Retaining Happiness
Chapter 12

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When Penelope awoke the next morning she fully expected her husband to have returned but the beautiful face of Derek Morgan was nowhere to be seen. In fact the hospital room was empty besides her and her own baby girl who was sleeping soundly in her cot. She sat back against the pillows slightly irritated, she had had a rough night as she had begun breast feeding the baby and she had been very hungry leaving Garcia getting little sleep and she wished to be comforted by her baby boy as he knew exactly how to make her feel better. She could not understand why he was not there, he would have spent the night alone at the house so why would he not have come straight to the hospital? Her large, inquisitive brain began processing all the possible explanations and finally she concluded the most plausible to be that he was bringing Danny to see her, no other reason made sense to her.

Just as she put her worries aside and closed her eyes briefly as she realised her fatigue once more she heard the door creep open. Leaving her eyes closed Penelope felt his presence near her which never failed to send shiver coursing through her body and his sweet natural scent filled her nostrils as he lay beside her placing his arm around her neck. Naturally, she cuddled up into his chest and smiled clutching his t-shirt, "hey Hot Stuff, I've missed you" she whispered.

He stroked her head and kissed her soft, blonde waves, he tried his hardest not to cry. His entire team was waiting outside the door as he delivered the worst news he could to his physically vulnerable wife, but he knew he had to despite how hard it was going to be.

"What's wrong?" Garcia asked leaving her cheek glued to his chest as her head was too heavy to lift but she could immediately tell when everything was not alright.

He took a deep breath and blinked back the tears that were forming in his eyes, "baby-" he began, "I have to tell you something, last night when I was on the phone to J.J. telling her about the baby, Lynch-" he stopped as his teeth ground in anger.

Penelope found the strength to sit up, she knew something wasn't right, her heart was pounding out of her chest, "what has Kevin done?" she whispered looking up at her husband's usually collected face crumbling.

"He took Danny" he said finally averting eye contact as he couldn't bear to see the sadness cross her face.

Garcia swallowed, her mouth was suddenly very dry, she didn't know what to do or what to say, the man who she had given herself to for four years of her life had taken her baby away from her. She couldn't bear to think how scared he must be, he wouldn't understand where he was and he wouldn't have Barry the FBI official crime fighting Bear to protect him. He would cry out for his Mommy and Daddy and they wouldn't be there to save him.

It was her job to protect him. She must fix this.

Despite being sore and weak she swung her legs out of the side of the bed. Morgan frowned at her and placed his hand around her wrist, "Penelope" he warned keeping his eyes locked on her.

She pulled her hand out of his grasp, "let me go Derek I have to save him" the tears were pouring out of her eyes and streaming across her cheeks, although she was wearing her glasses her vision was blurred. She stood, half blind, and would have started for the door had her husband not been too quick for her. Morgan had rolled across the bed and taken hold of both her forearms pulling her back onto the bed.

"Derek Morgan! You let me go" she screamed kicking and punching him in frustration and sadness, "he's my baby!" she cried as Morgan wrapped his strong arms around her and pulled her close, "he's my baby" she continued to sob into his t-shirt. Derek's heart broke as he heard her soft cries, he cradled her softly rocking her backwards and forwards trying to calm her but the same level of sadness and anger was searing through his body too.

Finally, once all the tears had dried up and Garcia had exhausted herself Morgan laid her back into bed, she lay against the largely plumped pillows and simply looked at him through her big brown eyes which were now various shades of red, a physical indicator of her sadness.

Morgan cupped her cheek in his hand, "baby I want you to look at me" slowly she tilted her head and allowed her eyes to lock with his, they were beautiful eyes, she followed his gaze as he stood and walked to the plastic cot in the corner and picked up their squirming bundle to say good morning to his daughter who had begun to grumble as she awoke before returning to his position on the bed. "You see her..." he looked downwards as two large brown eyes looked upwards, the very same that were also staring across the bed at him, "...she is your baby too and she needs her Mommy more than anyone right now. I will bring Danny home but you need to concentrate on bringing our little one into the world right, understand me?" he was not being cruel, that was the last thing he wanted but he needed to be direct, he needed her to hear him.

She looked at him a moment and then down at her newborn daughter, not even a day old and already she was experiencing her first family drama, Morgan was right she needed her Mommy. Penelope gave him a small smile and nodded to let him understand that she agreed, she then thought logically and knew they had to do something, "you need to invite the team here and bring my laptop, we need to act quickly if we're going to stop him"

Morgan pushed a stranded piece of blonde hair away from her face with his free hand, she looked so very different without her bright clothes, the layers of make up with her perfectly styled hair, more natural yet more vulnerable. "They're already here" Morgan explained, "and Reid has your laptop baby, we've been working on this all night we just need your expertise"

She sighed slightly as she gave a small smile, "of course you do" her witty remark unsurprisingly lacking its usual enthusiasm holding her arms out to take her child. She clutched her tightly as soon as Morgan placed her in her arms, she had failed Danny, she had vowed to protect him and she couldn't. Her baby was her comfort blanket.

Derek sat at the end of the bed and took her hand moving his thumb over her palm gingerly, "I need you to tell me what he said to you in the diner yesterday first"

Penelope frowned deep in thought, her meeting with Kevin seemed a lifetime ago, before the little girl in her arms was born, "he didn't say anything of importance mainly how he was Danny's father, showing his rage and how jealous he was of you. He said we could have been happy, the three of us" she added quietly holding her baby close to her chest.

"Did he say anything further about Sweden?"

Fear filled Garcia's eyes as her head snapped up suddenly, "you- you think he might? He wouldn't! Would he?"

"We don't know baby, we wondered if you could think of anyone who might help him leave the county undetected. If his endgame is to live out this newly created fantasy that he and Danny will live happily ever after then he will do it there" Morgan sighed, wondering how long he could convince his wife, and himself, that everything was ok but he knew that he would not stop until his son was home.

Fresh tears trickled slowly down her pale cheeks and her head shook, "there was only ever him and his mother…"

"It was his Mom that brought him back, it was her who died. We searched her house, there's nothing that might provide us with fresh leads"

Penelope felt another wave of sadness pass over her but this time not for herself, for the man causing her pain, "that's a shame" she mused quietly, "his mother was lovely, I tried to keep in touch with her after Kevin left but she had a Alzheimer's, she didn't know where he was or who I was. She never got to meet her grandson"

Morgan always admired his wife for her big heart despite feeling sympathy to the man who had kidnapped their son but he needed to push her, they were running out of time, "what about friends?"

"No he didn't have many friends-" she paused and looked up, "unless..."

"What is it?" Morgan leant forward eagerly, hoping they finally had a lead.

"Kevin, he had a best friend from college. When I told him about my hacking days he told me about... Marty was it? Yes Marty Goodwin. He did the same course as him in college but veered into hacking but apparently he is also skilled in fake identification. It's him isn't it? He's taking my baby out of the country"

Morgan shook his head, "not if I stop him first. If I bring your laptop in can you find him baby?"

She sighed and nodded, for once she wished she was not the one who knew how to find people or information, she wished she could sit quietly and worry. Though she knew if it was her finding out the information she knew it was quick and reliable, and that's what she needed to find her son.

"Invite the rest of the team in, tell them what we know. I'll look up flights to Sweden in the vicinity around Marty's house as well"

Derek gave her a quick smile and kissed her on the head, "that's my girl"

Within seconds of her husband disappearing out of the door, the entire BAU team reentered, each with a solemn look on their face.

Reid, J.J. and Blake each quickly congratulated her on the baby and took a look at her before returning their heads to the case at hand. It was unfortunate that the attention had not been on the little girl but her older brother was in danger and right now that was the priority.

Garcia began typing like a fish taking to water behind her sparkling glasses her eyes were heavy from the exhaustion of childbirth and red and swollen from crying, yet she had a job to do, and that was to find her son. The others had little time to wait before she had found out the life story of Marty Goodwin. A plan of action was being formulated as she then started the search through all the airports in the area to all the flights to Sweden to see if either of their names appeared.

"Dave I want you J.J. and Reid to go to Goodwin's house, even if he's not there, search it. If he was there making passports recently it'll be on his computer. The rest of us-" Hotch began in his usual authoritative voice.

"-an airport has a Kevin and Danny Percival on a flight to Stockholm, Percival was Kevin's mother's name, it's got to be them" Garcia interrupted quickly.

Morgan frowned, "it seems to simple. Kevin isn't stupid, he's been careful to keep us off his scent so far, why would he lead us right to him?"

Hotch nodded in agreement, "it could be a diversion to his real destination"

"But we have no way of knowing where that is until you go to Goodwin's house!" she protested "he could be long gone by then, there are over 30 different flights from different airports within the vicinity and that's in only the next two hours alone" Garcia cried the tears reappearing in her eyes.

J.J. sat beside her best friend and placed her arm around her shoulder, letting her head fall as she sobbed softly creating dark circles on her t-shirt, "Penelope's right, whether they're there or not, we have to try. We have to bring Danny home."