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A/N:Wow! I'm guessing that was liked some =P
I'm still not gonna make a promise of a HEA... only two people know...
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The team watched Penelope leave, it made their minds up. They were going to work harder to get back, to restore her.
Derek watched her go towards her car; she wore all black and white, the only speckle of colour being her hair and red ruby lips. He went towards her and grabbed her.
"Let me go, Morgan." She growled at him and tried to pull away. She saw him staring at her, a look she hadn't seen for months. "Derek... let me go."
"No." He told her, and moved in. "I can quit, I can come back to Chicago, just say the words and I'll do it. I want you back."
"But I'm not what you need."
"For God sake's Penelope! I died the day you got transferred and I've been sinking ever since, I'm not the Derek you know, I'm a ghost of him and this girl, well, she likes it. It doesn't mean I like it."
"Well you made it pretty clear just a moment ago that you'd moved on." Penelope whimpered to try and halt the tears. "I missed Emily finally getting engaged, and Hotch falling in love, I missed that! I missed Rossi's marriage and Reid falling in love and I missed my own Godson growing up because my past is always going to hang over me."
Derek watched Penelope cry as he held her arms tightly in his hands.
"What I'm doing right now, is even counted as illegal. Strauss made sure that you'd never get me back and she won!" Penelope near enough screamed at him, the tears falling faster and faster. "I'm a dirty little hacker; I knew my life was getting too good to be true. Now I wish I was in jail."
The team now stood on the steps that lead down from the diner, watching the scene in front of them.
Derek was stood with such vindication and passion that they were shocked; they hadn't seen it at all for the past 7 months.
His heart had gone with the rest of Penelope's things.
"I don't have a life with you lot anymore because you all moved on." She said and finally shook him off. "I need to get to work. All my actions are presented back to Strauss, I cannot survive in prison Derek, I need you to understand that. I'm not some strong independent woman. I mean look at me, here I'm a nobody and nothing's going to change that."
Derek lost his fight then; she'd given up on getting back to them. It was as Penelope opened the door and went to get in he spoke up.
"Tell me to not ask her to marry me." Derek asked her, and she froze and stood up.
"What?" Penelope asked, hoping she'd misheard.
"Tell me to not ask her to marry me." He repeated in the same heated tone, his eyes begging her, his tone passionate and pleading.
"I'm not going to tell you what to do with your life." Penelope told him truthfully as she stood up again and looked at him with the same rush of emotions. Her heart was breaking but she couldn't run his life for him.
"I'll wait for you, whatever, please Baby Girl, just please."
"You're going to wait 3 more years? When you've obviously gotten something good in your life. You'll throw it and wait for me?"
"I will, I promise, I will. I'll quit right this moment, just to have you Penelope." He told her, his tone full with despair and desperation.
"Marry her, Handsome. Do not put your life on hold or throw it away for me." Penelope proceeded to get into her car and drive away. Never looking back and never stopping at all.
She just left Derek a mess in the middle of the car park.
It was then his phone rang. He looked at it and saw his girlfriends name flashing as it rang.
He just ignored the call.
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Penelope ran into the building, unlike the Quantico one, this didn't have a workplace feel. She wasn't sure what it was, but she was sure it was because nothing was familiar.
"Garcia, I wanted you here half an hour ago." Her new boss told her, stopping her mid step.
"I know I got caught up, Sir." Penelope said apologetically.
"With the man that verbally abused me?"
"Erm, about that, sorry Sir."
"You will be. Section Chief Strauss is on her way here. Breach of contract I believe." He said, and Penelope could almost detect malice in his voice. "I suggest you get to work, so I can at least tell her you can do the task at hand."
"Of course, Sir." Penelope told him and went to her small area in the room of techs. Penelope felt sick with worry; she knew that is Strauss was on her way, it didn't mean anything that could be classed as pleasant.
She knew she'd soon find out. For now she'd work to get her some of those brownie points that she so obviously needed. Except every time she put more data in her mind filled with what had happened. She'd had Derek so close and yet she'd pushed him. After months of wishing of having her family back, she got them, but instead of cherishing the little time she had with them, she'd wallowed.
Deciding she was in enough trouble as it was, she secretly got the information for Hotch's PDA and sent him a message, with her work's address. She needed him more than ever and case or no case; this was her one shot at getting anything sorted in her life.
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Hours later Penelope was reprimanded to go to the front reception, there Erin Strauss stood, Penelope wasn't allowed to go home, she'd been told to wait for the woman that seriously had it in for her.
"Ah, Garcia, it's been a while." Penelope begrudgingly shook Strauss' hand. "It's good to see you follow regulation uniform now." Penelope nodded nonchalantly, she hadn't worn proper colour for a while now, only her pyjamas were the bright colours she used to adorn herself in. "I hear you met up with Agent Hotchner..."
"Yes Ma'am." Penelope complied truthfully.
"I thought you're new contractual rules implied that you were never, under any circumstances to get in contact."
"With all due respect Ma'am, they're here on a case, I was in the diner down the road. It was entirely accidental."
"From what I hear though, Agent Hotchner had words with Cline over your work schedule." Strauss said standing there. "You know you are privileged to have the opportunity to work rather than live in a jail cell for what you hacked all those years ago."
"I am Ma'am, honestly, it's just..."
"Well why did you refuse to come to work immediately?" Strauss interrupted Penelope.
"I hadn't eaten. I still haven't and I haven't had a full night's sleep in over a month."
"You know that computers need around the clock monitoring."
"I do Ma'am, but I also need to keep myself healthy, but working like this isn't going to work." Penelope began to stick up for herself; she was fed up of being treated so nastily.
"You've made it work for 7 months."
"No, I've had to make it work. I've had to comply to all the rules, I have to run myself into the ground and carry on going. I've done everything I've been asked." Penelope watched Strauss tense as her tone of voice heightened. "You know the work I did for BAU was above satisfactory, you know I did nothing wrong; you knew the team worked, with or without mine and Agent Morgan's friendship. After everything that the team's gone through, you were still persistent to break us up. Yet you still didn't succeed did you?"
"Garcia, I think you need to step down."
"No! Even after Agent Hotchner got hurt, and his wife hurt, he still came back and he fought hard to keep the team together and he did it, because he's strong and was meant to be the Unit Chief. You had a big problem with him, and no one quite knew why, but I think it's all down to jealousy. He managed to make a team work through whatever and get out the other side. He made you jealous."
"I suggest you pack up your things Garcia. I'll see that a patrol comes and gets you and takes you to county jail back in Virginia. I told you that it was transfer out or stay in that state in a cell."
"It'll be a hell of a lot better than living this life." Penelope said and put her eyes down as she turned to leave.
"Erin," they froze both women, "I think you need to get in contact with the director for the last time." The pair looked up and at Rossi. "I think you just got profiled perfectly and I think you need to rethink your career."
"Dave, I am merely going on the contract rights Garcia was given when she was first arrested for her first crime."
"Yes, that might be true, but that was her only crime. She's done nothing since to make her appear to be a threat and you know that the length of cases has greatly increased since you got Garcia transferred. Your BAU team worked fine yet you broke it."
"I was merely doing my duty. I did as I saw fit."
"Fit for who?"
"The team. How much longer could incessant flirting and sexual innuendo's go on as not distracting?"
"We were coping quite nicely with it." Rossi said as he and Hotch stepped closer. "It gave our team an edge. It kept us sane. You know how dark the job can get; Garcia was a little bit of light that we needed to not sink. You took that."
"David..."
"No, Erin, I want Penelope reinstated back to our team, back in Quantico, and I want it done effective immediately. I don't want any qualms or worry, I just want it done." Rossi took a step forward, almost face to face. "You're not the only one with the ability to manipulate." Rossi told her and withdrew with a smirk on his lips.
"What I want to know, is why Penelope is being overused, do you not have enough techs?" Hotch asked, still completely peeved.
"We have plenty Sir." Penelope's new supervisor said, and stepped in. "She gets the job done fastest."
"Doesn't explain why she is overused."
"I was told about her past, I was given the orders to work her the hardest. Jail wouldn't have been kinder."
"So you're saying that the best tech by far in the country got it easy for the last seven months?" Hotch asked, crossing his arms over his chest.
There was no more nice talk in the building. It was all an argument over getting Penelope back and getting her life back on track.
For the first time in seven months Penelope felt at her happiest, with someone fighting her corner for her.
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A/N: Hope you enjoyed the second chapter! =) Like better than Chapter One?
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