Author's Note: I don't really know what to say for this chapter other then the Hotchner family celebrates Valentine's Day. And the LaMontagne show up at the end because Henry has some gifts for Prentiss he needs to give her.

Disclaimer: I do not own the best show in the world, otherwise known as Criminal Minds. Prentiss is mine, however.


Hotch was in the kitchen in the progress of making heart-shape pancakes for Jack and Emily for breakfast, when he suddenly took a quick glance at the video monitor of his four month old daughter's nursery and noticed that she was fully awake in her crib.

He went up to his daughter's nursery. A lovingly smile touched his lips when his gaze landed on his daughter lying in the crib smiling up at him. He gathered Prentiss into his arms and placed a kiss to her small head.

"Happy Valentine's Day, my little princess." Hotch whispered lovingly, as he placed another kiss to his daughter's small head. "Do you want to help Daddy make breakfast?" He was answered by a beautiful smile on his daughter's face. "You and me are going to be great chefs together," he said, with a sweet smile.

Prentiss looked up at him and gave him another beautiful smile that was just like her mother's.

Hotch smiled lovingly at his daughter, he said, "Okay let's go into the kitchen and make breakfast for your brother and your mom then."

Walking out of the nursery with his daughter tightly snug in his arms as they made their way into the kitchen to make breakfast for Emily and Jack.

Skillfully holding the baby with one hand, Hotch skillfully flipped a pancake with the other.

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"Dad, what's for breakfast?" Jack asked, as he wandered into the kitchen, plopping down onto a chair at the large cherry wood dining table.

"Heart-shape pancakes." Hotch answered, as he placed a plate with two pancakes on it in front of his son.

"Wow, heart-shape pancakes." Emily said amaze, as she walked into the kitchen and up to her husband who was still holding their daughter in his arms. "I just might have to kiss the cook for these wonderful pancakes." She kissed Prentiss on the nose. "Thank you, sweetheart," she said as Hotch placed the four month old child into her arms. "For these pancakes."

"Hey I'm the one who made the pancakes." Hotch said with a playful whine.

Emily shook her head and smiled, she said, "That's not what our daughter told me. Prentiss said she made the pancakes and that you watched."

Hotch crossed his arms and grin, he said, "I don't think Prentiss said that to you, she told you that she helped me make the pancakes."

"Our daughter might have said that to me, but I have to check with her," Emily said with a grin. "Did you help Daddy make the pancakes?" She was answered by an adorable smile on her daughter's face. "Prentiss said that she helped you make the pancakes, and she also said I should give you…" Leaning forwarded Emily gave Hotch a magnificent kiss. "A kiss," she said against her husband's lips.

"Wow!" Hotch said after the magnificent kiss ended. Placing a kiss on his daughter's forehead, he said, "Thank you, sweetheart for telling Mommy that."

Emily smiled at her daughter in her arms, then she smiled at Hotch before, she said, "If you two don't mind, I'm going to sit down so I can enjoy these delicious pancakes."

"Do you want me to take her, so you can eat?" Hotch asked, as he pointed to his daughter in his wife's arms.

"No, she's fine." Emily said, as she sat down into a chair at their large dining table with Prentiss in her arms, and enjoying the pancakes that her husband and her daughter made. "These pancakes were amazing," she said, after she finished her two pancakes.

"Yeah these pancakes are amazing!" Jack exclaimed, eating the last bite of his pancakes.

"Well, thank you guys, but I couldn't have made them without my little chef." Hotch said smiling at his daughter. Looking at his wife and son, he asked, "Do both of you want anymore?"

"Yes, please." Jack said with a smile.

"Two was enough for me." Emily told her husband. Getting up from her chair, she said, "I'm going to change Prentiss."

Hotch watched as Emily carried Prentiss out of the kitchen to go up to the nursery to change her, as he made Jack two more pancakes.

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Emily carried Prentiss into the spacious living room where Jack and Hotch was seated, after changing her into a little red and white dress that had hearts all over it and matching tights, and a little red hair bow on Prentiss' head.

She sat next to Hotch on the couch, who was artfully arranging some Valentine's gifts on the large coffee table in front of him.

Hotch grabbed a pink teddy bear holding a heart that said princess on it and a bouquet of pink lilies from the coffee table, he turned to look at his daughter in his wife's arms. "These are for you, sweetheart, and once again Happy Valentine's Day." He put his daughter's gifts next to Emily, then pressing a kiss to Prentiss' head. Grabbing a box of small chocolates and a stuff Valentine's tiger off the coffee table, then turning to his right, he said, "These are for you, buddy, and Happy Valentine's Day."

"Thank you." Jack said as he took his gifts from his dad.

Hotch smiled at his son and said, "You're welcome." Then finally grabbing the last gifts off of the coffee table which were another box of chocolates and a bouquet of red roses before turning to his left again, he said, "And for my lovely wife these are for you."

"Aaron, I can't take them from you because I said I didn't want anything for Valentine's Day." Emily said refusing to accept the gifts from her husband.

"I know you did Emily, but I had to get you something." Hotch said, as he placed her gifts next to her.

"But why?" she asked a little tearful.

Hotch pulled her close. "Because you're my wife…well my gorgeous wife and I love you." He kissed her cheek.

She smiled and rested her head against his chest. "I love you, too, Aaron."

"So does this mean you will accept the Valentine's gifts?" he asked, placing a kiss into her hairline.

"Yes, I will accept the gifts."

Hotch dropped a kiss to her lips, he murmured against her lips, "Happy Valentine's Day, beautiful."

"Happy Valentine's Day, handsome." Emily replied back against his lips, before placing Prentiss into his arms and getting up to go into the kitchen and placed the lilies and roses in two elegantly crafted glass vases.

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Emily had just seated herself comfortably into a chair in the living room, when the door bell began to ring. She was just about to see who was at the door, when Hotch got up from the couch and placed Prentiss into her arms, and went to see who was at their door.

Hotch opened the door and seen the LaMontagne family standing there and Henry wearing a little suit with some gifts in his small hands. He stepped aside and let the LaMontagne family inside, and led them into the living room.

As soon as they entered the living room, Henry went right up to Emily who was still seated in the chair holding Prentiss in her arms.

"You look very nice in that suit." Emily said smiling at the young boy standing next to her chair.

"Thank you." Henry said with a smile.

Still smiling at the young boy, Emily asked, "How come you're wearing a suit today?"

"He's wearing that suit today because he wants to look nice for Prentiss," JJ answered with a grin. "That's what he told me earlier when I asked him."

"Mommy, I said I had to look nice for my girlfriend because it's Valentine's Day." Henry said correcting his mother.

"Sorry my bad." JJ said apologizing to her son. "Did you give Prentiss her gifts to her?" she asked with a smile.

Henry shook his head no. Smiling at Emily and Prentiss, he said, "These are for my girlfriend." He handed Emily a bouquet of lavender roses and a stuff animal of two monkeys kissing.

Emily took the gifts from him and with a sweet smile, she said, "Thank you and I'm sure Prentiss loves her gifts you got for her."

"Happy Valentine's Day." Henry said leaning against the arm of the chair and trying to give Prentiss a kiss.

"Lips off my daughter." Hotch said grabbing Henry and carrying him over to the couch and sitting him next to Jack.

"Aaron be nice," Emily said getting onto her husband, while giving him a little glare. "He wasn't hurting her."

"Yes he was, he was trying to kiss her." Hotch said, while glaring at Henry.

Emily saw him glaring at Henry. Shaking her head, she said, "Stop glaring at Henry. He didn't hurt her."

"I will stop glaring at Henry when he leaves Prentiss alone." Hotch said never taking his glare off of Henry.

"I'm sure he will leave Prentiss alone someday, but if not then you have a little challenge when it comes to our daughter," Emily said with a little smile. "And right now it's just puppy love."

"Puppy love or whatever you want to call, I don't like it."

"I know you don't Aaron, but just wait until Prentiss is a teenager." Emily said, pressing a kiss to her daughter's head and then giving her to Hotch.

"Don't remind me, Emily." Hotch warned, while pressing a kiss to his daughter's forehead.

"I'm glad I'm not in your position, Aaron because I will be just like you if I had a daughter." Will said with a little laugh.

Hotch chuckled. "I think every father is like this. Especially the ones that have daughters. And I'm sure if you and JJ ever had a daughter, you will be protected of her when it comes to boys." He pressed a kiss to his daughter's head.

Will smiled at the baby staring at him, he said, "Happy Valentine's Day, Prentiss."

Hotch smiled and pressed a kiss to the right side of his daughter's head. "Happy Valentine's Day, my little princess," he said, once more that day.


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