Disclaimer: I don't own a thing! *sobs*

A/N:As promised... the epilogue to a HEA!

Sorry about no update last night, I went Christmas shopping after I was done at Uni and well by the time I got home I was just too tired and nothing got written... BUT... I hope this makes up for it! =)

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- This Time Won't You Save Me? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Penelope danced around the house, smiling from ear to ear, she couldn't contain herself, she just wanted to sing and dance with how happy she was. She shuffled over to the stereo and just turned the music up louder and went back to tidying, restraining herself in any way possible.

She was waiting for Derek to get home, she was clock watching, something she still hadn't learnt was a good thing.

She looked at her wedding photo and her heart blossomed, there she was in white, Derek's arms wrapped around her as they danced to their first dance at, technically, their second wedding.

Penelope looked at the look on Derek's face, the entire thing still made her want to sob at the happiness she felt that day. How in love, and how loved, she truly felt.

Every day since, the entire 4 months of it, which might not have sounded a lot to anyone, meant more than the world itself to her.

She remembered everything that had happened all those months ago, she felt it sinful to forget them, to allow herself to escape the good, the bad, and the scariest moments of her life. She needed to keep that time of her life with her. She needed to remember how near death she'd been made to believe she'd gotten to make herself feel truly alive.

"You look absolutely beautiful," Was all Derek told her as he drew her close to his chest, swaying her to slow music as all attention was on them, "absolutely stunning."

Penelope smiled as she looked at him, her smile never dying in the slightest. "I feel even more beautiful as Penelope Morgan; Penelope Garcia just never quite cut it."

"Lies," he murmured at her softly, his look turning sexual, his eyes watching hers with absolute want, "Penelope Garcia was absolutely stunning, gorgeous, beautiful, now Penelope Morgan is all that instilled in perfection forever."

Penelope blushed and diverted her eye contact, her eyes welling at the moment they were captured in.

"Look up at me, Bay Girl." He said and as soon as he said it, a tear fell down her cheek and she slowly looked up, "stop the tears, this was just a formality, nothing was stopping this big do, we've been married 1 months already."

Penelope tilted her head, her eyes streaming, "I just wanted this for so long, and I always had these day dreams of someone else being the woman that you married, when all along, for you, I was that woman."

"Always." He verified and leant in a kissed her, claiming her doubts as his and making them vanish, "Mine for life, wife."

In that Penelope got lost.

She sighed contently and snapped herself out of her dreamlike taste as she looked at the clock, seeing that she had lost more time day dreaming than ever before she rushed upstairs and got herself ready for her husband's arrival home from work.

Now the nerves cracked, and taking clothes off and mastering buttons became a hardship. She fumbled about and finally found herself getting changed and just in time, she heard the engine before she saw it and as she looking out of the window she relaxed at the mere sight of Derek getting off of his motorcycle.

She ran to the door, slipping on the red heels and then hit a button on the wall that controlled all the lights and dimmed them; putting on the music she rushed down some of the stairs and stood in wait as Derek put the key into the front door.

She watched him walk in, head bowed, his bag hitting the floor as he toed off his boots and her little grin grew at how oblivious he was to her standing there.

"Hey Handsome," she spoke up, her tone low, husky, alluring to his eyes.

Derek's head snapped up and instantly she could see he was tired, and if she wasn't mistaken she could see, just from his eyes, that he was suffering from a headache right at this moment. He noticed that her look of seduction dropped and he wanted that back, needed her right now.

"Well hello there Little Miss Sexy." He said as he prowled towards her, his eyes igniting and losing the dull pain look on them. "What have I got here?" He asked her rhetorically as he made it to the bottom of the stairs and eyed her up fully, taking in her lack of clothes, her painted nails, her done make up, her perfected hair.

"Well..." she said as went down the stairs towards him, her walk slow. "I thought that my man would like some loving and this wife needs some loving back." She made it to the bottom step, and put her hand to his chest, "so extra loving."

Derek smirked, liking the idea already, "What have you in mind mamma?"

"Well Daddy, I think I'll let you take charge." She said and used a totally new nickname, she watched the doubt and caution of the matter cast across Derek's face, and her smile grew, "you heard right, Daddy." She said using it again.

Derek remained speechless, not really knowing whether to laugh or cry in that moment.

"Just gonna look at me like that, Hot Stuff?" She asked him coyly and tilted her head, as though knowing exactly what his mind was running through at that moment.

Derek nodded.

"Why?" She asked him, her voice almost teasing him, and leant in, "Is it because we're going to have a rugrat running around in, oooh, about 6 months?"

Derek began to chuckle as he sensed her excitement, "you woman are amazing!" He said and pulled her close, kissing her greedily, not seeming to sate his addiction for her. "I've been waiting to hear this for too long!"

"You know me," she said as he kissed his lips tenderly, "I like to keep you waiting just to get your blood up." She teased him.

"Oh and don't you love your comeuppance for such behaviour."

"Mmmhmm," she told purred at him, fully ready for this punishment. She put her head to the side, a hand going to the back of his head, while one remained wrapped around his neck, she bit her lip as she thought, her lips curling into a slight curve as she did so.

"What you thinking about, Baby?" He asked her gently, wanting to know what he couldn't read on her at that moment.

Penelope parted her lips, breathing in the silence for a moment before speaking at all.

"For so long I just wanted to scream at you for not helping me, I wanted to ask you why this time you wouldn't save me, but in the end you did." Penelope told him tearfully, "you really saved me."

Derek felt the lump in his throat hardened, "how?"

"I could've sunk, Derek, I could've given up when I found out the truth but the love we share kept me afloat, it kept me looking forward, it gave me hope." She smiled brightly at him, "and now, here, with you, in our house, all I can dream of is the future because it's now happening! I'm living my happily ever after and that's all down to you."

"I'm thankful I saved you then." Derek said and picked her up, letting her wrap her legs around his waist as he pushed her against the wall, readying to seduce her and make love to her all night long. "Because I'm finally living my happily ever after, Baby Girl."

Once again Penelope found herself lost at the hands of Derek, and she decided if there was ever a time and a place to get lost in life, it was here, in her happily ever after.

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- This Time Won't You Save Me? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

A/N:THE ENNND!

I wanna thank everyone that stuck in there and loved this story... and I won't apologise for the tissues needed at the beginning ;)