Desire-Ch 20

A few minutes later Penelope and Eric were sitting in a restuaraunt laughing and talking when she looked up and saw Amber sitting across the room, Eric put his hand on hers and said, "honey what's wrong"?, she leaned in and said, "Amber's here"?, he said, "Amber as in Dereks Amber"?, she nodded her head and said, "the one and only".

He looked over his shoulder and said, "I wonder what she's doing here"?, she shrugged her shoulders and said, "I don't know and I don't care", he inwardly smiled and said, "do you think that she's here with Derek"?, memories of their hot make out session on the beach came to her mind and when Eric touched her gently she said, "sorry Eric, what did you say"?, he took a sip of tea and said, "do you think that she's here with Derek"?, she sighed and said, "anything's possible I guess".

Amber looked up and saw them and waved, she got up and walked over and said, "what are you two doing here"?, Penelope said, "I'm visiting my brothers and Eric is just here for the day". She pulled out the chair and sat down and said, "I'm here visiting my cousin, Dereks here to see somebody, one of his friends I think but I can't remember the name".

Eric could tell that it was hurting Penelope and he said, "so where are you staying"?, she said, "Derek and I are staying at the Fairfield", she said, "that's a nice place". She smiled and said, "that's what Derek said and when I said doesn't that cost a lot of money he said, nothing's to good for my baby girl", she said, "well I'll go and let you two enjoy your lunch, Derek should be here soon, we're suppose to have lunch".

She got up and walked back over to her table and Eric said, "I can't believe Derek would bring her here with him", Penelope said, "he's a grown man and can do whatever he wants to do". Eric gently squeezed her hand and said, "that he can beautiful, that he can", he then leaned in and gently pressed his lips against hers.

Amber looked over her shoulder and smiled and whispered, "our plan's working, our plan's working", she then picked up her glass of tea and started taking slow sips because she still had to be there when Penelope and Eric left to make her story plausable". Derek looked up and saw a couple of rental cars pulling up and got out of the car and walked over to them.

Everybody got out and Derek said, "now comes the test, I've got to get in to talk to the brothers and then if I can get them on my side, maybe just maybe they will help me with baby girl". Hotch said, "how about we all go in and talk to them together"?, he said, "you would all do that for me"?, JJ put her hand on his shoulder and said, "of course we would, you and Garcie are our family to".

He sighed and said, "I'm ready when you are", they were all smiles as they walked up the street toward Paytons house, they stepped up on the porch and Hotch then raised his hand to knock. The door opened and Payton smiled and said, "may I help you"?, he held out his hand and said, "I'm Aaron Hotchner", Payton said, "you're my sisters boss"?, he said, "yeah that's correct".

He smiled and said, "if it's alright we would all like to come in and talk to you for a while"?, he stepped back and said, "sure, come on in", they all stepped inside and Henry and Jack were tugging on Emily and JJ's leg. JJ leaned down and said, "what's wrong"?, Henry said, "I needs to potty", Henry grinned and said, "me to".

Shelly walked into the room and Payton said, "honey this is P's team, they want to talk to us", Derek stood back letting Hotch take the lead on this one, he wasn't going to say anything until he was sure that Payton and the other brothers would listen to him. After all of the introductions were done Shelly said,
"come with me and I'll show you to the one of our bathrooms".

After all of the brothers were sitting in front of him Hotch took a deep breath and started filling them in on everything that they had discovered about Eric and Amber and everything they had done and were doing to keep Derek and Penelope apart.