Chapter 11: Welcome Home
Garcia's POV
-Six weeks later-
Six weeks after I woke up after everything happened, I was finally well enough to go home
Laying in the very uncomfortable hospital bed, I attempt to roll on my back only to be stopped by something behind me. I look behind me and see the one and only Derek Morgan laying next to me sleeping peacefully
"Derek, wake up handsome! I can go home today!" I say excitedly, kissing his nose to try and wake him up
"Mhmm.. frive mrore mrinutes mrom.." he mumbles out sleepily scrunching up his nose in the most adorable way
I chuckle "Derek, I'm not your mother, it's me Penelope, now get up before I throw a ice cold bucket of water on you"
With that he's up and out of the bed before I can even process what he's doing "Okay, Okay, I'm up, I'm up" he says a frightened expression on his face
"Aweee, I'm sorry DerBear, I didn't mean to scare you, I was only kidding" I pout cutely
"Come here you crazy girl" he says while walking back over to the bed and hugging me tightly
"Can I go home now?" I ask batting my eyes cutely
"I'll go sign you out and grab a wheelchair" he replies
"I don't need a wheelchair, I can walk by myself" I groan as I get out of bed and try walking but I end up almost falling on my face
"Penelope!" Derek grabs me
"Get the wheelchair.." I say out of breath
"You got it beautiful" he says after helping me back into the bed, then walking off to sign me out and get the wheelchair "I'll be back in a jiffy"
Once he's gone I can't help but stare at the doorway where he just stood with the biggest smile on my face thinking to myself "Man I sure do love that guy. I hope things work out between us and that we're together for a long time"
Derek's phone beeping signalling he has a text brought me back to reality, I then picked it up and looked at it curiously
-New Text Message-
From: JJ
Hey, text me when your close. We still have a few things to set up here at the BAU for Garcia's surprise welcome home party, and we wanna be ready before you guys get here
"A surprise welcome home party huh?" I think to myself as I lay Derek's phone back down just as he comes back
"And just what do you think your doing little miss?" he asks me suspiciously
I look at him and freeze "I uh.. was checking the time?" I replied but it came out more like a question
"Yea, okay then" he says letting it go "Ready to get out of here?"
"Yes! Get me out of here!" I say eagerly, jumping out of bed, instantly regretting it as I get really light headed
"Here I got you babygirl" he says helping me into the wheelchair
I smile my thanks at him quietly
"You have all your things?" he asks after helping me into the wheelchair
"Yep!" I say emphasizing the 'p' "Let's go!"
Derek then pushes me out of the hospital and to his car
"God it's so good to breath in fresh air again, instead of the stale hospital air I've been breathing in for the last ten weeks" I say leaning back in the wheelchair and taking a deep breath
