"Aaron – Stop the car!" They had been driving less than 10 minutes when Rossi suddenly made the demand.
"Dave? What's wrong? Are you okay?" Hotch asked, concerned. He had been driving the lead SUV down the country road headed towards the main highway.
"Aaron, stop the car – Right now!" The demand was repeated.
"What?" Hotch questioned, turning his head to look at an agitated Rossi who was sitting next to him in the front passenger seat.
"You heard me – Stop The #$%^* Vehicle!" Rossi glared at him.
"Okay – Okay! Give me a minute to pull over onto the shoulder." Hotch turned on his right turn signal and pulled onto the narrow shoulder of the road. He noted in his rearview mirror that behind him Morgan was doing the same thing.
Rossi opened the door on his side and started to climb out of the vehicle.
"Dave, what is going on?" JJ asked, concerned. "Where are you going?"
"Hey, Rossi, Man, what is going on?" Morgan's voice came over the speakerphone. "Are you okay?"
"I have been an idiot!" was the emphatic reply. "I'm not walking away from this. I married her once and walked away and I'm not doing that again. Maybe it won't work out – But maybe it will. I need to take that chance."
"You're not planning on walking all the way back to the house now, are you?" Hotch asked with a glimmer of a smile.
"Well - " Rossi looked around at the dense woods surrounding them.
"You can't exactly call a cab," Lewis's amused-sounding voice came over the speakerphone.
"Actually, he could call a cab," Reid's voice joined the discussion. "However, it would have to come all the way up here from Reno and – "
"Get back in and let me drive you," Hotch interrupted, grinning at the determined suitor. "It's the least I can do."
"Have to make sure the prospective husband is returned in one piece," JJ added happily.