Disclaimer: I don't own a thing, but if I did there'd be a lot of loving between cases – just sayin' ;)

A/N: So I wanted to get this posted before Christmas day which is shockingly three days away! How scary is that? So this is my MG Christmas story... no idea what my muse was going for, but I don't question it! Lol

Hope you all enjoy!

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- An Extraordinary Merry Christmas -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

"Are you sure she'll like that?" Reid questioned as Derek picked up a massive purple flower hairclip, the fourth of its type. "I mean, Penelope's idea of fashion has been changing and if its continues with this sort of coherency then soon they won't be a part of her wardrobe attire."

"Pretty boy," Derek started and turned to face Reid, "Hush up."

"I'm just stating that-" Reid began to spout his latest observation of the team's tech.

Derek smirked, "Do you really think I'd buy something I know Penelope wouldn't wear?"

"Well," Reid started, "I guess not, but she might change her mind."

"If she does, she does, but I have a strong feeling she won't." Derek told Reid confidently, "I know my girl the best and if she proves me wrong then I need to buck up my ideas and find out what I'm doing wrong."

"Hmm... Don't you worry Kevin will get her identical presents?" Reid asked, calculating that the probability was quite high for well matched presents.

Shrugging, Derek continued to look up and down the counters, "He can do, but there are two presents that he will never be able to get her.

"What are those?" Reid asked intrigued as he followed, still trying to decide what to get Emily for her Christmas presents.

"That, my friend, will remain top secret until the big day itself." Derek told him

Reid frowned at that, wondering what it was that Derek had managed to get that had to remain so tightly sealed secrets. "Why are you doing all this exactly? You're never this involved with present buying."

"Penelope always told me that she wished somebody would just shock her with Christmas," Derek told Reid and looked at him sombrely. "She's not had a properly made Christmas since before her parents died and I wanted to make this year different. Kevin hasn't done anything to make her really appreciate the time of year so I thought if he wasn't going to do, I was going to make sure she knew that I understood her and I took notice of everything she's done and wanted and I'm slowly making them a reality."

"Why not just tell her how you feel?" Reid mentioned as Derek finished his summation. "Subliminal messages aren't always receptive to everyone."

Derek gave Reid a perplexed look as he said that, "This is not subliminal messages, Spencer. Plus if it were, I'm not going to break her heart to satisfy mine, Kid. Even you should know it doesn't work like that."

"I know it doesn't, but I'm guessing you're going to leave all of these and fly off to Chicago leaving Penelope with the imminent fall out of what getting her these types of presents could lead to."

"Look, Reid, it's like this – I am sticking here this year, Pen isn't going to the Lynch's so I am hijacking my Baby Girl's day and making it one for her to remember. She'll have a moan about Kevin not inviting her, but I will give her a normal day like the two of us have had on previous occasions."

He took in Reid's stare and smirked

"Nothing can go wrong," Derek said and even he knew he could have just potential have cursed himself.

Shrugging the negativity off, he had too good a feeling about this.

Penelope would know full well what she meant to him and she was going to have an amazing day.

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Kevin had been walking up and down the shop windows of the shopping mall and was finally giving up all hope of finding anything for his girlfriend. He sighed, he had never struggled to buy her a gift, but he guessed that the lack of her existence in his life made it hard to see how her likes and dislikes had changed.

Only the other day, whilst at dinner, she had told him that she no longer did her acting. When he had asked why she had told him she didn't enjoy it the same and then proceeded to claim she had no time. Last he had seen she had made time regardless and loved to learn new plots and lines.

Now, as a result, he wanted to get her something that proved he was in love with her and understood her even through the absence. He wasn't ready to pop the question and slip a nice big ring onto her finger so he refused to go looking for a ring, but he wanted something to prove the extent of his love.

However, after shopping for too long he had seemingly given up. Maybe this was the beginning of the end. He was feeling neglected by her, unloved even and he rarely saw her. Maybe the omens had always been there and he had just been ignorant.

Then he saw his golden ticket to opening her eyes.

Derek Morgan.

He saw that Derek was looking in a gadget shop and knew, full well, he was in there looking for Penelope. He noticed his particular interest in an iPod, and Kevin remembered that Penelope's was too small for her vast quantity of music. He then noticed Derek picking out a purple one and he smirked as a plan slotted together.

All he had to do was copy Derek and make sure Penelope opened his presents before Derek's. That way she would be so overcome with emotion that Kevin had been so thoughtful and loving that Derek's would be pushed aside for some proper love making.

Shaking his head and keeping his eye on the present, he watched the two agents and as they left, he went into the shop and bought exactly the same present.

Satisfied, he followed them to the next shop.

Penelope was going to have a great Christmas after all.

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- An Extraordinary Merry Christmas -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-