I don't own CM cause if I did things would be going a lot different this season.

AN: I am back with the last chapter of Solace. EnjoyI promise a sequel is already in the works rewatching season 4 has we speak. I hope you guys have enjoyed it.

Pen awoke the next morning feeling Derek's eyes watching her. "Derek don't you ever sleep?"

"Morning Princess, I did sleep."

"When exactly because I could have sworn five hours ago I fell asleep and you were still awake and now I wake up and you are staring at me, which had it been anybody else would really be creepy, by the way."

"Sorry angel I will try to stop, but I just can't believe you are here."

"Well that is a mutual feeling Hot Stuff, but you should be resting because in two days we are back to the world for serial killers and you need to be on your toes and don't tell me you don't need it, because I have spent the last two weeks with you, and I know you haven't had more than two or three hours a night."

"Baby Girl, I am use to it. When you have the job I have you don't sleep more than two or three hours a night as a rule, but I am at peace and that is something I haven't had in a long time. I am more worried about your lack of sleep than mine."

"Derek, I am fine really. I wish you would not worry so much about me."

"I can't help it baby, you are the other half of me and I know since Battle our job has affected you so much more and I want you to know if it ever gets to be too much, all you have to do is say the word and we will work something out.

"I love our job and I know I am not the only reason you stayed here Derek."

"No"

"Hot Stuff, do we really have to leave tomorrow."

"Afraid so, Sweetness, I wish we could live here, but it is just too far from the office, maybe soon we can find a house closer to Quantico, and save this one for family vacations."

"Family vacations, huh?"

"Yep, we will have plenty of room for everybody once I get the upstairs finished. Until then it will just be a place for me and you and Clooney."

"I like the sound of that Hot Stuff."

"I do too Goddess. What do you say to going on a walk with me and Clooney this morning? I want to talk to you about some things."

"Oh no, I don't like the sound of that."

"It's all good Baby Girl. I promise."

Derek watched as she climbed out of bed and made her way to the bathroom thinking just how lucky he was to have her in his life and how it better make it permanent soon before she let those voices in her head talk her out of it. He got out of bed himself and put on his sweats and went in search of Clooney. He found Clooney lying next to the back door.

"You ready for a walk boy?" He watched as Clooney's ears perked up and the dog uncurled himself and wagged his tail.

"I take that means yes," Derek turns to see his Baby Girl dressed and ready to go.

"Wow, Mamma you never cease to take my breath away," he says as he leans in for a kiss.

"And you Handsome never cease to amaze me," she whispered when he finally broke the kiss.

"Let's get out of here Baby Girl before I change my mind and take you back to bed. ."

"I'm up for it," she said with a smile.

"No way, besides you just want to get out of talking and that is not going to happen Penelope."

"Derek Morgan, when did you get to be so bossy," she asked as he led her and Clooney out the door, shutting and locking it behind them.

"Since I discovered my best friend was not as happy as she acted."

"Derek, I am happy."

"Sweetness, I know you are happy to a degree, but there are times when I see sadness in those beautiful eyes of yours and I swear it tears me up inside."

"Derek, nobody can be happy all the time."

" I know that Baby Girl, but I get the feeling you are sad a lot of the time and you just try to hide it from me and the team." He stopped and turned to face her when he heard her sigh.

"You can't fix everything, no matter how much I wish you could, my beautiful superhero."

"I just want you to open up to me Pen, that's all, give me a door, let me over the wall, that's all I am asking for."

"What do you want to know?"

"I want to know everything but I will settle for knowing why you don't have anything to do with your brothers. I get the sense that you were close once but you aren't anymore."

"I really hate profilers you know."

"I know you do baby but you are stuck with us."

"Well, we were close when we were kids, but that was before I turned into the ugly duckling computer geek and their friends thought I was weird, so we just drifted apart, and then our parents died and that ended our connection completely."

"I know you are not telling me everything Pen, but I will let it go for now, but I will get to the bottom of all this eventually."

"If you are around long enough I suppose you will eventually."

Derek stopped dead in his tracks and turned to face her. "Penelope Garcia, I don't know what else to tell you to make you see I am in this for the long haul, but get use to it, because I am here for you forever."

"I need to learn to keep my big mouth, shut," she muttered as she wrapped her arms around his waist and rested her head against his chest. "I am sorry, Hot Stuff I do not know what is wrong with me anymore. I know you love me and mean everything you say Derek I really do."

"But, you aren't ready for talk of forever are you," he asked quietly, "And you aren't sure you ever will be are you?"

"I don't know, Hot Stuff, I just don't know everything is just happening so fast for us and that scares me. I just wish we didn't have to leave here. I see us here and nothing else."

Derek remained quiet the rest of their walk and Pen was starting to worry. It was only when they were back inside the house that he spoke.

"Pen, I wish we could just stay here too, just the three of us, where nothing could happen to you or to us, but that is not in the cards for us. I know it and so do you, but I am not going anywhere and when we are not working for weeks on end and dealing with the evil of the world, we will come back here and it will be just the three of us again, for a while anyway. I hope eventually our family will join us here, but right now all I want to do is to take you back to bed and enjoy our last day here alone," he said as he picked her up and carried her to bed.