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There he was; the man she had thought was dead was really alive. Her mind was struggling to make sense of it all, but really there was only one thing she could focus on right then.

He was alive. And Kevin had hurt him.

She felt her fists ball up ,and her teeth were gritting together. Pen had never been the one to want to physically hurt someone but Kevin Lynch could have been the exception to that right then.

"How could you?" she shrieked. She was literally quite close to killing Kevin herself.

"Penny! I can explain!" Kevin insisted as Pen walked towards him backing him against a wall.

"Which part, would you like to explain Kevin? The part where your drugging my fiancée? The part where you staged his death?"

"I did this all for a reason."

"A reason?" she screamed. "There is no reason to hurt Derek!"

"I did this for us Penny." He reached for her hands and tried to intertwine them with his.

"Us? There is no us!"

"There was Penny. I was just trying to get that back, I love you and I know you love me."

"You know what Kevin. Your right. Now let me show you how much I love you."

Kevin looked at her shocked for a split second until Pen slapped him so hard he went unconscious."You honestly thought I could ever love you after what you did to Derek?"

Remembering Derek lying on the floor she went to him.

"Derek? Are you all right? Derek?"

"Pen?" he asked.

"Yeah Morgs. It's me. Don't worry I'm calling for help."

A little while later..

Once the ambulance had arrived, the paramedics gave Derek some medication to counteract the drugs that had been pumped into his body. Luckily, Pen had gotten to the stable when Derek had only been stabbed once, and according to the paramedics the knife hadn't punctured anything.

"Whoever punched this man." said one of the paramedics who was leaning over Kevin. "Obviously knows how to carry a punch. They knocked him out cold."

Smiling to herself she followed Derek on the stretcher towards the ambulance. Derek who was finally almost completely awake said:

"Did you punch Kevin, Pen?"

"Of course I did. He started running his mouth about me 'loving' him."

"Sucks that I missed it." Derek said with a smile.

Pen only gave him a half smile back. She knew how serious everything still was. And Derek, being the chocolate god he was, was trying to distract her with his flirty teasing.

The ambulance arrived at the hospital then and they got out. The paramedics asked Pen to wait in the lobby for a few minutes while they took Derek back to run a few tests. Seeing JJ and Emily she walked to them. They hugged her for several minutes before they finally parted.

"I can't believe he's alive." Pen said.

"Neither can I. He really had him in that stable?"

"Yeah. Can you believe it? We wouldn't even have one if I hadn't begged Derek to build one because I was so sure we would have a horse."

"Don't blame yourself Pen." JJ said.

"I know. Nothing more I could have done. I can't believe I was so naïve."

"You were hurting. You had every right to be naïve."

Pen just nodded. She was waiting for the doctors to come in the lobby and let her go back to see Derek. When they finally did she just walked slowly in.

"Derek." was all she could say. The drugs were still being pumped out of him, and he still could become more ill. But he was alive.

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