Ignoring her screaming muscles from the night before, Penelope unlocks and swings opens the front door for Kylie. The teenager walks into the house and shimmies off her sweater draping it over her arm.
Derek stands on the middle step of the staircase. The first thing his eyes land on is how huge Kylie's stomach has become since he last saw her. He couldn't believe his eyes, his sons baby was growing in there.
His grandchild.
It still didn't sound right to him. Derek was pushing the age of 50 in four years, but being called 'grandpa' made him feel officially old.
"How did you sleep last night? Is the baby alright?" Penelope asked Kylie.
"Eh, I tossed and turned most of the night. I couldn't get comfortable." She felt embarrassed.
Penelope rubbed her shoulder. "It's okay love, DJ will return home soon and you'll get peaceful sleep again."
"Not with the baby waking up at all times of the night wanting to be fed or changed."
Kylie's head snapped up in the direction of Derek. She knew Derek was back at home but she wasn't necessarily ready to face him, on her own without DJ.
She gulped.
"Nice to see you too." Derek joked as he began his descent down the stairs.
Penelope gave Derek a warning look, silently telling him to behave.
"Hi Mr. Morgan." Kylie said shyly. Derek always made her feel a bit uncomfortable. Though DJ was a boy, Derek still protected him like he would his daughter when it came to dates and such.
Derek came to stand by his wife. He leaned in to whisper something in her ear. Penelope knew her husband was doing this on purpose to make Kylie feel unwelcome which wasn't cool.
Penelope rolled her eyes and was embarrassed at how her husband was acting. She had hoped that he would behave, but it seemed he was still going to be childish.
"Come on honey, let's get you and the baby some breakfast." She ushered Kylie to walk towards the kitchen.
Derek opened the door and stepped out front to go and fetch the mail. It was chilly outside but the air was crisp and fresh. He welcomed in the breeze and was slightly hypnotized by the sound of the wind chimes dancing in the distance.
Thumbing threw the few letters of mail, he heard the sound of a garage door opening. He looked up to see his neighbor Emily, across the street, driving down her driveway.
"Morning princess!"
Emily spotted him and smiled. She stuck her head out the window. "Well aren't you chipper this morning" she teased giving him that knowing smirk.
Derek blushed a little though he's grateful she can't see thanks to his skin color.
"It's early, where you off too?"
"Wouldn't you like to know?" She parked and stepped out of her car.
Derek chuckled and shook his head. "Never mind. You're no fun."
Emily bends down and balls up a fist of snow. She throws it at Derek landing it square in the middle of his chest.
His jaw dropped and he looked at the spot where the snow landed. Was she serious?
Emily had a mix of amusement and uncertainty on her face. No fun? She'll show him some fun. She wasn't sure of the reaction Derek was going to give her, but whatever the result she was prepared for it.
"Emily Prentiss, don't start something you can't finish." He bent over and quickly made two snow balls that he sent sailing her way hitting her with a smack.
"Oh it's on!"
Kylie noticed the snowballs flying back and forth across the street from the living room window and stopped what she was doing.
"What the..?" She began to giggle and Penelope was curious to know what was so funny.
"Penelope look." She pointed. "It looks like Mr. Morgan has found his inner child."
Penelope laughed with Kylie. "Good lord. They've gone mad."
The women hurried out of the house to join in.
A dust of snow came flying Derek's way from a side angle, halting him. He turned to see his wife who had guilty written all over her face.
"Penelope Morgan," he wagged his finger back and forth as he took steps toward her with a grin on his face. "If you're gonna be on my team, you're gonna need to know how to properly make a snowball!"
"PG! I call Penelope, Derek. Now leave her alone." Emily laughed.
Penelope stuck her tongue out at her husband and dashed across the street.
Kylie wasn't sure where she got her courage from all of a sudden but the pleased look Derek gave her when he saw her standing to his right with a huge snowball in hand, made her smile.
"Ready?" He asked.
She nodded.
"Go!"
More snowballs whizzed across the street. The four of them were having a blast, not paying much attention to their surroundings unless a car was passing by.
"What's going on?" Jessie asked her girlfriend as her mom was pulling up to the curb watching the snowball fight in front of her.
Tara smiled from the backseat and was eager to jump out of the car and join in on the fun.
"Oh my god, Is that your dad?" Jessie's mouth hung open in shock. She never seen this side of Morgan, accept only when her girlfriend would talk about him.
Tara giggled and opened the car door. "Come on Jessie!" She jumped out the car. "Bye Ms. Issac." She waved off Jessie's mother and sprinted off.
Jessie watched Derek stop what he was doing and give his daughter a big hug. The grins on their faces were identical and the sight warmed her heart.
"Maybe Mr. Morgan isn't so bad." She shrugged and stepped of out of the car.
"Bye mom. I'll be home later."
Penelope was freezing but the fun she was having temporarily blocked that feeling out. She saw Tara run to her daddy with a grin on her face that she hadn't seen since he left.
If she wasn't in the middle of a war, a happy tear drop probably would have slid down her cheek.
"Oh no ya don't, Jessie! Get over here!" Prentiss waved her over with conviction.
Jessie laughed and jogged across the street.
"That's it, let's move in on him." Emily signaled for the girls to make steps towards Derek on the other side of the street.
Sensing the change in his opponents, Derek motioned for his teammates to move in behind him. Whether he's out in the field with a loaded gun and a pysco unsub on the loose, or in his front yard in a friendly war of a snowball fight, Derek Morgan will always be the hero, putting himself first in harms way so he can protect those around him.
"Kylie now!" Derek shouted out to focus the girls attention on her as a decoy.
Immediately, Tara jumped out of nowhere and pushed a wheel barrow full of snow and dumped it in front of the ladies blocking them from coming any closer.
Derek and Kylie threw more snowballs at the offending team and it was safe to say they had won the match.
Everyone laughed and agreed to go inside to get warm. Penelope and Emily made way towards the kitchen while everyone lounged around the living room warming up.
"Daddy that was such an awesome plan. We creamed them!" Tara finished with a punch into her hand.
Derek chuckled and couldn't help but to notice how close his daughter and Jessie were sitting next to each other on the couch.
"That was a lot of fun Mr. Morgan. I must admit, I didn't know you had it in you..." Kylie mused.
Jessie looked over at Derek expecting him to say something to shut her down. She knew Kylie didn't mean for that to slip from her mouth.
Derek rubbed his chin for a min and grinned. "You know, I didn't know I had it in me either. It's been rough these past couple of months and I've become more of a monster than I normally am-"
"Ah come on dad, you're not a monster" Tara whined.
"Just a minute baby. Let me finish baby."
Tara relaxed some in her seat and rested her hand on Jessie's thigh.
"I owe you ladies an apology..."
It seemed the room became quiet as Penelope and Emily stopped their movement in the kitchen and turned their attention to Derek.
"For the rest of my life I will be apologizing in more ways than one for my actions... No I'm not beating myself up over this, I'm just not in denial about the pain I've caused my family. I was selfish and acted like a child instead of the big bad wolf I normally am." He teased which got a giggle from Tara who got up from her seat to come and sit next to her father.
"Kylie, you're a sweet sweet girl. A beautiful intelligent girl at that ...and I wouldn't want anybody else pregnant with my sons child. I've treated you with nothing but disrespect ever since I heard the news and that is not fair, nor my character at all. I honestly don't know where that attitude and behavior came from. I guess it's just fear of losing my little boy who's becoming a man now and denial that he messed up." He shrugged. "I'm not calling the blessing growing in your stomach a mistake," he continued. "I'm saying I made the mistake of giving my son so much damn freedom and not being hard on the both of you when I knew what you two were doing behind closed doors."
Kylie's cheek flushed red of embarrassment. Being pregnant made it clear that her and DJ were sleeping around, but it still was an awkward subject to go over with a parent.
"And Jessie,"
Jessie was shocked to hear her name. She had no clue what Mr. Morgan was gonna say.
"I wanna thank you for being here for my little girl, keeping her company and such..." He flashed her his trademark smile.
Jessie's heart warmed, but to not show emotion, she squinted her eyes towards him. "Mr Morgan is that you? What did you do with the guy I know?" She laughed and her joking made everyone else laugh.
On the under, Derek liked this girl. She was brave, blunt, and bold. The triple B's. He liked that in a female. Especially, in this case, a female that has the hots for his daughter.
"Breakfast is ready!" Penelope said cheerfully walking into the dining room with a tray of already made plates.
Derek went to get up but was tugged back down by his daughter who whispered in his ear. She said she needed to show him something later which heightened his curiosity. Before he could ask any questions, Tara jumped up and grabbed Jessie's hand so she could lead her to the dinning room.
"Did you mean it?" What you said just a minute ago? That you wouldn't want anybody else pregnant with your sons child?"
Derek nodded his head affirmative and reached out his hand gently placing it on Kylie's shoulder.
"I know I've given you a lot of shit ever since you came into my sons life and I'm sorry for that."
"I thought you hated me. DJ swore to me over and over again that that wasn't true. He told me you were afraid that I'd distract him."
"That's true. I know what it's like at your age. If Penelope was in my life back then, I probably would have never went to college or worked for the BAU. And I'm sure we probably would of had about 5 kids by now." he chuckled.
"I never meant to ruin DJ's life..." she bowed her head in shame.
Derek made her look up at him. "You listen to me, and you listen to me good. You didn't ruin anything. He's in there because of his own choices. Like I said earlier, you're an intelligent woman and regardless of having a baby during your teens or later, you're not gonna let it get in the way of your education and future career."
Kylie bit down on her lip and couldn't meet eyes with Derek.
"What?" Concern what written on his face.
"Um..I..Uh.." She didn't know what to say.
Like any father would look at his child when demanding an answer, Derek folded his arms in front of him and waited.
"Well," she wrings her hands together. "I sorta ...dropped out of school?"
For a split second Derek saw red. He had to bite his tongue to hold back from cussing. He debated if he should ask her to repeat herself. Give her a chance to redeem her words. His face must have shown his anger because Kylie looked a bit terrified.
"Penelope!" he called out. "Penelope get in here!"
Penelope came rushing from the dining room. "Yes baby?" She asked cautiously hearing the anger in her husbands tone.
"You let her drop out of school?" He barked over his shoulder not turning to look at her.
Penelope locked eyes with Kylie and was slightly taken aback.
"Is that what she told you hot stuff?" She placed a hand on her hip. "I would never-"
"She didn't know. I didn't tell her. Technically I didn't tell anybody.." Kylie ended her words in a whisper.
"Kylie what's going on?" Pen asked gently, throwing a warning glance at Derek to not speak as she moved in on the teenager.
"Everybody hates me! The students, the staff.. They're all so mean!" She cried. "Just a few months ago I was the popular girl, running student council, being treated with the utmost respect. And then this happened" She holds her belly as the tears begin to stream down her newly chubby cheeks.
"Aw sweetie" Penelope enveloped her in a hug. Derek felt bad for her because he knew kids at school could be cruel, but he couldn't get over the fact that she thought it was okay to drop out of school.
He remained quiet for a little while longer, letting her get it all out before taking the floor.
"Kylie."
"Derek" Penelope voiced in another warning.
"No Penelope, stop it. Quit babying her for just a moment. She made the conscious decision to drop out of school, she's grown.."
Pen released Kylie from her arms and backed away.
"Whats your plan?" he asked bluntly.
"What?"
"Your plan, come on, don't act stupid.."
"Derek!" Penelope hissed.
He put his hand up to stop her. There was a method to his madness.
Kylie didn't like the tone Derek was using on her, but it reminded her of how her father used to discipline her.
"I'm not stupid." She mumbled.
Derek put his hand up to his ear. "What was that?"
"I'm not stupid! I'm smart. I'm so smart I'm going to own a chair at city hall and be apart of their team!"
"And how do you plan on getting there?"
"College of course!"
"Oh! Ya don't say? So in order to be accepted into college don't you have to uh, whats it called baby?"
"Get a diploma"
"That's it, a diploma. Where are you going to get that from?"
Kylie swallowed her tongue. She didn't see that coming. She understood what Derek had just done. Now she felt stupid.
"You sure are quiet all a sudden. Can I buy a vowel?"
"Stop it." She whined. "Okay I get it, I need to finish school."
"Mhm, so Monday morning you will be going back to school, do you understand me?"
She nodded.
"Staying under my roof has rules, and school is the main one."
"But the teasing. What do I do about it?"
Penelope cupped her chin "You ignore it. You're going to be a mother in a few months. Do you think mom's have time to pay attention to negativity from others? No, they ignore it and take care of their business."
Derek added, "I know it hurts...when people you thought were your friends change on you, but instead of dwelling on their words, turn their negatives into positives. Allow their ignorance to push you through so you can succeed by getting A's and B's, to be closer to graduation and your goal career."
Penelope rubbed Kylies back and silently agreed with her husband.
"Better yet," Derek continued. "Next time someone says something crazy to you, tell them to shove it up their ass!" He said with no care in the world getting a laugh from Kylie and a shake of the head from Penelope.
"Excuse me, but the food is getting cold." Prentiss stood by the arch that lead into the dining room.
Kylie turned around and hugged P, then walked over to Derek who opened his arms for her to give him a hug as well.
"Thank you for putting my butt in gear." she whispered.
"No problem. You got a hard head like my son. You need some authority every now and then."
She smiled and tucked a strand of hair behind her ear before waddling into the dining room.
"Everything okay?" Em asked
"For now." Derek answered.
Penelope rubbed her arms and turned towards the window looking out. Derek was going to go to her side when Em stopped him and silently told him to allow her.
He nodded and patted Emily on the back before heading into the dining room for his breakfast.
"You okay PG?"
Penelope didn't respond immediately but she shrugged. So much was going through her mind. She wondered if Derek blamed her for what happened to their son.
"Is all of this my fault?"
Prentiss mouth flew open. "Honey, NO.." She gave Penelope a side hug. "Nobody blames you ...but you, and you need to stop it or else it will eat you."
Penelope rubbed her arms faster as two tear drops slid down her cheek.
Em rubbed her back and leaned her head against hers. She hated to see her friend down and out.
After breakfast, Derek was sitting on the couch watching football. He was in his favorite chair and had the tv volume turned up so loud, his family knew that he was not to be bothered.
Penelope had walked back across the street with Emily and rode with her into town to run some errands, while Kylie had went upstairs to take a nap.
"Okay dare." Tara said as she stared her girlfriend in the face.
They were upstairs in her room playing an innocent game of truth or dare, but little did Tara know, it was about to become intense.
"Hmm.." said the 15 year old who tapped her finger against her chin. Jessie had many ideas in her head of what she wanted to dare her girlfriend to do, from prank calling a boy name Collin who she knew she had a crush on before they started dating, to daring her to make out with her against the wall.
Tara cocked her head to the side. Usually, she was good at reading Jessie but the flash of heat in her eyes confused her.
"Syrup. I dare you to lick chocolate syrup off of my body."
Tara's eyes went wide. Was she serious?
"Right here? Right now?"
Jessie snorted in amusement. "No baby, tomorrow.. duh!"
Tara wasn't the one to throw in the towel during games, dares, or challenges. Though she knew better of it, since she was at home and her father was just down the stairs, she stuck her nose in the air and got up off her bed to head downstairs to get the syrup. She was going to do it.
Jessie was floored. She wanted this badly or else her mind wouldn't of came up with it, but she didn't think it through and thought her girlfriend would for sure refuse.
"Baby I-"
Tara was already out the room and jogging down the stairs as lightly as possible. Her dad was heavily focused into the game, sitting on the edge of his seat with his hands in fists and a scowl on his face. The ref had just blew his whistle rolling his hand in front of him indicating a fumble. Derek was irritated.
Once in the kitchen, Tara opened the fridge and grabbed the chocolate syrup off the door. She closed the door quietly and began to creep back towards the stairs.
"Sweetie can you bring me another beer." Her father requested.
It stopped her dead in her tracks cause she thought she was unnoticed, but she rolled her eyes at herself. Her father was an FBI agent for god's sake. His senses were always on alert.
Tara re opened the fridge and reached down to the bottom shelf for a beer. Once again closing the door behind her, she sat the chocolate syrup on the counter, not wanting to be questioned for it, and opened a drawer for the bottle opener. She made way to her father and stood beside him as she popped open the top with the bottle opener and handed him the chilled beverage. He looked at her in aw for a moment then tipped the neck to her in thanks and continued watching his game.
Jessie was becoming worried upstairs. With how long it was taking Tara to return to the room, she figured they already were caught. She was about to get up and see what was up when she saw the shadow of her girlfriend sprinting up the stairs.
"Sorry," she whispered. "My dad wanted a beer."
Jessie smiled warmly seeing the syrup bottle and ushered her into the room, closing the door behind them.
Tara turned around and had a glint of a tease in her eyes. She removed her glasses and set them down on her nightstand. "Ready baby?"
Jessie couldn't hide the grin on her face. She pulled her t-shirt up and over her head tossing it aside on the floor. She wore a black sports bra. Though she was young, she had the beginnings of a 4 pack due to pumping iron in the garage with her dad on the weekends.
Tara's eyes raked over her girlfriends perfect stomach and semi muscled arms. She blushed when she made eye contact with Jessie, realizing that she was being watched.
Jessie smirked. She was happy to know that her girl was pleased with what she saw.
"You never specified where you wanted me to lick the syrup off of you" Tara simply said as she began to put her hair in a pony tail so it won't get in the way.
"You're right, I forgot that part." Jessie lied down on her back and folded her arms behind her head.
Tara smirked a knowing smirk. They've never experienced with sweets, but she knew her girlfriend loved to have her breast sucked. Tara wanted to spice things up and she figured since they were here, they might as well enjoy the dare to the fullest, so she reached up and tugged on Jessie sports bra to reveal her breasts.
"Baby no.' Jessie protested. She didn't want to get caught. Derek just admitted to liking her, she didn't want him to have to take that back already.
"Its okay, it'll be quick. You know you want it." She wiggled her brows like her father.
Jessie let out a breath of exhaustion telling Tara she wasn't in the mood to argue so she won the battle.
Tara had a toothy smile. "Great, now where were we?" She pulled open the top and squirted the cold syrup onto Jessie's right boob.
Jessie sucked in a breath of shock, not exactly ready for contact with the cold syrup which made Tara giggle. "Oops, I guess i forgot to say ready" she shrugged and straddled her girlfriends hips before leaning forward on her chest.
Jessie was going to make a smart remark when she was silenced by the flick of Tara's tongue against her nipple. It was nice and made her breath hitch in her throat. Oh yeah, she had picked a great dare.
Tara swirled her tongue around her breast to get chocolate in her mouth before sucking her nipple it into her warm mouth.
Jessie moaned, from being overly sensitive, and Tara whipped up her head giving her a death glare.
"Sorry, sorry.. Go easy on me!" Jessie hissed.
Tara licked and sucked clean all the syrup drawing out moans from her lover. She tried to shush Jessie up by covering her mouth with her hand but it was to no avail.
"Baby you have to be quiet!" Tara hissed, but quickly began to giggle because Jessie licked her hand.
"You try having chocolate sucked off your titty and see how quiet you can be!" Jessie sat up, leaning back against the headboard. She pulled her bra down to cover herself.
Tara smiled feeling proud of herself by bringing her girl pleasure.
During Tara and Jessie's dare, the football game was in halftime so the game was going to commercial. During the flip of programs the tv went silent, which was just enough time for Derek to hear the faint sound of what he thought was a moan. Smashing the mute button to hear better, Derek listened intently to see if he could hear it again.
Jessie was leaned back against the headboard of the bed with Tara in her arms. They gave each other open mouthed kisses with short nips. Jessie wanted more so she coaxed Tara into opening her mouth for her tongue to slide in. Their kiss exploded from sweet and soft, to hard and frantic. They drank from each other like experienced lovers.
Another moan was heard from upstairs. "Oh fuck no." Derek muttered as he tossed the remote control and took the steps two at a time in a hurry to get to his daughters room. Once at the door, with no knock of a warning he damn near ripped the door off the hinges as he swung it open.
Jessie immediately froze.
"Tara Lynn Marie Morgan!" Derek's voice boomed. It brooked no arguments.
Tara felt all the blood drain from her face. She pulled away from Jessie quickly as possible and jumped off the bed.
"Daddy I-"
"Downstairs. Now!" He pointed towards the stairs.
She sprinted towards the door but hesitated for a moment afraid to pass him. She's never been hit by her father, but she was sure this moment called for a good wacking. His eyes flashed with anger and she slithered by nearly running down the staircase.
Jessie visibly gulped. She was shirtless in front of her girlfriends dad. While it should be completely embarrassing, the total fear that crept up her bones had her mind elsewhere and body rooted to the spot. She barely breathed a breath.
"Get dressed and come downstairs." Derek said sternly and walked away towards his bedroom.
Jessie's heart panged in her chest. She crawled off the bed and found her T shirt. She pulled it on and headed for the door. As soon as she hit the hallway and stood at the top of the stairs, she heard the whimpers from her girlfriend. Her heart broke in half and she wanted to rush down the stairs to comfort her but the other part of her wanted to rush down there and bolt for the door.
They were in deep trouble. This was not how either of them intended for her parents to find out they were a couple. The Morgans didn't even know Tara was bisexual. Jessie was sure that Derek was going to put an end to their relationship, as well as friendship - and she was sure he was going to put the blame all on her, for daring his daughter, and badly influencing her ever since they became friends.
Jessie bowed her head in disappointment and began her descent down the stairs. She felt highly guilty and wanted to kick herself. She never meant to set her and her girlfriend up for trouble today, especially since it was going so well. Jessie started praying like hell that Derek would magically say "Congratulations guys, I wish you two the best, no kissing in the house, Now go off and have fun."
She would have laughed at her thoughts but she had reached the main floor of the house and saw Derek standing with his arms crossed in the center of the living room.
Tara had her head hung and was sniffling. Jessie without thinking smartly went towards Tara to sit when Derek blocked her.
"Nuh uh. Over there!" He pointed across the room in the opposite direction for her to sit.
Jessie nodded and slinked over to the sofa couch.
Derek sighed and raked his hand over his bald head. He didn't know where to begin. Did he just catch his pre teen making out with her female friend?
God he needed Penelope. Hurry up P, he thought as he began to tap his foot.
After he sent the girls downstairs, he walked into his bedroom and grabbed his cell to make a call to his wife. Penelope had said she was a few blocks away which settled his nerves a bit. Was he mad? Hell yeah. Once again, another child of his was engaging in a sexual act which obviously had consequences. Of course what Tara and Jessie were doing couldn't do harm nor could she get pregnant from it but still, it was wrong. Not because they were the same sex, god no - Derek wasn't homophobic. He had nothing against the LGBT community, but it did take him by surprise that his daughter was lesbian? He shook his head, nah that cant be right. His daughter danced around the house for quite some time confessing her "love" for some boy by the name of Collin that she crushed on. He rolled his eyes.
Just then the lock to the front door turned and Penelope pushed open the door. She walked in carrying a few shopping bags, but hearing sniffles from her daughter and seeing a sad puppy look on Jessica's face, she looked up at Derek and knew something was terribly wrong. Not necessarily the sad wrong, but a trouble wrong.
"P, we need to talk." He held her eyes with his. "To them." His eyes darted back and forth between the two.
The way her husband waggled his eyebrows and had a teasing glint in his eyes she was completely confused to what he was getting at.
"Okaaay. " She drug out cautiously, sitting the bags down on the floor.
Derek was about to continue when his daughter beat him to the punch.
"Mom, Jessie is my girlfriend.." Tara mustered up the courage to say.
Penelope's eyes went wide as saucers and Derek just blinked.
