Disclaimer I hate you so much for making me keep saying this: I do not own Criminal Minds.

When they finally made it home Penelope was exhausted so Derek opened the door and pulled her into his arms and carried her into the house, her head slumped on his shoulder as she slept lightly. Malcolm came over and Fran stopped him.

'She's just tired.' Fran said and she saw that didn't answer the question he wanted to ask. 'They had to sew the incision area again but she's okay.' That answered it for him, he'd been waiting for the last 4 hours for their return. 'We'll come and get you once she's had some rest.'

Fran went in and found Derek putting Penelope on the couch, and then laying a blanket over her before leaving her be and finding the guys out in the back garden.

'You could've continued with the BBQ.'

'No way Morgan.' Hotch said as Jack lunged at him and everyone agreed. 'Everything okay?'

'Yeah, they stitched it again so she's numb on her side but she's as good as new again as long as she doesn't rip them again.' He looked back into the front room. 'She's sleeping at the moment but it shouldn't last wrong, she needs to eat so shall we get the show underway?'

'Let's do this.' Rossi said jumping up and heading over to the BBQ. 'Hey kid! Come on, me and Aaron will show you how to properly cook a good piece of meat.'

'About 63% of house fire occur...'

'Reid, we're away from the house so give upon the facts and come and do a bit of manhood.' Derek laughed as he headed back inside to get the house phone that was ringing.

'Hello.'

'Hi, is Penelope there please?'

'She's asleep at the moment, can I ask who's calling?'

'It's her brother Joel.'

'Oh hi, I'm Penelope's husband, Derek... is this about you coming here?'

'Yeah it is, I was just ringing to say I got a seat on a flight in about 30 minutes, I'm calling from the airport.'

'Ah right we'll I'll let her know when she's awake but thank you for doing this so quickly.'

'No problems, is everything okay? I mean she said it was something about our parents.'

'It's better if Penelope tells you.' Derek told him and looked over at his wife.

'Okay, well I should be there in about 5 hours give or take.'

'Sure thing, if you need a pick up just call. Might be good to get Pen out of the house for a bit.'

'Okay well anything for Penny.' They ended the call and Derek went to Penelope as he saw her slowly waking up.

'Hey Baby Girl. How's the side?'

'Numb.' She replied quickly. 'I really can't feel a thing.' She then slid up painfully. 'But is that food I can smell?'

'Yeah, how hungry are you?'

'Too hungry.' She replied and put her arms out to get up. 'I want to walk this one.'

'With help.'

'Yes handsome, with help.' She relented and he helped her outside. He smirked, she was learning quick for once.

'Joel's on his way, so you've got limited time to talk to your parents.' Derek said and she understood immediately, then the phone rang again.

'I've got her, you go get the phone.' Emily said as she stood and took over, then JJ helped with the other side. 'Got to say you look rough.'

'I feel rough.' Penelope retorted, taking no offense whatsoever. 'No hiding it.' She said as she was helped to sit down, she settled easily as Emily helped put her foot onto a pillow. 'You staying long after the dinner?'

'No but we're coming back for about 8ish, well most of us.'

'Yeah I'm gonna get Henry home and see if I can slip out but otherwise early night with Will it is.'

'You got this to look forward to do Pen.' Emily joked.

'If my baby's anything like JJ's, I won't care.' She said happily and conversation slowly eased in until dinner was served and they sat down together. Derek finally leaving the house told them that the other brother's were on their way too, they were down to time limits for sure now.

When dinner was over and Penelope was sitting in the living room, Derek made sure he's mom and sisters were okay to go out with Emily for a bit before going around to get Carlos and Elizabeth. When they came back Penelope was seemingly asleep with one hand on her stomach, the other resting on her chest.

'Should we go?'

'No, don't.' Penelope said and opened her eyes. 'Baby was playing up again.'

'Need anything?' Derek asked, knowing what that meant.

'No thanks Handsome, s'all good.' She said putting a smile on her face. 'So...' She asked them and they sat down.

'What do you want to know?' Carlos asked her.

'Why did you leave?' Penelope asked, that was all she'd wanted to know. 'That's all I want to know, is why you had to die.'

'Remember we went through spells where money was tight?'

Penelope nodded. 'We just gave up things.'

'Well, although that helped, it didn't really.' Carlos continued and took Elizabeth's hand in his. 'We were sinking more and more and well we were getting final reminders and the house was in the run for going next.' He continued and Derek sat next to Penelope, taking her in his arms how she needed it. 'The only way we knew to get out of the debt and the only way we knew to make sure we could financially make sure you were okay was to die.'

'You realise that's illegal right?'

'We do, but it was a last resort, we tried to sell things, get extra hours but our jobs didn't pay enough and we had 5 children to support, 4 of which were in college.'

'You should've told us, I wouldn't have gone to Caltech.'

'Nonsense!' Carlos said loudly. 'We fought to do it other ways but this really was the only way and we hope it worked.'

'Yeah it worked.' Penelope said quietly, her and her brother's lived a plush life with their parent's life insurance. 'So you did it so we could live okay?'

'Yeah, we realised it was wrong and it was a lifelong decision.'

'So what will you do now? I mean, now that we all know.'

'Your brother's don't.'

'They deserve to know though.' Penelope said, she'd really opened a can of worms. 'They coming here.'

'Penelope!'

'I'm sorry okay! But I was living happily then had to deal with the prospect of my parents living next door and I knew it was you and then the crash last week showed to me how quick life can really be taken. I nearly died in that car and even though I didn't I needed to get my family back together.'

'Penny...'

'No, I've got a child on the way, a baby I made with my best friend and now he's my husband and I should be able to share them with my family. A thing I never thought would happen.' Penelope said emotionally and she was plucking at heart strings. 'So please, don't take this away from me.'