Never letting you go (Penelope x reader)

The one with time skips

Three weeks later

Y/n pov

"... what'd you do to it?" i hear Emily ask as i enter the bullpen in the morning. Penelope is sitting at Reid's desk and they're looking at a photo that i can't quite see yet.

"Do?" Penelope asks with a big smile and it grows a little bit bigger as she sees me walking up to them as my desk is on the opposite side of Emilys.

"What, you obviously altered it in photoshop or something, that hair" Emily holds the picture back up to them as i decide to walk up behind her to take a look myself.

"Oh no pussycat, that's all you. NYC Pearl high school, class of 89' "

"You really didn't change anything?"

"I hacked it, as is. You're seriously trying to tell me you don't remember rocking that look?"

"Perhaps your lack of recognition stems from a dissociative fugue suffered in adolescence" Spencer ships in and i finally get to see the picture. It feels such a long time ago, but god that hair.

"Oh i remember that" i just say before walking to my desk on the other side.

"I thought you knew each other through interpol?" Spencer asks before Penelope even gets that chance to.

"She dated my brother during her year in high school in New York, when we both lived there. I got so many photos from that year." i answer with a laughter.

"Please don't bring it up" Emily begs of me but i can see that hidden smile on her lips anyways. "Besides, James had that phase with me"

"Yeah i know, it was horrid to see you walk around like that. The both of you" i laugh and get a laugh from her.

"Wait, i thought your brother's name was Mark" Penelpe asks and that's when i notice how little i actually talk about my family.

"I am the youngest out of eight Penelope, i have seven older brothers. Mark and James are only two of them" i pull up my left sleeve to show a flower with eight leaves, but only one is colored in. "We got these right when i turned sixteen, dad got so mad" i can't help but laugh at the memory even though it wasn't really a happy one. All they're attention goes to someone coming down the stairs behind me, Emily instinctively turns the photo down.

"What was that about?" Emily asks with a worried tone and i see it's Aaron who's joined us.

"Brian Matloff" he just answers.

"Who?" Both me and Penlope answer. Must be someone they've dealt with before or something.

"A.k.a the Blue Ridge Strangler." Spencer explains and now i know who it was.

"Right, that was, like, four years ago." Penelope says and now we're all a little confused as to why he was brought up.

"Three victims in the Blue Ridge Parkway." i say.

"Allegedly, he was never convicted. He slipped into a coma before he could be tried." Spencer continues to explain again.

"Looks like they're finally going to get their chance. He just woke up" Aaron says and now i get why he has this worried face. "We're leaving in thirty"

Three days later

Y/n pov

"I wanna talk to you about something" Lena says as she sits down next to me on the couch with popcorn as i'm on the phone with Penelope.

"Just a second" i say to Penelope and turn to Lena who has a very serious expression so instead i say to Penelope again. "Hey Penny i'm gonna have to call you back"

"Okay, say hi from me" she says with her usual happy tone and we hang up.

"She says hey" i say and she puts the popcorn on the table and sits with her legs crossed towards me. "Are you okay? Did something happen today?"

"It's nothing bad i promise, but it's something i wanna talk about with you. And i know we've talked about it before but then the whole thing came and i've not mentioned it once again because i was just happy that you were alive and..." she starts to ramble on so i cut her off by taking her hand.

"Lena, what are you talking about?" i ask even though i'm actually scared about her way of phrasing things.

"Okay... i had this patient today, Anna, she's sixteen and may never walk again after her boyfriend crashed their car. But..." a tear starts to fall down her cheek but refuses to meet my gaze. "She was pregnant and... and told me to save the baby no matter what"

"But when it came down to it you save her instead of the baby" she nods, still not meeting my gaze. "It's okay honey, you did the right thing" but that makes me even more scared of the subject she's bringing up.

"I want kids y/n" Lena finally says as she meets my gaze. I remember how we had this conversation when we started dating and just the year before Norway. She starts rambling. "Like now, or at least soon. We can adopt or do IVF or something and i know you don't want to carry since you can't do you job properly but i can do it, i mean both Meredith and Callie did it and still did their job..."

A/n let's pretend there isn't a biological clock ticking here

"Lena..." i start to stop her but stop as my phone starts to vibrate on the table. I look to see it's Penelope and the look in Lena's eyes changes to what almost looks like anger or hatred. I pick it up since it can be work related. "Yes Penelope"

"I'm so sorry but we've got a case, Morgan is swinging by to pick you up in five." she answers apologetic as we had literally just hung up so that i could talk to Lena. I get up from the couch without really looking back at Lena, to go get my bag.

"Where are we going?" i ask as i stop feeling her eyes on me in our bedroom.

"Fresno, California and it's bad. Fresno PD called personally to ask for help to find him." she says and i let out a yawn. "At least it's a five hour flight so you'll get time to sleep a little"

"That's good, i'll talk to you later" i say and we hang up but as i walk back into the hall, Lena's gone. But before i can call out for her i see her shoes are missing. As i walk out myself i see two explanations, one is that she hospital called and she needed to go in, the other one is that she got mad at me and went to take some air. The second one seems more possible since she would have told me she was leaving for the hospital.

I throw away that thought as i get into Morgans car in the driveway where i also see my car missing.