Rossi ran after Garcia. He had been searching for his daughter for two months. Now that he found her there was no way he was going to let her get away.
"Penelope Garcia! I know you know I'm right behind you."
She didn't stop walking. "Yeah I know, but I need to go sit down so I just figured you'd keep following me to my office."
"Fair enough" they walked in silence to her office.
Once they made it inside she shut the door and turned to him. He didn't even hesitate bringing her into his arms. Once in his arms she let all the emotions flow for the day. She cried about seeing her team, about the baby moving, about everything.
"It's okay kitten, I'm here let it out." He rubbed her back as she cried into his shirt. "I was so worried I was never going to see you again, Penelope. I have been looking everywhere. Every contact I have came up with a dead end. Young lady, when you don't want to be found you know how to do it."
"Oh Dave, I messed up so bad and now all of you know where I am. And you know about this" She steeped back looking at her belly. "I was going to call you right before I found out to let you know I was safe, but then this happened and I couldn't face any of you." She went back into his arms and began to cry. "How was I supposed to tell the man I was hopelessly in love with I was carrying his baby, especially after he said it was a mistake and he never has and never will love me."
He pulled her out of his arms to look at her "Penelope lets not talk about that now, lets talk about the fact that I'm getting a grand baby. How far along are you? Do you know what you're having?" He said placing his hand on her belly. "You just made me the happiest grandfather in the world." he said with a huge smile.
"I'm almost 4 months; I find out what I'm having at my appointment on Thursday. I was going to find out last week, but with this case I had to cancel" she took a seat "Oh God Dave, the team is going to hate me, and Morgan probably knows by now the baby is his."
"Penelope the team is not going to hate you. They just need time to adjust to everything. We have all been lost without you. And to think you were just a couple of hours away from us. Now tell me how you found out?"
She took a deep breath "I was feeling pretty sick every morning. I thought I had the flu until I was unpacking my office here and looked at the calendar. I freaked out. I ran to Randall's office and told him I'd be back in 15 minutes. I made it to the closest drug store bought the pregnancy test and took it as soon as I got back to the office. Randall saw me go into the bathroom, but never come back out so he went in looking for me. I was sitting on the floor crying holding the test." She looked up at Rossi with tears streaming down her cheek. "I'm such a fuck up. I go and fall in love with a man who clearly never wanted me I sleep with him one drunken night, I then decide to break it off with Kevin because of course I thought Derek wanted me... man was I foolish. Then I turn up pregnant. I know its Morgan's, Kevin and I were having problems and hadn't been intimate in months." She laughed then " Remind me NEVER to play my odds in Vegas okay?"
She put her hand on her belly "Randall took me home that night to his wife, I was in such disarray that I couldn't comprehend anything that was happening. Randall and his with Sandra promised to be there for me after I told them the story of the father and how he said it was a mistake that night and how he would never love me. The three of us became very close; they're the only family I have here. Look at me I need all the help I can get." She laughed again " How do I get myself into these situations?"
"Penelope they're not the only family you have, you have all of us. Lets not even talk about Morgan right now. Jack and Henry are going to be so excited to have a cousin to play with and I am going to be the best Grandpa anyone has ever seen. I finally have my daughter back, and a grandson now, there is no way I'm letting you go." he kissed the top of her head. When he said those words the baby kicked again. She took his hand and placed it on her belly. "The baby must like you already Papa. The baby's kicking like crazy." Dave let a tear fall down his cheek. "I promise to be there for you this whole time. You don't have to do this alone." She squeezed his hand "Thanks Dave. I think you need to get back to the group. I know I need to talk to all of them, but right now I just need to go home for a few hours. I promise tomorrow I will talk to each one of them." she said biting her lip.
Randall knocked on the door "Sweetheart, are you okay?" He said opening the door.
"Yes Baby Boy, I'm fine it's just… Randall, I would like you to meet my father, well pseudo father David Rossi. The group of people we're working with used to be my old team."
Randall looked at Rossi and her "So one of them is the father you were telling me about?"
"Yes, you're correct. I would appreciate it if we don't go any farther into this though, at least not right now. Don't forget what I told you he said to me."
"Oh I haven't forgotten. I want to beat the shit out of him." He went over to her to give her a hug. "I called Sandra, she's on her way to come get you. I told her to take you to our brownstone for the night, okay? I don't want you or the baby alone. And Sandra wants to feel the baby kick so she'll probably not take her hand off your belly." He said with a laugh.
"Thanks Baby Boy. I'm going to grab my stuff and wait for her down stairs" She turned back to Rossi. "I'll see you tomorrow, Papa."
"I don't think so Kitten, Randall and I will walk you out." She smiled and grabbed his arm to lead him out of the building.
Morgan was pacing the street. Here was Penelope pregnant with his child. His head was about to explode. He realized he walked about 3 blocks away from the building so he made his way back. When he rounded the corner he saw Penelope being embraced by Randall in a tight hug. This guy is not raising my baby, no way. He went to confront them when Rossi stopped him. "Not now, Morgan. She is headed to Randall's for the evening. Tomorrow when she comes into the office she'll talk to everyone."
"Rossi, I need to talk to her now! How dare she keep this from me? Was she planning on even telling me?" Morgan watched her get into a car with a women. "Where is she going? I need to follow her." He went to follow the car.
"Not gonna happen, Morgan. Lets get inside and work the case." Randall walked up to the two men. "Ahh, you must be the Father?" without warning he decked him right in the eye. Because Morgan's emotions were all over the place he didn't have time to react, he just fell backwards. Once he hit the floor he shot back up ready to fight. Rossi stepped in between the two men.
"Not the time for this boys. Let's get inside now. We have a case to work on and right now this isn't helping anything especially Garcia." Rossi said in a no nonsense tone. Randall walked back into the building not even glancing back at the two men. Instead of going back to the conference room he went into his office.
Rossi and Morgan walked back into the room with the team. "What happened to your eye Morgan?" Reid said looking at the already swelling eye. Rossi laughed a little "McAlister hit him."
"Right on McAllister" said Em. "Remind me to buy that man a beer."
"Shut the fuck up Prentiss." Morgan spat out.
"Fuck off, Morgan." Emily went to defend herself more when Hotch spoke up.
"Guys, right now is not the time. We all have questions that need to be answered and believe me they will be answered" He looked over at Rossi. "Care to explain anything?"
"Sure, I'm having a grand baby. She is almost four months along, she felt the baby kick for the first time today. When I was in her office the baby decided it liked its Papa, the little bugger kept kicking my hand."
Morgan threw the papers that were in his hand on the desk "You got to feel it too? It's my fucking kid. If anyone should feel the baby kick it should be me."
Rossi ignored the agent. "She doesn't know what she's having yet, she was going to find out last week, but with this case she postponed the appointment until Thursday."
JJ walked over to Rossi, "When did she find out?"
"She found out a couple of weeks after she got here. It was a complete surprise to her. Randall found her on the bathroom floor holding the positive test. That's when she told him everything." He looked back at Morgan "I'm sure that's why he hit you." he looked back at the others. "When she comes in tomorrow she'll talk to all of you. She's afraid you guys hate her. I told her that wasn't true. Don't make me a liar. She was about to contact me right before she found out about the baby but once she found out she said she just couldn't do it. She considers her life a total fuck up right now. I'm going to do everything in my power to make her believe otherwise, you can join me if you want but you don't have too."
"I could never hate her, she's my sister. Henry is going to love getting another cousin." JJ said to Rossi.
"I second that, I don't agree with the way she left, but she's family. I'll be there 100% for her and the baby. I hope she'll let me go with her on Thursday." Emily said to the group.
"If anyone is going with her its me." Morgan said.
Rossi looked back at the agent "She might not want you to go with her. You need to respect her wishes."
"Her wishes? What about my wishes?" Morgan started pacing the room again.
Hotch shook his head this was defiantly a cluster fuck. " Tomorrow morning I'm going to speak to her first. As of right now no one is getting Thursday morning off. We have case to profile and that needs to come first." He let out a deep breath tomorrow morning Garcia and him are going to have a long talk.