Disclaimer: I own nothing because I'm not cool (or rich) enough!
A.N: Step up the drama bit for the moment =)
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Penelope and Derek hardly left the hospital; they were given an extended time off for personal reasons, even though Strauss had near enough growled her confirmation of Rossi's request. They knew she'd prove problematic, but for now their issues lay with their daughter.
Derek looked at Penelope as she sat down slowly. Either he or his mom had been with her or Annabelle, Derek wanted neither alone and having Penelope now discharged he found it harder to be out of the hospital and away from his daughter.
"You okay Baby Girl?" He asked as he left Annabelle and went over to Penelope. He knelt down and took Penelope's hand and felt it was clammy to the feel.
"Yeah, I'm fine Handsome, just a little tired I guess." She told him and smiled and Derek put his hand to Penelope's face, capturing it to look at her.
"You're a little hot." She nodded." We'll wait for mom to come back, this isn't normal." He said and sat next to her, put his arm around her and pulled her close. The pair just settled for watching there for that moment. "I'm actually surprised you've not been pining for your laptop more." Penelope laughed a little at that. "I mean that is your number one baby."
"Not anymore." Penelope said happily. "I got my number one baby and she's so much better than anything electronic, Sugar."
Penelope was watching her daughter's chest rise and fall, Derek was too, and then the alarms began to sound and they jumped up, Penelope already hysterical. Nurses flooded the room and Annabelle became hidden by their bodies. All Penelope could remember was the day she was born. Her mothering instincts kicked in all over again.
"What's happening? What's wrong with her?" Penelope said and one of the nurses came towards them.
"I'm sorry; we need you to just leave the room a moment. You need to let us do our job right now." She then ushered the pair out.
"Why won't you tell us what's wrong?" Derek asked as they made it outside. "We have a right to know."
"I'll come out with an update in a minute, just let us do what we need to." She told them and the closed the door behind her and the blinds to the window that looked into the room.
Penelope felt sick, she didn't think this would happened, had almost convinced herself to believe it never would happen. She didn't cry out, she just stood motionless, tears running their tracks down her face and Derek just gathered her in his arms. Both sharing their fear.
"Excuse me." They heard from behind them, and they turned to see two officers. "Penelope Garcia?" Penelope stepped out of Derek's grasp and looked at them expectantly. "You're under arrest."
"What?" Derek said as one of them pulled her aside and began the process of handcuffing her. "No, she's done nothing wrong."
"Sir, we've been given a warrant for Miss Garcia's arrest."
"Who by?" He knew exactly who as he asked.
"Erin Strauss of the FBI." He said and Derek looked at Penelope, her expression unreadable. "Miss Garcia broke Fraternization rules by having a child with another member of the Unit. Therefore, she broke her contract that was delivered to her in the year of 2002. Miss Garcia still had 4 years to serve."
"We can strike a deal." Derek almost pleaded; he needed Penelope here with him. "Her daughter's in there ill and you're just going to arrest her!"
"I'm only doing my job."
Derek read the two men. "Both married, got kids?" They nodded. "Well tell me how you felt the day your wives gave birth. Tell me how you'd feel if your wives got taken from you only 8 days after she'd given birth to those children."
"I'm sorry Sir." He said and they took Penelope, Derek hit the wall in frustration. His anger only grew as he heard Penelope's sobs, she didn't know if her baby was alive or dead, they weren't giving the chance to know. He grabbed his cell and dialled for Rossi, he was the only person he could call for this.
"Yeah, Morgan? What's up?"
"I suggest you go help Strauss out before I find her and make sure she's out of the FBI for good." Derek growled down the phone angrily.
"What's she done now?"
"Gotten Penelope arrested for breaking frat rules." He heard Rossi slam a door and walk hastily. "Saying that Pen broke her contract by having a child with another member of the Unit."
"Penelope isn't going anywhere near a prison cell. I can promise you that." Rossi told him, an angry growl in his chest. "I'll call you back."
Derek shut his phone and sunk into his seat. Now he properly broke for a moment.
"Derek." His mom said as she came up the corridor, seeing Derek outside of the room, without Penelope, completely broken, panicked her. "What's happened?"
"Annabelle... she... and Penelope's been..." He couldn't get the words out.
The door opened then. "Derek, you and Penelope can come back in now." The nurse said with a smile and the nurses began to leave the room. "Preterm babies have more respiratory problems, Annabelle was just having a little trouble, we sorted it and everything's fine." She told them.
Fran understood why he was outside but didn't know about Penelope. "Derek, what's happened with Penelope?"
"Strauss got her arrested for breach of contract." He'd kept his phone on after ringing Rossi, he wanted Penelope back with him, and when it went off, he was hopeful that he'd succeeded. He frowned as he saw the number. "Hello?"
"Derek Morgan?" He heard a polite voice ask.
"Yeah, who's this?"
"I'm just calling because you've been listed as Penelope Garcia's point of call in case of emergency."
"What's happened?" He said, his nerves completely shot now. He'd made her change it the moment they had a chance after Annabelle's birth.
"Miss Garcia collapsed just as she was being led out of the building; we're ringing to see if you could come to the hospital."
"I'm in the hospital now, I'll be right down." He closed the phone and turned his mom, he recited what the nurse had just told him and the pair rushed downstairs. Derek demanding he see Penelope.
A nurse smiled at him and led him down to a room, the two officers standing outside. Derek near enough growled at them as he went in and near enough released pure aggression when he saw Penelope still handcuffed, but this time to the bed.
"Get the handcuff's off." He said as he went over took Penelope's hand in his, no one reacted. "Take them off!" He shouted and turned to the officers.
"We have orders, we can't go against them." The more dominant one said and stood his ground. "Unless my Superior orders otherwise. I'm sorry, we can't."
Derek turned back to Penelope, and took the oxygen mask off her. "We're getting you out of here and back upstairs."
"Is she okay?" Penelope asked apprehensively.
"Yeah, she is, Baby Girl. Just a little respiratory problems, but apparently it's normal." He looked up at the nurse. "What caused her to collapse?"
"Miss Garcia's having a heavier postpartum bleed than we expect. It's making her experience fatigue, dizziness and giving her the fever."
"So what's being done to sort the problem?"
"She's going to be admitted and we'll keep her monitored, the doctor doesn't want her to become ill as she is on the stage of being listed as having postpartum haemorrhaging." The nurse replied politely, if not a little scared at the way she'd seen Derek flip.
"What caused it?"
"Premature labour can do it and the fact that Miss Garcia had a complete unknown labour raises the risks of bleeds. Unmonitored pregnancies run risks like that, it was partly expected, but the stress, that's clearly, evident..." She said looking distastefully at the officers. "Took its toll."
Derek looked at Penelope; he could see she was scared; see she wanted to be with their daughter, but it just didn't seem to be reality anymore. Strauss had succeeded with tearing away a part of the team.
Fran gave the nurse a look and she nodded and got the officers out before leaving herself. Derek sat on the bed and awkwardly kept Penelope's hand in his.
"I can't go back to prison, Derek." She told him, her bright eyes clouding with tears. "I barely survived last time."
"I've got Rossi on it already, Baby Girl. He's going to straighten it out." Derek told her and he was confident to see this get sorted and soon. "Apart from all this, how you feeling?"
"Better for knowing our daughter's okay." Penelope said as she relaxed. "I really wish sometime's I never hacked."
"I cherish everyday you did, Baby Girl." Derek responded and smiled. Fran felt like she should leave, she never knew how Penelope got her job, but she never suspected Penelope to have been in prison at all. "It gave me the woman I love." He told her with look in his eyes and Penelope felt calmed by it. He was being truthful.
Penelope didn't get much thought to herself, Hotch and Rossi came in, aggression radiating off them and they issued the officers strict orders to undo the cuffs on Penelope. The moment they were off she sat herself up right and nursed her wrists.
"Penelope, maybe you should just lay back down." Hotch told her gently.
"I just want to be back with Annabelle." She said exasperated but Derek put his hands on her shoulders and guided her back down. "Handsome..."
"Stop it hard head, Annabelle's okay, but you're not. You just need to rest up. She needs her mommy to be on top form remember?" Penelope couldn't help but agree, she was trying to be the most diligent, loving mom, but already it'd taken its toll on her.
"Penelope, we're sorry for Strauss." Rossi tried. "She's out of control over this."
"I thought she would be." Penelope admitted and put a hand to her head. "I mean, I was lucky with Kevin... being with Derek's pushing it a little too far. I would've thought the Ice Queen would have a heart though."
"She's just too cold." Rossi joked.
"Maybe we should give her more outside jobs in the summer? See if she melts?" Penelope joked with them and they all laughed. "It's tempting."
"We know how she doesn't cope with being out on the field, Baby." Derek told her and turned to Rossi. "Really doesn't."
Later that night, Penelope had been moved, Rossi and Hotch had gone back to work for a meeting with the director to discuss Strauss. Fran had decided she'd stick with Penelope, while Derek stayed with Annabelle, until he was ready to leave.
"I'm sorry for what you saw earlier." Penelope apologised to Fran. "You didn't need to see that."
"Hardly your fault, so didn't need an apology." Fran told her sincerely as she closed the magazine she had. "I can't believe you work for someone like that."
"She hired me, so I guess I should be thankful, to some extent, to her."
"Do you mind me asking why you were arrested?"
Penelope took a breath, sat up a little and began. "I felt a little lost after my parents died and I went off the tracks. I ended up teaching myself everything I know with computers and it landed me in a lot of trouble. I got caught after hacking into the CIA. I was thrown in prison for a couple of weeks before I got taken to a room and offered a job. Simple really, do I stay in prison, my own little hell or do I take a job and serve my sentence like a normal human. It wasn't a tough decision."
"You were obviously a valuable talent for them to even consider the offer."
"I was more of an asset to them than against them." Penelope mumbled, she still remembered prison and it still made her scared. "I'm just glad I've got a group of people that'll fight for me, like they do."
"Families stick together Penelope. You've got quite a big one." Fran told her and then stood up and grabbed the jug of water. She felt the inner nurse playing a role now. "Right, I think you need to get some sleep. You know the drill."
"Now that Momma Morgan's spoken?" She asked and blushed. "I'm sorry, that was a little brash of me, Fran."
"Penelope, if you want to call me mom, or Momma Morgan, then do so. I really don't mind, you just need to realise that." Fran told her and left Penelope alone for a moment.
Derek walked into the room, happy and self assured, he didn't like seeing Penelope in a hospital bed again, but he wouldn't let it scare him away. Penelope looked at him sleepily and she saw the seductive grin on his face as he came towards her.
Derek kicked his boots off and climbed onto the bed, gathered Penelope in his arms and just held her. "I'm never losing you." He told her and Penelope could've mistaken the tone of voice like she'd nearly died, the desperation to it.
"I'm not going anywhere." Penelope whispered back to him and held him tightly. "I promise you that."
"I'm holding you to that, Baby Girl."
"I've got a man that loves me and a daughter needing a family" Penelope told him as she placed her hand on his chest and finally settled.
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A/N: Had to deal with Strauss! Let's let some fun happen now then yeah?
More soon guys!