Chapter 18

It had been three months since Hotch and Emily had finally got their acts into together and told of their feelings for each other. Since then they had gone out on multiple dates and outings with Jack. It was going really well but they had decided kept it quiet. So for the sake of the BAU and the team they would act the same as before and that's what they did. At work they were Supervisory Special Agent in Charge Aaron Hotchner and Supervisory Special Agent Emily Prentiss but at home they were just Aaron and Emily. Of course there were difficulties like separate rooms while on cases, which was harder when they were having a particularly tough time with cases, but they had to keep up appearances. Apart from that everything was great and as far as they knew no one else on the team knew about them… (They did have their suspicions about Rossi) but they others definitely didn't know. Garcia and JJ kept pestering Emily to talk to Hotch and asked about what had happened, but Emily hadn't said a word. Everything was going according to their plan.

Emily walked into the Bullpen, as usual Morgan and Reid were already at their desks, but the light wasn't on in Hotch's office. That was odd… although to be fair he could have just been running late dropping Jack off at Jessica's on his teacher training day but it was still unusual for the by-the-book man he was. He was always at work early or at least on time, even when he slept over he tended to leave early, so not to rouse the suspicion of others coming in at the same time, and to get extra time with Jack and Emily in the evenings, but this definitely wasn't typical Hotch behaviour.

JJ followed by Garcia brought her out of her thoughts.

"Hello my super heroes how are you all today?" Garcia said with a bright smile as always.

"I'm good my gorgeous girl, how are you?" Morgan replied.

"I'm good thanks cupcake." She said in her own little flirtatious manner

"Hiya everyone. Conference room in ten. Wait. Where's Hotch?" Piped in JJ

Everyone looked around in confusion. Until a small cry came out from the other side of the bullpen.

"Emly!!!"

The little boy sprinted as fast as his little legs could carry him across the room flying into Emily who reacted quickly, picking him up and placing him on her hip and hugged him tight before spinning him round in her arms.

"It's my teacher twaining day today and daddy said I could come and play with you all because Aunty Jessica is sick. And then me, you and daddy can get a pizza and watch Hercules when we get home!" He excitedly chattered away.

"That sounds awesome buddy!" she said with the same amount of enthusiasm and Jack told his plan with.

It was when she looked around the room that she realised the rest of the team was staring at her open mouthed. Fortunately it was too early for anyone else to be in the bullpen so no one else had seen the little display apart from the team and Hotch who has just walked into the bullpen after Jack. The team turned on him too as soon as he entered and saw something in his eyes like happiness as he watched Emily with his son.

Rossi hearing the commotion had ran out of his office always ready for any kind of gossip and just raised his eyebrow at the picture that he knew meant their secret was out. And so did they. Emily hid her face with Jack's body which made him giggle.

"Emly it doesn't work you know…. Just acause you cant see them doesn't mean they cant see you."

This led to an eruption of laughter from all team members, including Emily who had gone bright red. As Rossi came down the stairs he gave Hotch a knowing look.

"Emily Prentiss see when I am finished with you…" Garcia began but was soon cut off by Morgan.

"So…" Morgan began with a cocky grin "How long has this been going on then?"

Hotch came up to stand behind Emily putting a protective arm around her, he was annoyed that they would now have to suffer an interrogation but he was glad to share their happiness with the team and he knew Emily was too. She looked up at him asking if it was ok to tell them, with no actual conversation. He nodded and then Emily exploded with a huge grin on her face.

"About three months, but we didn't want to tell any of you because it was working out well and we didn't know if you would all be ok with it."

"I can't believe you didn't tell me!!"

"Or me!" JJ piped in behind Garcia.

"I can't believe none of us noticed anything different" Morgan said with confused look "man you guys are really good…"

"Seriously Em! You are gunna have to fill me in on everything. And you can smile boss man but when I mean fill me in I mean all of it, even the nitty gritty stuff and I bet you won't be smiling then."

Hotch's smile suddenly dropped as he looked at Emily, to find she was nodding along to what Garcia was saying. She really did mean everything.

"Em..." he said worryingly.

Emily look up, and smiled to herself, he looked really uncomfortable with what Garcia had said and she found it amusing.

"It's ok..." she said with a smug smile "...I won't tell them about that"

Hotch's jaw dropped. He didn't know what she was on about, although he could tell she was just saying it to get a reaction from the crowd and seriously embarrass him... which seemed to be worker.

"Oh... what would that be?" Garcia quizzed, sticking her tongue out.

"He's got a really bi-" she was cut short by Hotch grabbing her mouth before she could go on any longer. She had already managed to make him go bright red, which was never seen by the rest of the team.

"I think that's enough. There are children here; I don't think Reid and Jack want to hear that." He said, while trying to regain his posture. He got a "Hey!" from Reid at the back and Morgan turned and ruffled his hair.

Emily grabbed Hotch's hand from her mouth, moving it to her waist and holding it there.

"What I was going to say, if you had let me finished..." she huffed "... was that you have a really big collection of Beatles albums! Honestly Aaron! Get your mind out the gutter!" she screwed up her nose and stuck her tongue out, only to have Hotch then capture it with his mouth.

"Yuk!" Jack shouted. It was followed by a chorus of

"Get a room!", "Come on man! We don't wonna see that" and a "Woo, you go girl!" From Garcia.

Rossi snuck up behind and whispered, just aloud enough for the team round to heard:

"Strauss is coming!"

Hotch then quickly stopped kissing Emily and backed off, looking around to find Strauss... when he realised it was just a joke he turn to face Rossi.

"I for one am really happy for you guys" Rossi announced, quickly before Hotch had the chance to do anything, and the team all passed on their agreement with him. It was followed by lots of hugs and handshakes.

Reid was perched on the edge of Emily's desk while the interrogation from Rossi, JJ, Morgan and Garcia continued. While the genius was surprised that they had gone on this long undetected he was happy for them. Emily needed Hotch and Hotch needed Emily. It was also clear by the way that Jack continued to cling onto Emily as his father had a protective arm around Emily's waist and his other on Jack's shoulder that Jack needed them both too. They were such a cute little family and he was happy for them all. They were each slightly broken by their past but he knew that together, and with the teams help, slowly the pieces would fit back together again.

Aww It's all happy in the end, everyone loves a bit of Reid :)
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