Note- This is a sequel to Making Memories of Us.
Count On Me Chapter One March 2010 Six days before.....
"You're staring at me again, handsome," Penelope said, her eyes on the tv, as they sat on the couch together.
Derek cleared his throat. He shifted and focused on the TV again. "I can't get over that red hair." He whistled. "Damn woman, you do things to me."
"Do I really?" she teased with a sexy chuckle falling from her lips. "You do things to me too....still, always. You send me into orbit with just one look when no other man can get me there if he has all night and a road map."
Derek grinned widely. "Is that, right? Well I'll stare at you anytime you're in the mood. Just let me know. I'm always happy to help out my baby girl." His voice dropped. "Look at me, Penelope, and lets time how long it takes till you're in orbit."
She smiled sweetly and said "Watch the movie before you get me in trouble."
The moment Penelope stepped through Derek's door that night he felt a sense of peace wash over him. His baby girl was back.
After two years of distance between them- no movie nights and no long lazy weekends together- her long term boyfriend had taken his happy ass home to see his sick mother and, inadvertently, gave Derek and Penelope the opportunity to do what they both wanted most: find a way to be together.
Derek couldn't have been happier when she mentioned wanting to have a movie marathon tonight. Did he care that it was a Monday and he had to work the next day? Hell no. He only cared that she was offering him long, uninterrupted hours next to her on a couch.
She invited him to her place, once he said he was up for watching movies if she wanted some company, but he suggested his place instead.
Truth be told he couldn't stand the idea of ever going into her apartment again. That place where she screwed Lynch over and over. The place where Battle tried to kill her on two occasions. Where Derek told her of his love and they both filled with joy but somehow they both just let the moment and their joy slip away when they went to sleep that night, as if they just had the same dream of saying "I love you," to each other and it hadn't happened at all.
He would be fine never seeing that apartment again for as long as he lived.
He wanted her here with him. In his home. The only house he couldn't sell when he sold all the others, flipping them for profits, because this house was filled with Penelope Garcia memories. So he stayed here and walked the hard wood floors every night seeing her in different places she used to be but hadn't been in years now.
Till tonight. Tonight she was back and he was thrilled about that. He wanted to figure out some way to convince her they needed each other.
He wasn't expecting them to become lovers. They had never been that to each other, despite a thousand chances. Even though he loved her and wanted to make love to her he was fine with having a friendship only, at least for now. He just needed that friendship to be strong like it used to be.
He needed his baby girl back. Because, no doubt about it, it felt like he had lost her there for a while.
That time was over.
He wanted to build them back up to what they used to be. More than anything he wanted to know she would come here again for another movie night. It might seem silly to need something so simple so much but he didn't care if that was true. He did need it. He needed it more than he needed most things in this world.
His eyes darted back to peek at her again. He just couldn't keep his gaze off of her tonight.
She looked so damn sexy in this light blue shirt she had on that hugged her curves and had her cleavage peeking out. She had on jeans too which were a turn on cause she never wore them to work. Penelope in jeans meant it was play time and he loved playing with his baby girl.
Her feet were bare, just like his, and even that he found sexy. And her red hair....good God, it was like she had been trying to make him hard when she dyed her hair. He loved her as a blonde. It suited her. But there was something risque and naughty about her with red hair. It somehow felt like she did it for him, though he told himself he was really far freaking gone if he believed that. But he kinda did. Her eyes lit up and gleamed with delight every time that he complimented her on it.
Penelope all but growled at him "I swear if you don't stop gawking at me, Hot Stuff. Enough. You're making me..." her voice trailed off in the most dirtiest way.
His eyes darted down to her breasts for proof and sure enough they were poking her shirt. That sight went straight to his groin and his dick took notice.
Damn. He hadn't gotten her like that in years! Not that he had noticed at least. When would he have the chance? They only talked at work now and then it wasn't like before...not really. Lynch was always there in between them even if he was a couple floors away.
But tonight Lynch was in Ohio. Too bad for Lynch.
Derek wet his lips as he sucked in a breath and let it out, unable to tear his eyes away from Penelope no matter how much he wanted to honor her request. His voice was deep and filled with longing when he asked "Do you have any clue how much I miss spending time with you?"
A second later she was all over him, muttering "Just kiss me, Morgan. Damn, I can't take this anymore," and then pressing her lips to his, in case he didn't do as she wanted. She wasn't taking the chance right then.
He was glad she made a move. He maybe never would have. He just couldn't get past his own self, his fears and his excuses. No matter how bad he was aching for her. It took all his guts to tell her before that he loved her and he didn't know if he could ever again get that brave without some sign from her she loved him the same way.
But now wasn't the time to think about it because right now he was getting kissed for the first time by his baby girl. And it was hot. So hot. Opened mouth and moaning with her hands roaming all over him as if she was trying to feel all of him at once and then settling on the bulge that was rapidly growing in his pants.
He moaned and pulled back. "Babe, move that hand unless you're serious about this."
A moment passed and she looked down. Then she started working on unbuttoning his jeans. Derek stilled her hands. "Hey....be sure. Please be sure."
"Are you sure?"
"Hell yeah. I'd keep you as mine for the rest of my life if you let me."
"I'm sure," she said, breathlessly, before flinging herself on him, pushing him back as they started kissing again. It got so out of control that they rolled off the couch.
And that is where they made love for the first time. Derek's floor. The next morning he asked her to marry him and by the next night they were husband and wife.
He didn't have to worry that she wouldn't come to his home for another movie night. Now every night that he wasn't away on a case could be movie night or whatever they wanted. He would give her a lifetime of good memories of them.
He swore that on his life.
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Penelope ended up at home earlier than Derek on Monday night, the first night he was back from their latest case. Since they got married she was spending more time alone at their home than she was spending with him there. But that was the nature of their jobs and she wouldn't complain- at least too much.
It felt good to be in Derek's house- their home now- even if he wasn't there. All around her it smelled like him and felt like him. It was comforting. She was safe there with their drooling gaurd dog who missed his master too.
Tonight Derek had lots of paper work to catch up on. Reid had done him a favor and taken over some of Derek's paperwork last week, when Derek was out because of the wedding, but there was still plenty Derek had to do himself. So Penelope headed on home with the promise to make dinner and wait up to show him a good night.
They hadn't had a meeting with Strauss yet about being married but Hotch had went to her. She actually said that she assumed they were a couple ever since the 'Talk Dirty to Me' incident and so she wasn't surprised to hear they had finally made it official. She didn't like the frat rules broken but she had bigger things on her agenda than taking on a fight with Hotch over that. She did want to speak to both Derek and Penelope in person about this, though, but neither would have to transfer, at least not yet. They would take a wait and see approach.
Strauss made Penelope extremely nervous so she was not looking forward to that meeting at all. But it was good to know that the woman wasn't overly concerned over Penelope and Derek's flirty relationship in the workplace. Strauss could have made an issue of it years ago but she let it slide. Thank God for small favors.
Penelope didn't know what they would do if one of them was told to transfer because they were married now. Derek would insist he be the one to leave but Penelope knew she couldn't let him. It would make more sense for it to be her. She could keep her same office and just work with another team. She'd be right there in the building with her family still.
She wouldn't want to stop working with the BAU but if it came down to it she would. Frat rules wouldn't keep her away from her husband and if Derek transferred who knows where he would end up and with what hours. She needed her man close by for their all day flirt sessions- something they stopped doing a couple years back but she planned to start right back up tomorrow.
Derek would hardly know what hit him when he heard the things that came out of her mouth now that she knew for sure he was completely in love with her- body, heart, mind and soul.
It made her feel so powerful and safe. She had a husband now and he loved her with every bit of himself. Their life was just starting and tonight would be one more good memory made.