7 minutes in heaven- the BAU team

A laptop keychain- Penelope Garcia

a laptop keychain. the object was silver and shiny in the light.

- is it you, penelope? 

- yep! was it that obvious?

- mmh....

- i'm dissapointed.

- don't be. let's go.

i took her hand and we walked together to the closet. emily was the one to lock us up. suddenly the room got pitch black. the sudden change made me panic and i started to sweat. my heart began beating faster and i grabbed penelope's hand.

- pen, i'm not feeling well.

- what happened, baby?

- i have nyctophobia and the dark in this closet doesn't help me.

- sit down!

she helped me to stand down still holding my hand.

- what do you need? what do you want me to do?

- hold my hand, please and let's talk about something else. it helps me to not think about this.

my breath started to accelerate and i couldn't think about anything other then the dark that was surrounding us.

- pen, you know, i had this phobia since i was little, but my parents didn't think it was serious, because it was normal for a kid to be afraid of the dark and what could hide in there. but even when i was twelve i was asking my mother to leave the light on, because i couldn't sleep. then they decided that it wasn't normal so they took me to a lot of doctors, shrinks and psychiatrists. nobody could give me a diagnosis. i continued sleeping with the light on, and my parents even started to give me sleeping pills. when i was eighteen, i found out what i suffered of , but there wasn't a treatment. i tried going to therapy , but no result.

- y/n, spencer suffers from the same thing, maybe you should talk with him and try to cope with it together.

- penelope, thank you so much for being here for me and for advising me to talk with spence.

i hugged her and thanked her again for being such a good friend when i needed it. emily opened the door and saw us hugging.

- what happened, y/n? are you okay?

- yes, now i'm fine! but i have nyctophobia and my panic attack came forward.

- but why didn't you tell us? we would told you to not play this.

- i thought that maybe i will overcome my fear somehow, but as we can see, i didn't.

- i still think you should've told us. emily said

the three of us walked to the living room and got back to partying like nothing happened.