Arriving back to her own place Penelope let herself in and closed the door, leaning against it she looked around she hadn't been here since Battle had come to shoot her again. Spotting Morgan's hoodie still on the back of the sofa she walked to it, holding it to her face she dropped onto the sofa and started crying into it.

She wanted to call him so bad, she wanted him to take away all the pain but she couldn't-he was the cause of her pain…some of it anyway.

Throwing the hoodie down she stood up and walked to her bedroom, stopping she stared at her dresser that held a few bottles of perfume and a few frames. Walking to it she picked up one of her and Rossi at one of the Christmas parties, they looked so happy. Walking to the bed with the picture she dropped onto it and continued to look hard at it, she needed to find some proof he was telling the truth.

After ten minutes all she could come up with was they had the same smile, throwing it on the bed she walked to her wardrobe and opened it. Rummaging around she pulled out a box, walking back to the bed she dumped it on it and sat down beside it. Opening it she peered into it, she had opened it once after her parents died and couldn't face it so it had gone into the wardrobe and never came out again.

Finding a tattered photo album she pulled it out and shoved the box away, opening the cover her eyes swam with tears. The first photo she saw was of her Davy and their dad-Rossi, he didn't look the same as he did now. His hair was darker and styled differently, he was built heavier too, his skin colour was lighter than it was now. Sighing she closed it over it was him-he was her dad.

Standing up she abandoned the box and everything else and walked to the kitchen, pulling a bottle of wine from her fridge she walked to the sofa and dropped onto it. She was still on meds but she didn't care, throwing the cap onto the table she guzzled as much as she could. Laying her head back she closed her eyes….why was her life so complicated.

She didn't remember much about her dad it had been twenty seven years, she'd always wondered where he was and what type of job he was in but whenever she asked her mother refused to tell her saying Joseph was her dad now she didn't need to know anything else.

She hit it off with him from the start but as she got older she began to dislike him, he treated her mother like a slave and she allowed it she didn't think anything was wrong with it. Scoffing she stood up "thanks mom," she muttered and walked back to her bedroom, grabbing the blanket off the chair she climbed out the window and went up to the roof-her safe haven she called it.

….

Down at BAU everyone was still there Morgan and Rossi in their own offices, Reid JJ Emily and Hotch still in the round table room "what do we do?" JJ asked after calling Penelope again.

Hotch stood up "leave Garcia to cool off for the night, it was a big shock for her, she's upset and angry…she didn't mean anything she said," he said and walked to the door "I'm going to go see Dave you lot should head home," he added and walked off.

"I think I better go see Morgan," Reid said and stood up "this is my fault I never should have told him."

"It's not your fault Spenc," JJ said also standing up "he shouldn't have kept this from her-from any of us, he should have done the right thing and told her when he arrived here."

"I still feel like it's my fault, I know his temper and I know how he gets when it comes to Garcia," he sighed "see you guys tomorrow," he said and walked out of the room.

Emily stood up "I don't care what he says, I'm going to go see her."

"I'll come with you," JJ said following her "she's gonna need her friends."

Reid reached Morgan's office and tapped on the door "hey," he said leaning against it.

"Hey," he muttered back, he was too busy staring at the photo of her she had placed on his desk when she got him this office.

"She's just angry and upset," Reid said walking into the room " she didn't mean what she said."

"And she has every right to be," he sighed "I should have told her the minute you told me, I'm such an idiot I've just lost the best thing to ever happen to me."

"Give her time to cool down, let her get her head around it."

"No," Morgan said sanding up "I need to see her now, I need to know she's okay," he said and grabbed his keys "she's gonna need me there…later kid," he said and walked by him.

"Morgan I really think you should give her the night!" Reid called after him.

"I'm not losing her!" he called and stepped into the elevator.

In Rossi's office Hotch placed a glass of brandy down in front of him "what happens now?" he asked sitting across from him.

Rossi sighed and clutched the glass "I have no idea Aaron, I have no idea," he said and looked up at him "any suggestions?"

"Leave her for a few days, let it all sink in, she'll have questions, let her make the first move…I've given her a week off, well that's what I've submitted to the higher ups," he said and stood up "don't lose faith now Dave….it will get better," he said and walked out of the room.

Rossi sighed and looked down at the picture he kept in his wallet…how did he fix this?


Morgan arrived at her place and climbed out he stopped when he saw JJ and Emily walk out "she's not there," JJ said as she walked back to the car "she's not answering if she is," she added.

"I have a key," he muttered and walked by them, getting to her floor he walked to her door and knocked. When he got no answer he pulled out his keys and fiddled until he found hers, sliding it into the lock he turned it and pushed it in slowly he didn't want to scare her "babe?" he said softly.

"Penelope?" he called closing the door behind him, walking to the sofa he looked at the half empty wine bottle propped up against one of the pillows and sighed. Picking it up he found the cap on the table, screwing it back on he put it back in the fridge and continued his search for her. Getting to her bedroom he walked to the bed and looked at the box, picking up the photo album he opened it and smiled she was such a cute kid.

Seeing the blind blow he walked to the window and saw it was open a crack, knowing where she was he pulled it up and climbed out onto the fire escape. Making his way up to the roof he climbed over and looked around…it didn't look this big from the ground.

Walking he looked from side to side wondering where she could be, halfway down he spotted a figure leaning on the far wall just looking up at the sky, it was her it had to be, picking up his pace he quickly made his way to her.

As he leaned on the wall beside her she glanced at him but didn't say anything.

He sighed and looked over at her again "babe I'm so sorry," he said softly "but you have to believe I only found out for sure today and I warned him to tell you the second we got back."

"Do you ever think that the sky could fall?" she asked still staring up at it.

"No," he said slowly "why?" he asked.

"Because I feel like I'm falling but I'm not actually falling…if you look at it long enough it looks like it's falling," she replied.

Morgan sighed again she was completely avoiding the topic "babe, we're gonna have to talk about this," he said moving closer to her.

"What's there to talk about?" she asked looking at him "my dad is here-has been here for the last three years and he didn't bother to tell me."

Morgan wrapped his arm around her "I know you're upset and probably have a million and one questions, but I know Rossi he wouldn't have done this without a good reason."

"Yeah he had a reason," she muttered and moved away from him "he didn't give a damn about me!" she hissed and started to walked back to the fire escape.

"Baby you know that's not true," he called after.

"Well it feels true to me Derek!" she yelled back "you have no idea how much this hurts! Once you hit the fire escape keep going to the ground!" she added before she disappeared.

"I lost my dad when I was a kid Garcia!" he yelled after her "I'd do anything to have just one more day with him! You have your second chance!"

….

Getting back to her apartment she climbed in and left the window open…she knew he wasn't going anywhere, she was too tired to fight with him. Throwing the box to the floor she threw the picture of her and Rossi in it and pulled back her covers, not even bothering to change she fell into the bed.

Just as she pulled the covers up over herself Morgan climbed through the window "don't forget to close it," she said and rolled away from him.

Morgan sighed and walked to the bed "Penelope will you talk to me please?" he asked.

"I'm tired," she muttered.

"I don't care," he said yanking the covers off her "I am not losing you over this, we need to talk."

"Alright then lets talk!" she hissed and jumped out of the bed "how long exactly have you known he was my dad? How long have you been keeping it from me? After you kissed me? After you told me you loved me and slept with me? When Derek?" she yelled.

"It wasn't like that!" he yelled back.

"How long?" she yelled.

"Six days," he said "now will you listen to me?"

She narrowed her eyes at him "six days? You've known for six days?"

"Babe will you please just let me talk?" he asked walking to her.

"So talk…and don't call me that," she said dropping back onto the bed.

Morgan sat beside her "the day Davy came to see you," he started "Reid was at the hospital with Rossi-we were asleep," he added. "When he saw Rossi he started arguing with him, Reid was in the bathrooms and could hear them…Davy said dad and walked off telling him to stay away from you."

Penelope nodded "he's a touchy subject with Davy."

"Reid never told anyone because he was trying to get the truth from Rossi before he told you, he said something about imagine how Rossi's feeling when JJ informed me why they went to talk to this Battle guy without me."

"You'd have killed him," she said.

"That's what JJ said, anyway I asked Reid why Rossi's feeling mattered and he got all weird and jumped up, he said it was because he'd found you when you got shot. When he hurried off I followed him and he told me then."

"Why didn't you tell me then?" she asked.

"Because he wasn't sure that's what Davy meant, he said he only told me because he needed another opinion on whether to tell you or not…so we decided to keep it to ourselves until I could get Rossi alone and ask him out straight."

"And when was that?" she asked.

"Today in Georgia, me and Reid went with him and sent the girls with Hotch."

"So how did Hotch JJ and Emily find out?"

"Hotch has known since you got shot…after Rossi flipped he followed him, he must have told him then. I don't know how the other two found out," Morgan said and slid his hand into hers "baby I would never do anything to hurt you, you have to believe that."


Penelope sat just looking down at their hands she didn't know what to say, she didn't know what to feel. Pulling her hand away from his she stood up "was he ever going to tell me?"

"I told him he had to as soon as we got back or I would," Morgan replied.

"That's what the message was all about," she said out loud.

"What message?" Morgan frowned.

"He text me while you were in Georgia," she explained "he told me he needed to talk to me about something important that he'd call me when he landed."

Morgan sighed, if he'd just kept his big mouth shut she wouldn't be like this and would probably be talking to Rossi about it right now. He stood up and walked to her "I'm so sorry babe, he called me when I was leaving I asked him if he was going to tell you, when he asked could we talk in his office I said no he'd had his chance…I was going to tell you."

"Well it's done now, no one can take back what way it came out…can you go?" she asked. "I need a bit of time to myself, I need to figure out what happens next."

"And us?" he asked.

"I need to think about that too," she said and walked to her bed "night Morgan," she said and climbed in.

"Night," he sighed and walked to her door "I love you, you know that right?" he asked stopping at it.

"I know," she said and rolled facing away from him.

Morgan sighed again and walked to her front door hoping this wasn't the end of them.

Penelope sighed and rolled to look at the ceiling, thinking about what Morgan had said about Davy she shot up "I'll kill him!" she yelled as it dawned on her, she jumped out of the bed and looked for her shoes.

Finding them she threw them on and grabbed her phone, dialling his number she put the phone between her shoulder and chin. Walking to her wardrobe she pulled out a bag and started to fling clothes in it "Davy!" she yelled as soon as he answered.

"What's wrong with you?" he chuckled.

"Dad's here!" she yelled "but you know about that didn't you? David Jack Garcia I could kill you! I'm coming to you," she said and hung up.

Scribbling a quick note she stuck it in an envelope and threw it on the table, taking one last look around she slipped out the door and locked it behind her.

….

It was now into the second day and Morgan was starting to get worried, he'd decided to give her some space to think things through…he thought she would have called by now "anyone heard from Penelope?" he asked the others.

"I called by last night but no one was there," Reid said.

"I called her last night and this morning, it just went to mail," JJ said.

Morgan sighed "so no one has heard from her?" he asked and stood up "I have to go see her," he said and walked out of the room.

Hotch looked around the room "no one has heard from her?" he asked thinking they had lied to Morgan.

"No," Emily said "we haven't, we've all tried."

Rossi sighed "she cancelled all my calls yesterday."

Hotch nodded "hopefully Morgan can get through to her."

Over at Penelope's place Morgan knocked twice before he pulled his key out, letting himself in he looked around before walking to her room. Seeing her open wardrobe with half her clothes missing panic set in, hurrying to her bedside locker where he knew she kept her passport he pulled it open. When he couldn't find it the panic set in even deeper, walking to the living room to call Hotch he stopped at the letter with his name on it.

Picking it up he opened it and dropped onto the sofa gone to Miami, don't know when I'll be back-if I'll be back, don't worry "Penelope," he sighed and grabbed his phone "hey Hotch," he said "she's gone."

"What do you mean she's gone?" Hotch asked getting everyone's attention.

"She's not here, her clothes are gone, her passport and money are gone too…she left me a note saying she doesn't know when she'll be back, if she'll be back and not to worry," Morgan sighed "what do we do now?"

"We go after her…come back here," he said and hung up.

"What was all that about?" JJ asked.

Hotch sighed and looked at Rossi "she's taken off," he said and walked to the door "as soon as Morgan gets back we leave."

"What do you mean she's taken off?" Reid yelled running after him.

"It means she took clothes money and her passport-she's gone Reid," he replied and walked down to his office.

"Any idea where she could be?" Emily asked.

"She has aunts and uncles scattered all over America," Rossi said.

"Davy's," JJ said jumping up "she doesn't talk to any of them she has to be in Miami."

"She is, I called Davy," Morgan said walking into the room "she doesn't know we're coming."

"Everyone go get your go bags," Rossi said and hurried out of the room.

"Rossi!" Morgan called "if she doesn't come back with me I'm gonna kill you," he said seriously.

"Kill him on the jet," JJ said pushing him towards the elevator "we have to go now."


Down in Miami Penelope was out with Davy's wife Amelia and their son Brogan "this place is awesome," she chuckled "I don't ever wanna go home."

"I think Davy would love that," Amelia chuckled "so you've met your dad?" she asked, when Penelope had arrived she'd left them alone to talk.

"You have too?" she asked.

Amelia nodded "he turned up here two years ago to see Davy, but he wouldn't he just closed the door in his face after yelling at him for ten minutes…I went out to him after he sat in his car for an hour, he was really upset."

Penelope sighed "I've worked with him for over three years and I didn't even know."

"It's not the only time your father has contacted him," Amelia said and sat down on a bench "as you know Davy and I have been together since we were fifteen."

Penelope nodded "I just knew you'd stay together and get married."

Amelia chuckled "god knows why, the night your mom and dad…Joe passed away, do you remember Davy went missing for the night?"

Penelope nodded "he went to stay with aunt Marie."

"He didn't , that's just what he told you and they rest of the family."

Penelope frowned "why did he lie? I was eighteen I would have understood…where did he go?"

Amelia smiled sadly "he was trying to protect you, your dad arrived to see you both and he wouldn't let him in the house. When he heard you coming down the stairs he shoved him to his car and took off with him…they stayed out all night in that car just talking."

"So Davy kept him away from me?" she asked taking it all in "…how many times did my dad show up?"

Amelia sighed "Nell, it's not for me to tell you should talk to him," she said softly.

"I'm asking you Amelia," she said angrily "how many times has my brother kept my father away from me?"

Amelia sighed again "since you were six," she said and looked up at her "he'd come home after your mom got with Joe, you guys were happy he didn't want to ruin that so when he started showing up looking to see you Davy would take you and hide until he left."

Penelope sighed she hated having an older brother "why?" she whimpered "why didn't he let me see my dad?"

"He was trying to protect you Nell," she said squeezing her hand "your mom said awful stuff about your dad to him, she turned him against him and it just stuck with him the rest of his life…he didn't know any better."

"So my dad didn't just forget about me?" she asked standing up "he tried to see me? He wanted to see me?" she asked.

Amelia nodded "I begged him to tell you, I asked him to let you make up your own mind about him, but he was too stubborn insisting it was better if you never saw him again."

Penelope grabbed her bag "if you'll excuse me I have to go murder my brother," she said and walked off.

….

"Davy!" she screeched as she flung the door off the wall, she narrowed her eyes as he stuck his head out of the kitchen "you bastard!" she yelled and threw her bag at him "how could you do this to me!"

Davy dodged the bag and glanced at the team in the kitchen "what are you talking about?" he asked walking to her.

She lashed out and slapped him across the face "dad did try to see me!" she yelled "he has always tried to see me and you kept him from me!" she yelled.

In the kitchen everyone looked at Rossi as he closed his eyes and a pained expression crossed his face.

"Nell," he sighed.

"Just tell me why you did it!" she cried.

"He left us!" Davy yelled "he just walked out on us without a second thought! I kept him from you because he didn't deserve to know us!"

Rossi jumped up angrily he'd had enough "that is not true!" he yelled storming into the living room "I fought your mother tooth and nail for you two!"

Davy scoffed "you came over once after you left and we never saw you again."

"That is a lie and you damn well know it!" Rossi yelled "I came to see you kids every day! If you weren't hiding with her or your mother wasn't being the bitch she was I did see you two, I spent as much time with you as I could."

"The park," Penelope said "I remember you took us to the park across the street a lot."

Rossi sighed "yes princess I did, it was as far as your mother would let me take you…do you remember what we used to do?" he asked slowly walking to her.

"We used to go on the swings-you'd take turns pushing us," she giggled to herself "I was afraid to go down the tunnel slide so you came with me and got stuck halfway down."

Rossi chuckled "when I finally got out you insisted we do it again."

Penelope smiled as a tear ran down her cheek "and you did."

Rossi wiped her tears "I'd do anything to make you happy sweetie."

She chuckled "so my name is Penelope Rossi?" she asked.

"Yes baby it is," he chuckled.

"Please don't call me that again," she groaned "Morgan calls me that all the time it sounds creepy coming from you…no offence."

"None taken," he replied "so what do you say? Do you want to come for dinner with me and we can talk properly?"

"That's it?" Davy yelled "he's forgiven just like that?"

"You're not!" she snapped "mom brainwashed you Davy can you not see that?" she asked walking to him. Taking his hand she looked up at him "she turned you against him and ruined us getting to know our dad."

"I don't care," Davy said pulling away from her "we were better off without him-we still are," he said and walked up the stairs.


In the kitchen everyone sat lost in their own thoughts-they'd all been quick to judge Rossi without even hearing the real story.

Morgan looked towards the living room as he heard his name mentioned, standing up he walked to the door to listen.

"Don't be mad at Morgan," Rossi said "he was just trying to do the right thing by you, he didn't lie to you-not really."

"I'm not mad at him," she sighed "I'm just…hurt that he didn't come to me right away."

"He was trying to protect you from getting hurt," Rossi said squeezing her hand "do you think you two could get pass this?" he asked "because I think he'd be heart broken. Even when the others were giving him grief about it the smile never left his face…he's in love with you sweetie, you'll never find another man that loves you as much as he does."

"I don't want to," she said honestly "I love him as much as he loves me…I'm not walking away from him, I just don't want to see him until I know what I want."

In the kitchen Morgan smiled widely turning back to the grinning team he put his hands in the air "thank the lord," he said and dropped back into his seat.

"You know we could hear everything from here?" Reid said "so you didn't even need to get up."

JJ slapped him on the back of the head "guys lets slip out the back and leave them alone."

"Yeah I feel wrong listening to this," Emily said and followed her.

"Hey" Morgan protested as Hotch and Reid pulled him from the chair.

"Shut up Morgan," Hotch said "you heard her she's gonna call you…let her catch up with her dad," he said and pulled him out the door.

"What exactly happened between you and mom?" Penelope asked curiously "you must have loved her at some stage."

"Why don't we save all this until we get home," he suggested.

"No, I want to know…just tell me that then everything else can wait-please?" she added.

Rossi blew out a deep breath "okay, you're old enough to hear the truth…she cheated on me, I did love her-she was the love of my life."

Penelope nodded as she took it all in, her mom had told her that he didn't love any of them and had just left.

She looked up as Davy came down the stairs "could use a drink," he said grabbing his keys "…what about you two?" he asked and opened the door.

Penelope pulled Rossi to his feet "we could," she said and walked to him "thank you," she said kissing him on the cheek.

"I'm not making any promises," he said looking at Rossi "I'm doing this for her."

"That's fine by me," Rossi replied "all I want is a chance to explain."

"Let's go then," she said pulling them both out the door.

…..

"So you suspected mom was cheating?" Davy asked.

Rossi nodded "my partner had told me he saw her leave a bar with some guy, I didn't believe him but then it happened again…so I followed her the next night she went out."

"And?" Penelope asked.

"And I followed her to a motel where she went into a room with some guy," he sighed.

"Joe?" Davy asked.

"No he came later," Rossi said "I confronted her that night and she asked me why I was surprised that I was never there-which I wasn't."

"So what happened after that?" Penelope asked "you just left?"

"No, we tried to work it out and she did it again a couple of weeks later, I took you two and went to aunt Marie's, I was determined to keep you two but the courts ruled in your moms favour because of my job and I had no permanent address."

"Why didn't you just leave your job then?" Davy asked as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"I did," he replied "I told the bosses I couldn't travel anymore that I needed to be moved to a unit that kept me in town and had me home at a decent hour."

"What happened then?" Penelope asked.

Rossi sighed "they asked me to do one last case in Alaska…it was one of those cases where we couldn't catch the guy for a while. When I came back mom had moved Joe in and you two were already calling him daddy," he said and looked down at his glass "you looked so happy, you were settled…you didn't even miss me."

"That's not true," Davy said "she still cried for you every night," he said nodding to Penelope "she remembered you."

"What happens now?" Penelope asked "are we gonna be a family or are we gonna pretend this never happened?"

Rossi slid his hand onto hers "I'm never leaving you again sweetie, I promise," he said and looked over at Davy "and I'd like to stay in touch with you too son."

Davy stared at him for a few minutes before he nodded and stood up "Amelia is probably wondering where I am…let me know if you're both coming back to the house," he said and kissed Penelope on the cheek before walking off.

Penelope turned to him "when are you expected back?" she asked.

"No rush," he smiled "the team are around here somewhere," he chuckled.

"All of them?" she asked.

Rossi chuckled "yes, princess Morgan is here."

"Is he mad at me?"

"Not at all, he wanted to come find you-they all did," Rossi replied and stood up "how about we go find them?"

"No, I don't want to see them yet" she said pulling him back "can I have my first real hug?" she asked.

"Anything for you baby-princess," he chuckled and opened his arms.

Penelope jumped to her feet and walked into his arms, she sighed happily as he closed his arms around her and held her tight "I missed you daddy," she mumbled and closed her eyes, she had waited so long for this.

"I missed you more sweetie," he said resting his chin on her head, his heart swelled with pride, it had been so long since he'd been called daddy-nothing could ever take away this feeling.


"Morgan would you stop!" Emily said shoving him.

"What?" he asked rubbing his arm.

"Stop looking at the door every time it opens," JJ said.

"Yeah Morgan, Rossi said they were on the way," Reid said "they'll get here when they get here."

"Morgan!" Rossi called from the doorway.

"Where's Penelope?" he asked hurrying to him.

"She's gone back to Davy's," he replied "she's not ready to see any of you yet…she asked me to let you know she was sorry and she'd talk to you when she got home."

"Okay," he sighed and walked back to the table.

"Where's Penelope?" JJ asked as Morgan and Rossi sat down.

"She needs more time," was all Morgan said.

JJ frowned but nodded anyway and turned to Rossi "how did it go with you?"

"Good," he replied "I told them everything, they asked questions, I answered as best I could-we still have a lot to talk about."

"What about Davy?" Hotch asked "has he come round?"

"I think so," he answered "only time will tell I guess."

"Hey Rossi," Reid said "I'm sorry I didn't get your side of the story before I told Morgan."

"Yeah we're all sorry," Emily said "we didn't know what you went through, all we knew was what Garcia knew…what she was told."

"Don't worry about it it's all done now…hopefully we can all get back on track," he said.

JJ stood up as her phone rang and watched Morgan walk outside, answering it she listened and ended the call "sorry guys we have a case we have to head."

"Why don't you sit this one out," Hotch said as Rossi stood up.

"Yeah, we'll be fine…spend some time with your kids," Emily said.

Rossi looked at the others before nodding and sitting down "let me know if you need any help."

"See you back home," Hotch said and followed the others out of the bar.

"Morgan! Let's go!" JJ called as she climbed into the suv.

Morgan looked down at her name on the screen he so badly wanted to call her but she was right she needed to get her head together and figure out what she wants, sighing he put his phone in his pocket and jogged to the suv-she'd call, she said she would.