AN: I own nothing that is familiar.

Chapter 4: Momma Morgan

When they walked into the hospital room everyone was still asleep, the staff had brought in recliners for the rest of the team leaving regular chairs open for Hotch, Rossi, and Fran. Fran was shocked to find Penelope curled around Derek in his hospital bed, and he around her. She looked at Hotch for an explanation but he just shrugged in response. They did not have to wait long for someone to wake up. Derek's pain medicine was wearing off causing him to wake, his movement woke Penelope.

"Hey baby girl." He told her in a husky voice.

"Hey yourself Handsome." She answered cuddling closer to him. "So what woke you up, sugar?"

"Nothing, I just woke up." He lied trying to ignore the pain, not wanting to go back to sleep when he had his baby girl in his arms.

"Yeah right, let me up so I can go get a nurse to get you more medicine."

"You stay were you are Penelope I will get someone." Hotch told her calling attention to their group setting beside the bed.

"Mom! What are you doing here?" Derek asked shocked.

"You did forget me? You were supposed to pick me up at the airport this morning. When you didn't I got a rental car and drove to your house. After a little while I went to get groceries. I was unpacking when these two showed up and brought me here. So when were you going to call and tell me that you were in the hospital?"

As she was talking Penelope almost pulled herself out of Derek's arms but he caught on to what she was doing and held her tight shaking his head at her. "I'm sorry I forgot you mom, but I was in surgery…"

"You what?! I thought you said he was not that bad!" She exclaimed rounding on Rossi and Hotch who had just reentered the room.

"Mom, I am not that bad and if you promise to not yell at anyone I will explain what happened." Derek told her calmly. And this time Penelope outwardly struggled to pull away from him so he turned his attention back to her, "Do you have to pee or something?" When she blushed and shook her head he continued, "Then sit still cause now that I have you I am not letting you go."

Fran's heart swelled hearing Derek's comment knowing that he meant they were together, not just in the bed right now. Hotch and Rossi laughed watching the couple's antics glad that they had talked to the director when they had.

"Before I forget you two have a meeting with the Director Monday when you are back to work first thing in the morning." Rossi told them. "Don't worry Hotch and I already talked to him and I will smooth Strauss over about going over her head. But this way will be better in the end for both of you."

"Thanks guys," Derek told them before turning to his mother and telling her everything that happened from the moment Penelope started yelling at Lynch yesterday morning at work, including his presents and JJ and Emily's interrogation. While he was talking the rest of the team stirred away surprised to find Mrs. Morgan there as none of them had remembered to call and tell her what had happened.

Fran didn't say anything she just stood and gave them both a giant hug, and kissed both of their cheeks. As tears ran down her own.

"Mrs. Morgan…" Penelope started but Fran cut her off.

"Fran or mom now dear you are part of the family."

"Fran, are you okay why are you crying?" Penelope tried again, not knowing if she could ever call anyone mom again.

"I'm perfect my baby figured out how he felt about you without any help, and even though he did not explain to you what he meant I am happy that you two are together now." She explained hugging Penelope again.

Pen whispered something in Derek's ear and he laughed and released her, she made a beeline for the bathroom making everyone else laugh as well. Finally the nurse came in, thankfully a different one then earlier, but she had obviously been told what had happened and sided with the other nurse.

"How is your pain?" she asked in a monotone, glaring at Derek.

"It is maybe about a 6, but could I get something that is not going to put me to sleep. My mom just got here and I have not seen here in months. I don't care if it does not make the pain go completely away just to dull it some would be fine." As he spoke Penelope came back in but hesitated to get back into the bed with him with another nurse there. Knowing her problem Derek took her hand and kissed it making the new nurse's eyes spit fire. Cause the team to wonder what was wrong with the staff in this hospital.

"I would like it if you left now." Fran told the nurse before she could finish her job. "I am a nurse myself if you leave the machine here I will give him some Advil and my baby will be fine. I would not have someone with your attitude tending to my only son. If you have a problem with that call the doctor and I will talk to him, hell call my hospital and find out that I am the head nurse, but what ever you do you will leave this room this instant." The nurse was shocked but left as she was told to, even leaving the blood pressure machine and the thermometer as Fran had ordered her to.

"What is wrong with the staff in this hospital first the bitch telling you that you should not have looked twice at Penelope and now this one who has obviously sided with the first one?" JJ asked no one in particular.

Fran stood and finished checking her son where the nurse had left off. As the chart had not been left she made notes on a scratch pad Rossi so that there would not be a break on the chart when the doctor came back to the room. True to her word she gave Derek a dose and a half of Advil and they group of them sat and talked like it was completely normal for them to be in a hospital with Pen and Derek in the bed cuddling. Hotch at some point joined Emily in her recliner and took a nap while the others talked; Rossi and Reid switched places so that he could nap as well.

It was nearly two hours before the doctor showed up in Derek's room much to Fran's surprise. A doctor in her hospital in the same situation would have gone to that patient right away. She was getting a little fed up with this hospital's treatment of Derek.

"Can you tell me Doctor why your nurses are allowed to act so horribly to a patient and his family and friends? And why after two such instances you took two hours to check on him yourself? This man works at the FBI what if you need him one day you want him to wait another two hours before coming to see what the problem is?" Fran started in on him right away.

"What do you mean the nurses…?" He started only to stop and the looks of shocked horror on the faces of everyone in the room.

"The first one heard me talking about my woman and had to put her two cents in about why would I even date Penelope, apparently I am a 10 and she is a 5 not something I see what so ever Penelope is perfect for me in every way. I asked her to leave and to send in another nurse the next time they needed something. The next one obviously heard what had happened and came in with a bad attitude and when she saw Penelope the glare she sent her could have burned a lesser woman up. My mother a nurse herself sent her away asking for you to be sent in and then mom finished the blood pressure and temperature that the nurse was supposed to." Derek explained

"I promise that I will get the new head nurse on it, the old one retired last week and they do not like the current replacement. Neither do the doctors the nurses are walking all over her. The board is looking for a replacement. Do you have the information I will fill in your son's chart and see about letting him go if you promise to make sure he does not pull his stitches or do any heavy lifting for a few days?" The doctor asked Fran, smiling at her, Derek did not like it. The man was hitting on his mother right in front of him. How did he know that there was no one in her life? Derek growled deep in his chest surprising Penelope then she smacked him and whispered in his ear.

"Just because she is your mother does not mean she is not human, allow her to make her own decisions." The whole room was staring at them strangely causing Derek to look away embarrassed at his reaction.

"Hey mom you are always saying you want to move closer to me, this could be the perfect time. Apply for the job, you are already head nurse back home and this way you could ride those two until they straighten up." Derek said after thinking for a minute of something to say to break the silence he had brought onto them.

Late that night Morgan slowly walked into his home one arm slung over Hotch's shoulders behind his mother and Penelope he watched her walk and his chest rumbled for a second time that night causing Hotch to laugh at him, and whisper.

"Calm down your mother is here and Pen knows the rules no strenuous activities." This made Derek groan and both women turned to make sure he was alright hear this noise. "See now you have them all worried, do you want to have to explain something like that to your mother?"

"Hey, no secrets!" Penelope told them, wanting to know what Hotch had just said and why Derek had groaned.

"I will tell you what he said later now how about you help me get into bed and we cuddle some more." Derek told her earning a look from Hotch, to which he said, "Scouts honor." and he held up three fingers.

"You were never a scout, so there is no honor in that from you." His mother said as she winked at Hotch; completely understand what had just happened to both men's surprise.

"I like your mother you should bring her around more often." Hotch said as he helped get Derek to his spare room which was on the first floor.

"Hey I told her to put in a job application at that hospital didn't I. Des is near by at school only an hour away and Sarah's husband is in line for a promotion that could force them to move to Maryland again not far from here. You would be the only one left in Chicago mom."

"I hear you baby but what about all of our properties and the families that depend on us?"

"They would understand and we can find someone to buy them off you." He looked around for pen before quietly saying, "What if there was a wedding and grandbabies in my near future?"

"Are you serious? You two have not even gone on a real date." Hotch asked as his mother stop dead in her tracks shocked. Taking the opportunity for a restroom break without Penelope or his mother following him in Derek tugged Hotch in that direction.

"Please, after every case I go to her place or I ring her here we have pizza and snack food and watch movies until we fall asleep on the couch. I have not even looked at any woman since Pen was shot, you know that I had stopped going to the bar, it was not because I had somewhere else to be it was because I could not stand seeing her with him. We spend the weekends together sometimes. We have gone out to eat numerous times without the team. She knows what cases affect me the most and I know hers, we know each other like we know the back of our hands. We have practically been dating in the guise of friendship since the day we met." Derek told him, "We flirt all the time and we know what the other is thinking more often then not. Okay so we either could not see how we both felt about the other or did not want to change the dynamics of our friendship by looking any deeper then we had been but now I am looking and I do not want to turn back. I love her and I want her by my side always."

"Brave words for when she is not in ear shot. How are you going to go about things with Penelope? She is way too skittish about relationships and people in general to just jump into marriage and children. Where did she run off to anyway?" Hotch asked him.

"I don't know to get our pillows?" Derek guessed and then answered the rest of Hotch's questions, "I have a plan for making her feel special and completely loved, for letting her know that I only have eyes for her."

Being already in his pajamas from the hospital Hotch helped Derek right into bed after his restroom break. Penelope came in moments later and was startled to see his mother just standing there and staring like someone had just brought her husband back to life.

"Um, Mrs… Fran are you alright?" She asked not sure what had caused this state and why her question caused Hotch and Derek to cough to try and hide a laugh.

"She will be fine princess, why don't you bring our pillows here and snuggle with me?"

"Our pillows, you already have a pillow at my son's house? I thought you had just started dating?" Fran said coming out of her shock as she watch Penelope carefully get into bed in front of Derek so that she would not be touching his stitches.

"Yes mom, Pen has a pillow here. She has spent the night before but not how you are thinking, get your mind out of the gutter. Actually Pen is the only woman besides you, Sarah, and Des to have ever even come here. JJ and Emily have never even been over before today. You girls don't have pillows cause you only visit once every couple of months, Pen and I used to spend nights at each other's places when we were not on a case. We learned long ago that sleeping in each other's arms keeps the nightmares at bay.

It never worked with anyone else for either of us."

His time it was Penelope's turn to be shocked. "No other woman has even been here besides me and your family?" She squeaked.

"Never…" Derek started.

"But what about all the other…"

"First there has been no one since I you were shot, and second they were always just a replacement and I could never bring anyone but the real thing here, to my home." He said kissing her right behind her ear making her shiver, not caring who was in the room with them.

"Derek, not right now. You have guests and the doctor said no strenuous activities." She told him swatting at his straying hand and grinning at him knowing that he wanted her as much as he did, if he was willing to sit there and try to get her to make out with him right in front of Hotch and his own mother.

Knowing Pen would not let things get out of hand Hotch led Fran from the room to allow the new couple some time alone. They needed to reassure one another that they were really together and there would be no more drama with exes. And for Pen to reassure herself that Derek was okay, for Derek to help her get over her guilt about his injury.

"They needed some time," Hotch explained to Fran. "I bet if you cook something they will come out realizing it has been hours since they ate anything."

"Do you think he means what he said about settling down with her?" Fran asked as she started to gather what she needed for the dinner se had planned.

"I am sure he is very serious. The problem is Pen is skittish with love and before he gets her to see that he is truly madly in love with her she may bolt. And I don't mean she'll leave him. She would leave all of us, and we would never be able to find her again. She is scary good with computers if anyone could literally disappear and still live in the same city it would be her."

"You don't think she believes that he loves her?" Fran asked stopping what she was doing to watch his reaction to her question.

"I truly don't know if she will or not. But I can tell you that her subconscious will e screaming for her to run, as it, if not her whole mind, believes that everyone that she loves and loves her back dies or abandons her. Her parents died in a car accident when she was 18 and her brothers started abusing her until they suddenly stopped answering her calls or the door when she would come over. They blamed her, their father and her mother were on their way to see her at Cal-Tech. More recently she has learned that her only younger brother and the only one that is a half-brother had been looking for her since the day she went underground. The kid was 15 and had just lost both his parents it took him a few days to realize his sister was missing and to get the story out of his brothers. She still has not met him face to face and they have been talking online for nearly a year now. Part of that is the last time we had time off was at the beginning of her talks with him."

"And then Kevin who said he loved her was beating her." Fran added when he paused.

"Yes and there is more but I think I have already told you too much for her liking. Try not to look at her in pity she will know instantly that I told you something and I can't have her not trusting me. I only told you so that you could help Derek if he digs himself into a hole with her. She is the glue that olds are team together,."

AN: Let me know what you think!