Thank you to everyone following the David & Penelope stories I've written. Enjoy the third and final installment to "Secrets and Smoldering" and "Mostly our Future".
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"Just promise me you won't give Dr. Maloney such a hard time, today, you were downright rude at our last ultra-sound appointment." Penelope said, as she struggled to lift her swollen body into the SUV.
"She was a bitch, Pen." David rolled his eyes at her struggling, and picked her up, then gently set her on the passenger side.
"Stop that! You'll break your back! I'm as big as a whale…" Penelope slapped his shoulder, exasperation and annoyance coloring her voice.
"You're sexier to me than you've ever been, Mrs. Rossi." Dave grinned, snaking a hand over her full breast from where he stood outside of the car, thumbing her nipple while leaning in to nip at her ear.
"Stop that!" Penelope swatted his hand away, torn between annoyance and fondness. Indeed, something about her pregnancy had made David impossibly horny the past nine months, and he couldn't keep his hands off of her. It had been challenging, at best. They were still in the honeymoon phase of their marriage, and she wanted very much to have great sex all the time, but with her exhaustion and weight gain, she was almost never in the mood and felt disgusted with her body. The insecurity of how she felt hadn't been well-hidden from David at all, and it angered him – especially when she'd accused him of attempting foreplay just to make her feel better about herself.
"I won't stop and you know it, you might as well give in." He murmured into her neck, kissing the sensitive spot behind her ear.
"We're going to be late…" Her voice softened slightly, closing her eyes and relishing the feel of his lips on her skin.
"Not on my watch!" Dave straightened up then, and buckled her in, winking at her now smiling face. "I have a doctor to terrorize!"
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"Well, looks like you're already about two centimeters dilated, and the little one's heart rate and blood pressure all look great! I'd say it'll be within the week. Make sure to stay active, go on some walks." Doctor Maloney pulled off her gloves and covered Penelope's legs with a paper blanket. David was staring at her with his best interrogator's stare.
"And you'll be on-call this entire week?" David used a no-bullshit tone.
"Yes, Mr. Rossi, as I said twice already, I will be on call all this week." She leveled him with a stare of her own then looked at Penelope. "Everything looks good, there is no reason why this shouldn't be a healthy, risk-free delivery. As we discussed, call me when you begin having contractions 10 minutes apart, you should be heading to the hospital no later than that." She smiled at Penelope, who smiled back with raised eyebrows.
"Wow… I can't believe it's finally happening! Only a week left!" Penny's voice was high-pitched, worry and excitement in it.
"Well, you could go late, but I expect only a week left. If that." Dr. Maloney made some notes on a pad of paper. "Go ahead and get dressed, I'll have my nurse print the ultra sound pictures …that don't show the sex." She made a pointed face at Rossi, who had loudly insisted last time that she be extra attentive to keep it a secret. Dave smiled smugly at the doctor, knowing he had gotten his way at the last appointment.
"Are you absolutely SURE you don't want to know the sex of the baby, Mrs. Rossi? Many women find that it helps them better prepare…" Doctor Maloney had avoided eye contact with David, as he had insisted Penelope not find out, even though she had expressly argued with David in front of the Doctor that she did want to know, then gave in to David.
"Let me be perfectly clear, DOCTOR, My wife and I have agreed not to find out, and I'm sure you don't want any malpractice suits, so you make sure, be extra careful, and double check any ultra sound pictures you send us home with to make sure. Capice?!" He used a patronizing tone with her, confident by the way she slammed the notebook closed and left the room without another word, that she indeed had finally gotten the point.
"Jesus Christ, David… is it really that big of a deal?" Penelope rolled her eyes, shaking her head.
"Yes." David answered simply, crossing his arms over his chest.
"Alrighty then." Penelope struggled to sit up over her swollen belly.
"Thank you, Jane, you know how my wife and I appreciate a doctor that respects our wishes." David smiled wickedly at her back, as she put a hand on the door to walk out.
"Of course." She replied dryly, without looking back at her most difficult patient-spouse.
After she had closed the door, Penelope sighed. "Well, that wasn't as bad as the last one. I'll still have to explain to our baby why he or she only wears yellow and green, since daddy wouldn't let mama find out if it was a boy or girl and.."
"Penelope…" David shot her a warning look, to not start in on this again. She merely shook her head allowed him to help her get her pants back on.
"I need to finish packing the hospital bag, there are a few items missing. I'll drop you off at the BAU before I go do some shopping." Changing the subject, Pen picked up her purse and started to walk out of the room.
"No way, I'm coming with you everywhere you go from here on out till our baby comes. I told Hotch yesterday, my leave officially started this morning." Dave reached around her and opened the door for his wife.
Penelope just looked at him, this being news to her. "You're not scheduled for leave until the start of next week."
David smiled down at the slight shock on his wife's face. "I'm not missing a moment of this. You'll need me. And Pen…" He closed the door, standing in front of it and putting his arms around his middle. "I need you, just as much. I need to know you're being taken care of, every step of the way this week." He kissed her forehead, then her lips.
"You're worrying too much, Dave. Women have been having babies for thousands of years." She kissed him back, and bit his bottom lip. "But I won't complain. I do need you. Very, very much." Her tone dropped to a sultry one, suddenly feeling as though she could lock them inside this room and use the patient table for far sexier uses than ultra sounds.
"I like the way that sounds…" David pushed her gently against the wall, a tray of medical utensils flying to the floor, while he kissed her passionately.
"Everything alright in here?" Doctor Maloney knocked, sounding irritated.
"Coming!" Penelope giggled, smiling affectionately at the devious grin her husband wore, and knowing that as soon as they got home, he would give her the best loving a wife could ask for.
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