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Here's the next chapter! Sorry it's so short. Thanks for the reviews you guys :)

Penelope was still on the floor of her apartment in the dreamscape, her hands covering her face as tears spilled from her eyes. She wanted desperately to find a way out of here and get back to the real world. On her Super 8 roll the image of Derek was still there and every time she looked at it her eyes welled up even more. A sob escaped her throat again and she rose from the ground, pacing back and forth. Her mother had said she needed to find her own way back to the world, but she had no idea how she was going to do that. She sat on her couch and put her hands on her temples and rubbed them. Looking up at the screen again, she watched as the doctors continued to shake their heads.

"Oh my God, Derek!" she gasped. Tears coursed down her face and she sloppily wiped them away. "I have to find him," she mumbled to herself. "I have to find him."

Rushing to her bedroom, she looked around for familiar objects, like her purse. When she found it, she dumped the contents onto the floor and grabbed her keys. Maybe, just maybe she could drive and find Derek somewhere in the dreamworld. Her mother said it was up to her to bring him back to the real world. So she was going to go find him. It was no mystery to where he might be: he would be at the BAU, the place his life truly was.

Gripping the keys tightly in her palm so hard it ached, she ran to the door of her apartment, worried for a moment that she might not be able to get out of the apartment. But when she touched the knob of the door and yanked to open it, it flew open and she was able to step outside into the hallway. Sending a silent "thank you" up to whoever might be listening, she rushed down the hall and out of the building. Outside was strange though. The whole place was covered in fog, everywhere shrouded in the mist. There wasn't a person in sight. She looked all over, her pulse racing and head pounding. She needed to find her car.

Down the sidewalk she found Esther parked and got in hurriedly. She had to fiddle with her keys a few times because of her shaking hands. Her one and only thought was finding Derek. It was the only thing that mattered was finding him. Starting the engine, she pulled out of the parking spot and stepped on the gas pedal so hard the car let out a terrible sound.

Penelope drove through the deserted streets. There were tears pouring down her cheeks and she was forced to wipe the away the tears away to keep them from blurring her vision. Her apartment was only a twenty minute drive from the BAU, but between the empty streets and her driving at ninety miles she was there in ten. She ran through the fog anxiously and yanked the door open. No ID card was required to get in; the doors were unlocked. Pressing the button to the elevator several times, she hollered, "Damn it!" It couldn't come fast enough. Only a few yards away was the stairwell and she pushed the door open to run up the seven flights that would get her to the BAU floor.

Pushing the door open, she looked around the deserted BAU floor and ran to Derek's office, she saw that the blinds were pulled down and she wasn't able to get sight of anything inside the office.

"Derek!" she cried, pounding on the door. "Derek, are you in there?" She opened the door and burst into the office to find him sitting at his desk, his head in his hands. When he looked up and found her, he rose and they ran towards each other, meeting in a tight embrace. His face buried in her neck and she had her head against his chest.

"Baby Girl, how are you here?" he whispered, pulling back and cupping her cheek, pushing some of her hair back. "What, how?" he sputtered.

"I'm stuck here too," she said through her tears. "But I woke up at my apartment and I saw…I saw my mom. She told me that I had to find you. That I had to bring you back because it was the only way."

His eyes went wide. "Baby Girl, my dad was here too," he said. "He told me I had to find my own way out, but when I tried to follow him out the door, I couldn't."

"I'm your way out," she murmured, grasping his face. "Mom, she said that if I didn't find you that you wouldn't make it back." She took his hand and tried dragging him to the door, but when she tried to go through the threshold, she was stopped. Something kept her from making it through. "What the hell?" she yelled, trying to run through but she was shot backwards into the wall. Derek ran to her side and pulled her back to her feet.

"Are you alright?" he asked with concern.

Penelope let out a sob. "No," she whimpered. "We have to get out of here, but there isn't a way! We're trapped here!" Her head fell against his chest and her tears began to wet his shirt. "Derek, what are we going to do?"

He pulled her tighter against him and kissed her temple. "Shh," he murmured against her hair. "I love you, Penelope. Don't you forget that. And we are going to make it out of here. We will make it."

"I love you too," she wailed. "I want us to make it out of here though. I want –" But before she could keep talking, her voice cut off and blood began to trickle out of her mouth. As soon as she started to cough, more blood came out and she began to convulse.

In terror, he cried, "Penelope! Penelope, speak to me! You're going to be okay! Penelope, stay with me!" Pulling her head into his lap, he felt his tears coursing down his cheeks and a cry escaped his throat. He wasn't going to lose her again. Not again.

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"There's blood coming out of her mouth and her heart rate is dropping rapidly," a nurse said. "Page the surgeon; we need to get this woman to the OR STAT!"