Disclaimer: I still don't own Criminal Minds. -sniffles;

Emily Prentiss was, for once, content with filling out paperwork. The team was exhausted and the only thing on their minds was getting home and into their beds. Their last case had been a tough one and they'd spent over a week and a half in Missouri tracking down a serial rapist who left his victims on the freeway at the dead of night. The BAU team had spent almost every night trying to come up with a profile for this guy, but he was good. He made sure to not leave anything that would give him away, enough so that Forensics hadn't caught anything up until the last three days that they were there. It had been easy making the profile after he'd finally slipped up and not long afterwards he was caught trying to take another woman by a patrol officer taking the long route home after work. In the end, all the women he had hurt eventually had their justice and their work had paid off.

Emily glanced out the window of their jet and watched as the sun glided through the thick, white clouds. She looked away long enough to catch a glimpse of her watch before looking back once more and finally looking away, turning her attention to her team members instead. Hotch was asleep in the seat beside her, his head was perched against his hand, a scowl on his face, as usual. Emily smirked at him as she gently stroked his cheek, lightly enough to not wake him. Morgan looked up from where he had been reading another file, his own smirk crossing his face at the intimate gesture.

"Hey, Emily. I thought you and Hotch said you'd keep your relationship quiet for the time being." His brow shot up as he watched Emily glare at him from across the jet.

"Well, Morgan, if you would stop staring at us every minute of every day, then maybe you wouldn't even see us acting like a couple, now would you?" She lifted her own eyebrow as she grinned over at her colleague and friend. His own smile faltered slightly. "Yeah. I thought so."

She turned away then, a triumphant grin lit up her face as she turned to focus on the page in front of her. Emily picked up her pen once again and continued to write. She just finished signing off at the bottom before she felt Hotch beginning to wake up beside her. He blinked a couple of times before stretching out his legs underneath the table they were seated in front of.

"Morning, Sleeping Beauty," Emily teased without looking up from the file she was just about to finish with. She flipped a page over and signed her name once again before setting it back into the folder and letting it fall shut. She leaned against Hotch slightly, jolting him to the side and he grunted as he sat up straighter.

"Morning, Em," he said, the corners of his lips tiliting up some as he looked at her and then down at the file in front of them. He looked back up at his girlfriend, who had already turned her head to look back out the window. "What time is it?" He started to mess with his suit jacket's sleeve to try and catch the time on his watch but Emily beat him to it.

"It's a little after seven. We should be landing in another hour or so." She let her head fall onto Hotch's shoulder sleepily and closed her eyes for a moment before she reopened them. Looking up at him again, she whispered, "Derek is stalking us." She tried to keep a serious face, but a smile broke through as they both looked over at Morgan who felt their gazes and looked up, a little uncomfortable. He quickly let his head drop again and continued reading the file in his hands.

Emily laughed quietly in an effort to not wake up JJ, who had also fallen asleep once they had boarded. The young, blonde liaison had her head leaning against the wall of the jet beside the small window, which she had shut to keep the sunlight out of her face and let her sleep better. Dave was sitting in the seat across from her, staring at another file, one he had probably pulled from JJ while she was sleeping. Reid was reading a book a few seats away from Morgan. He seemed totally engrossed in it, that he probably couldn't hear the conversation going on between Emily and Hotch, not that he caught onto things easily to begin with.

"I can't wait to get home. It's going to be nice to finally sleep in my own bed again," Emily said with a small yawn. She hadn't slept much at all, and she tried to catch up on her sleep whenever they flew anywhere since the altitude gave her headaches at times. But she couldn't keep her eyes closed for more than a few minutes at a time.

"I think that sounds like a good idea," he murmured and then continued after a beat, "Haley is finally letting me have Jack over for the whole weekend. She's dropping him off later and I'll drop him off at her sister's Sunday night. He really wants to see you."

"Mmm. Maybe I could drop by later and see him for a few minutes." She kept her eyes trained on his face and he smiled softly down at her.

"Or... I can take you home with me and we can fix something to eat. Then I have to get some movies for Jack later and you can help pick some out. Or you can stay and catch some sleep before he gets there. You know he's going to tear through the place once he finds out you're there."

"No, I don't want to interrupt the time you have with him. You haven't had him over for a whole weekend in weeks. You should be spending it with him, Aaron."

"It's perfectly fine, Em. Jack loves having you over and so do I. It's funner with you there, Jack's exact words."

"He said that?" She couldn't help but smile softly as she let her head loll to the side and closed her eyes. "Well, he keeps me busy and entertained all the same."

He nodded, a ghost of a smile flitting across his features for a second or two as he sat back as well. "You should get some more sleep, Emily. I'll wake you up when we land."

She merely nodded, letting her head fall back onto his shoulder. While they had both agreed to keep their interaction at work on the minimum, they both felt safe with the rest of the team and let the little things slide when they were with them.

Emily drifted off into a sleep that came all too easily.

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