Time Out-Ch 6
Penelope was so excited, she couldn't believe that she was going to get married and to her best friend, her hotstuff, her Derek no less, everybody was staying busy as they continued making the wedding plans. Penelope was constantly on the phone with Fran and the girls, she didn't want to leave any of them out of the preparations, not after everything they've all done for her.
Fran had asked JJ and Emily if they wanted her and the girls to stop and get the boys to which the girls happily and quickly accepted the offer, they couldn't wait to spend some time with their boys and since they were off for the next two weeks they would have a lot of time to rest and relax. Dave had talked to Derek and told him that he had a beach house and both him and Fran wanted them to enjoy themselves for their honeymoon.
By the time Fran and the girls had arrived they had all moved their things from the hotel to the Rossi estate, the only reason they hadn't stayed there during the case was they didn't know how long they were going to be staying. Hotch had already talked to the director and filled him in on the wedding, he had given the entire team 2 weeks off for downtime, that way Derek and Penelope could use this time down for their honeymoon and not have to worry about work.
Dave had managed to call in a few favors and get a minister to marry them and Hotch pulled a few strings and got the happy couple a marriage license, both made Derek and Penelope very happy and now that Fran, Sarah, Desi and her munchkins Henry and Jack were their the wedding could start whenever the minister arrived.
Penelope and the women were upstairs getting her ready while the men were downstairs trying to calm down a very nervous groom, Dave laughed and shook his head as memories of his own wedding to Fran and other team members weddings came flooding back. Derek looked up and said, "whatcha laughing about old man?", Dave said, "just thinking about when I married your mom and when these two crazy crazy men got married", Derek threw his head back and laughed as he said, "now those weddings were funny".
Hotch looked at Derek and said, "don't laugh just yet Morgan because you aren't married yet and by now it's sooooo obvious that the nerves are hitting you and hitting you hard" to which Derek could only swallow and nod his head yes. Derek looked down when he felt somebody tugging on his pants, he leaned down to Jack and Henry and said, "what's up little dudes?", Jack said, "grandma Fran wanted us to tell you to make sure you don't forget your pants".
Derek looked up at Reid and said, "don't worry I won't", Reid said, "ha ha, veryyyy funny, so I was so nervous that I forgot my pants and was almost out of the grooms room before anybody told me, so what, so what?", Derek said, "easy pretty boy, nerves are normal on your wedding day". Reid said, "that they are soooooo how nervous are you from a 1 to 10?", Derek said, "ohhhhhh 50 comes pretty close".
Their attention then turned to the door when they heard somebody knocking, Dave said, "that must be Anthony" as he made his way to the door and sure enough when he opened the door he smiled and said, "come in, come in old friend, long time no see". Anthony stepped inside and said, "it sure has Dave, I haven't seen you since I married you and Fran, speaking of your lovely wife, where is she?", Dave said, "she's upstairs helping with the bride to be right now, but don't worry she'll be down soon".
Derek blew out a deep breath and said, "I can't believe that I'm going to be getting married in a few minutes", Dave glanced down at his watch and said, "speaking of that, I better go get your bride". Derek sighed happily and watched his step father walk across the room and disappear out into the hall and he knew that the next time he saw Dave that Penelope would be on his arm.
Penelope had decided to wear a white sun dress since it was such a beautiful day and the flowers that Fran had brought from home for her, JJ and Emily looked so beautiful and the closer it got to time for the ceremony the more nervous she was getting. She was pulled from her thoughts when she heard a knock on the bedroom door, Fran said, "who is it?", Dave said, "it's me Bella, it's time to start".
She opened the door and said, "come in my love", he stepped inside and smiled as he saw Penelope standing there, he said, "ohhhh kitten you look amazing that step son of mine isn't going to be able to keep his eyes off of you". Sarah and Desi laughed and said in unison. "or his hands" causing Penelope to blush and everybody else to laugh and it was only a matter of a few seconds before Fran said, "well honey we'll see you outside and Dave is right you do look amazing".
JJ and Emily followed the others out into the hall and JJ said, "we'll meet you by the back door", Penelope said, "we'll be right behind you", Dave then stepped forward and held out his arm and said, "are you ready to make an honest man out of Morgan?", she laughed and looped her arm through his and said, "lead the way papa bear, lead the way" and they both took a deep breath as they headed out of the room and downstairs so that they could join up with JJ and Emily so the ceremony could begin.
