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A/N: Thanks for the reviews guys! Let the games begin... well almost...
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Derek was up and ready to go that morning. He wanted to see his baby girl and with the sun shining and the amount of fun they'd all had the night before today looked promising. He was walking in with his mom and sister's when Hotch and his family joined him.
"Casual is a scary look." Derek teased him and he looked up to see Penelope already outside, standing awkwardly with a family that all looked like Lynch.
"She's crossed over then." Hotch commented, his eyes looking where Derek was. "And could she look anymore out of place?"
"Tell me about it." He said as the two families left the building and went into the area set up for the food and drinks. Derek couldn't help himself, he went up to Penelope and she looked up, her hair in her red curls, a yellow summer dress on with big pockets on the side, finishing at her knee, flip flops on. She'd read the invite right for what woman had to wear. As had nearly everyone but the Lynch women.
"Hey you." She said and her eyes told him why she didn't use a more adventurous nickname on him. The Lynch family would highly disapprove.
"Hey P." He said and hugged her. "You got sun cream on? We know what happens to you in the sun." He teased her and she hit him. "Hey Kevin." He said amicably and Kevin smiled slightly, less than impressed.
"Hi Morgan." Kevin said with a distant tone and Penelope felt her insides flip. Yet she smiled sweetly and grabbed his hand, squeezed it and released it. The time had come sooner than she'd actually thought.
"Honey, can we have a chat please?" Penelope asked him and everyone looked at her weirdly. "Just for a minute or two."
"Fine." Kevin said and Penelope looked at Fran.
"Nice to see you again Fran." She said sweetly. "And you two girlies as well." Derek smiled then, Pen and his sister's had struck up an immediate friendship last night and that made him happy. "I'll be right back and we'll get this day started the appropriate way."
Derek watched as boyfriend and girlfriend sauntered off, he didn't miss as Kevin took Penelope's hand and she jerked it away. He frowned but kept his face as unreadable as possible. Whatever Penelope was doing last night when she was alone was about to play out here and now.
Penelope hit the button of the elevator, completely ignoring Kevin's rant and raves about her and Derek. She got in and scowled at him. When they were inside, the silence was scary, he had no idea what was wrong with her and he soon knew when they reached her office.
"I'm done Kevin." She told him straight away. "I can't be in a relationship with you anymore." He went to speak and she put her hand up to shut him up. "Don't interrupt me because it'll be, no doubt, to do with Derek Morgan." She said and crossed her arm over her chest. "Well it's not. This decision was finalised when you decided to choose whose team I was going to be joining today and as Penelope Lynch. I'm not a Lynch Kevin, that's you. I'm a Garcia and if I so wished to be a Lynch for the day then I would've asked to be."
"That's pathetic reasoning Penny."
"And that... Penny... what the hell is up with the Lynch's calling me that? I hate it; absolutely loathe it and God your family Kevin! If I wanted your mother to know I was using birth control I would've answered that question! I didn't need her rummaging through my bag to make sure I was on time because God forbid there be a baby out of wedlock in 2010." She said annoyed.
"She's just looking out for our welfare."
"Yeah okay... like the comments as well? What about your sister's little digs? Oh Penny, you could lose weight here and stop eating that there. Why is your family hell bent on changing who I am?"
"They're not!" He defended and stepped towards her. "Only I get a say there."
"Oho! No way sonny boy! No one changes me but me you hear?" She told him and he nodded sharply.
"Penny, Penelope, please don't do this honey, we can work over this?"
"Like we have done for a while now? We just going to path over this glitch and hope to God we make it?" She watched him. "So I'm sorry Kevin I'm completely done with this. I can't live with no fun in a relationship. It's not fair to just live like that, I need to really live."
"You're going to go to the Morgan table?"
"I am yeah because at least there I won't be under scrutiny and I won't need to hold my tongue."
"I knew this would happen. I knew he'd win."
"He is my best friend and you're mother knows that and, yeah, she had words with me about it." Kevin looked stunned then. "I will not, for a woman I barely know, drop people from my life because they are not right for their son's girlfriend to be acquainted with, so to hell with your mother and her snobbery, I'll be friends with whoever I like and for once I might not feel like the man that supposedly loves me absolutely despises it."
"This is the wrong mistake Penelope and you know it."
"I highly doubt it." Penelope then opened her door and let him leave; she then just shut her door and sat down. Her shoulder were maybe, just maybe, about 10 tons lighter.
Kevin left the building and went back to his family extremely annoyed. Dumped today of all days. His mother picked up on his behaviour and pulled him up on it immediately. "Son, what's a matter?"
"She dumped me. She didn't want a part of our family after all."
"So what? She's going to be a family of her own?" Rachel said with a slight humoured tone. "I mean, her on her own, her life story really." She mocked and her mother laughed and agreed.
Sarah over heard the conversation and she'd seen Kevin laughing too and she had to have her say. "Excuse me." She interrupted. "Sorry to barge in like this but I'm Derek's sister, Sarah." She got a round of introductions from them. "I'll make sure Penelope sends you a photo with her family." She then walked off with a smirk and went over to her brother. "Do right by that woman."
"What the hell?" Derek said with a slight jump as he looked at his sister stood next to him, a plan unravelling in her eyes.
"Pen's got no table. The Lynch's were making digs about her because their precious boy's just been dumped."
"What else have you done?" He asked as the annoyance began to settle in.
"Nothing! Now go get her on our table and under Penelope Morgan with Garcia in brackets."
"On it." Derek said and went back inside; he was sorting the tables out and then finding his baby girl.
Penelope was coming out of her office, locking it as she went; it was empty and quite eerie to be here when it was so dead. She turned and came face to face with Clive, she smiled sweetly but soon she was pinned between the wall and his body, his hand running down her thigh.
"You dumped my son. That makes this less guilty." He almost said it as a snarl.
"You dare touch me and I'll make sure you pay for it."
He laughed with glee. "You, a lowly tech, over me a rich, rich man. I don't think so Penny."
"The names Penelope." She told him and pushed him off of her and stalked her way to the elevator, he came up behind her and grabbed her hand, she yanked it away harshly. "Touch me again and I won't be held responsible for my actions. I've had enough of your family thinking you can take liberties because you assume you're better than everyone else. Well I've found a lot more people better than you four. Stick together but I honestly do not want a thing to do with you."
"You'll regret ever dumping my son. He could give you everything."
"So can another man." She told him and got into the elevator and clicked the button to close the doors immediately. She just went down, taking her time to gather herself, make her composure defined and perfect. When she got outside, the Morgan's were together with the rest of her family. "Penelope Morgan reporting for duty." She said as she tapped Derek's back and stood behind him with a sweet grin.
"Well I do believe my baby girl joined the good side."
"I did, that's until we get some tactical games going. I'm thinking a dodge ball to Kevin's mom's head." They all looked at her shocked and she just smiled again. "What? It might knock the rod out of her arse."
"Well if you get her, I want both Lynch and his dad." Derek said laughing still, as were the others and pulled Penelope close by putting his arm around her waist. "I want his dad especially." He put his lips to Penelope head and then whispered to her. "He dare touch you again like he just did and he'll have hell to pay." Penelope's eyes widened a little; she didn't think anyone was around to see what had just happened.
"Tactical games it is then." Penelope said out loud and knew the Lynch's had taken on the wrong family and that she had joined the right one.
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A/N: Yay! No more Penelope loving Lynch! Woo!
BRING ON THE GAMES I SAY!
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