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A/N: SURPRISE! You have wordofwyrd to thank for this!

She asked for an epilogue and you's got it!

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EPILOGUE

Penelope was stood in the bathroom of Derek's house, his mom and sisters had intentionally taken a trip to a hotel so they could spend their first night together as man and wife and the realisation and woes hit her. She'd never made love to Derek Morgan, heck she'd never made love to a man like Derek Morgan. But he'd married her, he had to know, she had to know, this would be perfect. Everything else was.

She sucked in a deep breath and looked at herself one more time. Lace underwear still in place, curls bouncing as they should and she puckered her full red lips together and left the room. Derek was sat on the bed in boxers, he looked up and the look that took over his features was one she'd never seen before. He sat staring at her in awe; he was struck by the true beautiful of the woman he'd promised to love for the rest of his life.

He stood and went to her, all slow and all steady; he wrapped his arms around and lavished the feel of his large hands as they ran a course over her smooth delicate skin. Penelope hadn't felt anything like it before as she felt his hands float over her skin. It was both soothing and seductive in one. In a moment of realisation Penelope stiffened, this was so different. She might have had limited sexual partners but she knew different when she felt it.

"Penelope?" Derek asked pulling away and putting his hands on her face when he saw her expression change. "What's a matter baby?"

Penelope blinked and looked up. For the first time in her life Penelope knew she was being seduced and Derek Morgan was going about it right. "Nothing's a matter. This is just not what I've had before."

"I'm going slow and steady." He told her and Penelope knew she knew the difference. Rough and tumble was Kevin's motto, in and out in other words, fast paced, over and done with. "I want to make you experience what a real man loving the love of his life feels like." He kissed her lip gently. "I'm going to love every inch of your body." He said and kissed her neck, undoing her bra as he went, he pulled it off and picked her up and put on the bed.

Another difference, Kevin never did this. Never took the time to love her but then she realised this was Derek, not Kevin. Kevin was old news, dead and buried, Derek was her new news, he was the last man she'd let love her. He'd be the man that she'd let touch her in ways no one else would and it was as her back laid on the soft sheets of his bed and he continued his escapade of sensual kisses she knew this was where she was meant to be.

"Handsome?" Penelope gasped as he kissed her nipples. He stood and looked at her and she merely got her left foot and using her toes pulled down on his boxers. "Off."

"And you..." He winked at her, in an instance they responded to the others demand and both soaked in each other's naked form. Penelope definitely knew she picked the bigger guy then. Derek got on the bed and got Penelope where he wanted her and let nature do its thing, and for the first time in her life Penelope was more than a little sexual aroused before he completed the deed and made both of them feel fulfilled.

It wasn't until they'd sated and exhausted one another that sleep settled in and Penelope didn't think she'd be comfortable in another man's bed after Kevin but this; this was so much better than whatever Kevin had to offer. She watched Derek sleeping beside her as she lay on her side and everything felt so surreal. She didn't want to sleep, she didn't want to wake up and be back to her mediocre life with a horrible bunch of people to offer insult after dig. She didn't want to close her eyes for fear that she'd lose it all. She was in utter bliss right at that moment and she wanted to remain in it.

Derek sensed something and sucked in a deep breath and opened his eyes, all he could do was smile as he saw his baby girl watching him, a sheet around her naked, sex exhausted body. "Why you up still?"

"I couldn't sleep." She said and Derek took her left hand in his, and positioned it so that he could see the wedding ring on her finger. "I don't wanna sleep."

"Why not goddess?" He said turning on his side. He could read her like an open book right now but he wanted her to say it.

"I don't want this to be yet another dream; I don't want this to end. I'm too happy." She told him and all he did was pulled her into the middle of the bed and rested her head on his chest, she could hear his beating heart, she could smell his smell and she could feel the heat of his soft skin.

"You sleep there all night you hear?" Penelope nodded a little, her red hair tickling his chest as she did so. "You stay like this until we wake up so you know this isn't a dream. I want you to feel me all night because I'm going to be here when you open your eyes wife of mine."

"Maybe if you're right I'll show you a good morning husband." She teased as she laid her hand flat on his perfectly toned stomach. She then began to draw circles on it, all without her meaning to, it just seemed right.

"Well you see, that's a good enough reason to keep you here against me all night baby girl." Derek told her and kissed the top of her head. "I'll see you in the morning princess." He said and wrapped his arms around her more, keeping her close.

Penelope looked ahead in the dark for a moment before draping her arm around him and snuggling closer, only then when she could sense him around her did she close her eyes and go to sleep.

The next morning she woke up in the same place with the same God of a man wrapped around her and she smiled. Now was time to wake her husband up with a good morning.

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A/N: I know someone wanted to see the reaction of the team but my muse bit more for this =)

Now it's officially THE END!