A/N: This story is for the Christmas fic exchange on CCOAC... This story is for TML... I hope you like it... Happy Holidays everyone... This story will be a two-shot or three-shot not sure which just yet...

Disclaimer: I don't own CM...

Pairing: H/P of course LOL

Prompts: Winter Wonderland, snow angels, popcorn, and Christmas lights...

Emily was listening to Christmas music as she decorated her apartment. Her mind was on the man that she was in love with. She sighed as she wondered if she could get some Christmas courage and finally open up and tell Hotch that she loved him and not only that she loved him but that she was in love with him. She had been trying to tell him for the past three months but every time she came close to telling him she always chickened out.

Just as the song Winter Wonderland sung by Perry Como came on the radio there was a knock on her front door. She put down the garland that she had in her hands and walked over to her door and looked out the peep hole. She couldn't believe who she saw standing at her door. As she opened her door up she wondered if maybe just maybe since she was thinking of him so much that it some how made him show up.

"Hi, Hotch what are you doing here?" Emily asked after pulling her door all the way open.

Hotch couldn't contain the smile that came upon his lips as he saw the shock on Emily's face. "I needed to talk to you Emily and since you left the office so quickly I decided to come over here. Can I come in?"

Emily blushed as she took a couple steps back so that she could let Hotch come in. "Of course you can Hotch."

Hotch chuckled and walked inside and then came to an abrupt stop making Emily crash into his back after she shut the door. "Emily, what are you doing?"

Emily shook her head and said "What does it look like I'm doing Hotch? I'm decorating for Christmas."

Hotch laughed at that. "I know that Emily but why are you just now decorating for Christmas? I mean Christmas is in two days time?"

Emily sighed. "Well Hotch we haven't been home much and I just now got into the Christmas spirit so there for I'm finally decorating. I know that Christmas is only two days away. You never did say why you were here. We don't have another case or anything do we?"

Hotch shook his head. "No, Emily we don't have another case. Actually I'm here for a personal reason. There is something that I need to tell you."

Emily turned her head towards Hotch and at the look in his eyes her own heart started beating faster and harder than it ever has before. "What is it you need to tell me Hotch? You're not sick are you?"

Once again Hotch shook his head. "First off could you stop calling me Hotch and call me Aaron? Secondly I'm in love with you Emily."

Emily's mouth dropped open but then she found herself jumping into Hotch's arms and wrapping her arms around his neck. She saw the surprise in his eyes and she couldn't help but chuckle. "I'm in love with you too Aaron. Before you showed up here I was wondering how I was going to tell you or if I should because every time I've tried to tell you in the past three months I've chickened out. While I was decorating I was hoping that it would give me some much needed Christmas courage."

Hotch chuckled at this and wrapped his own arms around Emily's waist as he bent and brushed his lips across hers. "I wondered if maybe that is what was happening every time you said you had to talk to me but then you'd leave. What would you say about going out tonight with Jack and I and looking at some Christmas lights?"

Emily bit down nervously on her lower lip as she looked up at Hotch. "Are you sure that Jack won't mind me tagging along?"

Hotch shook his head. "Jack won't mind in the least Emily. In fact Jack asked me today if he would get you as his Mom for Christmas like he wished."

Emily's mouth dropped open in shock as she listened to what Hotch just said. She couldn't believe that the little boy she had come to love like her own son also loved her and wanted her as a Mother. She felt the tears rush to her eyes and she blinked them away or tried too. She put her head on Hotch's shoulder as she finally quit trying to blink away the tears and she let them fall.

Hotch sucked in a breath when he saw the tears in Emily's eyes right before they started falling down her face. "Emily, Sweetheart why are you crying?"

Emily finally got her tears under control and she pulled back to look up at Hotch. "They weren't tears of sadness Aaron. They were tears of happiness. I already love Jack like he was my own but to hear you say that he asked you if he would get me as his Mom for Christmas like he wished was a dream come true. I'd love nothing more than to go look at Christmas lights with you and Jack tonight Aaron. I love you."

Hotch let out a relieved sigh. "Oh thank God I thought you were going to tell me that you couldn't do this. I know that our relationship will be hard because of Strauss but I don't want to go another second without you by my side Emily. I truly love you and I need you like I need air to breathe."

Emily smiled up at Hotch with joy in her eyes. "I don't want to be without you another second either Aaron. For so long you've been my life and I was just afraid to admit it and then I was afraid to tell you once I did finally admit it to myself. You just made all of my Christmas wishes come true."

Hotch smiled down at Emily and bent his head and kissed her one more time. This time though he didn't stop at just brushing his lips across hers. He couldn't stop because the feel of her lips under his was what he had wished for, for Christmas. Well that and for her to tell him that she was in love with him so he can do what he had planned for Christmas morning.

He pulled back and looked down at Emily with a soft smile on his lips. "What do you say we finish decorating your apartment and then head over to my house?"

Emily smiled and shook her head. "Actually I think my apartment is decorated enough. It's not like I'm really going to be spending much time here in the next day or two is it?"

Hotch laughed and shook his head. "No actually you're not. Jack and I both want you to stay with us at our house. Will you stay with us Emily?"

Emily smiled and once more threw her arms around Hotch's neck and then kissed him before saying "Of course I will Aaron. Let me just get a few things packed together."

Hotch nodded and watched Emily walk away with a spring in her step. As soon as she was out of his line of sight he decided that since she wasn't going to be home that he would turn off most of the appliances that didn't need to be left on besides the fridge. After going through the kitchen he then walked over to where the Christmas tree stood and bent down and unplugged it.

As he waited on Emily to finish packing whatever it was that she was packing he couldn't help but wonder if his last Christmas wish would come true Christmas morning. He couldn't wait to find out.