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So the last one was pretty happy compared to the other ones. This one will be even happier :) Thanks for the reviews and I hope you enjoy this one!
"Mr. Morgan, you can take your daughter to see your fiancee now if you would like," Dr. Swanson said as he was checking off Derek's charts. "She woke up a little while ago and we were just running some tests to see if everything was sound."
Derek sat up straighter. It had been two days since they'd been taken into the hospital and the entire time Penelope had been unconscious. He himself felt fine after a few days of recuperating. He'd also spent the last two days taking care of his daughter - who still didn't have a name yet - and waiting for news about Penelope's condition. Now that she was awake, he could go see her.
"So, could you get a wheelchair for me?" he asked. "If I could, I'd like to see her now. Please."
"Let me get a nurse and you can head on over right now," he said. "She was asking for you and the baby. As soon as she woke up she was trying to get out of the room. Then he was out of the room and returned with a nurse and a wheelchair. Rising from his bed with the doctor's assistance, Derek went to sit in the wheelchair. The nurse went to the small crib that his daughter was sleeping in a mere few feet from him. She placed her gently in his arms and Derek smiled widely almost instantly.
"Hey little girl!" he cooed. "Are you ready to go see your Mommy? 'Cause I know she's ready to see you." As the nurse wheeled him down the hall, they ran into Hotch and Reid. "Hey guys!" he said. "We were just going to see Penelope. You coming?"
Reid grinned. "We would never miss the opportunity to see our favorite technical analyst," he said.
"Good," Derek said with a grin. They headed towards the elevator and all boarded it to head downstairs. The entire time Derek rambled on to his daughter about how much she was going to love her mother Even Hotch smiled about it. When the elevator dinged on the level they were getting out at, the nurse started wheeling him down a corridor and stopped outside a room before wheeling him in. Penelope was laying her hospital bed with her eyes closed and her head leaning back.
"Hey Baby Girl," Derek called. "You've got some visitors."
Immediately Penelope's eyes snapped open and she adjusted her glasses so that she could see clearly. When she saw that it was Derek and their daughter, a bright grin covered her face. Tears floated on the surface of her eyes and she murmured, "Derek, I'm so glad to see you! What happened? Did Alexandrovitch hurt you or the baby?" She kept on rambling until Derek put a hand on her knee.
"Motor Mouth," he laughed, "calm down. He stabbed me a little, but it's fine." He held up their daughter and added, "Hold your daughter, Baby Girl."
The moment Derek placed their baby in Penelope's arms happy tears started to roll down her cheeks. She cradled their daughter in her arms as if she were life itself and stroked her index finger down her cheek. "She's so beautiful," Penelope whispered. Glancing up at Derek, she murmured, "Derek, she's perfect."
Derek leaned up and put his elbows on the bed, staring dreamily at both his girls. "Just like her mother," he said lovingly. "You know, she's got your eyes?"
Penelope nodded and looked back down at her. "I did happen to see that," she whispered. "Did you name her yet?" She shook her head. "I can't believe I didn't ask that first."
He shook his head. "No," he said. "I didn't want to do it without you. But I did have a couple of ideas."
"What did you come up with?" she asked.
Blushing, he said, "Well, I did a little research while you were out and she was sleeping and I found one that I thought might work." He paused a moment. "Ellie. It is a shortening of something like 'Ellen' or 'Helen' or something like that, but they've got the same meaning. It means 'light'."
Penelope was quiet for a moment, but then she looked up and smiled widely at Derek. "It's perfect. She is light."
"She's our light," Derek added.
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Hotch and Reid retreated out of the room while Penelope and Derek bonded with the now-named baby, Ellie. The two of them were in their own little world and neither Hotch or Reid wanted to interrupt the tender moment.
"They look so happy," Reid sighed happily, leaning against the wall outside Penelope's hospital room. They were waiting outside for Rossi, Blake, and JJ and Will to come as they were eager to meet Ellie for real. They also wanted to see Penelope and Derek in a non-panicking setting. "I'm very much looking forward to this wedding. It's going to be beautiful."
Hotch cocked an eyebrow at Reid. "You know, I never took you for such a romantic, Reid," he said. "Rossi told me about the 'spirit of love' you mentioned while you were bush whacking to find the ring Derek had tossed into the bushes. You never cease to amaze me."
Reid smiled smugly. "Well, you know," he said. "I have to have something to pull out when I see a cute girl. I just so happened to use it in the context of Morgan and Garcia."
"Well, it was very fitting," Hotch commented.
"Hey guys!"
Reid and Hotch turned around to see the rest of the team and Will coming towards them. "We went to Derek's room," JJ said, "but they told us that he'd been allowed to Penelope's room and that Penelope had woken up." Her face was covered in a large smile.
Smiles were covering the faces of all the BAU team that day.
"They named her," Reid said. "Ellie. It means 'light'."
"That's so wonderful," Blake said, looking in the room at Penelope and Derek holding Ellie and cooing to her. "They look so happy."
Rossi nodded. "Hey, quick question," he said, looking at Hotch specifically.
"Hmm?"
"What happened to that bitch Jackie?" Rossi asked. "She doesn't seem the type to go incredibly quiet."
JJ smiled wickedly and satisfactorily. "Oh, that poison is locked up nice and tight at the local precinct. She lawyered up pretty quickly, but there's enough evidence to keep her in prison until that miserable life of hers is over. As for the other thugs, they're getting locked up too. There's no chance they won't."
Blake shook her head. "How could one woman get so messed up so would take another woman's baby by stealing her out of another woman's womb?" she said, shaking her head.
"Her profile was easy on the outside, but my guess is there is way more to Jackie Stone than we will understand right now," Rossi said. "But we should't talk about that bitch right now. We should just focus on the happiness of the occasion. After all, the birth of a Morgan-Garcia baby was something that was a long time coming."
"Nine years is a long time to dance around a person," Hotch said. "Way, way too long."
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"Garcie, she's so beautiful!" JJ cooed, looking down at her goddaughter. "She's so healthy looking too for being a month early."
"I'm just glad Jackie and her father didn't have the opportunity to hurt her," Penelope said in a relieved tone. It had been three days since she'd woken up and the doctor had deemed it safe for Penelope to breast feed Ellie. Currently the baby was suckling away.
JJ sighed. "You're so going to be a good mommy," she said.
"I learned some tricks from you," Penelope said, winking at her friend. She looked around. "Say...where did Henry go off to?"
JJ jerked her thumb in the direction of the door. "He went to grab a snack from the vending machine," she said. "He'll be back soon."
A knock sounded from the door and Derek came in with a smile on his face and a drink carrier of coffee. Penelope gave a moan of approval. "Oh my God, Hot Stuff!" she cooed. "You brought me coffee! You are the most wonderful man in the world!" She grinned brightly.
Derek distributed the coffees to JJ and Penelope before sitting down next to Penelope's bed. "I know," he said. "I'm sent from heaven." He glanced at Ellie. "How's the Princess doing?"
"Oh, Lordy," Penelope said, shifting Ellie in her arms slightly. "Hungry, hungry, hungry."
Derek smiled. "You're doing just fine with her," he said.
"Hey, so how long until I can get out of here?" she asked Derek desperately. "I just want to go home. Our real home. I hate those stupid apartments we've been staying in."
Derek took her hand and gave it a squeeze. "I'll talk to the doctor," he said. As he was about to get up, Ellie unlatched her mouth from Penelope's breast and let out a small yawn. And then she raised her little hands in the air and smiled at her mother, her little tongue poking out of her mouth.
Penelope's eyes went wide. "Derek!" she exclaimed. "Derek, she just smiled at me! I know babies can smile very soon after being born, but I didn't think it would happen for us!" Her eyes were watery and they met Derek's gaze.
It was a moment of happiness that neither Derek or Penelope would ever forget.
