Giving up Loving on
Ch. 5 What is up with Pen?
Author's Note: Thank you so much for the reviews and reading. I thought it would be good to hear things from JJ's point of view. I also wanted to clear up the Will issues for later in the story. Thank you again.
Cindy
(JJ's point of view)
Life was officially weird. Will and I decided to separate. At first I thought we just needed time apart. I quickly realized we were both happier. We had been fighting so much. Poor Henry was the one suffering.
Will had decided to go back home. He got his old job back. I was worried he would want to take Henry with him. He promised to never take Henry from me. We got something in writing. Henry would spend at least one weekend and every other holiday with Will.
I wasn't ready to tell anyone. I quickly realized I would have to tell someone. I told Hotch. He understood. He asked Jessica if she would be willing to keep Henry also when we were on a case. She happily agreed.
I had noticed Penelope was acting strange. I tried to talk to her about it. She blew me off. As I watched I saw that Derek was noticeable upset. Penelope seemed to not be flirting with Derek anymore. Derek did his best to get Penelope to talk.
I felt really bad for Derek as the days went on. I started to feel angry at Penelope. I couldn't understand why Penelope suddenly started acting like this. I wished she would just talk to me.
Spence approached me about Derek. He was really concerned. I agreed that if we couldn't get Pen to talk we needed to talk to Derek. I waited until the case was over. Then I invited the team over to my place.
Penelope said she had plans with Sam. I tried to tell her she could bring him. She quickly refused she said something about tickets. Derek showed up alone. He said Savannah was working. I told everyone about Will. They all understood.
Hotch and Jack left early. Rossi had a date so he left a short time later. Alex started getting tired. She was the next one to leave. I went ahead and got Henry ready for bed. Henry wanted Spence to read him a bed time story.
Derek and I got another beer. At first we sat quietly. I saw Derek frowning. I knew he was thinking about Pen. He was upset again.
"I think I'm going to go too." Derek said.
"Wait Spence and I wanted to talk to you." I said as Spence thankfully rejoined us.
"What wrong?" Derek asked.
"Are you okay?" I asked not sure how to start this off.
"Why wouldn't I be?" Derek asked.
"Come on Derek something is obviously going on with yourself and Penelope." Spence said.
"Reid that's between Penelope and I." Derek said.
"Not when it affects all of us." I said.
"She won't flirt with me. Heck she won't even talk to me." Derek snapped angrily.
"What caused this?" Spence asked.
"I wish I knew Pretty Boy." Derek said sadly.
"Don't give up on her." I said.
"I don't know JJ." Derek said.
"Give her some time and space." Spence said.
"I'll try." Derek said.