A/N: Heyyyy everyone! I would like to thank those that reviewed, they are greatly appreciated! Especially to the ones that always review, it always makes me happy! I also would like to thank Annamarie Joanne Lynnwood for checking this chapter over, thanks hun! I would like to personally thank,

Sammie050301 - I just love getting your reviews! And I apologize for a delay in posting the last chpt (9), I had writer's block, and couldn't find the words to type up lol. And well life also got in the way. Lol but hopefully this chapter makes up for lack of updates. lol.

Guest - No, she's probably going to be the one totally not okay with her dad dating

PAGET - Thanks for the review!

Diana - Yes, sorry for the delay in updates, like I mentioned to Sammie050301 I had writers block, and well life also go in the way too lol. Hopefully the next future chapters won't take as long. As far as Spencer's memory, I couldn't really come up with anything, and I tried to think of something else to put but came up empty. Everything in those memories are all based on true events that actually happened. Hope this next chapter makes up for the lack of updates.

Hopefully this chapter makes up for the last chapter in being delayed in posting, got over 3,000 words (minus the A/N). I hope you enjoy this chapter, and please let me know what you think!

Thanks,

TriciaBean

Chapter 10

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A couple weeks later, things were going pretty good at the Hotchner household. Of course, a few arguments here and there between the kids. Aaron was in the kitchen getting things ready to get dinner started, when Emily came into the kitchen and asked, "Daddy, what are we doing for dinner tonight?"

Aaron looked over at Emily and answered, "Well, I was thinking about letting each of you kids make your own individual pizza, how does that sound for dinner tonight?"

"Really? Make our own pizza? That is awesome!" Emily answered her dad excitedly.

"Alright, well go on up and tell your siblings to go and wash their hands and get ready to come down for dinner," Aaron told her as he got the rest of the toppings out for the pizzas and placed them on the counter.

Emily ran up the stairs and headed into the play room and told the younger three that they needed to wash their hands and to head downstairs, then walked over to Derek's room to relay the same message. All the kids had washed up and went downstairs to meet their dad in the kitchen.

"Okay guys, this is what we're doing, each of you get to make your own pizza," Aaron told them as he placed the small individual pizzas in front of each of the kids. "Emily, Derek, and Penelope, you guys can share the pizza sauce, and JJ and Spencer, I'll help you two with the pizza sauce. You guys can put any toppings you see on the counter on your pizza, so make it however you want it."

All the kids got to working on their pizzas making it the way they wanted it. Aaron took the pizzas once they were done making them and placed them on a couple baking sheets to be put into the oven. Once he turned the oven on, he turned towards the kids and said, "Alright, you guys can go up to the playroom or to your rooms, I'll let you know when the pizzas are ready."

The kids left the kitchen and headed back up the stairs, on the way up Derek asks, "You guys want to play a game while we wait for dinner?"

"Yeah!" The three youngest replied.

"Sounds good to me," Emily replied as they reached the playroom.

Derek walked over to the shelve where the games were at, and asked, "Alright, which game would you guys like to play?"

"Candyland!" JJ suggested.

"Any other suggestions?" Emily asked as she looked at her siblings.

"Hungry hippos!" Spencer decided.

"No, Spence, Candyland!" JJ told him with a scowl on her face.

"Before we get into an argument here," Derek started, as he looked at the twins, then he looked over at Penelope, "Penn, what game would you like to play?"

Penelope looked up at her older brother and said, "I wouldn't mind playing Candyland."

"Okay, what about you Em'?" Derek asked his sister as he turned to face her.

"For sure Candyland, Hungry Hungry Hippos is a bit too noisy," Emily told him.

"That settles it, we'll play Candyland, and next game we play Spencer, we'll play Hungry Hungry Hippos, is that okay with you?" Derek promised his brother.

"Yeah," Spencer replied.

"Okay, let's have a seat around the table then," Derek told his siblings as he grabbed the board game off the shelf.

All the kids sat around the table, and picked out their pieces, and they went ahead and had youngest to oldest for the order of the game. About twenty minutes later, and Penelope in the lead, Aaron called up the stairs for his kids, and told them that dinner was ready. Both Emily and Derek helped the twins wash their hands, and once all the kids had washed their hands, they all headed downstairs into the kitchen.

Aaron had the kids sit at the table while he put their pizzas, which were already cut up, where the kids were going to sit. "Alright kids, after dinner, we'll wash up, clean up our dinner dishes, and then we'll pick a movie out, and have some popcorn, and have family movie night tonight. Derek, Emily, even though you two are still grounded, you'll be able to join in on family night tonight." Aaron told the kids after he sat down in his chair at the table.

The kids just ate their dinner in silence, chatting every now and then about what movie they wanted to watch. Aaron chimed in with the youngest three every now and then when they asked him if they could watch some kid movie, whether it was Frozen, or Tangled, or Tarzan. Aaron told them they would have to see. Once they kids got done, Emily cleared the table, while Derek helped the twins take their plates to the kitchen. Aaron went ahead and loaded up the dishwasher. Both Derek and Emily walked into the living room, when Derek asked her,

"Em', wanna see if dad will let us watch something else?"

"That sounds like a good idea! I'm not sure I'm up for another Disney film to be honest. But we're still grounded, so I'm not sure if dad is going to let us watch a movie by ourselves, unless its family movie night like tonight." Emily told her brother.

"Only way to find out is if we ask. And technically, it's family movie night, and we are family, and we will be watching a movie, just not with everyone else. I can't take another Disney film. I'm really positive that we have seen all the movies like five times now, if not more, thanks to the younger three. Especially the twins." Derek responded as he sat down on the couch.

"This is true," Emily confirmed, then said again, "Okay, I'll go ask dad, and if he agrees than you have to make the popcorn and get the drinks. But if he doesn't than I'll clean your room for a week."

"That sounds like a good deal to me!" Derek told her with a smirk on his face.

"Okay, I'll be right back, I'll go ask daddy," Emily told him as she headed towards the kitchen where she knew her dad was last at.

Walking into the kitchen, Emily seen her dad at the kitchen sink, and went up to him and asked, "Daddy, can I ask you something?"

Aaron looked over at his oldest daughter and said, "Sure, what's up?"

"Well, Derek and I were wondering if it would be okay if we could watch a movie of our own tonight? I know its family movie night, but we don't want to watch a Disney film, and technically we're watching a movie with each other, so it would still be a part of family movie night." Emily asked her dad, as she fidgeted with her fingers.

Giving a sigh, and looking at Emily with a straight face, Aaron replied, "You two are still grounded, you know, that right?"

"Uhm, yeah, we know, it's alright, we'll watch the Disney film," Emily told her dad as she looked down towards the ground and turn to leave the kitchen.

"Emily, I'm not finished," Aaron told her seriously, and waited till she stopped and turned back to face him. "You two are still grounded, and you are correct, it is family movie night. Since you two will be watching a movie together, that would be fine with me. But just this one time, you hear me?"

"Yes, sir," Emily replied, then asked, "So it's okay if we watched a movie separately then?"

"Yes, that's fine with me. You guys can go up to the playroom and watch your movie up there while the younger three and I watch their movie downstairs in the living room." Aaron told her.

"Thanks daddy! I'll let Derek know," Emily told her dad excitedly, then headed out of the kitchen to tell Derek.

Emily walked back into the living room with a big smile on her face and once she seen Derek she said, "Guess what?"

"Uh, what?" Derek asked her.

"Daddy said we could watch a movie upstairs in the playroom, while the rest of them watch their movie down here. So that means, you have to make the popcorn, and get the drinks," Emily answered him, then she headed up the stairs to go pick a movie out.

"Alrighty then," Derek said to her retreating back, and headed into the kitchen to make the popcorn and to get the drinks ready.

About ten minutes later, Derek is heading upstairs with a tray, with a bowl of popcorn, and two drinks on the tray. Walking into the playroom, Derek sees Emily holding a movie, and asks, "Find a movie?"

"Yep, I was thinking we could watch The Messengers," Emily responded as she showed her older brother the movie she picked out.

"Are you sure? You might get scared, and I don't want to have to explain to dad why I let you watch a scary movie," Derek told her, feeling skeptical of letting her watch the movie.

"Come on Derek, please? I'm old enough," Emily told her brother, almost begging him.

"You're not quite old enough, not really. If I let you watch it, then you'll have to explain to dad why we watched this movie." Derek told her as he set the tray down on the table in front of the couch.

"Okay, I won't have any bad dreams, I promise," Emily told him.

"Alright, let's get put this movie on," Derek told her as he took the movie from her hand and went to the DVD player to put the movie in.

Emily went over and shut the lights off once her brother got the T.V. and the movie put in. She then walked back over to the couch to claim her seat and waited for her brother to push play on the DVD remote.

About forty-five minutes to an hour into the movie, both Derek and Emily were engrossed in the movie and occasionally, Emily would jump at certain points in the movie. Derek would often look over at his sister and just smirk at her, knowing that she's going to end up having dreams about the movie tonight, and he just hopes their dad doesn't kill him. Little do they know that Penelope had come up the stairs to use the bathroom and snuck into the playroom to see what her two older siblings were watching.

Penelope ended up watching the T.V. for a good five to ten minutes. She heard her dad calling for her, so she ran to the top of the stairs and said, "Coming daddy!"

Penelope ran down the stairs, a little bit scared of what she had just watched, and she went and sat next to her dad, and Aaron asked her, "What took you so long Penn?"

"Oh, nothing daddy." Penelope told him, as she played part of the movie in her head, a little scared of what she had seen.

"Are you sure?" Aaron asked her, noticing that she wasn't quite watching the movie since she got back.

"I'm sure," Penelope responded, and leaned against her dad to finish watching Hotel Transylvania.

"Okay," Aaron said as he put his arm around his daughter.

About close to two hours later, both movies were close to the end, Derek and Emily's movie ended a bit sooner than the others. When the movie was over, Derek looked over to his sister and said, "Well, what do you think?"

"I wasn't scared one bit!" Emily told her older brother, even though she knew she jumped quite a bit throughout the whole movie.

"Uh huh, I'm sure you're not," Derek replied, then asked, "If you weren't scared of the movie, then why did you jump throughout basically the whole movie?"

Getting red in the face, Emily responded, "I, uh, I didn't jump."

"Sure, you didn't," Derek responded with a smirk on his face, knowing full well that his sister did jump throughout the movie.

"Just in case though," Emily started, feeling a bit nervous, "Could I sleep with you tonight?"

"Emily, I thought you said you weren't scared," Derek told her as he crossed his arms across his chest.

"I wasn't scared," Emily started, "But, just in case I have a bad dream or something, could I?"

"Em', just sleep in your own bed tonight, you'll be fine." Derek told her. When he seen she was about to protest he continued, "But, if you do, and I mean if you do have a bad dream tonight, then you can come to my room."

"Okay," Emily responded, then said, "Thanks Derek."

"Anytime," Derek told her. Then he went and got the DVD out of the DVD player and stuck the c.d. back in its case.

Both Derek and Emily grabbed their stuff and carried it down to the kitchen. Before walking out, Emily made sure to shut the lights off. After making sure they rinsed the popcorn out of the bowl and rinsed their cups out, they went into the living room to watch last five minutes of the Disney film they had on.

As soon as the credits started to roll onto the screen, Aaron took the remote and shut the DVD player off, and had Penelope put the disk back into the DVD case, and he shut the T.V. off. Aaron then turned towards the kids and said, "Alright young ones, it's time for you all the head up to bed. Make sure you guys brush your teeth, and I'll be up to say good night. I'll help JJ and Spencer get ready for bed."

The kids all replied "okay" and headed up the stairs to get ready for bed, while Aaron took the twins to help them change into their pajamas. Once the kids all got ready for bed, Aaron went and said good night to each of the kids. Making sure they were all tucked in, he went to his own room, and got ready for bed himself.

Later during the night, in Emily and Penelope's room, Penelope woke up with a bad dream, and went and woke her sister up. "Em'... Emmy."

Feeling someone shake her shoulder, Emily woke up to Penelope standing next to her bed, she sat and asked, "What Penn? It's really late."

"I... I had a bad dream, I'm scared," Penelope told her nervously.

Emily had scoot over for her sister and said, "Come here, want to tell me about it?"

Penelope climbed into her sister's bed, and sat next to her, and said, "I had a dream that the house was haunted, and that someone was living in our basement, trying to get us."

"Wait a minute," Emily started, then asked, "Did you see part of our movie last night?"

Penelope just looked down at her hands before shyly nodding her head yes. Emily stood up, grabbed her sister's hand and led her to Derek's room. "Emily, why? Why are we going to Derek's room?"

"Because, we have an issue. You weren't supposed to watch that movie. What were you doing watching it?" Emily told her before she opened Derek's bedroom door.

"I just wanted to see what you guys were watching," Penelope told her.

"Ugh, come on, we'll go see Derek," Emily told her as she opened the bedroom door, and dragged her sister in with her.

Once in Derek's room, Emily quietly shut the door, and walked over to her brother's bed and shook his shoulder, "Derek...Derek, wake up."

"Huhh? What's going on?" Derek asked as he sat up, turning his bedside light on.

"We have an issue Derek," Emily told him as she stood in front of her brother, then looked over at Penelope and waved her over to stand next to her.

"What's going on?" Derek asked as he looked at his sisters.

"Well, a certain someone had a bad dream," Emily started, and before she could finish, Derek interrupted and said,

"Emily, I told you, you would end up having a bad dream."

"Derek, it wasn't me, Penelope did." Emily told him as she pointed towards their sister. "She seen part of our movie last night and had a bad dream."

"Penelope," Derek replied, giving a sigh.

"I'm sorry, I just wanted to know what you guys were watching. I couldn't look away, I was too interested in what was on." Penelope told him with tears in her eyes.

Looking over at Emily, Derek said, "You can go back to bed Em', I can take it from here." Then he looked over at Penelope, after watching Emily leave, he said, "Come here Penn."

Penelope walked over and sat next to her older brother and waited for her brother to say something. "Okay, the movie that we had on last night, it's not real. Want to tell me what your dream was about?"

Penelope shrugged her shoulders, and started to fidget with her hands and said, "Well, I just had a dream that our house was haunted, and that there were people in the basement that were trying to get us."

"Penn, nobody is going to get us, and there's especially no one in the basement. I promise, our house isn't even haunted, but if it makes you feel any better would you like to sleep in here tonight? Derek asked her, after reassuring her that there wasn't anybody out to get them.

"Can I?" Penelope replied, then asked, "Are you sure there isn't anyone out to get us?"

"Penelope, I promise, it's just a movie. Which mind I remind you, that you were not allowed to see, no matter how short you saw the film." Derek told her, as he started to lay down, while scooting closer to the wall making room for Penelope to lay down.

"Okay, as long as you're really positive," Penelope told him, as she also laid down next to her brother.

"Yes, I'm really positive, Now let's get back to sleep," Derek told her.

"Okay, I love you Derek," Penelope told him as she snuggled up close to her brother before closing her eyes.

Derek pulled his sister close to him, and said, "I love you too Penn, good night."

Both Derek and Penelope fell back to sleep, and Penelope was able to sleep peacefully the rest of the night next to her big brother.

TBC….

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A/N: I hope you guys all enjoyed this chapter! Got it posted a lot sooner than I have been, so that's a new record! Lol please leave a review and let me know what you all think!

Thanks for reading!

TriciaBean