They all quickly sped off to the hospital following behind the ambulance.
Once they arrived they were escorted to a waiting room and were forced to just sit there wait anxiously for any news about their friend. This situation was all too familiar to them just a few weeks earlier they were all sitting in a smaller waiting room waiting to hear about Emily, now everyone just had to hope and pray the Penelope wouldn't have the same fate.
The amount of anxious tension in the room was thick, emotions were radiating off of everyone. JJ was nervously bouncing her leg up and down and biting her nails she felt so guilty, keeping this huge of a secret from her friends was eating her alive and she just wanted to scream and explain everything but she knew that it wouldn't help she knew that it would only put Emily in more danger and she knew that it wouldn't magically make Penelope better. Reid held JJ's other hand comfortingly as he tried to not let his thoughts and fears over come him. Hotch and Rossi were pretty much unreadable like usual but Hotch couldn't help but feel like he had let his team down. It was his decision to have Emily fake her own death and his decisions might have caused Penelope to lose her life. Derek refused to sit down, he leaned against a wall for support and he tried to keep his emotions in check, he knew that freaking out and punching things wouldn't help.
Time was dragging on and it felt like hours were going by when in reality it had only been a little over one hour.
Finally they saw a doctor coming towards them. Hotch tried to profile him to get an idea of what he would say to them but it wasn't much help.
"Penelope has large amounts of MDMA in her system. she flatlined and it was very hard to bring her back but she's stable now, we were able to treat her symptoms but she hasn't woken up yet and there may have been some damage done to her brain but we won't know for sure until she wakes up." The doctor explained as sympathetically as possible.
"And when will she wake up?" Reid asked.
"We don't know." He replied sadly. "You can see her if you'd like she's just down the hall." He informed them.
"Thank you." Hotch said and they all walked together to the room.
She was lying on the bed the only sign of her still being alive was the steady beeping of the heart monitor.
Everyone gathers around the bed in a semi circle, no one said anything, no one knew what to say or what to do, Penelope was always the one to cheer everyone up she would know what to do but now she was lying in a hospital bed and all they could do was hope and pray that she would be able to open her eyes again.
For Derek seeing his best friend like this was just too much for him and he ran out of the room but Hotch was quickly behind him.
"Derek you need to calm down." Hotch said softly.
"Do not tell me to calm down! She might never wake up again and you're going to tell me to calm down!? I knew that she wasn't getting better." Derek lowered his voice a little. "She went to see her brothers and after that she just seemed so upset I shouldn't have let her go not by herself at least."
"Derek you know that this is in no way your fault, she's stubborn she doesn't like accepting help. You tried it is not your fault it's nobodies fault." Hotch said to try and reassure him.
"I just can't be here right now." Derek said and he walked away. Once he was out of the building and in his car he pulled out his phone and called Kevin Lynch.
"Hello?" Kevin answered.
"It's agent Morgan, I need you to help me find somebody. I'll be at the office in fifteen minutes." Derek said and then he hung up the phone and drove off.
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Once he arrived he went to the cyber crime department and found Kevin in his office.
"What do you need me to do?" Kevin asked a bit nervously he knew that Derek didn't particularly like him.
"His name is Danny, he's a drug dealer I need you to track him down." Derek said.
"What's got you interested in a drug dealer? And why aren't you getting Penelope to do this for you?" Kevin asked confused.
"She's in the hospital." Derek answered hesitantly.
"What? Is she ok?" Kevin asked.
"I need you to not ask questions. Can you help me or not?" Derek said.
"I can try." Kevin answered and started his search. He was expecting d to leave for a few minutes but he didn't he just leaned against the wall waiting for him to find something.
A few minutes later Kevin spoke again. "Ok I think I found him, he lives in an house about 20 minutes away from here, I'll send you the address."
Derek barely let him finish before walking away and getting into his car. He punched in the address into his GPS and drove off. He didn't know exactly what he would do once he got there, he wanted to arrest him, he wanted to beat the living shit out of him but most of all he wanted him to know what he did, he wanted him to know that he was destroying people's lives and he was killing people.
Once Derek arrived at the house he walked up the porch steps and knocked on the door and got ready to confront the man.
The door opened and a man appeared.
"How can I help you?" He asked.
"My name is Derek Morgan, Id like to speak with you Danny."
"How do you know my name?" He asked.
"Because I know someone that you sold to and now she's lying in a hospital bed." Derek said trying to stay as calm as possible.
"Look man I'm just trying to make some cash I'm sorry that someone got hurt or whatever but that's not my fault it was her choice." Danny said casually.
"She might never wake up again and I know that you don't know her and this means nothing to you but she means everything to me. She is an amazing person and she was going through a ridiculously hard time and then you show up and you tell her that the pills will make her happy and that's true they did until they wore off and now she's more depressed then she even was before. You saw that she was upset and drunk and vulnerable in the bar that night and you took advantage of her." Derek said.
"Well then maybe next time you shouldn't just leave your sad, drunk, vulnerable friend alone so that she doesn't get taken advantage of." Danny snapped back at Derek.
That comment pushed Derek too far and he punched Danny so hard that he was on the ground. Derek knew that Danny was right and that's why he was so angry he was still so angry at himself. Without another word Derek walked away and went back to his car.
His phone started ringing so he answered it.
"What."he snapped.
"Morgan, its Reid, Penelope's awake." Reid said through the phone.
"She's awake?" Derek asked just to be sure that be heard him correctly.
"She's awake." Reid confirmed happily. "So get back here right now."
"Im on my way." Derek said happily and made his way back to the hospital to see his best friend again.