Derek and Penelope had ended up falling asleep together on the couch that night. Now they were both awake and Penelope was back to being sober and miserable.

"How are you feeling?" Derek asked.

"I've been better." She replied sadly. "I'm so sorry that you had to babysit me. I'm going to go talk to Hotch today and I'll tell him everything."

"He'll understand Pen, you just need some time to sort everything out you know that he would never fire you." Derek said.

"Being fired is the least of my concerns right now hon, Hotch might understand but Erin certainly will not and when she finds out she'll fire me on the spot and then my contract with the bau would be broken and I'll be in prison and I wouldn't survive in prison." She rambled.

"Hey, there is no way in hell that I'm going to let you go to prison, you're not going anywhere, we are going to figure this out together just like we always do, ok?" He said.

"Ok." She reluctantly agreed even though she didn't fully believe him.

After the two were fine getting ready they headed off to work together. Penelope was feeling incredibly embarrassed about last night but Derek kept insisting that she shouldn't be embarrassed.

Penelope went straight over to Hotch's office and went inside to tell him what was going on, she was nervous but she knew that she didn't have a choice.

As she was talking to Hotch Derek was talking with Spencer.

"How is she?" Reid asked.

"She's not well, shes really hurting I've never seen her like this and killing me." Derek said honestly.

"She'll be ok, we've all been though hell together and we'll get through this too as a family like we always do." Reid said confidently.

Reid wanted to be there for his friend, he knew better then anyone what she was going through right now not just with e death but also with the drugs, he had been considering taking dilaudid again recently but he is now realizing that it won't help anything and it would only make this all so much worse.

Derek stood up as he saw her walking out of the office.

"How'd it go?" He asked her.

"He said that I have to go to therapy but that I can keep working if I can handle it, and that he and r would handle S" she explained.

"That's good, I told you it'd be ok." He said.

"You were right like always, my love." She smiled.

"I'm gonna go get my computers started up, I'll see you later." She said before disappearing into her office.

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Hotch was talking in private with Rossi and JJ about the situation, he thought that it would be better for them to know.

"Garcia hasn't been coping particularly well with Emilys death, she started using ecstasy." Hotch explained.

"What." JJ gasped. "Hotch we have to tell her the truth, this has gone way too far."

"You know that we can't tell her JJ, if we did it would put her and Emily in danger. I've set her up with a therapist and d and r are helping her out. Trust me I want to tell them at least as much as you do but we can't It's now safe yet." Hotch said, and JJ knew that he was right but keeping such a secret from her family made her feel sick, seeing the pain in them was so hard for her to deal with the only reason that she was able to keep up the act was knowing the Emily would be coming back eventually and everything would be ok once more.