Author's Note: Special thanks to jenny crum, p95000, beaglelover719 (me, too!), and Misalsson (thank you!) for the reviews. Bonus four on this one because two are related.

SONG PROMPT #28 – HOTCH/HENRY

"To Be Your Hero" - Steps

He's a Mama's boy. There's nothing he wouldn't do for her if she asked, including picking up his toys. He loves his dad, too. His daddy is his hero and he tells everyone all about him and how he's a "police copter." He adores his step-brother. He wants to be just like him, watching the same shows and playing with the same toys. He likes his step-dad, too, but he's not sure about the man who says very little and always looks intense.

But when the five-year-old goes for his first swimming lesson, his step-dad is the only one he wants, shunning his mom, dad, and brother for the strong arms of the man who rarely smiles, but always makes him feel safe and loved. He misses the wistful look in his mother's eyes, the sadden ones in his father, and the amused ones in his brothers. His eyes are only on the man whose arms he is in as he begins his water adventure, and his step-father's eyes are only on him.

SONG PROMPT #29 – JJ/HOTCH

"I'm Not The One" - New Found Glory

He knows he shouldn't be doing this. He knows this is wrong. He's her boss and she has a boyfriend. But he hears her moans as he kisses up her bare stomach and he knows there's no stopping. Their skin glides against each other, igniting mini-fires. No one has every felt so right beneath him. He knows that she'll rush out of here early tomorrow morning with a simple apology, but right now, he only cares that she's with him and that she feels so good around him. He holds her close as they come down from euphoria, trying to memorize the way she smells, she tastes, she feels, and praying that he will have her again someday.

SONG PROMPT #30 – JJ/HOTCH & ROSSI/PRENTISS (sort of)

"Scar" - Missy Higgins

"What are you looking at?" Hotch asked, walking up behind JJ in the middle of the bar. He handed her a beer, taking a sip of his own. He grabbed her hip with his free hand and pulled her against him.

She leaned her head against his shoulder, allowing him to rock them slightly. "I'm watching Emily make a big mistake."

"Hm," Hotch replied, snaking his hand under her shirt and across her stomach. He watched as Prentiss shook her head to a question Rossi whispered in her ear. Rossi pulled away, looking dejected.

"They've been flirting for months and now that Dave's finally ready to ask her out, she's telling him no," JJ explained further.

Hotch kissed her temple. "Well, they are teammates and he does have a bit of a reputation."

"And what if we had let that stop us? What if I had said no because you're my boss and because your reputation says your cold and distant?" she asked him, sharply.

He shuddered, thinking of everything they would have missed over these last few months, the happiest months he could remember. He kissed JJ's cheek before releasing her. "I'm going to go have a chat with Emily."

"What did you say to her?" JJ asked him at the end of the evening as she watched Prentiss and Rossi leaving together.

Hotch shrugged as he smiled mischievously. "I just told her how things could have been."

SONG PROMPT #31 – JJ/HOTCH (Follow-up to Song Prompt #29)

"You Make Me Wanna" - Blue

She hears him sigh just a little bit when she slips from his arms. He never says how much it kills him that she won't stay the entire night, that she always goes back to him. She knows it's not fair to any of them, but she doesn't quite know how to get off the road she's on. She thinks it should be easy, that she should just follow her heart, but that's just not reality. Reality is policies and boyfriends and kids. Reality is hard and with everything in her life, she just wants easy for a change.

She pauses at the doorway, watching as he pulls the blankets around him just a little tighter. She wipes away the few tears that fall, wanting to wrap her arms around him and hold him close until morning. She wonders just how much longer she can keep lying to him, to her boyfriend, to herself that she hasn't fallen deeply in love with him. She gasps when she sees a tear fall from his eye, a tear he won't wipe away so she can go on believing he's asleep and it breaks her heart.

With new determination, she slips back out of her clothes. She crawls into bed and kisses away his tears. She holds onto him with a fierceness that surprises them both, but tonight she's going to prove to him that she's no longer walking away. Tonight their story truly begins.