Father's Day
Chapter 1
Two Dads
AN: Father's day is this Sunday and this came to me enjoy. Chapter one is Derek the second is his dad.
Derek Morgan wasn't a fan of the holiday that was coming up, never had been since he was ten years old and lost his dad. It was one of the few days out of the year he didn't mind if he forgot about, the day his dad died, and his birthday being the other two, but he always went home to Chicago if he was off for those days. Couple times his mom had come down when he couldn't get away, they always spent the days together, his sisters included.
However this year Derek had a reason to not hate the day so much, his twin boys Hunter William and Aaron David. They were two years old this year and were starting to understand stuff. He was taking the boys along with Penelope to Chicago for the weekend to see his mom and sisters, as well as visiting his dad's grave.
It had been over twenty years since he lost his dad, but it still felt like yesterday some days. When he had those days, he had Pen and their twin boys to remind him that it wasn't all bad.
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Hunter and Aaron were both talking and running, they skipped the walking part it seemed all they wanted to do was run, they tried to walk they went down on their bottoms most the time. They'd turned two three weeks prior and it had taken them while longer to learn to run as they did. They would run then stop, their brains weren't processing to slow down, and they toppled over.
Derek was teaching them though, and Hunter was starting to get one foot in front of the other great, Aaron however still wanted to run. And when Fran Morgan opened the door her grandson took off running past her.
"Hey mom," Derek said holding Hunter and the other hand was around Pen's waist.
"I'm glad you could make it," Fran said before hugging them, "My how you are growing like a weed," She said before taking Hunter.
"Daddy," Hunter yelled before he started crying. Derek sighed before taking his son back.
"Sorry mom, he's been doing that lately," Pen said, "Aaron too, don't know what is wrong, soon as somebody tries to hold them they start crying," she said while Derek hollowed them in the house with Hunter.
"He's just cranky," Derek said, "They haven't had their nap, the plane ride here they were awake the whole time," he said.
"And they cried the whole time that Derek didn't hold them," Pen said, "Which meant they were both sitting in his lap," she said.
"He's just like his dad," Fran said giving Derek a smile, "Derek did everything with William, and he never refused him anything, those two were inseparable when William didn't have to work," she said.
"I'm going to take them to my old room," Derek said, "Be back in a few," he said before telling Aaron to come with him as he carried Hunter down the hallway to his old room, which still held most his stuff.
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Derek sat at the end of the bed watching his sons sleep. Sunday was going to be hard, but at the same time he had two wonderful boys. He remembered his eighth birthday, he got to go to work with his dad for the day, and he sat in his dad's chair, he was the captain of the local police station that year, the following he got the promotion he'd long waited for police chief. He'd only gotten two years at that though before he was taken.
"I miss you dad," he said looking up, "I wish they could meet you, have some those fun times like I did," he said before giving both his sons a kiss on the forehead before leaving the bedroom.
"Hey bro," Des said before hugging her brother.
"What you doing home?" Derek asked.
"What is Sunday?" Des asked, "Don't I always go with you all, plus I moved back in, ass wipe and I broke up, Trevor and I are history," she said.
"I told you not to settled," Derek said.
"Yeah yeah, and I didn't settle, I didn't say yes to that ring, and boy did I want to say yes, diamond princes cut too," Des said, "But he annoyed me so much, and I don't take orders either," she said.
"You give them," Derek finished with smile, "Come on brat, Pen's in the living room with mom," he said.
"And those cute nephews of mine?" Desiree asked.
"Asleep, and you're not going to wake them up," Derek said before they went in the living room.
Fran and Penelope were talking and once Derek and Des got in there they stopped, "Don't stop on our account," Des said before she hugged Penelope, "Glad to see my brother has drove you crazy yet,"
"I think he already did, but I drove him too," Pen added with a smile, "It's good to see you, Des," she said.
"Let's go get a snack, I'm fixing spaghetti and garlic breed for dinner tonight," Fran said.
"Sounds good already," Derek replied.
"You just love food," Pen said.
"No, mom's spaghetti is the best," Des said, "He always got seconds growing up, I think he bribed her," she said.
"Desiree, you hush up," Fran said, "You all got seconds," she added.
"Derek still got more," Des added.
"Mom told you to stop," Derek said, "You never listen," he said before he grabbed her and started tickling her.
"Mom," Des squealed, "No, Derek no," she said laughing.
Penelope and Fran just laughed, "It's always been like this," Fran said walking around her son and daughter making her way to the kitchen with Penelope, "Derek took over being the man of the house when William died, he looked out for his sisters and me," she said.
"I'm guessing it was hard, watching him grow up so fast?" Pen asked.
"It was," Fran said.
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"I give," Desiree said out of breath, they were both on the floor now laughing, "Damn, I still can't win at this," she said.
"No the tickle monster always wins," Derek said with smile, "Come on, let's go see if mom needs some help, because Pen in a kitchen is not a wise thing," he said, "Too bad we don't got a pool or you'd be going in it," he added getting up before they took off running towards the kitchen to see who would get there quicker.
"No fair," Des shouted when her brother darted past her and got in the kitchen before she could, "Mom, he cheated I know he did," she whined.
"You both win," Fran said, "Now when you two are done playing, help me out here Derek, as much as I would love for Penelope to help, I think she learned from you how to start fires," she said looking at Derek then Pen.
"You should see her at home, I banned her from everything but the coffee maker," Derek said.
"Hey, go telling your mom that, she'll think that I can't keep her grandsons fed," Pen said.
"Oh sweetie, Derek told me long time ago you couldn't cook, you don't have to worry, Des here can't cook either," Fran said.
"I can too," Des said, "It's called a microwave and toaster," she protested.
"Who is it that had to use the fire extinguisher the last time he visited you?" Derek asked, "Oh that would be me," he added.
"Well, not like I meant to catch the toaster on fire," Des said, "I just didn't know you couldn't make French toast in the toaster," she said before sitting down beside Pen.
"Just keep telling yourself that," Derek said before he started helping his mom with the snack and then preparing dinner later that afternoon.
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Derek took Penelope and the boys down to the youth center so they could play. He'd tried getting his mom to move out the apartment, but she was dead set on staying in the place they'd all lived since before he'd been born, and his dad had died.
Sarah, Eric, and their three kids Monica, Billy and Tony who were four year old triplets had joined them. Over the last few years, the center had gotten few more things, one being a nice playground. The Morgan family was running it, along with help from the community it was still giving children a way to stay out the gangs and not fall through the cracks.
"Daddy," Hunter yelled point to the slide, while Aaron took off to the swings.
Penelope helped her son up on the swing getting him to hold on while Derek put Hunter on the slide. Eric and Sarah were watching them while their three used the other equipment they had there. It was four swings, two slides and a set of monkey bars. They were working on getting more, but they also were running a football, baseball, and basketball area for players to play on.
"You know what I realized," Sarah said, "Derek is going to be worn out when we get home," she said with a laugh as her nephew sat down refusing to get up and walk or run till his dad picked him up.
"He loves those boys, and he's got Penelope to relieve that stress," Eric said with a smile.
"That is very true," Sarah said, "And I got you," she added before kissing her husband of six years.
"Uncle Derek, we want slide too," Billy said going over to where his uncle and cousin was at.
"Okay, climb on up," Derek said going to catch Hunter as he slid down before he sat him down on the toddler swing which secured him into place so he couldn't go anywhere, "Alright, come on down," he said before his nephew came down the slide.
Pen pushed both of the boys while Derek played with his niece and nephews, before Sarah and Eric came over giving the two a break, however Hunter wasn't having it he screamed and started crying when he couldn't see his dad.
"I got you," Eric said taking his nephew out the swing trying to calm him down since Derek and Pen had went to get all of them some water from inside.
"Daddy," Hunter cried looking at where his dad had disappeared to.
"He went to get you something to drink, he'll be back soon," Sarah said trying to help her husband out, but it still didn't work it only made it worse, "Pen said he's been crying a lot lately when Derek's not around, Aaron's not as bad," she said before she took Hunter from Eric hoping it would help as he continued to cry.
Derek and Pen were coming out the doors few minutes later, and they could hear Hunter from there crying and screaming for his dad, "Derek, you know he's only going to get worse if you keep going right to him," Pen said, "It takes you talk to him on the phone to stop his cries when you're away," she said, "What happens when you can't take a call?" she asked, "Or it happens at daycare?"
"I'll deal with it then, I can't just let him cry," Derek said before he went to his son.
Pen sighed, she knew that Hunter did it sometimes to get his dad to come back to him, and other's he was scared, right now she knew it was him wanting Derek back in his sight, "Please help the two of them," she said out loud.
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That evening around seven they all got back to Fran's apartment and after washing up, they sat down at the table and started eating, the twins in their booster seats, and the triplets in their chairs.
"I think these two are going to need a bath later," Pen said watching her sons make a mess with the spaghetti. They'd dug in with their hands putting one string in at a time.
They all laughed looking at the two boys with spaghetti sauce all over their face, hands, clothes, even their laps. Fran got up getting the camera taking pictures of them. Derek had gotten her the camera for her for her birthday that year, and a printer as well. She'd made photo books on top of photo books of her grandbabies.
Derek knew he'd be the one giving his sons their bath that night, but he didn't care, he'd rope Pen in the bathroom too, and the four them would splash each other. They found if they sat in the tub with the boys that they wouldn't scream at bath time, they hated it, the water ended up on everything, and they'd have to resort to giving them separate baths.
"They're so adorable," Fran said.
"Till you're giving them a bath and it's chaos," Penelope said.
"Ignore her, she just doesn't know how much fun it can be," Derek said.
"I love bath time with you, but these two wonderful hellions are a handful at bath time," she said.
"But you two wouldn't trade for the world," Sarah said.
"Exactly," Derek and Pen both said looking at their sons and laughing as they started getting the spaghetti in their hair too.
TBC
AN: This is a two shot the next chapter will come tomorrow. To all the Father's out there happy Father's day.
