AN Please do not read if you have not seen the finale of season 3!
Disclaimer None are mine. They all belong to CBS I just like to play with them.
Warning Contains Character Death!
What if it was Hotch?
He was our leader. How do we do any of this without him? The Bureau sent security people with high clearances to clear his office of paperwork that our team did not have the clearance to view. They left many case files and pictures of Jack.
I wonder what kind of man Jack will grow to be without Hotch there to guide him. I asked Haley if she would mind if I was there from time to time when the kid needed someone and she agreed with tear filled eyes that he would need someone to tell him of his father and show him how to be a man that Hotch would be proud to call his son.
Reid sat at his desk and cried. He asked me why I hadn't cried and I told him it there was too much to do to cry. I regretted saying it when he looked at me like a kicked puppy. All I could do was wonder the same thing, how could I not cry for Hotch?
Rossi did paperwork. He did his own and then all of Hotch's. He told me that the position would probably be offered to me and I told him that I didn't want it, not this way.
Prentiss never spoke. She just didn't say anything at all. JJ tried to talk to her but she just stared back. Garcia told me that she was hysterical in the bathroom and that she wondered if there was more than a professional relationship between the two that we were unaware of.
JJ sat with Will who Rossi had asked to stick around for JJ. They sat in the kitchenette and she cried. Then she got up and was the JJ we all knew again. She went to prepare a statement to the press about the dedicated agent that had sacrificed everything. She told me that she had to for Jack who while too young to remember this would someday want to know what was said about his father.
Garcia cried and then she gathered the rest of us in her office. She told us that we would all be okay and that as hard as it was there was a reason for this too. She told stories until we all shared something about Hotch and in the end everyone left laughing through tears.
It was odd I just watched them. Numb to it all. I just watched.
AN Well I hope you all like this and will review. I love that so many of you liked this and had a similar idea to focus on each one as a possible death. I am STILL shocked and saddened by the finale as well as a little angry that we all have to wait so long to see what happens and who was in the car that exploded.