Until The End of Time

35. Revisions

Penelope's POV:
The car ride to the police department was silent. We got there and Derek helped me out the car. We held hands through the parking lot and entered the building. The team was already there and a lot of other officers were standing around.
"What going on?" Derek asks. Hotch comes up to us,"The unsub came in this morning waving a gun and requesting to talk to Penelope Garcia." They both look at me and my eyes grow wide. "Me?" "He's in the interrogation room waiting for you."
Hotch walks away and I look at the ground, swallowing hard. Derek turns to me,"Hey. You ok?" I look up at him and grab his hands. "Take a deep breath ok? He's unarmed and if that son of a bitch try's anything, I'll pin his ass to the wall by his throat, gun in hand."
I laugh and hug him. He kisses my cheek and let's go. I walk down to the interrogation room and get to the door. I put my hand on the handle, close my eyes, and take a deep breath. I walk in and shut the door behind me. I open my eyes and turn around. "Daniel?"
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Derek's POV:
I watch Penelope walk into the interrogation room and close the door. JJ says,"Morgan-", before I take off running to the listening room. I open and close the door and stand there looking through the glass.
"What are you doing here?" says Penelope. She sits down staring in amazement at the unsub who looks to be no older than 19. "I came for you." "But-but how?" "I may have hitch hiked along the way." the guy looked down at the table.
Penelope smiles looking at him. "It's good to see you Daniel." I whisper to myself,"What the?" She knew him?! "Penelope you amaze me." She says,"So, how's it been going?" "Hacking, as usual." Penelope laughs and shakes her head,"Rank?" Daniel looks up at her,"Reaper." "Good." she says smiling,"I taught you well."
I decided to intervein. I walk to the door and open it,"Ms. Garcia, may I have a word with you." I say looking straight at this Daniel kid. She gets up and walks out. I close the door and take her into another room. "Penelope Garcia please don't tell me you know him." "I might." She looks at her feet.
I tilt her head up and look her in eyes,"Penelope." She looks at me for a while,"Don't give me that look Derek." She looks away. "How do you know him?" "His name is Daniel, and and he might've been my protégé when I was kinda a bad guy... I guess he came to find me when I left to come to Quantico."
"Do you think he would kill for you?" Her eyes grow big,"What?! No! Never. I don't think." "What do you mean?" "When Daniel first came to me, he felt misunderstood and I'm the only one that really understood him. His mom died when he was 8 and his dad left him when he was 16. I taught him the hacking ways and we became insanely close. I have no clue if he would kill for me." "I know I would."
She looks at me and smiles. I smile back and her smile falls,"Has he confessed yet?" "You're gonna have to get it out of him." "But Derek, I-" "Baby Girl, you have to. You're the only one that knows him well enough to do this." "But I don't want to betray him like that. I'm not doing it Derek. I just can't bring myself to do that!" "Penelope-" "No! I'm not doing it. I'm not betraying him just to get this dirty little secret out of him." "Well, that's the job." She looks at me with rage and sadness in her eyes.
She gets in my face,"Well then, if you want it so badly, why don't you go in there and talk to him. But I'm. Not. Doing it." She storms out the room leaving me standing there. Don't be upset with her. I told myself that over and over again. I took a deep breath and walked out the room looking around for Penelope.
I walk over to JJ,"Where's Penelope?" "She left. She said she was going home." I sigh. Great. I look back at the interrogation room Daniel was in. I told JJ I would talk to him. It took an hour, but I finally got it out of him. We arrested him and everyone went back to the hotel. I got to the room hoping Penelope hadn't really left.
I open the door and throw my stuff down. "Penelope!" I call out for her. "Penelope!" I rush to the bathroom, she wasn't there or in the closet, under the bed or in the couch cushions. I sat down on the bed and rubbed my head. I sighed and saw a paper on the night stand.
It was from Penelope. I read it and knew I had messed up. I laid in bed staring at the ceiling, thinking of how to apologize to her.
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Penelope's POV:
The entire plane ride back to Quantico, Derek was on my mind. I look out the window at the black night sky and sigh. I check my phone for the time and look at my lock screen. It was a picture of Derek and I smiled. I lock my phone back, close my eyes and fall asleep.
Once I got home, I put all my things down and took a long, hot shower. It was 10:45 by the time I got in bed.
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The next morning I woke up early wondering if the team made it back yet. I check my phone and see a text from JJ,"We got another case in Gerogia. We'll call you once we're on the plane." I get out of bed and shuffle into the bathroom I took a shower and got dressed.
I put on an orange and yellow low cut dress with yellow heels and orange tights. I put on pink lipstick and curled my hair. I put on pink glasses to match my lips and headed to HQ. I ride the elevator up to the 6th floor and walk down to my office. I open the door and there are a few files on my desk, guessing that was the case the team was on. I sigh and began working on them.