Second Time Around Chapter Ten

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A/N – Is it just me or when you do a multi chapter is it hard to figure out when/where to stop? I don't know where the future is going to take this version of the couple but I'm pretty sure it will be together and good…

"How did we get down here?" JJ asked, somewhat out of breath, from the bottom of the bed.

Hotch's head lifted from the mattress, taking in his surroundings. "I have no idea." His breathing had finally settled. "That was…"

"Incredible." JJ finished for him with a chuckle as she moved closer to him, draping herself across his chest. "Guess we answered that question."

Hotch snorted. He didn't believe JJ actually questioned their sexual compatibly. "Oh sweetheart, I had no worries on that front. Our previous relationship might have been too brief, but it burned hot while it lasted." He told her, his hand making lazy circles on her back, unable to stop touching her smooth skin.

He was being a little cocky now, but he'd had a brief moment of vanity when he realized that she would be seeing, for the first time, the damage that Foyet had inflicted upon his chest. She'd wept for the pain he suffered and for the fact that he almost died. Then she set about making love to him, rejoicing in the fact that they were both alive and that they had found their way back to one another. She was now placing open mouthed kisses on the scars.

"Keep that up and you'll be getting another demonstration of how well suited we are." He groaned as her talented tongue laved his chest.

"Promises, promises." JJ giggled then squealed as she was flipped over on to her back.

"I never say things that I don't mean." Hotch told her.

"Good." JJ said, rubbing her body against his sinuously. "Because you said all night long, you've only just started, Slick. I want…" She broke off on a throaty moan as he abruptly entered her, plunging deep and fast, taking her breath away.

"What do you want?" He asked as his hips furiously pumped in and out of her, her hands grasping at his shoulders. "All you have to do is ask, JJ. I'll give you anything and everything you want." The words were uttered hotly in her ear, adding yet another layer of sensation. Then Hotch gently bit her neck and JJ gasped as the first orgasm ripped through her.

Much later she lay bonelessly sprawled on top of him once again. "I could totally get used to this."

"Good. I plan on it being a regular occurrence." Hotch dropped a kiss on the top of her head. "Although I have to warn you, I'm going to need a longer recovery period this time around."

JJ giggled at his response. "Take as much time as you need. I'm not going anywhere." They still had some stuff to work out but JJ realized that she was committed to this relationship, this family. It surprised her a little how strongly she felt about it. "We're not moving too fast, are we?" She said, not really meaning it, more thinking out loud.

"No, I'd say this was long overdue." Hotch scoffed. "I mean, I would say that if I weren't worried that you were going to get all skittish and start backtracking." His hand slid over her rear end as his eyes searched hers. "You're not freaking out are you?"

When she remained quietly reflective he began to panic.

Sighing heavily, he repeated. "JJ, please tell me you're not freaking out. I'm not going to be able to handle you walking away from me again." Worried that he should have taken it slower and fearing the worst he mumbled. "I knew I should have gone home."

Shaking her head to clear it JJ place a kiss against his jawline and blurted out what she had been thinking during his moment of panic. "You should move in."

Hotch was too busy losing it to really hear what she said. "I knew that you were going to regret it and start wigging out. You wanted to go slow. I should have respected that."

JJ, on the other hand, heard every word he was saying but since it was so ridiculous she ignored him and continued speaking. "It only makes sense, we spend so much time together anyway and I can only imagine that we're going to spend even more together now. Because I am a big fan of the me and you naked time."

Hotch still wasn't paying attention. "And I should have been stronger and not let you talk me into this but come on? Who the heck in their right mind would turn you down?" He stopped speaking and looked her in the eyes worriedly.

"So that's a yes, right?"

Hotch looked at her in confusion wondering what he missed. "What are you talking about?"

"Well," JJ said, placing a soft kiss against his mouth, "While you were going off on your little tangent about me supposedly freaking out about moving too fast, which we are totally not, I asked you to move in with me. You know Aaron, when it's right, it's right."

"Exactly!" Hotch agreed, honing in on the latter part of her speech. "It is right."

"So move in with me." JJ repeated. "You and Jack belong here with me and Henry."

Hotch's jaw dropped. "I think I'm hearing things. All that blood rushing south must be wreaking havoc on my system." He smacked his palm against the side of his head like he would if he had water in his ears.

JJ reached out and grabbed his hand to stop him, she held it clasped in his tightly. "Stop. You heard me right. We belong together. Henry knows it, Jack knows it."

"I've known it forever." Hotch said a little smugly.

JJ rolled her eyes playfully. "Okay, we can agree that I'm a little slow. Maybe I was afraid…"

"You were definitely afraid." Not that he blamed her, what they were talking about was a big deal. Which was why he had been willing to go as slow as she needed until she realized that they were in it for the long haul. He told her earlier that he had every intention of making her his wife. He'd meant it. He just needed to convince her.

"I'm not anymore. You're it for me. I love you. I want yours to be the last face I see at night and the first I see in the morning." She punctuated her speech with a quick kiss.

Hotch grasped her face to hold her close and kissed her long and deep. "Are you going to marry me?" He wanted to know.

JJ was a little undecided about the whole marriage thing. "I just got out of a marriage." She told him. "How do you feel about a long engagement?"

Hotch shrugged, not so sure he liked that idea, he wanted her for his wife. But he was optimistic that she hadn't said no. "I guess." He said not very convincingly. "I'm not sure how the kids will feel about that."

JJ laughed at his antics. "I'm pretty sure that Jack and Henry will be fine. They'll just be so happy that we're together all the time. And," She said, rubbing against him provocatively, "It will be just like we're married, we'll live together, sleep together…"

He gave her a pout that she wouldn't have believed possible. "How do you think the baby is going to feel about me not marrying its mother?"

"I wish you would stop that. Didn't we have a talk about you calling Henry a baby?" She asked exasperatedly.

"I'm not talking about Henry." He told her with a grin. "I'm talking about the new baby."

JJ's eyes went wide in surprise. "What new baby?"

Hotch pressed a hand against her flat stomach. "The one that I'm currently negotiating for. I want to give you another child, JJ. I want to watch you grow with my baby inside you, knowing that it's my child you carry." His voice broke slightly recalling all that he'd missed the first time around. "I want to whisper sweet nothings to him or her while he or she is protected in your womb. I want to feel them kick when I tell a story to your growing belly or press kisses against it. I want to watch the joy on my sons faces when they realize we're having another baby. I want everything with you."

JJ blew out a breath. "Wow. What happened to not freaking me out and going slow?"

Hotch grinned, all of a sudden no longer worried. "You know what I see when I look at you?"

"A lot of skin?" She quipped then when he lifted a brow, she shrugged. "I can't even imagine; I've just realized your imagination knows no limits."

"Funny. Your pupils dilated when I was talking and your pulse sped up. You want the same things I do, you're just afraid to admit it." He challenged.

"I'm not afraid of anything." JJ argued.

"Prove it." He dared her. "Marry me and have my baby."

"You're kind of bossy." JJ told him with a smirk. "Why is marriage so important all of a sudden?" She wanted to know.

"It's not all of a sudden. I want you to be mine. I've always wanted that." He answered simply.

The simplicity of his response made her smile. "Don't be silly. I already am yours." She grasped his hand and placed it over her heart. "That beats for you and you alone."

"I want you all in, JJ. I want to know that you are as committed to making this work as I am. I guess I'm old fashioned, because for me that means marriage."

She knew that. It was why she'd let him go the first time. He believed in a committed relationship and doing whatever was necessary to make it work. She'd only been wrong on assuming that it wasn't her he wanted it with. That was no longer the case. "I am all in." She told him sincerely.

He wasn't finished. "I love you. I want to be a family. I want there to be marks on the wall in the kitchen indicating how much the kids have grown. I want to have family dinners where we share everything that happened during the day. Weekends filled with soccer games, family chores, watching TV and playing games. Holidays spent together with our extended family. I want to send out Christmas cards with a family picture signed, The Hotchners."

With tears in her eyes JJ tilted her head, "Really, we're going to be cheesy?"

"Matching sweaters and everything." He laughed. "Antlers on the dog…"

"There's a dog in his picture?"

He chuckled. "Maybe a cat, too. I'm a greedy bastard. I told you I want everything."

JJ didn't say anything. She closed the distance between them and kissed him softly at first then she let it build as she poured her emotion into the kiss. Her hands tangled in his hair as her mouth licked, nipped, and sucked his.

After several minutes they broke apart breathing heavily. Hotch looked down at JJ. "What do you say?"

"I think we're going to need a bigger house."

His smile was blinding. "Yeah?"

"Yeah." JJ assured him with a smile of her own. "That and your recovery rate is really remarkable." She added with a giggle. "I guess that's a good thing considering we want to expand our family."

Hotch swallowed hard and asked, "We do?"

"Oh, we do." JJ cupped his cheek tenderly. "I find the idea of giving you everything you want a heady notion."

Hotch laughed happily as he drew her closer. "I knew I could bring you around to my way of thinking."

"I'm not so sure about the matching sweaters though." She said with a happy sigh, content in the knowledge that things were going to be much better the second time around.

~THE END~

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