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A/N: So my updates have thinned out! I'll put my hands up and apologise for that but life has become a little bit hectic with an icrease of work etc! But I'll update as and when I can!

Anywho! Enjoy this!

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'How longs it been?' Derek said as he passed the small waiting room for the umpteenth time. 'It's got to be over by now.'

'Derek's they've been under 3 hours, now if you ask again I'll glue you to a chair and put tape over your mouth.'

'Mother after my own heart.' George claimed breaking the nerves in the air.

'What you going on about? Mom was like that.' Carl said back smiling.

'Exactly.'

'Spencer Reid?' A nurse said as she approached them interrupting the joke that was beginning to form. 'Yes.' She got back and felt overwhelmed by them all stepping forward. 'Mr Reid will be brought up from recovery in a moment.'

'Is everything okay?'

'Everything is perfect, his doing really well.' She smiled and left them to all relax a bit more.

'See one down, one to go.' Hotch said as they all became a little looser with their movements, except Derek who sat like a statue almost scared to move. They all settled down until the team found themselves being lead away from Fran and the Garcia brother's towards a room that Reid was in. They walked in and found Reid as awake as possible after everything and they smiled.

'Well, well, well the kid genius made it.' Derek said with a half smile on his face.

'Did you doubt it?' He asked with a hoarse throat. 'How is she?'

'We don't know yet.' JJ told him as she took his hand. 'How you feeling?'

'I'll feel amazing when I know how Pen is.'

'Well until then I think you better get some sleep.' Hotch told Reid who succumbed to the exhaustion quickly. As they walked they felt the tension build again as the waiting game settled back in. 'Who's up for sticking with Reid?'

'I will.' Emily volunteered before JJ could. 'You have Henry to go home to, I'm sure I'm the only one that will be there.'

'No I'll come down too.' Rossi offered and the pair of them headed back while the others went back to Fran, Desiree and the Garcia brothers. They all looked up, their nerves not lessened at all.

'Everything okay?' One of the brothers said, it seemed to are occurring question of the day and they knew it wasn't the last time they would hear it.

'Yeah, he said he'd feel better once he knew how Penelope was but then fell back asleep.' The silence gathered for the next half an hour, the next thing they knew they were listening to the doctor, all in auto pilot.

'The operation was a success in terms of transplantation but we won't see a significant change in Penelope's condition for at least 2 days while her body acknowledges the new kidney.' He told them positively, a sound they hadn't really heard from his voice lately. 'She's awake so someone's more than welcome to go down to her.'

'Make it Derek.' Carl said from the left of Derek, everyone agreed and watched as he followed the doctor down the corridor, the doctor left him at the door with a couple of precautions to be aware of, he sucked in a breath and then entered. Penelope's head shifted slowly to look at him, and she let out a small groggy smile at seeing him.

'Hey baby girl.' He said almost instantaneously, and the smile grew on his lips as he approached her. 'How you feeling?'

'Spaced out count?'

He laughed and relaxed. 'I do believe it does.'

'How is he?' Penelope asked almost warily to hear bad news.

'Reid's doing good, said he would be doing better when he knew about you but you seem more alert than he does at the moment.'

'Good, I was so scared that something would happen.' Derek sat there almost beaming at her. 'What?'

'I'm not meaning to sound offensive here P but the doctor warned us we wouldn't see a difference in you for a couple of days...' He halted.

'Right...' Penelope prompted him to continue.

'But you look just as ill, but your breathing is so much better.' That small exclamation made Penelope laugh but abruptly stop, she saw Derek's face darken with worry.

'Calm it.' She said as her hand went to where she was hurting the most. 'Handsome...' She said grabbing his hand. 'I'm tender so laughing, moving, breathing too deeply hurts... so don't worry.'

'But I will do, I hate you hurting in any form.'

'I know you do.' She told him appreciatively.

Derek understood that Penelope was right, and he had to get used to the fact that the pain would end eventually. 'You just don't deserve this.'

'Who's says?' She said as she settled again but with increasing tiredness washing over her in ebbs and flows.

'I do, now sleep.' He said kissing her on the lip and then sitting back, watching her give in and sleeping as he asked. Satisfied he stood slowly and noiselessly and left the room, taking one last glance, he smiled and headed back. Everyone stood up when they saw him, their faces questioning him. 'She's doing really well, honest.' He told them with a smile. 'She's worried about Reid, but she was awake, really alert, her breathings okay so there are some differences with her already.' He saw them all smile as he spoke. 'She's sleeping now but I think we best go tell Reid.'

'Don't overdo with us all going in there though yeah?'

'Right... I'll go and then I want to go back to Pen.'

'Fair enough.' Hotch and JJ said together.

Derek made the short journey to Reid's room, all he knew in that moment was that he wanted to be at Penelope's side, watching over her. When he saw Reid's room come into view he knew he'd have his wish soon but they owed it to Reid to keep him up to date with it all, so he entered and made Emily jumped as his presence became know behind her.

'What's wrong?' She asked as she looked at Derek with shock.

'Nothing.'

'So why are you here?'

'I was hoping that Reid would be up and seeing as he I'd like to pass on that you look worse than Pen does kid.'

'Really?' Reid responded still equally tired. 'So she is okay?'

'It's looking up.' Derek mused aloud with a smile on his face. 'When I asked if she was okay, she said she was spaced out not that she was in pain so I guess you can say Penelope is coming back strong.'

'That was exactly my plan.' Reid retorted quietly with a slightly smile on his lips.

'Was all of our plan as well and I think its working.' Rossi replied satisfied as all was definitely looking up on their horizons.