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A/N: Right guys! After all that enjoy this! No PRLONGED pain or angst... PROMISE!

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Chapter Nine -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

The panic set in once Derek had been gone for over 2 hours. She hadn't be able to sit and wait any longer so she'd taken something for the crying induced headache and the heated throb in her hand and crawled into bed.

Derek had told her he was going to sort this out. Fix his baggage but now she was making up scenario's she shouldn't be. Her insecurities coming out to play and all she did was squeeze her eyes shut and her hand did it's normal. It went right to where the bullet had entered her chest all those years ago.

She must have been drifting because she jumped when she felt someone pull her close to their body. "Shh, it's only me." Derek soothed apologetically. "Sorry I took so long." Penelope opened her eyes and looked at him. "You okay baby?" She nodded and he raised an eyebrow.

"I've taken something for a headache that's all." She told him and then looked up at his face as he was lit up by the half light. "Kevin called me a worthless whore." She could see the flicker of anger on his face. "And when I met Claudia I felt like one."

"Well you never should. Kevin didn't know anything. What was his face like when you called him me?"

"Mortified." She said and pulled away from his arms and laid on her back, it was then Derek saw the different shade of skin tone where she'd been shot. "Heartbroken." She looked up at him and saw where his eyes were and she covered the scar self consciously.

"Don't hide it."

"It's habit." She told him straight and just watched as his hand came up and pulled her hand away, leaving it bare and exposed under the vest strap.

"It's beautiful." He told her and kissed her gently. "Like you are."

"This isn't a dream is it?" Penelope doubted reality.

"Definitely not a dream." He told her and pulled her into his arms and just kept her close to him. "Go to sleep baby, nothing's going to hurt you now."

"I broke another girl's heart to fix my own." Penelope mumbled a completely of minutes later when the only sounds to be heard were those of the apartment. "How's that fair?"

"She was hardly heartbroken." Derek assured Penelope as he pressed his lips to her forehead. "More relieved. It's been tense lately."

"My fault?" She asked and sat up a little, removing herself from his grasp again. "I was childish and I shouldn't have been."

"No what you did was give us the kick we both needed." Derek assured her again and pulled her back. "You should've just told me when I cam e to you all those months ago."

"I'm a coward." Penelope said as she fell back and just stared at the ceiling. "I wished I'd just told you and not done the non date outings."

"Whoa baby girl." Derek said and leant towards her. "I've loved each and every moment we've shared together. I've never been happier and now I've got everything I need to be." He fell next to her and kissed her and then looked at her hungrily. "It's taken us a while but I do believe we've caught up baby girl."

Penelope looked at his face and smiled, she liked the look in his eye a lot at that moment. It screamed everything she wanted it to and she couldn't help but feel her heart flutter as it seemed to be repaired. "I think we have too." She said with a smile and then she instigated the next kiss while they let their bodies take the next step.

Penelope woke up as a light breeze brushed across her bare skin and she was confused for a moment at what had happened. It was then as she moved to mould with the man next to her that she realised she was sore, extremely sore and Derek's scent was everywhere.

"Morning sleepy head." Derek's voice spoke gently and she looked up and smiled and shut her eyes as she stretched out, she knew not to hide herself now.

"Morning hot stuff. How long have you been up exactly?" She said as she took in his bright eyes.

"I was in heaven so I lost track of time." He told her and she laughed. "You, my beautiful girlfriend, have gotta get up. We have work." Penelope groaned at that and then smiled as Derek's hands ran the length of her body. "You got gossip to share."

"Ahh, so I do. The girls are gonna love this." She said and sat up dragging the sheet with her, Derek just laid there, completely bare and Penelope looked at him, smirked and winked. "Now that is some morning wood." She told him and he laughed a little.

"I thought it'd be rude to poke you." You joked with her and she laughed loudly at him.

"If it was with that I truly wouldn't care handsome!"

"Well if you drop the sheet..." Before he could finish the sentence the sheet was at her feet and she stood beautifully naked in front of him. "Easy." He commented with a self assured smirked. "Morning glory's sticking around so how about my baby girl shows me a good morning."

"It'd be my pleasure." She told him and crawled onto the bed and began to kiss him again. Losing track of time completely.

The pair near enough ran into work late that morning and they separated casually and went in the wrong directions.

"That's your office." Derek said as they passed.

Penelope giggled. "That's your desk." The pair thought they'd gone unnoticed until Hotch and Rossi flanked Derek the moment he was sat down and Penelope gained herself two parrots in the form of Emily and JJ.

"Spill it." All four asked the startled pair.

"Spill what?" Both asked innocently. Unbeknownst to one another that the same events were rolling out. Reid sat watching the two older men belittle Derek for details and for once loved watching the normal hard man of the team sweat.

"I slept with Derek." Penelope relented and smiled brightly.

"I slept with Penelope." Derek told the two men and smiled largely at them.

The two girls squealed, and Hotch and Rossi patted Derek on the back. "It was the best I've ever had." The pair told their two messengers.

"That's all we needed to know." The four of them said and left Penelope and Derek.

Penelope looked at the empty doorway for a moment; she was sure she was in for a mega grilling not a few sentences and they'd be done with it. It was then her doorway filled with a dark figure and she smirked sensually.

"Well handsome what do I owe this honour?"

"This." He said and stepped in and grabbed her, pulled her up and kissed her. "And I wanted to know what the girls had to say?"

"That's all we needed to know." Penelope retorted their last words and smiled and sighed. "I was expecting to be spilling details left, right and centre for the next century or more."

"They were in and out quick so I thought I'd come and get my say." He said and stole a little kiss. "Spill it." He demanded and Penelope looked and she melted into an ease and a smile at what he was doing. "I wanna hear it goddess."

"Well I'll make you drop dead jealous gorgeous." She teased him and he laughed a little. "I had this huuuuge argument with my best friend, who I've been in love with since we met and I found out he had a girlfriend and I became insecure and we argued like mad last night and it resulted in him finding out that I'm crazily in love and we had a long night of hot steamy sex, followed by a morning of hot steamy sex."

"Well you did have a busy time lately."

"That I wouldn't change for any amount of fluffy pens in this world." She said and tapped his nose playfully. "I think I successfully capture the love I've been after."

"I'd say you have too baby girl." Derek said and kissed her as though he'd waited a lifetime and in that moment JJ and Emily came back for the full on roasting that Penelope owed them.

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A/N: That's the end guys!

Sorry to see it end but I don't wanna drag it out!

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