Once Upon A Straight Tequila Night
Chapter 9 - Emotions Run High
Derek's POV
I walk back into my Baby Girls hospital room and I find a guy in there talking to her, making her smile and it annoys the hell out of me, I have told her I love her but obviously she doesn't believe me so I turn and walk back out of the room and then I hear her frail voice behind me say "Derek where are you going" I turn around and walk back to the doorway and say "well obviously you don't need me here, seeing as you have HIM here with you so I am going home" Penelope goes to say something but I just put my hand up to stop her and says "I don't want to hear it" and I turn around again and walk towards the exit of the hospital.
Climbing into the drivers seat of my SUV I start the engine and roughly maneuver the gear stick into reverse and pull out of the car space before putting it into drive I take off out of the car park and head for home, when I get home I am greeted by a very energetic Clooney who is jumping up at me and running in circles I bend down to give him some attention and a scratch behind his ears, making my way to the kitchen I grab a beer from the fridge and head for the living room where I collapse on the couch before reaching to pick up the remote I switch the tv on and begin flicking through the channels trying to find something to take my mind off Penelope but nothing works so I chug down the rest of my beer and head to bed and try to get a good nights sleep but I doubt whether that will happen as I am too agitated at the moment.
Penelope's POV
I saw Derek walk back into my room and look at my brother like he was the devil before he turned and walked back out I call out and say "Derek where are you going" he turns and walks to the doorway and with a little anger in his voice he replies "well you obviously don't need me here, seeing as you have HIM here with you so I am going home" I am about to say something else when Derek puts his hand up to stop me and then he says "I don't want to hear it" and then he turns around and walks away again.
When Derek was out of my sight I sat there in my bed and bought my hands to my face and began to cry and my brother came and on the side of my bed and very gently wrapped his arms around me and comforted me as I cried into his chest, Derek didn't even let me explain as to who (as he called HIM) this is that is standing in my room with me as usual Derek took everything in a completely different context and if he had of let me finish what I was going to say instead of stopping me he would have found out that it is my brother Markus (the youngest of the 3 boys) and the only member of my family that still talks to me after all these years and is the only one who doesn't blame me for our parents being killed by a drunk driver.
I continued to cry into Markus's chest until I felt something pop and the excruciating pain that followed it, I pick up my buzzer and press the button to alert a nurse, a nurse comes running into the room and says "Ms Garcia what seems to be the problem" I manage to pull myself away from Markus and say "I think I may have popped some of my stitches, I heard a pop sound and I am in excruciating pain, the nurse turned towards Markus and says "sir can you give us a few minutes please I just need to check Ms Garcia's wounds" Markus nods and walks out of the room and the nurse pulls the curtain across and then says "ok Ms Garcia where are you feeling the pain raising my right hand I point to the left side of my chest which is where the bullet entered when Toby shot me.
The nurse puts on a pair of gloves and then moves my gown before pulling the patch covering my wound off, when she has removed the patch she notices that I have in fact popped my stitches she then asks "Ms Garcia may I ask how you popped your stitches" I reply "my best friend walked out on me when he saw my brother standing in the room with me, and without letting me explain and it upset me so I began crying, I was crying so hard and that is when I heard the pop" she looked at me and said "I am going to call your doctor so that he can come and have a look and see what he wants to do whether he gives you a local anesthetic to re-stitch it or whether he takes you back to surgery to fix it" as she replaces the patch over it.
My doctor walks into my room 10 minutes later and takes a look at the damage I have done and decides that he will re-stitch it right here he orders the nurse to get a suture kit and some local anesthetic while he gets ready he heads to the sink and washes his hands and puts his gloves on, the nurse walks back in with the trolley and brings it to the side of the bed where the doctor is standing, while the doctor starts drawing up the anesthetic in the syringe and give me the injection, the nurse walks over to the sink and washing her hands and putting on her gloves once the local anesthetic has taken effect the doctor begins to repair the popped stitches and thank goodness I don't feel them, once all the stitches have been repaired he covers the wound with a fresh patch and straightens my gown before taking off his gloves he then says "Ms Garcia please refrain from anything strenuous so that we don't have to repair any more stitches and have your healing time take longer" I nod and say "I will take it easy from now on doc."
I sit here thinking about what is going on with Derek and for some reason he has this idea that every man that comes near me is trying to be with me and I know that he has told me that he loves me but I don't know if he really means I love you or I am in love with you but the I am starting to think that it maybe the latter as he gets very possessive over me and I love him too but with everything that has gone on over the past few days I really don't what to think any more, I need to distance myself from him for a little while, while I sort out my feelings an then maybe we can re-evaluate our feelings for each other soon.
Derek's POV
Just as I get into bed my cell phone goes off, I pick it up and see that it is JJ calling I answer the call and say "Morgan" I hear JJ sigh on the other end of the phone before she says "hey Morgan sorry to ring you so late but I just got off the phone with the Sheriff in New Mexico and he has asked for our assistance with a Human Trafficking case that has been going on for the past week so can you please make your way to the office for the briefing I reply "yeah no worries JJ I will be there as soon as possible, can you call Penelope and tell her that we are out on a case, I would call her myself but when I got back to her room earlier this evening there was a guy in there and I got really annoyed and walked out again and I told her I didn't want to hear what she had to say, I mean for christ sake JJ I told her I love her and there she was with another man in her room making her laugh and smile, I don't know what to do any more so I figured I would give her time to herself for a little while."
JJ sighed again before saying "Derek just give her a little time so much has happened to her the past few days she just needs to find herself again and then when she does I am sure she will need you there for her Ok, I will call her and let her know and I will see you in the war room shortly" both hung up the phone and I began getting dressed, putting my holstered weapon on my jeans and badge in my back pocket before grabbing my go bag and replenishing it with clean clothes and my toiletries, I made his way downstairs and into the kitchen where I gave Clooney a bowl of dog kibble and a fresh bowl of water before making my way over to my faithful pet who is laying in his dog bed I bend down and give him a pat and say "I will see you soon Cloon."
Exiting my front door making sure that everything is locked up I get in my SUV and head back to the office, I park in my car space and grab my go bag and get out of my SUV I throw my go bag over my shoulder and enter the elevator and make my way to the BAU floor when the elevator dings and the doors open I exit the elevator and walk towards the double glass doors and open one walking into the bull pen I head for my desk and dump my go bag before heading to the war room for the briefing when I get there everybody is getting themselves a cup of coffee so I do the same while I am getting my coffee JJ comes over to me and quietly says "I spoke to Pen and she explained everything to me Derek and I think you may have blown the whole situation out of proportion and if you had of listened to what she had to say you would have found out that the guy in her room was in actual fact her step-brother Markus he is the only person who keeps in contact with her since the death of her parents and just so you know Penelope had to have some of her stitches replaced because of you" I look at her as if she had two head and say "why what did I do to her that she needed to have her stitches replaced."
JJ said "well if you hadn't have got all huffy and puffy about a guy in her room she wouldn't have burst into tears and pop her stitches, you knew she was having a hard time with her trust in men since Toby shot her and you go and yell at her for having her brother come and visit without an explanation, so I hope you are proud of yourself Derek and to be quite honest with you with the way you are acting you don't deserve that woman's love" JJ walks away and now I feel like the biggest jerk for not letting Penelope explain to me who that was in her room, I realize I may have just lost the best thing to ever happen to me all because of my possessiveness.