Hope everyone had a great summer! My birthday was in Sept and we celebrated it by going to Halloween Horror Nights and it was amazing. My baby girl is almost 8 months so it's been incredible seeing her grow little by little. So safe to say it has been crazy busy and not a boring day at home but I finally finished this chapter and wanted to take some time and get it out for you all!
I do not own Criminal Minds :(
Mistakes are mine
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Kaden jugged towards them and smiled. "Hey Luke."
"Hey son." Alvez smiled as they hugged.
"You didn't have to come down here this early." Kaden said since his father told him he wouldn't be back for a while.
"Like hell I did. You're seriously going to live here?" he asked realizing how immature he sounded.
Penelope rolled her eyes and mouthed 'fuck you'.
"Of course I am." Kaden smiled excitedly.
"It was his decision." Penelope added just in case he wanted to blame her on their son's decision again.
"I wish you would've called me again." Alvez admitted trying to hide a bit of jealousy.
"I told you. Alice knew and didn't say anything. I don't like her and she doesn't like me. Mo… I mean Penelope has been very helpful getting me through Gram's death. Especially with this one, Izzy and Oliver… it's fun." Kaden smiled as he kissed his baby sister. "No offense but I would probably get bored at your place."
He nodded understanding. He couldn't argue with that. "Who's this?" Alvez asked as he looked at the baby in Penelope's arms.
"This is my daughter Emery." Penelope smiled and gave her daughter a kiss on the forehead.
"You're daughter? I didn't see her last time I was here." He said accusingly.
She rolled her eyes. "The adoption papers went through two months ago."
"Another adoption," he whispered trying not to freak out right now.
"Kaden can you put Emy in the crib for me please? Your father is about to have another panic attack." She said and gave Emery to her son and he walked towards the nursery.
"You adopted again?" Alvez asked in shocked.
"Yes I did." She said and crossed her arms defensively.
"Since when did you decide to be the Jolie-Pitts?" he asked in shocked.
"Pendejo. I don't need to explain myself to you." She said as she walked towards the kitchen.
He followed close behind. "You do when it involves our son." He glared.
"Kaden is 18 Dios mío, old enough to make his own choices. We don't have any right in telling him what to do and you don't have any right in being worried or concerned about my decisions that could affect our son."
"He may be 18 years old but he is still a child. I'll worry about him all I want since I couldn't have that from the moment he was born no thanks to you." He spit out.
She glared at him. "God stop bringing that up. I said I was sorry."
"I don't care if you're sorry Penelope. When you make decisions we all have to be involved. Period! That's what a family is." He said completely frustrated with this whole situation that he still did not know how to feel about.
"Yo no quiero escuchar más." She said and turned around but before she could walk away he opened his mouth.
"Don't you dare walk away from me when I'm talking to you!" He yelled.
"Go fuck yourself." She yelled back and started to walk away from him.
"Dammit Garcia." He yelled as he followed her.
"Luke!" Kaden yelled but didn't hear him so he said, "DAD!" even louder.
Alvez stopped arguing and looked at his son in awe. "You called me dad."
"Stop yelling at her, she can't stress during this time in the pregnancy."
"What?" he asked confused.
"She's four months pregnant." Kaden explained.
Alvez's blood pressure dropped. At least he thinks so because he fell faint and was seeing white spots in his vision. "Pregnant?" he asked and all the memories from 18 years ago resurfaced.
Kaden nodded. "Yes pregnant… Now, if you guys need to talk, then do it amicably and stop fighting so much." Kaden said annoyed.
Alvez watched Penelope in disbelief. "Where you going to tell me? Or was I going to find out like I did with Emery?" he asked with a hint of sadness, hatred and jealousy.
She scoffed. "Stop acting like I owe you an explanation for every decision I make in my life because I don't. Dios mío," she said annoyed and walked away from him.
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Penelope was taking a shower and trying to relax after a stressful day with Alvez, when she saw the door opened, her eyes widened. "Get out! Luke," she yelled at him.
"Shut the fuck up. It's nothing I haven't seen before." He spit back rudely but at the same time enjoying her naked body. It had been 18 years since he had seen her naked and now he's seen her naked more than once in a short amount of time. Was he complaining? Hell to the No!
She rolled her eyes as she rinsed her hair. "You're being a creep." She said calmly.
He scoffed and shook his head. He looked at her swollen tummy and his heart ached so he went to seat on the chair she used to put her make up and he tried to push all of his feelings back but seeing her pregnant just broke him. This right here could have been them 18 years ago. He couldn't hold the tears in anymore and let them fall.
Penelope glanced at him and was beyond shocked at his reaction. She got out of the shower and wrapped a towel around her. "This is new." She said. In their years of friendship, she never saw him cry. Ever. He always made sure to hide his emotional side because he always wanted to stay and act strong around her.
"You are so fucking heartless." He glared even though he was teary eyed.
She rolled her eyes. "Idiota I've never seen you cry before," she said defensively.
He scoffed crossed his arms.
"Mature," She rolled her eyes and crossed her arms as well. "I told you I was sorry. How many times do you want me to say it?"
"Woman don't you see how this is affecting me? Seeing you pregnant like this? Going through the emotions again after you told me you were pregnant and then 'lost the baby'." He said sternly holding his fingers quoting the last three words. "This could've been us 18 years ago but you fucked that up, didn't you?"
She closed her eyes and tried to hold her own tears back and looked at him. "You're talking as if you and I were ever a couple. It was just a crazy weekend and we got horny and pregnant. Never in our years of friendship did we cross that line until that weekend." She said irritated. "You've never talked like this before until now, why?"
"BECAUSE I WAS IN LOVE WITH YOU!" he yelled in frustration. "Do you have any idea how guilty I felt when you told me you lost it? How guilty I felt when you told me to go? How guilty and upset I felt when I found out you were avoiding me?"
More tears ran down her eyes and she started to walk away from him.
"STOP WALKING AWAY FROM ME," he yelled seeing red.
"STOP YELLING AT ME." She cried out and kept walking.
"I CAN'T!" He cried out as well and followed her out of the bathroom.
"WHY?" she turned around and asked.
"BECAUSE AFTER ALL THIS TIME I STILL LOVE YOU AND YOU DON'T GIVE A SHIT!" He said frustrated not even wanting to keep fighting for now and left her bedroom.
A sob escaped her and she sat on the edge of the bed. She cried some more as she took in what he had told her minutes ago. She caressed her barely swollen belly and took a deep breath because she knew she couldn't be stressed and risk anything while pregnant. Why was this so complicated? Why did they fight all the time now? Why couldn't they talk like the adults they were? She knew the answer to that but she was not ready to admit it.
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Penelope was in bed with tears running down her eyes. Her bedroom door opened and she saw Kaden holding Emery and he brought her to her.
"What did he do this time?" Kaden asked. He sat down on the bed and put Emery next to Penelope and she started to climb her mother's chest.
"Is he still here?" she asked and picked up her daughter moving her away from her swollen tummy.
"Yes, he's not going anywhere anytime soon." Kaden said. "Are you coming out for dinner?"
"I don't want to see him right now. I just need a minute or two." She sniffled.
"Okay. Then I'll take one for the team and order out again." Kaden smirked.
Penelope laughed and nodded. "That sounds good." She stayed in the bedroom and Kaden walked out.
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Kaden walked by the family room where Oliver and his friends were playing video games and Isabel was playing with her dolls on the floor in the corner still in eyesight of her brothers. "We're ordering out."
"Cool," Oliver said and kept playing with his friends.
Alvez was outside on the upper deck looking at the water and sighed in frustration.
"She's really pissed at you." Kaden said as he joined his father.
"Yea well she drives me insane so…"
"You guys are perfect for each other man. You two need to forgive and forget and move on." Kaden said. "By the way I ordered Chinese for all of us."
"Thanks." Alvez said. "How do you feel about Emery and Penelope being pregnant?"
Kaden shrugged his shoulders. "I don't mind it at all. Yea at first I thought she wouldn't pay attention to me because of Emy and shit but it's cool. Oliver and Isabel are amazing. Emy stole my heart and I know I'll love the twins as well."
"It's twins?" he asked in shocked.
Kaden sighed realizing his mother didn't tell him. Of course she didn't tell him. "Yes, it's twins."
"Jesus." He rubbed his face still in amazement.
"I wish you and Penelope would get along." Kaden said softly.
"Me too son." Alvez admitted.
"I just don't understand why you are still with Alice. She's a bitch."
Alvez glared lightly at his son. "Kaden she is my wife. I love her. You'll understand when you fall in love."
"You're not in love with her like you're in love with Penelope." Kaden said without a beat.
"It's not that easy and…"
"Dad?" Kaden asked.
Alvez's eyes widened. "What?"
"Don't bullshit a bullshitter." Kaden smirked.
Alvez laughed out loud. "Am I the first one to be called…?"
"Yes. I haven't called Penelope mom yet but I will soon." Kaden said.
Alvez felt good if only for that small gesture. "Good."
"Food will be here soon, I'm gonna get the cash from Penelope."
"Don't. Let me pay for it," Alvez smiled at his son.
"Cool!"
Alvez' cell phone went off and when he saw the caller id he sighed seeing that Alice was calling him. He decided not answer it and went inside the house.
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Later that night, Penelope was on her laptop with the baby video monitor next to her when she saw her door open and she saw Alvez. "Does this family not know what it means to knock?"
He started to walk towards her but she stopped him.
"I didn't say you could come in." She said softly.
"Penelope, I'm sorry about before and I'm sorry about the way I've been behaving towards you. Like I said I was so hurt that all I see is the bad and I have to change that if I'm ever going to try and forgive you."
Penelope sighed and crossed her arms. "Is that supposed to make me feel better?"
"Is it working?" he asked hopefully.
She tried to hide the smile and shook her head. "It's late. Go to bed."
"Can I ask you something?" he asked. "I understand if you don't want to answer."
"Okay."
"Who's the father?"
She closed her eyes and sighed knowing this was going to happen sooner or later. "I don't know."
"What?" he asked confused.
"I don't know who the father is because I was artificially inseminated."
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TBC
So much angst! So much drama! I hope you liked this chapter!
And thank you everyone for all the favorites and reviews! They make me want to write more!
