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-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Everyone Loves Derek Morgan -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Derek couldn't explain the way in which life had become.
Thinking of the last time he sat here, in the park, in the darkening night, he was asking for love, he was seeking guidance to fulfilling his heart and now ironically he had an unmeasured amount of love coming from an unmeasured amount of sources.
"Is this what I get?" Derek asked as he looked up at the night sky. "I get no love, then I get too much? How is that fair?"
He knew his questions were futile and would go unanswered, but he had to try and ask and seek some further guidance before he truly lost his mind and he had to trust whatever faith he had left in him to see him through this.
Derek was only male, and having women throwing themselves over him was always the ego boost he needed. If he needed one! Yet, the more he got, the more he was satisfied, especially when he had his baby girl around as well. The attention was breathtaking in quantity and bizarre enough to not tell his mother.
How would you explain to someone that the entire town you lived in was literally fleeting to be at your feet and lavish you with attention without feeling like a crazy man?
He had heard insanity, had watched it play its evil games and he refused to play into its palm by declaring his own insecurities and concerns over what was gripping the town. It definitely wasn't his imagination, and it certainly wasn't something in water because the team were still acting normal towards him, thankfully.
If there was one thing that was taming his sanity, it was Penelope. Even in amongst this chaotic mess, she was there to offer him the slap around the head when he got a little in over his head with the attention – the good and the bad – and she was the one that wasn't irritatingly pouring herself over him.
That was why he loved her. She didn't need to do tricks and over do the enthusiasm to show him what he wanted in a woman, but she was detaching from their relationship the more the days past and even Derek wasn't blind to when a girl was into him.
"Why couldn't you have just made it her?" He asked as he leaned forward and ran his hands over his head in frustration.
He was angry at himself for not being able to win his own heart and he was angry at his life for waiting too long to realise who he wanted and he had lost. He was just being swallowed whole by the attention and at a part of him told him to enjoy it. He had already lost, so he could either be miserable, or he could lap up the women that came in the bundle and be happy for even a minor part of his life.
Just as he was getting inundated with his thoughts, his phone buzzed once more in his pocket and he was quick to grab it and read the text he had just received. Once again, his God given solace made an entrance into his life and he was quick off the mark to take it - Come over for a hiatus from reality, Stud? BG xx
With that, Derek took off for his car so that he couldn't be caught by any vying attention. He just wanted to see Penelope.
The one and only un-wanting citizen to walk Quantico.
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Everyone Loves Derek Morgan -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
It was like everything come to head that Wednesday morning. After hiding away with Derek on the Monday, and again on the Tuesday, ignoring the feeling within her, Wednesday seemed to take everything to a whole new level.
Everyone was smothering Derek and for the most part every time one of the gorgeous girls touched him, he looked like he enjoyed more and more.
After years of being able to keep a tight lid on her emotions, Penelope now was bombarded with influxes of negative emotions and heartbreaking realities. In the quick succession of a grand total of five days, Derek Morgan's long line of suitors had finally taken her protected heart and trample on it – and she was still pretty sure one of the women had left their red soled, especially high Louboutin heels in it in their stampede.
She was in the thick of it all, being pushed further and further away and her thoughts were clouding her vision as she felt a rush of so many emotions. Some things in life were not meant to be fair, she believe that, and some things happened for a reason, she believed that too. She understood her parents had to die to give her this life. She understood that she was shot to make her value her life.
But this, she had no idea why this shattering truth had to happen this way.
The ultimate betrayal she felt as Emily coursed her hand down Derek's chest made her feel sick. Penelope couldn't believe that her friend, one of her most trusted best friends, was doing this to her. The pain was beyond anything she had felt before. Then, to add even more insult, JJ crashed and joined the group and became possessive.
It struck Penelope heavily that this had to bit some nightmare, that this warped sense of reality was no longer anything other than a dream gone wrong. Maybe she had fallen over and the past couple of days had been part of the unconscious state. Maybe she was ill. Maybe she had died and gone to hell.
No way, this was the cold hearted truth of reality.
Even more tortuous was the fact that she stood watching like this was some car crash happening before her eyes. However damaging and horrific it was, she couldn't tear her eyes away from watching it and all she was doing was breaking her God damn heart in the process.
Penelope watched as everyone lavished Derek in attention once again and she felt the familiar cramp in her heart. She was never going to win this. Not when Derek had so many suitors now. Hell, she barely stood a chance before, but now? Now there was no hope in hell he would ever look at her and realise she loved him.
And maybe she needed this to show her that she needed to move on to get the happily ever after that she deserved. She needed the cold hearted wake up call to push her to move on. She knew the pain wasn't going to last forever, but right now it was all she could feel and she knew that it wasn't going to be an overnight job to get over the actual degree of pain that was pulsating through her.
Wiping her eyes, she knew that she had realised long ago how this world worked. The girl never got the guy and fairytales never really came true for the geeks. She had to deal with that fact and count her losses before they began to multiply. She knew the moral of her life story and she would live with it.
After all, everyone loved Derek Morgan.
Looking down at herself, Penelope knew this was the moment she realised she had lost. Looking like she did, with the patterns and colour to hide her insecurities, no one was ever going to want that. Not when there was JJ and Emily types – tall, slender, beautiful.
Wiping the tears away, Penelope took a step away from the crowd. It wasn't like anyone noticed her anyway. She watched Derek lavish the attention, even though half of it was male, and she backed away all the more. She couldn't be in this competition when the race for life was so painstakingly real too. If she couldn't have Derek Morgan then so be it, but she was not about to share him.
Even with that ounce of truth settling in her, she felt like she was losing such a detrimental part of her.
"Alright, alright, ladies," Derek voice boomed out as he tried to halt the mass, "And gentlemen," He added on in a freaked out tone. "I don't know what the hell is happening, but does someone want to explain what the last few days are about?"
"We love you, Derek Morgan," They all chanted at him.
Penelope felt that hit to her heart hard and her chest even radiated the pain. Why was she not a clone like they all were? What spell were they under that she wasn't? Maybe she didn't love Derek Morgan like she thought, or maybe her realisation was that everyone else was going to get a piece of him before she was even enticed with a slice of heaven.
Ducking out, Penelope fled why she was still somewhat ahead of her tears.
Scanning the crowd, Derek realised that Penelope wasn't in amongst all of the people like she originally was and he felt alarmed at her absence. He looked around the room and spotted her and his smile disappeared. It was as he watched Penelope leave, her posture broken and her head hanging low he realised that it was her.
The woman that always noticed him, cared for him, supported him and loved him - wholeheartedly.
It had been Penelope all along, but it wasn't until she gave up and admitted defeat to the masses that he realised she was the one that had truly given her heart to him. She was the one that had always loved him.
Everyone else was a test and he had failed.
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Everyone Loves Derek Morgan -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-