A/N: this isn't as long as my other chapters and I'm sorry it took me so long to update. Things have been busy and my muse has left. I am going to be working on some one shots and hope that it comes back to this story. Im sorry if this isnt as good as it should be. Hope you enjoy it anyways

A few weeks had passed, Spencer was fully healed and started to realize that Derek really did love him. He just wasn't ready for another relationship, he was glad Derek understood. Derek had just gotten back from a case so he was looking over his report he let out a loud sigh before setting the file on the arm of the couch. He looked down at his lap, to Spencer "Pretty boy, you really need to stop yelling at the TV." Derek said with a chuckle.

"But Der they're doing it wrong" Spencer argued.

"Do you want me to get this done so we can go out or not?" With that Spencer looked up and stuck his tongue out at Derek who grabbed a pillow off of the couch and covered the lighter mans face. "Now you can't distract me."

Spencer's growl was muffled by the pillow that was still covering his face; the younger man smirked under the pillow as he placed his hands on Derek's muscled sides and started tickling the darker man. "How's this for distraction Derek?" Spencer said in between laughs.

"Spencer…. Stop…. Please." Derek begged in-between breaths, he wasn't even aware that he was now lying on his back and he had a pair of pale legs on either side of his hips.

"Only because you asked nicely." Spencer said as he poked Derek's nose and smiled. Derek's arms instinctively went around the smaller waist and he gave Spencer a soft smile back. "Derek, you should probably get back to work. I'm starving." Spencer adjusted his body so that he was now sitting on the couch.

"What ever you say Pretty Boy." Derek said as he grabbed the file and laid his head in Spencer's lap, chuckling quietly every time the younger man made a disapproving noise.

An hour or so had passed and Derek looked up and Spencer with a wide smile. "Guess what pretty boy?" Spencer had looked away from the T.V for only a second when Derek's dark finger poked the lighter skin under Spencer's jaw "Let's go. I'm hungry."

In the car Derek's eyes shifted from the road to the younger man in the passenger seat, he noticed Spencer's hands clenched in his lap, the way he chewed on the inside of his cheek and he knew something was bothering him. As the older man pulled into a spot of their favorite restaurant he put the car in park and leaned back into the seat "Pretty Boy, what's bothering you?" Derek's eyes softened as he looked over at the lighter man who now had a panicked expression on his face.

"I don't want to talk about it right now Der." Spencer replied in a small voice, he was looking at his hands in his lap. "Let's go have fun and we can talk when we get home."

"Sure Spence" Derek said as he turned the car off and got out of the car. As Derek waited by the back of the car for Spencer he saw the lighter man wipe his eyes with the back of his hand and sigh deeply, Derek's dark eyebrows furrowed as he watched Spencer slowly get out of the car.

All through dinner Derek watched as Spencer's demeanor changed, he went from happy to nervous and paranoid.

"Would you two like something for dessert?" The waiter asked causing the brunette man to jump.

"No, we are good thank you" Derek said turning back to Spencer once the waiter left "Spence what has you all worked up?"

Spencer's eyes shifted across the restaurant and Derek looked around as well before hearing Spencer whisper almost inaudibly "We'll talk when we get home Derek."

Once inside the house Spencer and Derek were sitting on the couch, Spencer playing with his hands and Derek looking over at his Pretty Boy. "Spencer, you know you can tell me anything."

Spencer bit his lip and sighed "I saw him Derek, he drove past the house." Spencer looked on the verge of tears. "I don't know if he saw me but I saw him. I'm so scared Derek."

Derek wrapped his arms around Spencer's small frame, whispering " I'm not going to let him hurt you ever again." He kissed the side of the brunette's head "I promise."