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The following days passed without any mass chaos. The team had to go back to work but Penelope was forced to stay off for a week due to her cold escalating. Much to her dismay she tried everything to get back to work but in the end gave up and spent the following days at home with her parents, brothers, Fran, Sarah and Desiree.

'Hang on a minute...' Penelope answered as she left the room on the phone, re entering the room with her laptop, she placed on the kitchen worktop, lifting the screen and turned it on. Moments later she put the phone down on the countertop and clicked it to come onto speaker. 'Okay so boss man is giving in to my intellect genius.'

'And all knowing skills baby girl.' Derek's voice floated out of the phone. Penelope laughed slightly. She had gotten the last minute phone call for help and was more than willing to help, whether or not the family were sitting behind her looking in on what she was about to do.

'Right bare with me handsome.'

'I'm not going anywhere.'

'Right I'm in my system at work.' She said clicking multiple keys. 'Right, name?'

'Maria Groten.'

'Okay gimme a couple of minutes and I'll call you back.'

'Thanks baby girl.' She smiled and closed the phone. She then continued to tap away in her own little world. Moments later she opened the cell and waited. 'What you get goddess?'

'Maria Groten is 100% squeaky clean... but she seemed to hardly exist until about 5 years ago.'

'Hardly exist?'

'Well... there is barely any record of her, like none at all, and bam here she is.'

'Change of name?'

'Is exactly what I was thinking.' They all heard the ruffling of paper and then the sound of self achievement. 'I'm going to take that sound as something good.'

'Try the name Marisa Sutton.'

'Okay... want to stay on the line or let me call you back?'

'Keep me on the line.'

'Okay.' She said and typed in the same fashion as before. 'Well I think we just found our lady... she's disappeared from everything 5 years ago.'

'Thanks baby girl.'

'Anything else you want me to do?'

Derek sighed. 'Hotch left you the case file, knowing you'd want to get stuck in if we used you once.'

'Ha! Hug that man for me.'

'Er... nah... that's definitely something you can do.'

'Send me requests!'

'I think we will baby girl... talk to you later.' They then watched Penelope stand up and leave the room before entering again with a case file.

'Penelope what did you just do?'

She looked up from the file and smiled, she had almost forgotten they were there. 'Oh... back hacked my own computer at work... then did some background searching.'

'They weren't joking you were fast were they?' Carlos said a hint of pride in what he had just witnessed.

'Oh bare with me, I just want to do something then I'm all yours.' She smiled and took her seat again. The next thing they know the laptop is bleeping and Penelope's on the phone again.

'Just to be safe I cross matched the databases for both those names... and they are the same person.'

'Okay... so what else did you find?'

'Why are you so certain I found multiple things?'

'Come on P, I know you... you never come up with singular things.'

'Okay, well it would appear Ms Sutton's husband liked to know his wife's where about.'

'Okay right...'

'Got you PDA?'

'Yes.'

'Get it out and look at it.'

No more than two minutes later they heard Derek call Hotch over. 'You are most probably our biggest life saver and this women's right now baby girl.'

'Just go get her handsome but do it safe.' She closed the cell after hearing Derek laugh and turned back to the group behind her, all sheer dumb struck. 'What?'

'What did you just do?'

'Found her location and sent it to Derek's PDA.'

'Location of what?'

'She's been missing... her husband had a way of making sure he knew where she was that no one else knew about.'

'So you just tacked her?'

'In some sense.' She said with a smile. 'Now anyone for lunch?' She asked like nothing had happened.

Later that night, they were all sitting around the table; Penelope looked deep in thought momentarily throughout the meal. She knew she would have to broach the subject sooner or later.

'So when are you heading off again?'

'Erm... well.' Sarah said as she looked at Carlos. 'We've found a house in this area.'

'Yeah... would you mind us living around here?'

'Really?' Penelope said a little shocked. 'But why? I thought you were going to California?'

'Well that's where we come in.' Antonio started. 'Me and Daisy, well the company we work for are expanding and they have offices just outside of Quantico and we've been asked to take the opportunity to run them... and now we feel it's a really good idea.'

'So you'd be living here in Quantico?' They nodded. 'Wow.' Penelope said as she sat back in her chair.

'And me and well both Samuel and Miguel we want fresh starts and now we're taking the opportunities too.' Penelope looked confused. 'I've been promoted to detective of Quantico PD.'

'Wow.' She repeated, another shock feeling her system.

'And well, me and Andrew are newly engaged and our fiancée's are looking for something new and there's nothing in California for us now, but our families here.'

'This is kind of shocking.' Penelope said a little disconnected, was she hearing right? Were her thoughts, were her family moving towards her?

'We know it's a little overwhelming but Penny this week has shown to us a lot and we missed to much in the years you left.'

'But to move from California? I mean you other halves?'

'Are beginning to pack up as we speak... we all go back to tomorrow to help round up things and sort the houses out with the estate agents and then it's all go.'

'And well me and your mother are starting from scratch so we have no real things to sort through or get ready... but we all what a fresh start.'

'As a family Penny.' Antonio replied sincerely, he had seen what he was to Penelope back when Ramos had ordered him to be knifed, the way she had pleaded and cried, told him she loved him and always had. 'We all what fresh starts.'

'With you in it.' Miguel verified. 'And that means Derek and his family.'

'And the team... they're a part of your family now Penny and we want the best for you now.'

After further discussion and running well into the night, they all headed off to bed. Penelope took a long shower that night, trying to process if reality was well and truly bonkers or it was just genuine reality, throwing what it did best. She was tossing and turning and slightly dosing when she heard the door open and close and then the familiar footsteps as they approached the bed. She waited for it and felt the bed dip and she turned over.

'Your home.' She smiled.

'I am baby girl.'

'Thank God.'

'What's wrong?' Derek asked as he laid down and pulled here close, instantly forgetting the sense of missing her as he hugged her tight.

'They're all moving.'

'They would be?'

'My mom, dad and brothers.'

'Okay... where?'

'Quantico.'

'All of them?'

'Yes.'

'How do you feel about it all?'

'I don't know... they seem adamant, jobs mainly have brought them here but God I've gone from no biological family to having 6 biological members of my family.'

'Have they said why... like apart from jobs?'

'Fresh start... with me, with you, with your family, with our family.'

'I think you should take it... you deserve this P, you really do.' Derek kissed her. 'You deserve your parent's back... so take it; we have enough room in our family for them.' With that Penelope kissed his bare chest and snuggled under his arm, Derek had once again sorted her head out for her.