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Recap

"I guess I'll make plans to tell him. Soon."

"Is there anything I can do, Mama?" Derek said as he brought his hand to her chin and titled her face to look up at his.

"Yes, there is, " Penelope started, trying to blink back the tears. "Can you just keeping holding me?" she said, her voice cracking at the end of her question.

"Yeah, Baby Girl," Derek said as he wiped away a few tears that had slipped down her cheeks. "That I can do."

Penelope nodded and brought her head back down to Derek's chest, as the tears started again. Derek kissed her head, and murmured sweet words in her ear. A while later, he noticed how her breathing had evened out and that she was asleep. He could have easily moved to pick her up and carry her to bed, but he didn't want wake her. Not yet. So, he just tightened his arms around her and settled in as best as he could to sleep.

And two best friends spent the night wrapped in each others embrace.

Derek sat in his office chair, bringing his hand to rub the back of his neck. Yes, falling asleep in a sitting position on Penelope's couch wasn't the best to rest, but he didn't care about his slight discomfort. He was worried about his Baby Girl. And her baby girl? Or was it a baby boy? Derek brought his hand down from his neck as he began to think about that again. He had probably thought about that at least 10 times since the start of the work day. Derek couldn't help it. His thoughts kept drifting to images of a little girl with golden curls and her mother's smile. Or a little boy with brown hair and his mother's nose and laugh. This is where Derek's thoughts pained him though; as much as he loved Penelope and was now excited that she was expecting, it killed him inside that she wasn't pregnant with his child.

"Snap out of it, man," Derek said to himself as he shook his head to clear it. It didn't help, because Derek could hear a voice inside his head, loud and clear.

"Why? You can't hide from me what you and I both know you really want!"

"I know!" Derek said loudly.

"Know what, Handsome?" asked Penelope as she appeared in his doorway. Derek glanced up at her. She was wearing a lavender colored tea-length dress that just did come up above her knee; and paired with a blue quarter-sleeved cardigan and matching heels. Her hair was down in long curls with blue and lavender flowers pinning up one side.

For a moment, Derek didn't say anything. He just looked at her. He knew that pregnant women were said to glow, but seeing Penelope this way, she was positively radiant. Wow he thought. Absolutely beautiful.

"Earth to Derek?" Penelope asked again as she stepped fully into Derek's office, waving her hand in an attempt to get his attention.

"Oh! I'm here, Baby," Derek said finally breaking out of his reverie. He stood up and walked to meet her and pull her into a hug. "You doing okay, today?" he asked as he planted a kiss on her head.

"Yes and no," Penelope said. This caused Derek to pull back and look at her. "It's nothing bad, Honey. Jelly bean and I are fine. Well, I assume we are. I won't know for sure until the doctor's appointment thi—"

"This afternoon, at 3 o'clock," Derek finished for her.

"Exactly. How did you know that, Mister?" Penelope asked as she playfully jabbed a finger into his chest.

"You forget, Sweetness, that we shared our work calendars with each other," Derek said and winked at her.

"Oh yeah," Penelope said smiling as she stepped out of Derek's arms to sit in one of the chairs in front of his desk. Derek moved to perch himself on his desk in front of her.

"Did I hear you say 'Jellybean and I are fine'?" Derek asked, playfully smirking.

"Don't make fun!" Penelope said as she lightly slapped his knee.

"I'm not, Baby Girl. It's cute. But what made you decide to refer to it as 'jellybean'?"

"I'm not sure," Penelope replied, looking down at her stomach for a moment. "It was right after I took the test. I went to look at myself in the mirror. Well, to look at my belly. I started talking to the baby, and it just sort of slipped out," she said, then looked back up to Derek's face.

"Well, I think jellybean is a perfect nickname," Derek said, smiling.

That smile. Penelope could swear sometimes she could get lost in it. Before Kevin, she would allow herself to. Okay; she did while she with Kevin, too.

"Everything else okay, Mama?"

"Hmm? Oh! Yes. Well except the fact that Jellybean is having an effect on my already curvy figure. I have gained two pounds since last week," Penelope said, slightly sad.

"Hey, now," Derek started as he got up off the desk to squat in front of her where she was sitting. "Yes, you're curvy. But you're gorgeous, Penelope. You being pregnant is just going to bring out another side of your beauty," he finished as he picked up one her hands and kissed it.

In that moment, Penelope felt overwhelmed with love for her best friend. But she heard a voice in her head shout "You know you love him more than a friend!" Penelope kicked herself mentally. She knew she shouldn't be feeling this way, especially now with her being pregnant with another man's baby. This lead to only one thought in her head.

He'll never love you the way you want him to now.

"Oh, thanks for saying that, Derek," she replied as she came back from her thoughts, and squeezed his hand. Penelope made a move to get up and Derek stood up straight and put his hands in his pockets.

"So, when are you going to tell Lynch?" Derek asked, trying to keep his voice light.

"I planned to this morning, but he got busy doing research for another team. He texted me and said he would probably drop by my office at around 1:45 today."

"Do you need me around?" Derek asked, trying not seem like he wanted to be intrusive. And he didn't. He just wanted to lookout for his Baby Girl and her Jellybean.

"No, I don't think so. But you're just a phone call away if I do, right my Chocolate Kiss?" asked Penelope, making a kiss sound with her mouth.

That made Derek chuckle. "You better believe it, Sweetheart."

"See ya later, Stud," Penelope said as she reached up to kiss Derek's cheek. She turned and left his office, one hand one her stomach, and smiling the whole way.

But that smile didn't last long because when she got back to her office, who was there waiting outside her door?

Freaking. Kevin. Lynch.

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