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A/N: Sorry for the delay! I am mean, especially with the cliffhanger, BUT real life is a B-I-T-C-H at times! However! Enjoy and hopefully more soon!
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Once her blood began to run freely in her veins and her feet began to move, Penelope realised that she was heated solely by rage, anger, fear. She was fuelled to go towards the man that had singlehandedly torn her word apart once before.
She knew she was not about to let him do it again.
Not in this life time, or the next. Or even the one after that.
He was never getting the opportunity to take her life and destroy it.
"Put – her down," Penelope almost growled as she watched Kevin stand by one of the cribs holding onto Sophia. Her separation of the first two words of the sentence made him halt as he realised that she finally there right where he wanted her.
Except she was angrier than he had ever anticipated.
She didn't dare go closer for fear of putting her daughter in harm's way. She had seen one too many cases in her lifetime to warn her against becoming antagonising towards a potential threat. She knew he was holding part of what made her entire world in his arms and he had whole control over it.
"I said put her down, Kevin," Penelope ground out thickly. She was trying not to lose her rag completely, but the more that Kevin didn't respond the further she got to the end of her tether. "If you do not get your hands off of my daught-"
"You'll what, Penny?" Kevin asked as he turned to face her, interjecting her sentence and beginning of her wrath before it got any further. Looking, the devil himself might as well have turned around at that moment. "Kill me? Make sure no one can find my body? Wipe my existence from the world?" He asked her with a gloating tone. "Well, you can do that, but to do so you have to get this precious little girl back first," He teased her painfully as he ran a hand around Sophia's face. "And you wouldn't want her to get hurt now would you? Not the precious baby you finally got after losing the first one." He patronised her with her past. "Not being a good mother if you can't protect this one from bad things either now are we? I mean you allowed your first born to die because you became careless with your body and now this one you allow the big bad wolf to just come along and pick up."
Penelope's eyes watered as her past was dangled in front of her like a personal form of torture and now she had to look at a monster hold her daughter right in front of her eyes.
"How dare you," She started and she felt her voice quake with oncoming tears. "You have no right to be in this building, near me or my family. You best believe that I will make you pay and that is not an empty threat."
"Pay for what? I mean you allowed me back into your life and you left yourself well open to that night happening and well you see, everyone deserves a second chance." Kevin told her and bounced the child, "Don't they little girl?"
Penelope felt her body beginning to shake. Her anger and fear mingling together powerfully.
When Kevin saw Derek he knew his master plan was coming together perfectly.
"Put my daughter down now, Kevin or I will make you put her down," Penelope fought harder; she could feel the building presence behind her as a crowd gathered. She had known Derek had been there a while and that he had allowed her fight her own battle whilst he called for backup.
"I love how Mr. Morgan doesn't step in to save his own family," Kevin pointed out as he had dually noted Derek's silence. "Switch roles while I was locked up did we?"
"I think Penelope's plenty capable," Derek motioned and stepped in. "However I think it's time you put our daughter down and leave on your own freewill while you still can. You know full well I won't think twice about hurting you."
"Fine," Kevin seemingly gave up, "Take the stupid brat." He spoke up and willing gave the baby to Penelope –albeit aggressively, freeing himself completely and deliberately leaving himself open to anything and everything that could happen.
He knew it would and he hoped to be right.
The moment he knew Sophia was safe in Penelope's arms, Derek lunged. He didn't think, he did. He took Kevin down and unleashed all of the pent up anger he had felt at the torture that he had watched Penelope go through.
"You asshole!" Derek near enough screamed in a growl at Kevin. "You think you can swan back into this building, into our lives and do this. You think you can just walk back in and touch my daughter and I won't make you pay?" Derek asked Kevin heatedly as he unleashed hell upon Kevin. "You never, ever touch my daughter or my wife without feeling the wrath of me."
Kevin allowed Derek to do his work, but while he knew the agent was busy he managed to wrangle with one hand whilst giving the illusion he was fighting back somewhat with the other. He thrust his hand up and immediately he felt Derek's actions slow. Smirking, he did it again and again until he felt the warmth he had been promised whilst he had planned.
Pulling back, Derek got up and stumbled back allowing Kevin to stand up as well. He still had so much anger to unleash and although Kevin wasn't looking too good, Derek knew he had fallen right into Kevin's plan all along. He put his hand to his stomach as his mind registered exactly what had happened.
Derek then noticed the subtle glint of metal in Kevin's hand and saw the knife. He now knew that he had fallen prey and in turn his life was truly threatened. Even at that, Derek wanted to protect his wife and daughter and take them away from this predicament. He was, after all, the father, the loving husband, he wasn't supposed to allow this to happen to any degree.
"Gotcha," Kevin almost shouted animatedly and pleased at his dirty deed.
Penelope felt sick as she saw the blood staining Derek's shirt. She didn't want to put her daughter down, but she wanted to run to her husband and help him, save him, anything. It was as though her life seemed to go slow around her and then everything was happening too fast. It was as her mind told her to take her daughter to her husband and help – after all she was a woman, she should be an embellished pro at multitasking - that she lost control.
Kevin grabbed Penelope as she hugged Sophia close and protectively, she was making her steps to Derek when he reacted. He was rough and unforgiving with his yank and made her stumble with her movement. All the while she held it together enough to make sure her daughter remained as unscathed as possible, something that Kevin was not satisfied with.
"You leave them alone!" Derek managed to say with gritted teeth as he moved to stay standing. His body was already suffering the shock of the blood loss and his hasty movement to get up only seemed to make the bleeding worse and his unsteadiness uncontrollable.
Kevin watched in glee at the pain inflicted upon Derek and he saw the agents around him draw their guns. Something that made him chuckle manically as he held onto Penelope, making sure his vice like grip was causing her pain. He had had months in a jail cell and as an end result he was stronger, more built and influenced into believing that some sort of revenge was his to have.
It was as he watched everyone that he knew he needed to take this to the next level and quickly.
"She comes with me or I will shoot her," Kevin threatened as he brought a gun out from the back of his trousers and pushed it directly to Penelope's temple. "Both of them come with me."
"Put the gun down, Kevin," Hotch commanded Kevin sternly, but it didn't seem to have the slightest effect. "I said put the gun down and then let Penelope and the child go."
"Her or she dies," Kevin told them back simply and used Penelope and Sophia as a human shield.
Closing her eyes at the cold touch of the fun, Penelope took a moment to gather her thoughts. She knew this couldn't end well if she didn't comply. Kevin might think he had the upper hand, but he didn't know what she had leant in the near enough years since his first go at destruction.
Boy was he in for a surprise.
Opening her eyes, Penelope took a look at Derek as he tried to beg her not to go. He looked tortured at that moment as he now lay wounded, unable to help protect his family.
Penelope knew it was up to her now.
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