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A/N:Prompt: Jay Sean ft Nicki Minaj -2012 (It Ain't The End)
Glad you all felt for Morgan, but he let his Alpha Male come out, he shoulda know his woman would deliver =P
Let's have a little more fun eh?
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Penelope looked down and sucked in a deep breath, closed her eyes and felt Derek take her hand in his. "You don't have to do this, if you're not comfortable, Baby Girl." He told her delicately.
A whip of wind flew around them again and Penelope felt the rush as her hair flew up and she felt a new wave of courage fill her and looked up from her next feat to Derek and smiled.
"I can do this." She optimised.
Derek's features that were gentled with concern morphed and he broke into a large playful grin. "If you decide not to, I won't mind." He then nudged her. "Plus, meeting my mom and sisters has to be a scarier prospect."
Penelope looked away from where her attention had gone back to the drop and looked at him, her eyes wide. "Yeah that's scarier." Penelope told him, and he laughed. "What if they don't like me?"
"Then they're crazy." He told her and kissed her softly. "Right let's do this."
"Then it's my turn to kick start the next dare." Derek shot her a look, he'd been playing up the way she'd ended the self defence class, he'd admittedly milked it, got some extra loving from his woman. "I need to punish you for making me feel worse the other day."
"Let's say, if you survive this, then you can do whatever you like to me."
"Oh!" She said perking up, "Let's do it then."
She pushed passed him and he called out to her, "Just remember, we're going to the beach later so you know what that means." He teased her as he then followed her.
"Number eight." Penelope muttered as she stopped in her place on the bridge. "Great."
"It'll be fun." Derek near enough purred as he came up behind her. "Wanna jump at the same time?"
"Yeah I do." Penelope told him hopeful, that he wasn't joking, that he wasn't going to let her jump first and he watch.
"Next two!" They heard, they looked at each other and Derek took her hand and lead her to the ledge.
"Time to bungee, Baby."
Penelope nodded, laughed shakily and smiled warily, the nerves multiplying and taking over as she felt the bungee ropes added to her side.
Derek kept his eyes on her, he knew what she was doing was rocking her world completely, they'd realised that this one was his input to their list, and something that Penelope wanted to do, to get over her fear of heights and they both realised that number 10 on the list was something Penelope had chosen, it was something that unnerved Derek, gaining public attention when it wasn't warranted completely.
Penelope jumped back to the realisation as the helper spoke up. "On 3, 2, 1..."
Derek went to jump, but Penelope froze.
"I can't." Penelope mumbled, stopping Derek and he stepped away and went to her side. "I'm sorry I can't."
"You just need a little bit of encouragement, Goddess." Derek looked around, and then walked over to the man that had put the ropes on him. "Is there any way we can do it together?"
"You are." He stated, unimpressed.
Derek near enough growled, "Look, she's nervous, I wanna do it holding hands, or with her?"
The man looked over at Penelope and saw her assessing this all. "Right, yeah, we can let you to go together that's fine."
Derek went and got Penelope and saw her face lighten at the new news. She'd never looked so pleased to be told that type of news in her life. He took her hand and allowed her to feed off of him and then they were right on the edge again, not apart, but together.
"Love you, Princess." She heard Derek whisper in her ear as he and her took the leap of faith and fell through the air.
Derek kept his sole attention on Penelope but finally relaxed and joined the fun as she yelled out in pleasure at the sudden adrenaline rush that filled her. Derek laughed out as their bouncing began to slow down.
"Thank you!" Penelope near enough beamed at him. "Nothing to worry about!" She yelled over the whooshes of wind as they finally came to a slower bounce.
Looking at that smile he knew full well that that was now a life lesson she would take, if she could combat that, she could take on the world and beat them all.
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Derek believed the tables had well and truly turned as he sat in the park listening to the rules of the game he and Penelope were about to embark on playing. She kept shooting him a coy smile, he could see she was apprehensive but this was her turn to get Derek out of whatever little bubble he was in and grab life from the horns and have some fun.
"All we do is simply call out that simple two syllable word and we're done." She told him calmly, a smirk on her lips.
He had to hand it to her, when she had her mind set, Penelope was one of the most difficult people to budge, and that was something he loved, she was a strong, independent, courageous woman, she was his exact, she matched him in ways no other woman could.
She sat back, resting on her hands, her legs stretched out in front of her, her head tipped up to the sun, Derek's full attention on her.
"Are we really doing this?"
Penelope reached up with one hand and pulled her sunglasses down. "Yes." She said replacing them. "Penis," She near enough whispered.
Moments of silence happened before she looked at him.
"Penis," He said a bit louder and Penelope laughed as a result. "Why are we doing this?" He moaned as no one paid any attention.
"Penis," She said and turned to him. "It's fun, and you know it." She listened as Derek huffed, and she smirked. "You know it's all fun and games with me, Handsome, you know it's part of the package."
"Oh yeah I know it," he told her as he sat and watched her, she was so casual. He sat back, mimicking her comfortable position, "Penis." He shouted a little louder.
Penelope giggled, making Derek laugh, he was finally relaxing. Penelope took her sunglasses off, looking at him as they continued to play.
"Penis!" She yelled really loudly for almost the 20th time, it was almost a scream, and Derek pushed her down, his hand on her lips, her giggling under his clasp.
Quite a lot of the park now watching the two of them as they messed around.
"I think we're done playing." He told her as he removed her hand, and all she received was a hot, heated kiss. Now she did nothing to fight as she lay pinned between him and the cool grass.
"Mmm," Penelope made the noise as the kiss came to an end, "is someone's penis playing up more than others?"
Derek laughed, "and you call me the incorrigible one." He said as he climbed off her, stood and pulled her up. "I have a surprise to end this date."
"Oh we have a date?" She joked with him.
"Everyday's a date, Sweetness." He mused as they walked out of the park, hand in hand.
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Penelope looked up and down the beach. It was empty, but it wasn't busy, it was almost deserted, but she knew the moment she began this number of the list then she'd find all the vying attention in the world.
Derek sat topless, and Penelope could see the women on the beach staring, prying a look at the perfection and she felt the unconscious feeling encase her. She knew it was a lie whatever, he loved her, had made loved to her multiple times as the months ebbed in, as the perfection of their new state began to settle.
Penelope wasn't worried about Derek judging her, he loved her, all of her, she was scared of what the other women would say how they'd look at her and say she was so unsuitable for Derek. How a man like him deserved a stick thin, wannabe model, perfect woman.
Derek leant in, pulling at the hem of her dress, pulling it up inch by inch; remember one thing, "I love you, not them." He whispered to her and she allowed her shoulders to slump from their tense position. "Being sexy is a state of mind, what they think is sexy isn't what I think is sexy. Now what I think is sexy is under this piece of clothing."
He spoke to her lowly, seductively, truthfully, his fingers running up and down her thigh. "I might be physically what they want, but the physical side isn't gonna last, you might wake up one morning and see a wrinkle, women like them wouldn't let that slide, they'd curse my arse out on the side the moment I became imperfect."
"It's not all about looks." She told him, as she looked down into his eyes.
"Exactly, which is why we work so well, we love each other for more than the looks."
Penelope smiled and soon found herself on her feet, the dress being pulled off and running down the water with just her bra and knickers on.
"C'mon, Baby Girl." Derek yelled as he ran in full pelt.
Penelope ran in, she knew walking in wouldn't help. "God that's cold!" She yelled as the water hit her, but she kept going, finding it was warmer the more she went in.
The moment Derek got a hold of her he near enough sparked to life a bit more. "Now we strip." He said as their compromise hit full swing. He'd allowed her to come in, in her underwear, if she promised to remove them once she was in.
"Do the honours," she purred as the people on the beach moved on, or just disappeared from her conscious thinking.
"Would be my pleasure," Derek said as he pulled her humanly close and unclasped her bra, he pulled it off and threw it to shore, he then allowed Penelope to take his boxers off, and then he took her panties off.
She winked and through them to sea front with her bra.
"Perfect." He whispered as they accomplished yet another number on the list. "We might have made that list for things to do before the world ends in 2012, but I think we'll have it done by summer 2011."
"You think? Even down to the baby?"
Derek had a moment of fear, he wanted to be a father, but only now that Penelope was concerned. "Even down to the baby," he concluded and pulled his wife under water, kissing her as they went.
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"Do you ever find yourself regretting that night?" Penelope asked as they lay under the stars, blankets on them, fire burning away.
"Never, I think it did what we've been hiding from for too long." Derek confirmed and pulled her closer after feeling the goose bumps on her arms.
"I don't think I've ever been this happy, well not since my parents died that is." Penelope confessed emotionally, her eyes at watered at the sheer truth to that statement. "I've never felt this... this..." She lay there for a moment, trying to place her finger on the correct word. "This complete."
Derek smiled, "I think we both must do that for one another, I really wished I could meet your parents, P."
"I wish they could meet you, more than anything." She said as her hand clenched in a fist and then sat flat out on his chest. "That's the only bit of my life I hate. I couldn't have my mom fly in and look after me when I was shot, and she couldn't just come and visit for a holiday and I couldn't just go to her when I got the chance, and it hurts, you know?"
"Yeah, I know." Derek sympathised, "my dad would love you so much." He told her as and ran his hand up her back. "You would've been perfect against his personality."
Penelope laughed.
"I actually think you'll give my mom a run for her money considering there are some bits of you that are so alike."
"I'll guess we'll find out soon." Penelope said as she sat up a little. "Take me home, hubby; I'm freezing my ass off out here."
"Why didn't you say?"
"Because we are supposed to be sleeping under the stars but that sea breeze is gonna chop my little feet off sooner rather than later."
"Let's get you home then, Baby." He said as he put his jacket on her instead of him.
"Once we're there we can set up camp in the garden and continue this." She told him sternly, "I wanna see all your morning glory, in the morning glory, just kept warmer."
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A/N: That's like four in one chapter... woo! =)
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