few hours later, they all had a tearful good-bye with Garcia and Jamie. They all had just found each other; they didn't want to say good-bye already. Who knew when they would all be able to see each other again.

They all decided to wait until it was dark out before they left. Hotch made them all some supper this time that consisted of pasta and salad. After it was all cleaned up, they all packed up their things and headed out to the van. They all took turns hugging Penelope good bye as Derek was occupying Jamie, who was fussing in his arms.

"Stay safe," Emily hugged her.

"I will," she assured them.

"We'll see you again soon, Kitten." Dave hugged her tightly.

"I'll call and let your family know, Morgan." Hotch told him.

"Wait, what about my brother Tim?" Penelope asked suddenly. "I had just gotten into contact with him-"

"Morgan told us when you went missing," JJ told her. "He's kept in contact with him for you."

"I gave Hotch his number so that he could call him as well as my family," Derek told her. "I'll tell you what's been going on later."

"Ok," Penelope sighed.

"We really need to go," Hotch told them all.

"Try to relinquish control," JJ told Penelope as she gestured to Derek. "Let him take care of you both."

"I'll try," she hugged each of them once again before they walked out of the house.

"I'll be back in the morning," Paul told them as he headed out behind them with the shopping list in his hand. "I'll pick up all these things for you."

"Thank you," Derek called as the door shut behind them and they heard the vehicles pull down the driveway. "So what now, Baby Girl?"

"We need to give this one a bath and get him to bed." She took Jamie from him.

"I can do that, you know." He gave her a look. "I would like to give him a bath."

"Ten minutes," she stated as she handed Jamie back over to him again.

"Ten minutes for what?"

"I give you ten minutes before you ask for help," she told him. "That's giving you a chance too, because I don't expect you to last more than five minutes."

"I'll just have to prove you wrong," he told her. "Just tell me where his shampoo and things are."

"They're in the bathroom. You'll see them on the cabinet when you walk in."

"Got it," he started up the stairs with Jamie. "I'll see you in a little while."

"Sooner than you think," she smirked as she started to clean up the downstairs.

Penelope was sitting on the couch as she listened to the commotion upstairs. She smiled as Jamie's yells got louder and she grabbed her camera before heading up the stairs. She slowly opened the bathroom door and saw Jamie kicking his feet, causing him to splash the water all over Derek.

"Smile," Penelope said and she snapped a picture of a soaking wet Derek as he turned to look at her. "Are you ready to call surrender yet?"

"Ok," he sighed. "I need your help, but I would like to try to do this on my own. So give me a hint on what I'm doing wrong."

"Open the bottom of the cabinet," she pointed.

Derek went to the one behind the door that held all the baby shampoo and lotion on the top. He opened the doors on the bottom and sighed.

"Seriously?" he looked back at her. "He wants bath toys?"

"I let him play and splash around for at least ten minutes before I even attempt to wash him," she told him. "It makes the process a lot easier."

"All right, so do you want to help me?" he asked her.

"No, I'm going to give you a chance." She smiled. "There's a hooded towel for him when you're done. Just bring him into the master bedroom when you're done so I can get him ready for bed."

"Got it," he put the squirt toys in the water and Jamie immediately calmed down and started making car noises as he splashed around.

Penelope walked into the master bedroom with everything she would need to get Jamie ready for bed; a fresh diaper and a new pair of pajamas was underneath the bottle of baby lotion, while a sippy cup of formula was sitting on top of his favorite bedtime story book. She also had his blanket and stuffed dog ready and waiting for him.

"All done," Derek came in twenty minutes later with Jamie wrapped in a hooded towel that looked like a turtle.

"Hey, honey." Penelope took him into her arms. "You're probably exhausted. There was a lot of excitement for you today."

Derek sat on the other side of the bed and watched her get him ready for bed. She fastened a diaper on him before smoothing lotion over his entire body. She got him into a two-piece pajama set that had puppies on them and sat him on the bed in between her and Derek.

"Does daddy want to read him a story?" Penelope looked at Derek.

"Absolutely," he took the book from her. "Good night Moon?"

"His favorite," she told him as she gave Jamie his cup and covered him with his blanket and set his stuffed dog beside him.

Derek snuggled closer to them as he opened the book and started to read it aloud. Jamie slowly drank his formula as he watched the pictures on the pages as he occasionally looked at Derek as he read to him. Derek closed the book after he read the last page as Penelope lifted Jamie and started off the bed.

"Does he need to be rocked to sleep?" Derek asked as he followed her.

"No," she shook her head as they walked into the nursery. "He'll fall asleep on his own. He just needs his dog and blanket; and he won't sleep without the pacifier."

Penelope kissed Jamie's head, Derek doing the same, before laying him down in the crib. She covered him with his blanket and gave him his stuffed dog, which he clutched in his one arm. She gave him his pacifier, which he placed in his mouth by himself and immediately closed his eyes. Penelope flipped on the night light and grabbed one end of the monitor before turning out the overhead light and leading Derek out of the room.

Derek followed her to the master bedroom, where they both lay down on the bed and sighed. He looked over at her and saw that she was about ready to fall asleep as well.

"And you did this by yourself all these months?" he asked her.

"It's easier now that he's older," she looked over at him. "I wished I had you here to help me every day."

"I wish I was here," he told her. "But we can talk everything out tomorrow. We both need to sleep."

"Yes," she yawned. "Will you stay in here with me tonight?"

"Only if you want me to,"

"Absolutely," she smiled at him. "I've missed our cuddles."

"What time does Jamie wake up in the mornings?"

"It depends," she sighed. "Sometimes he wakes up as early as six, but sometimes he'll sleep until almost ten."

"I will get him if he wakes up early," he told her. "You are going to get a chance to sleep in, and I'll make breakfast too."

"I'll try to sleep," she told him. "But by now, my built-in clock will wake me up."

"At least try," he smiled at her.

"I will, I promise." She snuggled closer to him as he turned out the light and he tightly held her against him all night long.

AN: So what'd you all think? I hope you liked this. I will try to post the next chapter by the weekend. PLZ R&R!