Monday morning had eventually rolled around and it was time for them to go back to their normal routines; get up, go to work, come home, eat something and then go to sleep and start the cycle over again the next day. But Erin knew she could never go back to normal, all this weekend had done was strengthen her feelings for the younger woman.

Coming home had been the hardest thing she had ever done, she hadn't wanted to leave. Waking early she left before Penelope had even woken, although she had left a note explaining how much she appreciated what Penelope had done for her this weekend she still felt like a coward. When she arrived home she came to the decision to try and forget about this weekend, jumped into the shower and then got ready to leave to go to work.

All day Erin only caught glimpses of Penelope as she was heading to her office or when she was calling into Agent Hotchners office to get updates on recent cases. It was getting impossible for her to keep her eyes of the woman even in those rare moments.

Fortunately, the next few days had kept her busy, so they passed by quickly. She was so busy that she barely got to think about feeding herself, never mind the situation at hand with Penelope. With two of her teams being out on cases that meant double the paperwork to be read over and signed off on. Not only that but there had been an incident when the Alpha team where out and Agent Morgan was shot by an unsub. This gave her the time that was needed to think about how she was going to resolve this issue with Penelope.

Sitting at her desk, staring into space, she never noticed that someone had entered her office. Someone cleared their throat, causing her to jump and look up. Agent Hotchner was standing in front of her desk looking at her with a smirk on his face. Blushing, she waved for him to sit down.

'Is there something I can help you with Agent Hotchner?'

'No ma'am, I was just confirming Penelope's time off to help Agent Morgan while he's recovering.'

At the mention of Penelope's name she felt a heat blossom in her chest. To make sure she didn't let it show she glanced at the window before fidgeting with the pen on her desk. Then she realised that she had already confirmed the time off. Glancing up a Aaron she saw that his face was neutral but she eyed him suspiciously and leaned back in her chair.

'You know as good as I do that Penelope's time off was already confirmed by both myself and the director, so what did you really come to say Aaron?'

Finally Aaron smirked at her.

'You sure you don't want to be a profiler Erin?'

'I'm sure, now what is it?' she said patiently.

'You know exactly what I'm going to say Erin. What exactly happened between yourself and Penelope?'

At this point she broke eye contact with him.

'I don't know what your talking about.'

'Yes you do, First of all Penelope has been calling you by your first time, which she has never done up until the start of this week, secondly you have been avoiding her this week by coming to my office when she has gone out for lunch or gone home and thirdly I know that you have had romantic feelings for her for a while.'

Closing her eyes, Erin took a long breath before looking back at Aaron and sighing.

'Fine, on Friday evening I was upset, Penelope found me crying in the elevator, she offered me to stay at her home for the weekend, at first I refused knowing that I cared for her deeply but she insisted so I did. When I arrived at her apartment I began feeling anxious about the whole thing.' Looking up she found Aaron staring at her waiting for her to continue, so she took a breath and carried on, 'she must have saw me drive up, so she came out, pulled me into her arms and then kissed me... and it progressed further after that.'

'Have you told her you love her yet?'

Shocked Erin asked, 'how did you know?'

'Erin you have hearts in your eyes whenever you look at her or talk about her, and everyone else on the team knows about your feelings, both of your feelings.'

'I don't want to... wait! did you just say both our feelings?'

'I did, Penelope always talks about you and you look at one another with such love that everyone already thinks you have been in a relationship for a long time, you just haven't figured it out for yourselves yet, so I'm here to give you a nudge in the right direction.'

Penelope has feelings for me was all she could think while Aaron was talking to her.

'Thank you Aaron.'

'Your welcome. Now are you going to go tell her you love her?'

'That was the plan, yes. But I thought she would be with Derek.'

'She's at home tonight.' He corrected.

Erin grabbed her keys, and sprinted to the elevators after saying goodnight to Aaron.

Driving to Penelope's had her nervous because she didn't know what to say to Penelope when she got there. Should I just say 'Sorry Penelope for leaving that stupid note, I was just being a coward and couldn't face you because I thought you were going to reject me. But I just had a talk with Aaron and turns out you feel the same way, I'm in love with you.'

Finally she arrived at Penelope's apartment and she still hadn't come up with anything to say to her. Rushing up to the building she opened the door and dashed up the stairs. Standing outside Penelope's door she tried to catch her breath. Finally when her breathing returned to normal she knocked on the wooden door.

It like forever before the door swung open and Penelope was standing in front of her.

'I...I came to...' At that moment her brain froze and she didn't know what to say. So instead of saying anything she did the one thing she could think of, she pulled Penelope to her and kissed her deeply. After a few minutes they pulled apart, breathing heavily.

'Penelope, I love you.'

Penelope looked at her with a huge smile spread over her face.

'I love you too.'And she found herself being dragged into another kiss, silently they promised to never let one another go.