From Now Until Forever
Chapter 29
As Derek, Penelope and Fran approached the house Penelope thought she noticed the cars of their friends sitting out the front of house, as Derek pulled into the driveway their friends started getting out of their vehicles each of them dressed in casual clothes Derek got out and made his way around to Penelope's side of the SUV so that he could help her out, JJ, Spencer, Hotch, Emily and Rossi walked up the path towards the front door Penelope turned and smiled at her friends before saying "I thought you had plans today" JJ replied "yeah we do and it is helping you with the nursery" Penelope laughed and said "well that would be nurseries" everyone entered the house and the girls headed into the kitchen and Fran put the coffee machine and the kettle on while the boys when back out and got the paint and the painting supplies out of the SUV.
While everyone sat around drinking their coffee Emily and JJ were eager to find out what the sex of the babies were but Penelope said "you will just have to wait and find out when we take the paint upstairs and open them and then while the boys paint the walls we have letters to paint for the name feature that will be above each crib" it wasn't long and everyone had finished their coffees each of the men grabbed a can of paint and began walking upstairs the girls grabbed everything except the bag that had the letters and the sample pots and brushes before following the men upstairs, when they reached the room that would be the nursery for the girls Derek laid a piece of cardboard on the floor and put all 4 can on the cardboard he then took a flat blade screwdriver and began to ease each lid off without disclosing the colors.
Emily and JJ were once again getting inpatient with having to wait when Rossi said "come on Derek will you just show us what colors you have chosen" Derek lifted the lid slowly off each can Penelope watched JJ and Emily's faces as they looked at the colors and she said "so as you can see from the colors we have chosen that we are having two boys and two girls" Jj squealed at the news and embraced Penelope, Penelope continued "now they reason we have chosen two colors for each nursery is because both the girl and the boys are identical and we have decided to allocate each baby a color, so this room will be divided in half and one side will be purple and the other will be pink and the in the boys room same thing but blue and green" Rossi said "well then we better get started then, who has got the tape measure so we can measure how big the room is" Derek handed Rossi the tape measure before putting the lids back on the paint so that none got spilt.
Penelope said "the girls and I are going to be downstairs doing some painting of our own" and with that the girls made their way downstairs and towards the dining room table Penelope grabbed the bag that had all the letters in it ad the bag with the paint pots and brushes and a plastic drop sheet for the table she placed the bags on the table and pulled the drop sheet from the bag and asked "can you girls spread this over the table while I sort out all the letters and everyone pick a color" Penelope quickly sorted out the letters of each of the babies names and the asked "what color have you got JJ" JJ replied "I have green" Penelope picked up the letter's for Zavier and placed them on the table in front of JJ, Emily then said "I have purple" Penelope picked up the letters for Madison and placed them in front of Em, Fran said "I have blue" Penelope picked up the letters for Zachary and the letters for Mia and headed back to the table she placed both lots of letters down and took her seat.
Meanwhile upstairs Derek and the guys were measuring and taping off the centre markings so that they could begin painting Derek was up on the ladder making sure the tape was straight once the wall was taped they headed into the other nursery and did the same so that 2 men could be painting in each room as they could only paint one half at a time once the measuring and taping was done in both rooms it was time to lay the drop sheets on the floor and tape them to the trimming around the bottom of the floor so that they wouldn't get paint on the carpet they the poured the lighter colored paints into the roller trays and a small bucket so that someone could start painting around the window frames, door frames and below the cornice it would prevent any paint getting on the dark timber.
Back downstairs the girls and Fran were all trying to figure out what name the letters would spell out Penelope said "I will give you all a clue" Em said "what clue is that Garcie" Penelope said "I am going to give the first letter of each name, the girls names start with M and the boys names start with Z, you can try and work out the rest of the name on your own or wait until they go up on the wall in the nurseries now let's get painting" it took the girls about half an hour to get one coat of paint on each of the letters before leaving them to dry, JJ and Emily left the table and went up to see how the guys were going with the painting while Penelope and Fran stayed downstairs so that they could start to prepare lunch for everyone but it also would give Fran time to ask Penelope about the oldest member of the team David Rossi.
As Fran and Penelope were preparing lunch Fran asked "Penelope what can you tell me about David Rossi, I mean is he dating anyone at the moment" Penelope smiled and said "well at the moment he is single because he is always working whether it be at the BAU or away on book tours" Fran smile before saying "so do you think he would be interested in being a relationship" Penelope laughed and said "are you interested in our Italian Stallion" Fran couldn't help but blush a little as she replied "well he is extremely Handsome, but I am just worried of what Derek will think" Penelope said "you leave Derek to me I will wrap him around my little finger" Fran laughed and said "I have no doubt that you will do that."
When Penelope and Fran had finished preparing lunch Penelope made her way upstairs and informed everyone that lunch was ready she watched everyone exit the rooms but she stopped Rossi and said "I think you have an admirer" Rossi smiled and said "what do you mean have an admirer" Penelope replied "ohhh if you haven't realized it yet then I am not going to tell you anything" it took him a few minutes before he realized what Penelope was on about, he and Penelope made their way downstairs and he sat down at the table while Penelope grabbed the pitcher of sweet tea and some glasses from the cupboard from the kitchen, Fran came out of the kitchen with a hand full of napkins and as she approached the table she dropped them right next to Rossi and when she bent down to pick them up he felt himself getting hard and that is when he realized who Penelope was talking about.
After lunch Derek, Hotch, Spence, Em and JJ headed back upstairs while Penelope went to the bathroom which left Fran and Rossi in the kitchen, Rossi was normally confident when it came to talking to women but what he could't understand was why he was scared as hell about talking to Fran, Fran stood there not quite sure what to say she was just about to say something when Rossi said "Fran how would you like to have dinner with me" Fran bit her bottom lip and smiled before saying "I would love to have dinner with you David" but what neither of the realized was that they were being watched by Penelope.
Penelope tried to keep quiet but let out a little squeak just then Fran and Rossi turned around just in time to see Penelope duck out of sight Rossi then said "I know your there Kitten" Penelope peeked around the corner again and couldn't help but smile she saw Rossi heading towards her and he stopped when he got to her and said "just how much of that did you see and hear" Penelope replied "I only caught the end of your conversation but I am glad you finally realized who I was talking about and don't worry about Derek I will sort him out if he give you any flack over asking Fran out to dinner" Rossi replied "thanks Kitten, now if you will excuse me I have a nursery that requires my attention" he gave her a hug before heading towards the stairs Penelope called out "can you send Em and JJ back down so that we can continue with our painting" Rossi said "sure thing Kitten."
A few minutes later Emily and JJ came down the stairs and made their way back over to the table the four of them picked up one corner of the drop sheet and placed it back on the table and then took their places and started painting again, Penelope asked JJ "so how do the rooms look so far" JJ replied "well Garcie the rooms look great and the guys just started the second color but from the looks of it the rooms will be completely painted by late this afternoon so that means that you can get the nursery furniture ordered and then we can have a day of shopping while the guys get the furniture all put together."