Once Upon A Straight Tequila Night

Chapter 3 - Derek's Jealousy

Derek's POV

I am frozen to the spot outside Penelope's office watching my Baby Girl kissing another man, witnessing this has left me feeling a little jealous and I don't know why I am feeling like this, it's not like we are a couple and she is entitled to have have a social life but I have the urge to want to hit this Toby guy, but I know that if I go all protective Morgan on her it will only send her running for the hills and then I will never get my chance to try and get her to see that there could be something more between us.

I walk away from her office door and back into the bullpen to my desk, I pick up my go bag and make my way down to the parking garage and to my SUV throwing my bag onto the back seat before jumping into the drivers seat I start the engine and throw the gearshift into reverse and back out of my car space and then drive out of the parking garage and head for the bar where we are all meeting, I park in the car park and make my way inside the bar once inside I head straight for the bar when a waitress approaches me to take my order I say "can I get a beer and a double scotch please" the waitress smiled at me and poured the double shot of scotch and placed it on the bar before going to the fridge to get my beer and while she is getting that I down the glass of scotch in one mouthful I grimace as the amber liquid burnt my throat on the way down.

The waitress returned with my beer and places it down in front of me I pick it up and take a hearty swig in the attempt to soothe the burning in my throat, the waitress stood there smiling and staring at me for a few minutes before going to serve other bar patrons.

I have been sitting here in the bar for the last 20 minutes staring at my beer bottle thinking about the scene that I witnessed earlier at the office with Penelope kissing another man, I now knew that she thought of us as nothing more than friends and that she was in a relationship with this Toby guy and none of us even knew about it, so to try to relieve some of the pain in my heart I thought I may as well find myself a sexy honey to take home with me and get my groove thing on, I am bought out of my jealous reverie by hand on my shoulder I turn around to see Hotch standing there with a strange expression on his face.

Hotch said "ok Derek tell me what has you sitting here looking like you want to hurt someone" Derek turned to Hotch and said "gee I hate profilers, but you are right I do want to hurt someone, you know when we returned to the office I said that I was going to go and ask Penelope if she was coming here tonight" Hotch nodded and I continued "well I got to her office and her door was partly open and so I opened it to find her in there kissing another man, she is my Baby Girl Hotch but I think I may have just lost my chance to tell her how I feel about her" Hotch placed his hand on Derek's shoulder and said "Derek, what are your exact feelings for Penelope."

I shrug my shoulders and say "I don't really know Hotch, all I know is that from the first moment I saw her I felt the urge to get to know her better and now that we are friends I now feel as though I am falling in love with her but I don't think she feels the same way about me that I feel for her because if she did then she wouldn't be kissing another man, would she", Hotch shook his head and said "no she wouldn't be but have you thought that she may think that you are not interested in her in a more than friends situation, I mean when ever we come out to a bar you always have women swooning all over you and if she does think of you in a more than friends way how do you think she feels watching those women throwing themselves at you."

Here I sit on my stool quietly thinking about everything that Hotch just said, I finally find my words and say "Hotch you are so right, but I can't just hang around and find out how she feels, I did catch her kissing another man so obviously she doesn't feel the same way about me as I do for her otherwise she would have said something, maybe all our flirting and fun banter is just making me believe that she feels something for me as I am the only one that she mucks around with over the phone and when we are in the office."

Hotch ordered us two more beers and we sat there waiting for the rest of the team to arrive, the rest of the team arrived about 10 minutes later, but I was really annoyed when I saw my Baby Girl walk in that douche bag's arm as they make their way through the crowd that had now formed in the bar I get up and make my way to the dance floor and begin dancing with several women but I made sure that I was in view of the table that the team is sitting at and immediately I notice Penelope looking my way so I pull one of the girls that I am dancing with close to me and begin to nuzzle my face into her neck.

I stay out on the dance floor for a while, allowing everyone to get to know the douche bag but I can tell that she is uncomfortable with the way he keeps touching her, every time he touches her she flinches and tries to move away from him and when he leans down to nuzzle her neck she freezes with a petrified look on her face, I can no longer stand to watch him with his hands all over her so I go back to the table and say "get your hands of my Baby Girl asshole" Toby stands up and says "and who are you" I reply "I am her best friend and I can tell by the look on her face that she doesn't appreciate your hands roaming all over her" Toby comes around the table and gets into Derek's face as he says "how would you know what she likes and doesn't like" that is it I have had enough of this douche bag I push him away from me and raise my right hand and punch him fair and square in the face which cause him to lose his balance.

I notice Penelope get up and run towards the bathroom with JJ hot on her heels while I turn and go back to the woman I was dancing with, I take her hand and head for the exit and we leave but once outside I can't actually go through with taking her home so I turn to her and say "I am so sorry I can't do this after all I just need to go home and try and calm down before I really hurt someone" she nodded and headed back inside and I made my way to my SUV and then home, when I got home I was greeted by my overgrown puppy Clooney so to expel both of our energies I went upstairs and changed into sweat pants and runners before attaching a leash to Clooney's collar so that we can go for a run.

Penelope's POV

When I arrived back onto the BAU floor with Toby we went into my office and the next thing I know is that Toby is kissing me at first I was unsure about the kiss but I eventually warmed up to the kiss, but out of the corner of my eye I see my office door open and standing at the door is none other than the man that has plagued my dreams every night since I met him, he is just standing there looking at us kissing with a hurt look on his face but just as I pull away from Toby I notice that Derek had taken off, I exit my office to see where he went but he was nowhere to be found but then I see that JJ's office door is open and she is sitting behind her desk so I turn to Toby and say "Toby I need to go and see a colleague for a minute would you like me to take you to the break room to get a cup of coffee and then we can go out to the bar with the rest of the team."

After taking Toby to the break room I race up the stairs to JJ's office I don't even bother knocking I just walk in and close the door behind me and when JJ looks up she can tell that there is something bothering me and she says "Garcie what is wrong" I slump down in the seat across from hers I let out a frustrated sigh before saying "JJ I think I have stuffed up, when I came back up here with Toby I took him into my office and the next thing I know he is pulling me close to him and his lips are on mine" JJ smiled and said "and what is wrong with that" I reply with "out of the corner of my eye I caught a movement at my office door and I noticed that Derek was standing there watching us but by the time I pushed Toby away Derek was gone and was nowhere to be found, and I really really like him Jayje and now I think I just lost my chance to tell him how I feel about him."

JJ put her pen down and sat back in her chair and said "how do you feel towards Toby" I say to her "I don't have any feelings for him anymore he is just a friend now we date for a little while when I was in college but I haven't seen him for almost 3 years, we have spoken on the phone but that is about it and now he thinks he can just waltz back into my life again, I don't think so" JJ looked at me and said "have you told him that you don't feel that way about him anymore" I shook my head and said "no I haven't maybe I should tell him that I no longer have feeling for him" JJ smiled and said "yes you need to tell Toby that you no longer have any feelings for him other than friendship and then you need to try and repair what ever it is you need to repair with Derek."

I stand and hug JJ before leaving her office and make my way back to the break room to get Toby and then back to my office to shut down my babies and to get my stuff so that we can go to the bar, the drive to the bar was quiet Toby sat looking out the passenger window while I was thinking about how I could manage to repair something that doesn't yet exist, finally we arrive at the bar and head for the door when I feel Toby grab my hand and intertwine our fingers together but when I tried to get my fingers out of his he gripped on tighter and gave me a stern look before he opened the door to the bar.

Making our way through the crowd of people over to the table where the team usually sat I saw Derek Pick up his beer and walk off in the opposite direction towards the dance floor, when we got the table we sat down I chose the seat that Derek had just vacated which just happened to be facing the dance floor so while Toby went to the bar to get us our drinks I sat there and watched Derek get his groove thing on with a few women and when he noticed me staring at him he began to nuzzle her neck so I turned away and began talking to JJ who had looked in the direction of the dance floor and saw Derek grinding with those two bit hussies.

JJ reached her hand out and placed it on top of mine and gave a gentle squeeze, Toby arrived back at the table with our drinks and I introduced him to everyone except Derek who was clearly jealous that I was with another man even though it is none of his business who I am with as we are not a couple but we are very good friends and I know that he will do anything to protect me from any harm, after all the introductions have been made I feel Toby keep touching me I freeze as it is making me uncomfortable, I catch Derek staring at me like he knows that I am uncomfortable with Toby touching me.

I look up to see Derek walk off the dance floor and back towards the table, when he reaches the table he says "get your hands off my Baby Girl asshole" but Toby stands up and says "and who are you to be telling me what to do" Derek replies "I am her best friend and I can tell by the look on her face that she doesn't appreciate you hands roaming all over her" Toby walks around the table and gets into Derek's face as he says "how do you know what she likes and doesn't like" Derek didn't reply but he pushed Toby away from him and raised his right hand and punched Toby fair and square in the face which caused Toby to loose his balance.

I got up and ran towards the bathroom with JJ hot on my heels, once I was safely inside the bathroom that is when I began to cry JJ came and wrapped her arms around me and held me as I cried, the whole time I cried I was thinking about what had just happened I couldn't believe that Derek had just came to my rescue from Toby and punched him for getting up in his face like that but one thing I did know was that watching Protective Derek come out to play is so freaking hot, I know now that thing are going to be a little awkward until Toby goes home but I need to sit down and have a talk with Toby about how I feel about him.

JJ finally convinced me to come out of the bathroom and join the team back at the table, when I get back to the table I see Toby sitting there with some ice on his bottom lip and the team who had continued on with their conversations but there was one person missing so I asked "where did Derek go" Hotch looked at me and said " he left the bar with the woman he was dancing with before he went all macho man over here" I sat down and let out a sigh before picking up my drink and downing the entire contents in one go.

So here I sit with a heavy heart for some reason today has gone from great to shit within just a couple of hours and now I am starting to doubt myself and my feelings towards any man, so now I think that it is time for Toby and I to leave the bar as I need to drop him back at his hotel before I go home, I collect my bag and head for the exit and out to my car we make the short drive to his hotel and when we pull up he turns to me as he extends an arm out toward me and tries to pull me closer to him but I put a hand on his chest and say "Toby please don't do that" he looks at me and says "but why not jellybean you always loved my cuddles when we were together I replied "yes I did like your cuddles when we were together but we aren't together anymore and I just feel that way about you anymore" he replied quickly with "you have a think for that macho man that hit me don't you" I shook my head and said "no I don't he and I are best friends and have been for sometime now."

Toby got out of the car but before he closed the door he asked "are we still on for dinner tomorrow night" I smiled and nodded before saying "yes but on one condition" he said "and what is that one condition" I said "the condition is that we have dinner just as friends" Toby nodded and said "I can deal with that."