PRESENT:
"That's how I met and fell in love with him." JJ smiled.
Kate awed. "I always wondered when he gave you the tags."
"I see Hotch gave you his." She motioned to the tags around her neck.
"Yeah, he gave them to me before leaving this time." Kate whispered, holding them in her fist. "God I miss him."
"I know, I miss Frank as well."
"Yet you haven't seen him in over two years!" Kate exclaimed.
JJ just shrugged. "Yeah, but with Henry and Marie time has flown by."
"She looks so much like her father." Kate admired. "She is so going to be a daddy's girl." Laughing both woman walked out of the room and met up with the team.
"You ladies ready?" Morgan asked, taking little Marie from Kate. "Happy birthday baby girl."
"Yup, lets got see my little girls graduate." Kate grinned, pulling JJ with her.
They all piled into two SUV's and headed off, nobody aware of the surprise that awaited them.
WITH THE MEN:
"So what is the plan?" Hotch asked, his eyes admiring the view from the helicopter.
"Well I'm not sure. I thought I was deployed for three more months." Frank shrugged. "I figure either we surprise them at the graduation or Rossi's party."
Hotch raised a brow. "Party?"
"JJ told me last time I talked to her." Frank answered.
"What happened?" Hotch suddenly asked.
Frank glanced at him, with a confused look at him. "What?"
"You were supposed to be out there for three more months Colonel."
"Your point?"
Hotch leaned forward. "They don't just tell you to stay one day and leave the other Donovan. What happened?"
Frank sighed, putting his head in his hands. "I shot a friendly."
"What?"
"You heard me, don't make me repeat it."
Hotch nodded slightly. "What happened?"
Swallowing hard, frank closed his eyes. "I don't want to talk about it Hotch."
"What did the general say?" Hotch asked. He wouldn't admit it, but he was rather sacred. He knew the consequences for shooting an army buddy, not to mention the accused soldier had to go through trial.
Frank scoffed. "At the time nothing, I was given a 'break'. Said I have been out there too long. Everything will be settled in a month or so." Seeing the look on Hotch's face. Frank held a hand up, in a stop gesture. "Don't. I know what I did and I know what the consequences are. The only reason I told you was because you asked, but this cannot leave the two of us."
Giving him a nod, he decided to change the subject. "So how are we going to do this?"
"We are landing behind my house, grab the car and head on from there." Glancing at his watch he hummed. "They should all be at the school by now, so I guess we will met them at Rossi's house."
Hotch glanced at himself. "Any chance we might be able to change?"
Chuckling he nodded. "Yeah, we can stop by your house. I need a change myself, Max and Henry never did like the uniform."
"Max?" Hotch frowned.
"Dog."
"Oh."
Frank pulled out his phone to see a message form JJ.
*I don't know if you will receive this or not, but look.* it was a picture of Henry, Jack and Meg. Henry and Jack were dressed in a suit. Henry had a fully black one with red tie along with the eagle badge and Jack had a gray one, baby blue shirt and dark tie. No doubt each following their fathers taste in clothes. As for Meg, she was wearing her gown and hat. *Henry, Jack and Meg send their hello's. We miss you Frank. Love you.*
"Here." He handed the phone over to Hotch. "She looks beautiful."
Hotch smiled, Meg might not be his biologically, but she was his. He helped raise her and love her. It was about two weeks into the marriage with Kate, that Meg handed him the adoption papers. He gladly accepted them. "Yeah she is. Henry has grown."
"Yup, although I am kinda of lost on that one. I haven't seen him in two years and who knows what's going on with him." Frank chuckled. "You thought about going back to the BAU?"
Hotch handed him back the phone with a deep sigh. "I'm not sure, right now all I want is to see my daughter, son and wife. The rest can wait."
"You and me both."
WITH KATE AND JJ:
By the time Meg and her friends were finally gathered together it was 8pm.
"So are you all ready to go?" Kate asked her.
Meg nodded. "Yeah, where too?"
"My house." Rossi jumped in, pulling the girl into a bear hug. "Our little bambina has finally graduated high school." Giving Rossi a blush, she walked to her group of friends. She needed to tell them of the plans.
"So who and who is coming?" Spencer asked.
Kate tilted her head side to side, trying to think of everyone. "Well us, Meg's friends, Jack and Henry's friends, their friend's parents and whoever, my brother is coming, so is JJ's parents and whoever you all invited."
Morgan whistled. "That is a lot of people."
"Only two are missing." Emily mumbled. She didn't want to put a downer mood on anyone, but Hotch and Frank were the only ones missing. "I'm sorry guys."
"No worries pumpkin." Garcia smiled.
"Come on, we still need to herd 10+ kids home." JJ groaned.
Luckily it didn't take long before everyone as gathered in Rossi's, the families were having fun getting to know each other and just watching their kids have fun. The music was a full blast, teens were dancing, Henry and Jack even got a hold of two girls.