Thanks for the reviews people, means a lot. Hope this one is a little easier to read. All mistakes are my own.

Disclaimer: I own nothing other than this story. If I did than I would put myself on Criminal Minds to kick Beth's arse, slap Hotch round the head and tell him to get his arse to London to bring Emily back!

Chapter 2

"Hey Aaron, i… i mean Hotch"

Emily tried not to get flustered over the use of his given name and his nervousness. It was obvious he heard the conversation she had with Dave, it wasn't as if Hotch had bad hearing, he could hear things happening before the younger members of his team had even processed what was going on. Hotch felt a rush of blood flush his cheeks.

"Hey back….. Again! Since when did you start calling me Aaron?"

Why did he have to get so nervous when she was around, it's not as if he had feelings for her. He was with Beth, not that that was going well, Since Jack overheard his dad tell Hayley that he didn't love Beth and it wasn't going where he thought it might after this length of time together. Subsequently, Jack let it slip to Beth that he was getting another mummy. Beth thought her luck was in and that Aaron was going to ask her to move in with him already. But unfortunately, Jack kindly informed Beth that his new mummy was Miss Emily and that Daddy loved Emily, not her. This was fine by Jack because he didn't like her anyway. He was only nice to her because his dad told him not to be rude and be polite to Beth, as she made daddy happy. Beth wouldn't have worried much about what Jack had said if it wasn't for the events that took place last Friday night at her house.

Hotch and the rest of the team had a long, hard week on a case away from DC and just wanted to go to home and sleep for the next two days, but Beth insisted on him coming over. She had promised him that she would get the drinks and food in. He felt bad, so he didn't refuse but said he couldn't stay late as he was exhausted and more importantly had to be back in work early and had offered to pick Prentiss up on the way as she was supposedly having car trouble. They both had fallen asleep, cuddled up on Beth's sofa late that evening. Hotch started muttering in his sleep, waking up Beth. She didn't wake him as she thought he was having a dream about her and was just waiting to see if he said her name so she could make her advances towards him and finally take that next and final step in making their relationship more intimate. He turned over putting his arm around Beth and said what she thought she was waiting for, but she was so, so wrong,

"Come here baby…mmmm that's nice… just there sweetheart….. I love you too Emily."

Needless to say that Beth was less than impressed and demanded answers. Hotch tried to dig himself out the hole he seemed to have found himself in, by saying that you can't control what or who you dream about, especially when there is alcohol in the system. But Beth wasn't totally convinced and threw back at him, that people tend to speak the truth under the influence of alcohol. That put Hotch in her bad books.

When he went to pick jack up from his mother's house, their old family home, Hayley had asked him why he was looking more glum than usual. Hotch decided to tell her what had gone on. Much to Aaron's disappointment, Hayley found it hilarious and nearly choked on her water from laughing so hard.

She knew that Aaron wouldn't cheat on Beth but she had a gut feeling that when they were married, Aaron's heart wasn't totally in their relationship, more so within the last year or so of their marriage. She did originally think he was sleeping with JJ, but then she actually seen them together and realised he loved her like a sister. Then there was Elle Greenway, she never liked her, she didn't know what it was about her, but she really despised that woman. Hayley had met her a few times and could just tell that she had a thing for her husband. She wasn't even pretty, well, not by her standards, but she felt really jealous of her and didn't know why. Hayley had asked Aaron about her and what she thought her game was going after her husband. Aaron calmed her fear down, said that he had absolutely no feelings what so ever for her and that she was just a member of the team, nothing more, not even a friend like what the others were, but she was a good agent 99% of the time and they needed her on the team for that reason only. Funnily enough, she got jealous of Prentiss when she arrived and she knew now she had good reason too. Now she was pretty and was a very nice person who she thought wasn't after her husband, why would she, when Prentiss could have her pick of the men. But What Hayley didn't know was that Prentiss did have feelings for her Husband but would never act on those feelings; 1- He was married 2- those feelings she had were just one sided and 3rd and most importantly, he was her Boss and she wasn't risking her job for something that was never going to happen. So she just put them back in a box and left them there.

Hayley could see why Beth wasn't happy but did think she over reacted slightly. Aaron would never cheat, even when she thought he was but in fact it was her that was having the affair and nearly got found out when Aaron was suspended from work. To this day, she never admitted it to him, even though he had repeatedly asked her about it, even when they were divorced and she had nothing to lose, but Hayley stuck to her guns and denied it, only admitting it to her sister Jessica.

Hayley tried to probe for more answers, knowing that Aaron wasn't really one for sharing his feelings. So he finally opened up to her and admitted that he did actually love Emily and had for a long time, but he also had to make it clear that he never cheated on Hayley and hasn't cheated on Beth either. But he wasn't happy with her, their wasn't that spark and he didn't get that feeling in his gut, every time he saw her or was near her like he did with Prentiss. He did have feelings for Beth otherwise he wouldn't have gotten into a relationship with her. Hayley told him that he needed to end things if he wasn't happy and before Beth got to emotionally involved; she told him she didn't think it was fare on Beth or Jack for that matter because Jack had told his mother that he didn't like Beth, that she got all of his dads love and that Beth was only nice to him when his father was around. Aaron didn't know about this, he just thought that Jack was just jealous because his dad had another person in his life. He wanted to see if he could get back in the game after Jacks mum had left him. Jack wasn't one to warm up to people and when he did, he had his favourites and he wouldn't let anyone replace them. He had four great Aunties. His aunt Jess, Miss Garcia, Miss JJ and Miss Emily, or His Emmly as he liked to call her, she was his very best friend, with Uncle Derek coming up a close second.

He told Hayley that he was eventually ending it with Beth, but he wasn't going to say anything to Emily, because of the no fraternization within the same unit rule and the fact that Prentiss doesn't feel the same about him. Whilst the adults were engrossed in Aaron's love life, they didn't see that jack had been standing in the doorway listening to their whole conversation, which was how Hotch, now seemed to be in a sticky situation with Beth. He was going to end it, he just didn't know when.

Aaron snapped out of his brief flashback when he heard Emily speak

"Erm... am I not allowed to call you Aaron? I thought that's what FRIENDS do!"

She emphasized the word friend, reminding Hotch of his earlier statement he made, when he did the same mistake and called her Em and not Emily or even Prentiss.

"Of course you are. I kinda like it."

"So you should, it's your name! It would be a bit weird if you didn't like your own name Hotch!"

"Funny, ha ha. I meant that I like you calling me Aaron, it sounds nice coming out of your mouth

God! That mouth, what I would give just to have a taste! He thought to himself and carried on talking to Emily, remembering not to voice his thoughts out of his own mouth, as that would be embarrassing.

"Only Dave, Hayley and Jessica call me that. It's normally Hotch or sir from you and everyone else."

Hotch was now looking her directly in her gorgeous eyes. Emily could feel her cheeks starting to burn at their little flirtatious banter or at least that's what she was hoping it was. She turned her head slightly away from his eye line to avoid her embarrassment. She decided to carry on with her flirting and see how far it would go until someone came out or one of them fluffed it and lost their nerve.

"Sir makes you sound so powerful and we both know that's not true!" she told him with a huge smile and threw in a cheeky wink for good measure.

"I am powerful man. Thought you knew that?!" He said playfully flexing his bicep muscles

Emily couldn't help but let out a little chuckle and felt a stiring in the pit of her stomach, god that man is so HOT

"And a tad bit modest I see!"

"Nope, just stating a fact!"

Hotch added with the smuggest of grins, bringing out those gorgeous dimples that Prentiss loved so much. Obviously she wasn't going to tell him that, she wasn't that stupid, he already knew her TELL and that was nerve racking enough, knowing she wasn't able to hide her worries so easily anymore. Emily was lost in thought for a second and was brought out of it when she felt a burning heat going up and down her arm.

"Emily... Prentiss?"

Emily looked down at her arm and seen Hotch's hand rubbing her arm, up and down. Oh God, it what is he doing? Forget that, it feels nice, normal even. She looked up at Hotch with lust in her eyes, god she wanted him so much. He saw something flicker in her eyes for the briefest of seconds, not quite sure of what it was, he dropped his hand thinking that he had over stepped the boundaries a little, not happy at the loss of contact. He wasn't known for touching people unless it was Jack or when greeting someone with a polite hand shake.

"Prentiss, where was you just then?"

"Sorry, I was just…. Err... I got lost in thought, sorry"

Prentiss felt the loss of his touch, she wanted more but she wasn't going to ask him about it, why would she be that stupid? As much as she thought they were flirting, he was ultimately her boss. She had many restless nights dreaming of his touch on her body and she was sure tonight would be no different.

"Must have been a good thought? I haven't seen you smile like that for a while now, and I must admit, it looks good on you, really good."

He muttered that last bit under his breath hoping that Prentiss hadn't heard but secretly he was hoping she had so he could see if she had any sort of feelings towards him or if she just thought of him as her boss or even a friend.

"Must be a man in your life, looked like a smile of content, fancy sharing your thoughts?"

He couldn't help feeling a tad bit angry and jealous at the way she was smiling when she was lost in thought. Wishing there wasn't a man in her life. He wanted to be the man to bring that smile to her face all the time. What he would give for it to be him she was thinking about. What Hotch didn't know was that it was actually him she was thinking about.

Prentiss was now hot under the collar. Hotch had basically said that he liked her smile. She was more confident that Hotch now had some sort of feeling to her. Was it worth frisking the friendship they were starting to build just so she can find out for definite and a chance of getting her dream man? Just as she was going to say something to Hotch, Dave came out,

"Hey love birds! We have caught a lead"

Both agents turned round, mouths opened wide, cheeks brighter than a fire engine, totally embarrassed. Emily walked inside, Hotch just gave Dave one of his glares and said to him as he made his way inside,

"Thanks for that Dave, what a great way to make the situation awkward. I'm her superior, I don't fancy going to a sexual harassment seminar because you couldn't keep your mouth shut yet again. Oh and don't even be thinking of dropping this in on your pillow talk with Erin"

Dave just laughed following Aaron inside and said

"Why would I want to be thinking of you whilst I'm getting my groove on!"

And with that, they both headed in to meet the rest of the team to finally catch the UNSUB and put this case to bed.

Well another chapter down. Isn't it weird how you have an idea of what you are going to write and then all of a sudden it goes in to a totally different direction? Please drop a review, no haters, but constructive. Hopefully next chapter we will have some comical scenes.