Its short and I apologize. Its just a small fluff chapter. Thought we could use one right about now before things go south. ;)

Chapter 6

That Friday night, the girls took Toni out for a girl's night. They had gone out to eat and now found themselves in a club and were all going to spend the night at Garcia's house.

Emily and Toni returned to their table with more drinks, "We definitely gotta do this more often. I mean when's the last time it was just us girls without the guys hanging over us?"

JJ and Penelope laughed as Emily nearly tripped, "And we have a new crew member," Penelope smiled.

"True, but I think its time we cut such members off," JJ said. "Em's already drunk and I don't think Derek would appreciate if we got his cousin drunk."

"Hey! I'm a big girl and I do what I want," Toni said before falling flat on her face and laughing.

Penelope laughed watching Toni as she drank her non-alcoholic daiquiri. She was the designated driver after all. After the girls finished off their last drinks, they paid and headed out to the car. JJ had to all but carry Emily out to Penelope's car and Penelope helped Toni.

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After a couple of hours the girls were sitting in Penelope's living room on the couch and on the floor with bowls of popcorn and soda. JJ popped in the movie The Princess Bride. JJ noticed that Toni kinda had herself separated from the others and frowned.

"Toni, you know you can sit closer. We won't bite," she said.

Toni shook her head, "I'm fine."

JJ shook her head, "Toni what's going on? I mean half the time you're shying away from us and other times you're laughing and having a good time with us. I would've thought that Derek would want you to make friends but you can't make friends like that."

Toni sighed and looked down at her lap. Penelope frowned and put her arm around Toni, "You can talk to us. We won't tell anyone."

Toni bit her lip, "I just don't…I don't do well with people of authority."

Emily laughed and then when JJ and Penelope glared at her she stopped, "What do you mean? I mean we're not authoritative."

Toni nodded, "Yes you are. You may not show it all the time, but it's the aura around you. I don't do well with people of authority."

"You must've been quite the troublesome kid," Emily chuckled.

"Em, stop it," JJ said firmly. "How come Toni?"

"I don't wanna talk about it," Toni shook her head.

"We don't have to. Let's finish the movie," Penelope said and Toni nodded.

The girls went back to the movie and then once the movie over, JJ came up with the crazy idea to do some baking. They sent Emily to the store a few blocks away to get some items and when she came back they set to baking everything from chocolate chip cookies to a rum cake.

"Hey Em, think fast," JJ said.

Emily looked up just in time to see JJ throw a handful of flour at her. Emily giggled and soon Emily and JJ were in a flour war. Toni thought it would be cool to juggle some eggs, but when one broke and she slipped on it and fell to her bottom she squashed that idea.

"Toni are you okay?" Penelope asked trying to sound concerned but also trying not to laugh.

Toni nodded and burst out laughing, "Yeah m'fine."

By midnight, Penelope's counters and tables were covered with cakes, cookies, pies and more. She frowned, "What am I gonna do with all this food?"

JJ grinned, "Let's all take something and whatever we don't take, we can either bring it to work or donate to the soup kitchen."

"Not a bad idea," Toni agreed.

Soon after the girls were back on the couch watching the movie Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins. Penelope smiled.

"This was nice. We need to do it more often."

When she didn't get a response she turned and saw that JJ, Toni and Emily were all asleep leaning on each other. She chuckled softly before turning off the movie and made sure all the lights were off and the doors were locked before slipping off to her bedroom.

TBC...