"Hotch? Aaron?" he could see a figure drift above him. Someone was calling at him, the sounded so loud it hurt his head. He tried to sit up but an extreme dizziness came over him and he had to steady himself.

"Hotch, are you alright?" Morgan asked. His boss wasn't looking so good.

"Who…?" he croaked, looking at the man in front of him as his eyes rolled into his head and he fell into darkness.

…..cm…..cm…..

" ? Mr Hotchner stay with me. Mr Hotchner?" Aaron looked up at a blurry upside down figure.

"Who…" Hotch starts again.

Before he could finish, the pounding ache in his head brought him back into darkness.

"Were losing him!"

…..cm…..cm…..

In the hospital

JJ sat with Emily, Reid and Rossi, while Morgan paced unable to sit still. Penelope was on her way.

"Agent Hotchner?" said a tall doctor as he walked into the waiting room.

"Yes!" Morgan says as the others stand up.

" has a severe concussion. We won't know how bad he was hurt until he wakes up."

"Can we see him?" JJ asks

"You can see him now, but only a few at a time"

….cm...cm….

Morgan, Rossi and Emily walked into Hotch's room. He lay still, a bandage around his head.

"I should have seen it coming" Morgan sighs as they walk up along the side of the bed.

"Morgan don't bring yourself down! There was no way you could have known, any of us could have known." Rossi says sympathetically.

As he finished, Hotch's eyes started to flutter open. The brightness of the white room hurt his head even more and as he squinted he was reminded of the thumping pain, although it had started to numb with the pain killers it still hurt like hell.

"Wh…Where am I?" he manages to say.

"You in the hospital" Rossi says, looking at the confused look on his friends face. "Morgan, will you go tell the nurse he is awake?"

"Yeh sure" giving Hotch one last glance he leaves the room.

A minute later Morgan comes back in with the nurse. She checks on Hotch for a minute then turns to his team.

"There doesn't seem to be any serious damage apart from a sore head. If all goes well he should be able to leave tomorrow, staying I bed of course. I understand that agents are not very good at resting" she smiles at the team and then at Hotch.

"Hear that Aaron, you will be home by tomorrow!" Morgan says smiling at the good news. The whole group seemed relieved.

Hotch looks up at Morgan and the rest of them, still a confused look on his face. He opens his mouth to say something, thinking carefully for a moment.

"Who's Aaron?"