Once Upon A Straight Tequila Night

Chapter 5 - I've Been Thinking About Doing This All Night

Derek's POV

One way or another I need to tell my Baby Girl how I feel before I lose the best thing that has ever happened to me, I finally get up the courage to go and talk to Penelope I get up and head for Penelope's office I knock on her door and I hear her say "enter if you dare mere mortal" I open her door and enter I walk close to her and say "Baby Girl please let me explain my actions of last night" she turns in her chair and faces me before she stands up she gets in my face and says "I don't need you to explain your actions of last night, the minute you punched Toby your actions were explained, I don't want to hear anything you have to say so if you don't mind I have work to do."

I dejectedly walk out of her office and close the door behind me and then walk back to my desk and then I sit there seething as I lean on my desk and put my head in my hands as I think about what else I can do to get her to listen to me, maybe I could enlist JJ to help with talking to Penelope, I get up and go to JJ's office I knock and enter JJ looks up at me as I take a seat when JJ says "did you make up with Penelope yet" I shake my head and say "I went to go see her before and she didn't want a bar of me she told me that she didn't want to listen to what I had to say" JJ then says "I am so sorry Derek would you like me to talk to her and see if I can get her to talk to you" I reply "thanks Jayje I appreciate the help."

At the end of the work day I see the douche bag Toby waiting outside the glass doors of the BAU, I see my Baby Girl exit her office and head towards the doors and to where the douche bag is waiting he sees her coming toward him he opens the door for her and takes her bags while she hooks her arm through his, as I sit and watch them fawn over each other I clench and unclench my hands and thump the desk before getting up and making my way down the stairs and into the parking garage to get in my SUV so that I can go home.

Penelope's POV

I am sitting in my office updating all the the cases that have been solved over the past few weeks when there is a knock on my door I say "enter if you dare mere mortal" the door opens and I know who it is before I see him I detect the scent of his aftershave as he enters my lair as he get closer to me he says "Baby Girl please let me explain my actions of last night" I stand up and get up in his face and say "I don't need you to explain your actions of last night, the minute you punched Toby your actions were explained, I don't want to hear anything you have to say so if you don't mind I have work to do."

He turned and walked dejectedly out of my lair closing the door behind him, as soon as the door closed I sat back in my chair and buried my face in my hands as tears began to fall, I finally get myself together and continue on with updating the solved cases I stay in my office for the rest of the Dayton avoid any unwanted interactions with Derek.

At the end of the working day I get a phone call from Toby to say that he is here to pick me up for our dinner so I gather my stuff and exit my office, out of the corner of my eye I see Derek sitting at his desk looking towards the glass doors at Toby, I walk towards the door and Toby opens the door and takes my bags before offering his arm I hook my arm through his as we make our way to the elevators, I can only imagine what Derek is thinking about right now and I refuse to turn around and look at him.

We head for Toby's rental car and he opens the passenger door and helps me in to the car before placing my bags on the back seat and then he makes it to the driver side of the car and he gets in, he begins driving towards the restaurant be there is an awkward silence filling the car, I don't know whether it is a gut feeling that I have but I feel as though something has changed between us but one thing is for sure I wish we had have come in separate cars because that way I could have made an excuse to leave if necessary, but here I am in the car with Toby finally we pull into the restaurant car park I open my door and get out and grab my bags from the back seat as he gets out of the car he makes his way over to me as we walk into the restaurant we are greeted by the maitre de and are shown to our seats.

Toby and I enjoy an amazing meal and although the conversation was light during dinner we did talk about all the things we used to do when we were younger but hen things got weird between us when he mentioned our relationship back in college, with dinner finally over I was we'll and truly ready to go home and got to bed so we left the restaurant and got back in his car and he drove me home, when we got to my apartment building he walked me to the main door where we said goodnight Toby began to lean in as though he was going to kiss me but I put my hand to his chest to stop him before saying "Toby we are just friends, I don't have feelings for you any more" he backed away and began walking down the stairs and I turned to unlock the door when he said " Penelope" I turned back around to face him only to see him standing there with a small gun in his hand as he continued "I have been thinking about doing this all night" and with the last word said he pulled the trigger and shot me in the chest.

I immediately feel to the ground as I tried to focus on my breathing, trying to keep myself alive but I knew that I was fading fast before everything went black, some time later I am not exactly sure how long I was laying there but I could hear faint voices around me and there were several pairs of hands touching me and then that is when I felt it there was an extreme jolt rush through my body, then I felt something hard go under me and then I realized that the paramedics were trying to save my life, I was then loaded into an ambulance and taken to the hospital where they red lined me straight into an operating theatre where they were able to remove the bullet that had entered my chest ricocheted off a rib and became lodged in my abdomen.

Once I was out of theatre I was moved to the ICU recovery ward until I regained conscious then I was to be move to another ward, finally when I woke up from the anesthesia I noticed that I was not alone someone had a hold of my hand slowly I opened my eyes and turned towards the side of the bed where the person held my hand it took a few moments for my eyes to adjust and when they did I saw the last person I expected to see sitting beside me and I tried to pull my hand out of his be he held on firmly, so I lay there looking at him when he finally opened his eyes and lifted his head he saw that I was awake and he said "ohhh Baby Girl I am so sorry this happened to you, but I want you to listen to me because what I have to say is something that I will never ever waste my time in saying ever again, Penelope Garcia I love you, you know that don't you."

I didn't say anything but I nodded my head he then said "Baby Girl I guarantee I will get the bastard who did this to you and he will pay for what he has done" Derek then lifted my hand to his lips and placed a gentle kiss to my knuckles before putting my hand back on the bed, I tried to speak but Derek said "don't try and speak just yet ok" I nod my head again and then I lift my other hand and start doing a writing action Derek looks at me and says "do you want to write something down" again I nod and he pulls out his notebook and a pen and hands them to me and I write Toby Nelson in the notebook and hand it back to Derek.

Derek's POV

I can't believe my Baby Girl is in the hospital the last time I saw her was when she left with that bastard and she is in the hospital with gunshot wounds to her chest and abdomen, I got a phone call from the hospital saying that the paramedics just bought her in and that she had been shot and was in a pretty bad way, I couldn't believe that we were not even talking to each other but then again that would be because the big green jealousy monster made an unwanted appearance and I did something stupid which nearly cost me the most precious thing on this earth it nearly cost me the woman I love, yes I said it I love Penelope Garcia and I will shout it from the roof top if she wants me to but I still don't know if she reciprocates these feelings for me but then only time will tell.

The doctor comes in to check on Penelope and decides to take the breathing tube out of her mouth so that she will be able to talk and tell me what happened, I step out of the room while the doctor takes the tube out and checks her wounds so I go to the waiting room to update the rest o the team who have all gathered here I sit next to Hotch and say "Penelope gave me the name of who did this to her, the person who put her in here is that bastard Toby Nelson the one from the bar the other night, you know the one I had the honor of punching in the face" everyone nodded as I continued "when I find this good for nothing son of a bitch he is going to wish that he had never came to see her because by the time I am finished with him he will be non-recognizable and hat is if I don't decide to kill him."