Heartbreak and realizations

I don't own Criminal Minds. It's sad really.

Kevin's POV

Kevin had never felt so betrayed in all of his life. Here he now sits in a local bar taking long swigs of Jim Bean. His southern relatives told him the smooth bourbon could cure any broken heart and make you forget your troubles.

Kevin snorted to himself and thought, "Yeah, right. Forget."

The bartender knocked on the bar top and asked, "Sir you want another."

Kevin thought for a moment. He could still see flashes of agent Morgan, and Penelope running through his mind.

His stomach turned again as he thought to himself, "They didn't even make it to a fucking bed. Hell they didn't even make it to the couch."

Kevin's stomach rolled. He closed his eyes and sighed and said, "Yeah I'll take another."

Kevin knew if he was going to get any sleep tonight he was going to have to drink their images out of his head.

Kevin slipped into yet another flash. Not all his flashes were about the horror he walked into tonight. This one was about how everyone told him not to ask her out. Even the BAU members tried to subtly tell him.

He wondered again, "How the hell did I miss it?"

"Missed what son?"

Kevin shot his head up not realizing that he said, what he said out loud.

Kevin hung his head, his thoughts muttered, "Of course he is here. Why make any of this easy?"

The bartender pulled him out of his thoughts. The bartender handed the older man a bottle of very expensive looking scotch and two tulip shaped glasses.

The older man looked at the hurting younger man and said, "The tulip shape allows you to let the scotch swirl around, it also concentrates the aroma. Now get up and stop drinking whatever poison that is."

Kevin sighed and said, "Hell I do need someone to talk to."

David Rossi fought the urge to roll his eyes and said, "That is what I figured so come on. My private area is over here."

Kevin quizzically asked, "You have an entire area?"

Rossi smiled and said, "That indeed I do."

The two men made their way towards the back of the bar. Rossi motioned for Kevin to sit down. Kevin looked around and asked, "How?"

Rossi smiled again and said, "I am good friends with the owner. Of course he uses it on really busy nights, but on a random Wednesday the bar isn't that busy, so I come here."

"But this place looks like something out of a kick ass gangster video game."

Now Rossi really wanted to roll his eyes. Just because of nice leather furniture and him being Rossi of course a gangster reference had to be thrown in there.

Rossi gruffly said, "Look you didn't come here tonight to get drunk off your ass, and talk about my fucking furniture."

Rossi started pouring to healthy glasses of his single malt scotch.

Kevin sighed and said, "It's Penelope."

Rossi said, "Son I could have guessed that. No man drinks like that for any other reason."

Rossi continued by saying, "Now if my memory serves me correct the last time I drank some god awful liquor was when I walked in on my second wife cheating on me."

Kevin was shocked. Rossi was the type of man other men wanted to be like.

Rossi laughed and said, "Son don't look so shocked. Even and Italian stud such as myself has been cheated on."

Kevin started to say, "But-"

Rossi this time really had to fight the urge to roll his eyes. Rossi then sagely said, "Kevin I ignored my second wife. She always came second to my job. Really it was my mistake. Every time I would promise her a date night, or a weekend away, it never happened."

Kevin looked dejected. He knew for a fact that he was starting to ignore Penelope. His friends and his job were becoming more and more important, so he let his date nights with Penelope suffer.

Rossi looked at the younger man and said, "From the look on your face I assume you have made the same mistake?"

Kevin nodded his head yes.

"Well son what the hell did you do?"

Kevin treaded lightly. Yeah the older man would be willing to help him, but he also knew if he had hurt Penelope the older gentlemen would kick his ass.

"I did a couple of things."

Rossi cocked his eyebrow and said, "What things."

Kevin nervously said, "First I kept forgetting about our date nights. My friends would come over to play video games, and I would flat out forget."

Rossi clasped his hands together and said, "Okay what else?"

"I may have told her that she needed to stop hanging out with Morgan."

Rossi had to fight the urge to laugh in this poor kid's face. He knew an ultimatum like that would result in how Kevin is feeling now.

"Kevin get to the chase please." Rossi took another sip of his scotch.

Kevin took a healthy swig of his scotch and steadied himself.

"Penelope and I earlier today had a fight. Not our normal us shouting and then one of us saying sorry. This fight was bad. By the end of it Penelope screamed that we were over. She told me to leave my key, but I didn't. I was hoping and praying we would work it out."

Rossi leaned forward slightly and said, "Then what happened?"

"I got a text from her saying don't come back ever, and that she would leave my stuff on the stoop."

Rossi with a concerned tone said, "What the hell did you say to her?"

Kevin's eyes darted around the room looking for the closet exit.

"Look Kevin I am not going to kill you."

Kevin took a ragged breath and said, "By the end of the fight, I had accused her of sleeping with Morgan. I told her she was sloppy seconds, and that Morgan didn't really love her."

Rossi with every fiber of his body wanted to punch the little shit, but he knew the pain he was feeling now was way worse than any punch, that any man could deliver.

Rossi took another sip of his scotch. He waited a short while to say anything to the defeated tech analysis.

"Kevin as a profiler I know there is something you are not telling me about tonight."

Kevin muttered, "Shit."

Kevin could feel scalding hot tears threaten to roll down his cheek.

Rossi barked, "Drink."

The scotch helped tamp down the tears.

Kevin said, "I walked in on Morgan and Penelope."

Rossi knew exactly what the young man meant.

Rossi sighed and said, "Kevin I know right now this hurts, but you will get over it."

Kevin lowered his head into his hands and said, "God I hope so."

Rossi grinned and said, "Trust me. Ask wife number 3 how long it took me to get over wife number 2."

Rossi taking far more pity on the man than he should have said, "Look Kevin you had to have known that Penelope and Morgan belonged together. How many times did the other techs try to warn you?"

Kevin sighed and said, "Only about every other day."

Rossi said, "Kevin hell the BAU even tried to tell you. We couldn't come out and say it, but we tried."

"Rossi I know you did. I was just hoping that we would make it."

Rossi took another swig of scotch and asked, "Did you do everything in your power to make sure that would happen?"

"No sir I didn't."

Rossi wisely said, "Kevin do you know why everyone knows that Penelope belonged to Morgan and vice versa?"

A little irritated Kevin said, "No I do not."

"Well let me enlighten you. Morgan would do anything for Penelope. When she was shot he put his entire life on hold for her. I have personally seen that man in a bar two seconds from taken some woman home, and if his phone rings and its Penelope, he will leave no questions asked. In his friendship with Penelope, it sounds like from the beginning he acted more like a boyfriend than you did."

Kevin realized that Rossi was right. Morgan did all of those things, not because he wanted to screw Penelope and run, but because he really truly loved her. He really appreciated her.

Rossi continued, "Penelope would do anything for Derek. She has proven it time and time again. That is who she is. She takes care of people. It makes her happy. I am guilty of this too, but her BAU family forgets that she is so giving sometimes and yet she doesn't get mad. Do you know who never forgets?"

Kevin sighed and said, "Morgan."

Rossi firmly said, "Exactly."

Rossi continued by asking, "Son do you have anyone you can stay with tonight?"

Kevin flatly said, "I can stay with my mom."

Rossi leaned back in his chair, and gave his glass a healthy swirl then he said, "Fine finish your glass and I will call you a cab."

Kevin said, "Thank you sir."

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