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"Right I'm gonna head to Pen's but I'll say..." He looked at his watch. "I'll rush her and get us to the bar for say 6? Maybe we should get something to eat."
"Sounds good." Rossi said and everyone agreed. "Italian?" He asked and smiled. "I know a great place."
"We know you do Dave." Hotch stopped him and looked at Caleb. "We'll meet at the bar and go from there."
"Sounds like a good plan." Caleb said and everyone dispersed, he was walking out when he heard Derek call his name, he turned to him and the Derek let the bullpen door shut so they were out of earshot of the team. "What's up Derek?"
"I'm sorry for making you feel uncomfortable. My problem's with Penelope, not with you, I had no right."
"It's okay but if you're not okay with Pen, then you aren't okay with me." Caleb told Derek and he could feel the hold he had on Derek, he was like the Californian equivalent. "She's my sister and what I've learnt over the last weeks is that she might be strong for the most part but there are bits of her that need mega support." Derek went to talk then. "Support might I add that she thought she was going to get from you."
"I'm sorry; I'm not handling it right... I just... I didn't..."
"Expect her to up and leave?"
"Yeah." Derek said as he ran his hand across the back of his neck.
"You got her back a lot quicker than I did." Caleb told him and relaxed. "Just know that she never meant to hurt you, she did what she thought was right for her. She needed to help herself before she helped anyone else."
"Just get her ready and get her out, as of tonight I'm making things right." Caleb had to smile at Derek, the reason suddenly clicking back in with him. "I was an arse because I love you sister and I'm stubborn as hell when I wanna be and her leaving without telling us hurt more than I want to acknowledge."
Caleb put his hand on Derek's shoulder. "Don't mess with her or you'll mess with me."
"I carry the same rule where Penelope's usually concerned." Derek told him and then laughed unsure. "Except for lately."
"You have your reasons." He told the man that he could see himself liking. "Right I'm gonna shoot, get her to hurry up for once but I'll see you later Derek." He told him and then left, Derek watched him leave; he headed back into the bullpen and sat down. He still had a lot he needed to talk to Penelope about but he was done playing her sworn enemy, that wasn't them, she was his baby girl.
Caleb parked on the curb across the road from Pen's apartment block; it was as he drew closer he could see the destruction and hysteria that had occurred. In the aftermaths of a mass raid people were in a state of shock, some hurt, some unhurt. He picked up his pace as he ran into the building.
"Help me please!" A woman said as she grabbed him. "My husband, he's hurt!"
"Ma'am get back into your apartment, I need you to stay with your husband and call for help." The woman went to protest. "If he's building hold something to the wound, but you're safer in your apartment than out here right now." Another person came towards him. "Same for everyone, call for help and then help one another."
He then left the first floor residence and ran up the stairs, he saw the doors up, busted locks, sprayed on walls and he ran straight to Pen's apartment, entering he saw everything that could be broke broken. He then saw his sister in amongst the rubble of her things, barely breathing and he panicked.
"Penelope!" He knew it was stupid to yell out but he had to, he got next to her and pulled her onto her back and her breathing heaved as she opened her eyes and looked at him. "Come on kiddo...' he said as she looked up and grimaced. 'What the hell happened?"
"S-s-someone broke..." She heaved again. "Broke in and just came at me."
"I'm gonna get some help, just keep calm for me okay?" Penelope nodded slowly and she closed her eyes, Caleb looked over his sister as he rang for help, he could see the head wound she was sporting, her breathing told him her ribs were damaged and he hoped that at the worst it'd be just a beating she got. He felt the anger boil in his veins at the thought of someone hurting her, the same surge had hit him when she'd told him she'd been shot. "Pen, I need you to stay awake." Penelope opened her eyes groggily. "You're going to be fine." Was the last words he got in before she fell unconscious for good.
Once at the hospital, she was taken from him in amongst the chaos of the other patients from her apartment bloke and he stood in a daze in the waiting room. "Caleb...Caleb." Hotch called out as he rushed over. "What the hell's happened?"
"The police are treating this as the second apartment block to be raided in the last month, erm, Pen she was beaten and her apartment was ransacked, she wasn't the only one. Nearly every single person in that apartment block had been attacked and robbed from."
"Is she going to be okay?" Derek asked panicking, the team looked shocked at the empathy he was exerting over her, wishing it hadn't taken her to get hurt to change things. "Please man; tell me she's going to be okay?"
"They had to put her on a spinal board and put a C collar on because they didn't know what damage to her chest and back occurred. Her breathing was sharp which told me she's got damage to her chest but I think she's fine apart from that and a head wound."
"It's okay they make it look worse than they do in order to be precautious." Rossi reassured him and put his hand on Caleb's shoulder. "Did you talk to her?"
"She just said someone had broken in and went for her. Can you believe it, the one night she's fully ready to go out and this happens. She was just getting her life back together."
"She's gonna be fine, she's got us on her side now, we know not to let her run now." Hotch said and kept his eyes with Derek the entire time. "I'll go and see if there's any news." He came back anxiously and just stood and waited for them to come around. "Doctor's just coming out, concussion seems to be severe but not too severe, they've just brought her back from doing an x-ray but at most she's just bruised up. "
"Is that all?" Caleb asked scared as he watched the man. "What else is there?"
"They're just doing a rape kit." He told them and the mood dropped further than it already had and Derek let out an angered growl, as did Caleb. They all took a spot in the room nearest the doors and as the doctor came out they didn't want to get too high hopes.
"Garcia? Penelope Garcia?" He called out and he saw the group and he went to them. "She's doing okay; we'll discharge her in the morning. The x-ray's and a physical examination showed she's got some damage to her ribs, x-ray showed two breaks, a couple of fractures and when we examined her we found immense bruising as a result, she's going to need rest but apart from that there's no other damage that won't heal. We did a rape kit just to be sure but we can rule out she wasn't sexually assaulted. Apart from that she's got a headache from hitting her head and she's just bruised and cut up but like I said she's doing okay, she'll just need to take it easy."
"Can we see her?"
"Someone can go down to her now but until she's moved upstairs to her own room only one person." He said and Caleb stepped forward and the doctor took him down and to a closed curtain. "We'll be taking her up in about 5 minutes but you're welcome to stay with her."
"Thank you." He said and stepped around the curtain, Penelope looked over at him. "Don't scare me like that."
"Sorry." She said and moved to sit up a little. "You gonna stay with me until tomorrow?"
"If that's what you want sis then that's what I'll do." He said and moved her fringe back, just being able to see the cut that obviously went into her hair. "When we're upstairs I'm gonna call the others."
"Derek won't care anyway so don't bother."
"Derek's outside looking ready to hit something P, as are the rest of the them but our brother's need to know." He could see the tears in her eyes as she looked away. "What's up?"
"This wouldn't have happened if I hadn't cared enough."
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