Introduction

When Aaron Hotchner woke up, his wife, Hayley, was still asleep. They had had yet another fight the night before. Hayley had invited some friends around for dinner and Aaron had promised to be there. Half an hour of waiting for him, Hayley got a call saying he would be late. He didn't end up showing until after dinner, when Hayley and their guests were sitting down in the front room, talking. He apologised for being so late and went into the kitchen. Hayley followed him. She asked him why he was so late again and again he said that he had to work late again.

" The job..." she said quietly. " IT'S ALWAYS THAT GODDAMN JOB, AARON!" she yelled.

" Keep your voice down..." he said quietly.

" Go to hell," she replied.

Aaron saw the hate in her eyes. " I'm going to bed... Cool off before we talk again," he told her. He ran upstairs.

When he got up and was ready to leave, he didn't go back into the bedroom to give her a kiss on the cheek.

He arrived at the office and grabbed a coffee. He went to his desk, across from the new kid, Derek Morgan, and talked with him for a while when Morgan's mouth dropped.

" Hello there..." he said quietly, Hotch followed his gaze all the way up to the doorway of Jason Gideon's office, where Gideon stood with a beautiful-seeming blonde. His mouth opened slightly and his heart rate rose. Her back was to him, but there was definitely something attracting about her.

" Gentlemen..." Gideon called. He tilted his head so they would come up. Both men rose and made their way up to their boss and the girl. " Gentleman," he said again. " This is our new Communications Liaison Jennifer Jareau. Agent Jareau, these are SSAs Derek Morgan and Aaron Hotchner." Another agent walked up and began talking to Gideon.

She turned to them and shook Morgan's hand first. Hotch realised how wrong he had been. She wasn't as beautiful as he had thought, she was even more so. Her short, golden hair framed her and she had the biggest blue eyes he had ever seen. He shook himself back to reality.

He extended his hand. " Hotch is fine..."

She took it. " JJ." She smiled and he returned it.

Morgan looked at Hotch. He rarely smiled. " We should get back to work..." he said. Gideon was definitely going to hear about this.