In four different places four different people were thinking about the promises they had broken. JJ was thinking about her broken promise of always being there for Penelope. She was sitting in Henrys room holding a letter in her hand with his name on it. She found it right where it was said to be tucked neatly into his copy of Dream Big Little Bear. She was waiting on Will to bring Henry back from school. She was trying to figure out how she was going to tell her little man that his Fairy Godmother wasn't going to be around anymore.
Sitting in Dave's kitchen, Aaron was trying to figure out how he was going to tell his son that he had broken his promise about never letting his family go. He kept remembering when his son had asked him "Is all our family going to go away?" it was right after Penelope had been shot. His son had started calling her aunt P and he was scared he was going to lose her to. He had answered "No, we are not going to lose any more of our family anytime soon." He knew it was a promise he risked breaking every case but he couldn't bring himself not to make it anyway.
Watching Aaron look at the envelope, which hand her hand writing on it, so intensely Dave wondered how he had broken his promise so easily. He thought back to 8 months ago when Penelope had been so defeated. She had wanted to do something which Morgan didn't agree with so Morgan was being his typical dumb self-centered self. He was ignoring her. He remembered taking her a cup of her favorite tea into her office and closing the door. When she looked up he remembered telling her "I am here to listen when you need it kitten. There is never anything to small or stupid for you to need me for." When he had finished talking she had jumped out of her chair and gave him a big hug crying. "I don't know what I keep doing wrong" He rubbed her back saying" You haven't done anything wrong Kitten he is just being dumb. Give him some time and he will come around. You have all of us Penelope. I will always be here when you need me." You promise?" she asked with tears in her eyes. "I do."
Sitting on the plane she looked up at the screen showing the progress of the trip. She was almost halfway to her next stop. Sitting in her seat she couldn't help but think of all the promises she was breaking on her way to a fresh start. There were three main promises that popped into her head. The first was her promise to Hailey. She knew she would be kind of keeping this one but it wasn't the same way in which she made the promise. She remembered sitting out at the gravesite talking to a woman she barely knew but knew was loved. "I promise you I won't let that man or little boy ever not know love. They will never forget you and the love that you shared. I will watch out for them for you. You will never have to fear being forgotten." The second promise she knew she was breaking was the promise she made when she accepted being Henrys Godmother. She promised to love him watch out for him, and to spoil him rotten. She knew that she would still be watching out for him but she also knew that she wouldn't be able to show him her love or spoil him like she used to. The third promise that was rattling around in her head was the promise she had made to herself. She had promised herself she would never run away again. She promised that she would stay and fight for herself but here she was running away yet again.