this is the last chapter...sorry I didn't upload sooner but had internet problems!

Chapter Eleven

Hotch couldn't believe it was already a year. It had been a year since he lost his best friend. Hotch was walking towards Rossi's tomb when he saw Ashley getting everything ready.

"Hey, how are you?" Hotch said handshaking hands with her.

"Just hanging there! It has really been tough and adding the fact that I can't go anywhere without Kier crying for me to stay."

"How are the other kids taking it?" Beth asked.

"They're doing better than Kier and me!" She said looking at her kids playing with Jack, Lyn and Mab. "I said I wasn't going to cry but I don't know if I can. You know he liked to play with them and every Friday they would make a tent outside and spent the night there."

Hotch saw that the team was arriving at the same time. The kids said hi and went straight with the other kids. Being the profiler that he was he noticed how close they were. Like the three musketeers but without the three because they were twenty-one kids in total. Yeah, you messed with one you messed with the rest.

That's how they wanted it to be, a united group. Jack as the oldest was the protector and everyone looked up to him. They had stated earlier that Jack would and was the leader of the group. The adults were getting the picnic blankets on the floor so they could get started. After that Ashley started passing the cups with wine while Em gave the kids apple or orange juice.

"I can't drink sweet pumpkin." Garcia said.

"Why not?" Ash asked.

Garcia looked at Kevin, "we're pregnant! We're having a baby!"

"Congratulations!" they all exclaimed.

"Now the team is complete! We just needed the little computer geek." Hotch deadpanned and everybody laughed.

"We meet again!" he said.

"Don't talk to my Momma! Go away!" Chiara said putting herself in the middle of them as tears were rolling down her cheeks.

"I'm sorry!" he said turning red. "I had to stop by today it marks one year of the accident that claimed my wife's life. I was just leaving when I spotted you and wanted to apologize for last week. I was a jerk!"

"I think that we're now even!" Ash said. "I'm sorry it's my husband first anniversary!"

After a few more minutes he left. Ash turned around, "you don't have to be rude to other, did you understand young lady?"

"Yes Momma!" she said turning around and going to play with the other kids.

"Is that they guy you were talking about at the restaurant?" Em asked while Ashley nodded.

One hour passed sitting and talking about David and remembering him that they all got up and packed everything to go to the restaurant and have lunch. Everyone was already hungry. At the restaurant, after having lunch and ordered dessert they started talking about the kids.

"I was thinking," Beth said stopped to drink water, "what if the kids see each other every month at the park and every year on David's anniversary they go 'alone?' I mean adults present but giving them a space to let them be together."

Everybody agreed on that. So every 2nd Saturday of every month they would go to the park and on the day of the anniversary they would go to the cemetery.

Hotch's phone rang and he got up to answer it, "Hotchner."

"This is Detective Nolan from the Raleigh PD. We might have case. In the last two weeks two female cops have shown up dead tortured and raped and that's not all this morning when they found the body we couldn't find Detective Ryan. When we got to her apartment there was a note that said, 'find her if you can!' He has them for four days and then on the fifth day the bodies show up in trash cans we only have three more days to find her alive!"

"We will be there as soon as possible!" Hotch said. After a few minutes they ended the phone call.

Hotch turned around and didn't know how to tell Beth. They had started talking again two months before. He walked to the table.

"Sorry guys but we need to head to the BAU immediately."

"Hotch, another case?" Morgan asked annoyed.

"Beth, I have news to tell you." He said. "The case is in Raleigh. Detective Ryan has been kidnap they believe that it was by the unsub."

"Go Aaron and try to find her alive!" Beth said as tears were forming in her eyes.

The rest of the team got up and were getting ready to leave. Beth got up and walked towards Hotch and gave him a hug, "please save her! She's pregnant Aaron!"

They headed to the BAU to board the plane. When they landed in Raleigh they were waiting for them already. The team was getting exhausted looking for the unsub and it was getting dark already. They found out that it was the brother that had kidnapped Hotch and JJ and was killing cops who resembled the Detective they figured it had to be the same place. The team got there just in time and saved her.

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