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Meanwhile at the BAU

In the round table room Hotch, Rossi, JJ and Emily were going through files and notes that they had taken from Lynch's office. The information they had gone through, thus far had made them angry and sick. Lynch had had a daily almost minute-by-minute accounting of Penelope's every move for almost six months. It also showed his downward spiral into madness and his chronicle of the abuse and suffering she had endured.

They had gone through about three quarters of what they had found. Suddenly, Reid came running into the room, out of breath. The team was startled and looked up staring at him with expectancy.

Reid breathlessly said, "Guys, you have to come see what I found in Kevin's computers."

Hotch's eyebrows furrowed, while he tensed up and asked, "What's the matter Reid? What did you find?"

"It's unbelievable and horrible, Hotch! You all have to come and see this, it's all about Garcia!"

They all shot looks at each other and nodded their heads. They immediately raised up and quickly followed Reid to Lynch's office.

Once they arrived, Spencer sat down at the computers and keyboard. Before pulling up the footage he had found, he turned around with wide sad eyes and a huge frown on his face.

"Hotch you had me go through his systems and I found a lot of files and videos."

JJ piped up, "Spence, what do they show?"

Spencer took a deep breath and began. "He had months and months of footage. Looks like he had cameras everywhere."

Hotch ground out, "What do you mean everywhere?"

"Everywhere, guys! He watched Garcia constantly! He had cameras set up in her office, the round table room, Morgan's office, Morgan's house and Garcia's apartment. He also had tapped into the security footage throughout the building and the garage."

The girls gasped and Hotch and Rossi looked at each other and shook their heads in disbelief.

Spencer asked, "Are you guys sure you want to watch any of this? It's sickening and really hard to watch!"

No one wanted to, but they knew they had to watch some of it. They all nodded to Reid to silently give their approval.

Spencer sighed, "Alright, just know that a lot of it isn't pretty. I will give you some highlights'"

They all stood there with their mouths gaped open. What they saw made them sick. They watched with hatred and sadness, what their girl had to endure all these months. They watched as the horrors and monstrosities played out in front of them.

They had watched for almost an hour. They had witnessed many of her daily beatings and sexual assaults with pure disgust. They had heard the numerous taunts, verbal abuses and watched as she had become more subservient and was put under his control. This all could be heard from the numerous recordings from her apartment and within the confines of her lair.

They also watched and heard him unraveling even more with the rants and ramblings that he had recorded of himself. They even had to listen to him threaten Morgan's life, as well as their own lives numerous times.

After almost an hour had passed, they couldn't subject themselves to anymore. The girls were sobbing uncontrollably while the men tried to soothe and comfort them and each other. Normally Emily was able to compartmentalize different parts of life and her emotions. This was all too much, as she allowed herself to finally breakdown and accept the comfort from everyone.

Rossi gritted out with total frustration and sadness. "Stop, Spencer we have seen enough what that sick animal did to Kitten!"

Hotch then said, "Catalog them all and make the necessary copies. Then meet us in the round table room."

Reid sadly nodded his acknowledgement and understanding.

JJ cried out, "Oh my God, poor Garcie! The things he did to her! How disgusting, what an animal! How could we not have known? Why would anyone do such horrible things to another human being?"

Emily spoke up, "Oh my God! What are we going to do about Morgan? We can't let him see this!"

Rossi quietly said. "You're right, he can't see these, ever. Only we have to tell him about this. When he hears about this he is going to demand to see them."

Reid nodded his head. "I agree, but it is going to be impossible to keep him away from these."

Hotch replied, "We will have to do our hardest to keep him away from them. I know it will be impossible, but we have to try. Although, he does have the right to know what happened to her and how we found out."

JJ sniffled out, "It's going to kill Derek and he is going to flip and continue to blame himself!"

They all nodded in agreement, sadly.

They were all at their wits end themselves. They just stood there in shock for a while. Finally, Reid went back to cataloging everything. The rest of the team filed out of the room, quietly and slowly one-by-one they headed back to the round table room. All the while, they tried to hold themselves together and not go off the deep end.

Penelope's Room-Later that Day

Hotch had decided after bearing witness to the horrors committed against their heart and soul that everyone would be dismissed early. They all decided they would head to the hospital and find out how her surgery had gone. They also wanted to bring some non-cafeteria food for them to share with Derek and Fran.

Upon their arrival as they entered Penelope's room they only found Derek and his mother. Derek was doing what he does best. He was furiously pacing and worrying about his Goddess, his God-Given Solace.

Rossi was the first to speak up causing Derek to stop his pacing. "Where's Kitten? You two doing okay?"

Derek muttered, "They took her to surgery about two hours ago. We still haven't heard anything."

JJ walked over to him and brought him in for a hug. She wrapped her arms around his neck, while he placed his arms around her waist and buried his head into her neck. They stayed like that for a couple of minutes as she rocked him.

Dave walked over to Fran. "How are you holding up, Bella?"

Fran forced a smile. "I am hanging in there. Are you all, alright?" She had noticed a sadness and a thick blanket of tension among them when they had walked in.

Dave replied with a shrug. "We have definitely had better days."

Fran reached out and took hold of his hand as she tried to convey some comfort and understanding. He gave her a small smile and nodded.

Derek's expressive eyebrows shot up quizzically and looked around at the team as he pulled away from JJ. "What's up guys? What's wrong?"

Hotch quickly answered him. "Not now Morgan we will fill you in later. Right now let's just make sure Garcia is alright."

Derek let his shoulders slump and nodded reluctantly in agreement.

Emily piped up. "Hey, we brought everyone dinner. We thought we could all eat together."

Fran smiled and gratefully replied. "Thank you all. That was very thoughtful. What do say Baby Boy? You hungry?"

Derek walked over to the window, looked out and then turned around with sad and scared eyes. "Thanks guys! I can't eat until I know how Baby Girl is doing first. My stomach is in knots right now. Maybe, as soon as we hear something."

Fran stepped over to her son and placed a hand on his shoulder. "She is going to be fine. You should try and eat something."

He looked at her and started to say. "Momma-"

Before he could protest again, the door suddenly opened and Dr. Goldman walked in. They all immediately turned around, tensed up, took a deep breath and anxiously waited to see what he would say.

Dr. Goldman smiled and began to speak. "Good evening everyone. Ms. Garcia's surgery is finished and she is in recovery."

Derek took another deep breath and hesitantly asked. "Hey doc, how did it go? Is she okay?"

"Ms. Garcia tolerated the procedure quite well! Her vitals are stable. We removed the shunt and the tube from her head."

They all exhaled and let out the breaths they didn't even realize they were holding. Fran gave a quick loving hug to Derek and smiled.

Spencer quickly queried. "Doctor, what is her prognosis?"

Dr. Goldman smiled and looked around at the expectant and hopeful family. "Well, she handled the surgery so well and the pressure on her brain is still steadily decreasing. It is almost back to a normal reading. We decided to discontinue the medication that is keeping her in the coma."

Derek perked up and excitedly jumped in and said. "Really! I thought you were going to wait on that. Not that I am not happy about it." He chuckled.

"Well we were, but she is doing surprisingly better. That young lady is quite a fighter." The doctor chortled out.

The room lit up with happy faces and guarded excitement and optimism.

Rossi breathlessly spoke and smiled. "That's great! What are we looking at now?"

The doctor replied. "At this point, it's all up to Ms. Garcia now. The medications should be out of her system fully by tomorrow morning. We are going to continuously monitor her here in the SICU until she wakes up or has stabilized completely. Just know it may take a while for her to wake up. She had quite a bit of trauma that she had to endure. Remain positive and again keep talking to her. It definitely helps. She will be up in about an hour."

The doctor said his goodbyes and walked out of the room. Everybody sent up their silent prayers and thanks. There were claps on the backs and hugs all around.

Fran exclaimed. "That is really encouraging news! My future daughter-in-law is going to be fine and will wake up soon. I can feel it!"

Everyone looked at Fran, shook their heads, giggled and smirked.

Derek leaned over chuckling and hugged his mother. He hoped that he would get the chance to tell his Baby Girl how he truly felt and be lucky enough to experience true happiness with Penelope. Marriage, children, lots of children if he had his way. "From your lips to God's ears, Momma! I can't wait to see my favorite girl and hope that she wants that, too! My Goddess is going to come back to all of us."

He pulled away from her and they grinned at each other. The team looked at each other and all had huge smiles on their faces.

Dave spoke up. "Let's eat while we are waiting for Kitten to come back."

They all nodded in agreement. They then passed out all the food and drinks. They all sat around, ate and talked about the latest news. The team had also decided that this would be a good time as any to fill in Derek and Fran on all they had found out earlier.

Derek tried to be happy that Penelope would hopefully be awake soon. At the same he sat there fuming and livid at what the team had told him about the horrific and heartbreaking things that his Angel had to endure at Lynch's hands. To say he was pissed off would be understatement. He wanted to punch something or someone. He wanted to kill that bastard all over again. If it wasn't for his mother, he would have gone off the deep end and done some kind of damage to something.

About an hour after the doctor's departure they had finished their dinner. Then shortly thereafter, Penelope was wheeled back into her room and placed in bed and hooked back up to her different monitors. The team all took turns hugging their girl and talking to her for a bit.

At around 9:00pm everyone decided to go home and try to get some rest. Everyone said their goodbyes to both Derek and Penelope. As had become a daily routine Dave and Fran left together and he would bring her back in the morning.

Derek sat by his Goddess all night. He talked to her all night long hoping that she would wake up. He held her hand and kept watch. He also kept apologizing to her for not protecting her and not admitting his true feelings towards her a long time ago. All the while, the anger and guilt would not leave him. He had been crushed by all that the team had filled him in on. They begged him not watch the tapes. They insisted that he didn't want to see all that she had been through. They warned him it would be too much to handle. He was still mulling over whether to watch them or not. It would probably kill him. Eventually, sometime towards sunrise he couldn't keep his eyes open. He laid his head down right next to her and placed his arm lovingly and protectively around her waist and drifted off to sleep.

TBC

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