The Internet Is Forever

A week later they were off to Boise, Idaho on another case. Three young women had gone missing in the last six months, each taken from their homes with no signs of forced entry. They assumed the women were dead and knew they had used social networking sites. Due to that they would take Garcia with them.

On the plane Rossi asked, "Can somebody explain to me the appeal of these sites?" no-one could explain the appeal. They were all private people due to the very nature of their job that they didn't really use facebook, twitter etc. Morgan said the UnSub had probably talked themselves into these women's homes before he took them in order to discover security details.

When they reached the local police station they met Detective Fadha. Hotch ordered them to conduct interviews of those close to the missing women.

Emily was interviewing one of their boyfriends and showed him pictures taken from his girlfriend's home. They were informed the pictures had been switched around. Emily and Morgan went over to the house to discover the reason. They stepped up to see and saw equipment that bad been there to hang something. "Cameras," Emily said. "He put up video cameras."

"Damn," Morgan answered while she sped dialled the boss. She filled him in on what they found. From that they learn the knew everything about them and their daily routine. Garcia discovered there were live videos during the murders of these victims. He wants an audience Dave stated so why did he take the bodies when he left.

Garcia got to work on tracing the post back to the murderer. Unfortunately he left a paper trail that leapfrogged continents he must be some sort of computer specialist. Reid discovered there is a visual connection to these women. They all reflected the UnSub.

They went through the profile with the police. She stayed close to Morgan. While working she preferred to stay close to her professional partner rather than her boss. It helped control her desire for her life partner. Him at work really turned heron and she couldn't have that when they were working o job and there were innocent women to save. Her love for him couldn't get in the way.

Garcia later noticed another leapfrogging video similar to the previous one. They tuned in to watch and as they saw the UnSub storm into a woman's house and strangle her in front of her eyes Emily stepped closed to her lover in horror who put his hand on her shoulder. They tried to keep their intimate touches to the bare minimum while on a case. That didn't cancel out when they were out at the hotel though. They would sneak into each other's rooms. It would remind them of the excitement of their relationship before they had babies together. They wanted to keep the spark alive. He didn't want to wake up one day and find her gone with the twins like Haley had done. That was his greatest fear. Haley had really done a number on his heart and over the past year he'd been trying to open up again to Emily as he loved her more than anything. She also had trust issues that she'd been dealing with during their relationship. Now they had a bond that could never be severed; Alexia and Eliza.

While his Penelope freaked out Morgan tried to calm her.

"I want to see him suffer!" Garcia screamed in frustration.

"He wills, I promise you that, baby doll, "he answered assuring her. No-one made his sweet, innocent girl watch that. He just wanted to get this bastard and take her home as soon as possible. They'd been sneaking around like Emily and Hotch. Everyone knew Emily and Hotch were doing so while on cases even if they were settled with children at home.

Emily and Morgan headed over to the home of the latest victim. They were trying to look for cameras. They found a fibre optic cable. They worked out the UnSub had brought his own cord into her home because he needed bandwidth to stream his video. Where were the bodies though? Could he work in internet installation? Could he be installing his own cable while casing their homes Emily thought?

Reid and JJ went off to the cable company for a name. They discovered one Matt Jones had been hoarding cable and making unauthorised calls when he worked there. Garcia also went about doing a search and pulled out one Robert Johnson who had spent time inside for producing torture videos. Since he wasn't using his real name she set about finding his hacker handle. She claimed that's how the FBI found her and promised she would find him. It turned out to be Watcher 89. Having discovered it she pulled up the online profiles he was watching. Spencer worked out the only one that matched was a Lucy Masters.

Emily and Derek headed to the woman's house. Hotch trusted Morgan with his partner but he hoped to God she came back unharmed. As soon as they stepped in a computer monitor snapped on showing Lucy hanging from a meat hook. He noticed a camera on the wall.

"He's recording us," he whispered to Emily and into his wrist walkie-talkie. Hotch had to admit he did get jealous whenever men were close to her but he trusted them both. She would never do anything to hurt him or be unfaithful to him and Morgan was undoubtedly Garcia's. He wondered when they would tell the team. They probably all guessed anyway. Only he and Emily had seen their kiss.

Garcia magnified the wall behind Lucy. Oh my god! Was that what she thought it was? What a sicko!

"It's a walk-in freezer," Rossi stated. He had a feeling where it was. One of the men who was suspected of watching the murder video was a grandfather who owned a store which sold such equipment. Unfortunately he claimed he had done nothing wrong and the only way to gain the information was to threaten to publicise his arrest and his grandkids would search Google only to hear horrible things about Grandpa.

Garcia blocked the video feed in time to save Lucy's life. Emily and Rossi heard him scream in anger and charged into the freezer. She recoiled inside when she saw all the other women on meat hooks. How could he do that to these poor women? She was even more thankful that she'd lied to the Viper about owning a facebook page.

"What do you see when you look at them?" Emily asked.

"My followers?" he answered.

Rossi led him out handcuffed and she escorted out Lucy. After checking out how Lucy was she headed back to Hotch. She headed back to her Aaron. Now the case was over they could be Aaron and Emily again rather than Hotch and Prentiss. The way they preferred. Tomorrow they would go back to the children. She sure missed the twins and Jack. Allie and Ellie would be six months old soon. She couldn't believe she'd spent half a year a mother.

She joined him that night in his hotel room. She moved her stuff from her room that night and into his. As they lay in each other's arms he turned to her.

"What is it?" he asked.

"Can you believe they're nearly six months already?" she answered stroking his chest.

"No, I can't. Thank you, Emily."

She looked up at him confused. "For?"

"Saving my life." She looked even more puzzled. He loved the look on her face. She looked so dam cute. "If you hadn't pulled me back from the abyss I don't know if I would be here now..." he gulped. "And lord knows if Jack would be."

She tried to control the tears that were welling up behind her eyes. She just didn't want to think of a world without Hotch. "We would have saved him, Aaron."

"I have no doubt of it."

"But?"

"But how would he have been? He could have been an orphan or fatherless!"

"Aaron," she said looking up at him. "Don't go there. You're still here and he isn't. Thank god you are! A world without Agent Aaron Hotchner is unthinkable."

He smiled softly at her and she crawled up him to claim his lips for her own. He kissed her back. They were soon making love. They woke up the next morning in each other's arms. They had to get up for the flight back to Quantico.

"Do you think they'll come out when we get home?" she asked.

"Who?" he answered confused.

"Garcia and Morgan. They've been dating for what a month now."

"We didn't tell the team for two months."

"True but it's not like people won't see them coming. They've been flirting from when I first knew them."

"Even before then."

"Did anyone see us coming?"

"Who knows," he shrugged.

"I don't know if I want to find out."

He smiled at her and they headed down to join the team. They headed out to the jet and on there the recognised couple snuggled up to each other. Meanwhile Morgan was sitting with Garcia. Everything was right in the world. He couldn't ever lose Emily; she was the half that made him whole.

When they got home they found their children coming up to greet them. The twins smiled when they saw him just like Jack. They loved that their little girls recognised them and it melted their hearts. There would never be a day when they didn't recognise them; they promised each other. She still owned the flat though just rented it out. A young couple currently lived there as their first home. They paid a good amount of money to stay there.

A few weeks later they were at home when the twins turned to them. They were cuddled up to see each other while Jack was sitting on the floor drawing.

Suddenly Alexia said, "Dada." A SPLIT SECOND Eliza copied her sister. Alexia was definitely the most dominant twin. Eliza always copied her. Emily smiled at their father as their first word was for him. He beamed back with pride then turned to his daughters.

Jack looked up and said, "Daddy, they said your name."

"Yes, they did, buddy," he smiled at him.

Jack knew that though he was now a big brother daddy still loved him very much and he was still very important to him and his happiness. He knew he was also very important to Emily even if she wasn't his real mummy. He wondered if he could call her mummy. Would she like that? Would it upset mummy?

"What is it, buddy?" Aaron asked noticing Jack had gone quiet.

"Nothing," he answered looking down. He didn't want to bring his mummy up in front of hi m and Emily.

Aaron worried about him as he knew it wasn't nothing. He got out of his comfortable position with Emily and moved to the armchair putting Jack on his lap. Jack buried his head into his dad's chest and Aaron wrapped his arms around him.

"Now, what is it, buddy?"He whispered. "Remember you can tell me anything."

"If I called Emily mummy would it hurt mummy," he answered playing with his fingers. Aaron's heart swelled at those words. Jack wanted to call Emily mummy and was worried it would upset Haley even though she was dead. He would never forget Haley Aaron made sure of that. He'd told him that mummy had gone away but would be watching over him from above.

"You want to call Emily mummy?" he whispered smiling.

He nodded looking up at his daddy. "But I don't want to upset mummy. Will I forget her if I call Emily mummy? I don't want her to look down and be sad."

He hugged him even closer. "Jack, it won't upset mummy if you call Emily mummy it will make her happy. It will show her that you have a new mother figure in your life; that you love my girlfriend like a mummy. You'll never forget her Jack." He added stroking his hair, "I'll make sure of that."

"Really?" he smiled up at him.

"Really," Aaron answered kissing his hair.

"So can I call Emily mummy?"

"Why don't you ask her, buddy?" Aaron asked smiling up at her. She smiled back at them. Jack got up jumped off his daddy's lap and jumped onto the couch next to Emily.

"Emily?"He asked.

"Yes sweetie," she answered.

"Can I call you mummy? Daddy says I can but I have to ask you."

Tear swelled up in her eyes and she smiled at him. She was so touched he wanted to call her mummy after being in his life for a year. She knew she loved him like her own son. "I'd love that, sweetie..." she nodded. "Yes, you can call me mummy." He beamed at her and Aaron gave her the dimples. Oh man, was he gorgeous when he did that? She kissed Jack's hair then tickled him causing him to giggle.

She heard the twins giggling and saw that Aaron was now on the floor tickling them too. They smiled at each other while continuing to tickle the children. There was no sound better than their laughter. They couldn't contain their laughter anymore and joined in with their children.

Soon Jack was kicking his legs and pleading, "Stop it, mummy. Stop it or I'll need the little boy's room."

She let go and he ran to the bathroom while they laughed.

"How are their nappies?" Emily asked

He took a whiff and looked up at Emily like he'd smelled something unpleasant. "In need of a change," he answered while she laughed.

They picked one of them up each and placed them on their baby mats on the table. They took off their trousers; luckily they didn't have skirts to deal with. They undid their nappies and threw them away. While they were wiping their bottoms Jack ran in and giggled. Served them right for tickling them so bad.

"Are you laughing at us, buddy?" Aaron asked.

"No, "he answered holding his hands behind his back and shifting his feet.

"Tickled you a little too hard, didn't we, sweetie?" Emily defended.

He nodded enthusiastically and smiled at her. He then looked at his daddy and looked down. He didn't know whether he was mad at him for laughing at them and lying to their faces. Daddy knew he was lying; he always did. Was he in trouble?

Aaron left Eliza to deal with his son who he knew was worried whether he was in trouble. He crouched down and put his hands on his shoulders. He bent down to look up into Jack's face. Jack tried to avoid his father's eyes scared of what he'd see there.

"Jack, look at me," he said gently.

Jack looked at him with worry and sadness in his eyes. He hated to disappoint his daddy or make him mad at him. He wanted to be the best son his dad could have. Little did he know Aaron already felt he was and nothing was going to change that?

"I'm not mad at you ok. Emily and I are the naughty ones here..."

"Mummy, "Jack corrected and Aaron smiled up at Emily who smiled back.

"Mummy and I are the naughty ones. We shouldn't have tickled you lot that much..."

"Yer, you shouldn't have," he smiled cheekily then looked down and added, "We wet ourselves." He looked down embarrassed and disappointed. He'd missed the bathroom on his way there and he was very upset about it. He was a big boy and big boys didn't wet themselves. He'd disappointed his daddy; his superhero.

"Jack?" he asked gently. He nodded while tears welled his eyes. He was angry at himself and disappointed in himself too. Only his sisters wet themselves and they were babies. He wasn't a baby!

"Yes daddy," he answered quietly.

"Did you make it to the bathroom in time?"

He shook his head and started crying while Aaron hugged him even tighter. "I'm so sorry, daddy," he cried trying to repress his tears. Big boys didn't cry either. Aaron pitied his son while Emily felt guilty. She hadn't meant for him to miss the bathroom. He was obviously very upset about it and thought it was his fault. It wasn't his fault it was hers! If she hadn't tickled him so hard he wouldn't have been so desperate. "I'm a big boy I swear."

"Hey, hey, buddy, we know you're big boy. It's not your fault. It was an accident."Aaron assured him.

"But only babies wet themselves. I'm not a baby."

"We know you're not a baby, buddy. It was just an accident. You were so desperate you missed that's all. It happens to the best of us."

"Has it ever happened to you, daddy?" if it had happened to daddy maybe it was ok. Anything that happened to daddy could happen to him.

Aaron understood the reasoning behind it but hoped that not all that had happened to him would happen to Jack. He didn't want anything to harm him and certainly didn't want to pass on his nightmares. He didn't want Jack's first wife to walk out on him, for him to be held at gunpoint shortly before his first child's birth or to be strangled soon after that child was born for example.

"Yes buddy, it did a few times," he answered. He would never tell him how his father reacted and neither would he show him. He shuddered inwardly at the memory of the whacks he would get and subconsciously touched his ear. He knew from his tone that daddy wasn't lying to make him feel better. He even looked sad but he could see he didn't want to talk about it so he hugged his daddy tighter. "I don't want you to be sad," Jack whispered. Aaron smiled up at him.

"As long as you're around I won't be sad," he assured him.

"I'm not going anywhere, daddy."

"I know, buddy...Now, let's get you cleaned up ok."

He nodded and took his father's hand. Aaron took him to the bathroom and they washed his legs while throwing his trousers and underpants in the laundry bin. Emily meanwhile had put the girls back on the floor and went to clear the puddle he'd created. She felt guilty for Jack wetting himself. She'd also noticed the sadness and subconscious way Aaron had touched his ear during his confession. She knew it had something to do with his father. She knew he'd been an abused child.

When he came out he let Jack change his bottoms while he stayed with him. He was not going to let Jack think he was disappointed in him. It was a pure and simple accident. Jack needed his assurance right now; his comfort. Jack needed to know his dad wasn't mad at him.

When he'd changed he asked, "Daddy?"

"Yes Jack," he answered.

"Can I go back to my sisters now?"

"Of course," he smiled.

He smiled and ran back to care for them. On his way out Aaron found Emily mopping the floor looking guilty. He knew she felt responsible for Jack's mishap.

He wrapped his arms around her and kissed her neck. "It's not your fault, either," he said.

"I shouldn't have tickled him so hard," she answered.

"Then we're both at fault...i tickled the twins just as hard. Em, it was an accident. It wasn't intentional. You'd never do that to him on purpose."

She smiled softly at him then whispered, "You touched your ear." He looked at her confused. "While confessing to Jack you used to wet yourself you touched your ear." He looked down and she felt guilty. "You don't have to tell me," she assured kissing his dark hair.

"My father used to hit me around the head whenever I did it," he explained shuddering.

"Oh Aaron," she answered hugging him while he laid his head on her shoulder. "I won't let anyone hurt you ever again."

"I trust you."

"I know."

They kissed then rejoined the children. They soon discovered another BAU baby was to be born this year. JJ was expecting her second child in seven and a half months. Everyone was excited for her, Will and Henry. Garcia did feel slightly jealous but Morgan assured her they would have a baby in time. They both wanted children but their relationship was still relatively new. They would come out after the next case.