Title: A happy memory

Author notes: this is my fic for the Challenge on CCOAC

My pairing was Hotch-Rossi and the movie "The Majestic"

Thanks to my amazing beta KM for her amazing help

This was really hard because Dave and Hotch are hard for me and this was the only thing that came to my mind.

Aaron was driving down the road when he heard Dave's voice: "You still drive like a girl you know that don't you?"

"Shut up Dave," Hotch scolded him like a father to an annoying child.

"Oh common Aaron, I want to be at the first function of the Majestic since it closed all those years ago. Did you know...?"

"If you start like Reid telling me all the Majestic's data I'll stop this trip and head back to my pregnant wife," Hotch threatened. He didn't know how Dave had managed to rope him into this but he was going to find a way to get even.

"Whipped."

"That's it, I'm going back."

"Oh common Aaron this was the last happy memory that I have with my father, seeing a movie on the Majestic's wide screen was such an amazing thing for me. I loved that theater; I still have the ticket and remember the owner's name- Harry Trimble- and how he and my father talked after the movie was over. A few days after that he was dead. Now thanks to that amazing wife of your I found that it is reopening with a night dedicated to Frank Sinatra's movies; hell yeah I want to be there."

Aaron Hotchner could see the honesty in his best friend words and told himself: "What the hell" and speed up.

Two months later…

"I'm still angry, you stupid bastard. You had to do that didn't you? Put yourself in front of me why? Moron, I miss you, you suppose to be here, you were suppose to teach Jack and Chris to love Sinatra, instead you moron"

Aaron Hotchner was letting his tears fall. His friend's life wasn't supposed to end this way; he still could see it playing in his head: Dave putting himself in front of him and taking the bullet that the UNSUB had fired. It was a sacrifice Aaron didn't know if he could ever repay.

"You give me a family and my happy memory, Aaron, you deserve to be happy," came the comforting voice of a friend lost but would always be around.

Ten days later Christopher David Hotchner was born.

Aaron there swore to tell his son about his godfather's love for Sinatra and the Majestic. Someday when they were old enough, he would pass on to his children, his best friend's happy memory.

"Thanks my friend you gave a happy memory too."

The End