Life's Choices
Chapter 49
First Stop VA
AN: thanks for the reviews I own nothing hope you all enjoy.
"Hey," Lee said with a smile when he opened the door finding Lee, Penelope, and Derek who was holding Aidan, "I said I was fine," he said.
"We were coming here anyway," Pen said with a smile, "And you get to spend some time with your godson," she said.
"Come on in, I'm on the phone, but I'll be in the living room in a minute," Lee said.
"Okay," Pen said before the three them went into the house. It was a two story and according to Nick it had four bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and a huge kitchen. The living room was large as well, they walked in looking around, "Wow, he got nice place," she said.
"He thought we might want to stay sometimes and who knows I might move here one these days, get job at the FBI too, or the police department around here," Nick said looking around.
"It's bigger than you said it was," Derek said going to the back porch carrying Aidan out the door with him.
"Sorry about that, it was my boss, where'd Derek go?" Lee asked.
"Outside, he saw your back deck and well," Pen said with smile.
"Just don't go having sex out there less nobody's here," Lee said already knowing that Penelope was probably planning on finding a way to have sex out there. He knew Penelope and Derek, and by what he'd seen in the past they would end up out there before they left in couple weeks.
"Hey, I have some self control," Derek said coming back inside.
"I was talking about your wife here, or did you forget that I caught you two in Jeff's squad car having sex?" Lee asked.
"Not in front of the baby," Pen said, "And that was your dream," she added with a smile. She remembered that day, it was at the reception, Jeff had parked out back at the diner, they'd snuck to the car and had sex in the back seat and Lee had walked out there catching them. He hadn't said a word just went back inside pretending like he'd never saw anything until now that was.
"There is five bedrooms not including mine, its different house than you thought it was, I moved out here, I liked it better," Lee said.
"We like it too," Derek said, "It has a lot more room I'm guessing," he said.
"Jeff and you taught him too much about houses," Pen said, "He kept telling us about the house when we were outside," she said.
"What do you think?" Lee asked looking at Derek who was looking around at the place.
"It was probably built decade ago, but you fixed it up," Derek said, "Rewired the house up, new kitchen stuff, and that back deck is new," he said.
"You are getting good," Lee said, "I'm working on the upstairs bathroom now, well I was, but as you can see I can't do anything right now," he said, his arm was in a sling at the moment and finishing a bathroom wasn't an option.
"How much you got left on it?" Nick asked.
"Toilet, sink and the tiles gotta come up and I was going to redo the floor in there make it wood," Lee said. Jeff, Dilion, William and Lee had taught themselves how to fix up houses with Dilion and Lee's dad's helping them. Jeff had in return taught Derek everything he knew about fixing up houses, and Lee had taught Nick as well.
"Are you going to sell it?" Pen asked.
"No, I'm fixing it up so I can live in it for years to come, but I was fixing another house up, down the road from this one," Lee said, "Can't do nothing right now though," he added.
"You want us to finish the bathroom and help with the house?" Nick asked.
"Yeah, might be fun, when we're not at that café place," Penelope said.
"The three of you are going to get some rest before you do anything," Lee said, "You drove here from Chicago, and I know you didn't stop anywhere," he said.
"Now that you mention it, a nap would be nice, I know Aidan is already asleep," Penelope said looking at him fast asleep in Derek's arms.
"Top the stairs is the room I got set up for you two, Nick's is few doors down and the nursery is between the rooms," Lee said, "I didn't fix it up but I did find a crib so he doesn't have to sleep in that basinet thing," he said.
"Thanks, we're going to take a nap and will be back down in few hours," Nick said, "I'm glad you're okay dad," he said before giving him a hug.
"I told you not to worry I'd be fine," Lee said returning his son's hug, "Oh, I gotta do some paper work tomorrow at the office, if you want I can show you around," he offered.
"Yes," All three teenagers said with smile.
"Okay, now go get some sleep, we can order pizza later," Lee said before they went upstairs.
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At three that afternoon when Derek woke up he went downstairs finding Lee on the back porch. He went outside sitting down in the chair beside him. "How hard is it to do the job you're doing?" Derek asked, "FBI right?" he asked.
"I'm on the Behavioral Science Unit, the guy I work for and three others started it, they found out I had some experience with bombs, and few other things from my time on the force and they asked me to join them," Lee said, "I didn't expect to ever get in the section of the FBI," he said.
"I heard about that, Jeff was telling me few weeks back, that's how you got shot, trying to take guy down?" Derek asked.
"He was going to shoot that woman, I got in the way," Lee said, "You decide what you want to do with your life?" he asked.
"Yeah, I finally figured it out," Derek said, "Athletic scholarship for football to get me to college, get my law degree like Nick is going to do and start as cop, about a year transfer to the bomb squad," Derek said, "I don't think I could work near Gordinski and if I get job on the force after a year I could join the squad," he said.
"Seems like you got it all mapped out, so what's the problem?" Lee asked.
"Getting there, Pen thinks I can do anything, but I don't' want to stay in Chicago for the rest my life, I got this plan but trying to make it work and not letting this world stop us, that's the problem," Derek said, "I've heard you can't have a baby and get married this young, you won't make it, and I give you two months," Derek said.
"You can't listen to them," Lee said, "Look at Jeff and Ruth, they've made it this far and Penelope's parents before they died, they were married at seventeen, just like you two, they would still be together if they hadn't died," he said.
"I know, but still sucks, I gotta work harder for what I want just because of who I am, and the fact I got a family, the world doesn't care, that much I know," Derek said, "Sorry, we saw this guy at store, he said I give you two months before you want a divorce, Penelope and Nick were both about to clock the guy, if Nick hadn't been holding Aidan I think he would have," he said.
"Some people are jerks," Lee said before they heard somebody pulling up.
"I'll go get the door, oh and I want to be on the BSU one day, I'm pretty sure I can make it there," Derek said before he went to get the door.
Lee got up going inside too, he wondered in the world would be stupid enough to tell Penelope and Derek they wouldn't last two months. Ever who said it had better hoped that they never caught Derek on a bad day. He knew that Derek wouldn't actually hit them, but he'd go off like he had when William's sister had showed up two weeks after Aidan had been born.
Lee laughed, that woman found out fast that Derek Morgan wouldn't hesitate one bit when it came to laying somebody out, he didn't have to use violence he called the cops on her, served her right for showing up. Nick had filled him in on what had been going on.
Lee got to the kitchen before he heard two voices yell what the hell. He went to the living room finding Derek and his boss David Rossi looking like they were going to kill the other.
"Derek," Lee said.
"Why is this asshole here?" Derek asked.
"He's my boss," Lee said, "I'm guessing you two already met," he said hoping that neither one them made a move to punch the other.
"Yeah we met," Rossi said, trying to be nice.
"He's the asshole that said I'd be divorced in two months," Penelope said from the entrance to the living room, "What is he doing near us?" she asked holding Aidan in her arms.
"That was just a misunderstanding, right?" Lee asked he so didn't need them going at it, especially if they were staying for the next two weeks.
"Yeah that's right," Rossi said, "I was having a bad morning," he said.
"Okay now that you three aren't trying to kill each other," Lee said, "Derek, Penelope this is my boss David Rossi, and they are my son's best friends, and that's Aidan, their son," he said.
"Hi," Rossi said.
"Hi my ass, we'll be upstairs," Penelope said, "Nick's finishing the bathroom and we'll help," she said before turning around to leave, "I hear one word about how I will be divorced soon and I'll lay something on the floor," she added.
Derek followed her not wanting to be near the man that said he'd be divorced either. The guy didn't even know them and already thought the worst for them, "I wouldn't even stop her either," Derek said before going up the stairs.
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Lee went upstairs four hours later finding Nick, Penelope and Derek in the bathroom. Nick was on the floor putting the sink pipes in while Derek was finishing the toilet. Penelope was sitting in the bathtub without water with Aidan in her arms. On closer look she was asleep and so was Aidan.
"Hey, sorry about earlier," Derek said.
"Don't apologize to me, he's been an asshole since his wife decide she wanted a divorce, his second wife," Lee said, "Not saying he's got an excuse for being an ass, but if you were wondering," he said.
"Well he shouldn't take it out on them," Nick said, "There we're finished," he said.
"And my wife is asleep," Derek said with smile looking at Penelope. She had a pillow behind her head and Aidan was cuddled up the best he could at two months. Derek stood up going to their room and getting the camera, which had been Lee's present to them. He came back in the bathroom and took two pictures of Penelope and Aidan.
Nick had already been taking pictures of them since they'd been on the road and couple today. They'd already gone through two rolls of film and were on the third, it was nice having the camera, to capture the moments they had.
TBC
AN: I have 2 tests to do and some other homework all due Sunday so till Monday this will be the last chapter. I got another story idea and will work on that when I start back to writing also.
