Hotchner watched as he saw the ambulance drive away with two of his most valuable agents inside. He knew that if anything were to happen to Garcia that Morgan would fall apart fast. He needed this top agent and he needed him ready to be focused. He felt a soft hand in his and turned to see his brunette co-worker and secret girlfriend. Passing her the note from his left hand, he swallowed as he observed her reaction to the threatening letter.

With her eyes widening slightly, she looked back to Aaron and asked, "Where did you find this?"

"Reid gave it to me." Just then, Reid and JJ approached them and they let go of their hands and stepped away from one another. Gaining a more professional footing, Aaron asked, "Reid, where did you find this?"

"It was taped to Garcia's car."

Grabbing for his phone, he called David who had appeared to be out of sight for some time now. "Rossi, I need to you to go to Garcia's car and look for any signs of a bomb or a detonator. I believe that she could have been a specific target for this group. I am sending officers to help you. There will be a team going to the hospital. We have found Garcia..."

Taking a deep breath, David looked at the fire and watched as the fire fighters were beginning to take it down. Some were searching for people in the rubble and stopping the flames. Local police officials were keeping the crowds at bay, but they were confused and were hungry for answers to this attack. "Hotch, is Garcia alive?"

"She is touch and go. She looks like she flew through glass and barely missed being crushed or torn apart. From what I can tell Derek found her along the side entrance of the building. Morgan is with her now but we need to get to them."

"Send some of the team. The police can handle this for right now."

"Dave focus, do you really want police officials solving the rest of our case without any sort of profile or starting point? We need to prove to this group that we aren't backing down. Who do you want with you right now?... okay I will send her." Hanging up, he turned to Prentiss and nodded to her, saying "Rossi wants you to help identify possible damages and threats to Penelope's cadillac. JJ, I want you to talk to the news casters and explain that we are shaken by the hit to our home base, but will be searching for justice. Reid, I want you to come with me to the hospital, Garcia is going to need us once she wakes up. I want the whole team to meet at the hospital once they are done with their assignments. We need to be strong for our Garcia."

"What's her pressure?"

"Too low, we need to get to the hospital stat! She needs a blood transfusion and now!"

Derek swallowed deeply as he watched them work on his baby girl. She was getting more pale by the second and that feared him more than he thought possible. The paramedics opened her shirt and began attempting to assess her damages. There was cuts and bruising along her face and neck. There is a deep cut to her right ribs and the blood wasn't stopping. Her left ankle was broken with a piece of bone protruding through her skin. With several cuts from glass upon her legs and arms, he made his way back up her body and fresh tears leaked from his eyes. He came upon her scar from Battle and his mind went back to that awful evening where he thought he could lose it all.

Grasping his new rosary deep in his palm, he exited the church hoping he had found answers or was on the path to those answers. As he approached his SUV, he remembered Penelope's date and it crushed him. She told him she needed to prove that someone was willing to cross a smoky bar for her. He would do that, he would do it in a heart beat if he could see his baby girl smile again. She sounded so hurt on the phone when he was simply protecting her. He never wanted her hurt or rejected but that is all he made her feel. Grasping the rosary tighter, he prayed for the strength to drive to her apartment and ask for her forgiveness.

Getting into the passenger seat he looked at his phone and was stunned to find 8 missed phone calls: 2 from Hotch, 2 from JJ, 1 from Rossi, 2 from Prentiss and 1 from Reid. None from his baby girl. Noticing the voice mails, he assumed it was about a case, so he set up his blue tooth and began debating if he should drive to Penelope's or to the BAU.

"Derek, its Aaron. You need to come to the hospital. Its Garcia..."

Derek slammed on his brakes and pulled over once again. He couldn't hear anything once he heard his baby girl was in the hospital. He could faintly make out that Emily had called him a son of a bitch in her message to him and that Reid was genuinely confused to his friend's absence, but he couldn't care about that now, all that mattered to him was that his baby girl, his best friend, was in the hospital and he wasn't the first to be there. That he was going to be the last to arrive. That he could lose her without her knowing...

He sped to the hospital and parked in front of the emergency room not giving a damn if the SUV got towed. All that mattered was his baby girl. His baby girl...

"We're losing her!" the medic said as they charged the electric voltage to bring her back. "Sir, I need you to let go of her hand. I need to work on her."

Derek couldn't believe his eyes as he stared at the monitors as he watched her flat line. "No, don't you dare leave me baby girl. I love you. Don't you leave me."

"Clear!" they shocked her and there was no response. "I need another charge."

Derek began to panic watching them work on her. He saw the hospital approaching and he grasped onto her cot asking God, mercy and his Penelope to come back to him.

"Clear!" shocking her again, her heart beat returned. Taking a sigh of relief the medic looked at the broken man in front of him and said "She isn't out of the woods, but this is a good sign. She needs prayers and support now. She needs to know she has something or someone to return to."

"She's always had me. I don't think she knows that though," Derek whispered as his tears fell upon her face. "Baby girl return to your man and I promise I will never let you go a day without believing that you are more than just must solace, you are my world. You hear me? I love you Penelope Garcia."

The ambulance doors opened and the medics took her with speed. Derek followed and kept his eyes on his baby girl.

"What do we got?" the doctor asked looking at her injuries. "Is she from the explosion?"

"Yes doctor, we believe that she could have a possible collapsed lung and some head trauma. Her ankle is fractured and we lost her once on the ride here."

The medical team took her vitals and the doctor nodded saying, "She needs surgery now. We need to stop one problem at a time." The nurses began rolling her away through double doors and when Morgan went to follow he was stopped. "Sir, you need to be back in the waiting room now. We will call you when the patient -"

"Penelope Garcia." Derek growled harshly.

"Penelope is out of surgery. Are you her next of kin?"

"Yes, I am her husband." Derek said keeping his eyes on the closed doors.

"Okay Mr. Garcia, we will call for you once she is out of surgery." The doctor turned from him and went to fix this very broken patient.

"Mr. Garcia, huh?" The paramedic that drove them to the hospital looked at the broken man and smirked at him. "Don't worry I won't say a thing. Just mention you are both getting your rings resized to your boss who appears to be at the end of the hall." The medic laughed and walked away silently wishing that this woman would make it through this.

Derek moved without thinking and without thought. He kept moving forward. That was all he could do. He met the eyes of Hotchner and Reid and was confused as to why Reid was only looking at his shirt. Looking down he saw blood all over his torso and arms and realized that it was Garcia's blood, his baby girl's blood. Paling, he moved to the nearest trash can and threw up all he could manage. He couldn't lose her. She was his God given solace. God wouldn't take her from him now, would he?