Sinking Fast-Ch 34

Epilogue

A little while later Penelope and Marcie were both moved into the room they shared, they were both exhausted but neither could wait to hold their baby in their arms, as they laid there in their beds waiting for their family to arrive Marcie grinned at her friend and said, "you doin okay over there P?", Penelope happily and tiredly nodded her head yes in agreement and said, "I'm okay, tired but okay, what about you?", Marcie yawned and said, "I'm good too" causing both women to smile.

Their attention was then pulled to the door as they saw their family walking through the door, everybody made their way over to both beds with Derek and Mark making it to their wives bedsides first, they both leaned down and pressed sweet, loving kisses to their wives before sitting down beside them on their beds.

Mark said, "you look so beautiful sweetie", Marcie laughed and said, "I look like crap and you know it mister", he kissed the end of her nose and said, "to me you are the most beautiful woman in the world and don't you ever forget it", she winked at him and said, "I love you", he rested his forehead against hers and said, "and I love you".

Derek kissed Penelope on the temple and said, "you look beautiful, tired but oh so beautiful", Penelope sighed as she laid her head down on his shoulder, she then laughed and said, "well they say love is blind and you my chocolate God must be blind", Reid looked at the two exhausted women and said ,"you both look beautiful, you always have and you always will" causing JJ to smile at her husband and said ,"truer words have never been spoken Spence".

Mark was getting ready to ask about their daughter when the nurses walked into the room pushing two incubators that were holding the babies in them, the first nurse walked over to Mark and Marcie and said, "here is your daughter, she's all clean with a fresh diaper and she's ready for some loving from her mommy and daddy" as she got the little baby out and gently placed her in her mothers arms.

The second nurse smiled and said, "and here is your little prince, he too is ready to get to spend some time with mommy, daddy and the rest of the family" as she got the sleeping baby out and placed him into the loving arms of his mother. Derek could do nothing but smile as he watched his wife lean down and kiss their son on the top of the head, they had been through so much and it still didn't seem real that their son was here and that his wife was holding him in her arms.

As the family gathered close Fran said, "have you two picked out names for the babies yet?", Derek looked at Penelope and Mark at Marcie and both couples nodded their heads yes in agreement as they looked up at their family causing Dave to say, "well don't keep us in suspense, what did you name my two grandbabies?", Mark looked at Marcie who said, "everybody we would like for you to meet our daughter Tabitha Grace".

Penelope said, "oh Marcie, I'm so honored", Marcie said, "after everything we've been through it only seemed perfect and oh so right to name her in part after you, her Godmother" causing Penelope to wipe away the tears that were now streaming down her face and then everybody's attention turned to Derek and Penelope as they waited on news of the name for the other newest member of their family.

Derek said, "everybody we would like for you to meet, Hank Spencer Morgan, Hank after my pops and Spencer after the best little brother in the world", Reid said, "I can't tell you how much it means to me to know that you named for son after me", Penelope said, "we wanted him to have a strong name and we couldn't think of anything better than naming him after his grandfather and his Godfather" as Reid wiped away the tear that slid down his cheek.

Everybody stepped closer as they each got their turn to hold both Hank and Tabitha, after the past 24 hours it felt great to have everybody together, bonding with the babies and with each other and right then nobody could have ever known how much love those two babies were going to bring the family but as time moved on it became ohhhh so obvious.

Derek and Penelope had a daughter Jasmine Francine when Hank was three and Mark and Marcie added a son named Zachary Derek when their daughter was a little over two years old and both children were the splitting image of their parents. The rest of the team added a new member with JJ and Reid having a son named Michael and Hotch and Emily added a daughter named Maria to the fold a year after Hank and Tabitha were born.

Sarah and Desi married the Alvez brothers and were both the parents of little boys, Sarah's husband Todd Alvez was a doctor and that's how he and Sarah met, she was visiting with Penelope after she had given birth to her daughter when she met her now husband. Desi met her husband Luke when he joined the BAU and they quickly fell in love and were married a few months later.

It wasn't long before Sarah and Todd welcomed Matthew and Desi and Luke welcome Lucas to their every growing family and as life continued to move on Hank and Tabitha became closer and closer as they grew up and it surprised nobody when they started dating when they were in middle school and the longer they stayed together the more serious their relationship got.

When they graduated high school Hank proposed and she happily said yes and both agreed to wait to get married after they finished college, which they did. On the day that they had gotten married their wasn't a dry eye in the church as they watched Hank and Tabitha commit themselves to each other.

A few months later Hank and Tabitha announced that they were expecting a baby and around Christmas time that year a set of twins were born a daughter named Sophia Marie and a son named Scott Marcus and as the family was all together to meet the two newest members all Derek and Penelope could do was smile as they remembered how they had met on that boat that turned out to be like the titanic but that sinking ship made them meet and fall in love and they wouldn't take anything for their time together.

Derek wrapped his arms around his wife and kissed the top of her head as they looked down at their sleeping grand babies, they were both so beautiful, so perfect and as they looked down at the babies they knew that they would do anything and everything to make sure that they were safe, happy and healthy.

Penelope sighed happily and knew that she was without a doubt the luckiest and happiest woman in the world and nothing or nobody would ever change that

The End

I'll be back to posting on November 4th with my Thanksgiving story hopefully, till then stay safe my friends, love ya