Hotch's P.O.V
Set after the end of season 7, when Emily left for london.
"You just let her walk away!"
Those words Morgan bellowed at me, embedded into my brain more and more by the second. I was alone again - silence.
On my couch late that evening.
Alone.
Morgan accused me of letting Emily go, partially I accuse myself. Emily...
Not Prentiss but Emily... the brunette with the most beautiful smile I have ever seen, that magical glimmer in her eyes. The woman who never failed to make me laugh. Emily. I should never have let her go.
It was my fault she left and the longer I was alone the more I belived that. If I showed my true feelings sooner... If I hadn't met Beth...
All these possibility's, all these different outcomes.
If only I had done things differently. I wished, I hoped.
If only...
If only I had done things differently, not shy'd away from what I really felt. What if the reason she left was me? What if I was the reason for her running off to London?
If only she knew how I felt. If only I showed her how I felt! Maybe...
If I had done things differently, had not acted with such professionalism, Maybe...
Emily would still be with us: right now.