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A/N: So here's a mini epilogue...
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Penelope sat on the beach and looked out at her family. She then looked down at the little girl sitting on her lap and kissed the top of her head.
"Sky," Eloise said and pointed up to the sky.
Penelope followed her daughter's tiny hand and looked up at the sky as it look painted with fire and Penelope remembered that fateful day where so much happened in such a short amount of time. Looking back at her daughter, Penelope realised that all of the injuries, the emotional pain, the sadness, the small feats, meant she had nothing to worry about anymore. Her family were safe, she was still in love, and she had a daughter that she adored with her entire heart.
Life was how she had dreamt it would be. The only difference was that they were in Florida and not in Quantico. At one point, that logic would have casted a shadow over Penelope's happiness, but now it no longer did.
Kissing into her daughter's soft hair, she smiled and looked up over at where all the family were playing around.
"Look it's daddy," Penelope pointed out as Derek left the congregation that were messing around in sea or along the shore. Her heart still skipped a beat or three whenever she saw him. This man – this God – was all hers and the sight of him never going to get boring to her.
She watched him smile at her as he got closer and she saw him wink at her.
"How are my favourite girls doing?" Derek said as he jogged back over and fell down on the sand at last. Leaning in his kissed Penelope, before dropping a kiss on his daughter's forehead, "Hey Princess, are you being good?"
"Dada!" Eloise exclaimed at him and put her little chubby arms out to him, her bright eyes adding to the smile to on her face. "Dada!"
Penelope slanted her head as she passed Eloise to her father, "You know that really isn't fair, Handsome," Penelope pointed out playing up with an unimpressed tone. "We have mommy, daughter time, you come along and I'm forgotten."
"What can I say?" Derek asked as he turned his daughter to face him, her legs out against his chest, her face up at his. "I'm popular among my girls." He said, his eyes never leaving Eloise's gaze that sat upon him. "Plus no one ever forgets about mommy eh, baby?"
He felt his entire heart expand with how much he loved his wife and daughter. He looked over his daughter's mixed skin tone, much like his but lightened by her mother's own skin tone. He then looked at her face and saw distinct features that had been passed on from Penelope and was then looking into the blue eyes with the essence of hazelnut swirls to them. His daughter was the most perfect blend of Penelope and himself and she exceeded any expectations that he had dreamt up of when Penelope was pregnant.
His little girl out did most of his wildest dreams. She was more than perfect, and she was more than anything he had given himself credit to have a hand in creating. Yet at the end of the day, he and Penelope had made a perfect little masterpiece, one that wouldn't go unloved for not even a day in her life.
"Where you gone to, Derek?" Penelope asked as she moved to sit just behind her daughter, "You're looking a little out of this world?" She then caught his gaze, "More so than usual."
Derek chuckled and was brought back down from his very own cloud nine to his reality. "I was thinking about how perfect this all was."
"Couldn't agree more," Penelope mused lightly and just got lost in this idea of domesticated bliss. Penelope had it all, the husband, the home and the little girl that was going to kick start making their family bigger than it already was.
"Mind if we nick our niece for a little bit of a paddle?" Drew as he came up to them, the others following in hot pursuit. The pair in front of him snapped out of their little moment, startled by the presence.
"Sure," Penelope spoke to them almost as an instant response, "She doesn't like sea weed though, remember that." She warned them and watched as Derek fixed their daughter's flowery summer hat before kissing her and allowing Drew to take her.
"Now Princess, we're gonna leave your mommy and daddy and have some fun with your cousins," Drew told Eloise who giggled.
"Sky! Sky!" She bounced as she found herself seemingly closer to the oddly painted sky.
"How about you try sea?" Joel asked as he looked down from the sky, "Can you say that for me, kiddo? Sea?"
"Sea!" She shouted in her playful tone and then bounced about.
Penelope smiled as she watched her daughter get excited at her Uncles attempts to try new words. She never expected her life to turn out like this, but she realised she would change nothing about it.
As her brothers took Ellie nearer to the shore, Penelope looked at Derek. His expression was serene, his smile just there faintly and his attention glued ahead. She felt her heart warm as she realised that he was content with life and she couldn't stop herself from feeling pure reward that she had had a hand in it.
"Derek," She said and reached out to touch him.
Derek's head turned to look at her, "What's up, Sweet Thing?"
"I'm pregnant," Penelope blurted out, she knew they said they'd wait, but she guessed that didn't matter as Derek leant in, pushed her against the sand, under the crimson fiery sky and began to kiss her.
"This life is perfect," He mumbled and ran a hand up into her hand, readying for another kiss. "Thank you," He murmured softly, "For this life, Mrs Morgan."
The sky could fall and neither Penelope nor Derek would mind.
Their happily ever after was here to stay.
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