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Synopsis: Derek and Savannah join Penelope and Luke on a double date
Pairing: Garvez (ft Derek and Savannah)
A/N: This isn’t perfect, but I promised it to my friend MONTHS ago, I may fix it up when I have the time but I think for right now it should be fine. So enjoy!
“Do we have to go?”
Luke comes up behind Penelope who is putting the final touches to her curls and rests his arms around her waist. Feeling the warmth of his torso against the curve of her back, she closes her eyes as she leans into his touch. “I’d like to remind you, Alvez. This was your idea.”
“I know.” He groans, shifting his chin to her shoulder and glancing forward, his gaze meeting his reflection. “But that was before I walked in here and saw you wearing... this.”
Penelope feigns ignorance as she tilts her head down. “I can change if you -”
“No, no.” Luke tightens his grip. “Please don’t do that.”
Without moving from his grasp, Luke watches as Penelope twirls in his embrace. “Counter offer.”
“Hm?”
“We text them and tell them we’ll be 20 minutes late.”
He squints. “You’d waste 20 minutes of precious time with your lover so we can fool around a little?”
Penelope pauses. “You’re right. 10 minutes.”
**
“Baby!” Penelope barrels her way through the restaurants small crowd with high speed and excitement and when she’s close enough, launches herself into Derek’s awaiting arms. “Oh, I have missed your arms around my sweet physique but most importantly, I have missed your wife.” She untangles herself from her best friends' arms, all but shoving him aside to instead collect Savannah in a tight embrace.
“Damn,” Luke says, finally catching up to the group and watching as Penelope and Savannah whisper quietly to themselves. “I thought I was going to have to fight you for her attention tonight. Didn’t expect this.”
Derek tilts his head slightly and furrows his brows; Luke seems amused, relaxed and less stilted and uncomfortable like previous men in Penelope’s life. Just by his stature, he knew there was something about Alvez and he was willing to test it out.
Penelope rolls her eyes. “Oh. Ha. Ha. You’re so funny.”
“Mama.” Derek chides. “Behave.”
Her mouth opens and closes into a thin line, her eyes sparkling with a glint of something - as if a challenge had been accepted. “Only because you asked.”
“It’s alright, Morgan. It’ll work in my benefit later.”
Savannah snorts, trying to repress the growing smirk from the edges of her mouth. Luke barely batted an eye at the sultry tone his girlfriend had just used, instead biting back quickly with a good quip of his own. “Oh, I like this one.”
Shrugging her jacket off her shoulders, Penelope huffs. “Makes one of us.”
Rolling his eyes, Luke takes her jacket and pulls out her chair before maneuvering around to settle on her left. This small act has Penelope’s cheeks turn a different shade of pink and it’s then, the couple opposite them know her words hold absolutely no weight. “So,” She begins, lifting her arm and beginning to scrap slow circles around the ends of Luke’s hair. “How’s my boy?”
Savannah places her elbows on the table and leans forward slightly, at the same time Derek opens his mouth. “He’s growing up far too quickly.”
“Oh. Hank. Got it.” Derek deflates.
“Sorry to break it to you, babe. I don’t think you’re her favourite Morgan anymore.” Savannah says.
“That’s right.” Penelope agrees, winking at the woman across from her. “You are.”
“Do you see what I have to put up with?” Derek waggles a finger between the two of them but looking at Luke, who had been quietly observing the interaction.
“Would you rather the two women in your life hate each other, though?”
“Been there.” Penelope grins. “Whatever you saw in - what was her name? Amy? Oh she was so sure we were sleeping together.”
“To be fair, baby, she did come over and you were in my bed.”
Luke dips his head and smirks.
“I was cold!”
“You were naked.” Derek remarks, frantic eyes snapping to Luke. “Not like that, man. She -“
“Strips all her clothes off after one too many Jagers?” Luke waves him off. “I know. It’s okay.”
Knitting her brows together, Penelope sits back in her chair and crosses her arms over her chest. “I’m feeling very picked on right now.”
“Would you rather the two men in your life not get along?” Savannah raises a brow.
“Right now? Yes.”
**
Falling into an easy rhythm, the group order their food quickly and settle into comfortable conversation. Savannah is carefully watching Luke with every move their significant other makes but it is all so natural. She knows the story of Kevin and the few times she met Sam, he was lovely as ever but Luke? She couldn’t put her finger on it yet but by the end the night she would.
“Wait, what?” Savannah frowns. “Our Penelope? Being unkind to anyone? I don’t buy it.”
“You didn’t see her babe. She was cold as ice.”
“Queen of ice.” Luke adds.
Lifting her chin, the woman in question squints. “I will leave you and take Roxy with me.”
Luke sobers quickly. “The sad part about that is she would go willingly.”
“Roxy?” Savannah questions.
“Our dog.” Penelope replies.
“You guys have a pet together already?” Savannah hums. “I’m impressed.”
“Well, no. She’s Luke’s but I have her whenever he’s on a case so she’s ours on a technicality, I guess.”
When he was a teenager, Derek’s mother had told him how to tell when someone was in love and he’s pretty damn sure he just witnessed Luke have that realization. But that wasn’t his place so he took a swig at his beer and cleared his throat. “Baby girl,” he coaxes Penelope’s attention. “He passed.”
Beside him, his wife whips her head around. “He – what?”
Confused, Penelope’s date looks between everyone at the table. “He who? Passed what?”
The three of them only smirk.
**
“Where are our better half’s?” Savanna steps outside where Luke s waiting for their valet to bring both cars around.
“Bathroom.” Luke nudges his thumb over his shoulder.
“So, probably making out in a closet, then?”
Alvez shakes his head. “In that dress? Penelope would be too afraid of tearing it on a hanger. My votes against a door.”
Breathing out a chuckle, Savannah bites her lip. “They really don’t bother you, do they?”
“I know my place in her life and I know Derek’s. They come as a package deal, I’ve always known that.”
“And that doesn’t… make you uncomfortable?”
“Did it make you uncomfortable?” Luke pushes against her question.
“I guess I’m with you.” She replies honestly, wrapping her arms around her stomach. “I’ve always known my place. I just — some men Pen have dated were slightly insecure about what they have.”
Nodding in understanding, Luke hums. “It’s a good thing I’m not Kevin Lynch then.”
From their hiding place, secluded around a tight corner, Derek snorts — revealing themselves.
“Good going, Morgan!” Penelope shoves him forward. “You gave us away.”
“Nah, babe. I think it might’ve been you whispering cues to Savannah that did it.” Luke smirks, drawing her into his side. He leans in and kisses her, soft but a hint at what the evening might bring.
“Hey,” Penelope’s voice is low. “You passed though.”
“Passed what?”
**
“I’m forwarding you his address now,” Penelope says into her speaker the following Monday.
“Thanks Pen!” JJ speaks first. “We’ll check in afterwards, we’re gonna head there now but if you could –“
“Make sure his work addresses are legit? Already ahead of you. Give me a mo and I should be able to send it through to you guys.”
JJ sighs happily. “What we ever did a without you is beyond me. Okay we’ll call you – OH wait! I heard someone passed?”
Luke frowns, suddenly sitting up straight in the backseat. “Wait, you know what that means???”
Before the call disconnects, all the SUV hears is a low laugh from their tech analyst.
Penelope is absolutely the woman Luke never knew he wanted, knew he needed or deserved. He strikes me as a man who is naive to the attention he attracts and unless it’s pointed out to him, is unaware of a woman’s advances. Not inexperienced per sey, but comfortable. A lone wolf.
I imagine he’s dated different versions of Lisa Douglas since he was a kid. Independent women, beautiful and smart, who could always stand on their own two feet. And when he begins helping the BAU and first meets Penelope, he finds just that. A smart, funny, sexy woman who flips everything on its head.
He never imagined he would fall for her and yet...
my mom keeps asking me why I don’t like kevin and it’s not that I have any active dislike for kevin it’s just that I hate any man who the writers tried to convince me penelope loved other than derek
Okay, Kevin Lynch deserves no rights and I’m gonna tell you why: WHY would you think - after three years of dating the Penelope Garcia - that asking her to move to a FARM is a good idea???? I just - honey. No.
That and the fact that I think that Penelope only got in a relationship with him because she was afraid. I mean what other reason would she have to get into a relationship with a man she barely knew only after a few weeks (or month, the timeline was iffy) after being shot.
Ohhhhhh, we’re going in!! okay. I’m so ready for this. Yes to the above post. Penelope’s entirely relationship with Kevin stems from the need to feel safe. He, unfourtunarely, was her safety net and remained so for a really long time. I don’t believe they were together for the entire four years before they broke up officially. In my mind, they had a lot of pauses. And probably on her part.
It’s canon she had conflicting feelings for Derek, she was never ready to settle because those feelings were never resolved (and perhaps if he hadn’t left, maybe they never would’ve been) but she had those feelings all the same. And still stayed with Kevin. Because he was secure.
my mom keeps asking me why I don’t like kevin and it’s not that I have any active dislike for kevin it’s just that I hate any man who the writers tried to convince me penelope loved other than derek
Okay, Kevin Lynch deserves no rights and I’m gonna tell you why: WHY would you think - after three years of dating the Penelope Garcia - that asking her to move to a FARM is a good idea???? I just - honey. No.
Penelope????? OKAY???????? the DISRESPECT. The BAU literally struggle without her and even when she does take days off, she always has her phone on her because they. can’t. do. it.
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He spent that month between the jet blowing up and Penelope’s farewell party (probably longer, mind, but for a definite timeline a month) figuring out his feelings, coming to terms with the fact he was falling for her, accepting said feelings and then thinking about what a first date would like. He spent a month doing that.
You know what, I stand by the idea (lowkey because Ms Vangsness said so and what she says goes) that Penelope registered her crush first in early to mid s12 but Luke was definitely the first to have real, genuine feelings that went deeper than an innocent crush. The kicker being he didn’t register what those feelings were and why he was so against Phil asking her out.
Fact of the matter is, they both radiate dumbass energy. Penelope is oblivious and Luke probably didn’t even know his feelings towards her is the reason he cockblocked Phil from ever persuing a relationship with her until after 14x06 and it’s almost hilarious how made for each other those idiots are.
Also, lowkey the amount of headcanons I have supporting this??? Quarantine just dug this ships hole deeper in my brain lmao
A/N: I’m not entirely sure what this is except quarantine made me want to write a little garvez drabble. If inspiration strikes, it could become a two part fic.
Pairing: Penelope Garcia and Luke Alvez
Word Count: 701
Summary: A couple sweet little moments between Penelope and Luke after she tries - and fails - to sneak away.
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