Disclaimer: I own nothing, just little loved up fun =)
A/N: A huge thanks to Sangreal7, without whom this would not have been written so quickly! I love that she loved so much =D
Just a short little fic, hope you like =)
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Valentine's Mishap -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
"Good for nothing, son of a-" Penelope grumbled as she cleared out her office, "Thinks I'm not good enough."
At that moment she was angry, she wasn't saddened or hurt, she was just downright furious that her boyfriend had broken up with her a mere five days before Valentine's. She had planned it all, a one night to remember for the pair of them, and of course, non-refundable.
She slammed about, putting stuff in the bin, throwing out Kevin's clutter. She refused to give him another chance after this. Why would she want a weedy geek like him? Why would she need him to be fair?
She didn't and if in the moments after their breakup Penelope knew one thing above all it was that she was never going to let him grovel his way back into her life. She was through with settling for familiarity, for appreciating a warm body next to her, for settling for what she classed as a good life when clearly it had got boring on both sides.
Penelope picked up a load of letters and put in her outbox, ready to be mailed around. Quickly she placed the files on it ready to taken around to the agents that needed them and she found her desk getting emptier and emptier by the minute.
She took a look at the glass crystal ball Kevin had gotten her for Christmas one year, the one with his face in it and she just grabbed it and dropped it from shoulder level down into the bin and listened to it shatter.
"Remind me never to get on the wrong side you," Derek said dryly as he watched her, "What's got you destroying precious goods?"
"Bad break up?" Penelope asked back rhetorically, grabbing another thing Kevin gave her, and she realised just how tacky and cheap he was with his gift so she dropped that down into the bin. "Need anything in particular, my Gorgeous Man?" She asked as she went for the third object, somewhat excited to hear it break.
"Wanna talk about it?"
She dropped it and turned to him, "Talk about what?" She asked him after it smashed, her eyes burning bright, "About how I spent three years pursuing the most boring relationship of my life? How I spent time trying to make it something better and make it something excitable for my boyfriend to turn around and tell me that I'm just not good enough to be his girlfriend anymore? Or how he deserves more than I seem to be bothered to offer him?"
Derek listened to Penelope's anger filled rant, but in it he could hear her tears seeping through, he could hear how near breaking point she was.
"Or how I'm getting quite close to the age of being shoved up on the shelf and no man in a miles radius around me has the slightest inkling of being interested? How's that for talking it out?" She asked and her shoulders slumped and she gave out entirely then, she was finished, just in the moments of Derek arriving at her door and he managed to break down her anger without even speaking many words whatsoever.
And then in the seconds of the first tear falling he swooped in and wrapped his arms around her, letting her give into the release and completely cave of all emotions she was simply going to bottle up after this. He felt her shudders jolt with sobs, the distressed, caught in her throat sound ringing out and all he could do was soothe her gently.
"It'll be okay, Baby," he whispered as he kissed the top of her head, ignorant of the multiple flowers clips in her hair.
Penelope sucked in a deep breath, "Will it?" She asked him, "no one wants me, I thought Kevin was it." She sobbed again, "I gave him everything I had and it wasn't enough, w-what if that's it? W-what if I'm never enough for anyone?"
"Oh, Baby, you will be, you'll be more than someone can handle," He said, plotting Kevin's slow death in his mind. "Lynch never deserved you, never, and if you think otherwise then more fool you. He got lucky with you and he didn't appreciate what you gave him."
"Maybe it was too soon after Battle." Penelope finally said as she backed away, her face completely tear streaked, "I mean, where I was at that time wasn't perfect timing to start a relationship. Maybe it just took all this time for me to realise."
"Shh," He said and pulled her back as the tears began, "You did back then what you needed to and after this, you'll do what you need to do to get back on track."
Penelope was silent for a moment, just listening to his heart beating in his chest, taking in the sweet smell of his cologne, lavishing the feel of his arms around her and she just thought about everything. About how perfect this man was, how Derek had it all to offer and yet he was still single.
Maybe that was what she had loved about him from day one, the entire idea that he had it all to offer and only few received it. Only those he trusted most got to feel this side of Derek.
"I actually don't know what I'd do without you, Handsome." She murmured sorrowfully into his chest.
"Be a pretty little mess," He teased her as they finally separated, "Now, seeing as the weasel ran, Monday I'm gonna be your date."
Penelope shook her head, "I don't need a pity date fro-"
"Who said it was a pity date?" He asked her, cutting into her statement. "I will never pity you, I refuse to ever do that to you, so we're going on one of our infamous dates and we'll see where the night leads." He then backed towards to the doorway, a cheeky grin that always won Penelope over with him on his lips, "Whatcha say?"
"How can I refuse?" She relented, her arms folded over her chest, a small grin on her lips, "I have reservations."
"You wanna use them?"
"Well it's either that or waste the money," She said and shrugged, "Non-refundable."
"Sorted then Baby Girl, we'll do that and then I am stealing the rest of the night away from you. It'll be the best Valentine's ever."
"Course it will," she scoffed disbelievingly, "Plus, didn't you have a date?"
Derek shook his head at her, "She cancelled, had a better offer." He watched her giggle in disbelief, "Now I have better plans." He threw her a wink and then disappeared and Penelope just stood there, feeling like her heart would mend and keep on ticking.
Derek would hate her if she gave up on living because of Kevin and as she stood there she realised that life with Kevin was suffocating and horrendous. She needed a more thrilling man, a man that shocked her day in day out, one that didn't get bored easily.
Sighing she went back to tidying up while she waiting on more work to get issued.
A man like that just wasn't into her.
She turned to go get a drink several moments later, needing to walk out some of the hurt still residing in her when she saw Doug the mail man coming by, he knocked even though she was staring at him and he smiled.
"Got anything for me to take off your hands, Miss Garcia?" He asked her politely.
"Quite a lot actually." She told him and then turned to her outbox, grabbing the pile of files and sealed letters, she took them to him and handed them over. "That's it all."
"Thanks, Miss Garcia," he spoke as he put the mail onto the trolley and grabbed her stuff that had just came in, "And that's yours."
"Thanks Doug," She thanked him and then took the files over to her desk dropping them down. It was then she looked down at her desk and realised a letter was missing. One that wasn't supposed to leave her possession. Panicking she rummaged around trying to find it.
Everywhere came up empty; it wasn't in her drawers, in her bag, under her desk, under a keyboard, down the back of one of the computers. She spun around, dread filling her up, and then her eyes widened; it had been in with all the letters she had brought in to send out.
Running to the door she couldn't see Doug anywhere in corridor so went in search of him, she saw him in the elevator nearly ten minutes later as the doors closed.
Now she ran for the stairs.
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Valentine's Mishap -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
A/N:Who wants to take guess? And who wants more? =P
