A/N: Hello everyone! I know I'm not updating Is it Our Time Nowbut I promise I'm working on a new chapter of that. This is just an idea I had and I really hope you all love it. This is the first time I'm attempting two stories at once! Feed back is much appreciated! Love to you all!
Chapter One:
Penelope sat on her couch, in her dark apartment staring at the offending object sitting on the coffee table. There in all its shiny glory sat a two carat pear shaped diamond, with multi colored stones surrounding it on the gold band. The ring sat there in its ring box just staring at her. She had a feeling Kevin was going to propose. He'd been dropping hints for weeks. Penelope leaned over and picked up the ring box looking at it as she remembered the moment again.
Flash back:
Penelope and Kevin were sitting in her living room eating their normal Chinese takeout not really talking. It was their normal routine when she wasn't preoccupied with a case. Kevin had been a little jumpy all night, but Penelope racked it up to the new W.O.W. expansion being released tonight. She figured he'd be ready to leave soon so he could get in line.
"Um here's your fortune cookie Plum Sauce." Kevin said handing her the cookie.
"Uh thanks. I'll open it afterwards like we always do." Penelope said putting the cookie down next to her food container.
"Plum Sauce why don't you open it now?" Kevin asked looking at her nervously.
"We always open them together when we finish eating." Penelope said getting a bite of her food.
"Well why don't you open it now? You never know it could be something good in it." Kevin asked handing her the cookie again.
"Um okay." Penelope said taking the cookie and looking at him confused. She cracked open the cookie and pulled out the piece of paper with the fortune on it. There written on the paper was 'Will you marry me?' Penelope looked up from the paper to Kevin who was now kneeling in front of her.
"Plum Sauce will you marry me?" Kevin asked smiling.
End Flash Back
Penelope looked down at the ring again and sighed before setting it back on the table. Kevin had been very understanding when she said she needed time to think about this. And boy did she need time. She knew she was fond of Kevin, but her heart had always been with a certain tall dark and handsome FBI agent. She loved Derek. She was whole heartedly and irrevocably in love with Derek James Morgan, but he wasn't interested in her. Kevin was here. Kevin was willing to marry her, and build a future with her. Derek had never even looked at her as more than just a friend. No matter what she did or said he would always laugh and joke back with her. Kevin had never been shy about telling her he was in love with her and that he wanted a future with her, but could she really build a future with him when she didn't love him?
Penelope saw her friend's relationships. They were all happily married. Emily and Hotch, J.J. and Will, Dave and Fran, even Reid had found love with a writer friend of Dave's named Katie. Penelope had always thought that she and Derek would complete their little group. They'd all be paired off. It always made sense to her. She wanted a relationship like her friends had. She wanted to look at her husband and see the love and desire that should be there, she deserved a relationship like that. But she wasn't getting any younger and she wanted kids. She had always wanted a family. Maybe she had wasted too much time waiting for Derek to notice her.
Maybe marrying Kevin wouldn't been such a bad idea. She and he got along. He was reliable. They had common interests. She could see their marriage as being comfortable like their relationship was now. Their kids would be geniuses. Would it be so bad to be married to Kevin? She'd definitely have to work with him on his clothes, but it might work. This could give her everything she'd been wanting.
Penelope took a deep breath and picked up her phone dialing the familiar number. It started ringing and Penelope felt her heart speed up as her mind raced. Maybe he wouldn't answer. Maybe she'd get his voice mail. This was a bad idea. She was about to hang up when she heard Kevin's voice come through the other end of the phone.
"Plum Sauce?"
"Yeah Kevin hey." Penelope said trying to make her voice sound as casual as possible.
"What's up?" He asked. She could tell he was trying not to ask her about her decision. That was one thing she could always say he never pressured her.
"Well I thought about what you had asked me." Penelope said taking another deep breath.
"You- you did?" Kevin asked his voice breaking at one point.
"Yeah I have." Penelope said trying to calm down.
"I thought you said you needed some time? You know you can take as long as you need. There's no rush. I can wait. I can even give you some space." Kevin asked. He was obviously getting nervous.
"No there's no need to do that Kevin. I know I said it might take me awhile, but I know what my answer is now." Penelope said trying to reassure him.
"Oh?" Kevin barely managed to get out.
"Yes. I'll marry you Kevin." Penelope rushed out.
"Really? Oh Plum Sauce you have no idea how happy that makes me. I promise I'll make you so happy. It'll be perfect we'll be perfect." Kevin rambled on. Penelope was only half listening. She knew she'd just made him happy, and she should be happy too. But honestly in that moment she wasn't happy. She wasn't happy at all. She felt like she had made a huge mistake.
After getting off the phone with Kevin and promising to meet him for breakfast the next morning (they had been given two days off) to discuss telling everyone she ran a bubble bath and sank down into the dumb to try to relax and make some sense of this mess.
She was officially engaged to Kevin Daniel Lynch. She was promising to eventually commit herself to him for life. Marriage was not something she took lightly. She needed to start adjusting to this. That meant letting go of these crazy thoughts of Derek and fully committing to the idea of marrying Kevin. She was determined starting tomorrow she was going to have a new positive attitude about this and be the perfect fiancé that Kevin deserved.