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Penelope was sitting in her office when the next letter came addressed to her. She smiled at the mailman who by now, was delivering a different letter to her daily. Talking to Derek through the letters..felt so natural and so right.
The same seemed to be going with Derek too. Every letter he received from Pen, it seemed like his day lit up a bit with the way she wrote her words.
As for now, Pen slowly opened the letter, trying to savor every second of opening it for the first time.
Red Delicious,
I still miss you like crazy. I miss your flirty phone calls, your genius with computers. I even miss that red hair of yours Baby Girl.
I guess what I'm trying to say is I miss being with you. The good news is that my contract ends in 6 months. Then I'll be able to tell you where I am.
You'd love it here. It'd be so familiar to you here. You've seen the streets and even what the horizon looks like where I am.
You don't know how bad I want to tell you where I am. I'm going to start giving you hints Pen. I want you to come find me. I know with those computers and all that genius inside your head you'll find me.
C'mon Pen. You've been here before. More than a thousand times I'll bet.
Derek.
Pen stopped twirling the fluffy pencil in her hand as she reread the letter. A place that she'd been more than a thousand times? That made no sense. Unless he was still in Virginia. But she knew that was impossible. There were no more openings in law enforcement when Derek left.
He had to be in the states though. He wouldn't want her to go after him in another country or anywhere too far away from Quantico.
She got up from her computer chair to look at the map on the back wall of her office.
"Oh Derek Morgan." she said to just herself. "Where in this world are you?"
Across the country in California, Derek was working on a new case, and wondering if Pen had got his letter. He was desperate to call her but he knew that was against the rules. No phone calls. It was written in fine ink in the contract he had signed.
Going undercover seemed like a good idea then. He'd still be a 'hero' in some ways. He wouldn't have to go out and look at dead bodies anymore. No more gruesome crime scene photos.
No more Penelope Garcia. He hadn't looked at that side of the equation. If he gave up his FBI job he gave up Pen. That had to be the biggest mistake of his life.
He glanced around the small office of his and his eyes fell upon one of the many pictures of him and Pen. They had been walking his dog Clooney.
*FLASHBACK*
Derek and Pen were walking through the park hand in hand. For the people who passed them, they assumed they were a couple.
Derek was walking his dog Clooney, who trotted ahead of them looking at all of the dogs in the park.
"He's just like you Hot Stuff." Pen kidded. "Always on the prowl."
"I am not ALWAYS on the prowl."
"Have you ever seen yourself in bars? I bet you look at least 50 women in there."
"Oh and your prefect Garcia?"
"Yes I am. Thank you for noticing."
"Need I remind you the time when you called me a cat?"
She giggled. "Okay you win. But if you were a cat you'd be a tabbycat for sure."
He gave her a look and she burst out laughing. "And what would you be Red Delicious? A Persian cat?"
She playfully smacked his arm. "You think my cat form would be one of those ugly things? 'Fraid not. I'm more of a calico."
They had reached the end of the trail then and were standing quietly for a moment looking up at all of the trees that made up Quantico Park.
"Hey Baby Girl, you know I kinda love you right?"
She smiled at him. "I kinda love you too Derek Morgan."
He smiled back, not making a clarification of what he had meant by love. Where had 'kinda' even came from? He didn't kinda love her. He just..loved her.
*PRESENT*
He was really regretting not making that clarification now. How would his life be different now if he had? He glanced outside the small window of his office and whispered to himself:
"Oh Baby Girl. If you had any idea how much I really do love you."
Back in Virginia, Penelope was still studying the map in front of her. Where had she been more than a thousand times? Then it hit her like a wall of bricks.
She knew exactly where he was.
Ah, a cliffhanger! Has Pen found Derek now..or has she? Review me!
