Hotch was glad that Reid finally admitted that he`d missed Lila. After all he too knew what it was like to be too shy to ask the woman you loved on a date, but for him that time was in High School when he met Haley.

With Reid gone out in the hallway to call Lila, Hotch now picked up the papers he had thrown aside earlier when the room was crowded. For the second time that day he read the line he had been waiting for months only now seeing it in front of him felt worse.

Hotch stared at the first sentence of the papers for a long time, remembering better times. Thinking how they had gone from vowing to be together forever to the sheets of paper in his hands. Hotch didn`t realize how long he just looked at the paper, but at some point in time Reid had returned to the room.

"Hotch? Are you okay?"

"Hmm. Yeah, I`m fine. How did it go with Lila?"

"You don`t look fine, you look upset, and it went great. She is in town this week and we are going to dinner on Thursday."

Hotch hadn`t managed to fool the young profiler, and there was no point in lying now so he confessed. "Haley filed for divorce."

"Oh, Hotch I`m so sorry." Reid knew very little of Hotch and Haley`s relationship, after all Hotch was a man who kept his personal life to himself. Nevertheless he could tell from the look in his eyes that he still loved her.

"We haven`t been close for a while. We kind of drifted apart. I`ve been staying in a hotel for three months now."

"I-I didn`t know." Reid really didn`t know what else to say at that moment.

Then JJ walked in, unaware of the conversation that was taking place just moments before. Hotch had managed to go back to his usual stoic expression, and Reid still looked sad. JJ didn`t take much notice to Reid`s sadness because he had looked the same when she had left. Nevertheless, even though she wasn`t a profiler, she was one of Hotch`s closest friends, and she could see the hurt and sadness in his eyes.

"What`s going on Hotch?"

"Haley filed for divorce, and she wants permanent custody of Jack."

By now JJ knew that he wasn`t just sad and hurt, he was afraid. She had never seen Hotch fear anything before. He was afraid of losing his son. Afraid of never seeing Jack again. "I`m sorry. If there`s anything I can do." As she said this, she realized there was something she could do, or at least try to do, to make him feel better.