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Here's the next chapter in this little tale. I just want to send another big thank you to you guys for the reviews I've been getting! They are much loved :) Enjoy this next chapter and the next one will be posted soon.

A week after getting Eden back, the BAU team returned to Quantico. The jet ride back had been uneventful. Eden had fallen asleep with her head on Penelope's shoulder and was snoring softly. Penelope, on the other hand, was staring blankly into space, not moving an inch. Derek kept checking on her out of the corner of his eye, knowing he'd have to watch her carefully. Hotch was busy trying to find a technical analyst who could step in for her while she was on leave. Strauss was refusing to allow her to work again until she'd passed the psych exams.

It was the one time in his life Derek agreed with the woman's decision.

The plane landed back in DC at nine pm. Eden yawned and opened her eyes, looking out the window at the familiar surroundings. She picked her head up off her mother's shoulder and rubbed her eyes tiredly. All she wanted to do was get back home and sleep in her own bed. She was dreading going back to school, not wanting to have to explain to her friends that their "teacher" had kidnapped her and forced her to watch as he assaulted her mother. Her father had contacted the school while they were still in Maine and gave as few details as possible in order to ensure she could make up all her work.

What Eden was most excited about was seeing her brothers and sister. It had been ten days since last seeing them and as much as she fought with her brothers, she missed their rowdy behavior and Haley's whining about helping her paint her nails.

Eden touched her mother's shoulder gently and winced when she jumped, startled like a deer caught in headlights. "Mom, we're home," she said softly. She held out her hand and waited for her to grasp it.

Penelope blinked a few times before snapping back to reality. The entire flight she'd been thinking about what was going to be done about Kevin. She wasn't a violent person by any means, but she wanted her ex-husband's balls burned on a platter right in front of him. What he'd done to her daughter made her want nothing but pure, unadulterated revenge. If she weren't so frightened of ever seeing his face again she would gladly beat the shit out of him.

"Let's go then," she murmured, taking her daughter's hand as they got up to exit the jet.

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"What's going to be done with Lynch?" Derek growled at Hotch and Rossi before he followed Penelope and their daughter to the car where his mother was waiting.

"He'll be moved here," Hotch said guardedly. His brow rose at the glint of hatred in Derek's eyes. "And I don't want to see you anywhere near him. Unless I am present." Clapping Derek on the shoulder, he said, "And believe me, I'll let you scare him so bad he'll be pissing his orange jumpsuit."

Nodding grim-faced, Derek shook Hotch and Rossi's hands. "Thanks guys," he said softly, looking in the direction of his family. Penelope and Eden were hugging Fran tightly and he softened a slight bit.

"Any time," Rossi said pulling Derek into a rare hug.

"Morgan?" Hotch called as he began to stride away.

"Yeah, man?" Derek asked, looking back over his shoulder.

"Tomorrow morning at nine you can be at the BAU to see Lynch," his unit chief reported. "After that you leave and you don't come back until next week."

"You got it."

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"Mom! Eden!" Haley shrieked in excitement when the SUV pulled up and Penelope had opened the door. Her youngest daughter was still awake at ten p.m. and she was dressed in her bright pink pajamas, her hair sticking out of two pigtails. The little girl threw her arms around Penelope first and then around Eden.

"Hey squirt," Eden said softly, wincing in pain. She was still hurting from her injuries. "Careful. You'll rip my stitches." Despite the aching she felt, she wrapped her arms around Haley, who she hadn't seen since their first day of school, nearly two weeks before.

The twins were coming down the stairs and both had huge grins on their faces. Penelope took both of them in her arms at once and kissed their cheeks. "Hey you two," she murmured, picking a piece of lint off of Aiden's shirt. "Miss me?"

"Mom, you have no idea how much I missed you," Haley said, squeezing herself between Asher and Aiden and hugging Penelope's waist again. "These two have been unbearable!"

Penelope felt tears prick at the back of her eyes and she looked at all four of her children, glad to have all of them in the same room as her again. If it were up to her she would call out a giant group hug and enforce it. She noticed that her sons and Haley were acting oddly nonchalant towards her, though. It didn't seem like normal behavior for kids whose mother had just been assaulted. Glancing at Derek, she noticed he was smiling at them all, not saying anything, just watching. His stare was protective, loving.

She sighed internally. He hadn't told the others about Kevin raping her. She was grateful. The effect it had on Eden scared her every time she thought about it. During the week they'd been in Maine while her oldest child recovered, she tried getting as little sleep as possible. On the first night she'd closed her eyes, she'd dreamt of Eden's screaming and Kevin's breath hot on her face. Every time she closed her eyes she was afraid she'd relive it, so she'd stayed up, drinking cup after cup of coffee, sleeping in only hour intervals where she didn't have enough time to dream.

Her eyes fell on Eden again and she noticed her daughter looking pale. Clapping her hands together once, Penelope smiled and said, "Alright, I'm going to get Ms. Eden here to bed. She's got to get her beauty sleep if she wants to go back to school on Monday." Going around to Aiden, Asher, and Haley, she kissed the tops of their heads and gave them tight squeezes. "Goodnight my loves! I'll be up to wake you up for school in the morning."

"Why would Eden want to go to school on Monday?" Haley asked, sticking her tongue out. "It's boring."

Ruffling her sister's hair, Eden said, " 'Cuz some people like to learn." After hugging her brothers and sister one last time, she went to Derek and gave him a tight hug. "I love you, Dad," she murmured softly.

"Love you too, Baby Doll," he said, kissing his daughter's head. "Say goodnight to your grandmother and get your butt up to bed."

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"Mom?"

Penelope turned from adjusting the heat in Eden's room to see her daughter sitting on the edge of her bed, looking small and nervous. "Yeah, baby?" she asked. She went to sit next to her and moved a strand of her cobalt black hair from her eyes.

Eden bit her lip before saying, "Will you, uh, will you stay with me until I fall asleep?" Her eyes looked wide as plates as she looked at her.

Pulling her into a hug, Penelope said, "Yes."

Lying down on her side with a yawn, Penelope wrapped Eden in her arms and let her drift off to sleep with the light of her night table glowing softly. Every muscle was tense and everything was silent. Penelope stroked her daughter's hair and rubbed small circles on her arms to try and calm her anxiety. Her breathing evened out and eventually, Penelope let her own exhaustion weigh down on her eyelids and she allowed herself to fall asleep with her daughter, both of them trying to heal with the medicine that sleep might provide them with.

Derek walked in to see what was taking Penelope so long, but sighed. Both his wife and daughter were sound asleep, neither of them moving an inch. Crossing the room to them, he took Penelope's glasses off her face, pulled the covers up around them, and kissed both their foreheads before turning off the bedside light.

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"When you're in there, you don't react to what he tells you," Hotch said skeptically to Derek the next morning. His friend and colleague was staring into the interrogation room at Kevin Lynch, the unsub who'd taken his wife and daughter. "The moment I feel like something is turning south, you're out of there and headed home. Got it?" He waited for a curt nod and added under his breath, "I must be going senile to think this is an okay idea." Secretly Hotch was hoping Derek would be punching Kevin at least once because he planned on allowing some of it.

Derek heard everything Hotch told him, but didn't respond. He strode forward confidently into the interrogation room where Kevin was sitting, his back perfectly erect, his trademark awful-patterned shirt untucked and his head covered in a patch of greasy hair. His hands were in handcuffs in front of him and he was staring at a wall. The expression on his face was smug and it took every ounce of Derek's energy to keep his hands steady at his sides as he entered the room.

"Hello, Agent Morgan," Kevin said snidely. "How are your girls doing? Feeling any better?"

It was then that Derek snapped. Hotch and protocol be damned. He curled his right hand into a fist and laid a punch to Kevin, square in the nose, knocking his chair backwards.

"You fucking son of a bitch!"

So, who's ready to see Derek kick Kevin's ass while Hotch gets front row seats?Until next time, mon amis! Let me know what you think :)