It was a sunny Saturday morning and hotch and jack were having pancakes for breakfast. They had got up early that morning because they were going to the mall with JJ, will and Henry.
Henry and jack had all ways gotten along together and enjoyed seeing each other, they had been begging to see each other for months now, hotch and JJ had been talking about going out somewhere for sometime but had only decided on going to the mall the day before.
"Daddy when are we going to see Henry" begged an over excited jack.
" I said that we would be there about 11:30," replied hotch tiredly, he had already told jack this several times.
At henrys house they were all hurrying to get ready as they had just got up and they had to have breakfast, get ready to go out and go do some things before they met hotch and jack. JJ was being left to get Henry ready while will went out to fill up the car at the gas station as the car was low on fuel.
Jack and hotch had arrived first and were waiting on JJ, will and Henry for about 15 minutes. "Daddy where are they?, they should be here by now, are they going to come?, but his fears were put to rest when they saw Henry,JJ and will running across the road towards them.
They walked up to hotch and jack and JJ gave hotch a smile and a small hug and will shook his hand and asked how each other were. Henry and jack were already running around laughing.
"Be careful, Henry" said JJ worrying that Henry would fall over.
"Relax, he will be fine" said Will reassuringly.
JJ shot an angry look over to Will as If to say not to undermine what she says. This look and an awkward silence lasted for a few seconds until hotch broke the silence.
"So where are we going to go first?" said hotch almost embarrassed about the situation.
JJ stopped looking at will and turned to hotch like nothing had happened. "Well Henry said that he wanted to go to a few toy shops first" said JJ.
"Ok, I'm sure jack will love that to" replied hotch.
They all walked in and headed towards the row of toyshops. They must have been in the shops for about 2 or 3 hours and had bought a lot of things. Will was carrying three bags of things they had bought just for Henry and hotch had two bags of things that were for jack.
Both boys were obviously excited with the things that they had got and were very hyper. Henry and jack ran out of the last shop and saw a candy shop. If they could get some candy that would just make their day even better.
"Mommy, can me and jack get some candy", hotch and JJ exchanged looks to see if each other agreed to it. "pleaseeeeeeee" pleaded both jack and Henry.
"Alright but stay where we can see you" said hotch as he gave the boys 10 dollars each.
They both ran towards the candy store smiling and discussing what they were going to buy.
"Thanks for coming today hotch, I haven't seen Henry happy like this in months" said JJ, supported by Will.
"Well it's been good today, and jacks having a great time" replied hotch. The truth was that it was the most fun hotch had, had in a long time, spending time with jack and a good friend.
Just as hotch finished there was a loud bang and screams from further down in the mall. They all looked at each other thinking the same thing. "what was that?. Asked Will slowly.
There were several more bang which sounded more and more like gunfire, but none of them moved or said anything and just listened to the loud bangs getting closer and closer until they heard more screams and saw people running in the opposite direction to them.
They dropped their bags as the shock suddenly hit them that these people were obviously running away from something and there was only one thing that explained the loud bangs and screaming people. Gunmen.