Just Between You and Me

Late Hours

Derek's POV:
It was 3:24am in Michigan. I sleep in my hotel room for the second night there on a case.
My phone rings on the nightstand. I shift in my sleep. It rings again and I wake up. It rings again and I grab it off the table. "Morgan." I say in my groggy-still half asleep voice. "Derek." Penelope's voice comes through on the other end.
"Baby Girl what's up." I rub my eyes and sit up with my feet on the floor on the side of the bed. "Derek, I-I had a crazy dream a-and it kinda scared me." "Talk to me about it baby." "I-I don't want to ruin your slumber Baby Boy-" "Talk to me Baby Girl. You know I'd loose sleep for you any day."
I hear her smile over the phone,"Do you know how much I love you?" I smile,"Do you know how much I love you?" She laughs a little and continues to tell me about her dream with rouge computer sets tying her down and strangling her with their cords until she passed out.
"Oh baby, you know those computers will never get to you. They'll have to get through Chocolate Thunder first." She giggles and I smile. "Oh how I miss you Baby Boy." "I miss you too mama." There was a comfortable silence between us.
"You know what I'm gonna do when I get back baby?" "Whatcha gonna do?" She says teasingly. "I'm gonna cuddle you all night long." "Anything else you wanna do?" I smirk, knowing what she meant,"You know what I wanna do." I lay on the bed staring at the ceiling. "Actually, no I don't Mister Morgan." I chuckle and say,"I'll show you when I get home." She groans,"Ugh! Okaay." I laugh and she asks,"Sleep with me on the phone?" "Of course Baby Girl."
I place the phone on the bedside stand and cover back up.
I heard her breathing slow down, realizing she was asleep after a couple minutes. I began to hear her lightly snore, as she always does, before I fell asleep myself.