Thank you Aleja21 for another wonderful submission! "Full team turkey day celebration and when they sit down for dinner they go around saying what they're thankful for. When they get to Jack he says he's thankful for his Emmy. So Garcia asks if Emmy is his girlfriend and Jack tells her no and points to Emily telling her Emmy is his dad's girlfriend."
JJ let out a long sigh as she disembarked the jet while she read the text message she had just received.
"What's wrong?" Emily asked, coming up behind her.
"Well, It's already eleven o'clock and our flight was supposed to leave at six. It looks like Will and I aren't making it to my moms for thanksgiving this year." JJ replied sadly.
"I know the feeling, I was supposed to be on a plane to Chicago at seven." Morgan added.
"Okay, here's an idea, why doesn't everyone just come over to my place tomorrow for thanksgiving dinner?" Rossi suggested, seeing how sad his friends were about missing out on seeing their families for the holidays.
"No, you don't have to do that, it's okay." JJ replied half-heartedly.
"No. I insist. Everyone. Since I'm sure Hotch you don't have any plans either. You either Emily." Rossi added.
"Hey!" Emily said faux offended before continuing "You're right though, my mother is over seas until February so I was just going to make a turkey frozen dinner and call it a day."
"Well now you'll get an actual thanksgiving dinner. Aaron?" Rossi said.
"Fine." Hotch said, glaring at Rossi for calling him out on his lack of thanksgiving plans.
"Okay, It's settled, everyone be at my house at four o'clock tomorrow evening and we will have a family thanksgiving." Rossi said proudly before strutting off to his car.
The team all nodded and agreed before going to their respective cars as well, and going home.
It was quarter to four when Rossi heard the doorbell ring, signaling the arrival of some of his team members. He quickly turned the stove down for the gravy and went to the front door and opened it, reveling JJ, Will and Henry all dressed very nicely, with JJ holding a bottle of wine.
"Happy Thanksgiving." JJ said with a smile as she stepped into Rossi's house, giving him a quick hug on her way in.
"Hey buddy, you hungry?" Rossi asked, kneeling down so he was eye level with Henry.
"Yeah! Is Jack here yet?" He asked excitedly, also giving Rossi a big hug.
"Nope, he should be here soon though, you guys are the first ones here. Why don't you get settled in the living room, dinner should be ready by four thirty, I'm running a little late." Rossi said, making his way back into the kitchen.
"Take your time, this was last minute anyways." JJ said as she took her coat off and put it in the office off of the living room where they always put their coats.
"Henry, you know where the toys are, go ahead and get them out, or you can set up the Wii if you like." Rossi shouted from the kitchen.
"Okay!" Henry said, moving over to the TV cabinet and opening it up, turning on the Wii and the TV. Just as he got bowling set up the doorbell rang again.
"I got it." JJ shouted, opening the door to reveal Morgan, Kevin, and Garcia.
"Hello my blonde haired beauty." Garcia said, strutting into the house followed by the men.
"Hi Garcia." JJ said with a laugh "We're in the living room, Rossi's still cooking." She finished, leading them into the living room.
"Okay, where is my fairy god child." Garcia said, closing her eyes, pretending not to see Henry.
"I'm right here!" Henry said with a laugh as he ran over to Garcia and gave her a hug.
"Is anyone else here?" Morgan asked.
"Hotch, Jack, and Emily should be here in like ten minutes." JJ replied reading the text message Emily had just sent her.
"Why is she riding with them?" Morgan asked after her put his jacket in the office and sat down on the couch in the living room next to Will.
"Her garage door got stuck or something so Hotch said he'd pick her up his way over with Jack." JJ explained.
"She's just trying to get out of thanksgiving with everyone." Kevin said with a laugh.
"Well, Emily's not really a holiday kind of person. Something about being stuck with uptight politicians every holiday as a child made her hate it." JJ told them.
"Well, I guess that makes sense..." Kevin replied. "What about Reid? Is he coming?" He added.
"Yeah, he'll be here in like five minutes." JJ answered.
"Ah, so the whole gang is gonna be here, nice!" Kevin said, sitting down on the couch with the guys as Garcia started a bowling match with Henry.
They sat making small talk for a few minutes before the doorbell rang again and they Reid in before they began making small talk again for about fifteen minutes and at some point someone turned some music on.
"Hey guys." Emily said with a smile as she walked into the living room with Hotch and Jack.
"Hey! How did you get in the door was locked?" JJ asked, swearing she didn't hear the doorbell ring.
"We rang the doorbell like three times but no one answered, so I let us in…I have a key." Emily said, taking off her jacket and kneeling down to unzip Jack's jacket and take it off him before Hotch grabbed all of their jackets and brought them into the office.
"What happened with your garage door princess?" Morgan said sarcastically, earning him a glare from Emily as she took a glass of wine that JJ had poured her ten minutes ago.
"It's stuck. I called the repairman but since it's a holiday he won't come fix it until Monday." Emily said, annoyed.
"I bet between genius and I we could fix it tomorrow." Morgan suggested.
"Yeah, probably, we fixed JJ's TV last month." Reid added.
"Seriously? Sure, that'd be great!" Emily replied.
"No problem, what time do you wanna go over there?" Morgan asked, looking at Reid.
"Like one? It should only take an hour or two." Reid said, taking a sip of his water.
"Wow guy's, that's awesome, thanks. I'll have the fridge stocked with beer and I'll order you dinner when you're done." Emily promised, taking a sip of her wine as she sat down on the arm of the chair JJ was sitting in.
"How was your night?" JJ asked knowingly, raising her eyebrow and smirking. Getting an elbow in the ribs.
"Uneventful. I went to bed when I got home and slept in this morning." Emily replied, thankful that everyone else was absorbed in their conversations so they didn't hear theirs.
"Sure…I'm sure you went right to bed when you got home…" JJ said with a grin, taking a sip of her wine.
"Shut up." Emily told her, just as Rossi walked in.
"Ah, Welcome, welcome. Dinner is done, if you'd follow me into the dining room we can get started." Rossi said, leading everyone out of the living room and into their chairs in the dining room where everything was already set out and ready.
"Wow, Dave, this is incredible." Hotch said as he took a seat at the end of the table next to Emily with Jack sitting next to Emily.
"Well, It's thanksgiving. If there is any time to go overboard, it is today. But, before we eat I think we should go around the table and say what we are thankful for." Rossi suggested, sitting at the head of the table after everyone had taken their seats.
"Okay, I'll start." Garcia said, "I'm thankful for spending thanksgiving with all of you." She finished sweetly.
"I guess it's my turn. I'm thankful that none of us had to work today." Kevin said
"I'm thankful that we put that bastard in jail yesterday." Morgan told them.
"I'm thankful for alcohol." Emily said bluntly as she took a sip of wine.
"Ditto." JJ said with a laugh.
"Wow guys." Morgan said with a laugh.
"I'm thankful for a these few days off." Hotch said, ignoring Emily and JJ's laughter.
"Is it my turn?" Jack asked hopefully.
"Yup bud, what are you thankful for?" Rossi asked.
"I'm thankful for Emmy!" Jack said with a huge smile.
"Aw that's sweet." Garcia said "Why are you thankful for Emmy?" she continued.
"Cause she gives the bestest hugs, she makes the bestest breakfast and she's really nice." Jack explained, looking up at Emily from his seat.
"That's sweet Jack, thank you." Emily said, trying to hold back her tears as she gave the boy a side hug.
"Sounds like Emily is your girlfriend." Garcia joked.
"No, she's daddy's." Jack said, making Emily, Hotch and JJ all choke on their wine.
"What?" Garcia asked, surprised.
"Emmy is Daddy's girlfriend. They kiss all the time and she sleeps over. That means she's his girlfriend right." Jack said, looking around the shocked faces of everyone at the table.
"Care to explain?" Rossi asked, starting to serve himself and passing the food along.
"Nope." Emily said, chugging the rest of her wine along with JJ.
"How long has this been going on?" Reid asked.
"Ten Months." Hotch answered, looking down at the food he was serving himself.
"Thanks for telling us guys, really appreciate it." Morgan said sarcastically.
"Come on. What reason would we have to tell you right away? You are nosy, and we wanted to keep it to ourselves for a while." Emily said, looking over to Morgan and Garcia.
"Then how come JJ knew? She's not acting nearly as surprised as she should be." Garcia asked.
"I didn't want to know, trust me. I accidently walked in on them at Emily's one morning." JJ said, pouring another glass of wine for herself then passing the bottle over to Emily.
"Well. I'm thankful that we are all here, and that we are all happy." Rossi said, trying to spare Hotch and Emily from further interrogation.
"Yes. Now I'll be extra thankful if we can just eat, and talk about this later." Emily said.
"Fine. But we are not done talking about this." Garcia said as everyone began to eat.
The rest of the evening went fairly smoothly; the team got the rest of their questions in after dinner, and after several drinks between them. Everyone had retired to their homes and it was just Hotch, Emily and Jack left when they decided to leave. They drove in silence, with Jack falling asleep in the back seat on the way home. When they got back to Hotch's apartment, he rounded to the back of the car and picked up a still asleep jack up and carried him, followed by Emily into the apartment. After Hotch had put Jack to bed he came back into the living room to find Emily reading a book on the sofa.
"You know what." Hotch said, sitting down next to Emily and wrapping his arm around her.
"What?" Emily asked, putting her book down in her lap.
"I never got to say what I was really thankful for." Hotch said.
"You said you were thankful for the days off… if that's not what you're really thankful for, then what is?" Emily asked with a soft smile.
"I'm really thankful for you." Hotch said, kissing her softly.
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