Once she got outside the hotel she hailed a cab. She felt so ashamed of her actions. How could she have been so stupid to go back to his hotel with him? These stupid pregnancy hormones were ruining her life. She got into the cab and made her way home.
"Alright Penelope, we can do this. We can pretend nothing happened you still have Mark." Right after she said the words her face paled. OH GOD she thought. She dumped her purse out onto the couch looking for her phone.
12 missed calls, 6 new voice mails and 7 text messages.
They ranged from Randall, JJ, Rossi, and Mark. She groaned. "Okay Penelope what do we do?" She didn't want to call any of them so she decided on a group message.
Hey everyone. So sorry I left early without saying goodbye. I didn't feel well.
She hit send knowing they wouldn't believe it. They had all watched her leave with Morgan. "Maybe they thought we got into fight and I needed to be alone?" she pleaded into the empty room. "Yeah that's my story and I'm sticking to it."
She threw he phone onto the couch not wanting to wait for anyone's reply. She pulled off her dress and made her way to the shower. She needed the smell of him off of her.
Once the warm water hit her body she let the tears fall. She was so distraught she ended up on the floor of the shower sobbing thinking about all the stupid things she's done in her life, but this one took the cake. He really didn't love her; he just wanted to be a man and take care of his responsibility. She loved and hated him for that. She continued to sit on the shower floor wishing she didn't love him.
Morgan waited for the team to come back, when he heard the commotion he knew they were there. He waited another five minutes hoping the team had settled back into their rooms before he made his move.
He stood at Rossi's door taking a deep breath before knocking. The door opened right away, as if Rossi knew he was going to show up.
"What can I do for you, Agent Morgan?"
Morgan shifted on his feet. "Can I come in and talk?" Rossi moved out of the way to let him in. Morgan walked right over to the chair in the room, sat down and placed his head in his hands.
Rossi watched him for a moment before he spoke, "Morgan, not that I don't enjoy late night conversations, but you need to start talking or get out."
Morgan looked up at the agent. He didn't know where to start. Rossi felt sorry for the agent. "Here let me help... She's no longer in your room is she?"
Of course Rossi would know what happened. He was sure the whole team did. As if Rossi could read his mind "No, the team doesn't know. When I saw you leave the restaurant with her, I knew what was going to happen. So I told them you two had a fight and you went back to the hotel."
"Thank you..." he sat back in the chair "I need your help, Dave. I don't know where else to go or what else to do. She said tonight was a mistake just like the first time."
"Well, at least she can't get pregnant again, right?" he said, with a laugh. Morgan smiled; he was making a joke that meant he was going to help him right?
"I love her and when I tell her that she doesn't believe me. She thinks I'm only saying that because she's pregnant. That's not true though, I love her Dave. I always have loved her, I don't know how to do anything else."
"Then why did you push her away? That broke her Morgan. She never told me you guys slept together but I knew something was off with her. I asked her over to have dinner with me one night and about halfway through the dinner she started talking about Kevin and how she had been so unfair to him and that she'd messed up everything good in her life. We talked for a long time that night about her dreams of becoming a mother and wife but she felt her only chance at that had slipped through her fingers. I thought she was talking about Kevin; I had no idea she was really talking about you. That night she decided she was no longer going to live a lie and she was going to set herself free. I guess it was all a front because after you rejected her she snapped. She couldn't put on that happy show anymore when really she was dying inside. So she did the only thing she has ever done when she feels her back's against the wall. She ran. She made a deal with the devil and came here."
"What do you mean made a deal with the devil?"
"Has she ever told you about her handler Mikey Robinson?" Morgan shook his head no.
"I worked with him years ago, he's a damn good hacker, better than Garcia. He's the one that found her, so they made him in charge of her. He's a prick though. He's someone that never should have control over other people. He's a person that only does things for you if you do them for him. How he ended up as the head of agent relocation I don't know? Garcia must have really needed out of the BAU to call Mikey. A favor like that is going to cost her."
"Like money?" Morgan asked.
"Oh if it were only that easy, no his favors aren't monetary."
"Are they sexual?" He asked with concern.
"God, I hope not, I'd kill him." He shook his head with disgust "I'm telling you this because you need to realize she must have been extremely desperate to have called Mikey instead of coming to Aaron or I," he shook his head wishing she would have just come to him.
"When you dismissed her like you did, she fell apart. She truly believes everything happens for a reason and you rejecting her brought her here with Randall and his wife. She loves the baby but he's a constant reminder of what she lost that night and no matter how many times you say it wasn't a mistake and you didn't mean to say that, she'll always associate the baby with the night she lost it all. She thought she could live each day like nothing happened but when she couldn't take it anymore she broke up with Kevin and told you she was in love with you. Twice you made her feel like she wasn't good enough for you, first by saying it was a mistake after you slept with her then again when you told her you'd never love her."
Morgan coughed, "Uh well…we got in a fight at her apartment. I told her she has horrible taste in men and that she even fell for someone who tried to kill her."
"You didn't bring up Battle, did you?"
"I was so angry. She wasn't going to give the baby my last name and then she talked about finding a husband and giving our son siblings with me nowhere around."
Ross rolled his eyes "Morgan how do you expect her to believe you love her when you say things like that?"
"I do love her, it was out of anger. That night never was a mistake Rossi; I just said that because I'd never felt that way about anyone, hell she was still with Kevin. It was easier for me to push her away and force myself not to love her than deal with the overwhelming feeling I get when I'm near her. I want to marry her; I want to spend the rest of my life with her. I'd want that even if she weren't pregnant, Rossi. That's just a plus." He said with a huge smile.
"You don't need to prove it to me Morgan, you need to prove it to her. Right now she believes you're only saying these things because you have responsibilities and you being the man you are would never walk away from them."
"It's not just that Rossi, I love her, and I'm in love with her."
"I know, I believe you, that's why I'm going to help."
