Prologue
Garcia and Morgan arrived into the bullpen the day after arriving back from London. They'd only just come back from visiting Emily since she'd moved there to head the London branch of Interpol.
JJ came up to ask about the trip and having answered how it was she added, "God, I miss her."
"I don't think anybody misses her as much as Aaron does though," Garcia answered looking at Hotch's office door.
"I always wondered what was going on between those two," Morgan answered.
"They do seem to share a secret past."
Meanwhile in his office he was looking at an old photo of them he usually kept hidden but since she'd left he'd placed it on his desk. He missed her so much and had lost contact with her.
"Why don't you just call her?" his best friend asked.
"It's not as simple as that," he answered.
"What is it between you two? You're as close as anything but you also keep your distance and act like you're hiding something. What is it you two have always hidden?"
"It's a long story," he sighed.
He sat back in his chair and answered, "I'm listening."
"You remember how I security detailed her mother's stuff?" he started.
"I do," he answered signalling for him to go on.
"Emily and I became close..." Dave raised an eyebrow so Aaron looked back at the picture. "We became involved. When the assignment was over I gave her my email address. A few months later we discovered she was pregnant with my baby..."
"You were going to have a child together?" he replied in shock.
"We were," he answered sadly.
"What happened?"
"We were preparing for the birth even though she was at university. Sometime later her mother informed me she'd lost the baby and she never wanted to speak to or see me again. Like a fool I believed her so you can imagine my surprise when she joined the BAU. By then I was married to Haley and Jack was two years old."
"Did you ever talk about it?"
"I never knew how to bring it up and when I did privately she shut down. She was always slightly off around Jack. Always seemed a little guilty."
"What do you think happened to the child?"
"I honestly believe Emily miscarried," he answered sadly. "Why would her mother lie about that even if she disapproved of our relationship?"
"What if she gave the child away?"
He looked at him horrified. "This is Emily we're talking about. She'd never have given up our child. We were both looking forward to raising our baby."
He nodded and left. He dearly hoped his best friend was right. It would kill him if there was a child out there with his DNA that he was completely unaware of. He was right Emily wouldn't have given their child away.