Emily tightened her hand around the older man's as they walked up the house's front steps, her eyes staring at the unopened door. "Are you sure I should be here? Maybe I can go wait in the car or something."

"Don't worry Emily, it's ok. I just need to get Jack's bear back before he has an attack."

The brunette shivered. "I'm not sure."

Jack looked up from his shoes to look at the brunette agent at his side. "Was wrong, MiMi?"

Emily gave a quick smile down to the young boy. "Nothing honey, everything's alright."

"Why is you neverous?"

"Nervous, honey," she nodded. "I just don't know your grandma Aggie that well, so I don't really know if she'll like me or not."

Jack smiled wide. "Granny Aggie loves everyone!"

Emily's head spun at the sound of the front door opening, and her eyes immediately widened at the sight of the older woman before her.

"Hello Jack!" The blue eyed woman grinned down to her grandson before gesturing for the three to walk beyond the front door. "Why don't you and your daddy go get your bear, sweetheart? It's right in the guest room where you left it."

Hotch gave a quick kiss to his date's cheek before chasing after his son, making sure he didn't break anything on his way to the room.

Agitha smiled gently to the frightened looking woman in her living room and held out her hand. "I'm Haley and Jessica's mother. You can call me Aggie."

Emily bit her lip, shaking the older woman's hand. "Hello Aggie, I'm Emily."

"Come sit."

The younger woman let out a breath as she sat down beside the blond, running her hands down her thighs. "I'm so sorry to just drop in on you like this, I didn't know we were coming. We were in the car on the way to the zoo and Jack just really wanted his bear."

"He loves that bear," Agitha laughed. "It was his favorite present his mother gave him."

Emily slowly nodded her head, her tongue swiping over her bottom lip. The pair fell quiet.

Agitha looked to the brunette woman. "May I tell you something Emily?"

"Of course."

The blond woman inched closer, placing a hand over the agent's tapping fingers. "Jack will never see you as his mother."

Emily's jaw practically dropped at the older woman's statement. "I beg your pardon?"

"His mother was his mother, the best mother," she grinned. "And no one, especially you, will ever replace her. Aaron deserves another woman, and good for him for going out and getting one, but no one he picks will ever live up to my Haley."

The doe eyed woman glared at her favorite little boy's grandmother and yanked her hand from hers, pointing accusingly at the blond. "Now you listen here, Agitha. I have never once done anything to try and take over Haley's place in Jack's heart. I had met her dozens of times and I know how amazing of a woman she was, and such a beautiful mother to that little boy. You don't get to tell me what you think of me after only five seconds of knowing me. I love that little boy like he's my own, but I certainly know he's not. I am not his mother, and I would never ask him to replace Haley like that." Her eyes stung with tears at the thought of her favorite little boy calling her 'mommy'. "Just because I'm dating Aaron does not mean that you get to shit all over me like you're doing."

"You watch your mouth, Emily. That language is disgraceful."

"Disgraceful? The way you're acting is disgraceful. Despicable, even." Emily stood from the couch. "You do not know me, and you do not know anything about Aaron's and I's relationship, or Jack and I's relationship. Don't you judge me before knowing who I am, or what I can do for those two."

Agitha raised a brow to the brunette. "You think you can be a mother? Give them the love that my Haley could?"

"I know I can," she grinned. "I'm certainly no Haley, but I'm a damn good Emily-freaking-Prentiss and that's who I plan on being."

Hotch came around the corner, Jack quietly standing by his side with his bear clutched to his chest. "Emily? Ready to go?"

Emily smiled to her two favorite boys before she glanced back to the solemn looking woman on the couch. "If you'll excuse us, we have a date to get to."

The blond boy jumped into the air. "Zoo!"

Emily nodded, taking the little boy's hand and walking him outside. "Let's get to the zoo, buddy."

Once in the car, Hotch looked to the younger brunette at his side. His hand held onto hers as they drove out onto the road, his coarse thumb rubbing smoothly over her knuckles. "I heard what was going on in there."

The brunette looked hesitantly to her date. "You did?"

"Only some of it, but enough." He nodded to the younger woman. "You stood up for yourself very well."

"Thank you, I thought so too." She bit her lip. "No offense Aaron, but I didn't know your mother-in-law was such a witch."

Hotch slowly shook his head, knowing the brunette would have used another word if his son weren't in the car with them. "She has never acted like that before."

"So I'm the one that brings out the worst in her?" Emily let out a sigh, her fingers intertwining with the older man's. "Great."

"None of what she said was right or ok to say, and you know that none of it was true."

Emily immediately nodded. "No, I know."

Hotch slowed the car's speed down at least ten mph to make it safer to look at the beautiful woman at his side. "Don't you think for a second that I won't want to date you now because of something horrid my mother-in-law said. I've pined after you for too long to let you go."

The brunette woman glanced at her date, her eyes watering at his sweet words. "You've pined after me?"

"For years."

Emily let out a shaky breath before leaning over the gear shift and kissing the older man's cheek. "You're too sweet."

"And somehow with all of your beauty, you could never be too stunning." He smiled over to his date and stepped on the gas. "Now enough pouting. Let's get to the zoo."

Emily gave a small laugh, kissing her date's coarse fingers. "Let's get to the zoo."