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Penelope leaned against the door after Derek stormed out after voicing his true feelings on the situation she was in. Her heart hurt more now than it had for the past couple of months. This was all so much for her. He yelled at her basically called her a sl-

"Wait a minute." She stopped her thinking; standing up off of the floor the hurt and pain slowly disappearing as anger replaced it, "What the hell- should've been mine?" She stormed over to her bag grabbing her cell phone. She was pissed. How dare he tell her she needed to keep her legs closed, and then the next breath say the baby should have been his? What kind of shit was that?

"Penelope are you okay? The baby okay?" Penelope heard JJ's voice as she answered.

Penelope took a deep breath, trying to steady her anger and hurt, "I-I… No, I am not okay. Morgan just left her and he said… and he said…" She could feel the tears well in her eyes. These emotions were too much for her right now. These baby hormones were going to be the death of her, especially if Morgan keeps being so hot and cold with her.

"Sweetie, Will and I are actually driving by your place, coming home from dinner. We'll be there in five minutes."

"Okay," she said quietly as she hung up the phone. She slumped to her couch, plopping down and trying to gain some strength. How could this be happening to her? She needed to take a step back, try to relax. Her heart was racing and her head was becoming light. This stress was pushing her to the brink.

It was only a moment before she heard the knock at the door. Thankfully she knew it was JJ, and she made her way over to the door letting her in.

"Penelope, sweetie, what happened?" JJ asked pulling her over to the couch after grabbing her go bag that was just inside her door.

Penelope sighed, she felt the weight of the world on her shoulders as she started to speak, "He showed up here. We got into another fight… he said some hurtful things but…" she felt her anger raise, "He told me I was the one that broke his heart. I threw him away and the baby should've been his."

"What?" JJ asked, "Should've been his?"

Penelope shot up off the couch and started to pace, ignoring her question, "He's such a liar. If he wanted me all this time he could have had me. He's just upset I don't need him anymore." she spat.

She stopped pacing to look back at JJ, "Stop me if I'm wrong here but Morgan is what people like to call an alpha male. They take what they want and if he wanted me he would have made it known, am I right?"

"Yes, that's tur-"

"He stood here and told me I broke his heart and in the same goddamn breath I should learn to close my legs." She fell to her knees as she let the sobs poor out, the emotions of the situation taking over her.

JJ jumped off of the couch going to her side rubbing her back, "It's going to beokay, Pen. Come on. Will and I are gonna take you back to our place tonight. Your godson will be glad to see you. " JJ said, knowing it would be good for Penelope to be around Henry and people that loved her.

Penelope nodded her head as they lifted her off the ground.

Morgan had managed to get a flight out of town that night. He knew it was late, but he needed to get out as soon as possible, to try and regain some composure. He felt like the state of Virginia was closing in on him.

Now he stood outside his Mom's front door trying to get the courage to go inside. He was about to put his key in the lock when the door swung open. "Derek Morgan, what are you doing here?" Fran asked, pulling her son into the house.

"Mamma," he started, but couldn't seem to find the words to go on.

"Sweetie, you're scaring me." She took his hand, leading him to the couch. She could tell by the look on his face he was troubled. Derek never would show up unannounced like this unless something big had happened.

"She's pregnant, Ma," he started, letting out a deep breath.

Fran sat back for a moment looking at her son, taking a deep breath of her own, she grabbed his hand, "So, you got someone pregnant? It's okay, baby. We can get through this." She tried to comfort him, not knowing what was really going on.

"No, that's the thing. It's not my baby, " Derek told her.

"Roxana, cheated on you?" she asked, pulling her son into her arms, trying to comfort him. She knew he had been dating Roxana for a couple of months, but she thought it was just a fling. She didn't know he would be this torn up over her. When he had talked about her on the phone, he made it seem like a take it or leave it situation.

He pulled back. "Roxana? God, no. Penelope, Mom, I'm talking about Penelope."

Fran stared at her son, completely confused. "As in your baby girl, Penelope?" She watched as a heartbroken expression fell upon her son's face. "I don't understand, Derek."

"Neither do I, Ma."

It was now around midnight and Will was making his way into the kitchen to grab a glass of water, when he saw Penelope sitting in the living room, her feet curled up to her chest.

"You okay, Pen?" he asked, moving to sit in the chair next to her.

She shrugged her shoulders in response.

"You wanna talk about it?" he asked, his drawn out southern accent giving her comfort of some sort.

"I don't get it, Will," she started as she felt the tears prick her eyes. "Can you please explain it to me in a guy perspective? He basically told he always wanted me and I should be carrying his baby. If he felt that way all this time, why didn't he man up? He treated me like shit instead, and now, well…."

"I can't speak for him, Pen. Morgan's got his own demons that most of us will never understand," Will spoke softly.

"He ignored me and even when I tried to talk to him he still shot me down and now. Now, I'm having a baby, and he's only made me feel worse and worse about it," Penelope explained, wiping away a tear. " I love this baby already and he makes me feel like I shouldn't."

"I know this a lot, Pen. Sometimes even the bravest, strongest men can't show their real feelings. When JJ and I were dating, and I was still in Louisiana, I had a hell of a time trying to convince her of my intentions." Will told her.

"But you finally did, and now look at you. You guys are perfect. Morgan could have manned up and told me how he really felt hundreds of times. And because he is mad, he attacks me and the choices I've made." She sighed. "You know what makes me angry, though? Everyone knows I've been in love with him for years. I didn't do a really good job of hiding it. If he really wanted me all he had to do was say something."

"Are you still in love with him?" Will asked.

She looked up at Will, trying to not let her real feelings show. "No."

He gave her a sideways glance, knowing she was lying.

"Yes," she admitted. "I'll probably always be in love with him, but that doesn't make it okay about the way he treated me. He said some pretty awful things; I won't forgive him this time. Yeah I know. It makes me sound like a slut for not knowing who the father is, but it happens. I never thought it would happen to me, but it did, and I now have to live with this. Derek doesn't need to keep throwing my mistakes in my face because he wanted to play daddy. "

"Morgan is one of the most confidant, strongest men I have ever met, but when it comes to any sort of feelings, he is probably the weakest. I'm not excusing the things he said to you or the way he treated you, but he does care about you. Even if he has a shitty way of showing it." Will said, trying to show her Morgan's possible side of the situation.

"I don't think I can ever forgive him." She looked down. "He hurt me too bad this time. And in all honesty, I can't have him in my life if one moment he is going to try and be my friend and the next he is going off the deep end. Not when I have another life to care for now."

Will gave her a small smile. He wanted to try and distract her, from the Morgan issue. "You're going to be a great mom, Pen."

"I'm glad you have faith in me, but I already feel like I've doomed this baby from the start." She said rubbing circles on her stomach, subconsciously trying to apologize to her own baby.

"No, the way I see it, this baby is one lucky ones. They're gonna have you as a mom, Pen," he said, giving her a smile that would rival Derek's.

"See, why can't I find a man like you? You're perfect, Will LaMontagne." She gave him a hopeful grin. "I hope you'll help me teach this baby all things boy." She laughed a little, feeling somewhat better.

"You know it, honey. Henry's gonna be thrilled to find out he is getting a cousin."

Fran sat back in the chair, completely dumfounded after hearing the whole story her son had told her. She was trying and failing to piece together the information. She took a deep breath. "So let me get this straight. You pushed her away because she had a boyfriend, and you got with Roxana. She tried to come to you one night after she found out her boyfriend cheated on her, and you dismissed her to make her feel the pain she had caused in you? But in doing so she went to a bar met a stranger and is now having that stranger's baby." She looked directly at her son. "And then you told her she broke your heart and stormed out?"

"More or less," he said sitting back on the couch. He didn't want to tell his mother the things he had said to her about her pretty much being a slut and keeping her legs closed.

"Knowing you, you probably went off the handle and said some things you never meant." Fran stated, knowing she was right when Derek sat back on the couch.

He looked at his mother, not surprised she could see right through him. "I'm not proud of the things I said, Mom."

She stood up walked a little closer to him and smacked him hard on the head.

"Jesus Ma, what the hell?" he said holding his head.

"Derek Morgan, what is wrong with you? I thought I raised you better than this. You have probably made that poor girl feel ten times worse than she was already feeling. Imagine how she is dealing with this? She finds out she is pregnant and doesn't even who the father is? And then you shamed her and make her feel even worse? What, all because you are in love with her and didn't have the balls to just tell her?" She slapped him hard on the back of the head again. "I am so disappointed in you, right now son." She shook her head, "I'm glad your father isn't here, or he'd be beatin' your ass. I don't care how old you are."

"Don't say that, Ma." Derek pleaded with her. She had never said she'd been disappointed with him before.

"Say what?" she narrowed her eyes to him.

"That I disappoint you. I know I screwed up."

"Son, you need to listen and listen good. If you love that woman like you claim to love her, then you need to keep your emotions in order. What's done is done. You can't take back the fact that she is pregnant with someone else's baby. You need to be there for her if you ever want her to let you in again," Fran stated matter of fact.

"I'm trying, but whenever I see her hold her belly it reminds me that the baby growing inside of her is not mine…." He looked at his mom's face trying to hold back the emotions he was feeling, "…I want that baby to be mine. Not some random guy she screwed."

"Then be the baby's father, Derek. It doesn't have to be your DNA for you to be the father. What you need to do, is show her you're willing to do whatever it takes to be apart of her life and the baby's life," Fran tried to explain, hoping to get him to listen to her and really listen.

"She'll never believe me after the things I've said to her." He put his head in his hands, ashamed.

"She was your best friend for years, right?" his mom asked.

"Yeah," Derek answered not looking up.

"Then she'll believe you. That girl is in love with you just as much as you're in love with her. I've heard you two talk on the phone when you've come to visit and the way you talk about her. There is no denying it. Yeah, you are probably going to have to work your ass off to get her to listen to you, but if you really love her you will do anything you can to get her back." she said, making her son look at her.

"I do Ma. I have never loved anyone like I love her. I just don't know what to do."

Fran moved to walk out of the room forcing Derek to turn and look at her. "We'll come up with a plan. If you've come all this way the least we can do is send you home with a way to get her back." She turned to head down the hallway but stopped short turning back to her son.

She walked back over to him and smacked him one more time hard on his head, "Don't you ever run away from her again. You fight for your woman." With that she left a stunned Derek staring her down as he rubbed the back of his head.

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