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"That's not the Barbara question. Rossi defended himself. "And I do not want to fight in front of Penny." She's a little girl.

"God, David, you're such an idiot. Barbara left, leaving Penelope with David.

"Are you sad, Daddy?" Little Penelope asked. - You know it will.

"I love you so much, my girl. He hugged her. "I'm sorry for the fight. Do you want to come with me and Uncle Gideon to have ice cream?

"Is he bringing the baby?" Penelope asked innocently. "He looks like a full-size doll."

- We will see. He put her on his lap. - Chocolate ice cream.

Barbara looked at them both joking and going out together. She would never tell him that it would be the last time he would see her.

Today...

David walked over to Penelope's adoptive brothers. He was not happy for Carlos to still try to take control of Pen's life for himself.

- Agent Rossi. Carlos approached. "Why did not you call us to wait if Pen would come out alive or not, did not you tell us?"

"Do not tell me what to tell you. Rossi would not take it lightly. "When I got there, you just had to kick me out.

- Well, she killed our parents. Carlos seemed irreducible. "Did you want us to give flowers?"

"That's not what I meant. Rossi looked at him. "I wanted you to hear it giving your own version."

Nothing would change the facts. Carlos closed his arms around her. "And the fact is that you're her father and did not tell her."

Rossi sat down, a little away from Carlos and close to the others. Both seemed understandable to David.

"Barbara and I had another fight about my job. Rossi started. "One day I go out with Pen to have ice cream with Gideon and Stephen, and the next day I come to an empty house.

"Did she take Pen away?" Manny asked. - Because?

"We had almost nothing when Gideon and I began to drive. Rossi explained. "When I got home, there was a letter explaining that she hated me and that my Penelope would never be mine again.

"How long have you been looking for her?" Rafe had tears. "I mean, you came looking for her soon after that, did not you?"

"They've been searching for information about them for five years. Rossi looked at the medallion. "I found them, but they were happy with their father.

"Room 101 emergency." The voice brought them out of the conversation. - Emergency room 101.

Rossi raced through his life when he recognized the number. He arrived just in time to see Derek being put out of the room.

No one could speak for nearly five minutes. Emily and JJ and Luke rushed into the bedroom and watched two men break their barriers.

- She was there. Derek spoke robotically. And in the next, she began to die.

JJ screamed and started to cry. Spencer hugged her and Emily needed to sit down. She looked at Hotch's room and saw her brothers frozen.

The door opened, revealing Dr. Colson very shaken. He sat down with his hands on his face and sighed.

- She's back now. He breathed. "But I must warn you that it may or may not happen again."

- What can we do? Derek asked for a solution. "There must be something."

- I wish there were. He handed her some documents. "It may be consoling to know that she is not suffering."

Derek looked at him and Rossi and Emily held him so he would not hit the doctor.

- Get the fucking document on your ass! Derek shouted. "I'm not going to kill my girl." Do not even try, okay?

- Calm down, Derek. Rossi said. - Listen to a doctor. I am her father and I will not authorize this.

- Right. The doctor gave it up. "But she's going to be in a coma until her body lasts, and every day she gets into a coma, it's a lovely day she can wake up."

He got up and left. Intimately, he admired the love for the woman, but on the other, he knew the chances of her surviving or even waking.

Hotch was anxious after hearing the emergency code on the loudspeaker. Emily came in, defeated, and sat down on a couch away from him. He got it. She needed some time.

- Love. He called her. "What happened to Penelope?"

- She's in a coma. Emily knew he already knew. Her heart stopped once and they brought her back.

- What happened to her? Hotch insisted. - After the announcement.

The doctor brought her back. "She was really avoiding it. And he gave Derek the papers to turn off the devices. Then Rossi got into the middle of the story.

- Rossi? - The achievement hit him. "He told you, did not he?

"You do not look surprised. She shook her head. When did you find out?

- I always knew. Hotch replied. "He told me about his daughter he never saw again. That's why I accepted it at BAU because Pen worked there and at least he would be near her.

- Damn Hotch. Emily looked annoyed. "Pen misses your daddy damn. I never see her so sad when her mother's death anniversary comes.

Hotch just started crying. Emily was right. And if Pen never woke up his dreams would be cut short.

Derek sat down next to Penelope again in his hospital room. Rossi managed to get her to a private room. His house, all equipped with medical equipment.

Luke won a transfer at his request. He wanted to be around. He spoke to Lisa and ended it when she accused him of sleeping with Penelope. It was so stupid he did not even deign to respond.

Lisa threw a clog at him and he bent down at the right time.

Derek just needed Penelope to be all right. Hotch asked Emily to take him to see her friend. He went in a wheelchair and stopped at the door of the room.

The darkest agent was only a shadow of the strong man he had always been and Penelope so still and still in bed. Approaching them, Hotch placed a hand on Derek's shoulder.

- She needs to get back, man. Derek almost begged. "I can not go on with my life without her."

"There are people who spend up to ten years in a coma. And Hotch wanted to kick himself at that moment. "Penelope would love to live her life with you and you will. When she wakes up, you can finally count on me for a wedding.

"What if she does not wake up?" Derek demanded a cheerful response. "How am I going to live without her?"

- Will not. Hotch hugged him. "None of us will.

Rossi stood outside. He still had to take care of something.

Going to an office, he filed one of the errors in Penelope's certificate. And he was tired of hiding it. He would tell her.