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So I had mixed reaction on continuing the story. Some of you told me to continue for several more chapters and some said the ending was great where it was at so I decided on a compromise. Here's an epilogue….I hope you like it. It's quite a long one but iIn honor of Valentine's day I decided to make it romantic and sensual, so this definitely a rated M chapter at the end. I don't usually write such so I hope you enjoy it.

And thanks once again to all of my reviewers and readers. I can't tell you how great it make s me feel to see your responses and alerts.

Epilogue

Derek and Penelope had been living together since the day she was released from the hospital. No matter how much you love or know someone, living together brings a whole new set of challenges so while things were just a tad awkward at first, every day seemed to bring them closer together and more comfortable with each other. Both could honestly say that it was a decision they never regretted.

Derek had made good on his word to take things slow and to take the time to woo and prove his love to his woman. Penelope was still on the mend for the first month, and instead of moving straight into his bedroom, they both decided she would move into his guest bedroom just down the hall. The last thing Derek wanted was to pressure his Baby Girl into things she wasn't ready for, emotionally or physically. They both also realized that even though Kevin was gone, Penelope would still have the issues from that relationship to deal with as well.

And the issues came. For several weeks, there were nightmares in which Penelope would wake up either curled up in a ball and crying as if she was trying to protect herself from Kevin's blows or screaming Derek's name. Derek was always there to comfort her, laying gentle kisses on her forehead, stroking her hair, or just holding her until she fell back asleep. It tore his heart to shreds to see her suffering but he also knew enough to know that her mind needed a chance to work through all the pain.

Evenings were the best, it was the time they dedicated strictly to themselves and getting to know each even better than they had before. Every night Derek would cook or they would order something in and they would turn off the TV and sit at his dining room table slowly eating and discussing anything and everything. They told each other everything they could about their childhoods, their families, their likes, dislikes anything that came to mind.

After dinner they would get Clooney and head out around the neighborhood on an evening walk. The fresh air and exercise was good for healing Penelope's wounds and Derek loved being able to put his arm around her shoulder as they walked and just being with her.

When they would return home, it was usually time to relax with TV or movies. It really didn't matter what was on, they just loved sitting on the couch, snuggling, holding hands and sharing the occasional kiss. Sometimes Penelope felt that this particular time they spent together was more intimate than sex could ever be. Not that she wasn't looking forward to the day they would make love but she already felt so close to Derek, she knew they had a bond and a level of connection that most couples never experience.

When it came time for her to return to work, they were both nervous but she found that she fell back into her routine very quickly and that being back with the rest of her 'family' was great therapy in itself. The team all knew that Derek and Penelope were living together and just accepted it. There was no talk about it, it just was. Hotch and Rossi had decided they would just leave things be and would talk to Strauss only if she decided there was an issue. Until then, there was no need to stir the pot.

Six weeks after her release from the hospital, the team was finally being reassigned major cases again and the time came for Derek to have to travel with the team to a case in Boston. Penelope was scared to have him leave, but she also knew she had to learn to make it without him by her side every minute. This was the nature of their job and Derek's job was so much of what made him the amazing man that he was, she knew this day would come and was actually happy for it. This is what normal would be in their lives and they both had to re-learn how to deal with it.

The case also gave them a chance to re-establish their phone flirting habits that had almost been abandoned during the past year. And now that they were officially a couple, it brought their phone calls to a whole new level. Of course, they were both professional when need be and working the case was their top priority, but now when they had the chance to flirt the anticipation that it would actually lead somewhere made it all the more fun.

Derek would also call home every night after he was back at the hotel room. He would bring Penelope up to date on the case and let her know that he and the team were all ok. He also used the time to check up on her and to make sure she was handling the lonely nights ok. She had been scared at first, but she told him that she had comforted herself by sleeping in his bed and allowing Clooney to join her to keep her safe.

"Baby Girl, you're spoiling that dog!" Derek chuckled as he spoke to her one night. "I hope you've explained to him that once I'm back, he's out and I'm in!"

"You better believe it, Hot Stuff. Just keeping your side of the bed warm for you," Penelope teased back. Neither one came right out and discussed them moving into the same bed upon Derek's return, but it seemed as if they had come to the same conclusion, it was just a given that it would happen.

Within 10 days, the case in Boston was solved and the team was headed back. It was late on a Thursday night and Hotch had given the team Friday off so they would all have a long weekend. Derek was anxious to get home to Penelope. Just thinking those words, made him happier than he had ever been before, he had never had someone to come home to before.

Leaving his paperwork for Monday, Derek had let Penelope know that he would be heading straight home from the airport. It was after 11:00 pm when he pulled in the drive and it looked as if all the lights in the house were off except for a faint glow coming from the living room window. Derek figured that Penelope had most likely fallen asleep in front of the television waiting for him to get home.

Quietly opening the door, he set his bag down in the entryway and proceeded towards the living room. He was surprised not to find Penelope on the couch but he was even more surprised when he saw two champagne glasses with a note propped up against them with his name on it sitting on the coffee table. A lone candle in a crystal candlestick was burning next to the glasses.

Smiling to himself, he went over and picked up the note.

"Mon Cheri, Je t'aime de tout mon coeur,. (I love you with all my heart). "I'm waiting, My Love, take the glasses and proceed to the kitchen."

Picking up the glasses and the card, it was all Derek could do not to run immediately and find wherever his Baby Girl was hiding, but his interest was piqued and he couldn't wait to see what surprises she had in store. As he walked into the kitchen, there was another candle beside a silver tray containing strawberries, a glass bowl filled with warm chocolate sauce and a bottle of French champagne. Another note was on the tray: "My Chocolate God of Thunder, I once told you I had a sweet tooth. Tonight I intend to satisfy my cravings. If you would like to help me, please bring the glasses and the tray to the bedroom. I'll be anxiously awaiting your arrival."

Derek's whole body was tingling with the anticipation of what he would find in the bedroom. Never in his life had he met a woman who had done such a thing for him or who caused the physical reaction that Penelope could cause just by thinking about her.

As he entered the bedroom, Derek nearly dropped the tray when he saw the sight before him. There must have been 50 candles lit around the room and the sounds of smooth jazz filled the air. In the center of it all, draped sensually across his bed laying on top of a white fur throw was Penelope, dressed in a red lace negligee that barely contained her voluptuous breasts and that just came down to the very top of her milky white thighs.

The reaction from Derek's body was immediate, his jeans immediately tightening as he saw the vision that lay before him. Never in his life had he seen any woman look so beautiful, so erotic, and so sensuous at once. He wanted her with every fiber of his being.

"Come to me my vision," Penelope said with a sexy lilt in her voice as she crooked her finger at him. Practically throwing the tray on the bedside stand and ripping off his shirt, he climbed onto the bed next to her as his hands immediately began exploring her body.

"My God, Baby Girl, you are the sexiest woman I have ever seen," he said almost breathlessly as his fingers traced from her lips, down her throat to the lace that covered her rock hard nipples. Looking back up into her sensuous eyes, he gently asked her, "Are you sure, Baby? This is what you want? You're ready? Because there's no turning back from this."

"There is nothing I have ever wanted more in my entire life. No, that's not true, My Love, I have never needed anything more than I need to make love to you right now, to feel you inside of me, to make us one," she responded as she reached over, working the button on his jeans.

Derek quickly stood and stepped out of the rest of his clothes and then knelt next to her on the bed, gently pushing her shoulders back against the pillows and headboard. "Then lay back and enjoy, Princess, because my one goal in life is to satisfy every craving you have and to give you everything you have ever needed."

As Penelope watched with lust-filled eyes, Derek reached over and dipped a strawberry into the warm vat of chocolate. Straddling her, he slowly brought the strawberry over and held the dripping chocolate just over her heaving chest. With his other hand, he pulled the red lace down, freeing her nipples and began dripping the luscious chocolate over each pink, quivering bud.

Penelope moaned as the hot, thick confection reached her skin, the sound of her pleasure driving Derek wild and making him harder than he had ever been in his life. Bending down, he brought his mouth to her right nipple and began to suck and lick the chocolate off of her as the hand with the strawberry brought it to her lips.

Watching over the mound of her breast as she took the strawberry in her mouth and seductively sucked and bit into the juicy berry, Derek thought he would cum right then and there.

Putting a hand on each side of his head, Penelope guided Derek back up to her mouth and quickly brought his lips to her as her juice coated tongue hungrily crashed into his mouth, tasting the chocolate he had just licked off her breast. Penelope had never been the aggressor in bed, but with Derek, she couldn't help herself. Everything about him, the way he worked his tongue, they way his hardness throbbed against her, it all made her hungry in a way she had never been before. She couldn't get enough of him.

Pulling away slightly, Derek trailed his tongue across her lips, down her throat and to her chocolate covered left breast. Sucking the hard nipple into his mouth he groaned as he felt Penelope reach down and grab his cock. "Oh, God Baby," he moaned as she began to stroke and run her fingers over the top of his swollen member.

Moving down on the bed so she could get a better grip, Penelope continued to stroke Derek, first slowly and then faster. Derek laid back as she continued to work her magic, her fingers hitting all the right places. When he felt a slight pause in the action he opened his eyes and saw that she had dipped her finger into the chocolate and was bringing it towards him. Looking at him with eyes filled with pure hunger she leaned over and whispered in his ear.."Now to satisfy that sweet tooth of mine." As he watched, Penelope painted his hardness with the chocolate and then brought her finger to her mouth, sexily sucking the last drops of chocolate off the full length of her finger. Derek thought he would explode watching her finger being sucked in and out of her red swollen lips.

Leaning down over him, Penelope took him into her steamy mouth. Her tongue at first flicked quickly back and forth over the tip and then her whole mouth sliding down the shaft, taking him in completely. Slowly she began to move her mouth up and down, then faster and faster, sucking and tasting him the whole time. Derek was in heaven. Never in his life had he experienced what she was doing to him now. Within a few minutes he reached up, pushing her back. "Baby, you've got to stop or I'm going to cum right now…and I'm not ready for that, not yet. There's too much left to do," he said with an evil grin.

Giggling, Penelope allowed him to roll her back over onto her back and pull her to the edge of the bed. Kneeling on the floor between her legs he placed her backside on the edge of the bed and pushed her legs up in the air, spreading them with his hands. "Now it's my turn for dessert," he said as he bent over and brought his face between her legs. He could smell her hotness and saw the glistening of her wet folds as he brought his tongue to meet her. Moaning at the sheer sweetness of the taste of her, he began to run his tongue up and down the length of her until he found the spot on her clit that made her scream out his name in pleasure as she writhed on the bed.

"That's it, Baby, let me see you cum, let me hear you call my name," he said as he brought down one of his hands and inserted two fingers inside of her, driving her crazy as he stroked inside with his fingers and circled her red hot clit with his thumb.

"Oh, Fuck yeah, Derek!" Penelope screamed as orgasms like she had never experienced before ravaged her body over and over again. "Please, Derek, no more, I need you inside of me, Now!" she pleaded as her body rolled with the waves of pleasure. "I have to feel myself wrapped around you, please!"

"Anything my Princess wants", Derek said as he pushed her back onto the bed, reaching for a condom from the night stand. Within seconds he had the condom on and was hovering over her. "I've wanted this from the moment I first saw you," Derek said as he slid his hardness into her, feeling her immediately wrap tightly around him. It was better than he had even fantasized, hot, wet and tight. It was if they were made for each other.

Derek tried to stroke slowly at first, but by this time they were both too far gone and he immediately began pumping, slapping hard against her with every stroke. Within seconds he could feel himself exploding inside of her as she tightened around him with yet another round of orgasms.

Finally spent, Derek collapsed on top of her as she reached around him and held him in. Neither one wanted to disconnect, the bond they had made being too special and too important to break.

"Baby Girl, that was the most amazing thing I've ever experienced in my life." he whispered into her ear. "There is no one in this world for me but you."

"Je suis toujours ici pour vous, aussi." Penelope whispered back.

Finally rolling off of her, Derek gave her a kiss on the cheek as he quickly discarded the condom and then reached over and popped the cork on the champagne bottle.

"That cork doesn't hold a candle to you, Hot Stuff," Penelope giggled as she watched it fly across the room.

Chuckling, Derek filled both glasses, handing one to Penelope as she sat up against the headboard. Bringing his glass towards hers he proposed a toast, "To the love of my life and my soulmate. I'm sorry that it took so long to realize what I had been missing but I promise I will spend every day of the rest of my life giving you the love that you deserve."

Clinking their glasses together, they both took a long drink to replenish their dehydrated bodies. As an evil sparkle came to her eye, Penelope reached over and grabbed Derek's glass out of his hand, setting both hers and his on her night stand. "Well since you offered.." she said as she waggled her eyebrows, "I see by the clock it is now 12:01 and tomorrow is here. How bout day two of that loving you promised?" she said as she brought her mouth back down on his.

The End!

I hope you all enjoyed it and that it wasn't too much but I must admit, it was a lot of fun to write!