April Showers Bring May Flowers-Ch 9

It took them a few minutes to get her up onto the couch, JJ said, "honey what happened, please, please tell us what happened", Emily said, "you were in a great mood when you left our place a few hours ago, what happened?", JJ and Emily looked at each other and said, "Derek" in unison.

Penelope spent the next few minutes telling them everything that Derek had said while he was there, everything from he was at her place and smelled amazing food outside the door and heard soft romantic music inside and that I was here with Kevin,

She then told of how he'd seen her turn the lights off so that meant that she had spent the night with Kevin and the part that finally made JJ and Emily snap, Penelope said, "and he called me a tramp", JJ said, "HE WHAT?", Penelope said, "I told him to get out, I slapped him and told him that from now on other than work we wouldn't be associating".

Emily said, "PG, he's an ass, he's a complete and total ass", JJ said, "did you tell him that you weren't at home last night that you were at Em's?", she said, "I tried but he wouldn't listen and then when he called me a cheater and called me a tramp that's all I could take, I totally went off on him".

JJ said, "he deserved everything you did and said to him, just wait till I get my hands on him tomorrow at work I'll", Penelope said, "no, no I don't want you to do anything, I just want to move on, I don't want to think about Derek, I don't want to think about anything, please don't say anything".

JJ and Emily then pulled their crying friend into their arms, it was several hours before they were able to send messages to Reid and Hotch explaining that they wouldn't be able to come home tonight and just as the sun was coming up they sent another message to their husbands letting them know that the three of them wouldn't be in today and they had promised to explain everything to them later.

When Hotch and Reid got to work Dave said, "hey, where's JJ and Em?", Derek looked around when Hotch said, "something came up, they are with a sick friend today", Dave said, "sick friend?", Reid said, "yeah, we'll explain later", Dave glanced over at Derek who turned around really fast to face the other way.

Dave closed his eyes and blew out a deep breath, he knew then that everything that was going on was because of something stupid that Derek had done, Dave looked at Hotch and Reid as he tried to calm down, he wouldn't do anything just yet, not until he could find out what Derek had done and to who, then he would let his step-son have it.

By lunch time Dave was more than ready to get Hotch and Reid alone so that he could find out what was going on, he glanced around and saw Derek heading toward the elevator and when the younger agent stepped on said elevator and the doors closed he looked at Reid and Hotch and said, "explanation, now".

Hotch motioned for Dave to follow him and Reid to the round table room, once they got inside Dave shut the door and said, "alright, now tell me what's going on, what did Derek do and who did he do it too?"