The Road Less Traveled-Ch 2
Penelope quickly ran to the bathroom and grabbed the first aid kit, she then started cleaning the wounds on his shoulder and on his leg, she then had to do something that she had never done before, remove bullets. She swallowed hard as she tried to pull the bullet out of his shoulder, when she pulled it and it popped back into his shoulder she felt a wave of nausea wash over her.
She said, "ohhhhh I'm gonna be sick", she then ran over to the toilet and emptied the contents of her stomach into the toilet, when she was done she washed her face and said, "you can do this Garcie, you can do this". Penelope then took a deep breath and turned around and headed back over to Derek where she then removed the bullets and put them in a paper cup on the table.
She then looked down at an unconscious Derek and said, "don't worry hotstuff, the all knowing oracle will take care of you", a few minutes later she had barely gotten Derek sewen up when the power went off. Penelope looked down at Derek and said, "it's gonna be a bad storm, rest Derek and when you wake up we'll see how you're doing, I'm gonna try to get help here for you".
Meanwhile back in town Hotch walked over to the team and said, "has anybody heard from Morgan"?, JJ said, "he was going to talk to a possible witness, a Thomas Green I believe but he never called in". Dave said, "let's just try his phone", Hotch said, "already did, it goes straight to voicemail", Reid said, "let's head out to where he was last heading and see what we can find".
Hotch said, "we need to hurry, he left several hours ago, if he hasn't checked in something's wrong", everybody nodded their heads yes in agreement as they grabbed their jackets and headed out to the SUV's. When they got to their cars thunder and lightening filled the air and Reid jumped and said, "I don't like storms, not at all".
JJ said, "like father like son" causing Reid to grin as he pulled the door shut so they could take off, not checking in wasn't like Derek so the sooner they found him the better. Reid said, "we should be at his last known address in 33 minutes and 45 seconds, give or take a few seconds", JJ patted him on the shoulder and said, "I love you Spence", he said, "I love you to Jayje" as he then turned and looked out the window as the rain started to pour.
Penelope looked down at the thermometer and said, "you're getting hot, hotstuff", she said, "I have Tylenol and Motrin but with you sleeping on me I can't give them to you". She bit down on her bottom lip and walked over to her fridge and got a bottle of water and then walked back over to Derek, she gently shook him and said, "wake up Derek, I need for you to take this Tylenol for me, we've got to get that fever down".
Dereks eyes fluttered open and he said, "w who are you"?, she said, "the name's Penelope Garcia and you're running a fever of almost 104 so we need to get some Tylenol inside you". Derek opened his mouth and took the pills and after getting the swig of water he said, "t t thank you", she said, "for what" and before he could respond he was out again.
Penelope took a deep breath and said, "until the meds kick in I think I'm going to use cold compresses" and went to the bathroom and got several wash cloths and soaked them in cool water. She put one on his forehead and one around his neck and one under each arm, she then said, "hopefully the Tylenol will kick in soon because if they don't I don't know what I'm going to do".
A few miles away Thomas Green and his brothers were still searching the woods for Derek, Thomas said, "Seth are you sure you got him"?, he said, "sure am, knicked him in the shoulder and in the leg so he ain't getting far". The younger brother Zachary said, "maybe we better head back home until this storm passes Thomas, things are getting pretty bad".
Thomas said, "that sounds like a good idea, we can start looking again first thing in the morning", the other two brothers lowered their guns as they turned around and headed back through the woods toward their house.