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A/N: World Cup yesterday was England vs. USA so I thought it kinder fitting to incorporate it! More MG than football though!

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Chapter Four -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Penelope was lounged out on her couch, Derek was in the bathroom, she had a beer in her hand and the play up to the first American game in this year's World Cup.

"Come on hot stuff! England and America won't wait forever." She called over the back of her couch and waited.

"I'm coming, I'm coming." Derek said as he did the zipper on his jeans up.

"Why not leave them open hot stuff?" She teased him. "We could create some penalty time of our own."

"You woman can be dead dangerous when you wanna be."

"Mood's gotta be right actually." She told him with a matter of fact tone of voice and looked at him with a sideward's glance as he sat silently laughing at her. "What?" She asked him and he shrugged. "I've got many a good mornings to make up for."

"One day Penelope and you might actually do that." Derek told her and leant forward and grabbed his beer before taking a long drag of it.

"Hmm one day." She told him quietly and set to watching the game. She didn't care much for it. She wasn't being a patriot. She was doing it to spend some time with Derek because now she felt some truths needed to be shared. He needed to know. She needed to know. But letting it out and keeping it in were to adverse actions. All she needed was the right time.

Come halftime Penelope hadn't realised how stuck in her head she'd become. She was just staring at the lip of her beer bottle, mulling over everything that had led her here. "Hey gorgeous, come back to planet Earth." Derek's voice broke her reverie and she looked up a little like a deer caught in headlights. "No need to be scared, you were just too far away." He teased her with a grin and Penelope felt the familiar pull on her heart strings. If she could, she'd love to capture that smile and keep it forever.

"Sorry, guess my mind is dangerous some times."

"Don't I know it?" He said and felt like he was treading eggshells. "Baby, if I asked you something would you be honest with me?"

"Course hot stuff." She said as her weird funk began to disappear.

"Did you just get lonely without Kevin and come back to me?" Derek asked her and she felt her foundations shake some. "I don't mean that horribly, God it sounded it. I love having you back but it just seems a coincidence that he went and you were back."

"I guess that's one of the reasons." She told him and looked down before looking up. "But I'd been missing you for months in that relationship. It was time for an end."

"What made it end?"

Penelope bit her lip at that but sucked in a breath. "Can I say artistic differences here?" She joked with him and he smiled a little uneasy. "I just had my eyes opened to a lot of things Derek that's all. Kevin wasn't the man for me."

"And it's been nearly what 8, 9 months, you gonna get back out there and look? You deserve someone."

"I've got my eye on someone." That peaked his interest some and she had to giggle. "Jeez, anymore obvious Morgan?" She asked him and he shrugged.

"Well, who is he?"

"Let's not jinx it eh? It's a working progress but we'll see where it goes. If it goes anywhere."

"Well I'm sure as hell that if you're the driving force behind it you'll get what you want." He told her and put his hand to her chin so she looked at him. "You go and wow him eh?"

"I'll try to." She said and just watched as he winked at her and looked up at the telly. "Better get ready for the second half. Order in?" She asked him.

"Sure thing sweet thing." He said and grabbed another beer as he watched what was going on, on the screen. Penelope grabbed the menu of their favourite takeout and watched him as he just relaxed. Her urge to get him wasn't weakened, more dampened. He seemed interested rather than jealous when she told him there was someone she was after. He didn't even push it. She wondered if he knew it was him or if he was just genuinely allowing her breathing space to get what she wanted. She didn't care either way; they'd have positive effects on her.

It'd been something like 9 months, 3 weeks, 2 days since the whole Kevin break up and sometimes that night either spurred her on or dismantled her entire pursuit. Everything happened for a reason. A simple saying that had built her life. She'd thought it when she was shot, God knows why being shot should be something that would have good reason but it did. It shaped her more. The Alaska case was another thing. It'd taken a part of her but with that gone she gained something new. Ordering she looked at Derek more. He was a total opposite to Kevin. Lean. Built. Stoic. Confident. Drop Dead Gorgeous. Her type of man was mouth watering.

She put the phone down and went to the bathroom and then took her seat on the couch, this time Derek pulled her close to him, and kept his arm around her.

"Mind if I crash here tonight?"

"Sure thing Sugar. Mi casa es su casa." She told him and he laughed heartily.

"I still need to find out what the hell that meant what you told me all those months ago."

"Ahh you mean Te deseo mi amor. Me vuelves loco." Again his laugh rang out. "Let's up the ante a bit."

"Oh yeah?"

"Yeah." She told him smoothly and she smirked. "Te Amo mi rey. Tu eres muy sexy." She told him in her best Spanish she could muster.

"My baby's been learning!"

"I just picked it up." She lied jokingly and laughed. "I thought I'd give another language ago."

"It's working well mamma." He told her and kissed the top of her hand and silence settled in as the game began to play. Penelope sorted everything, she wasn't as into the ball game as he was so she didn't mind getting up to get more drinks and sort dinner out. She grabbed the chopsticks and the boxes and went over to him. "Thanks baby girl." He said and took some of the boxes and put them down on the coffee table. "We've definitely got us a fattening feast."

"Worthwhile though eh?" She asked him and he nodded as he sorted his chopsticks. "You grilled me earlier handsome. Now's my turn."

"Uh oh, that doesn't sound good. Sounds almost ominous." He teased.

"I can make it so." She teased back at him and stilled herself. "Seeing as my love life's not worth publishing, what's yours like? Got anyone on the go?"

"Well there's someone." Penelope froze completely then.

"Oh yeah?" She covered up impressively considering her insides were jumping around crazily. "Care to share?"

"You'll know soon enough goddess." He told her and winked and took a mouthful of noodles.

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Chapter Four-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

A/N: First bit in Spanish: "I desire you my love. You drive me crazy" again and then "I love you my king. You are very sexy."