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Derek pulled out everything he had compiled about the case in the last few years. He sat on the small bed in the office checking and looking over every detail that he could. The only sound in the room was that of pages turning and typing.
Penelope sat at the other side of the room behind the desk going through everything she could find on the accident reports to see if there was anything that had been missed. It was getting colder as fall set into the air, today the cooler air flitted through the house and he caught Penelope shivering. He closed the case file and turned setting it gently down on the bed before walking out to the couch and grabbing a blanket. He picked the blanket up off the back of the couch before walking back into the office. Walking toward the chair that Garcia was in and draping the blanket over her shoulders, before placing kiss on her head. Penelope turned her head and gave him a kiss before turning back to the computer. Derek walked back to the bed and picked up the paper file before sitting back down on the bed. He started to read it from the beginning again for the third time, sighing when he couldn't find anything. He collapsed back onto the bed in a moment of frustration before sitting back up. Sighing he put his head into his hands.
"I think I found something," Penelope said hopefulness back into her voice after going through accident reports for about an hour.
Derek pulled his head out of his hands quickly getting up and walking over to her. He leaned his arms on the back of the computer chair so that he too could see the screen. "What'd you find baby girl?"
"There was a witness, at least I think," She said her hands flying across the keyboard faster as she tried to figure out what she was seeing. In the incident report, an officer had written up, was listed the account of events by a man. The report, however, did not list the witnesses name and she sighed before she realized that the name of the officer was in the report. She quickly looked to find the guy's cell phone number smiling when she found it. She quickly reached over for the home phone and dialed the number she had found.
"Hello?" Came the scraggly voice of a man through the phone.
"Hello, this is Penelope Garcia. I need a few details on an incident report you made a few years ago." She said while she continued to type trying to find some dirt on the guy just in case he wouldn't say who the witness had been.
"What case would the report be from ma'am?" The man asked kindly.
"A car accident from a year ago. I believe the woman who died's name was Desirae Morgan," Penelope said as though she was unsure so that the man wouldn't think she had personal ties to the case.
"Oh yeah I remember that case, what details do you need ma'am?" The man asked and she gave a small smile, glad that the man seemed to want to help.
"I was working on digitizing old case files for my boss and realized that the name of the witness, in this case, was missing. I was just wondering what that name was so that I could make the files more accurate." Penelope lied seamlessly.
"Hold on just a minute ma'am let me grab my copy of the written file," The man said and she could hear the shuffling on the other end of the line.
After a few minutes of silence the man came back onto the line, "Here it is, I'm sorry must've only written it in my report. His name was Shane Wyeth." He said and Penelope felt her heart drop.
"T-Thank you, sir, that will be all," She stuttered out quickly hanging up the phone before running her fingers through her hair sighing.
Derek spun the chair around so that she was facing her, she was clearly flustered and looked like she was about to pass out. He hadn't heard enough of the conversation to know what had been said.
"Baby girl, are you alright?" Derek said concern thick in his voice.
"Shane," Her voice was barely audible and she felt like she couldn't breathe.
"What about him?" He asked softly trying not to upset her even more.
"The w-witness." Her voice was shaky and she found it hard to finish her sentence, but finally did, "T-The witness was Shane."
Derek stood there shell-shocked before pulling her into a hug. He had no idea what was going on here, but he knew whatever it was Shane was involved.
"I don't understand, why was he there?" She said her voice muffled due to her head being on his shoulder.
"I don't know baby girl, but I promise you we're going to find out," He said gently pulling her up out of the chair.
She held onto before finally pulling away with a sniffle, "You promise?"
"I promise," He said before giving her a kiss.
"Okay, can we take a break," Penelope asked.
"Of course no need to ask." He said taking her hand and walking with her into the living room.
"Want to watch a movie?" Morgan suggested seeing movies on one of the shelves of the bookshelf in the corner of the room.
"That sounds nice," Penelope said walking over to the shelf and picking one of her favorite movies as a child walking over and putting the DVD into the player. The TV hung above the fireplace on the wall and was in perfect view from the couch.
Derek laid on the couch and once the movie started to play, Penelope walked over and laid next to him on the couch laying her head on his chest. Derek wrapped his arms around her and turned his head toward the screen laying his chin on her head. In a few minutes, Penelope was sound asleep, Derek reached for the remote and shut the TV off before he too fell asleep.