Hospital day Three
Rossi finished his story about how he knew what Pen had did in Italy and looked at Derek expectantly. He finally broke under the look "Fine. She went to Chicago. She spent a week with my sister. Sarah told me she spent a week up there helping her out when josh had his surgery. She even spent time with my mom. Helped her get all the stuff ready before me and savanna visited the last trip." Everyone in the room looked at him shocked. Out of all their relationships theirs was the most strained. It had been months before she left so for her to do that for him really said something. Reid realizing he was next said "She visited my mom. She spent four days just visiting with her. She went when she knew I would want to be there most." "I thought you went to visit your mom? If you weren't there where were you?" JJ asked " I took a few days to wait out my test result so I wouldn't mess up a case." "What were you tested for pretty boy?" "Early Alzheimer's and schizophrenia. Penelope knew I wouldn't be able to go that time because she set up the appointment before she left. I got the notice when she sent me the video." Everyone was quiet for a while each lost in their own thoughts. Emily finally broke the quiet "She really seems to miss everyone. I mean we know she cares so why did she leave like she did? There has to more to it than what she said."
Day four Quantico
Penelope sighed and walked away from her bag at the door. "Alright lets get this done. You're just let hotch when he wants something so best not avoid it." Jess just smiled and said "I will take that as a compliment." "Aaron would too" Penelope laughedJess looked at her and said "how about we jump to the why you left now and not the what you've done since part." Looking down she answered "you can't look at me different. I mean it no pity looks or oh pen's got it?" "Got it" "It's a long story so I would settle in. It all started about four months ago. It started at the last big get together we had. The one at Rossi's. I was sitting back watching everybody talk and laugh and realized it had already been two hours. Everyone had said hi but I was left sitting there by myself for two hours. Let me just tell you its not fun realizing everyone is having fun and talking to each other but you. It especially sucks when two of the people used to be my best friends. The other two are two of the people I have the highest respect for who have always been there for me. Looking around I could see how everyone was pulling back from each other then but especially me. We used to be a family but for some reason they were all pulling away. After that I kept watching everyone at work. I can see how it happened. I mean everyone has a family and things they needed to do but after that party I really noticed how much we were separating. It just kept getting worse. I understand most of it I do. I just missed the way we were before. Rossi has his daughter now and I am so happy he found her and his grandson. He deserves happiness. I just miss the "father" figure he was to all of us. He really dropped back in his fatherly ways I guess having a real daughter made the appeal to the work kids smaller."
Jess looked at how sad she looked "What happened with the others?" "I should really be happy for all of them. I really should. I mean their my friends and they were happy. I was just so alone and missed my family I have had these last few years." "What happened Pen?" "Derek has been seeing savanna for the last two years you met her at the party. The last year he and I haven't really talked we haven't hung out or anything at first it was due to the cases or so I thought but then it continued. I used to be the light in his life. I am so glad he found savanna don't get me wrong I just miss my hero. He stopped telling me things about his family he stopped asking me to hang out. He cut off all contact except for work questions. He even stopped our flirting. One minute I had my best friend the next I was kicked out of his life like a stranger."
"JJ had been trying for another baby with Will. She went through a miscarriage about six months ago and since then she has been shut off she really only talked to will and reid outside of work. She used to tell me everything but I wouldn't even have known that had it not been for will thinking I already knew and asking me. We still went out every once in a while but she stopped talking to me. We would either talk about will and henry or we were talking work. We lost our girl time and girl talk." "Reid had been about the same. A little more withdrawn due to his worry about his genes and his mom but we still hung out. He is one of only two who didn't really change. Even I changed. That's their part of why I left." Jess looked at her. She had left a big part of their team out "And Aaron's part of this?" Penelope blushed and looked away "That would be more about my changes then his