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A/N: Later than my usual updates, enjoy though guys! Thanks for all the lovely reviews =)
Again, rush update, so all mistakes are mine
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- From Heaven, With Love -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Penelope looked at the hustle and bustle that seemed to stream passed her hospital doorway intermittently and she couldn't help but sigh at it all. She was missing life and, right at that moment, she was missing Derek and the team. She hated that even with her in the hospital life just carried on. Murderers didn't stop with their heinous actions and psychos didn't take sabbaticals because she was now forced onto one.
She'd spent the last four days alone laid up – as always – and lived watching the TV, sleeping and reading the magazines she was building up from cover to cover. Having been trapped in the same room for well past two weeks, Penelope was beginning to tire of this recovery.
She wanted to tackle life and get on with her new found life with Derek.
She smiled intently as her gaze lifted to the ceiling and let her mind swim. Already her and Derek were steaming through a relationship. After giving her a first date right in the middle of her hospital room, she had decided that life was easily lost and she had no time to waste procrastinating and after sharing that thought with Derek, she realised that he was feeling exactly the same as her.
Now she was practically moved in with him and her want for freedom had only manifested as a result. She wanted to know what living with Derek Morgan was truly like.
For now she could only dream.
Dosing her mind was overcome with dreams and memories and she was lulled into a peaceful state. She lay perfectly still, listening intently around to all the buzz of activity, the hum of machines and just relished the tranquillity of it all. The painless state in which she was in for once. Just as she was about to slip off of the edge into a complete sleep she realised something in the room had changed and she slowly opened her eyes.
It didn't take long for her eyes to pick up Derek's form and she melted into a smile.
"Well don't you know how to surprise a girl?" Penelope asked him rhetorically as she breathed in and broke out into a tiresome yawn. "Definitely the best thing my eyes have taken in, in the last couple of days."
"I'm pretty sure you've been kept well entertained," Derek said self assured as he stepped into the room. "The nursing staff in here is very interesting."
"Well I do have a deliciously yummy nurse," Penelope teased affectionately, her voice still riddled with tiredness. "He's been keeping me very, very, very happy in your absence."
"You tryna hurt a man here?" Derek asked her as he rose an eyebrow at her.
Penelope giggled and nodded, "Well guess what?"
"What?" Derek asked back in an equally amused tone.
"I have another yummy nurse – this one's my favourite," Penelope continued to tease Derek and she could see he was getting a little envious over it. "Actually," she said and stopped and gave him a perplexed look, "He looks a lot like you."
"Really?" Derek questioned intrigued and stood his ground.
"Hmm, who'd of thought it eh, Handsome?" She said amused and played up the shock. "I guess Nurse Morgan is quite sexy on you."
Derek smirked and crossed the room, sitting on the side of her bed and leaning in towards her, "Doctor Morgan is sexier."
"Oh yes," Penelope purred at him, "Doctor Morgan is definitely more heart racing."
Derek chuckled as he watched her smiled up at him and he couldn't believe the change in her. The Penelope here was his baby girl, the one that graced his life daily for years and the one that had captured his heart from that first day. Before he had left she was still in pain and she was losing her sparkle.
Now, however, that seemed to be something of the past.
"Gonna stay or gimme a kiss?" She asked him simply and he watched her eyes sparkle with happiness. "You best believe I have missed me some chocolate kisses."
"Oh," Derek said and smirked at her greedily, "Guess I had better give my woman what she wants."
"Guess you best had," Penelope told him and felt her senses become over taken by Derek as he kissed her heavily and longingly and it was like their first kiss all over again.
A kiss that left her greedy for more.
"Derek?" Penelope asked as they settled down. Derek in the chair by her bed, her in her normal spot on the bed.
"Yeah, Baby?"
"You said you had dreams," Penelope started and looked at him, "I want to know what they were."
"Just moments, that's all," Derek told her and could tell that she wanted to know more, so he went and sat on the edge of her bed, giving her attention completely. "I was just getting what I wanted at different times in our lives, Pen. When we met, when you were shot, hell even with the whole Tamara mess – they just ended better, perfect even. Every time I dreamt I got you by the end of it."
"Shall I let you in on a little secret?" Penelope asked him as she took his hand in hers.
"Go for it."
Smiling wistfully, Penelope looked up from their joined hands, "I chose all three of those as part of my five to relive," She smiled at him brightly then, "Plus I chose when I had you all to myself as my bodyguard and that time in Alaska and I wished so much that they had happened."
"We're just scarily bound to one another," Derek said and leant in to grab a kiss. "Believe me, we'll be bound in death too."
"Now that is a death I'd go to with pleasure," Penelope teased him lovingly. "Your kisses might well be the death of me first, Handsome. Too much sugar cannot be good for me."
"Seems too many sweet things for the both of us could well kill us off," Derek teased her back. "Right," He started and stood up, "The team should be here in a bit, and I really need a drink. Is there anything you're fancying at all?" He laughed as she started to look thoughtful, "Apart from chocolate."
"I'll let you surprise me," Penelope told him simply and shifted a little and watched Derek jump in. "I can cope with a little shifting here and there, Derek. I have for the past couple of days."
"That was the last couple of days. Now's your time to allow me to help you out while I'm around," He told her lovingly and allowed her to settle down before he even contemplating kissing her goodbye before running out to get food. Now he knew he should have picked stuff up before going to her, but he was yearning to see her, hear her, feel her in his arms.
Walking back in he noticed Penelope was dosing and quietly sat down and watched her as she slept peacefully. He couldn't help but smile at the sight. It was like he had his own angel right before his eyes, a true miracle. Derek knew if he was asked what he would do differently in his life, it would be to tell Penelope earlier that he loved her. He wouldn't live with fear of losing her if he told her. Fate could steal her at any moment and he refused to let her go without knowing just how in love with her he was and how much he had already dreamt up their perfect future together.
Penelope slid her hand out to him to take and he obeyed and took it before looking up at her, "Thought you was sleeping."
"Mmm," She sounded as she closed her eyes as though they were still heavy with sleep. "All I seem to do lately is dose. I need a life."
Derek chuckled and brought her hand to his lips to kiss, "Oh, well that is going to happen soon. When you're out of here, you're going to have an entertained life."
"Please tell me it doesn't involved all day in front of the TV and books to keep me company while everyone works does it?"
Derek shook his head, "You're going to need someone to care for you, so you'll have us all swapping around. The director issued it."
"Oh right," She said and put her head to the side, "Now how often have you decided to be the one that is mostly around me?"
"Well, let's see, considering after this, you are never leaving my bed I'll be the one leading this recovery."
"Not interrupting are we?" Emily asked as she knocked on the door and offered Penelope a large smile, "We come barely gifts."
"I can see that," Penelope commented as she saw the large bouquets of flowers. "What do I owe you for it though?"
"It's more us apologising for taking so long to get back," JJ said as she followed suit and entered the room with the team behind her. "We actually want you home now though."
"As soon as I'm up and walking again, I get to start thinking about discharge papers," Penelope pointed out, "Until then, it's not even in my horizon." She let them down as she was showered with hugs and kisses, "For now you'll just have to make this my new home," She joked, lightening the mood.
"We can make this quite homey," Derek pointed out, "Flowers actually add a bit of life."
"Trying to say I'm not life enough?" Penelope played hurt to Derek.
"You're more than full of life you are," Derek told her back, "You're just fed up at the moment and it's kinder putting a dampener on you."
"Too true, but can you blame me?" She asked rhetorically looking around her room.
"How are you feeling apart from fed up?" Reid asked cautiously as he sat down, his mind too aware of her injuries.
"I don't really know," Penelope replied simply, "But at the moment I am too in love with morphine to care otherwise." She settled and smiled at them all, "Plus I feel a lot better now that I have my superheroes around." She paused and looked around at them, gaining serious, "When do you jet off again?"
Hotch looked around at the team then back to Penelope, "We've been grounded for a couple of days, week max." He saw Penelope's expression brighten, "We're going to be consulting and looking at cases in and around Quantico as of next week."
"As soon as your rehab starts up, you're going to need all of the support you can get, Baby," Derek continued, "Rossi went to Strauss, while Hotch and Emily went straight for the director. He understands about your family and what type of support network you need and he wants his best tech back to health-"
"And work," Rossi chucked in before Derek could finish.
Laughing, Derek nodded before carrying on, "And work as soon as humanly possible without you being pushed into it."
"You realise that's still a while off?" Penelope asked them incredulously as she swung her arm over her body. "It may or may not have been two weeks ago, but I'm still very much trapped here."
"It'll all happen in time," Hotch advised, "You just got to give it time."
"I have," Penelope replied, "Just bust me out and we can talk business."
"The only busting out you'll be doing, Penelope, is from that bed when we get you walking again," The doctor said, catching Penelope in her triad for freedom. "We'll be talking about that tomorrow," He continued as he entered completely, fully amused. "For now, how you feeling?"
Penelope realised yet again that she was thrown straight back into the routine of being a hospital patient all over again.
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- From Heaven, With Love -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-