OCs POV

Derek Morgan was finally introducing me to his team tonight. Ever since i had gotten back in contact with my childhood best friend, its all he ever talked about doing. I couldn't disagree. I had heard so much about his job and his work family. Especially someone named Penelope Garcia. She sounded awesome

Derek looks over at me as we walk into the bar and laughs. "What?" I groan. "Is something wrong with my outfit?" He shakes his head with a laugh. "Nah, Im just excited, Av."

I chuckle. We walk into the bar and Derek looks around, his smile brightening when he waves to a group sitting at a table in the far corner.

We walk over.  "Hey, guys, meet Avalon Harris, my best friend since as long as i can remember." I grin. "Its nice to finally meet all of you, Derek talks about you guys a lot."

A slender blonde sitting nearest to me smiles and sticks out her hand. "Jennifer Jareau, but you can call me JJ. I hope its all good things."

I laugh. "Of Course." They all introduce themselves to me. The last person is the famous Garcia. She smiles widely and goes directly in for a hug. "I love meeting Morgans friends!" She squeals. I smile and blush as i pull away. "I could say the same thing about you." I wink and turn back to the group.

After several rounds of questions in which i tell them that I am a musician, currently on hiatus and working on a novel, yes i am very single but definitely ready to mingle, no me and derek were never together. That one was from Garcia, of course.

I spit out my drink at that and laugh. "Shit. The answer is definitely not." I sputter while Derek roars with laughter. She looks at me slightly confused. In fact they all do. I wipe my mouth off and grin. "Lets just say, Derek Morgan is a very attractive man. However, he is a man, and therefore not my type."

I wink at her. She blushes. "Oh." We move on with the conversation but i realize that Penelope keeps looking at me, as if studying me.

Maybe its the alcohol, maybe im just feeling extra confident, but at the end of the night i slip her a piece of paper as we are all walking out.

Loved talking to you tonight. If you ever wanna hang, xxx-xxx-xxxx

Garcias POV

I get in my car and look at the paper and my heart skips a beat. She gave me her number. Shes gay, she said so. But that doesn't mean she was hitting on me... does it? I've never dated a woman before. I sigh and start my car. I had never thought about dating a woman, but there was definitely something about her that made me feel something. A good something. I look down at the paper and nod. Ill text her. tomorrow.

OCs POV

I wake up with a groan. Drinking with Morgan is fun, but comes with a price for sure. I sit up and look at my phone to see its 9am. And i have a text message from Penny.

P: hey! i got your note. i mean, obviously. :) how are you feeling?

I grin and text back

A: Hungover, but not as bad as it could be. I'm glad you got it. Wasn't sure if you'd text.

I put my phone down and get out of bed. I take only two steps when i hear a ding.

P:Well, take that as a good sign. At least its a sunday, right?

I smile to myself.

A: absolutely. are you doing anything on this fine sunday?

P: Not if you have something in mind ;)

A: Im thinking lunch and shopping, wbu?

P: Sure! Noon at the sandwich shop on 23rd?

A: See you then :)

I smile to myself and get in the shower. Ive got a date with my best friends favorite coworker. I can't wait.

TIME SKIP

I decide to wear a brown leather jacket, white tank top, and black jeans and boots. I run my fingers through my short silver hair and smile in the mirror.

It takes being in the car on the way there to finally start to feel nervous. She's really pretty. And super smart. I don't want to mess this up.

I pull up outside and see her sitting on a bench. I smile to myself and get out, walking over. She looks up and smiles at me.

"Hey!" I grin and hug her. "How you feeling?"

She groans. "Woke up with a huge hangover but I feel okay now."

I smile and together we walk inside

TIME SKIP

I had a wonderful time shopping with Penelope. We talked and laughed and I discovered a lot of things about her and the job.

We ended up heading back to my place that night for dinner since it was late. We sat down on the couch.

"Can I ask you a question?" She says. I nod, albeit a bit confused.

"How'd you know that you liked girls?" I smile.

"Right around the time many kids start developing crushes. Derek liked this girl at school named Taylor. And when we hung out, he would go on and on about her. I realized as I nodded enthusiastically along that I agreed with him, because I liked her too. It didn't take long after the initial realization to see that I saw girls the same way he did, not men like I was "supposed" to by many people's standards."

She nodded slowly and blushed. "Is that why you gave me your number?"

I smile and scoot a little closer to her. "Yeah, I thought you were beautiful and in the chance you weren't interested, well it wouldn't be so bad. But if you were..." I trail off. She blushes even more.

"I've never thought too much about women like that but... there's something about you that pulls me in."

I smile and place my hand in hers. "I could say the same thing about you."

She squeezes my hand and rests her head on my shoulder. I lean against her and we fall asleep, hand in hand