Disclaimer: I do not own criminal minds. I am just having a little fun.
Hey guys, I'm sorry i have taken so long to update I went back over chapter 4 and i wasn't happy with it. And that is what was taking so long I'm still not sure I'm happy with it but i figure you have waited long enough. I hope you like it.
Derek was at sitting his desk doing reports trying hard not to think about the woman down the hall in her office. When he heard someone calling his name.He looked up from the reports to find Hotch at the door of his office. " Morgan my office," sighing Derek got up wondering what he had done now. Have a seat Hotch told him, Derek sat wondering about Hotch's frown and wondering what could be up.
"Derek did you know that Garcia has handed in her resignation?" asked Hotch.
"She What?" Derek Shouted leaping out of the chair.
"I take it you didn't know?" Hotch asked him.
"No why the hell is she leaving?" Derek asked, pacing the floor.
"That's what I was asking you, as you two are pretty close so I thought you might know. She said she had a better job offer she asked me not to say anything to anyone I guess she wants to tell you all herself. Hotch said.
"No she never said a word to me, I didn't even know that she had received one." Derek said sitting back down in the chair.
He thought about all the times he felt intense jealously at some guy when he saw them talking to her, And of all the uncontrollable thoughts he had been having lately about kissing Penelope and more. And about how the other night he had called his date by Penelope's name something he had never done in his life.
And the thought of her leaving was terrifying. He cared for her,their friendship was instant. They had been friends from the first day they had met and that friendship had grown stronger every day. And just then it struck him as to how blind and stupid he had been.
"Oh my god! I am absolutely and hopelessly in love with Penelope Garcia." He didn't realise he had said it out loud till he heard Hotch say "Tell me something i don't know, we wondered when you were going to figure it out" he said with a smile.
"What" Derek asked.
"Well lets face it " Hotch replied you have been acting like a bear with a sore head for the last few months and it all has to do with Penelope the frowns you have been giving any guy who even dares talk to her. Did you know the guys down in the tech department have been drawing straws to see who would be the one to enter the lions den if they needed anything from Garcia" Hotch said with a laugh.
Derek just shook his head. 'That doesn't help me much Hotch Penelope thinks of me as a brother, she's not in love with me."Derek said.
"Oh my god Derek and you call yourself a profiler?" Hotch said with a shake of his head."
What the hell does that mean?" Derek replied with a frown.
"Just talk to her" Hotch said. "you might be surprised with what you find out."
Derek left Hotch's office and went back to his desk he thought about what Hotch said. Wondering if it could be true and that she felt the same way. They were always flirting it was like second nature to them but he never thought anything of it so maybe Hotch was right.
He liked to think he was, because it would be easier to convince her that they were made for each other. And for her to stay here with the team, with him.
God he'd never been this nervous about a woman before, But then again he'd
never been in love before either.