Her Kind Of Hero
Chapter 7
Don't Look Down
AN: Thanks for the reviews I own nothing. Hope you all enjoy.
Ryan was standing outside of Derek's house, he was watching him. He knew that Nick was going to call; he'd seen him when he'd escaped. He smiled to himself, "Payback time, Agent Morgan," he said before slipping the sliding glass door open. "You should have an alarm," he said out loud before he heard something growling at him. Derek Morgan did have an alarm, the best one you could have.
Clooney was standing on the other side of the door growling, he knew this man shouldn't be here. He started barking and growling louder, he was giving them a heads up dog style that something was wrong.
Derek was getting ready to go check on Penelope; he was debating telling her about Ryan's escape. He knew he had to but he didn't want her to be even more scared then she already was and he knew that she was putting on the brave face already, most of it had come down, and he could finally see some of the pain and hurt she'd been guarding.
He stopped hearing Clooney, he'd never once in a year heard his dog growl, the only time he had was that time that Ryan had come over, he'd about never let him in the house. Derek looked up and the door was wide open, but nobody was there. "Clooney, what's wrong?" he asked and Clooney barked at him before turning back to the door.
Derek walked over, but Clooney wouldn't let him past, the dog was not budging. He wasn't going to let Derek walk out the door and into danger. "Damn dog," Ryan muttered before he walked into the house.
"Clooney go guard her," Derek said, and as if the dog knew what his master meant he took off towards the bedroom to where Penelope was at, "You made a stupid mistake coming here, you're not walking out of here," he replied looking at Ryan.
"I was going to say the same thing about you and her," Ryan said aiming the gun he'd gotten from the guard that he'd knocked out, at Derek.
Derek didn't give him a chance to pull the trigger, he took off running at him, and when Ryan did pull the trigger, Derek tackled him to the ground, the bullet had missed him going past him, he heard it hit something behind him, but right now he didn't care what it hit long as it wasn't him or somebody he loved.
Ryan dropped the gun when Derek took them through the glass door behind him. Derek didn't give him a chance to recover much, he started punching him, but Ryan was still trying to fight him, he blocked on the punches and brought his knee up connecting with Derek's ribs. It knocked him off balance just enough and Ryan took it to his advantage her used his weight and flipped Derek behind him before scrambling to his feet.
"You think that I'm going to let you have the left over's?" Ryan asked, "She's trash and you know it," Ryan said.
"No she's not," Derek yelled at him, "You just don't know how to be a man, you don't know how to love," he replied, he was baiting Ryan on he wanted to kick his ass, wanted to beat him with in a inch of his life for what he'd done to his baby girl.
"Oh and you think you can keep her satisfied?" Ryan asked, "She wants at least five kids, I mean you really want that many brats around you, I had her on a leash, and if you hadn't came along and told her otherwise I wouldn't have had to snap on her," he said.
"You bastard," Derek said, "How dare you do that to her," he said.
"I'm not the bastard here, I treat her like she should been, there is no happy ever after, you get what you deserve, and she lived for so long underground, she knew how it went, you get it spades and you enjoy in," Ryan said with evil smile.
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Derek got tired of hearing him talk about how he'd treated Pen, he knew how he'd treated her, she was broken because of it, didn't think she deserved happiness. He didn't have his gun on him otherwise he'd shot him here and call it self defense; his gun was in the safe in the bedroom however, and he wasn't taking this fight in there, he wasn't letting Ryan near, Penelope again.
Ryan looked at Derek, "What no come back, it's because you know she's a bitch, and needs to be kept under control," he said, it was the last thing he got out before he was grabbed by Derek and slammed against the railing on the back porch.
"You speak about her like that again and I'll kill you here and now," Derek said, angry was not what he was, he was not pissed off either, he was enraged, "She does not deserve to be held under control, she deserves to be treated like a Goddess, because she is one, you bastard," Derek yelled at him wrapping his hands around Ryan's throat.
Ryan grabbed hold of Derek bringing his leg up using his knee against Derek's side till his grip loosened; soon as it did Ryan spun them around so that Derek was against the railing. Ryan grabbed his shirt using it to slam in against the railing.
The railing wasn't that strong, Nick had been in the process of redoing it, but he hadn't started yet and by the third time Ryan slammed Derek against it one of the rails cracked in half. Derek was trying his best to get Ryan off him, if he slammed him against it again he was going to go over it and there was a good ten foot drop off.
Nick pulled up in his truck it had taken him all of fifteen minutes with the siren he had in his truck and going eighty down the road to get here. He'd taken the quickest route here, and he barely got the truck in park before he jumped out taking off to the house.
Derek felt the railing snap behind him and he waited for the fall, he could feel it coming, but then he heard something, six shots, and Ryan jerked as the bullets went in him before he finally let go of his grip, but Derek wasn't ready for the younger mans weight and the railing completely collapsed behind him and prepared for the landing, he knew it was going to hurt, but it never came.
Ryan had about gone over the railing, but he'd fallen straight on Derek. Derek was hanging upside down off the porch with Ryan's dead weight on his feet, which was the only thing holding him up at the moment. "PENELEOPE," Derek screamed, he knew that Ryan was dead, he didn't feel the man breathing at all, the bullets must have gone straight in his heart or head, either way he was dead.
Derek could feel himself slipping, he couldn't move, if he did he was going to fall, and he'd either kill himself or do some horrible damage. He closed his eyes, and he waited for the fall, there was no way around this, but he couldn't stop thinking about who had pulled the trigger, who had gotten there first Nick or Hotch, who had just pulled the trigger.
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Nick heard the gun shots, he had just gotten to the door trying to get it open, Derek had locked it and his keys were in his truck, he kicked it open and took off running through the living room, and the kitchen, he stopped dead in his tracks when he saw Penelope standing at the sliding glass door, which had its glass all around where Penelope was standing, and she was holding a gun in her hand and he could hear her crying, Clooney was standing beside her trying his best to keep her from getting near the glass, it was like he knew it was dangerous, but Penelope was frozen in place, she wasn't going anywhere.
"PENELOPE," Nick heard next, it was Derek, where was he at? Nick asked himself before he went to Pen, he took the gun from her.
"Where's Derek at?" he asked her.
"He was killing him," Pen sobbed, "He was killing him," she said again.
"Penelope, look at me," Nick said, she was in shock at what she'd just done, "Listen," he said before Derek screamed out again for her, "Where is he at?"
"Ryan was slamming him against the railing, I saw it crack, I shot at him, I don't know where Derek's at, he was under him, then he was gone," she cried.
"Listen to me go over there and stand," Nick said noticing she had no shoes on, now he understood why Clooney wasn't letting her out the door, he'd been protecting her in the only way he could as a dog, besides attacking Ryan. Nick had no doubt that Clooney would have done it, he knew that even though Clooney seemed like an over grown puppy that might lick somebody that came in the door, he knew that if the dog sensed that somebody was bad news he wouldn't let then near the ones he loved less they said otherwise.
Nick looked over at the deck, and after he got Penelope to the couch he told Clooney to stay with her and he took off back to the deck, "Derek," he called out.
"Down here, just don't move him," Derek said, "less you got me first," he replied.
Nick looked down, there was blood everywhere around him, and was in some of it, but he didn't care, he was trying to find a way to get Derek up, if he moved Ryan at all without having a hold of Derek at all, he was going to fall to the ground, and probably to his death.
"Give me a minute," Nick said, he reached over Ryan's dead body grabbing Derek's legs, but he had no way of moving Ryan to get him off him, "Damn it," he said, he couldn't get Pen to help him, she was traumatized enough for one life time to ask to do this, "Can you reach the railing?" he asked.
"If I could I would have pulled myself up already," Derek said, but he tried again, but he was too far down, "Don't you fucking drop me either," he added, "Or I'll kick your ass when I can walk again," he added.
"What you can't walk?" Nick asked worried.
"If you drop me I think paralyzed is the word for it," Derek said, "But for now yeah I can walk," he said.
"Just hang on okay, I'm trying to think," Nick said, he didn't want to kill Derek or let him drop, but Ryan was dead weight and if he moved him at all, Derek was going, he was farther over than he was on the deck.
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Hotch had taken off soon as he'd gotten the phone call that Ryan had escaped. He'd known where the man would go, and he knew what could happen. He gotten Mark to come with him just in case, and they were pulling up to Derek's place now.
"That's Nick's truck," Hotch said seeing the blue Chevy truck with the door wide open still, "He's here somewhere," he said before they got out, but they made a run to the house hoping they wouldn't find the worst possible way this could have gone.
"Nick," Mark called out as they reached the front door which was now on the ground in the living room somebody had kicked it so hard that it had split in half and was half on the floor and half still on the hinges.
"He's out there," Penelope said, she was sitting on the couch, she was still crying but she'd finally started to form more words than before when Nick had found her.
Hotch went over to her, but Clooney wasn't letting him near, "I'm not going to hurt her," Hotch said, but Clooney growled at him standing up again, he'd been laying at her feet, but now he was in full guard dog mode again.
"Where's Derek, I can't find him," Penelope said looking up at Hotch and Mark, "I heard him, but I couldn't find him, and I saw Ryan, I saw Ryan choking him and I went back and got the gun, the combination is my birthday," she said, "But I can't find Derek, and I'm scared, I can't find Derek," she said with tears falling even harder now, "I can't find Derek," she said.
"Where's Nick at, we'll find Derek, but we need Nick to help," Mark said.
"The deck," Pen said.
Mark went towards the kitchen, he'd been here before so he knew where the deck was, and how to get there. "Nick," he said seeing the man outside, he went over to him almost sliding in the amount of blood that was covering the deck now.
"I need your help, I can't move Ryan and get Derek at the same time," Nick said, "He's slipping with all of the blood, and he's about to fall," Nick said, he was starting to panic himself, he couldn't get Derek, and he knew if the blood got closer to the edge then Derek was going to be loose enough from Ryan's weight and he was done for.
"HOTCH," Mark yelled out, "GET OUT HERE," Mark added to that yell, they had to get Derek and now.
"What?" Hotch asked coming from the kitchen; he stopped before he got to them though, "Shit," he said seeing all the blood, "Is Derek okay?"
"If we don't get him out from under Ryan he's going to fall when the blood gets farther up, Ryan's holding him down so he is safe, but the blood is slick, and when it reaches his feet he's going," Mark said.
Hotch went over and since Mark and Nick were little stronger than he was they took hold of Derek's legs holding him while Hotch pulled Ryan back. Derek yelled out when Ryan's weight was off him, he thought he was falling because Nick and Mark slid some trying to hold him, but the blood was slick, and it had them crash into the railing, but they didn't let go of Derek.
"We got you," Nick said, "Close your eyes and don't look down, Derek, I promise you you're not going to fall," he said, he knew Derek was scared of heights, and was claustrophobic too, right now it was the looking down and knowing he was going to maybe fall.
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Hotch knew that this could go wrong, the blood had pooled at the edge now and Nick and Mark were having trouble, they kept sliding and the railing was already cracked from the damage that had been done earlier. Derek had slid completely off the deck when he'd move Ryan away. Mark's grip had slipped and he'd lost his holding on the railing and Derek too, he had to let go or he was going to fall too, Nick had grabbed Derek and at the moment Nick was leaning half way off the deck holding onto Derek.
Mark and Hotch were holding on to Nick keeping him from going over as well. "Pull," Nick called out, "Pull me up," he said, he'd gotten a grip on both of Derek's ankles and he wasn't letting go, "Keep your eyes closed, just think about holding Penelope, little brother, I am not letting you go," Nick said, he was terrified at the moment, he'd never thought he'd be pulling Derek up from this deck, it was over a ten foot drop, the deck was built up high on stilts and if Derek fell he was going to die or be paralyzed for life, if anybody fell off the deck that would happen to them.
Mark and Hotch pulled holding on to Nick, with all of their strength, they were just outside the blood pool, and they hadn't started sliding, so they had more traction and they pulled with all they were worth, pulling two men up was hard though especially when they both had over hundred pounds on them, but they were. They couldn't let go either, if they did, then Nick and Derek both would fall to their deaths.
"PULL," Nick yelled out, and he finally felt his chest hit the deck again; he was half way there now he just had to get Derek up. Mark held to Nick as Hotch went over helping Nick, he got him the rest the way up and grabbed hold Derek and between the two of them they finally got Derek back up. It took another minute before he was completely on the deck but soon as he was Nick let out a breath, "Told you I wasn't letting go," he said.
"Thanks, I gotta get up, I gotta get to Pen," Derek said about to get up.
"No, wait till your blood is flowing right again, Clooney's with her, and Mark went to check on her again, she's okay," Nick said looking up at Hotch, "The gun is on the kitchen table, I got here and heard the shots," he said.
"Then who shot him?" Derek asked, he slowly sat up, he wanted to get to Penelope soon, he was scared that Ryan had been going to hurt her.
"That would be your girlfriend," Hotch said, "Penelope shot him, from what she said and Nick said, I put it together," he replied since he hadn't been here.
Derek went to get up he had to get to Penelope and now, "Let me up," he said and Nick pulled away helping him to his feet this time before Derek went to the door stepping over the glass and going to the living room.
"I… Derek," Penelope said looking up.
"Hey, I got you," Morgan said wrapping his arms around her when she got up, "I got you, I'm right here, baby girl," he said holding her against him, and he didn't let her go.
TBC
AN: Hope you enjoyed, and I was going by this house I saw once online that had this huge back deck on it that was at far up off the ground. More coming tomorrow.
