Disclaimer: I do not own Criminal Minds.
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The next day
Hotch had been out in the corridor with Reid and Morgan telling them about what had happened when the other team had picked their Unsub up. Emily and JJ were talking with Penelope. Whilst Rossi had gone to get breakfast.
'So how are you truthfully feeling?'
'Where do I start? I'm glad my breathings better and I don't feel so tired. So I suppose I feel amazing considering.'
'Did they say when you were getting out?'
'Well... because there is no major damage to my kidney and liver, I get out of here in about 2 hours.'
'Are you for real?'
'Yes, the doctor said that as long as I take this medication, that has been placed in Derek's hands and sleep for the next couple of days all damage should be reversed.'
'Aw that's excellent.'
'So I hear you caught him?'
'Well we didn't but yeah they did. A middle aged man, divorced, no custody of his kids, lost his job that paid more than it should've have.'
'He basically was going after woman that had everything he had but lost.'
'And I happened to be one of them?'
'Pen you were last and you were the one that actually got him. We saw his scratch too.'
'Really?'
'Yeah good job on that.' Emily laughed.
'You really tore into him.'
'Well I tried.' She looked at the door as Derek and Reid came back in. 'Everything okay?'
'Everything's perfect.' Derek smiled at her. 'So how about we get you ready to go home?'
'They have got to be the best words I have heard in the last 2 days.' She smiled.
'P you're staying at mine okay.'
'Yeah, I don't feel particularly safe at my place.'
'Understandable.'
'Right well, get the stuff out you need and we will take the rest of you things with us. Emily and JJ can go fetch some clean clothes, pyjamas and things from yours and put them at Derek's.'
Penelope laughed. 'Sorry, don't you remember our chat the other day?'
'Oh crap yeah. Okay so I'm guessing you don't need us to fetch you some things?'
'Well there's my bag, and phone stuff like that.'
'Okay well we will do that and the next time we will see you will be out of the hospital.'
'You got it boss man.'
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'So baby girl, bed?'
'Yep... handsome I've been thinking for the last couple of weeks if maybe we should...'
'Look for a place of our own.' She smiled. 'I have too P but for now I want you tucked up in bed, getting back to full health.'
'Hotch isn't going to let me back for like a month.' She laughed.
'Well I was thinking 2 weeks tops.'
'Aha I like your way for thinking.'
'Well how about I get some leave and we go see my mom?'
'I'd like that.'
'After all we have to tell her I'm finally settling down.' He watched her smile. 'Now what pyjamas?'
'Sounds like an idea. Any, as long as they cover 90% of my skin.' He laughed this time. 'I don't think I'm going to be up to much fun for a little while.'
'And I understand fully. So you ever thought of becoming a field agent with that scratching ability?'
He watched her as she slept thinking how 2 days earlier they had been caught up in the tangled web that was an Unsub, and how he and the rest of the team had come to close to losing one of their own. He vowed there and then, as he watched his goddess, his baby girl, his best friend, his fiancée sleep that he would never let any of them get tangled that far in the web. They would simply skate around it making it safe for others.
The End.
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A/N: Okay so I lost my muse again! I wasn't truly feeling this story like my others... but I thought I would give you a nice ending, a little bit of fluff for your afternoon... Hope you enjoyed it : )
