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Aaron's eyes blinked open as he woke up. He yawned and stretched before contemplating closing his eyes and going back to sleep.

He hadn't felt so relaxed in a long time. It was hard to believe that he had actually slept the night before. Sleep didn't come easy to him, he'd had a mild case of insomnia even before Jack was born and it had gotten progressively worse over the years.

He looked down as the reason for his great sleep chose that moment to stir.

Penelope lay draped over his chest, he could feel her ample breasts pressing softly against his side as her chest rose and fell with every calming breath. Her head rested on his chest, her hair tickling the underside of his chin and her arm lay across his midsection.

He had forgotten what it felt like to sleep with someone wrapped in his arms. It was nice and the fact that it was someone he really cared about made it even better.

Thoughts of Penelope and how much he truly cared for her flitted across his mind before but he had always pushed them away, reasoning with himself that it could never happen considering he was her superior, not to mention she would probably never feel the same way about him.

But after the night before…well Aaron didn't know how he could go back to pretending. Nothing really had happened between them but at one point during the night he had woken up when Penelope had moved in her sleep and then moaned out his name. At first he hadn't been sure if he had really heard it correctly but then it had sunk in and he had found himself grinning like an idiot. Penelope had snuggled against him and Aaron had fallen back asleep with a smile on his face.

Now Aaron didn't want to spend another night without her by his side.

Penelope's fingers flexed over his chest as she woke up.

Aaron held his breath as he watched her stretch, holding himself back from pulling her back to him.

As he was expecting Penelope stiffened once she was awake enough to realize that she wasn't in her own bed and she wasn't alone.

She hesitantly looked up and caught Aaron's eye.

"Oh my god…" spilled from her lips when the realization hit her.

She jumped up, away from him, and Aaron sighed sadly, from the moment she had woken up he had known it wasn't going to be easy.

"Penelope," he began trying to calm her down.

She was trying to pull herself free of the blankets and sheets wrapped around her.

Her frantic eyes met his again as she finally got loose "I'm so sorry Sir, god I can't believe…it will never happen again, I swear."

Aaron started to push himself up, he opened his mouth to try again but that's when she noticed her lack of clothes.

She gasped and pulled his shirt down, stretching it over her lower half. She just barely remembered him helping her to undress and her cheeks colored an angry red. She looked to the floor where her clothes were lying and saw her towel. Quickly she snatched it up and wrapped it around her waist. Then she gathered up the rest of her clothes and hurried to the door.

"Penelope," Aaron called after her, he was on his feet and following her to the door.

Penelope couldn't look at him "I'm sorry," she repeated "thanks for helping me last night but I just can't…I…sorry for being a bother" Penelope rushed out, opening the door.

"Wait," Aaron said and Penelope found herself unable to move, "here."

She slowly looked up at him to see that he was holding out the key card to her room. "You're going to need this to get back into your room," he explained.

Somehow Penelope felt even more embarrassed, as if that was even possible. She took the card from him while muttering a quiet thanks.

When she was gone Aaron ran his hand over his face in frustration. He hadn't wanted to let her walk out the door but knew he couldn't have forced her to stay. He knew she was upset and uncomfortable. The least he could do was allow her to change into something other than his t-shirt before starting up the conversation he needed to have with her.

Aaron was pulled from his thoughts when he heard his cell phone ringing, he turned and walked back to the bed, grabbing it off the night stand.

"Hello?" he asked harshly without checking the caller ID.

"Hello Sir," a woman said hesitantly on the other side "I'm Megan and I'm calling from Triple A, is this a bad time?"

Aaron sighed "No sorry," he replied. The night before they had given his cell number to the Triple A guys because Penelope's was out of battery and she had forgotten her charger at the office.

"Okay, well I was just calling to inform you that Ms. Garcia's car won't be ready to be picked up today. In fact the garage told me they would like your permission to bring the car back to the city, it needs to have its engine replaced and it would be cheaper to have it brought back to the city rather than having the engine shipped to them." She explained.

"That's fine," Aaron said right away, he had decided the night before that he didn't want to see Penelope drive away in her car anyways, worried that it wouldn't make it with only a touch up job, plus now he needed to talk to her and he knew that the first chance she got she would try to run away.

"Alright then Sir," Megan said "if there's any more updates will give you a call, if not we'll call when the car is ready to be picked up."

"Thank you," Aaron said and hung up. He sat down on the end of his bed and dug through his overnight bag to find something to wear. He wanted to be dressed and out of the motel room as soon as possible.

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Half an hour later, after Aaron had made sure to grab his things from the motel room and had thrown his go bag into the trunk of his car, he made his way to Penelope's door.

He knocked gently but she didn't answer.

He sighed and called through the door "Penelope, I think it's best we get on the road now if we want to be at Dave's for a decent time."

There was shuffling behind the door before it opened a small crack "Uh you can go ahead without me Sir, I'll wait until my car is ready to go."

Aaron felt like rolling his eyes at how predictable she was but stopped himself. Penelope was already embarrassed, he didn't need to piss her off too, though he might not have choice considering what he was about to tell her.

"Actually Triple A already called me; they said your car needs more than just a fix up job and had to bring it into the city instead. I told them that was okay. I'm fine with driving to Dave's cabin and I'm sure someone else from the team will have no trouble driving you back."

Penelope gaped at him for a second; she opened her mouth to say something but snapped it shut a moment later. The door opened fully and she grabbed her suitcase that was sitting on the floor beside her "Fine," she stated "let's go then."

Aaron nodded and led the way to his car.

Penelope put her suitcase in the back and then hopped into the front. She had considered getting in the back but she didn't want Aaron to think she was making a big deal out of what had happened, and she knew he would say something if she did. Not to mention that if any of the team saw them pull up with her in the backseat, they would have their own questions.

Aaron got into the driver's side and started up the car. They pulled out of the Motel parking lot and were back on the road in no time.

It was still raining though not as hard as the night before and Aaron turned his wipers on, then he looked over at Penelope.

She wasn't looking at him; instead she stared out the window, her body tense as she hoped beyond hope that Aaron wouldn't bring up what had happened.

Aaron turned back to the road and kept his eyes glued there for a while, he knew Penelope was uncomfortable and he didn't want to make her more so but he still needed to talk to her, he just wasn't sure how to bring it up.

Twenty minutes into their drive Aaron switched off the radio which had been playing on a station called golden oldies, and cleared his throat "Listen Penelope about last…"

"Let me stop you right there," Penelope said her hands tightening into fists, she had known that Aaron wouldn't be able to just forget about it and had been anticipating him saying something, thankfully it wasn't too much farther too Rossi's.

"I know what you're going to say…" Aaron highly doubted that "and please don't." Penelope sighed "I'd really just like to forget the whole thing happened. I really appreciate you helping me out and I know how uncomfortable it must have been for you, so I'm sorry about that but there's no need to keep going over it."

"I think you misunderstood…" Aaron began but Penelope didn't let him finish.

"Hey, isn't that it?" she asked as Aaron turned onto the road that Dave's cabin was on.

"Well," Penelope said "thanks for driving; I think I'll just hop out here if that's okay with you, I really need to go to the washroom."

Before the car had even stopped moving Penelope was opening her door, Aaron pressed harder on the break and came to a complete stop. He watched in annoyance as Penelope made her escape.

He shook his head; she was kidding herself if she thought she was getting away that easy. He wasn't going to hold back again, at some point today, Aaron was going to talk this through with her and hopefully he'd be able to get his point across.

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A/N:

My sister, whose account on this site is Irishlove4Snape, is in France at the moment and she's basically given up on fanfiction. Instead of abandoning her stories she has gifted them to me… Anyway I'm not sure if I'll be able to do anything with them but basically I now have use over her account. So I've decided to upload a few stories I had to get rid of a few months back, including one of my Aaron/Penelope stories which I've already started uploading. So check it out, thanks.