(A/N: I got a challenge fic that I've been working on. For those of you following my other story, I have not given it up, this scene has just been niggling at me and I needed to finish this fic so I could get it out of my head. :) Plus, trying to figure out a problematic plot line for my other story is giving me fits.
I hope you all enjoy this little one shot possibility for my Penn and Dave world. I have found I just can not let go of this pairing! And, for all of you that are following the network renewals, everyone keep your fingers crossed that our favorite series comes back with all our characters intact! KK)
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Disclaimer: All publicly recognizable characters, settings, etc. are the property of their respective owners. The original characters and plot are the property of the author. The author is in no way associated with the owners, creators, or producers of any media franchise. No copyright infringement is intended.
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Penelope sat down in the lobby of the hotel, waiting for the departing members of her family to arrive. She looked down at her ring once more, tilting to watch as the light refracted off it. One year. One year of dating David Rossi. He had given her this lemon citrine and diamond ring last weekend, saying its sparkle reminded him of her smiling greeting every morning when he first came back to the BAU. And she had promised to 'think' about marrying him in return for a long engagement. He had laughingly stated when sliding the ring onto the third finger of her right hand that he would get her an engagement ring when she set a date.
Looking up, she smiled as JJ, Will, and Hotch stepped from the elevator. Standing up, she walked to meet them, smiling as JJ reached out to hug her.
"Best non-engagement party ever! Are you sure you want a long engagement before having a bachelorette party?" JJ teased.
"Shush, JJ!" Penelope squeezed her friend tight, knowing she was only teasing. Her attention was pulled to the side as Emily and Reid came in from the Casino floor. "Reid! I didn't think you were leaving us as well?"
"I'm not. I'm still going to return with you, but, the hospital where my mother is said that I could stay over with her if I wanted. They think they may have her medicine stabilized. I'm going to try and fly out to see her." Reid finally seemed more comfortable with the team knowing about his mother's condition. While he didn't go out of his way to speak of her, he no longer withheld comments that involved her or hid where he was going when he went to visit.
Emily kept walking till she was beside JJ. She had enjoyed this holiday to the States. Seeing her team and visiting with them was something she missed. "We just finished packing Reid's things into my room. With Hotch leaving early to spend part of his vacation with Jack and Morgan leaving today, I thought it would be simpler to just let Reid move his stuff in with me so it wouldn't be sitting in an empty room over the weekend."
Hearing a voice call to her from the elevator, Emily glanced over her shoulder to see Morgan and Dave walking out to join them. "Prentiss! I'm leaving you in charge of these two in my absence." Corralling his Baby Girl with one arm, he squeezed her close in a hug. "I still can't believe you let this old dog talk you into marrying him."
"Maybe marrying him. One day." Penelope stressed with a smile.
"Yeah, but, Baby Girl, you actually let him put a ring on your finger. Even if it was only a promise ring." Morgan couldn't help but tease her and Dave. He had finally accepted the fact that she had chosen to see and build a relationship with David Rossi, the former Lothario of the FBI. And, after a year of observing the two, he had to admit, they were spectacularly right for each other. After all this time though, he just couldn't give up tugging Dave's chain. It had become a part of their banter, and one that Dave and Penelope allowed him. "How did he talk you into accepting that ring, Mama?" Curiosity honestly coated Derek's tone. Remembering past conversations with his Baby Girl, he knew her deep seated fear of commitment.
Suppressing a shiver of remembrance, Penelope's eyes grew a little vague as she flashed back to that past morning.
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"Dave!" Penelope screamed out her second orgasm into the room. Her wolf seemed particularly focused this morning and she couldn't be more aware of him. Coming back to herself slightly, she met Dave's gaze. He was still hard, sliding gently into her sensitive and stimulated center. His hand brushed across her forehead, smoothing damp strands of hair from her face.
"One more time, Cara." Dave's voice came hoarsely to her. Leaning down, he lapped gently at one tight nipple, causing her to arch up into him with a groan. She could feel him still, hot and hard, lodged deep inside, not pausing in his slow thrusts.
Penelope ran her hands up and down her lover's shoulders and arms. Her energy reserves were low but Dave's voice seemed to call to her. "Mon Loup…"
"For me? Just one more time, love." Dave's voice came on a breath across her breast as he released her nipple to softly nip at the other one. Penelope felt her insides twist with rebuilding need as he pulled free, placing hard nips down her sides and soothing them with wet kisses and gentle licks as he moved down her body.
With a murmur of protest, Penelope made an effort to halt his descent, "Mon Loup, I'm too sensitive."
Soothing sounds greeted her as her whole body was wracked by a hard shiver when Dave lowered his head to tongue the hollow of her hip roughly before placing a kiss there and licking his way down to the sensitive area between her thigh and mound. "Shhshhhh, Cara. I'll be easy. Shhhsh, give me just a little more." Dave's voice was dark with need as he lifted her thigh over his shoulder and settled between her legs.
Penelope's light whimper floated through the room as Dave's tongue delicately pressed into her with flickering motions. Her sensitive nerve endings responded with hard surges of need to his every touch. She could feel her toes curling and her chest seemed to flush with heat. Even when Dave breathed warmly over her, it caused a minor shudder to wrack her frame. "Dave, my pet, I'm – I'm so close, I can't take much more –" She cut off with an incoherent moan as Dave took her into his mouth to work against her bundle of nerves with his tongue and gentle sucking kisses. "Dave!"
With a surge of motion, Dave rose to his knees, his hands clenched hard enough to bruise on her hips as he drew her towards him to meet his hard thrust. He plunged into her, pushing against swollen, wet, ultra sensitive tissue till he was settled deep inside her. But, he didn't stop there, pulling back to thrust hard again, over and over. His hips met hers with a steady hard rhythm that had her hands flying over her head to grasp the bed frame and her cries flowing from her lips.
"Damn, Penelope. You are so wet." Dave's voice came to her, causing her eyes to fly open to meet his. He began riding her hard and fast, the sounds echoing in the room. Dave's lips were pulled tight with need and he was hard as rock inside her, pushing relentlessly through sensitized flesh already clenching tight around him. Penelope's voice faded to gasps only, no longer to even focus as sweat beaded on her skin and her spine arched, the new position causing him to sink impossibly deeper into her.
Releasing the deep grip on her hips, Dave fell forward on his arms, wrapping his hands into her hair to clench its strands tight as they wrapped in its lengths, pulling her head back. Hard plunges met her as he ground the next words into her ear, "Come now, Cara. Now!"
And Penelope's scream razed the room as her body helplessly obeyed, white fire blanking out her vision as Dave rode her hard before plunging deep and holding himself against her, his hips jerking fiercely with each jagged grunt as he released deeply and hotly within her. "Penelope!"
For brief moments, Dave was settled against her, his weight pressing her into the bed. And, honestly, Penelope felt she needed his weight to hold her to earth. Her body had floated away with that last peak and she cuddled his weight close for a moment, waiting for her senses to return. With a groan, Dave settled to her side, pulling free from her depths with a shudder, causing another set of aftershocks to ripple through her as she released a soundless gasp. Rolling to his back to remove his boneless weight before he crushed her, Dave settled and pulled her to him with one arm so that she was cradled against him with her head on his chest. She sighed as she listened to his heartbeat return slowly to normal, her own gradually slowing to match it.
"Penelope?" Dave's voice roused her from the stupor she was slowly sinking into.
Still distracted by the uncontrollable shivers that tightened through her insides in the aftermath, she was sluggish to respond, "Yes, love?"
Dave stroked a hand through her hair, gently fingering the damp knots he had left behind, "If I were to one day ask you to marry me, would you think about it?"
The words drifted to her, non-threatening with its 'if' and 'one day' so that she responded without thinking, "Yes."
With a chuckle, Dave reached his hand beneath the pillow on the bed, pulling out a small velvet box. Holding the box before them, he opened it with his other hand, causing Penelope to look up as he jostled her. With wide eyes, she watched as he pulled the glinting ring from inside and tossed the box to the floor beside them. Penelope could only watch with shocked eyes as he lifted her right hand and slid the ring onto her finger. The bright color of the yellow citrine and the white flash of diamonds met her eyes and she froze in shock as she stared. With another chuckle, Dave brought her hand to his lips and kissed her knuckles where the ring rested. With a gentle tone, he reassured her, "Just a promise ring, Penelope. Nothing to worry about." Resting their joined hands on his chest, he added, "You're not getting an engagement ring till you decide you want a wedding and set a date."
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With a reminiscent shudder, she came back to the present and responded honestly, "He caught me during a weak moment after really spectacular sex."
Dave snickered along with Emily as Penelope's known bluntness caused Morgan to wince and pull a face. JJ and Reid both blushed. Will looked away, hiding his grin behind his hand. "Baby Girl, you can't tell me things like that! You're family and I don't need to know that!" Holding his hand over his ear and rubbing it back and forth as if he could wipe what he heard from his brain, Morgan made a comical picture and Penelope could not help but giggle.
"You asked me, Dark Knight of Atlantic City. The Fountain of all Knowledge is ever truthful." Pulling away from Derek, she linked her arms with JJ and Emily. Laying her head down on Emily's shoulder, she admitted, "I'm going to miss all of us being together. This was a wonderful week." Looking across the circle to meet Dave's shining eyes, she smiled at him. "This was the perfect present, Mon Loup."
With a sigh and a last hug, JJ pulled away, "I know, PG. It's time for us to head for the airport. Will and I are starting to miss Henry and we plan on spending this weekend with him before returning to work.
"And I have a meeting with a family wanting to look at one of my houses. I can't stay any longer, Mama." Derek turned and shook Dave's hand before slinging his bag over his shoulder. "Thanks for the week, man."
The group broke down into individual moments of camaraderie as everyone said one final goodbye and headed for the line of taxis waiting outside the door. Soon, luggage was stowed away, last hugs were given, especially between the departing friends and Emily as they said a last goodbye. Even Reid had an overnight bag thrown onto the backseat of the cab as he got ready to leave to visit his mother. Finally it was only three people left in the heat of the afternoon on the sidewalk.
Pulling her lover to her, she hugged him tightly. "Thank you, Dave. I do love you, you tall luscious Italian affogato." Rising on her toes, she pressed her lips to his, enjoying the feeling as he cradled her close and nudged at her lips with the tip of his tongue before dipping inside.
"I'm glad you've enjoyed yourself, Kitten" with a contented look, he loosened his grip and let Penelope slide down his body to the ground again.
Twirling to catch Emily's arm in hers, she headed back into the casino. With a naughty look from the corner of her eye, she pulled Emily nearer as they entered the lobby again. Snuggling her friend closer, she looked back over her shoulder at Dave, sharing a wink with him before turning back to her friend.
With an over-exaggerated whisper, she gazed at Emily, "Now that the children have all gone home, you owe me an explanation of what a 'Sin to Win' weekend in Atlantic City entails, woman."
As Emily paused on the threshold of the Casino floor, Dave swept up beside her and cupped his arm around her from the other side, not letting her pause as he swept the three of them into the Casino. Dave chuckled sexily before leaning down and murmuring into her other ear, "Now don't turn shy, we've both been waiting for you all week."
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(A/N: I loved this glimpse of a possible future for Penn and Dave. For those of you who want to follow this beyond the singular romance and into the teasing flirty relationship possibilities of the rest of the story. I continued it on The Writer's Coffee Shop and Archive of Our Own due to it's a lot more 'mature' than what I think will be allowed on ff. So, be warned. It's going to be a short fic, roughly between 4-5 chapters and I have everything but the last 2 chapters written to be posted.
I am so enjoying every facet of Penn and Dave as a couple. And I will be finishing my 'Something More'. Hope everyone has a good holiday this coming weekend! KK)