A/N: Okay getting the chapter up a bit earlier today! I'm so beyond excited for this chapter. I loved writing it. Please Please Please review this chapter and tell me your thoughts!

As always thank you to everyone who has reviewed, and continues to review. I love getting all of the feed back. Waking up to seven reviews this morning made my day, and of course made my muse go crazy. I ended up writing most of this chapter at work today which is why you're all getting a little early. Shhh...lets not tell my boss about that one...

Chapter Seven:

Dave descended the stairs with a smirk on his face. He reentered the sitting room seeing everyone under blankets, cuddled up with their significant others, he turned and noticed they had gotten the fire started.

"Dave? Where's Morgan and Garcie?" J.J. asked shifting to look behind him to see if her friends were following behind him. Emily was looking now too.

"Well they are locked up in Morgan's room until they work out their issues, and no one and I mean no one is to let them out. Not that you can because thanks to the lovely manager I have the only key to the lock for that room." He said looking from face to face of his shocked teammates.

"Dave don't get me wrong I'm all for this, I mean J.J. and I have been planning to do this for a while now, but now is really not the time. I mean come on they'll freeze up there!" Emily said sitting up,

"Seriously Emily and I already have this planned for when we get back home in Quantico. You know the hallway on the tenth floor doesn't have any camera's in it, were going to lock them in the closet up there, we've got it all worked out." J.J. said explaining. She couldn't believe he'd lock them up there with the power out.

"They won't freeze because the power isn't out. I flipped all the breakers. Like I said before I'll pay for the spike in your electric bill for shutting everything off and on like this." He said glancing at the hotel manager as he spoke. She just shook her head laughing and went to flip the breakers again. "Listen were going to be stuck here for at the very least a few days waiting out this storm, so there's no better time for them to hash this out. Besides this way when we get to go home, we will all go home happy with no more fighting and tension, with a happy and pray fully together Morgan and Garcia. I don't see a problem with this do you?" Dave said sitting on the edge of the coffee table. Just then the lights all came back on.

"Well I guess if the power isn't really out." J.J. said working it all out in her head.

"And we are already stuck here." Emily finished for her.

"As long as they're okay, I'm happy, they need this." J.J. said turning to cuddle up with Spencer again.

"I think it's a great idea personally." Reid chimed in.

"Remind me to buy you a bottle of scotch when we get back home." Hotch said giving him his rare small smile.

"I'll definitely take you up on that." Rossi said getting up to sit in the arm chair.

"I just hope that they talk this out, and don't kill each other." Emily said leaning back in her husband's arms.

"How'd you manage to lock them in there anyways?" Reid asked confused.

"I can answer that one." The manager said coming back in from flipping all the lights back on. "This building before I bought it was an assisted leaving home for the elderly that had certain problems, before it was converted into an Inn. Well each door has an emergency lock on the outside. I never changed the doors or removed the locks. It helps me feel safer when I'm the only one here. You know keep the doors locked anyone who breaks in can get past the room that there in." She said taking the remaining seat in the sitting room.

"So when are you letting them out?" J.J. asked looking over to Rossi.

Back Up Stairs with Our Feuding Couple:

"My what?" Derek said looking at her as if she'd just sprouted a second head.

"Derek do not play with me okay? Savannah came to see me the night before we left, and – and she told me you had proposed." Penelope said pulling away from him completely now. Saying these words. Saying them out loud. It scared her. It damn near killed her.

"Baby Girl I promise you I did not ask Savannah to marry me." Derek said grabbing at her hands again. He needed to feel her touch in some small way, and he knew she needed it too. It was reassurance, it was comfort, even if she had all her walls up right now, he knew she needed him still.

"Derek-" Penelope starts.

"Baby Girl I broke up with Savannah the day I got shot. I came home, picked her up from the BAU, went to the park and broke up with her. There was no proposal." Derek couldn't believe Savannah did this. It was all starting to make sense now. How distant she'd been, how she wouldn't look at him, or call him anything except Agent Morgan. Just then he noticed the lights coming back on, but honestly right then he didn't even care.

"But she came to my house and-" Penelope tried again to explain.

"I promise you Angel I broke up with her at the park, and then I went home packed up all her stuff that was at my house and had the locks changed just to be safe. I took her stuff and dropped it off in front of her door, and then I was planning on coming over that night and talking to you, but I went to Mama's to eat dinner. I wanted to ask her about how to talk to you and tell her about breaking up with Savannah, you know how much she hated her, but I ended up falling asleep on the couch waiting for her to come home. Baby Girl if you thought I proposed why didn't you just ask me about it?" Derek asked. That was the one thing that got him about this whole thing. She knew she could ask him anything, and he'd always be completely honest with her no matter what. Why when it really counted did she not just come to him and ask him.

"Because if I asked you, and you had, it would've killed me. It was hard enough having her standing in my doorway telling me how you'd proposed, and then asking me to back off. She said I was interfering with your only chance at being truly happy, and if I couldn't promise her I'd back off she'd turn down your proposal." Penelope had started shaking. She was mad, so mad and hurt. Not at Derek anymore. He obviously hadn't done anything. She mad at Savannah, and at herself. Mad at Savannah obviously for lying to her, and mad at herself for believing it. Hurt at Savannah too though. She'd always been nice to her and tried to get along with her for Derek's sake.

Derek pulled her into his lap. Wrapping his arms around her. He needed to feel her close to him. Holding her hand wasn't enough right now.

"Baby Girl I promise you, you're not interfering with anything. I could never be happy without you. You are everything to me. Your my world Angel can't you see that?" Derek asked kissing her forehead.

"Please don't say things like that to me right now. I can't deal with it." Penelope said pushing against him trying to get up.

"I'm telling you the truth." Derek said holding her tighter so she couldn't get free.

"Derek please." Penelope pleaded.

"No. Penelope, listen. I love you! I meant everything I just said to you. Everything I've ever said to you. I love you-"

"But not the same way I love you. Derek I don't think I can do this anymore. I'm so in love with you, hearing Savannah say you were engaged broke me. Even if it isn't true. One day it will be, and I can't handle it. I can't. I think that will literally be my undoing." Penelope once again tried to move away from him, and stand up, but he was too fast for her and just pulled her back down into his lap.

"Did you not hear a word I just said to you? I love you. You are my life. I'm in love with you. You Penelope Marie Garcia are the sole owner of my heart. I'm so in love with you this past week of you ignoring me, acting like I was just some agent on this case with you, it has been killing me. I broke up with Savannah that day because I'm in love with you, and want to be with you. You're the one I want to propose to, marry, and have kids with. You. I think about these doing these things with you. No one else. I wanted to come to you after I broke up with her and be able to show you how serious I was. I wanted to tell you how I'd been in love with you since the first time you smiled at me, the day I called you Baby Girl for the first time. I knew then, that I wanted to see that smile for the rest of my life. Please Angel, please believe me." Derek had tears swelling up in his eyes. Penelope just stared at him. She never thought he felt like this for her. She always thought he saw her as his dorky best friend. She saw the sincerity on his face. Felt the sincerity in his words. She knew he was telling her the truth, but she was still so scared.

"Angel?" Derek asked after she'd been silent for few minutes.

"I believe you. I'm terrified, but I believe you. I just. I need to know. What made you tell me now?" Penelope had to know. If he loved her all this time, why didn't he speak up sooner, she knew why she hadn't. She had seen all the girls he'd gone after over the years, she thought she wasn't his type and didn't want to embarrass them both by throwing herself at him. But she'd always shown interest in him. I mean a blind woman would be interested in him.

"Because honestly someone finally made me see that you love me as much as I love you. I honestly thought you didn't see me as anything more than your friend you joked around with. I didn't think you took me seriously. I didn't think you saw that everything I was saying to you was really how I felt and what I wanted. I didn't know if it was just you not seeing it or if you just didn't want me how I wanted you. And honestly you seem so happy with Sam. I didn't want to put you in that position if you by chance did want me to. I didn't want to be the one to make you have to choose between me and Sam. Baby I need you to know that I love you as much as you love me. I want you as much as you want me. That should never ever be a question to you." Derek kissed her forehead again.

"I broke up with Sam. The day you were shot I realized I couldn't keep doing this. I couldn't keep hiding my feelings for you from myself or from you. It wasn't right. I just kept thinking about what if that bullet hadn't just grazed you. What if it had been a serious wound? I could've lost you and you wouldn't have even known that I was in love with you. I just couldn't keep living like that. So I planned to tell you when you got back, but then Savannah showed up, and well then I guess you know what happened from there." Penelope looked up at his face. He looked beyond mad.

"I swear that pisses me off to no end. When we get home-" Without even thinking about it Penelope leaned up and kissed him. She caught him off guard he didn't have time to react. She quickly pulled away before he could deepen the kiss.

"Sorry I just. I've been wanting to do that." Penelope mumbled looking down again.

Derek laughed and tilted her head up towards him again.

"Don't apologize Sweetness. I'm yours to kiss whenever you want." Derek leaned down and gently kissed her.

"Really?" Penelope asked with a hopeful look in her eyes.

"If you'll have me, and of course if I can have you." Derek said looking at her beautiful brown eyes.

"You're serious?" Penelope looked at Derek, really looked at him. She could see no trace of humor in his face. The only thing she saw was so much love for her that she never knew was there.

"So much so it scares me." Derek said leaning his forehead against hers.

"I'm yours. I've always been yours, and I'll always be yours. As long as you want me that is." Penelope said just barely above a whisper.

"Forever?" Derek said with a grin that took up his whole face.

"I love the sound of that." Penelope said leaning in to kiss him again.