Disclaimer: Much to my dismay, Criminal Minds is not owned by me!

A/N: These are only little drabble pieces... And they're quite the angst builder... But I hope you enjoy!

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Derek stretched out as the film ended, "I can't believe we still love this movie," He commented as he looked to Penelope. They were on their fifth movie of their day in and they had done their usual – watched, ate, drank, laughed.

Penelope disagreed partially, "I think it's more the company," She quipped with certainty and winked at him. "What next, Sugar Shack?"

"Ahh," Derek sounded as he thought for a moment, "Let's go with something scary so my Baby Girl has to use some Morgan coverage."

"Oh!" Penelope chimed enthusiastically at that idea, "Now I think I can go for that, especially if Agent Morgan is planning on protecting me." She got up and chose the scariest DVD in her selection and exchanged the disc over with the last film. As she pushed play, she fell back against Derek and readied for whatever would come of this.

It didn't take long for her to curl into him, his arm around her so she could hide in his chest. She felt him chuckle at her as she sat squirming and swearing and jumped at the movie and she just hit him and he resulted by pulling her in closer showing her where she was safest.

Penelope had to admit, she loved being exactly like this – with or without a horror film on the screen in front of her.

It was in this domesticated bliss, that Penelope got lost. She would love to spend every day like this. She wanted to feel this happy for life, feel comfortable with someone's company and she wanted to enjoy every moment she shared with a person. Even as she went to grab menus later she loved this sense of domesticity that they could create. It was pure heaven for her.

Derek's phone went off, breaking her from her thoughts and she watched as he read the message and smirked, "I gotta shoot, Baby Girl. You okay with me rain checking dinner?"

"You gotta leave now?" Penelope asked as Derek started to put his boots on. He seemed in the biggest hurry to up and leave. She walked the small distance between her kitchen and living room and watched him.

"Tammy asked if I could spend tonight with her after she got off shift, I said it was fine because you had my devoted attention all day," He told her of his assumption, "It is okay right, P?"

Nodding, Penelope kept a check on her reaction. She wasn't about to become obsessive over this and she wasn't going to make him hate her attitude towards Tammy, "Course!" She said, her lips pulling into a tight smile. "Go and have fun, Handsome."

Derek went over to her and kissed her cheek hard, "You're the best, Baby Girl."

She couldn't deny that she was expecting him to stop over like he used to when they had this type of down time from work, but she guessed it wasn't like this anymore. Ever since that night in the bar three weeks before, Penelope was seeing less and less of Derek. Tammy, who she had met once or twice already, always pulled in as priority now.

Penelope was playing the second choice now, like she had for the past three weeks. She was just as easily picked up, as she was dropped and she was starting to feel the metaphorical bruises from such mistreatment. It was starting to hurt that one minute Derek seemed to be all over her only to get a text or a call and then his focus would change.

She guessed she brought it upon herself. When he wanted to know her, she lapped it up. Hell, she even jumped through loops for him, and when he got the call from Tammy, she was just okay with it. More fool her it seemed to be than anything else. How was Derek supposed to know he was doing wrong when she never told him so?

Maybe she was just greedy, and when he said jump, she asked how high just so she could spend time with him. She lavished any time she could have with him because that meant he was with her and not with anyone else. How selfish was she now? To make it worse, she knew that the longer she kept her mouth shut, the harder it would be to ever tell him how she felt over this. As she watched him walk down her corridor to his new woman, Penelope suddenly felt her anger transcend into tears. The hurt was now becoming rapidly more evident now.

This was not how she had planned life.

Maybe Derek was greedy, but he was pretty sure that when you were nearing forty, with no foreseeable future of settling down and two ladies wanting to spend time with you, and help you enjoy every day, you knew not to think twice. This wasn't his grand plan for life, but he realised he had to live with what he had, and Penelope and Tammy were that right now. He wasn't a man that believed heavily in the seven deadly sins, but right now, he knew what absolute greed was and, uncharacteristically, he actually found he quite liked it.

What he never thought about doing was being greedy enough to take another look at Penelope as she stood in her doorway watching him go.

Maybe then he would see just how his greedy actions were affecting the woman that did see a foreseeable future with him.

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