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YAY! I've had the idea for this chapter in my head for the last five months; thankfully I finally got it written down.

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Penelope bounded into the bar, her heels clicking on the hard wood floor and a smile firmly in place; she headed straight to the team who were sitting at their usual table.

"Hey Baby Girl," Derek said when he looked up and saw her "You're looking especially fine tonight."

Penelope's grin got impossibly wider as she sat down on the bench seat beside Derek. He pulled her into a one armed hug and the rest of the team had to agree, Penelope did look fine. When she'd walked over to them she had had a bounce in her step, and she was all dressed up tonight, more dressed up than a night at the bar required.

When Penelope pulled away Derek looked her up and down. "Seriously Baby, you're practically glowing, what's up with you?"

Penelope looked around "Is everyone here?" she asked though it was obvious who was missing.

"Aaron just called and said he would be here in a few minutes, he got held up," Dave said.

"Well, you'll have to wait until he gets here," Penelope said using her fingers to zip her lips as she waved over the waitress.

The team exchanged looks, there was definitely something up.

"What can I get for you tonight?" the waitress asked.

"A glass of white wine please," Penelope said "thanks,"

The woman nodded and headed back to the bar.

When Penelope turned back around the team was eyeing her suspiciously, "What?" she said, glancing at Derek.

"Can't you give us a hint?" he asked.

Penelope shook her head and laughed "Nope, I don't want to ruin the surprise," she said, secretly enjoying their impatience.

Dave shot a look at Emily, thinking she might know something considering she was the person Penelope had confided in that night when Aaron had kissed her, but the brunette shook her head discreetly causing Dave to worry.

Aaron hadn't told him what had happened with Penelope after they had their little chat. When he had brought it up Aaron had told him just to leave it. The unit chief had returned to his old self but his mood hadn't drastically changed to support either the possibility of them getting together or not.

Now with the way Penelope was acting he was worried that her news wouldn't bode well for Aaron, he didn't think the Unit Chief could handle what he thought was about to happen.

"Here you go Miss," the waitress was back placing Penelope's wine on the table. Penelope spun around to her a little too quickly and her hand accidently hit the newly placed glass. Penelope's eyes went wide as she scrabbled to grab the glass before it fell over.

She managed to get a hold of the stem before it could hit the floor and break, allowing only a splatter of wine to slosh out of the glass and onto the table.

"I'm so sorry," Penelope said to the waitress "I'm a little clumsy today."

"Don't worry about it," the woman said with a somewhat forced smiled as she turned her back to go get a cloth.

"Oh josh that was embarss…" Penelope began but was interrupted when JJ gasped.

Penelope looked over at her in confusion and saw that JJ was staring wide eyed at her hand, and the gorgeous rock that was sitting on her ring finger.

"Shoot…" Penelope mumbled, as she followed JJ's gaze to her hand she had been previously concealing before the wine glass fell.

"Oh Pen," JJ said reaching for her hand "it's beautiful."

Penelope allowed JJ to take her hand, a light blush spreading across her features, "I know," she said watching as her friends took in the sparkling jewel.

It was a woven sterling silver ring with three diamonds crafted to look like blooming flowers.

While Emily and JJ gushed over the ring for a moment, the men at the table exchanged looks. By the look of the ring it had obviously cost a small fortune and Dave was wondering how a gym trainer had enough to pay for it.

"How'd it happen?" Emily asked "I mean were you expecting it?"

Penelope, after calming herself down from the excitement of letting her friends know, shook her head "I had no idea, I mean we haven't been dating for that long and we did have a few bumps along the way," Penelope looked directly at Emily when she said this "but the moment he got down on his knee, I just knew he was the right man for me. I mean he's always been perfect."

"Oh here comes Hotch," Penelope said as she nodded towards the entrance of the bar. The others turned their attention towards him before exchanging looks of panic.

This was going to destroy Hotch.

"Sweetness," Derek said his hand moving over to grasp Penelope's as Aaron got closer "maybe this isn't the right time."

Penelope frowned at Derek and tugged her hand away. She pushed herself up from the table just as Aaron reached it.

"Hi," he said smiling at Penelope.

"Hey," she said grinning back. Then she reached her arms around his neck and pulled him into a long, passionate kiss, to the shock of their friends.

Aaron wrapped his arms around her waist, pulling her flush against his body and letting his hands roam her lower back. He didn't let up until they both needed air, not even when they heard cat-calls from a few tables away.

Penelope pulled back slowly, grinning shyly "Sorry, I may have let the cat out of the bag already, they saw the ring."

Aaron just laughed and bent to give her a quick peck on the lips "I had a feeling you'd have trouble keeping it a secret."

Penelope pouted but couldn't keep the smile from tugging at her lips "I tried to, honest, but then my wine glass split…"

She trailed off as a throat was cleared behind her and turned to look back at the team. They were all looking rather shocked, other than Dave who was looking bemused.

"This is your fiancé? You told me you worked it out with Eric, you said nothing about hooking up with Hotch!" Emily accused, upset about being left out of the loop when she finally found her voice.

"We didn't want to tell you guys until we were sure it would work out," Aaron explained "We thought we, well mostly I had jerked you all around enough. I insisted we keep it a secret, so don't blame Penelope."

"And I did work it out with Eric, so it wasn't exactly a lie," Penelope said "He took it surprisingly well when I told him about Aaron, and the moment in the elevator…"

"What moment in the elevator?" Reid asked.

"Oh," Penelope said realizing that only two people sitting at the table knew about that "Well after Aaron yelled at me while we were on the case in Minnesota, that night we got into an argument and he kissed me in the…"

Reid opened his mouth to protest again but Aaron stopped him "It's a long story, we'll explain everything later, but for now I'd really like to just sit down and share a few drinks over our engagement with our closest friends."

"Of course," Dave said not missing a beat "come sit, I'll order us a round."

Aaron smiled and gestured for Penelope to sit down first, then slid in beside her, his arm going around her shoulders.

Dave called the waiter over and ordered a bottle of their finest wine.

"So…" JJ said, a grin spreading across her face "How'd you propose?"

Emily leaned in closer from her end of the table as Penelope grinned up at Aaron, her eyes starting to water a little "It was so adorable," she answered "I had just got home and walked into the apartment. I called out for Aaron because he was supposed to meet me there and since he had left work earlier than I did I thought he would be home already. But there was no answer which I thought was a bit strange so I took out my cell phone to call him and walked into the living room, I switched on the light…and there they were."

Penelope actually did have tears rolling down her cheeks now as she retold the story. "Aaron and Jack were dressed in matching tuxes, both down on one knee, each holding out a ring." Penelope's hand slipped into her pocket and pulled out a very colorful ring made of string and slid it onto her finger where it joined the other one. "Jack said he had made his in art class, with the help of a teacher."

Penelope bit her lip "It was honestly the happiest moment of my life. Both Aaron and Jack asked me at the same time if I would marry them. Of course I said yes."

"Luckily for me," Aaron said leaning down to kiss her.

"That is adorable!" JJ squealed, Emily nodded her head in agreement "I'm so happy for you two."

"We all are man," Derek said clapping Aaron on the back.

At that moment the waitress came back, she gave them their drinks and then cleaned up the spilt wine.

Once the glasses had been passed out Dave raised his and smiled at the couple across from him "To Aaron and Penelope, may you be forever happy…for all of our sakes."

They all laughed, clinked their glasses together and drank to Dave's words.