A/N: I know I promised to post this two days ago but I wasn't reaching a good ending. I wasn't satisfied and I couldn't post something like that. For that, I'm sorry.

This is the last part of We Had It All and it's divided in two parts. One extra chapter, because for me it was still missing something in the last one; and the Epilogue, which I wrote on Emily's POV. For the first time I tried to write in like this and I'm really nervous about it, but I thought it would fit right.

I'd like to thank you all for the suport in this work... I can't even begin to describe how happy the number of reviews and favorites and alerts and PM's and everything made me. I wasn't expecting all that and I'm really proud of this.

I'd also like to thank Christy, my sweet beta. She was passing through some rough patch and because of that my last chapters are still unbeta'd but we're working on this again and I'll repost them soon, I promise. Thank you, Christina, for everything.

Finally, I'd like to tell you that I'm working on the continuation of Undercover Operation and also working on my new fic. It will be posted soon, I promise.

Here is the last part. I love you all, thank you for everything and I hope you enjoy this.

Disclaimer: I don't own CM.

Chapter 25

Emily awoke that morning with a feeling of contentment like she hadn't experienced in a very long time. She stretched herself on the mattress and smiled at the manly smell on the sheets and pillows and the warmth of having shared the bed with someone. She opened her eyes lethargically and turned on her side to greet him a good morning and frowned at the vacancy taking place where he should be.

She sniffed the smell of coffee and smiled again; knowing that he must had woken up earlier and was in the kitchen already. She got up and followed the scent of coffee until the kitchen where she found him leaning against the counter, sipping from his cup. She was going to speak when he chuckled and just then she noticed that he was speaking on the phone.

"Is that right? Oh, I think I'm gonna need some proof of that…" He joked and chuckled again. "Okay, buddy, it's on. Next time you come visit we're going to play and you'll show me if you're really that good now…"

Oh, Jack. Emily sighed quietly at the thought of his son and she knew it would be a big commitment to accept the child of her boyfriend with another woman. She knew that the boy wasn't to blame of anything. He was just a victim, just like her, thrown in the middle of the mess their parents made it. But it didn't make any less hard or awkward having a life-breathing souvenir of what happened in the past.

"Okay, buddy. I love you too… yeah, I'll tell her but you call later to speak with her, okay?" He had his back now turned to her. "Can I speak with your mom?" He asked and Emily bit back another sigh. Of course, Jack would bring Haley along. "Hey… how are you? Oh, she's okay… yeah, she was complaining that our goddaughter was playing with her bladder last night…" He said laughing along with her. "Okay, I'll tell her… is everything okay with you two, do you need something?" He asked and Emily closed her eyes. That was one of the things she loved him the most. The way he was always concerned about those he loved. But at that particular moment she wasn't happy about it. "What news? Are you serious? Wow, I wasn't expecting that… no, of course not, Hay, I want you to be happy… are you happy? Then everything's fine and I don't need to kill anyone…" He chuckled. "I'm really happy for you, Haley, you deserve it. James is a really lucky man… call later to speak with Kitty, I'm sure she'll love to hear the news… okay, bye…" He hung up and turned around, startling a little at the sight of her standing on the doorway.

"Morning…" She greeted him quietly.

"Hey… good morning… how long are you there?" He asked walking towards her.

"A while…" She shrugged accepting his kiss. "Is everything okay?" She asked.

"Yeah… Jack wanted to know how I was and how Kate was doing…" He explained and she hummed at him grabbing a mug and going to the coffee pot. "And Haley wanted to tell me that James proposed…" He completed and she turned at him with wide eyes.

"Wow… that's big…" She told him.

"Yeah… I knew it would happen, just not this soon…" He explained and she nodded.

"Are how do you feel about that?" She couldn't help but fish.

"I'm happy for her… Haley is an amazing woman and she deserves to be with someone who'll make her happy and James seems to do that… he's good for her and he's good with my son, which is my biggest concern. I think everything is just fine now…" He answered her and she nodded slowly at him, looking at her mug. "Sweetheart, come here for a sec…" He held his hand for her and when she took it he went to the dining table and sat at one of the chairs, putting her on his lap. "How do you feel about me having contact with Haley?"

She shivered at his question and avoided his eyes. He caressed her back and waited patiently for her answer. "It's kind of hard, Aaron…" She confessed quietly and he sighed, nodding slowly at her.

"I understand, babe… I really do" He told her caressing her hair. "Unfortunately, I can't just cut strings with her forever. We have a son together and we will have to talk to each other now and then because of him. Kate asked us both to be the godparents of her daughter and that's another tie that we'll have. But, Emily, I swear to you that that's it… we don't have any unresolved feelings between us… she's happy with her fiancé and I'm still not believing that you actually gave me another chance…" He told her leaning in for a kiss. "I promise you, Emily, I'll spend the rest of my days honoring you, trying to make you as happy as you make me by just being here, with me. I can't cut contact with Haley but I can assure you that I never had any intention of coming back to her, even if you didn't have given us this chance…"

She nodded at him and dropped her head on his shoulder. "I can't tell you it'll be easy to know that you still have ties with her… and I can't promise you it'll be easy for me to accept Jack completely…" She told him quietly and she felt him go tense. "I'm not saying I won't treat him right, Aaron… he doesn't have any blame on this, I know it…" She assured him. "It'll just take some time for me to look at him a not see a reminder of what happened… it'll take some time for me to open myself to him too…"

"I understand, sweetheart…" He nodded at her and turned his head to kiss her neck. "Did you sleep well?" He asked.

She hummed at him and snuggled closer to him, burying her face on his neck. "I slept perfect… but it would've been better if you were on the bed when I woke up, though…"

"I'm sorry… I woke up with my phone ringing… mom was calling to ask about Kate…" He explained.

"It's been a while since I spoke with her… how is she?" She mumbled.

"She's fine… misses you, though…"

"Did you tell her? About us?" She asked looking at him and he shook his head.

"No, I figured we should tell her together…" He told her and she nodded in agreement.

They stayed in silence a few minutes, her sitting on his lap and him caressing her back. "Aaron?" He hummed in acknowledgement at her. "Today is Sunday… I have to go back to work tomorrow…" He tightened his grip on her waist.

"I don't want you to go…" He whispered into her hair after a while.

"I don't want to go either but I can't ask Morgan to give me more days off. We're already one man down ever since you left…" She told him quietly and he nodded slowly. "How long do you plan staying here?" She asked him after a while.

"Until two days ago I wasn't actually planning on coming back at all…" He said and she sighed sadly.

"I'm sorry about that… it wasn't fair of me to ask you something like that…" She said running her fingers through his hair and smiling when he moaned slightly at the touch.

"I would do anything for you, Emily. Anything in this world…" He said and she leaned in to kiss him slowly but thoroughly. They kissed lazily for several minutes, forgetting about anything else and just focusing on themselves, on their touches and tastes, on their need and love for each other. "God, I can't believe I'm kissing you again…" He whispered breathlessly when they pulled apart and when she opened her eyes to look at him she gasped soundly at the sight of his tears. "I missed you so much all this time, sweetheart…" He said with a cracked voice. "I tried so hard to forget you… I tried so hard to get you out of my mind, out of my heart but I just couldn't… I thought about you every single day, Emily… I thought about where were you or how were you doing… if you were happy… if you had found someone else… if you still thought about me…" He whispered while brushing his fingertips on her cheek. "There were times when I would give up and just drown myself on our memories… I would remember all our moments together and how we were happy before I ruined everything… I would think about your smile and how it would light up my day every time… I would remember about your taste, how much I loved to kiss you all the time, to the point of you snapping at me to leave you alone…" He said with a chuckle, leaning in to kiss her again. "I would remember about how soft your skin was under my touch and how much I loved when you shivered underneath me when I was making love to you…" He said and smiled when she shivered at the touch of his hand on her bare back, under his shirt.

"Aaron…" She whispered, dropping her head to lean her forehead against his.

"There wasn't a day, in these more than fifteen years, that I didn't think about you, Emily… I never stopped loving you… I never could…" He confessed looking into her eyes.

"Neither did I… no matter how much I wanted to hate you, I just couldn't stop loving you… no one was ever good enough… no one would ever make me feel like you did… I couldn't stop loving you, no matter how much I tried…" She said looking back at him and he captured her mouth again in a deep and needy kiss. She shifted herself so she could straddle his hips and pressed herself closer to him, moaning at the feeling of his desire pressed on her so perfectly in all the right places. She grinded herself against him while his mouth devoured her hungrily, his hands gripping her hips and helping her movements while hers fisted his short her, making him hiss at the pleasurable pain on his scalp. Both of them were so built on each other and their passion that they didn't hear the movement coming from down the hall until a gasp and a shriek made them jump apart.

"Oh my God, my eyes!" Hotch groaned at the sight of his sister covering her eyes standing on the doorframe.

"Just what the hell do you think you're doing up, Kitty?" He asked her while Emily buried her face on his neck, both still breathless from their make-out session.

"I was calling for you but you obviously didn't hear me…" She told him uncovering her eyes and scowling playfully at him. "I'm hungry… your goddaughter is jumping like a kangaroo and I can't find a comfortable position…" She whined.

"Why every time she's annoying you she's suddenly my goddaughter and not your daughter?" He asked her while nudging Emily to get up from his lap, giving her neck one last longing kiss.

"Because her father is not here so you have to fill the male figure sometimes..." She told him. "And because you also annoy the hell out of me so she obviously got this from you…" She completed and he chuckled at her, giving her a kiss on the forehead.

"Mhmm. What do you want for breakfast?" He asked opening the fridge.

"Scrambled eggs, please…" She said sitting by the counter and eyeing Emily smugly. "Good morning, Emily… did you sleep well?"

"Morning, Kate… I did, thank you… are you feeling any better?" Emily asked politely, her hands playing with the hem of Hotch's shirt.

"A little bit, yeah… I must say that I didn't expect you here in this beautiful morning…" She said with a glint of amusement in her eyes and gasped when Hotch smacked the back of her head slightly.

"Leave her alone, you little brat…" He scowled at her before turning to Emily. "I don't have strawberries, but I can make us some banana pancakes. Is that okay?" He asked with a slight smile.

"That's great…" She said quietly with a smile of her own and moaned lowly when he leaned in to give her a small kiss.

"Oh God, you two are not helping with my morning sickness…" Kate groaned rolling her eyes.

"You don't have morning sickness ever since your twelfth week, so shut up…" Hotch said, placing a plate with eggs in front of her along with a cup of orange juice.

She smiled a small thank you at him and started eating while he started the pancakes. "Anna called me earlier. She said she called you first and you told her what had happened…"

"Yeah, I woke up with the phone ringing. She was really worried about you and the baby…" Hotch nodded while mixing the dough.

"By our talk I figured that you haven't told her about you two being together again yet…" She said and he nodded at her. "I was thinking about how things will be from now on, you know, with my bed rest and you two trying again… I don't want to be a weight on your shoulder or a reason for you to be away from each other, Aaron…" She told him and he put the bowl down and looked at her, ready to argue. "No, wait, listen to me…" She raised her hand. "I know you'd never leave me alone here like this and you have no idea how much I love you for that… but also, we have to think that it's just the two of us up here and you still have to work, so I would be pretty much by myself the whole day and I know how much you would be worried at work all the time…" She reasoned with him.

"Okay, you have a point there…" He nodded at her. He wouldn't be able to focus on his job while she was alone at home in a high-risky pregnancy.

"Right… so, I talked to Anna and we came up with a solution… how about if we moved back to Quantico? Anna offered me her guest room, so I would have someone with me all the time. And you would go back to your job, that I know you miss it, and we'd be close to Jack too… and you two wouldn't be apart… I would be on an early maternity leave and my job wouldn't be compromised. While we're in Quantico we could try to get me a permanent transfer but even if we can't, you could just help me move back here after the baby was born…" She explained to him and he nodded to her slowly, while finishing the pancakes.

"Well… it's actually a great idea… Sean could help us moving things back to Quantico and since it's just a three hours trip we wouldn't have to worry with you on a plane…" He said sitting on the table, beside Emily. She took his hand with his and squeezed it and he smiled at her, giving her a light kiss. "I have some contacts and Dave could also help me to get your transfer… it would be the best thing, all of us together… I don't want to be apart from my ladybug…" He told her and Kate smiled.

"Then it's settled. You call Sean and we'll get everything ready in the office…" Kate said excitedly.

"Well, I'll just have to speak with my real state. I think there's a couple living in my old apartment and they have a six month contract… maybe I'll have to use mom's couch for a while…" Hotch said.

"Or… you could stay with me…" Emily said hesitantly.

He dropped his fork and looked at her with wide eyes. "What?"

"You could come and live with me…" She repeated more firmly.

He gaped at her and lost the ability to speak for a few seconds. "Sweetheart, are you sure?"

Emily smiled at him and surprised herself with the truthiness in her words. "I'm sure, Aaron… I meant what I said last night… I'm tired of living without you…" She told him and smiled wider at the sight of his glassy eyes.

"Kitty, cover your eyes…" He said without taking his eyes of her, making both woman laugh. He swallowed Emily's chuckle with a hungry kiss, trying to put on that gesture how much he was thankful for what she was doing, for her big heart and her love for him, even if he didn't deserve it. He kissed her and kissed her again, relishing the fact that he was given a second chance of making things right, of making this woman happy; and he vowed to himself that he would do it. He would spend the rest of his life devoted to her, cherishing her and treasuring her, just the way she deserved it.

EPILOGUE (Emily's POV)

I looked at the man sleeping beside me and smiled. Things weren't easy for us. We went through a lot, both together and apart, and I'd like to think that all of that just made us wiser and stronger.

While I looked at his beautiful face and ran my hands on his naked chest I remembered all the years I spent away from him and how even the happier moments couldn't compare with what I was feeling in that moment.

It had been a little over a year since we started our life together again. The first five weeks weren't easy since he had to take care of everything to move back home with his sister and the team caught a sequence of horrible cases with very little time between. But after a while everything got better with him living permanently with me and back to the BAU, where he belonged.

Despite of what I thought, Strauss didn't make our life a living hell because of our relationship. I'm pretty sure that Dave has something to do with that but I'm not going to question. Things went smoothly and that was much more than what I expected.

Aaron managed to get Kate's transfer to Quantico, back to Counterterrorism, and she bought a very nice house near our apartment after the baby was born. Little Sophie Erin Joyner was born on September 15th and, thankfully, Richard managed to come to meet his daughter.

Aaron, Anna and Jack were all goofy around the newborn and actually fought sometimes for her attention while Kate and I just looked at them amusedly. After her moving we became quite close and I know that the fact pleased Aaron immensely.

After a couple of awkward meetings I found myself enjoying Jack's presence at our home. Aaron never pushed me to anything but the boy is so incredible sweet that I didn't have any other option but start loving him too. He still lives with Haley and her husband but he has his own bedroom at our place and almost all weekends that we're in town he's with us.

My relationship with Haley is polite and amicable but I still can't enjoy her presence in our lives and I don't think I'll ever will. Aaron understands and also avoids spending any time with her other than the necessary because of Jack and sometimes Sophie, and for that I'm incredible thankful.

Our relationship had its ups and downs during the past year. Sometimes we fought because of my insecurities or his guilty and even because of the job. Thankfully we finished all of those fights with a very delicious make-up session of lovemaking.

Five months ago, Aaron surprised me with a trip to Paris. When I asked him the reason he told me that he wanted to give me good memories about us and that city to replace the hurtful ones. We had dinner in a very cozy restaurant, from where we could see the Eiffel Tower and before the desert came he surprised me again kneeling down in front of me and asking me to be his a second time.

I cried when I saw the same ring he gave me all those years ago, with the addition of a few new diamonds and an inscription. Inside the band it was graved his promise to me.

There's no life for me if I don't spend it loving you. Forever yours, A.

And right there, under the lights of Paris I told him yes for a second time.

A lot of people could call me crazy for doing this, giving myself again to a man who did so much damage and made me so sad. For those people I just have one thing to say.

I chose to remember all the times this man made me laugh. All the times he made me happy. All the times he made me feel like the only woman in the world. All the times he gave himself to me, completely and wholly, trusting me to take care of him. All the times he took care of me as if I was made of porcelain and treated me like the most precious thing of his life. All those times when he made me see stars.

I understood that if I wanted to be happy I would have to make sacrifices. I would have to leave my pride behind me and open myself for the possibilities again. I would have to take risks and I would have to try.

Was it really worth it to condemn him for one mistake he did? Was it really worth it to ignore the chance of being happy with the love of my life because of my fears?

I finally understood that it wasn't. It wasn't worth it to be alone and unhappy for the rest of my life because I was afraid.

This man is the most amazing man I've ever met, flaws and all, with all his mistakes, because with him I feel safe. With him I feel loved and treasured. With him I feel whole.

I looked at my left hand and smiled at the sight of my rings. Three weeks ago I had finally become Mrs. Aaron Hotchner. After so many years I was finally with the only man I ever loved and the only man I knew I was going to love for the rest of my days.

I felt him stirring and looked up to his sleepy face. "Is everything okay, sweetheart?" He asked mumbling.

I did then the only thing I could do. I leaned in and caught his lips with mine, moaning at the taste of peppermint of his toothpaste. I kissed him hungrily and needy because I could and because he was here, underneath me, completely mine and I just couldn't not enjoy that. When I pulled away, gasping for breath, I smiled brightly at him and answered him with the truth. "Everything's perfect…"

And then I kissed him again.

THE END.

A/N: It's done! You probably noticed that I changed the rate of this to T and skipped any smutness. I wasn't in the mood, sorry. Maybe I'll write a oneshot in this universe to satisfy our expectations...

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