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Penelope never felt so at home snuggled into a man's body, her and Derek had slept right through from 3 the previous afternoon but now at 4am she was awake, she wasn't plagued with nightmares more Rossi's words, what if they came back? She didn't want to see them again but she wanted to make sure this happened to no one else.
'How long you been awake?' Derek asked with a gravelly voice, a smile on his face.
'God knows.' He replied with a yawn trying to defuse the questions.
'Well baby, God isn't here but you are, so how long?'
'About an hour.'
'What's on your mind?'
'What if's.' She muttered.
'Like?'
'What if they come back? I've just got you back; I don't want to lose you again.'
'You aren't losing me again.' He said with the hints of a promise in his voice. 'I can lie here and tell you that, I am not going anywhere.'
'I like your promises.' She whispered to him and kissed his bare chest, then she seemed to have a bright spark. 'Bait...' She said sitting up gingerly to look at him. 'They can use us to draw them out; if they didn't succeed they'll want to.'
'Baby...'
'No listen, tracking devices linked up ready, you with me, the team closely followed, what can go wrong?'
'Everything.'
'Us or another couple.' She reasoned with him. 'Just I think with us, we'd be easier.'
'You've been thinking about it for too long.'
'I shouldn't be left to my own mind sometimes angel.' She purred to him with a smile. 'I just think we need to at least try all we can.'
'Well just for now can we please get you less bruised and cut up?'
'Whatever you want stud.'
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'How the fuck did this happen?' One of the men said pacing the length of the dining room. 'This isn't supposed to happen but now it's ruined!'
'Not a lot we can do about it now.' One of the women said.
'Lynette! This can destroy everything we've worked so hard for! Not just my life, but your life, and their life!' He said pointing to the other 3 people in the room.
'Tony you need to calm down.'
'Do not tell me to calm down! We can go down for this!' The man spat out. 'This was the girls turn, so who didn't inject enough?' He turned to the women, his body flared into an angry posture as he approached them. 'Well...'
'I gave him the amount we gave the others.' One of the women said confidently.
'Well Anya... how about you?'
'Me too... exactly what we were told.'
'If I find out either of you is lying then I'll make sure you pay.' He turned to the tall statuesque men to his right. 'Jamie, get finding their exact location. Alan, get me more drugs.' He saw them all about to ask. 'We're rectifying this once and for all.'
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'Let me see.' Derek said as Penelope grabbed clean clothes from her bag that Emily had got her. She turned and looked at him, a little panicked at what he was asking. 'I saw him grab you Pen; I want to see what the bastard did to you.' She approached him and allowed him to lift the top of her pyjamas up; she felt his warm hands run over her sides, the purple bruises fading into yellowing patches. 'Still hurting?'
'From time to time, it's more my ribs than anything, but it feels better now that I'm not feeling worried about not knowing where you were.'
He pulled her down onto his lap and ran a finger around the cut on her forehead. 'I'd say I feel better for having you near me.' He said and kissed her and felt her respond, he smiled at her as they pulled away. 'This definitely what you want?'
'Definitely... I've always wanted you more than anyone else.'
'Good... because I've always wanted you more than the others.' He saw her look away. 'I was a user but now I have what I want and I'm going to make sure I prove that to you.' He saw her smile. 'Now you sure you want to put this option over to Hotch?'
'I do.' She said standing up and grabbing her clothes, she went into his bathroom and out dressed in clean track suit bottoms and cardigan, he followed suit and came out kitted out in jogging bottoms and a t-shirt. 'You know how to take a girl's eyes you know that handsome?'
'How so?'
'Well if it isn't the tight jeans that lead imagination then its tops that tell the whole story.' She said with a smile and went to the bedroom door.
'Baby girl?'
'Mm?'
'I really meant all I said back there, I wouldn't have been happy dying in there without protecting you.'
'I know, but we got out so are you happier?'
'If I can keep protecting you.'
'Well you make me feel protected so come on I'm starved, I want some proper food.' She opened the door and a smell wafted in. 'And from that I'm guessing your mom's cooking?' Derek smiled, lapping up the smell; they followed it and found Hotch and Fran in the kitchen. 'Morning boss man, Mrs Morgan.'
'Call me Fran Dear... how did you both sleep?' Fran asked with a smile.
'Like a baby.' They said in unison and laughed, Hotch watched as Derek pulled Penelope closed, gently, not tight, not reminiscent of what had happened and kissed her hair, he watched Derek close his eyes as he inhaled deeply and drew his attention back to the room. 'So breakfast?'
'Yeah I'm starved.'
'Well, we have everything, so sit.' Hotch told them, reminding himself to ring Rossi about the Strauss issue that was bound to arise. 'Enjoy.' He said as they all sat down and the ravenous pair delved in. 'You weren't joking.'
'Hospital food isn't all it's cut out to be.'
'Cardboard.' Penelope said as she took a slip of her drink. 'It just doesn't hit the spot and tastes like cardboard.'
'Hotch...' Derek started. 'We need to discuss something.'
'I have Rossi onto Strauss.' Hotch told them to take away their worry.
'It's not to do with Strauss Hotch.' Penelope corrected him. 'It's to do with us, and what happened.'
'Right...' All eating stopped, attention now on the pair.
'We want to trick whoever did this... draw them out and get them.'
'No.'
'Hotch hear us out.' Derek near enough pleaded. 'I want Pen to feel safe to go out but you know she isn't going to feel that until we catch them.'
'What about the pair of you in the process? What happens if something happens to either of you?'
'That's where I step up.' Penelope told him poignantly. 'I can sort our GPS trackers for you to follow us, I have the stuff because I was going to make you have them in your watches, but we can put them on something that won't be noticed.'
'How do you mean?'
'My watch got taken.' Derek said holding his arm up that usually had a watch on. 'It'll work, plus if you aren't far behind, what harm can be had?'
'Right then, I want those trackers done today Penelope if you're up for it but that's it, I don't want you to go doing anything until I have the right amount of man power behind it all and the right confirmation from the higher powers.' He said with his boss voice on. 'Got it?'
'Yes sir.' Derek confirmed and attention went to Penelope who smiled brightly.
'Got it boss man.'
