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She sighed and leaned back on her chair and closed her eyes. She was going to miss her friends immensely, she was even going to miss him, but after everything leaving was the right thing to do.

"Ma'am would you like a drink before take off?" the stewardess asked. Penelope smiled as she opened her eyes and shook her head. The stewardess nodded in acknowledgement and headed back to the front of the plane.

"Is this your first time going to Paris?" the young lady who looked about eighteen asked somewhat nervously beside her.

"No, I spent a couple of summers here while I was in College, one of my majors was French Literature and I was lucky enough to do a couple of the Summer programs. Is this your first time?"

"Yeah, I'm back packing for the summer. It's the first time I've left home on my own."

"You'll be fine. As long as you use your common sense and trust your gut instincts you'll have no problem." Penelope assured her.

"I'm Pen by the way," Penelope said introducing herself,

"Ashleigh," the young girl replied taking Penelope's hand to shake it.

"What do you mean she's gone?" Derek asked. He had stormed right into Hotch's office when he saw Penelope's bunker being inhabited by some tech analyst other than Penelope,

"Just that. She's gone. She came in a few weeks ago and handed in her resignation, effective immediately."

"Why didn't anyone tell me?"

"She asked us not to. I'm sorry Morgan, she asked very little of any of us, and if that was one request she asked for, it would be with good reason." Morgan had spent the last two months stewing in his own stupidity, he knew that she was barring his calls and emails as they always bounced back to him, but he had hoped that the time would lessen her anger. He admitted to himself that the reason he hadn't tried as hard as he could of, was because he didn't exactly know what to say, or how he felt.

"What happened?" Hotch asked quietly,

"I was an Ass." Was Derek's only response before walking out of his office, he was back at Quantico, after his three months in the New York office, he made the decision that it wasn't for him and asked Hotch to come back to the BAU.

Emily followed him to the lift, got in and pressed the roof access. Emily led his to the spot that was still sacred to her. It was where she went when she missed her friend.

"Do we know where she is? Is she okay?" he asked as his mind whirled with questions.

"She's doing okay. She emails to let us know that she's okay. She won't disclose where she is, but she checks in regularly enough that Hotch hasn't put a trace for her whereabouts. She called me once, when my friend Matthew passed away. How she knew, well I guess she's Garcia. It was comforting to know that she's still looking out for all of us you know?"

"Hello," Emily answered her phone as she sat on the front steps of the church after they had taken into custody the priest that was responsible for Matthew's death. Emily could hear the crackling on the phone before she heard her friend's voice,

"Hey," Pen said hesitantly.

"Pen?"

"Yeah hon, I just wanted to call. I know it's been a hard week for you, and I wish I could be there. I just wanted to let you know that I was thinking of you."

"I miss you Pen." Emily said through her tears,

"I miss you too Em."

"What happened Morgan?" Em asked searchingly,

"That weekend I was supposed to come down and hang with everyone, I, we, we slept together." He stammered. Emily's eyes widened, though it was one of the scenarios she played with in her head, she never fully considered it, but the revelation made it easier to make sense of Pen's actions,

"And?" she prodded knowing there was more to it than that,

"I walked. I left her a note and went back to New York. I got scared and I bailed."

"Morgan, you idiot!" she said stating the obvious.

"It was like all my life all the other girls that came before weren't real, and the moment it happened, it was the realist moment of my life. That scared me. As I stared at her as she slept she held my whole happiness in her hand and I couldn't take the chance that she would wake up and realise we had made a mistake,"

"So you bailed? MORGAN!" Emily said exasperatedly smacking him on the arm.

"I tried to talk to her, email but she's barred me. So I thought giving her time might help."

"Oh Morgan, she thinks you thought you made a mistake. Pen's always had this thing of you not seeing past the technical geek best friend, that you would and could never see her as a woman. She thinks you regret that night and that you're ashamed of it."

"I messed up Em, and I don't know how or if I can ever fix this."