Disclaimer I hate you so much for making me keep saying this: I do not own Criminal Minds.

Penelope woke up slowly, she knew she was in a new room and for the moment visiting was restricted or at least until she was settled, she didn't know how long she'd been out of it but she knew she was still tired. She looked down at her hand and realised her ring was gone. She felt the panic rise, she knew the history behind it, she couldn't cope if she lost it. Not only would it be bad for her to tell Derek but she loved that ring too much.

'I told you to never go with him.' Penelope jumped as Kevin stood up from the seat in the corner making her heart pound double time, an excruciating task at the moment.

'Kevin, how did you get in here?'

'Told them I was family because I mean I was screwing you long before Derek Morgan was.' He said almost smugly and Penelope felt her stomach clench. 'I might have been sleeping with Luke and you at the same time but I mean I was sleeping with you long before he was.' That finished her, she threw up, her pained, energy lacking body draped off the side of the bed as her stomach convulsed repeatedly.

'Get out.' Penelope breathed quietly, her chest pounding, she could hear the heart monitor picking up on her heart beat.

'Oh no, I'm here to look after you.'

'No.' Penelope said as she pushed herself back, heaving with struggled breath. 'Derek will be back.'

'Oh he'll sure leave you when he finds out about what us two did while he was away on cases.' Penelope's eyes poured tears; she had no understanding to why Kevin was out to destroy all her hope and happiness. 'I never liked the way he made you his thing, that always grated me, I wouldn't have cared who you went with but Derek fucking Morgan...' He asked with evident disgust. Not caring that he was causing Penelope distress in any way, he was too caught up in his rant. 'He'll just drop you Penelope, once you get out of here and see's that scar you'll have under that bandage and he won't care because at the end of the day you've never amounted to anything really. Always a letdown, you might be beautiful to me but beauty's subjective. The way I see beautiful is not how Derek does, he won't see you like I do.' Penelope pushed back into the pillow; she wanted to be elsewhere, somewhere where she wasn't in pain, where no one could ever hurt her again, a place where she wasn't in hospital. However, in reality Kevin was still hell bent on continuing. 'So you see this ring here?' He fiddled with the ring. 'It's all out of guilt, once that wears off he won't want you anymore.' He finally saw the stress on Penelope and stepped towards her. 'I know the truth hurts Penny but you need to hear it. I'm your other half can't you see that?'

'Give me the ring Kevin.' Penelope said quietly. 'It's not yours.' She said to him. 'I don't love you; I'll never love you again. You helped put me here.'

'Well no that's not true. The nurse told me what's wrong.' He said sitting on the edge of the bed, not like Derek did, but heavily, pulling Penelope down, causing her more discomfort. 'You have HCM, which I will look up so I know best how to look after you and well she said its been a long waiting problem.'

'You helped it get to this point. I told you I hated you now listen to me. I hate you Kevin fucking Lynch; I never want to see you again.' She said as her hand went to her chest, she was beginning to feel sick again.

'Na uh baby girl.' He told her and he leant in and kissed her, hurting her the most way possible. Penelope pushed her head to the side the best she could as his lips made contact. She was too weak to push him off her, he was too heavy for her to move and as he continued to carry on she cried all the more before the weight was gone.

'Get out!' She screamed as she shot up to lash out. She saw Derek pulling Kevin out of the room and Fran nearby. She then broke down and Fran came to her rescue as a source of comfort.

'It's okay Penelope, I've got you. You need to calm down.' She said as she listened to Penelope heave and heavy breathing from her sobs. 'It's over, he's gone.'

Derek couldn't believe Kevin, and he was not about to go lightly, he didn't care if his sister's had to see this. 'You think that was a wise idea?' He said as Kevin's back connected with the wall. 'You think that doing that to her was fair? You say you love her when really you don't, you're just jealous that she managed to move on after you and find someone that really does love her and wants her.'

'You wanted her so much that you let me get in your mind Morgan.' Derek threw him into the wall harder this time, knocking the wind out of him.

'You might have tried to destroy us but what you really did has made us see what we wanted to and I'm gonna make you a promise right here, right now. When I've got her down the aisle I'm sending you our first wedding photo and I'm going to get her to sign it. Penelope Morgan. And for what I just saw you do to her, well let's just say I won't be the only one that'll want you dead.'

'You wouldn't kill me.'

'Wanna bet?' Derek breathed out with a growl. 'She's seriously ill and you, you knob jockey, think it's wise to cause her that much distress? How long have you been in there doing that?'

'Long enough.'

'Could you not see what was wrong with her? What you were doing to her? Do you like being a bully Lynch is that your kick? You like causing pain and naming it in the art of love?' Kevin remained silent. 'Answer me!'

'I love her more than you ever will Morgan.'

'I highly doubt it.' Derek growled back and he saw Lynch squirm in his grip. 'Give me one God damn reason why I shouldn't just put you out of your misery right now? Because that woman in there is here because of your doing and my doing.'

'Oh you can't blame me for it.'

'So the phone calls, the texts, the games of destroying us don't make a difference no? You made me doubt her Lynch; I love her so God damn much that I hurt her the worst way possible. If you hadn't been a fucking arsehole we wouldn't have fought and if you hadn't have kissed her then we wouldn't have fallen out.'

Kevin smirked then.

'But you know what, she forgave me, for everything she forgave me and accepted my marriage proposal. You lost Lynch, because you're a loser. You lost her the moment you decided to break her heart.' Kevin remained silent and Derek looked to see Rossi storming up the corridor. 'Get him out of my sights.' Derek said and threw Kevin to Rossi who then dug his heels in and started a rant, Derek just walked into the room and saw Penelope.

'Hey baby girl.' He said as he approached her and saw the vomit on the floor, and the disruption of the bed. 'He's gone, long gone. I actually think Rossi's about ready to kill him out there.' Penelope remained sobbing. 'What's hurting P?'

'My chest.' She said and nurse came in with evident panic. 'I think I ripped one of the tube out a little. It feels wet on my side.'

Fran looked, the nurse knew Fran was a retired nurse; she saw the blood and looked up at the nurse. 'I'll grab the stuff and we'll sort it out.' She said with a smile, sometimes having a family member that was a nurse was better than not.

'Pen, look at me.' Penelope slowly looked at her, tears still streaming. 'What else hurts?'

'Just my chest. I think it's from where I was sick.' Penelope said and Fran ran a hand over Penelope's head in a bid for comfort.

'Right Derek keep talking to her.' His mom told her and he smiled and looked down, this he could do.

'I think you need this back.' He said and put the ring on her finger. 'Whatever he said to you was lies, he's a jealous man that didn't think you could quite easily move on after his left you but you moved on, we moved on.'

'He wouldn't leave me alone.'

'I know but we got him now and I'm pretty sure there's going to be a couple of people that want to lynch, Lynch.' He said and Penelope said, she was beginning to calm down as the nurse and Fran sorted her side out.

'He called me baby girl.' She told him and she saw anger grew in him. 'Then he kissed me.' Derek wiped the tears, he'd seen that moment happen and he'd seen her try to get away from him and he'd acted in the moment and he was glad he did.

'Right Penelope, let's get you back on you back.' The nurse told them and helped move Penelope. 'We'll get this all cleared up soon but do you need any more pain meds? It might be wise for you sleep.' Penelope nodded and the nurse noticed Penelope's hand on her chest. 'Mind if I take a look at your chest?' She said and Fran moved to the end of the bed, Penelope let her hand fall and the nurse lifted the bandage off. 'It looks sore like expected. Do you have any weird sensations there?'

'No.'

'Right I think your best route is take some pain meds and get some more rest. I'll contact the doctor; he's going to need to have a look.' She said and picked up the heart readings. 'You're heart skipped a couple of beats in places so we'll get him to look and we'll go from there but you need to rest. Nothing else is your worry.'

Derek leant in, in that moment. 'Get some rest princess.'

'Will you just sit here with me?' She asked him quietly. 'I don't want to lose you.' She said as more tears began to fall.

'I'm not going anywhere. I'm going to be each time you open those eyes and I'm going to love you each time.'

'Even with an ugly scar?'

'It won't be ugly baby girl. Every piece of you is beautiful, that'll be no difference.' He told her and he saw her calm and relax. 'He told you I wouldn't find you attractive didn't he?' She nodded and he let out a low growl again. 'I want you to listen to me, the only way I'm ever going to leave is if you tell me and even then I want a perfectly good reason why I should do so but until that day I don't want to hear that Kevin's got into any of our heads got it?'

'Got it.'

'Good.' He said and planted a gentle kiss on her lips, not a rough one like Kevin but a tentative one, that exuded passion. Derek was always spot on with giving Penelope the right attention and he'd show Kevin Lynch who love Penelope more. The way Derek saw it, Penelope Morgan sounded so much better than Penelope Lynch did and it was going to stay that way. Penelope was going to marry him and he was going make their first wedding photo one of him kissing Penelope the proper way, the way a woman should be loved, and he was going to get her to sign it with her new and improved name.

That photo was going to show him who truly won.