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A/N: I promised you a nice chapter... bitta love =)
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Penelope sat on Derek's bed, ice pack to her cheek and watched as he changed. She felt her heart gallop as she saw him slip the top off of his body, revealing the luscious definitions of his body, the eight pack so pronounced, so perfect.
She bit her lip but broke into a smile as Derek caught her out and her cheeks flushed with a guilty blush.
"Like what you see, Baby?"He asked her seductively, his head dropping jokingly to look and check as if each of the cans in his pack were perfectly placed and symmetrical.
"As always," She purred back, her tone becoming more and more how it was before Alice became a serious counterpart in Derek's life.
Derek began to climb up the bed, placing his hands either side of her, keeping a gap big enough to get Penelope to want more, make the sexual tension boil.
"I can't do it, Handsome." Penelope rejected his moves and placed a hand to his bare shoulder to push him away. "It's not that I don't want to, because believe me I do. It's just-"
"I'm married?" Derek asked her as he sat back on the bed.
Penelope smiled weakly and nodded, "I don't want to be that girl, or feel like that girl and I know you've told me it's me you want and love but, Derek, you're still married, and it's not to me."
"It's fine," He said a little hurt, but he truly understood, "Just know that in some form in my life I knew I was going to get you."
Penelope tilted her head looking at him intently, how could he know that exactly? After all he got married to someone else so he had to have concluded that he wasn't going to get her. "How d'ya work that out eh, my Hunk of Burning Love?"
"Well... it might be stupid, but there's two ways." He said and went over to a drawer and pulled it open, pulling out six sealed envelopes and pieces of tatty papers. She watched him, studying every move as he made it.
"Now me and Des have a tradition." Derek said and tidied the paper work up in his hands, almost nervously. "And well, we never stopped, not even while I was in college, or when she went, or I moved state." He said back on the end of the bed and looked at Penelope, "We used to write down predictions for the future."
Now Penelope felt confused, she had no idea how she would fit into this but she was sure she was about to find out.
Placing down the mass of paper, Derek picked up one and unfolded it, "Follow in dad's footsteps, Freshmen year," he told her and folded it, "I got that part down to an art," he said and went onto the next, "Find a girl that blows my mind, or wait around for her, Senior year and first two years of college." He smirked at her, "Des thought I was crazy, I was young, a ladies' man, but I knew that I wanted what my mom and dad had, they had it all before he died. You know, love, marriage, house, kids... it just seemed to make them the happiest. I lost sight of that until I met you."
Penelope smiled as Derek seemed to enter a dreamlike state.
"I really thought I was finally getting that, not with the girl that blows my mind, mind you, but getting a start nonetheless."
"And now?"
Derek looked at her, snapping back to reality, "I've had the girl that blows my mind for six years." He said, the look he was giving her showing her exactly that she was that girl. No one else had that title in Derek's life.
"Now..." He said trailing off, picking up the envelopes, ignoring all the others, "The others are like formalities, they follow suit, but theses, these I made Des seal and put in here so they were never found."
Penelope gulped, watching Derek as he literally bled his heart out to her.
He took one of the envelopes and opened it, pulling a piece of paper out, "2004 - get to know Penelope Garcia on a more personal basis." He read aloud and looked at Penelope, his lips smiling cheekily at her, "That was a success now wasn't it Baby Girl?"
All Penelope did was nod.
Derek grabbed the next one, "2005 - get a kiss from Penelope Garcia." Without leaving room for Penelope to answer he skipped over the moment and opened the next. "2006 - Get a least a date with Penelope," Derek said and laughed, "I was a little too cocky with the last one."
Penelope laughed a little, her tone completely caught with emotions, tears riddling it.
Derek smiled at her, gave her a wink and grabbed the next one, "2007 - never give up faith in the girl that blows my mind." Derek smiled at that, he had never given up his faith in Penelope loving him; he just felt it easier to have her as a friend than lose her by declaring love he felt wasn't reciprocated.
Penelope sat up a little, and watched him take one of the last remaining manila envelopes, "2008 - make it up to Penelope," Derek bit the end of that sentence off. That one was for just after Penelope was shot, he rang the New Year in believing that he could make it up to her, but her getting shot made a lot more damage than any of them could anticipate.
"You had nothing to make up to me," Penelope told him gently, leaning forward more again, "You did it all, you were there for me, you were perfect."
Derek nodded, shook his head of memories and grabbed the penultimate envelope.
He cleared his throat, "2009 - beat Kevin Lynch," He said and looked at her, his wicked grin back in place, "I like to think I did beat him, until Alice."
"Oh, trust me, you beat him." Penelope told him confidently.
"I vow to continue doing so." Derek promised and picked up the last envelope, he looked at Penelope, took a deep breath, if he spoke about this before reading it then he was in no way ever going to read it to her. So pulling up the seal quickly, it whipped the piece of paper out and the read, "2010 - never give up on loving Penelope Garcia."
Penelope hiccupped at that, making Derek's head jerk up to look at her; he saw her keeping a hold on things. He'd kept his tradition going for years, decades even, but when she stepped into his life, she stepped into the tradition.
That to her spoke more than words themselves.
"Penelope, I never meant to break your heart, I just didn't realise what I had," Derek told her truthfully, "Can this fool be forgiven?"
Penelope didn't need to think before she spoke, "I forgave you the moment my heart started to piece back together."
Derek smiled brightly, "Now how's the face?"
"Probably the most broken part of me at this very moment in time, Hot Stuff." Penelope said and pulled the ice pack away, "How's it looking?"
"Let's just say it's a good thing purple's your favourite colour, Sweetness."
Derek narrowly missed taking a pillow to the face.
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A/N: One more chapter left guys, who wants it?
