Season of Love
Episode 9
December 2011
"Looks like we're not gonna make our flight," Derek said, with a heavy sigh, as he walked into the library of the military academy, where Penelope had made herself a makeshift office for this case.
Glancing down at his watch, Derek added "We'll never make it to Dulles by 6 tonight at this rate."
"Already handled, baby boy. I re-booked us for ten pm tommorow night. Lets just hope we can make that one."
"Well, look at you, on top of everything like the super star that you are," he teased his girlfriend. "Don't suppose you already called my Mom and broke the news to her?"
"Sorry, Charlie, that's your job."
He gave her a puppy dog look. "But she won't yell at you and tell you to transfer to an office closer to Chicago so you can see her more than twice a year because she's not getting any younger, you know."
Penelope chuckled. "You are so lucky that I love you. Fine. I'll call your mother and tell her a case has us hung up. We better make it there by her birthday though or else no amount of sweet talking is gonna keep you outta hot water, Hot Stuff."
He cooed at her "Thank you, baby girl," as he pressed a kiss to her neck. "I'd be lost without you. You know that, right?"
"Oh so true. Oh so very true."
Derek smiled at Penelope, lost in the moment for a second, before he asked "Got anything on the reward system yet?"
"This place is a lot creepier than it appears at first glance. Like Oliver Twist spooky," she kept explaining to him the things her and Reid had discovered so far, as Derek hovered behind her, bent over the laptop, as he had so many times before in the past.
So many things were changing in their relationship lately but some things stayed just the same. At work they still had jobs to do but when they got away from work...that's when they got a chance to enjoy the love that was finally taking deep root between them.
Derek lived for those moments and little moments like this too...a stolen few minutes together during the work day. Being near Penelope is all it took for him to feel like his life was complete.
All those old fears about commitment and fidelity had faded away in the moment when they first kissed. It had taken so many years to get this far for them but it was well worth the wait to Derek. Because now he knew better than to think this was just some fling with a hot blonde. He knew this was another day spent in love with the woman he would be in love with for all the rest of his life.