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A/N: Right, I understand that Garcia looked like a right wimp in the previous chapter but it isn't going to last, trust me!! Just bare with it! =)

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Knocking on her door alerted what she'd only been waiting for, she closed her laptop, shut off everything she was delving into, for a bit longer her searches at home were her own. 'Oh great they told you then.' Penelope muttered as she opened the door to Hotch and Rossi. 'There's nothing to tell.'

'Yes there is, now sit.' Rossi ordered her while he and Hotch entered, both men looking pissed, she'd literally been waiting for their call and she had to admit it had taken longer than she had thought. 'Well...'

'I tripped last night, came home from the restaurant I was at with Derek and Sam and yeah I fell.'

'Any particular reason?'

'I wasn't feeling great.' She saw they didn't believe her. 'I didn't get attacked.'

'So stairs managed to give you bruises and a cut that look very much like a beating?''

'That's the one boss man.' Penelope said and sat down heavily before gasping in pain, she hid it just too late.

'How bad?'

'I'm not too sure.'

'You haven't been to the hospital have you?'

Penelope looked up at them, their faces their usually demanding faces. 'No.' The next thing she knew she was in the back of Hotch's SUV being taken to the hospital. 'Why are you doing this?'

'Because this way we know what's really happening, nothing unturned.'

'You know what happened.'

'Let's not run the risk Penelope.'

'Oh first name, you mean business.' Penelope quipped and then silenced herself; she kept it that way the whole time she was at the hospital. Walking out to the waiting area nearly two hours later she found herself so much sorer than she was and her mood was dark and unfriendly. 'You going to take me home or make me stay here?'

'We'll take you home but no work Garcia.' Hotch said retreating to Garcia, making it somewhat of his comfort to call her by her last name, separate himself from her personally once again. 'What did they say?'

'I'm allowed to work, just no heavy lifting, seeing as I work sitting down most of the time I'm sorted.'

'What did they say Garcia?' Rossi repeated Hotch's question.

'Bruises are the most, I got a broken rib and at least 2 cracked ribs but nothing that won't heal up.'

'Some stairs you fell down.' Hotch said as they walked out of the hospital.

'Well sue the stairs; the pictures you made them take are going to be sent to your home address by the way, trying to stop me from getting to them first?'

'I like to cover bases Garcia, but I don't want you in work tomorrow.'

Derek sat in his apartment thinking about Penelope, he wondered if he hadn't of left her she wouldn't be so hurt, he, also started to think about the cut and bruise, someone had done and only person came into his mind. Kevin, Kevin had had to have done it, there was no other option.

'Hey baby.' Sam said coming down the stairs. 'Where you off to?'

'To see Penelope, I just need to see if she's okay.'

Sam nodded and burst into tears, Derek stood shocked. 'Sam? What's a matter?'

'I don't see why you like her so much.'

'What do you mean? She's my best friend.'

'To you, she's hates me.'

'What do you mean?'

'When...' Sam chocked a sob. 'When we were in the toilet... she threatened me.' She looked up into Derek's widened eyes. 'Said she was going to take you from me and she hoped I lost the baby... please, I just didn't want to say anything but it's gotten to me more than I thought it would.'

'Oh baby come here.' Derek said as his fiancée sobbed in his arms. 'It's okay, I'll have a word with her.'

'There's no point, she won't listen, its just too much.'

'What do you mean too much? Has she said anything else?' Sam pulled away and hugged herself self-consciously. 'Sam?'

'When we first started dating, she just would make comments at me, tell me that you'd break my heart, tell me that you wouldn't want me in the long run, that none of your friends like me.'

'That doesn't sound like Penelope.'

'People change I guess.' Sam said meekly and then felt Derek pull her into his arms again.

'Don't worry baby, don't worry about her.' He soothed and Sam smiled, her plan was working well.

Within a week, Derek had pushed Penelope out and Sam had stuck her ore in more and more, Penelope couldn't even get near Derek and the fact was, Derek wouldn't even look at her, not even at team briefings and she had to admit it was killing her.

As the team went off on a case, Penelope found herself left behind yet again but to be honest she was happy to be out of firing range from Derek's icy glares, come the end of the first day she was more determined to out Sam after running a search and finding no Samantha Hendrix in the any database, as she walked to her car she saw Sam standing there with a smirk on her face.

'You enjoying your make believe life?' Penelope asked bitterly as she unlocked her car and flung he bag inside. 'What's your real name seeing as you aren't in any database across the country?'

'Oh did Penelope look me up.'

Penelope ignored her. 'I don't know what you're going to achieve but when I tell Derek, he'll drop you so quick you won't know what's hit you.'

'Whatever Penelope, he doesn't trust you anymore, did you know that? He really thinks you're the bully out of us two, and for the record, he thinks that precious boyfriend of yours is beating you. Shame really, domestic abuse or losing a cat fight.' Sam then walked off and left Penelope shattered, Derek thought she was being abused but didn't step into help her, that couldn't be the truth, Derek would never do that.

Derek sat in hotel room; his thoughts were of Penelope and Sam, his best friend and the mother of his child. He couldn't think of Penelope as anyone that could hurt anyone, let allow threaten and Sam, something still didn't sit right and he had felt better for calling off their trip to Chicago, he shouldn't have though, he should've wanted to spread the world that he was going to have a baby but he didn't have the urge to. The team were still in the dark, they just thought he was getting a bit carried way with proposing.

He picked up his phone and saw that Sam was ringing him. 'Hey... missing me already?' All that reacted was sobbing. 'Sam... what's wrong?'

'I lost it.' Sam's voice came broken.

Derek's heart dropped. 'H-how?'

'Penelope, we had an argument earlier, she attacked me... I've just got back from the hospital, I'm not pregnant anymore.'