Author's note: Sorry about the last chapter! I typed it on my kindle fire and auto correct screwed it up. I went through and believe that I corrected everything. Sorry about the confusion!
Morgan and JJ were sitting on the floor playing Monapoly.
"Whatcha guys playing?" Reid asked, walking over.
"Monopoly," Morgan mumbled, rolling the dice and moving his piece across the board.
Reid sat next to JJ. "Can I play?"
"Sorry Spence but the game is for kids age five and up, see?" JJ apopagized then showed him the box.
"Nobody ever pays attention to that," Reid said.
"Well we do," Morgan pointed out, getting iritated.
"Please?" Reid begged.
"No," Morgan growled. "And besides, we already started the game."
"So?"
"So it wouldn't be fair since we already bought over half of the propurties."
"I don't care."
"Well I do!" Morgan yelled, his pacintice running darngerusly thin.
"I wanna play!" Reid wailed.
"Too bad!"
Reid threw the Monapoly board, pieces flying across the room.
"Reid!" Morgan screamed, then chased his younger brother through the house.
"Daddy! Daddy!" Reid cried as he saw the man standing in the kitchen. He dove behind Hotch's legs for protection.
Hotch instanly grabbed Morgan before he could tackle Reid. "Derek, what is going on?"
"JJ and I were playing Monapoly and Reid threw the board and-!"
"Well they wouldn't let me play!" Reid interupted.
"So what?! You don't just go and throw the board!"
"What happened next Derek?" Hotch asked.
"I chased him! That's it!"
"He was gonna hurt me!" Reid wailed.
"Well that's what you get for ruining our game!"
"Derek Morgan! You do not hurt your brother!" Hotch growled.
"But I didn't hurt him!" Morgan cried.
"You were about to," Hotch pointed out.
"But I still technicly didn't hurt him!"
"I don't care. You are on time out. Go stand in a corner."
"You aren't even going to do anything to him?!" Morgan yelled, outraged, pointing to Reid. Reid was still clinging to Hotch's legs.
"What I do or don't do to him is none of your consern. Now, go stand in the corner." Hotch said again.
"This isn't fair! He never gets in trouble! No matter what he does, he never gets in trouble! I chase him, and I get a time out. He flings a board across the room and he gets off scott-free! This isn't FAIR!" Morgan stompped his feet with each word of the last part. He was in full tantrum mode now, beyond the point of reason.
"Get up to your room, NOW!" Hotch ordered.
Morgan let out another scream of frustration and stompped up the stairs to his room and slammed the door.
Hotch ran his hands down his face. This was going to be a long day. He sighed and glared down at Reid. "Reid. Your butt. That corner. NOW! And don't move untill I say you can!"
Reid hurried over to the corner Hotch was pointing at and faced the wall. Time outs sucked but he was happy not to be Morgan right now.
"Daddy! JJ stole my doll!" Emily hollered from the basement.
Hotch let out a groan. "Don't move!" Hotch ordered Reid before heading towards the stairs.
When he got downstairs he saw Emily and JJ playing tug-of-war with a doll.
"It's mine!" JJ yelled.
"Well I had it first!" Emily argued.
"Girls, girls, girls! Calm down." Hotch said, jogging over and crouching next to them. "What happened?"
"I was playing with the doll and JJ went and took it from me!" Emily whined.
"But it's my doll!" JJ pointed out.
"So?! I still had it first!" Emily pouted.
"Emily, did you ask JJ if you could use her doll?" Hotch asked.
"No," Emily confessed.
"We ask before taking, right?"
Emily nodded.
"That's right. Now say your sorry." Hotch ordered.
"Sorry JJ for taking the doll without asking," Emily apologized.
"It's okay Em," JJ replied.
"May I please play with it, now?" Emily asked.
JJ nodded and handed her the toy.
"What do you say?" Hotch prompted Emily.
"Thank you," Emily said, and started playing with the doll again.
"Good girl," Hotch praised, patting her back before standing up.
"Daddy, do you wanna play with us?" Emily asked.
"Sorry sweetheart but I gotta go check on your brothers," Hotch apologized.
"Please Daddy?" Emily begged, flashing him her big brown eyes.
Hotch smiled. "Alright. I'll play with you, but first I need to check on your brothers. I'll be right back."
Hotch walked into the kitchen and saw that Reid had not moved from his spot.
Reid turned at the sound of footsteps. "Daddy, can I get off timeout yet?"
"That depends, are you done throwing game boards?" Hotch asked.
Reid nodded.
Hotch nodded and walked over to the toddler. "Can I have an apology?"
"Sorry Daddy for throwing the board," Reid replied.
Hotch smiled. "Alright buddy, you can get off timeout now."
"Thank you," Reid said, hugging Hotch's legs.
"Come on kiddo. You gotta clean up the mess you made in the living room." Hotch told him.
Reid nodded and scurried off as Hotch headed towards Morgan's bedroom.
"Derek?" Hotch called as he knocked on the boy's bedroom door.
"Go away Hotch," Morgan growled.
Hotch winced. He knew that Morgan was really mad at him when he called him 'Hotch' and not 'Daddy'. "Derek, please may I come in?"
Morgan didn't answer so Hotch just went in anyways. He saw Morgan laying on his stomach on his bed, flipping through a magazine. He didn't even look up when Hotch walked in.
Hotch walked over and knelt down next to Morgan's bed. "I want to apologize. I'm sorry I lost my temper with you for a second. It wasn't right of me. But Spencer did get punished. I try to treat you kids equally. I'm sorry you feel that I favor Spencer but I don't mean to."
Morgan sighed and closed the magazine before looking up at Hotch. "It's fine. I'm sorry for acting like a spoiled little brat. I just got more and more frustrated. I'm sorry."
Hotch smiled. "It's fine Derek. And thank you for accepting my apology. Now, you wanna go downstairs and play dolls with the girls?"
Morgan laughed. "Yeah. I guess you shouldn't have to suffer by yourself. I still can't believe Prentiss would play with dolls. She seems more like a 'toy guns' kind of girl."
"You learn alot about a person's personality by the way the acted when they were little." Hotch stated as they walked down the stairs to the ground floor before heading towards the basement.
In the basement the girls ran up to them and said, "We changed our minds. Now we are playing 'Princesses'!"
Morgan and Hotch just shrugged and put on the tiaras. They would do anything to make their girls smile.