[Author's Note]

This is the sequel to my fic 'God Given Solace', I've decided to just continue on within God Given Solace. So new readers won't get lost, just made more sense this way instead of creating a 'standalone' fic. Hope you all read, enjoy, and review. For those unfamiliar with my 'style' I do not read or respond to individual reviews 'while' I'm still working/writing on my stories, because I don't want my thoughts and the way I want to develop the story to be unintentionally 'tainted' by someone else's opinions and thoughts. Please don't take it personal if I don't respond to your reviews, and know that I will definitely read them all when I have finished writing the story either in my head or on paper. I really do appreciate all your feedback, I think reviews keep me sharp and help be to become a better writer, so thank you for them. Now on to what you came here for

She was purposely being distant with him. When they had first returned home after his mother's funeral a month ago things had seemed normal between them, then a couple of weeks ago he had started noticing the change in her. She was being all 'businesslike' with him whenever they worked a case. She stopped hanging out with him after hours, and wouldn't take any calls from him that wasn't work related. At first he had understood, given their 'new' situation, but they had sworn to each other that they would not allow the one night they had spent together, a night of passionate solace, to complicate their lives or disrupt their relationship. Yet for the past two weeks she had been either avoiding him or ignoring him altogether, and he hadn't been the only one to notice since Prentiss and Rossi both had asked him if something was wrong between them, he had lied and told them no. So when he had marched down to her office after they had finished for the day, he was beyond irritated and borderline angry, until he had reached her opened door and saw her slumped over her desk with her head in her hands.

"What's wrong?" He asked in concern as he passed over the threshold and closed the door behind him to give them some privacy. When she looked up at him with red eyes, her face wet with her tears and covered in red blotches, his concern grew exponentially.

"I just got a call from my doctor. I've been feeling off for a couple of weeks now, and I suspected that I might be…but then I was in denial and just plain scared," She closed her eyes and swallowed down the lump in her throat before she opened her eyes again and focused on the man now kneeling before her with his hands clutching hers, as if bracing himself to hear bad news. She supposed that it could be labeled as 'bad news'. "I went to the doctor's because I wanted to be 100% sure before I told you about it."

"Ok sweetness you're really starting to scare me. What's going on are you sick?" Morgan asked as his heart pounded in his chest, his mind already conjuring up the most morbid thoughts about losing his babygirl. He knew he wouldn't be able to survive losing the second most important woman in his life, especially so soon after losing the first.

"God why is this so hard, why am I scared to tell you…I…I tell you 'everything'. Now I'm terrified, look my hands are shaking," She was babbling again as she stared down at her trembling hands, which Morgan grasped inside his own to still them.

"Ok calm down and take a deep breath," He instructed and she did as he said, she closed her eyes and took deep, even breaths.

"Morgan I'm pregnant," Garcia announced as she opened her eyes and stared intensely at him to gage his reaction. He was visually relieved which actually stunned her. "About three weeks along." She continued as she watched him to see if he would make the connection.

"Wow, uhm…wow congratulations babygirl," Morgan said with what looked to be a forced smile. "So have you told Lynch yet?" She chuckled a bit but not in amusement, but disbelief at how thick he could be sometimes.

"No I wanted to tell the baby's father first, and decided what 'we're' going to do, then when Kevin returns home in a couple of weeks, from the 8 week IT training he's been doing in Japan, I'll tell him then." She stated and could tell by the way Morgan's mouth fell open slightly and his complexion took on an ashen color that realization had finally struck him. "I just didn't think it would be the best thing to call up my boyfriend and say, 'Hey honey, how are you? Oh by the way while you've been away I've cheated on you and gone and gotten myself knocked up.' And it's not going to go over well at all when he learns that you're the father, he's always been so jealous of you…and… and our relationship, and I was always telling him he was being silly. That you and I are 'just' friends and that our relationship is completely 'platonic'… Oh my God I feel like a fucking hypocrite right now." She babbled out as she began to panic, and Morgan instinctively pulled her into his arms to console and calm her, like he always did when she was in such a state.

"Come here," He held her and she did calm a bit as she rested her head against his shoulder.

"What are we going to do Morgan? No," She pulled back from his embraced and looked into his eyes. "The more appropriate question is what do you want to do Derek? Because I know what I have to do, and I'm not going to have an abortion."

"I would never ask you to do that," He said sternly as he frowned at her a bit. "I don't want you to do that." He added quickly and Garcia sighed in relief. "But I don't know if I…" He began but then stopped and sighed as he watched as her face fell at his words and her head bowed a bit, he reached out and cupped her chin and lifted her face again. "Hey, I'm just being honest here, last thing I was expecting to hear today is that I'm gonna be a father. And I'm not saying its bad news, just a surprise. I'm gonna need a moment to let it…marinate, OK." She nodded her head. "Thank you," He said as he released her, stood, and then turned and left the office, leaving a dejected Garcia staring after him stunned. She hadn't expected him to be over the moon about the news, but nor did she expect that he would have to 'think about' whether he wanted to take responsibility for his child or not. She has known Derek Morgan for several years now, and she felt comfortable stating that she knew him better than anyone else, and if anyone had told her that we was a dead beat who had run out on a child he'd known about, she would have laughed in their face and then destroyed whatever good credit history they might have had. Now she couldn't help but wonder if she really, truly knew him.

"It's ok," She spoke to the empty room and rubbed her hands over her belly. "It's going to be ok, I promise." She said confidently even though her heart wasn't so sure.

[Two Weeks Later]

She had managed to get through the past two weeks and it hadn't been as difficult as she had thought, and though what she referenced as 'Morgan's rejection' had initially stung it was something she knew she could and would deal with. Morgan hadn't mentioned their baby since she told him of its existence. He hadn't outright avoided her as she had done him in the previous weeks, and he had even been attentive towards her more so than usual; making sure she was eating and checking to make sure she was ok whenever she made an excuse to leave the room in the middle of a meeting to go vomit. Yet still there was a strain between them but she didn't press the issue, she put the ball in Morgan's court for whenever he decided to play, and tell her one way or the other what he wanted to do. Whether he wanted to be a part of his child's life or not would not deter Garcia from raising his child and loving it with all she had. She made a promise to herself that she would no longer wait around on things that were out of her control she couldn't afford to waste her energy on that anymore, or to be stressed out by it. She had her baby to think of. So she decided that she would just come clean and tell Kevin about her indiscretion and her baby as soon as she saw him, which she knew would be mere minutes because he had just arrived in the building; he had been texting her of his movements since he got off his flight. So she had been preparing herself and trying to remain calm when heard the soft knock on her door.

"Come in," She spoke out as she stood from her seat and wrapped her arms around her middle in a protective manner. The door opened and as she expected Kevin's head popped through the crack. He smiled at seeing her there and opened the door further as he walked in and moved to her. Before she could speak he had her in his arm and was kissing her deeply and passionately, in the way that would normally have her weak in the knees with desire for him, but this day her knees were weak for another reason.

"Mmmmm, God I've missed you," He pulled back a bit but moved right back in for another kiss, but Garcia broke the kiss by moving her head to the side.

"Kevin we…"

"I know, I know you don't like us 'fraternizing' at work, but it's been two months Penny and I've missed my girl." He said around a goofy smile and tears instantly sprang to her eyes.

"Oh Kevin, I'm sorry, I'm so…so sorry," Garcia said as her tears fell and a scowl shadowed Kevin's face as he cupped her face in his hands.

"Penelope what's wrong, sweetie?" He asked worriedly and she took a cleansing breath before she began to tell him the truth.

[Elsewhere]

"Hey we're heading over to Harry O's to grab some lunch, you coming?" Prentiss asked as she grabbed her jacket and pulled it on as Reid stood at his desk with Seaver, waiting.

"Naw, I'm gonna go see Garcia,"

"Yeah we didn't bother asking her because we knew that Kevin Lynch was coming in today, and we figured she'd want to spend time with her honey." Reid stated and then pursed his lips into a straight line, which was his trademark smile.

"Lynch is back?" Morgan asked as his brows bunched and he hurriedly made his way to the door that lead to the back staircase, which he often took to get to Garcia's office.

"Yeah…uh…hmm," Reid tried to reply but Morgan was already gone.

"What is going on with those two?" Prentiss asked as she stared at the closed door that Morgan had disappeared through. Reid simply shrugged as Seaver looked on totally lost, as she always was with her new 'teammates'.

Morgan had made it to Garcia's open door in time to hear Kevin voice boom out into the corridor.

"How could you do this to me?"

"I'm sorry Kevin, it's wasn't planned it just happened." He heard a weeping Garcia speak out in turn.

"How, how did it 'just' happen?" The only answer that he got in response to his question was a face full of the wall that Morgan had slammed him into, after he entered the doorway and saw Kevin's vice grip on Garcia's arm.

"Have you lost your fucking mind?" Morgan roared as he continued to pin the startled man to the wall, by folding his arms up behind his back.

"Morgan, don't. Please let him go, he didn't hurt me." Garcia pleaded as she grasped Morgan's arm and pull with all her might, and he relinquished his grip on Kevin's back, who turned and started at him with wide fright filled eyes.

"You don't ever manhandle a woman, boy, and especially not a pregnant woman." Morgan said pointing at the Lynch his anger still simmering as his chest heaved up and down in sync with his breathing.

"He didn't know that I'm pregnant, I hadn't gotten that far into the conversation," Garcia said as she flopped down into her chair, deflated and defeated.

"You're pregnant?" Kevin asked with a slight smile at the thought but then it faded as quickly as it had come. "With Agent Morgan's baby," He made it sound like a statement rather than a question.

"Yeah it's mine," Morgan was the one to answer and despite his anger towards the man standing before him, he couldn't help but to feel sorry for him, because he could actually see his heart breaking.

"How…how far along are…"

"Six weeks." Garcia responded and Kevin's eyes clamped shut, when she placed that final nail into his coffin. He knew for sure that there was no possibly way that the baby could be his. "I'm sorry Kevin, I never meant for any of this to happen. I love you."

"You love me?" Kevin repeated his voice rose slightly but calmed quickly when Morgan took a defensive stance readying to protect Garcia. "You don't do what you've done to people you love, Penelope." He paused a few seconds as he placed his hand inside the back pocket of pants and pulled out a small tiffany blue box and held it up. Garcia gasped her eyes locked onto the box as she placed a hand to her chest. "I wanted to spend the rest of my life with you." Morgan's guilt suddenly nagged at him for the part he had placed in this. "I just don't understand, I loved you so much and would have done anything you wanted you only had to ask, why wasn't that enough…why wasn't I enough?"

"You were, you are…it was just a…a…"

"Mistake?" Kevin offered but she shook her head no.

"No I refuse to think of it like that because my baby was conceived that night," She said as she lovingly stroked her belly. "And I love this baby more than anything, and I will not let he or she ever think that they were a mistake." She added with such conviction that Morgan stared at her in awe and then became filled with shame at the way he had been treating her since she told him about the baby, their baby. "What happened between Morgan and I happened and I am sorry that it's hurt you, but that is the 'only' thing I regret about that night, the fact that you've been hurt by it. But I can't change what happened I can only try to make amends for it, that's really up to you though."

"What? You want me to tell you it's ok and that we can still get married and I'll even help you raise another man's child?" Kevin asked dumbfounded.

"You will not raise 'my' child," Morgan cut in and Garcia locked her eyes onto him at hearing him reference their child as 'his' for the first time. "That baby will know who it's father is. I grew up without my father my kid will never know what that's like. They'll never be vulnerable, like I was." He stated finally coming to a decision even as he wondered why he had ever even taken time to give it thought. "I want to be a part of my child's life." He said the last part as he stared directly at Garcia, whose tears were flowing freely now. She threw him a small smile and nodded her head.

"Well I guess I'm not needed here," Kevin spoke out as he stepped from the wall and made for the door, and Garcia bolted up from her seat.

"Kevin please I don't want us to end like this, I don't want us to end at all. I love you…please…can we at least sit down and talk things through?" He stopped just as he reached the doorway.

"I don't know…maybe…maybe," He let out a heavy sigh as he let his head hang a bit. "But not today or tomorrow…I don't know," He walked out closing the door behind him. Garcia stood staring after him or a moment before her grief over took her and her legs gave out on her, it had been Morgan's quick reflexes that had prevented her from crumbled to the floor. He held her in his arms as they both sat comfortably on the carpeted floor.

"I'm sorry babygirl," He said against her temple as he kissed the side of her head and slowly rocked her, intending to hold onto her until she was all cried out. "I'm sorry."