Disclaimer: I own nothing because I'm not cool (or rich) enough!
A/N: I'd like to thank Harleyzgirl, for helping me out when I felt a writer's block occurring. Slept on it and I'm back but have made decisions.
There is only one more chapter after this.
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"Hey Butter Cup." Penelope cooed as she dressed her daughter. "Coming home today." She continued to say and felt Derek loop his arms around her waist and hug her tightly.
In the following 2 weeks, they watched they daughter go from strength to strength. Derek had watched Penelope bond and Penelope had watched Derek do the same. It was a sight they both loved.
Annabelle definitely now recognised who was who within the visitors, calming almost instantly to Penelope's touch mostly, Derek's was a knee jerk reaction, he just had to be near and she was calm and happy.
Derek loved that Penelope now had a confidence to her, there was no doubt, there was no worry, there was no negativity towards the idea of being a mom. She was completely in her aura now and he loved to see it. He'd never let anyone know just how special he felt to know that his first born child was with Penelope, his Baby Girl from day one, the one woman that got his worn down tortured soul and restored it. Her burst of love for life had given him a reason and renewed his faith daily. Now between her and his daughter, he was ready to go back to work and fight.
Just this time he had more of a reason to go home. He had a future wife and a perfect daughter to go home to, a reason to dodge a bullet, a meaning of life to not be the hot headed agent.
The lead the nurse that had over seen all of Annabelle's treatment walked in to see Derek holding Penelope as she did the poppers up of Annabelle's baby pink baby grow, that already declared she was a Momma's Girl.
"I think me and Annabelle need to give you two a room." The pair separated and the nurse laughed. "It's a good sight, months like this usually make couples become distant, it nice to see you two sticking together."
"Can't see why my precious little girl would push us apart." Derek cooed at Annabelle lovingly. The nurses had all commented on how he spoke to her and they'd all fallen more in love with the dynamics of Belle's parents, Belle herself and Derek to top it all.
"It happens." She commented and smiled at them; she looked at Annabelle and sparked to life. "Right, the discharge papers for this gorgeous girl are being wrote up as we speak, I've just gotta give her one more once over and she's free to head home."
"Is that before or after you and the others ladies attempt to kidnap her?" Penelope joked. She loved having a child that made people fall in love.
"Who told you?" She quipped as did her job. "We'll let you go free, but we want visits."
"I think you're more family after the last couple of months of support." Derek commented as he pulled Penelope close to him as they waited. "I'm sure there's a Christening to come."
"You see, the thing we want to see most is your wedding. We've had our own little love story here and we've loved it. We want to see it sealed."
"I think it can be arranged." Penelope told her happily as she waited.
Moments later the nurse stepped back and allowed Penelope to pick Annabelle up. Now their life could resume. Derek waited for Penelope to be ready with Belle in her arms and he picked up the carrier and the bags and they left the room that had become almost a second home for them, Belle's first home.
Both Penelope and Derek knew it'd be weird going to bed tonight and waking up knowing that their little girl was close and they didn't need to get up and go to the hospital to wait for news on when she'd get to come home.
They knew their life was well underway when the pair jumped out of their SUV and got their things, Derek getting Belle out while Penelope grabbed the bags and ran and opened the door.
"Mamma Morgan!" She called out with the keys between her teeth as she put the bags down. "We come bearing a little person!" Derek chuckled as he listened to Penelope, he knew that from now on life was going to be even more unexpected and he couldn't wait. It offered him a thrill he had never had the chance to have before.
"Is that my grandbaby you have there?" Fran asked as she put the tea towel down and left the kitchen, she'd been waiting on the pair and now she was oozing sentimental feelings and overwhelming needs to hold her granddaughter.
"You know it Ma." Derek said as he placed the baby carrier on the middle of the couch, Penelope swooping in immediately to get her out and carry her around the house.
"Welcome to your new home baby." Penelope said and Annabelle began to cry. "Shh, it's okay honey, Mamma's got you." She soothed and she ran through a mental list of what could be wrong. At first she put it down to the new, strange environment but when she didn't get used to it Penelope thought harder. "You hungry baby?" She asked and in an instance Derek passed over a blanket and Penelope got comfortable in the armchair, when she felt the baby latch on again and suckle, the crying stopping instantly she knew she'd guessed right. "You're gonna grow to be huge soon. You drink way too much." She quipped sarcastically as she sat there and waited.
Derek watched as Penelope sat there looking like years of perfection had taken place, not two weeks. "She's a growing girl."
"I want her to stay this little." Penelope told him with a slight pout, her eyes going all puppy dog.
"Well, Baby Girl, what you want and what you get are two totally different things."
"Oh, on the contrary, Mon Cher, they're not always." Derek looked at her and saw the devilish look in her eyes, her lips slicked into a smirk. "I've gotten everything I wanted lately, making that theory a total and utter lie. I got the man I've wanted, and I got a perfect child out of it. What I want, I get."
"You sound like a petulant child." He told her as sat on the coffee table.
"A little bit of petulance never hurt anyone, Cup Cake. Let's say it helps the world go round." Penelope told him back with assurance to every word. "I'm sure I'll see more than one petulant tantrum from you in the years to come."
"Decades to come more like." He told her and kissed her and walked out of the room with a big grin on his lips.
That lip curl of his didn't drop at all. Not even when later that night they were back and forth between them looking after Annabelle. He might be tired, and Penelope might be getting grouchy but he'd never been happier with the family life. He was well made for it.
He watched Penelope fall onto the bed completely spent and she looked at him and smiled brightly in the dim lighting of their room. "I think I'm more programmed to wake up at set times now." Penelope told him a week later. "She's completely settled."
"I think this is the start of her sleeping routine settling in. I think it's safe to say our daughter knows she home." He said as he got on top of Penelope and then brought his lips to her neck. "Now I know you're tired and want sleep and..."
".." Penelope near enough challenged him, she'd waited too long and now she had him she wanted him. "Handsome. I've waited much, much, much too long."
"Don't I know it." He told her and began to pull her vest top off, throwing it down he looked at her bare breasts and he felt a rush of warmth filter into his system. "I've waited much too long for this for sure." He decided in agreement with her.
"What the whole of like 9ish months?" Penelope quipped as she pulled him down.
"Is too long to have this much perfection." Derek said as he quickly and swiftly removed his trousers and boxers and then Penelope's and then he straddled her lying figure and began to ravish her body. "Your body hasn't been worshiped enough by me." Penelope heard him say as he made each new moment tantalising, building both of them up.
"You've got a life time to make up for it, Stud." Penelope told him in a whisper into the night filled room.
"Oh and how I'll make up for it." He said as he finally gained entrance and thrust into her. Penelope felt him and had forgotten how good this had felt. Derek was a perfect size, a fulfilling size; Derek Morgan was perfection in every single area of her life.
As Derek came to end he realised that he'd never do better and he never wanted to. Penelope was enough, and more, for him, she'd keep him happy because she always was the one to keep his spirits high and keep him afloat.
The moment their somewhat silenced love making ended Derek pulled Penelope in his arms and covered them both with the sheet on the bed. He kissed Penelope's lips again and she snuggled as he kept a hold of her.
"Love you always." Derek whispered to her and she smiled and whispered it back. He then let his eyes fall closed and sleep cascade in.
The moment he and Penelope drifted off to sleep Annabelle broke into a cry, waking up both parents. They lay there staring at one another, just making out one another in the darkness.
"It's your turn." They both said at the same time. "No, I did it..." They ended up laughing at one another as they knew this was going to be never ending.
Both ended getting up to check on Annabelle, the routine could start the following night. Tonight they'd both go see to their baby girl.
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A/N: Right, I know it's shorter but I've battled a massive virus on my laptop! One that threatened to wipe my entire hard drive! I would not have been a happy bunny had that happened! But we're safe! =D
Hope you liked!