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A/N:The third and final chapter... This is for Wordofwyrd... without her this wouldn't have been born!

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"So what did you say your name was again, Red?" Asked the man at the bar again as he tried his hardest to impress Penelope.

She'd cringed as he'd used a nickname only Derek used on her.

Penelope sighed. "Wasting your time, sweet cheeks." She told him and picked up her martini and went back to her table with the team. She slipped into her seat and looked over at the dance floor. She smiled a little.

Derek was getting his thing on and so he should. It was a Friday night out and he was enjoying himself. Something she loved to see. He looked so free and happy, so comfortable and absolutely sensual as the women flew in for a bit of him.

She felt her heart clamp.

It was the same feeling she got every time she saw a woman go for Derek. Pure, utter jealously ran her veins. Yet what did she have to be jealous of? Derek wasn't her man; they'd made no steps to saying anything of such sorts.

Not even in the last 5 months since her break up from Kevin.

Penelope rubbed the back of her neck and looked over at the handsome man propping up the bar. He was watching her – still. She should've been flattered, but he wasn't the first man to show interest. Nor would he be the last. Over the months of living in singleton she'd found men did literally try their hardest for a bit of time with her, but she brushed them off.

Except for when Derek was around. Then she encouraged it, she giggled on cue, smiled appropriately, put her hand on the man's arm or leg, she did everything to be the more sexual being. She was literally being a peacock, showing off her perfectly made attributes, and she was not aiming them at the men vying for her attention.

She was doing it as a display for Derek.

It was as Penelope sat there and watched him that she felt a familiar flutter in her. She was in love with someone, and she could finally see herself getting grey with someone, and living happily ever after.

It was just a shame it was with someone that didn't see it with her.

She downed the rest of her drink. "Excuse me." She told Hotch and JJ as she got an envelope out of her bag and dropped down from her stall and went towards the entrance.

She completely missed Derek watching her every move above the crowd.

Hotch noticed Derek though, and he could profile from his seat what was happening. Both Derek and Penelope were going about showing the other they love one another in an entirely wrong way.

Penelope sucked in a deep breath and looked both ways outside of the bar, she saw an empty bench and went there, she sat down, the skirt of her dress flaring out either side of her.

She looked at the envelope in her hands and saw Derek's writing on the front, crawling out her name in oversized lettering.

She finally opened.

It'd sat in front of her for hours that day, she'd been in refusal to open it and now she had to. She had to know what the hell was so God damn important for her hunk of burning love to write and not say.

It was within the first sentence that she realised what exactly.

Penelope,

I didn't call you Baby Girl that day for nothing. I knew one day you'd open your eyes and see what we can have together. You just needed time to catch up. To wake up and smell the roses and see that, Baby, you've had a man that loves you, the entire you.

I know you're a hopeless romantic and you believe in the old fashion ways of love, but, Sweetness, what's old fashioned about us? We're nothing traditional because we started our own traditions from day one.

We're a married couple without the license as it is. We just need that piece of paper and your surname changed for you and me to be well and truly on our way to our happily ever after.

I'm not going to write those three little words because paper doesn't deserve them.

Until you're ready, I'll be waiting.

Derek

Penelope blinked her eyes, trying her hardest to clear them of tears, trying to remove the clamp that was holding her heart. Her mind reminded her of the men that had tried it on with her, and the women that wanted Derek.

Derek watched Penelope from the door way, he saw her shakily shove the letter into the envelope and then wipe her face.

He'd wait for her.

For now he was going to go back and tease some women. He just needed to wait for the best part of his act to arrive. Penelope was the piece that would complete him and completely annihilate anyone's chances of getting a chance with him.

Penelope stood up, straightened her dress down and turned back to the bar, she went straight through the door and over to her bag. She put the letter in and smiled sweetly at her girls and boss before swivelling her body to the dance floor.

She tracked down Derek; he looked at her instinctively as she charged towards him. She had no idea how it happened but a runway made itself occur for her to get a direct go at him and the moment she was by him she pushed him backwards.

It was her first thing to do. To relieve some of the stress she'd been bubbling away with. She'd had this all wrong, he'd loved her and she'd blanked it.

"Baby..." He didn't get another go as she pushed him again. "Penelope." He said above the music and grabbed her arms. "What the..."

He didn't get a chance to finish, Penelope reached up and kissed his lips, at first scared, timid, reluctant, but it was as the surge of power flew through them both that she decided to give in and went all out.

Derek loosened his grip on her arms and felt them wrap around his neck. He threaded his arms around her, pulling her up comfortably, keeping her close, telling her he wanted more, because he did.

In that moment Derek wanted everything Penelope had, he wanted her to show him every single emotion she felt for him.

Penelope gave her all until air supply began to shorten and she had to part from his perfect lips. She looked up, her breathing racy, her eyes lustful, her arms unrelenting.

"God, I love you so much." She said as though she was saying Good Morning, or drawing a simple breath. "You make me crazy in love without me even knowing it, Handsome."

"You've always known, I've just waited for you to catch up that's all." Derek teased her and dropped in for another kiss, this one not ending. "I love you, Baby Girl." He told her back and smiled. "I'd rather made you hear me say it, then read it when I write it." He told her sincerely. "Well the first time at least."

"Say it again."

"I love you, Penelope Garcia." He told her easily, his voice calm, his grin full of cheek, his eyes showing signs of passion. His entire look could seduce her there and then on that dance floor if he did the right move. "I've wanted you for you too long, and ever since Kevin and you breaking up, I've been waiting for you to just catch up."

"I've caught up." She assured him at last with wicked smile, a glint in her eyes.

"Is that your final decision?"

"It's my only decision." She said and pulled him tighter to her. "I wanna see you old, Hot Stuff, very, very old." Was the last thing Derek coherently heard as he and Penelope got lost in one another's new found existence.

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A/N: Ta da! The end! Hope you liked it! Especially you, Nath! =P

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