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A/N: We're gonna get a bit more happier, at long last... Thanks as always!
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"I'm sure the key skills they want us to put down do not qualify for the ones I have in mind," Penelope said almost a week later as she sat in her and Derek's hotel room.
Derek laughed, "No, Baby, they sure wouldn't." He told her and got up from his seat on the couch and went over to the bed, he crawled on and kissed her, "Believe me; your key skills are astonishing in quantity."
Penelope smirked at him, "I think I would be too much for whatever jobs they want to set us up with, Handsome."
"I think you would be extremely right," Derek said as he sat back and looked down at his own form. "Good thing work doesn't start up for another six months really. I intend to treat this as one long vacation." He continued then stopped and looked up to see Penelope biting her pen and looking at him seductively. "What is that dirty little mind working on?"
"Oh wouldn't you want to know?" Penelope asked him and smirked even more, "You know, six months time, we'll have our own little Morgan so you won't exactly be starting back at work then either."
Derek looked at his form and threw it on the floor, "In that case, I don't need to fill out the questions just yet." He then grabbed Penelope's form and threw it on the floor, "And I guess they don't need to know your job history just yet either."
"Oh good plan, Baby Boy," Penelope said as she accepted a kiss off of Derek and slipped down the bed a little as Derek wrapped his arms around her body. "Mmm, even when I'm on bed rest, my husband just cannot keep my blood pressure down."
"And my wife complains about that," Derek replied jokingly, "Yeah I didn't think so," He finalised as he drew her close and kissed again.
Pulling apart, they looked at one another for a moment, their breaths a little heavier from the after effect of the kiss. They then just smiled at one another, keeping the moment intimate and all theirs.
"This makes surviving a tragedy all the more worth it," Penelope mused in a whisper, her eyes glazing with pure thought.
Thinking for a moment, Derek sat up, "You do know though, Baby Girl, the real tragedy comes from the girl that lies awake at night and doesn't sleep," Derek told her, his eyes darkening with seriousness.
Penelope's mouth fell open in shock.
"I've shared a bed with you for nearly five years now, I think you find I know when you're sleeping through the night," Derek told her. For several nights he had had a feeling she wasn't sleeping during the night and sometimes he could've sworn that her thoughts flew around the room, colliding with one another repeatedly. "You're supposed to be resting, Baby. You do the staying in bed thing right, but our baby needs you to sleep so you don't wear your body out. Exhaustion isn't going to help you heal either."
"I should've never married a profiler," Penelope grumbled.
"Nothing to do with me being a profiler, P. I just know my wife a lot more than she realises at time," Derek told her simply, "Now, what is it that is keeping you up?"
Penelope looked down for a moment before relinquishing and looking back up into his eyes, "I want a home, our home. Not a hotel room." She started quietly, "I want that house that we built up together and perfected. I want our clothes, our stuff to all be in the drawers together, our photos on the wall. Clooney up to no good somewhere. I just want to go home."
Derek sighed then, he knew where she was coming from, he had felt exactly the same way. He leant in for a moment, ready to settle her mind for a bit more. "Florida is our new home now, Baby. We can't go back to Virginia until we're told it's one hundred percent safe, and that could be years," Derek told her as he lay down a little more on the bed next to her, "We'll have some of our stuff here soon."
"I don't know if I want you to go, Derek," She began to fret, "Like you said it's not completely safe there and..."
Derek said up again, acknowledging her ever growing fears, "It's a day trip, I'll be back before you go to sleep tomorrow night. I'll be back before you know it. You'll just have one night without me."
"Promise?" Penelope asked him.
"Would I ever miss a bedtime with you on purpose?"
"That's not promising me, Derek," Penelope told him with a slight pout. "That's trying to pave over the moment to make it more bearable."
Derek pushed Penelope's hair out of her face and made her look up at him, "I promise you I will be back before you go back to sleep tomorrow night. I will be back to tuck you."
Penelope giggled at that, trying to move the tears from her eyes. Her body feeling the ease finally wash through her again, "You had better be back for our anniversary as well," Penelope chided him, trying to stop the tears, "Because I won't forgive you if you miss that."
"That is one thing I refuse to miss," Derek told her truthfully, "Ever."
"You better not, or you'll have hell to pay," Penelope pouted at him, worried about Derek leaving. She wasn't worried about him missing their anniversary, she was worried sick about him going back. She coughed to clear her throat and she smiled at him. "Now that that's cleared up, I think I deserve a bit more loving."
"A bit more loving? Like you haven't had enough the last week, or years," Derek joked with her.
"Well mamma's feeling the lack at the moment, and sugar daddy's leaving tonight so I think she needs a bit extra just to tie her over," Penelope teased him, "And plus," She continued sweetly, "I have a busted ankle and ribs that are killing me, and a bun in the oven that isn't given me an easy ride with morning sickness."
Derek inwardly winced when reality came back full pelt. He then smirked and leant over her, a hand going to the other side of her body and he lowered himself, capturing her lips with his and taking her mind off of how life was becoming.
If there was one thing Derek's aim of going back to Virginia was going to do it was going to make a way that Penelope could fell like their home was as much here as it was back in Quantico. He just hoped their house was still as intact as he had left it when he had gone to hunt her down and save her from what was going on.
Falling next to her, he felt her snuggle down against him and soon her body went heavy in his arms and he knew she was finally sleeping peacefully. Derek smiled and closed his eyes, when he had called her his God Given Solace years ago, he hadn't known until he married her that he was Penelope's.
Deciding against leaving her just yet, he slept, sure that Hotch or Rossi would come and wake him up when it was time for them to go and retrieve whatever they could, as safely as they could.
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"He's not back," Penelope panicked, "He said he would be back."
"Penelope, I know he said he would be, but you cannot think the worst," Fran said as she sat down on the bed. "He and the others have to do what they have to do."
"What if it is something bad and it wasn't safe? He said it wasn't but he still went," Penelope began to feel her hands shaking, her cheeks becoming soaked with tears. "Fran, what if them not coming back is because something happened."
"Penelope!" Fran said in an attempt to interject Penelope's panic stricken rant. "Have some faith."
"How can I?" Penelope sobbed at her mother-in-law.
Fran felt her resolve over the men's absence begin to falter. She had forced herself to believe that all the men were still recovering things from the houses, that they were salvaging precious items, but seeing Penelope weaken under Derek's absence she felt herself do the same. It was as she went to go down the pessimistic route with her daughter that she shook her head and forced herself to believe otherwise.
"You survived a building falling on you whilst out in the middle of whatever was happening. You were trapped and you got rescued; now you're here and by something, not short of a miracle, you're alive and you didn't lose your baby like most other people would've. That's how I can retain some faith. Between that and the fact that basically everyone that I love dearest and hold closest to my heart made it here to tell the tale. That is how I can keep faith and believe that Derek will be back. It might not be in a minute, or tonight, or even tomorrow but he will be back." Fran said as she calmed down, rebuilding her resolve back up to its highest. "I know he made promises to be back, and I know it's your anniversary tomorrow, but do you really think he would break that type of commitment if he didn't have a good reason to do so?"
"I guess not," Penelope whispered, her voice completely tear wrecked. "I'm just scared."
"I know," Fran said as she wiped a tear away gently, "But you need to rest and sleep because it won't have any good repercussions for the baby if you're so stressed." She then smiled at Penelope lightly and calmly, "I'm going to get you your tablets and then I think it's time you slept. I won't let you be alone unless you want to be."
"I don't," Penelope admitted and sniffed.
"Well then I'll be here," Fran said as she got up and sorted Penelope's tablets out. "Just remember he will be back before you know it."
Penelope smiled at that, remembering Derek saying them to her only days earlier.
However, when Penelope fell asleep that night, her morale was low, her mood darker than before. She was going to bed and for the first time she was going to spend her wedding anniversary without her husband and for that she couldn't keep faith in the situation.
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