Sleep with one eye open

Awake

Derek's POV-
The doctor got here and the surgery began. It's been an hour. The nurse said she would be in surgery for at least 5 hours. It's a very hard surgery. Trying to avoid all of the veins and everything that the bullet is around.. I'm not going to lie...
I'm a wreck.
I haven't stopped crying.
The team in on their way here. And I can't pull myself together so the team doesn't see me like this. But I just don't care anymore. I continue crying and worrying until I hear "UNCLE DEREK!" It's my niece Laura. She's only three, my sister and Penelope are really close. She flew in all the way from California.
"Hey peanut! How are you?" I say picking her up.
"Not good.. I'm worried about aunt penny.." She gave me her cute little sad face. I can't help but smile.
"There's no need to worry peanut. The doctor is going to make her as good as new! Maybe even better.." I see her face light up,
"DO YOU THINK SHE'S GOING TO HAVE SUPER POWERS?!" This little girl is the cutest thing ever.
"Maybe.. But I heard someone else has super powers... Someone who just went through surgery also..." She was born with a cleft lip, and she just had her third surgery on it.
"Uncle Derek... You're not going to..."
"Oh yes I am cutie pie, SUPER KID, TO THE RESCUE!"
I lift her up like a plane and spin her around, walk around the waiting room, and then we almost ran into the nurse. Laura was laughing so hard it was almost hard to hear the nurse talking.
"Derek Morgan?"
"Yes, that's me. How's Penelope doing?"
"She's doing perfectly fine. The surgery went better then we thought, and it took a shorter time too. She's in the recovery room now. You'll be able to see her in another hour or so."
My heart swelled up with joy.
"Thank you so much!" I was crying happy tears.
My baby girl is fine.
"Uncle Derek, what's wrong? Why are you crying? He just said aunt penny was fine!"
I looked over to Laura being held by my sister. She looked concerned.
"No sweetie, these are happy tears! I think Aunt Penny is going to gain some pretty awesome super powers.."
"YAY! I can't wait to see her!"
I felt a hand hit my shoulder.
"How's she doing?"
I turned around and the team was standing behind me.
"She's out of surgery. Everything went well and she's in the recovery room now."
Smiles filled everybody's faces, and hugs were going around.
"EMILY! EMILY!" Laura screamed and ran into Emily's arms.
"Hey sweetie! How's my favorite kid doing?" Emily picked her up and spun her around.
"I'm good." Laura gave her the biggest smile, and Emily gave her one back. Laura loves Emily. Sometimes I even feel like she loves her more then she loves me, but it's okay. Emily doesn't have any nieces or nephews to spoil. So I let her spoil mine. And that's exactly what she does to Laura.
An hour went by and the doctor came out and told us only her family can go in and see her.
So we all went in the room.
"You're all family?" The doctor said in shock.
"Of course we are." We all replied in sync.
"Okay.."
I went in first followed by Emily holding Laura, with Hotch and my sister behind them, and then Reid, JJ and Rossi followed. Penelope was sleeping. I leaned over and kissed her lightly on her forehead. She woke up.
"Hey.. There's those beautiful eyes.."
I was tearing up again.
"Hello everyone." Penelope said. The first words I have heard come out of her mouth in what feels like forever. Everyone had tears rolling down their face and Laura was insisting on giving her Aunt Penny a kiss. Everyone was so happy to see that Penelope was awake. We all sat around her until visiting hours were over. And even then I stayed with her. Just watching her sleep, knowing that she was going to wake up. It was the best feeling in the world.