Lyric Of Love-Ch 17
The next few days flew by with Derek slowly but surely doing better with each passing day, Penelope and Fran spent all of their time with Derek while the rest of them worked to get Scott put away for the rest of his life. It was the day of his bail hearing, Scott stood up as the judge listened to both the prosecution and the defense.
The judge then shocked everybody by giving Scott bail, it was $1,000,000 cash but it was bail, he nodded his head and told his attorney it will be paid as soon as the judge was finished talking. Hotch looked at Dave and said, "this can't be happening, after what he did to Penelope and Derek the judge is allowing him bail".
Dave said, "to quote Reid my spidey sense is going all kinds of crazy with this judge", Hotch said, "maybe we should look into him and see what we can find", Dave said, "maybe we should" as he walked out of the courtroom and pulled his cell out. He dialed a familiar number and after a few rings he said, "Amber it's me and I need a favor", he then smiled as he filled Amber in on what he needed.
When the judge was finished with Scott he looked up at the people in the court room and said, "I'll be taking a 10 minute break before we continue on with more cases", everybody stood up and watched as the judge disappeared back into his chambers. Hotch walked out into the hall and saw the smiling face of Dave and said, "do I even want to know what you've done"?, Dave put his cell back in his pocket and said, "probably not" as the two men then walked out of the court house and headed toward their car.
At the hospital Fran looked at Penelope and said, "honey I'm going to go get some coffee, I'll be right back", Penelope nodded her head and said, "okay Fran", as Fran walked out the door she said, "I'll bring you some coffee and a sandwich". Penelope said, "ohhh you don't have to I'm not" and she turned around to see that Fran was gone.
She blew out a deep breath and took Dereks hand in hers and said, "please open those sexy eyes and look at me, I love you so much and I need you", she kissed his palm and said, "when you wake up we'll get married and spend the rest of our lives together". She looked down at the engagement ring on her hand and said, "this ring is a celebration of our love and our lives together".
Penelope laid her head down in Dereks hand and said, "please wake up, please open those eyes and look at me the way you always have", she took a deep breath and laid her head down on the side of the bed. As she laid there she kept talking to Derek, she said, "please Derek, please squeeze my hand if you can hear me".
She sat there for a few minutes and then she raised her head up, she said, "did you just" and she said, "if you can hear my voice please squeeze my hand" and again she felt a squeeze to her hand. She smiled and said, "that's it baby that's it", she said, "can you open those eyes of yours and look at me"?, at first she was getting no response and then he started trying to open his eyes.
Penelope said, "that's it, that's it, you can do it Derek", then his eyes slowly opened and she said, "I love you", he gently squeezed her hand and smiled as much as he could around the ventilator tube in his mouth. Penelope said, "I'm going to get the doctor", she then reached over and hit the nurse button and it was only a matter of a few seconds before Chad walked into the room and said, "yes Penelope".
Penelope said, "look who finally woke up", Chad smiled down at Derek and said, "welcome back Derek", Chad said, "I'm going to ask you some questions and I need you to blink once for yes and two times for no okay"?, he blinked his eyes once. Chad said, "are you in any pain"?, he blinked once", Chad said, "is it to your chest and ribs"?, Derek again blinked once".
Chad looked at Penelope and then down at Derek and said, "alright one final questions, do you want that tube out"?, Derek blinked once and Chad said, "alright then let's get it out". He looked up at Penelope and said, "I need you to step out for a few minutes and let me get this tube out, she nodded her head and then kissed Derek on the forehead and said, "I'll be right out here in the hall but I'll be right back in when he's done okay"?, Derek squeezed her hand and blinked once before he watched her turn around and walk out into the hall.