Hot Summer Nights Chapter Ten August 2010
Derek could tell Penelope was nervous when they entered the restaurant. Not only were they about twenty five minutes late but she couldn't completely cover up the hickies on her neck with make up. If anyone looked closely they would see the love bruises that Derek had given her.
They had rushed from his house after their shared shower- laughing and joking, stealing kisses as they grabbed her purse, his wallet, the keys to the SUV and their phones. The ride to her house was filled with banter and teasing. When they got there she made him wait in the SUV because she said they would never get out of her place if he came upstairs. Ten minutes later she was rushing back down dressed more to her liking in a bright peach summer dress with matching strappy heels and chunky jewelry.
He gave her a deep kiss after he helped her into the vehicle. She smelled good. She looked good. She tasted good. Everything about her had his libido on overdrive that weekend.
Walking into the restaurant, with his hand on her back, he was slightly hard already because he couldn't get the image out of his head of Penelope on her knees in his walk-in steam shower. The water poured over her fantastic curvy body, drenching her sexy red hair, while she sucked his dick until he was clenching and unclenching his fists because he was so close to spewing hot, sticky strings of cum down her throat. Not sure how she would feel about that he pulled out and came all over her breast. She looked so hot right then that he almost preferred that to her swallowing.
He would never forget the way his spunk looked dripping off her nipples.
How he was supposed to get through this dinner with his friends without having a raging hard on the whole time he did not know. Why in the hell Penelope insisted on coming here was another mystery.
Derek would have loved to be home fucking her into screaming orgasms instead. That would have to wait a couple of hours now though.
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Penelope would much rather be in bed with Derek than out with the team. But there was a method to her madness when she had insisted that her and Derek keep their plans to go out to dinner tonight.
Now that they were sleeping together there was definitely a more intimate vibe between them. The urge to kiss would flare to life almost every time they looked at each other. She knew it had to be written all over her face how she was more in love with him than ever.
She wanted them to get comfortable being around the team as a sorta couple tonight rather than go back to work and then worry about awkward moments. This would be a good first test for them on how they interacted with their friends around.
Penelope was eager to find out how Derek would play this. It was the not knowing that was making her nervous as hell.
She should have just asked him if he planned to fess up to the team that they were together. Of course she hadn't because, like he always told her, she was too hard headed.
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After the maitre'd said to follow him Derek whispered into Penelope's ear "You okay, mama?"
"Yeppers."
Yeah, she was nervous. He could always tell when she was. They probably should have talked about what to tell the team about them but that would mean actually talking about them and Derek was beating around the bush when it came to that. He was talking around the subject and saying things he hoped she took the right way.
Not to mention hoping with every word that she said that she wouldn't tell him anything about this being short term for her. Of course she would say it in the sweetest way and say she always expected he wouldn't want more cause that was just his style but if Penelope offered him a fling, even of a few months, or said she didn't see a future for them Derek knew his heart would break clean in two.
Time would go on, taking him years away from this amazing weekend spent making love to her, but his heart would never completely recover from her not wanting him forever- especially after he had given her so much of himself. More than any other woman ever got from him. Derek had given Penelope all he could manage to give- with the way his soul was torn up from his childhood-even though it used to terrify him to love this hard.
Giving her that much had to be enough to make her believe in him, right?
If he was sure he would grin at her and say "You're mine, woman, for life and don't be hard headed about it."
But he hadn't said that yet because he wasn't sure that his best was enough to take away years of him telling her how he'd never settle down, all the pain of not wanting to be with her sooner, and the bad reputation he had for never being with anyone for longer than a few months, if even that long.
Could simple words erase all that? Derek doubted it. So he kept his mouth shut about how much he wanted with Penelope and tried to show her instead. Still he knew that just showing her could never be enough either.
Derek wanted to say "I love you," to Penelope but the fear of her taking it as just friends, because that's how it was every time before, made him keep his mouth shut tighter than a drum. He didn't think he could bear the moment afterwards when he realized she had misunderstood his intent- that she still didn't believe he could love her that way. If she didn't believe after this weekend then she probably never would.
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JJ wore a smirk when Penelope and Derek approached the table where all the team- plus Will, Henry, Jack and Jessica- were eating dinner.
"Bad traffic?" JJ asked, in a teasing tone.
"The worse," Penelope said with a small smile.
Derek pulled out a chair for her and she slid into it. The team had saved him a seat right next to Penelope because they knew that Derek and Penelope liked to sit either next to each other, where they would touch each other all meal and sometimes even fed each other off their own plates, or across from each other so that they could stare at each other.
Derek and Penelope said hi to all their friends.
Penelope had called JJ and asked for her to order them some hamburgers. JJ said now "Your food should be up soon. Sorry but we all got started without you." Looking at her boyfriend JJ asked "When was the last time we were late because of traffic?"
Will gave her a small smile. "Before Henry was born."
Soon the hamburgers arrived and they were caught up in conversation with their friends. When they were later having dessert Derek snuck his hand onto Penelope's knee and after a minute it crept higher on her thigh, while all the time he was turned away from her to talk to Hotch.
Her body started to heat up. If he didn't watch it she'd pay him back in the worse way.
Penelope tried to ignore Derek's wandering fingers as she looked across the table and talked to Emily. He started making slow circles on her outer thigh with his thumb. It was all she could think about even as she smiled and joked with Em.
Derek faced her again. He moved his hand off her thigh and wrapped it around her back then his other hand went onto her leg but just an inch higher, under her dress now. Speaking against her ear he said "Baby girl, my pool is calling our names."
She turned to look at him, saw love and lust swimming in his eyes, and that was it. Raw hunger slammed through her like a freight train. Her gaze darted between his lips and eyes. She wanted to kiss him so bad. Feeling like maybe she shouldn't decide on her own to out them she resisted the urge and answered him "Not much longer, love bug."
The moment sizzled with want and it was all she could do not to bring her mouth to his.
His hand raised off her thigh and caressed her cheek. He leaned in and gave her a very soft and sweet kiss. Everyone gasped then they all started to chatter excitedly or mutter stuff like "About damn time."
Derek pulled back and stared into Penelope's eyes. She searched his eyes and could see determination flicking in them now. He moved away from her, cleared his throat, picked up his knife and tapped his glass.
"Hey, guys," he said to his friends "I got something I need to say." He then looked at her and she gave him a small smile.
She expected him to say they were gonna try dating. But that isn't what came out of his mouth.
Derek went on "I've fallen in love with Penelope and I'm gonna do all I can to convince her to be with me."
Now it was Penelope's turn to gasp. Tears came to her eyes. JJ got up, came over and hugged both Derek and Penelope. Emily was as excited as a kid in a candy shop. Reid had the sweetest look on his face because he was so happy for them. Rossi looked smug- like he had a bet on this happening. Hotch had a twinkle in his eyes. Jessica smiled widely and the kids just chattered away as if nothing was going on.
Will shook Derek's hand "You're a lucky man."
"Don't I know it," Derek said. He turned and looked at Penelope and found tears on her face. "Aw, mama, come here," he brushed the tears away and rested his forehead against hers. "I couldn't stop myself. I just want the whole world to know. I know I should have talked to you when we were alone."
He went to move back because the moment was growing too intimate for an audience but Penelope gripped the back of his neck and gave him a deep kiss that totally shocked Derek. She could tell by how stiff he was at first before his arms wrapped around her and he melted into the kiss.
Now their friends really cheered and Rossi ordered champagne.
Hotch told Jessica "I didn't just see that." Meaning that if Strauss asked he didn't know anything.