This is the first entry in the prompt challenge I am writing with my friend SRgirl;

The idea is one of picks a prompt from the list and the other draws two names from the hat and then next time we switch! We both then write a one-shot from the prompt for this pairing with no conferring...

Just a silly little game really!

Look out for SRgirls fics too and please R&R

(I own nothing this is just for fun)

Without Further ado...

Prompt: Sunset

Characters: SSA Aaron 'Hotch' Hotchner & Detective William LaMontagne Jr

William LaMontagne Jr still found it hard to wrap his head around the dynamics of his girlfriend's team. He had moved to Washington only a few months ago when he and JJ had discovered that they were going to be starting a family together.

On the occasions that the team got together outside of the office Will found himself invited along and he felt privileged to be included. He had had the honour of working with the team on more than one occasion and they truly were the elite of the FBI but in the off hours they were more like a rag tag family.

That was how on a November evening he found himself participating in a team dinner at the boss's house. The meal itself was long over and the women were sat in the corner talking about babies and the birth of his son which was only weeks away now. Morgan and Reid were playing a rather competitive game of go fish with Jack on the rug and Will found himself sat observing this mismatched but perfect blend of personalities.

"You get used to it!" Aaron Hotchner said dropping down beside him on the sofa; Rossi was dozing in the armchair. "It's strange for a team to get this close but it's what works for us." He explained.

"I like it, it's just different from what I'm used to," Will shrugged. He had become accustomed to the camaraderie of the bull pen in the precinct but it had nothing on the fierce loyalty of the BAU, they had an emotional investment in each other that was not common.

"Can I ask you a rather personal question Will?" asked Aaron.

"Of course," he nodded not knowing where this was going.

"What was it that made you pursue a relationship with a woman that you had only known a handful of days that lived thousands of miles away?" asked Hotch. It was a question that had been bugging Hotch more than he wanted to admit, how was it that two virtual strangers could build a strong relationship whilst separated by several states and he couldn't manage to hold his marriage together. Not only that but both JJ and Will had high stress law enforcement jobs whereas he and Harley had only had to accommodate his career.

"Because of the way it felt to be around her," Will answered. "My daddy always told me that when he first laid eyes on my Momma it was like the world had stopped spinning and Mardi Gras in had started up in his belly all at once."

"That's how you felt when you first met JJ?" Hotch tried to clarify.

"No, it felt different for me," Will smiled at the other man a gentle expression softening the sharp planes of his face. "Out on the Bayou the most magical time of day is at sunset, the sky explodes with these fantastic colours and everything goes silent and for those few moments there is true peace in the air, that is what it felt like the first time I met JJ and I would have been stupid not to have fought to keep that with all that I have."

"So you don't regret leaving New Orleans to follow her?" Aaron asked, he found the younger mans utter devotion to JJ awe inspiring.

"I will always love New Orleans, it's where I grew up but ever since Katrina and losing my daddy to the storm it's just not quite the same," Will said shaking his head. "I don't regret following JJ, she's my peace in this world, my very own sunset!"