From Now Until Forever

Chapter 13

Derek pulled into the car park of the FBI building and parked in his space and turned off the car he pulled the keys from the ignition and unbuckled his seatbelt before he turned to Penelope and said "Baby Girl are you ok" Penelope nodded and said "yeah I am ok Handsome just a little shocked, I mean in just a few months we are going to have 4 little babies that are going to be sooooooo little that they are going to have to spend some time in the hospital and I don't know I guess I am just..." Derek said "your just a little scared, guess what Baby Girl so am I, I am scared of losing you and our babies I know that we have only just found out that we are going to have four but already I love them just as much as I love you and losing either you or them would make my life hell because Baby Girl I can't live without you."

Penelope felt her heart swell at that comment and felt tears begin to roll down her cheeks because she felt exactly the same way about him and their babies, she knew that she was going to do everything in her power to keep their babies in her belly for as long as possible so that it gave them a better chance at life once they were born and if that meant giving up work halfway through her pregnancy then that is what she would do and even though she would be bored shitless sitting around at home she would deal with for the sake of her unborn babies because they were more precious to her then her work.

Derek bought Penelope out of her thoughts when he said "come on let's get inside before they send out a search party looking for us" Penelope giggled as she knew that he was right and she said "when are we going to tell the team" Derek said "we can tell the team now or we can tell the team when we get back from Chicago" Penelope said "I think we should tell them now so that we don't have to try and keep it a secret because they are going to know that something is up when we get in there" Derek bought Penelope's hand to his mouth and kissed it before he said "that sound like a great idea Baby Girl" and with that he got out of the car and made his way around to her side and helped her out of her seat.

The elevator ride up to the seventh floor was quick and when the doors opened and hey got out they made their way into the bullpen where everyone was sitting catching up on their paperwork from the previous case, Emily was the first to see that the coup,e had returned from wherever they had been and got up from her chair and made her way over to the couple and said "where have you two been" Penelope smiled and said "well if you gather the rest of the team and meet us in the round table room you will all find out together" Emily sighed and said "ok Garcie I will go and round them all up but what ever it is it better not be bad news" Derek said "don't worry Em it is great news."

Derek and Penelope made their way to the round table room and sat down, they were only in there for a few minutes when the rest of the team walked in JJ looked at Penelope and she was pretty sure what it was that she was going to tell them as while the couple were gone she had worked out what it was that was different about Penelope earlier and she recognized it from her own pregnancy as well as Emily's pregnancy she saw that Penelope had the pregnancy glow, JJ sat down and waited to find out what was going on as everyone took their seats.

Penelope stood up and grabbed something from her purse as she began "now you are probably all wondering what Derek and I have called you in here for, well everyone except for Hotch" JJ said "come on Garcie just tell us what is going on" Penelope smiled as she handed out one picture to each couple and Rossi face down and said "don't turn them over just yet, now Derek and I have just come back from my doctors appointment which I had made while you were all on that last case I was getting nauseous and sick pretty much the whole time you were gone and so I took a pregnancy test and it was positive, so I made the appointment for today in hope that you guys would be home and I kept the pregnancy a secret until I could tell Derek face to face, now you may turn over the paper that I just gave you."

Derek and Penelope watched as Rossi, Em and JJ turned over the piece of paper in front of them, they heard gasps from Em and JJ when they saw what was on the paper Penelope couldn't help but smile as she heard JJ counting out loud, Em looked up at Penelope and said "ohhhhhhh my god Pen you really have 4 little babies growing in your belly" Derek spoke up and said "yeah we are going to have our hands full that is for sure but we wouldn't have it any other way would we Baby Girl" Penelope shook her head and said "when the doctor first told us that we were have quadruplets I went into shock but I am slowly starting to come to terms with and I now can't wait for them to get here."

Everyone got up and made their way over to Derek and Penelope and began congratulating them on the very exciting news, once everyone had calmed down Hotch spoke up and said "well to continue on with good news I have spoken with Strauss and she has agreed to give us two weeks of so at the conclusion of today, I will see you all in two weeks" Penelope and Derek were excited as they were going to spend a week and a half in Chicago with Derek's family, finally everyone let the round table room and headed back to their desks while Derek and Penelope headed to Penelope's office.

Once they reached Penelope's office she opened the door and they entered Penelope quickly made her way over to her computers and immediately bought up an airline website so that she could book the earliest possible tickets to leave for Chicago the next day and return the weekend before they were due to be back at work, Penelope found a flight that left at 10:15 am the next morning and she looked at Derek to get his confirmation and when he nodded his head she went ahead and booked the tickets she paid for them with her credit card and printed out the flight confirmation.

Penelope turned in her chair and said "Handsome are you going to call your Mamma and let her know that we are coming for a visit" Derek smiled and said "I was thinking about surprising her with our visit but then I thought that if we surprise her she may not be home, so I will call her now" as he pulled his cell phone off his belt and scrolled through his contacts list until he found his Mamma's name he then pressed the green button and the phone began to ring, as Derek waited for his Mamma to answer he interlaced his fingers with Penelope's and rested their joined hands over the slight bump of her belly after the third ring his Mamma answered and said "hello Baby Boy, what do I owe the pleasure of a call this beautiful Monday morning."

Derek smiled and said "good morning Mamma" before he took the phone from his ear and put on speaker so that both he and Penelope could talk to her and penelope said "good morning Fran" Fran smiled and said "good morning Penelope, now what is happening for me to receive a phone call this early in the morning" Derek sighed and said "nothing has happened Mamma we just called to see what you were your plans were for the next few days as we are on a 2 week stand down and we were wanting to come and visit you as we have something to tell you."

Fran smiled and said "what is that you have to tell me that can't be done over the phone" she was hoping that her Baby Boy had finally asked Penelope to marry him Penelope said "well what we have to tell you needs to be done face to face so we are booked on a flight to leave Virginia at 10:15 am tomorrow morning and will land in Chicago about 12:10 pm" Fran said with a pout "well I guess that I will just have to wait until you get here then" even though Penelope and Derek couldn't see her but Penelope could hear the disappointment in her voice and said "Fran what we have to tell you is something that is going to make your day, trust me."