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A/N: Right so I got prompted to write a little epilogue, by Harleyzgirl and this was written almost instantly!
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So my TWOshot, was just made into a THREEshot! Enjoy!
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Penelope didn't go near her car until the Sunday of that weekend.
She should've spent her time mourning the loss of one of her longest relationships, but she just didn't see a reason to dwell upon it. She didn't have the feeling in her stomach that made her want to sit and think upon all of her memories with Kevin and wish for them to go on repeat. Penelope didn't even want to mope.
For once, Penelope was liberated by loss.
Now looking at her orange caddy, she tried to dare herself to open the trunk and sort out whatever Kevin had left behind. She felt a shudder crawl over her. He had, after all, been locked away for three days – there had to be some disgusting remnants to prove he had been there.
She stifled a laugh of irony. Of course Kevin had to still be around even after she had gotten shot of him. Like some of his old, annoying habits, he was still lingering around and - as she should have predicted – he had left behind mess.
"If you won't do it I will," Derek said as he unlocked the trunk and lift the lid. Stepping back he didn't even know where to start. "Well this is romantic," He commented, making light of the moment. He saw Penelope's mood transform a little at that moment.
"I think I need an exterminator for this," She said as she looked in her boot, the back of her hand covering her mouth as the smell slowly filled the air. "That or an exorcist," She continued with a shudder and then looked at Derek as he stared just as horrified as she was. "Or do you think Scooby Doo and the gang will do house calls?"
Derek chuckled at that and tore his gaze from the open trunk to look at her. "All valid options," He pointed out to her.
"But..." She trailed off, knowing there was a downside that was going to make all a reality again.
"It's out of our price range and time limit for today, Baby Girl." He told her honestly and winked at her. He had their evening planned, but he knew this had to come first. After all, they had wasted their entire Saturday doing absolutely nothing, but avoiding the world outside of Penelope's apartment.
Penelope groaned at him for his comment only moments later.
Stepping in, Derek quickly slammed the boot shut and turned to her, the gust of wind taking the smell and travelling it around them and he felt himself gag a little. "I'm going to shoot home and get a jet wash. You pull the top of your car down, and air it out a little," He quipped and looked at Penelope's face – she was not a happy bunny!
"I don't see why we have to do this when Kevin did the mess!" She complained and threw her arms up in the air.
"If you waited on him to do anything for you then, Baby, that car would have rotted away with his bodily fluids." Derek told her truthfully and laughed as she scrunched her nose up in disgust, "Believe me, this is the least of your worries right now."
"Got me fooled, Handsome," Penelope moaned and looked at her car with a disgusted glare. "Not sure my car has the same sentimental value it once had." She admitted sadly and she held an expression that showed that something precious of hers had been ruined for her. She left his side then and unlocked her car, and got ready to put the roof down and fold it away.
Derek helped her out and then put his hands on the side, steadying himself against the car, "We'll restore your car, Baby Girl."
"Doesn't stop the fact that he still locked himself away in it," Penelope said and blew out a breath of frustration. "Everything that man touches turns to dust, I swear!" She said and looked at Derek, "Plates, cups, photo frames, my laptop – all broken at the hands of Kevin. What the hell was I thinking when I got with him?"
"You were healing back then, Baby," Derek soothed and walked back over to her. "Everything you did was right for you."
"And now?"
"Is a new start," Derek told her and as he watched her bite down on her bottom lip he felt his heart constrict and his desire for her sky rocket once more. Without a second thought, Derek leant in and captured her lips on his and he allowed every inner feeling to race through both of them.
Neither Derek nor Penelope pulled back as the chemical reaction in them bubbled and readied to ignite, as it waited to send fireworks into both their vision. The heat that ran through them, only made this moment all the more addictive and even as they pulled away, breathless, they seemed to want more fulfilment of each other's love.
"Think you'll get bored of that easily?" Derek asked her in a husky whisper, his lips still tingling from the kiss.
"Not at all," Penelope told him confidently and smirked at him. "They're too perfect to get bored of."
Derek took her hand and turned back to the car, "Everyone can get bored of perfect, Princess."
Shaking her head Penelope walked to be in front of him again, "Haven't got bored of you yet have I, my Chocolate God of thunder?"
Chuckling he had to agree, "This is true, and I'd like to keep it that way."
"Not interrupting am I?" Kevin's voice broke them from their moment together and when they looked they could both see he was visibly hurt by the new display of affection they were showing.
Neither knew just how much Kevin had seen of their previous display.
"Kevin," Penelope said as she stepped towards him, trying to smooth over the question, "What are you doing here?"
"I'm sorry for your car, Penny," Kevin confessed to her solemnly and gave her a delicate stare. "I came round because you didn't pick up my call yesterday and you didn't ring me back."
"I was busy," Penelope said, holding no restraints to showing him she was through with him. "Like I am now," She pointed out, "Thanks to you."
Kevin's face flushed red with embarrassment and he dropped his gaze. "Yeah – about that," He said, "I'm sorry."
Penelope accepted his apology, but she really felt like he was getting the better end of the deal and she wasn't prepared for him to have that. She had lived with the mood swings, his habits, the dirty plates left in the sink, the piles of laundries left around on the floor – she had been his cleaner and basic carer for too long and now Penelope was well and truly through with tidying up behind him.
"You can show me you're sorry by cleaning up your own mess this time," Penelope told him and threw him her keys. "For once I'm going to do what I need to in life, and that's does not include tidying up behind you. Now I have plans and I think I'll leave you to fix this."
Kevin didn't get a chance to argue the point, to beg her to tidy up the mess.
Penelope left the parking area and went back towards her apartment, Derek trying to withhold his smirk following her in hot pursuit.
Derek guessed his first date with Penelope was starting earlier than expected and at Kevin's expense.
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