John stormed out of the room hurt. How could she have done this to him? He left his home, his friends, his job to move here to be with her, and she went and cheated on him, with Morgan of all people. When he first started dating Penelope she would always talk about Morgan. Morgan this, and Morgan that; she'd even say his name in her sleep at night. Sometimes they'd be eating dinner and she would look so upset, it was always the same reason why. You would think it would be the fact Kevin cheated on her but no, it was always Morgan pulled away or Morgan wouldn't do this or Morgan dismissed me without even looking my way.

John made his way out of the hospital over to a bench trying to gain some composure.

Morgan watched Penelope still frozen in his spot. She had said she was in love with him. He knew it deep down but her admitting it made it become real.

She was lying on the bed, her eyes were closed and her hand on her side. He moved to the side of the bed and grabbed her hand. "Don't, just go."

He watched her face contort with pain. "Baby."

She opened her eyes only to close them as tears fell. "I don't want to look at you."

Penelope was hurt physically and emotionally, her side was killing her and heart was broken. How could she have done this to John? He was her savor when she had no one. She moved her hand and pressed on her ribs tying to ease the pain.

"Sweetheart, if you push on your side it will only get worse. Relax Baby, if you keep crying you'll be in even more pain." Derek said quietly.

"Derek, please leave."

"No! I'm not leaving you; I will never leave you, Penelope. For the rest of my life I will be by your side."

She finally looked at him. "Derek…"

He stopped her from talking. "You said you love me, you said you are in love with me." He cupped her face in his hands. "You love me." He bent down to capture her lips. She was stiff at first but soon responded.

"Derek, stop. I can't right now." She pulled away wiping the tears from her eyes.

"Sweetheart, I know you're hurting right now and I'm sorry for that, but I'm not sorry that you finally admitted you love me." He said with a smile.

"Admitted it really, Derek? You are really going to say that to me?"

"I'm just glad you said it." He cupped her face again but she pulled away.

"You have no right to say that to me. Everyone that has ever seen us together knew that I was in love with you. You were the one that didn't see me. You looked right past me." How could he say she finally admitted it when that's all she has ever known was love for him?

"Penelope that's not what I mean…"

"Stop, just stop. This is your entire fault, I was happy, Derek. He was my world, he took care of me, made me feel like I was special."

"You are special."

She pushed to sit up on the bed, but her hand slipped causing her to fall onto her side. "AHHHH!" She screamed as she grabbed onto her side. Derek jumped up to help. "Baby relax, you're okay. You just hit your side."

"OOWWWW" She screamed again as tears were now pouring from her eyes.

"Ms. Garcia, are you okay?" Her doctor came running into her room.

Derek looked at him "She went to sit up and slipped falling on her side."

"I'm going to put the bed back and check your ribs." The doctor moved to her bed lowering it. He looked over at Derek. "Can you please leave the room? I need to pull the top of her gown off."

"No" Penelope bit out.

"Alright Ms. Garcia." He looked at Morgan. "I need to check your ribs. I'm going to unbutton your gown and remove some of the bandages. I need to make sure your ribs didn't move."

He removed the top of her gown and started to cut off the bandages. As soon as he released the pressure she screamed out. Derek grabbed her hand and turned her face to look at him. "Baby, look at me. Watch me, don't take your eyes off of me, it'll be over soon. Just keep looking at me."

She bit her bottom lip as the pain ran threw he body. "Make it stop."

Derek cupped her face with his spare hand. "My beautiful Baby Girl, the doctor is almost done. Don't take those beautiful eyes off of me."

"Alright Ms. Garcia, Your ribs don't seem like they have moved. I'm going to rewrap your ribs. In order to do that I'll need you to sit up for me; it's going to hurt but I will get this done as fast as possible."

"Agent Morgan, will you be the one helping her once she's released?"

Morgan nodded as the doctor grabbed the supplies to rewrap her ribs. "It will be better if she does this standing up, but right now I am just going to have her sit up. You'll need to put the cream on her sides where you see the bruising." The doctor started to place the cream on her. Morgan watched as he applied the medication. He felt rage run threw him as he saw her bruised and beaten side. She had cuts all along her arms and a bandage over her left breast. "You'll need to pull the bandage as tight as you can in order to cause pressure. You will also need to place the bandage right under her breasts." Morgan watched as the doctor pushed her breast up to place the bandage.

"I'll do that now." Morgan said taking the wrap from the doctor. He knew it was stupid to be jealous, he was just doing his job but he couldn't help it.

"Alright Agent. Make sure you pull tight. " Once her ribs were wrapped the doctor fixed her IV and continued on his way to his others patients.

"See that wasn't that bad, was it?" Derek said holding her hand in his.

"I'm not so sure about that." She placed her head back onto the pillow. "I hurt him Derek. I hurt him bad, the team is going to hate me, especially Emily."

"I know this wasn't the most ideal situation but the team loves you, and me. Yeah they might be upset at first but we are meant to be together. From day one it's been you and me."

She closed her eyes and willed the tears not to fall. "Baby girl, I know this is hard. I love you and we will get threw this together. " He leaned in to capture her lips.

John pulled out his phone to call Tom. He needed to talk to someone, anyone. He closed his eyes wishing the pain would go away. He didn't want to call Emily, she would be upset with Penelope and no matter how much pain he was in he never wanted Penelope to be in pain.

After John had left the room Hotch went out looking for him. He didn't agree how his Agents went about their affair but he couldn't deny their love. He took a seat next to John.

John took a deep breath, "Did you know?" Hotch shook his head. "I just found out today."

"I still love her." He said in a defeated voice.

"She's hard not to love."

"Somewhere deep down I knew she always had a thing for him. At night when she would have a nightmare about her shooting she'd call out to him. I used to just ignore it and hold her. She made me love life again, Hotch. I saw her at her worst, that first night we met, most people would have gone running but what I saw in her was beautiful. She cared so deeply that it was alluring. She's so enjoyable, everything we did was an adventure from randomly picking out a place to go on the city map with a dart to our point game."

Hotch didn't know what to say. His heart went out to John; no one deserved this type of heartache. "When Haley was killed I never thought I would be happy again. It took a while but I slowly learned to be free. It didn't happen overnight but I can honestly say now I'm okay. I've learned to enjoy life again."

"I don't think I will ever get over her."

"You will be surprised. When you find the person you are supposed to be with Penelope will be a distant memory."

"I wanted to marry her." He sighed, "I never want to live without her, she makes me a better person. I would rather be her friend then nothing at all."

"What are you going to do?" Hotch said.

"I'm going to be there for her while she heals. I'm going to bite my tongue when I see her and Morgan interact, and I'm going to pray every night that I learn to be thankful for what she's willing to give me. Even if it isn't all that I once had."

Hotch squeezed his shoulder. "If you need anything let me know."

John nodded and finally hit dial on his phone.

AN: Thank you for reading. Up next the team finds out. Let me know what you think.