The Road Less Traveled-Ch 16
Derek gently squeezed Penelopes hand and said, "thanks for coming with me to the hospital, it means a lot to me", she winked at him and said, "sure thing hotstuff, you can't get rid of me that easily" causing him to smile. It took them quite a few minutes to make it out to the main road because the storm from a few days earlier really messed up the road.
Penelope said, "that storm was a bad one, it looks like it has done a lot of damage", Derek said, "storm, what storm"?, she smiled at him and said, "well my dear sir while you were unconscious their was a storm and a half". He said, "did it do any damage to your place"?, she said, "nopeee, everything was fine back at casa Garcia, no harm no foul".
Derek said, "that's good, I'm glad to hear that, I would hate to think that anything happened to your house, especially after you took such good care of me", she sighed happily and said, "I'm just glad that I was able to get you all cleaned up". He said, "speaking of that, did you undress me and bath me"?, she blushed and said, "uhhhh well yeah but wait a minute, you were awake for that bath mister".
He laughed and said, "not that bath beautiful, I figured that you had to practically cut my pants and shirt off of me to be able to get the bullets out", she said, "I didn't have much trouble with the one on your arm but the one in your leg did take a little work". Derek said, "and you did such an amazing job with cleaning it and bandaging it, thank you sweetness", she smiled and said, "anything for you sugar".
Meanwhile the team was trying to make their way down the road, it was taking them a while because they to were having to dodge trees and other debris that was all over the place. Emily said, "I wonder how often they have storms like that up here"?, Reid said, "I'd say they are quite frequent up here", JJ said, "it's so beautiful here, I bet Penelope loves all the peace and quiet".
Dave said, "well it was peaceful until Derek showed up shot at her front door", Hotch said, "a lot of people wouldn't have taken him in and taken care of him like she did, it takes a special kind of person to do that". Everybody nodded their heads in agreement and JJ said, "and it's ohhhhh soooooo obvious that they are both smitten with each other and something tells me that once she's at his place living and taking care of him that Morgan is gonna milk it for all it's worth" causing everybody to laugh.
The ambulance finally pulled into the ER parking lot and when the medics opened the door and pulled the gurney out carrying Derek out of the back and wheeled him inside. Once he was inside the doctor walked over and said, "put him in cubicle 3 please", the medics nodded their heads and then continued to take Derek to his cubicle.
The doctor smiled as she stepped through the curtain and said, "alright Mr. Morgan let's get those wounds checked out", Derek looked up at Penelope and smiled as the doctor then undressed his wounds and started checking them out. When she was finished a few minutes later she smiled and said, "they seem to be healing nicely, whoever took care of you really knew what they were doing".
Derek said, "she did it, she took me in and took good care of me doc", Penelope said, "I didn't do anything that anybody else wouldn't else have done", the doctor said, "sadly you're wrong mam, not many people would have taken in somebody that they didn't know and taken such good care of them". Derek squirmed around on the bed and said, "soooooo when can I get out of here"?, she said, "welllllll let's see what the blood work says but I'd say that you're going to be staying here at least overnight".
Derek looked up at the door to see the rest of the team standing there and he said, "doc this is the rest of my team", she smiled and said, "it's nice to meet you", she then looked at Dave and said, "are you David Rossi"?, he smiled and said, "guilty as charged, have we met before"?, she said, "no but I love to read your books", he said, "it's nice to meet my fans".
The doctor said, "you are an amazing author, I think I have read every book you've ever written", he grinned and Derek said, "stop complimenting him doc or we're not going to be able to get his head through the door". Everybody started laughing and Dave said, "don't pay any attention to my step son he's just being a bad patient over there" causing the doctor to smile as she walked out of the room.