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A/N: Woo, you lot do appreciate some Kevin whoopage!

So I did fail with showing my dedication (wordofwyrd!) by not posting this yesterday! BUT it's here now!

Enjoy!

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"This hardly seems fair." Penelope commented as Derek guided her through the rows of tables to their table as he followed their waiter in the restaurant.

"And why not exactly?" Derek asked as he continued to walk, her hand in his still.

"We spend a week in Chi-Town, come back with your mom and sister in tow and then leave them at ours so we can come to a posh restaurant." Penelope told him as she finally sat down. "Thank you, Handsome." She told Derek as he pulled her seat out and tucked her in.

She watched as he sat down, the waiter handed them a menu and Derek ordered her favourite wine in. She watched at him smile at her and her she found the magnetic feel as his hand joined hers and her smile grew.

"I know that, Baby Girl, but my mom wanted us to have a little time out, a little us time and I was more than willing to do so." Derek told her as his thumb massaged her hand gently. "Is there something wrong with that?"

She went to answer him.

"But think very carefully before you answer... family time or man time?" Derek asked her and he knew the moment her face gathered in that adorable scrunched up look that he had won, one again. "See... now we're gonna have a romantic meal and then we are going to a bar to do some dancing with the entire family."

"Oh yeah?" She quipped and sat back as the waiter came with their wine.

"Oh yeah, Gorgeous." He responded and let the meal roll out exactly how it should've done.

He did what he usually did with her on one of their many dates, he complimented her, he got her into her comfort zone of teasing and he had fun with it all. It'd been 4 months since the day Kevin had put a gun to her head, and it had been in those four months that he'd got her to live with him, made her realise that his entire world was all about her and he knew that she knew she was loved by him every minute of the day.

As dessert was brought over he watched Penelope look down at the cake, surrounded by red rose petals, waiting for her reaction.

Penelope stared for a while at the ring that sat so primly on the bed of petals. Slowly her eyes rose to meet his gaze, he could already see the tears.

He smiled, and got up before lowering onto his knee, his dashing thousand voltage smile never dropping, never even ceasing. Slowly he grabbed her hand in his and caught her gaze entirely, no distraction.

"Penelope, my Baby Girl, I've waited for so long and I feel that I can do this with the utmost confidence that you love me and I love you and well I want to ask you..."

"Yes," Penelope whispered, jumping the gun, surprising herself most of all.

Derek chuckled, "I haven't even asked you yet, Baby Girl." He continued to tell her and he stretched up to catch one of the tears falling.

"Oh God Derek, yes, yes and yes!" She told him as she leant in.

"So I'm guessing you'll be Mrs Morgan?"

"For a lifetime." Penelope told with certainty as the tears fell and her smile grew beyond measures.

"And the next?" Derek asked her, his tone excited and he hadn't even gotten the ring on her finger.

"And the next billion after." She told him as captured his face in her hands and kissed him passionately, the claps beginning to erupt around them.

Pulling apart Derek reached for the ring and grabbed Penelope's hand; she frowned as she watched him shake as he slid the finger on to her finger.

"Why are you shaking? My big bad SSA doesn't get nervous." She asked him and he looked up. "You shouldn't be nervous."

"I didn't want you to say no."

"I never would have." She told him back almost instantly. "That diary wasn't a whim, Hot Stuff, it was forever. I've got you now, my Love; I'm never letting you go now." Penelope said and Derek's nerves dispersed, "and I never intend to."

He stood up, pulling her up as he went and then kissed her with every ounce of energy in him, pouring his true hearts desires into it. Leaving her gasping and wanting more.

"Thank you." He said and pressed a smaller, more attentive kiss to her lips. "I love you, Penelope."

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Walking into the bar no more than half an hour later Penelope was now living on cloud 9 and to be honest with everyone, she never wanted to leave it.

Derek was scoping the barely filled bar for their usual gang and his eyes landed on them all taking over their favourite table in the place. Derek guided Penelope once more to their final destination of the night and winked at Emily as he got closer.

She was the only one that knew that tonight was the night that Derek as proposing, she'd helped him make sure his Grandmother's ring was 100% percent perfect. His mom knew he had the ring, but she had no idea at all when he was going to be using it for its appropriate job.

"Look who finally makes it to see us." Desiree said with a smirk and watched as Penelope stepped around Derek and stood at his side. "Have a good meal for two?"

Derek looked at Penelope.

"Well..." Penelope begun as she looked back a Derek, "you could say that." She then brought her hand up to scratch the tip her nose, the ring evidently visible.

"Oh my God!" JJ said shooting up first from her seat and going to her. "Did you get engaged?"

"No," Penelope replied innocently. "Because technically I only accepted to become Mrs Morgan, not get engaged or married in a matter of words."

"Well if you'd given me chance to finish the sentence then maybe I would've finished my sentence, Gorgeous."

"I read your mind, Handsome." Penelope told him seriously and kept her face straight. "I know you wanted me to be Mrs Derek Morgan since the moment you met me."

"Well it's a good thing you could be so certain." He told her and wrapped his arms around her, kissed her heatedly and tilted her towards the floor. He then pulled her back up and Penelope looked at him with wide eyes, her lips parted with the reminiscence of the kiss and the loss of oxygen that had occurred. "Best believe that that will be like that for a lifetime, Baby Girl." He told her and went off to the bar.

Penelope watched her man, her now fiancé, walk towards the bar with an ease and then turned back to the multiple eyes on her before she was dragged to chair.

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Derek stood at the bar waiting on the bartender to get to him. He was still in disbelief that he'd finally found the one woman that would complete his life, that he'd find a woman to want to share his every lasting secret.

Life couldn't get better.

Until a voice spoke to him, "Derek?"

He looked up and into the eyes of Tamara, his heart sunk a little. He hadn't seen her since the day he chucked her out of his house and ever since then his life had been really simpler. Staring at her he realised that he didn't like anything she had to offer. She was lacking in a certain beauty, her radiance didn't shine through, the mean streak that had ended them seemed so much more prominent, even now. He smirked a little at her, she just wasn't Penelope and he loved that the most. There was no comparisons needed.

"Hello Tamara." He replied politely and turned his attention back to the bar, tapping his rolled up $20 note on the bar top.

"How's it going?" She proceeded to speak to him. "You here with the others? Maybe I could come say hi, I mean I miss them all and I'm sure they don't know why you broke up with me."

Derek turned so his whole front was facing her, his elbow on the bar top still, his face relaxed and poised. "I'm here with the team and my mom and sister. They know exactly why we broke up and they know exactly why I needed to move on."

"Oh." He was sure he saw a little something spark in her eyes at that. "So how is Penelope? She move on after the whole diary thing? Get back with Kevin?"

Derek chuckled in disbelief, "she got over it, well over it, you should see her." Derek told her, he was almost mocking her with this. "Penelope is..."

"Perfect, thank you for asking Tamara." Penelope intercepted as she came over and allowed her arm to snake around Derek's back so her hand sat on his waist. Penelope smiled and looked at Derek. "Seeing what was taking so long."

Tamara laughed, "You two are together?"

"I actually just asked her to marry me as well, Tam." Derek said as he pulled Penelope closer to his body. "Best moment of my life." He chided with a smile, he really didn't care about her feelings anymore. She'd had her go at making Penelope feel so insignificant and now he could, but in a way that he was just expressing his new marital status.

"Aw, Stud, that's so sweet." Penelope told him and went on her tippy toes to kiss him. She looked back at Tamara as her hand went to Derek's chest. "Really, Kevin reading my diary out was all for the best. We all got out of it what should've happened."

"Too right, Baby Girl." Derek said and by the time he looked back up from Penelope's beaming face Tamara was by the door with what looked like her potential date following her. "Well I think that's her gone."

"Seems I know how to scorn a man and woman." Penelope said and went to the bar, Derek repositioning next to her. "We're gonna burn that diary later."

Derek looked shocked, "what, why?"

Penelope turned her head to him, grabbed his hand in hers, and smiled, "I've got everything I'm ever gonna need; I don't need tattered pieces of paper to remind me of that."

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A/N: The End!

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