Part 28
Two year later
Thierry, Anastasia, Hotch and Spencer stared at the small boy in astonishment.
The small boy's name was Algernon 'Algie' Germain Delacroix and he was only two years older than the sextuplets that belonged Spencer and Hotch.
Algie along with his two brothers and one sister had entered the Hotchner house as it had been decided, that the sextuplets were big enough to have some company and start to make friends with the youngest of the Delacroix pups, but the minute that Algie had laid eyes on Jenny he had been transfixed, staring at her with such a possessive, tender look that it took a person's breath away. The adults had watched this in puzzlement until they had all realized almost at the exact same instant what was happening and that was Algie and Jenny were Lifemates even as young as they were.
"Has this ever happened before?" Spencer asked the other three and they knew exactly what he meant without him having to clarify.
"Non, not as far as I know," Thierry said in his thick French accent as he stared at his son, watching as he and Jenny played happily together, seeming to be in their own little world as if nobody else existed, except the two of them.
"I've never heard of this happening at such a young age either," Hotch admitted. "I'm sure it's happened somewhere in the world at least once, but it can't be a very common occurrence."
"That's got to be the understatement of the century," Anastasia snorted, as she watched her son and Hotch's and Spencer's daughter play together.
"Aaron always has had a gift for understatement," Spencer admitted with a little smile as he to watched the scene of the two children playing together.
"Well, what are we going to do about this?" Thierry asked. "It's not that I'm unhappy about my son, being Lifemates with your daughter, quite the opposite in fact, it's just that they're so young."
"I quite agree, with you, Thierry," Hotch said calmly, even though Spencer could feel that his emotions were rather off-kilter at the moment. "I'm quite happy for Algie and Jenny to be Lifemates, but we're going to have to watch the situation carefully to make sure they don't do anything that would be inappropriate for their ages. It's going to be a rather interesting experiment to see if we can keep both kids happy without disrupting what they have between them. I have a feeling that Algie is about to become like a son to us a few years early, because I suspect that he'll be spending a great deal time over here, as we all know that Lifemates are not very happy without their partner beside them."
"I don't think we need to worry it to much at least until they are a few years older as right now I suspect they'll just be best friends. It's when they get into their teenage years that we are going to have to watch the situation really carefully as teenage hormones have been known to get out of control before," Spencer said.
Hotch snorted did that and said, "You have a talent understatement to you know, because I still remember my teenage years very well and how I found a lot of girls very attractive from the time I was about 12 years old. I dated quite a bit from the time I was 13 until I went off to college at 18, but none of those relationships ever lasted more than a month or two at most. I won't deny that I fooled around in college as my hormones were definitely out-of-control and had been since I was about 16, but I was always careful to use protection, so I didn't get any girl pregnant."
"Yes, I remember my own teenage years very well," Thierry said nostalgically, "and by the way, Jenny has just become our daughter as well, because our son and your daughter getting married now is a foregone conclusion, even if that still years away as of yet."
"In fact, Thierry and I won't mind if Jenny spends a lot of time at out house, especially when you two are working, if you don't mind that is," Anastasia suggested.
"No, we don't mind," Hotch said and Spencer nodded. "We know that Jenny will be as safe with you as she would be in her own bed. I know this was a rather unexpected event, but the four of us had better make the most of it, because we know the consequences if we try to permanently separate two Lifemates and it doesn't matter how young they are."
"Anastasia and I would never do such a thing," Thierry said with a shake of his head. "You're right in the fact that it was unexpected, but it's not a unpleasant prospect at all as this will tie our two families officially together and I don't have a problem with that, as we've already been good friends for years. However, it is ironic that Anastasia carried Jenny in her belly, even if she doesn't share any of her genes and yet our son is her Lifemate. I'm not against it or anything I just find it astonishing that it happened this way that's all."
"I think we all find it astonishing," Anastasia told her husband dryly, but with a sparkle of humor in her eyes. "However, I will be very a happy mother when these two someday tie the Knot, although I know they have to be at least 18 to do that."
"I would like them to go to college first," Hotch said, "but I suspect that the only way that will happen is if they are married beforehand, sharing an apartment and going to the same college. I certainly wouldn't want to be separated from Spencer, if we had different professions for instance, one where I still traveled with the team, but Spencer didn't."
"I totally agree with that statement," Spencer said. "It would be torture to be separated from you for days at a time, because as it was hard enough for that first year before the team found about our relationship and we slept in separate hotel rooms. The only thing that made it bearable, was the fact that we were together almost all the time except at night."
"You could have snuck into each others hotel rooms," Thierry suggested with the mischievous twinkle in his eyes.
"I would've loved to have done that," Hotch said dryly, "unfortunately, the government is so cheap that the team share hotel rooms and I always shared with the other leader of the team at the time Jason Gideon. He's retired now, but when he found out about our relationship he wasn't very happy as he's extremely old school in that area."
"He got over it and accepted my relationship with Aaron after a lot of soul searching on his part, which is one reason why one of our boys ended up with the name of Gideon. He was my mentor and indirectly responsible for me meeting Aaron, since he's the one that convinced me to join the FBI in the first place. Gideon often lectured at colleges around the country and that's how we met. He saw my potential and convinced me to go through the FBI Academy, so I owe Gideon a lot, which is why I wanted to give one of my son's his name, even if the real Gideon will never know," Spencer said.
"You don't keep in connect," asked Anastasia in surprise.
"No, he left the Bureau after a good friend of his was murdered doing on one of our toughest cases, a woman he had known since college and her death nearly broke him. I believe he had been in love with her for years, but never told her and let his career get in the way of his happiness, which unfortunately, happens all the time. He retired shortly afterwards to lick his wounds and we haven't heard from him since," Hotch replied. "I think he believes that since he hasn't contacted any of the team in so long that we wouldn't want to hear from him, after he practically abandoned the people he had worked with for years. It's like riding a bike and if you don't get back on right away after you have fallen off you become afraid to and in Gideon's case he likely became afraid of his old teammates reactions to his leaving the bureau and the unit that he had been part of for decades. He likely keeps telling himself that we wouldn't want to hear from him after all this time."
"Garcia our technical analyst could try to find him, but Gideon knows the score and if he doesn't want to be found, then he is not going to be as he knows how to live off the grid and disappear if he so desires. You can't track someone who only uses their credit card once or twice in one place and then leaves that area immediately afterwards," Spencer explained. "If Gideon wants to get back in contact with me or anyone else on the team he knows how to do that and he can do it a lot easier than we can find him, so I have to assume that he doesn't want to see any of us."
All the adults attention turned back to the two children who were now playing with the others, which they were happy to see happen as none of them wanted Algie and Jenny to just get lost in each other and ignore everyone and everything else around them, so it was good to see them playing with their siblings. Even if their wedding was going to happen once they grew up the adults wanted them to make friends with other children.
"Perhaps, we should ask Rolf and see if he's ever heard of a Lifemate bond forming between two children who are so young," Spencer suggested. "It doesn't hurt to ask and if he's never heard of it happening, well then we haven't lost anything."
"That's a good idea, Spencer," Anastasia complimented her friend. "We definitely need to do that, so we know what we can expect as the two get older."
"I don't believe it's a good idea to mention the bond, quite yet," Thierry added. "We might want to wait until they're at least 10 or 11 years old after they started their lessons on our history, traditions and laws. I think after they learn that such bonds exist would be the time to tell them as they'll be much more mature than they are at present."
"You're right," Hotch agreed immediately. "Right now, all they know is that they're best friends and it doesn't matter to them how that came about or that it was so sudden. They're too young to understand what their relationship will be when they are older so why try to burden them with it until they're old enough to truly understand?"
"I'll do some research, and see what I can find about a Lifemate bonds forming at such a young age, though I doubt I'll discover anything," Spencer admitted. "I know not much has been written down on werewolves for a reason, and that it's mostly an oral history that's passed down in families. Aaron, if Rolf doesn't know anything you should probably check with some of your other close friends and see if they know if anything like this is happened before."
"I'll do that," Hotch promised, "if Rolf doesn't know anything. It's a very good idea actually, though I doubt two children so young have formed a bond very often before. It might've happened once or twice in various parts of the world, but I doubt they much it's happened more than a dozen times throughout our long history and likely so far apart that there's not much other than rumor and legend to go on."
"I'm going to hate separating the two of them so we can go home," Anastasia said regretfully. "I know that the two of them will someday marry, but they can't spend every moment together."
"It's not likely to be easy, and I can foresee temper tantrums of spectacular proportions when you try to separate them," Spencer predicted, "and the older they get the more difficult it is likely to be."
"Well, we'll deal with it," Hotch said. "This was such an unlikely possibility, that I didn't even consider it, as normally, a werewolf doesn't meet their mate until they're at least in their late 20s, although occasionally it happens to older teenagers as well, but not to ones as young as our pups are."
"It never occurred to us either," Thierry said. "I've never heard of pups so young forming a Lifemate bond so how could it have occurred to any of us?"
The others nodded in agreement.
"You know we need to look up on this as a good thing because neither Algie or Jenny will have to face the hell that is teenage dating, as they will always know that the two of them were made to be together. They'll never have to navigate that particular minefield and by the time they grow up they will know each other extremely well, which means that's another minefield, the getting to know each other, even though they're Lifemates. They can avoid a lot of the problems that occur with any new relationship unlike most other couples.
"There will be no uncertainty as to whether is he/she the one? Do they love me for who I am or are they after my money, my connections? If only everyone had it so easy, there would be far fewer divorces in the world among humans and werewolves alike and also a lot less crime, because they'd be more people getting along with each other instead of breaking the law. Oh, there'd still be a lot of crime around, but they be less of the kind where one spouse kills the other, just because they have something that the other wants, or one of them leaves the other for cheating on them and so forth," Hotch said. The other three adults in the room nodded at that as that aspect of their pups relationship had not occurred to them at least not yet.
The four of them continued to talk as they watched their pups play together, but they also kept a very close eye on Algie and Jenny to make sure that they weren't doing anything inappropriate, not that it was very likely as young as they were, but they kept an eye on the situation anyway, even as they chatted with each other.
~~~The Alpha Werewolf and his Mate~~~
16 years later
"Well, as of tomorrow we'll officially be family," Thierry said, raising a glass of champagne and the others did the same so they could clink their glasses together in a show of solidarity and friendship.
"It's been a long time in coming," Anastasia said, "but that day has finally arrived."
"I knew we wouldn't be able to convince the two of them to wait until after they had graduated college, but we all tried anyway," Hotch commented. "I know a young woman getting married at 18 isn't all that unusual nowadays, but still, I felt like I had to try, even if I knew what Jenny's answer was going to be beforehand."
"Like they were really going to agree to wait until after college," Spencer snorted, "they could've been married as soon as Jenny was 16 had we consented to allow her to wed so early and signed the parental permission forms. You remember how upset they both were when we denied Jenny permission to marry so young and before she had even finished high school."
"Oh, yes, I remember how Jenny was mad at us for quite a long time," Hotch said looking nostalgic. "She refused to even speak to us for almost a month."
"Algie was the same way, even though Thierry and I tried to talk him out of marrying Jennifer until after they had both graduated college, but we should've known it would never work. We all know that Lifemates need to spend as much time together as possible and I know he had a hard time waiting these last two years in order for Jenny to come of age," Anastasia remembered sounding nostalgic. "Really, is it any wonder that they refused to wait to marry after college and instead are tying the Knot before they even start so that they can share an apartment together? It's not that they couldn't have done that anyway, even if they weren't legally wed, but I can't really blame them for wanting to tie the Knot immediately, since Algie has been waiting two very long years for Jenny to come of age."
"I was rather relieved when Rolf told us over 15 years ago now, that the Lifemate bond was a weakened version, but it would strengthen as they got older until it was just like any other. Really, it was a good thing, because we know that Lifemates, need to be together nearly constantly, at least until after they have had sexual intercourse for the first time and both children were way too young for that back then," Spencer said. "Now, however, it's just as well that they're going to the same college and sharing an apartment, because I'm sure that they're feeling the pull to be constantly together now that they're all grown up. I think only the fact that they spent multiple hours every day together allowed them to grow up happy, even if they hated being parted, especially as they got older, so that by time they were Algie was 15 and Jenny was 13 it was very hard for them to be apart. I well remember how Algie and Jenny were almost constantly together except at night."
"We did make sure they spent a lot of time together, even if we watched their relationship carefully to make sure that they weren't doing anything inappropriate to their ages," said Thierry, "and I believe that helped. Really, we had no choice in the matter, except to allow them to spend as much time together as possible, because they likely would have run away if we had not."
"Personally, I thought that Jennifer and Algie were very sensible about their relationship despite the fact that I'm sure their teenage hormones were going haywire," Spencer commented. "You've raised a honorable, gentle and loving son and he would never take advantage of Jennifer until she was ready to take that step. They decided on their own to wait until after their wedding before they had sex the first time and I thought that was a very mature decision."
"It was," Thierry admitted and Anastasia and Hotch nodded in agreement.
"Well, Jenny's a lot like me," Hotch admitted. "She's serious and has good control of her raging hormones just like I did at her age. However, if Spencer and I were around the same age and we had met when we were children neither one of us would be able to wait to get married past 18, just as soon as it was legal to do so as it would've been extremely hard to wait, even that long, so I can't really blame Jenny or Algie for that matter for wanting to tie the Knot now that Jenny's of legal age to do so."
"I believe that all of us can agree with that," Spencer said and the two Delacroixs nodded.
"At least we convinced them to wait to have pups until after they graduated college," said Anastasia, "so it's not all bad."
"That's something anyway," Thierry agreed with his wife and mate.
"Jenny is far too sensible to allow herself to get pregnant until after she finishes her college education," Spencer said and Hotch immediately agreed with that.
"After that though, I won't be surprised if she's pregnant almost immediately after they graduate," Hotch said.
"I'm hoping I can convince them to wait until their careers are established before having a few pups," Anastasia sighed knowing that was unlikely.
"If you can do that then it should be considered a miracle since both Jenny and Algie are extremely stubborn," Thierry snorted as he drank his champagne.
"Which they come by honestly," Hotch said. "In any case, I don't think we need to worry about them as both are also very sensible and won't take on more than they can handle. It's not like they have to worry about money, since I set up a trust fund for all of Spencer's and my pups, so Jenny has quite a bit of money to her name as do all of our other 17 pups. Now, while none of them can access that until they turn 21, since Jenny will still be in college at that point it isn't going to be a problem. I always thought that Spencer should've gone into business instead of joining the FBI, because he certainly has the head for it and has increased what I inherited from both my father and my mother at different times and so we're never going to need to worry about money, even when I have to retire in a few years because the government has a 65 age limit."
"And once Aaron is forced into retirement I'll be retiring immediately afterwards," Spencer immediately said. "I love my job, but there's no way in hell I'm going to be separated from Aaron for days at a time, just so I can keep it. I'm sure that the four of us will have more grandchildren, by the time Aaron and I both retire from the BAU and we can concentrate on them, maybe do some traveling like we've discussed multiple times over the years."
Both Aaron and Spencer were already grandparents many times over as some of their older children were already married and had pups of their own.
"And we'll still have decades to enjoy ourselves, since werewolves live longer than humans, although I admit that's rapidly changing as humans are starting to live longer nowadays and it likely won't be long before they can live as long as we do."
"Yes, that's true," Anastasia admitted, as she and Thierry were well aware that Jenny Reid-Hotchner had quite a large trust fund and even if she and Algie spent lavishly or had thirty pups, that fund wasn't going anywhere, nor was it likely to decrease, because the trust fund lawyer that had been hired to oversee all the funds was always adding to it by investing the money and making a profit.
"If we're all very fortunate we'll live to see our grandchildren grow up get married and have pups of their own," Thierry said.
"Well, if we live as long as one of our kind can live we should be able to see several generations of our family have children of their own," Spencer said. "By the time all four of us finally die, we should have great-great-great-great-grandchildren and likely several other generations after that."
"A dream of almost all werewolves," Hotch said with a grin, as he remembered all his and Spencer's pups growing up on him and getting lives of their own. The six that had come from his sister's eggs and Spencer's sperm was the last batch and soon all of them would be going away to college and getting lives of their own and while that made him a little sad and nostalgic he was also very happy that there would soon be an empty house and that it would just be him and Spencer. It had never been just him and his mate in their huge house with no children or nannies around, Hotch was looking forward to the day that he and Spencer could make love in any room of the house without having to worry about somebody coming in and seeing them making out heavily or having full blown sex right in plain view.
"Yes, it is," Anastasia murmured. "I bet the two of you are looking forward to having an empty house when your last remaining pups go to college in just a few weeks."
"We are," Hotch answered before Spencer could with a leer in his lover's direction and his mate immediately blushed a bright red.
Hotch was glad that his, Spencer still blushed so easily as he found it adorable and endearing, but it took a lot more to get him to where he would than it had used to.
"Spencer and I have never had the house all to ourselves, since I already had eight pups by the time he and I met, so it will definitely be nice to have this huge house will be almost empty without having to worry about any of the pups walking in on us at awkward moment."
"Unfortunately, we still have several years before that's possible for Anastasia and I," Thierry sighed, "since we still have pups who are only 14 and they won't be going off to college for a few years yet."
"You'll get there," Hotch said. "You had pups twice more after you gave birth to ours, so of course, you're not going to have an empty house as soon as we do."
"It can't come soon enough for me," Thierry said and Anastasia made a noise in agreement.
"As much as we love our pups, we also can't wait for them to grow up and get lives of their own so that we have plenty of alone time with our mates," Anastasia commented and the other three people in the room totally agreed with that.
"So tomorrow's the big day," Spencer said. "It doesn't seem like it's been 18 years already since our sextuplets were born."
"No, it definitely doesn't," Hotch said that Anastasia and Thierry immediately agreed.
"I know that Algie has been waiting anxiously for this day since he's a couple years older then Jenny is and refused to go to college until Jenny went and I can't really blame him for that, as he would want to go only when his mate was ready to go as well," Thierry admitted. "You know it's kind of lucky that there is only a couple years between them instead of 4 or 5, because Algie has been waiting long enough for his life to truly start, even though he and Jenny still spent a great deal of time together, it's not the same as being married and on your own."
"Yes, Jenny has been waiting anxiously to reach her 18th birthday so that she and Algie can officially be together, even if they've been dating since she was 15 and he was 17," Spencer said.
"Dating isn't the same as being old enough to be married and officially on your own, even if you are also going to be in college," Hotch said. "They'll have their own little apartment that is just for the two of them and they won't need to have any adult supervision. This is where their lives truly start, as they won't be just dating anymore, but officially man and wife. They won't have to separate and go back to their separate houses and their separate beds, which is a big thing for Lifemates."
"I hadn't thought about it quite like that," Anastasia mused thoughtfully, "but you're right this is where our two children's lives truly start."
"All four of us really have been mated so long that it just didn't occur to us," Hotch said. "Think back to when you were first mated and had sex with each other for the first time and I think you'll begin to understand how Algie and Jennifer feel and why they are so anxious to tie the Knot."
"Yes, yes, I can see what you mean now," Thierry said, as he hadn't thought of it quite like that.
"You know it's kind of sad that they won't get much of a honeymoon," Anastasia said. "Since they married at the end of summer and college starts in just a few weeks."
"Yes, well unfortunately, Jenny's 18 birthday was only last week and since she couldn't be legally married without parental consent until she turned the big 1 8 that's just the way it worked out in this case," Spencer said. "I feel sorry for them really, but Aaron and I never really got a honeymoon either, as going to Las Vegas to deal with a few problems doesn't really count, even if we managed to see some of the sites and have fun at the same time. It didn't matter to me though, that the two of us never got a honeymoon, because so long as Aaron and I were together than I was happy."
"Yes, well you've always been easy to please," Hotch teased him. "The two of us did take days off here and there, but we haven't been able to do much traveling, except when we were working and in those cases we weren't there for pleasure. However, since I have to retire in a few years Spencer and I can do some traveling, see the world, though I know we'll still spend plenty of time with our children and grandchildren. Unfortunately, our jobs were such that it was difficult to take time off because neither Spencer or I liked to leave the team in the lurch, in other words, shorthanded."
"We're both workaholics anyway, so we didn't mind so much so long as we got time off here and there in order to recharge," Spencer said. "I'm sure Jenny and Algie will be so happy to finally be married and to get to spend the next couple of days in the honeymoon suite at Ritz-Carlton hotel that we are giving them as a wedding present it will likely be enough for the two of them before they head off to college and the rest of their lives. They can always take their honeymoon at the summer break if they like."
"It was really generous of you to give Algie and Jenny a couple of days in the honeymoon suite at the Ritz-Carlton as I know that must not have been cheap," Anastasia said.
"They deserved it for having to wait so long and besides, it's only money," Hotch shrugged nonchalantly. "Normally, Spencer and I don't splurge, except very occasionally when we go to a nice restaurant or stay in a five-star hotel. However, what's the point of having money if you don't spend some of it to do something nice for your daughter and her intended? I mean we've all known this day was coming ever since Jenny was two years old and Algie was four. Even if I didn't have my inheritance from both my parents, Spencer and I have made plenty of money over the years to afford a couple of nights in the honeymoon suite of a five-star hotel. Everything's been paid for in advance and they can eat at any of the restaurants and even shop a little if they want as they do have a gift shop."
"I doubt very much that either one of them will be thinking about shopping or even eating," Thierry snorted. "I know that Anastasia and I didn't leave the bed for couple of days after we were first mated, except for necessary things like the bathroom, although we did eventually get up and get ourselves some food. It was just a quick meal though, more for the energy it would give us so we could continue what we had been doing and then it was straight back to bed."
"You're right about that, but they still have the choice," Hotch shrugged not at all embarrassed by how the conversation was going, although Spencer was beet red. "They might just decide to order room service and not take advantage of one of the restaurants and I certainly won't blame them if they do."
"None of us would," Spencer said, as he remembered the first time he and Aaron had made love.
"It's getting late and Thierry and I should probably head home as we have to be up early tomorrow to finish the last little details for the wedding," Anastasia said.
"Yeah, Spencer and I should probably go to bed too," Hotch agreed calmly, although Spencer could immediately tell by looking into his mate's eyes that the two of them would not be going to sleep even if they were gong to bed and he was looking forward to it. Even though Aaron Hotchner was well over 50 and nearing 60 he still had the energy of a 30 year old. That was at least partly, because he kept himself in shape and used the gym that was on one of the upper levels frequently, but it also had to do with the fact that he was a werewolf, and he wasn't even halfway through his normal lifespan yet. He still had a lot of good years ahead of him before he would be too old to make love all night long and Spencer wasn't about to discourage his mate from fucking him senseless, since he couldn't anyway so he didn't bother to try. Besides, he would have to be crazy to do that since he enjoyed those sessions just as much as Aaron did, and he definitely wasn't crazy.
"We'll see you tomorrow at the church," Spencer said, as he and Hotch escorted their guests to the door.
"Tomorrow," Thierry said shaking both men's hands while Anastasia hugged them both kissing their cheeks.
"I'm looking forward to us officially becoming family," Anastasia said in her soft musical voice.
"We've been family for years," Hotch told her gently, "ever since you and Thierry were so generous to agree to carry our pups for us and even before then you were good friends. Tomorrow it will be official, but I want you know that Spencer and I have considered you family for almost two decades now."
"As have we. We'll see you tomorrow at the church," Thierry said, as he took his wife's arm and led her to their car.
"Tomorrow," Spencer agreed, as he shut the door once the Delacroixs had left.
"Now that our company has gone I want you upstairs! Now!" Hotch barked sounding ferocious, but Spencer knew this was just his mate being playful and so he obeyed immediately.
"I want you totally naked when I get there laying on the bed with a pillow under your hips," Hotch called after his lover who had instantly skedaddled towards the stairs in order to obey his Alpha's barked command.
~~~The Alpha Werewolf and his Mate~~~
Hotch smiled as he watched his mate skedaddle up the stairs and knew that he would be waiting exactly as ordered. This was a game that the two often played the Alpha and the submissive and since they both still enjoyed it, even after all these years, why bother to stop? The two of them had played variations on the same theme on multiple occasions over the last 25 years and at this point they knew each other so well that they knew when one of them was being serious or playful or was sad, angry happy or excited, just by reading each others expressions and body language, though the emotional link they had between them helped.
Hotch headed upstairs a mere two minutes after Spencer had disappeared and was in the bedroom less than a minute later.
Hotch doubted that he would ever stop wanting his mate so long is he had breath in his body as he loved Spencer with every atom of his soul and he knew the younger man felt the same way about him.
His mate had changed so much from the shy 23 year old as he had known as he had matured in a lot of ways in the last 25 years. Of course, he knew that being part of the BAU had helped with that as had their relationship and just living life, gaining experience.
Hotch saw immediately that Spencer was ready for him and so he stalked towards the bed and with a growl said, "You are mine! Mine! My mate! My soul! My husband! My property! I own you heart, body and soul! Every single inch of you belongs to me!"
"Yes, everything that I am belongs to you," Spencer agreed his voice steady, since he knew that Aaron wasn't really upset at him and was just playing a game, one that both of them always enjoyed. The two of them would likely spend until tomorrow in bed until it was time for their daughter's wedding at noon.
"You better never forget it," Hotch growled again, as he continued to stalked towards the bed.
"I belong to you," Spencer repeated and held at his arm gesturing his mate to come and take him, while also baring his throat to his Alpha in a gesture of submission.
The wolf in Hotch, which had temporarily taken over recognized the gesture immediately as his submissive mate giving into him carte blanche to do whatever he liked, so the wolf within Aaron Hotchner subsided and this time the man slowly walked to the bed and climbed on top of his mate.
"I love you so much, Spencer. Now that our pups are all grown up and will be heading off to college in a few weeks we'll have the house all to ourselves for the first time since we met."
"I know," Spencer said leaning up and giving his mate a tender, heartstopping kiss on the lips. "Believe me, I've been looking forward to it as we can now make love anytime we want without one of the kids coming in and finding us in a rather compromising position. I am yours and I have been since we found each other when I was just 23."
"I know it," Hotch said softly, as he continued kissing his mate all over his throat and the side of his neck. "The wolf in me knows it too, but enjoys these games we play."
"I do too," Spencer said, "as does the wolf in me."
"I know that to for if you didn't we wouldn't have kept playing them for so many years. It is the Alpha's job to take care of his more submissive mate and if you didn't enjoy the dominant/submissive games we often play then I wouldn't do it. It is Alpha's responsibility to make sure that their partner gets enjoyment out of the sexual act as well and this is especially true of Lifemates. In other words, if I was the only one that was enjoying the dominant/submissive game and I still made you play then I wouldn't be treating you as an equal, which would mean I saw you as nothing more than a fuck partner, whose needs I didn't care about. As not only the Alpha of this relationship, but your Lifemate, that means that your needs come before my own and I take my responsibilities very seriously as you know "
"I knew that already," Spencer told Hotch quietly. "Even though it's never been spoken of you have more than proved over the years that you care about my needs as well as your own and I figured that it was an Alpha thing, although I didn't think that it might also be due to the fact that we were Lifemates as well. You've never done anything to deliberately harm me in all the years we've been together, except for the times you've had spank me for serious disobedience and since I understand that discipline is sometime required and necessary I didn't hold it against you no matter how sore I was."
"You haven't required me to spank you for a number of years now," Hotch said with a little smile of remembrance.
"Thirteen years, five months, four days," Spencer informed Hotch with a smile, causing his mate to laugh as he should have known that Reid would know that number of years down to the exact number of days since he'd last been spanked. He wouldn't be surprised if his mate knew to the exact minute when his last punishment had been. "I learned my lesson and I do my best never to piss you off that badly."
"You only piss me off as you put it when you do something extremely stupid that deliberately puts your life in danger," Hotch said, "as you know by now. I'm talking about deliberately putting your life in danger and not the normal danger that goes along with the job as that kind of danger can't be helped and often pops up unexpectedly."
"Yes, I know, which is why you've never punished me when we got into a fire fight or chasing a suspect and I didn't have anything to do with deliberately putting my life on the line. Of course, the sex afterwards just from the rather intense emotions of you worrying about me and me worrying about you is always spectacular and mindblowing."
"It is indeed," Hotch agreed immediately with a shit-eating grin. "It has to do with the bond and the need to confirm that your mate is still with you after they've been in a rather dangerous situation, through no fault of their own. The adrenaline, of course, helps with that too, although in our case that's mostly worn off by the time we get around to making love, since we are usually only able to fuck each other once we get home and not while in bed in some strange hotel."
"Well, whether or not the adrenaline has worn off or not those sessions are still mindblowing, spectacular and any other descriptive phrases I can come up with," Spencer said with a large grin. "Our sex life never gets boring because you've always been very… inventive in bed."
"You know by now that I've always had a very vivid imagination in that area," Hotch said with a lecherous smirk.
"Well, you certainly put it to good use over the years," Spencer said "and I certainly don't mind."
"That's been obvious since beginning, since I can't imagine you agreeing to spend so much time in bed considering your rather prodigal mind if you didn't enjoy yourself so much," Hotch said.
"You're right of course, if I didn't enjoy staying in bed so much making wild passionate love with you there's no way you could convince me to do it, as I used to spend all my free time reading or studying as that used to be my way to let off steam and relax. Now, while I still do a great deal of that, I spend more time in bed then I ever imagined I would and enjoy it. Part that I know has to do with the bond, but still if you weren't so damn handsome and still make me drool after all these years, charismatic and convincing I would never spend so much time in bed. Of course, the fact that the sex is out of this world is a large factor as well."
"I'm damn handsome?" Hotch asked amused since his mate rarely cussed.
"Yes, ever since we met you've caused my body to have reactions to you that I never even knew existed before then. Oh, I knew theoretically how a body was supposed to react to someone they found attractive, I just never applied those things to me, because I figured I'd remain a virgin for the rest of my life, until you came along and blew that notion out of the water. The first time we faced each other in your office all those years ago now you set off a series of reactions within my body and I didn't even realize what was happening at first, since I had never had such a strong reaction to anybody else. Sure, I'd had a few minor crushes before we met, but those crushes wouldn't've have given a kid like me the time of day, so I never said anything to any of them and just let myself get over those crushes on my own. Now, I realize that a werewolf releases pheromones from their scent ducts at the back of the ears, the tip of the tail, on the cheeks near the corners of the mouth and at the top of the anus and when we met that's exactly what happened, which let both of us know that we had found our mate. I've since figured that my body must've done that automatically because I definitely didn't deliberately try to attract you."
"Oh, yes, you're exactly right," Hotch said his eyes distant in remembrance. "If you had been paying attention and not been so terrified of me you would have smelled the pheromones that were so thick in the air that they nearly choked me. I knew immediately that we were Lifemates and would be extremely close, just because of the thickness of the pheromones in the air. There're different levels of Lifemate bonds and I knew by how many pheromones both of us were releasing that we'd be extremely close, even for mates and that has since proven true. You know now, that when we've found our mates that we automatically release our pheromones from our anus's, in order to get their attention as our inner wolf just knows when you have found the one for you."
"Like what happened with Algie and Jenny," Spencer said and Hotch nodded in agreement.
"They didn't realize it at the time that's what they were doing, since they were only two and four years old and they wouldn't begin formal lessons for years," said Hotch.
"Yeah, it was really nice of Anastasia and Thierry to tutor our children in their formal lessons since they had more free time than we did," Spencer said. "Well, the sextuplets anyway."
"That's what packs do and that's help each other," Hotch said. "I'm not saying it wasn't nice of them, just that's how packs are supposed to act around each other, not as if they're an inconvenience. In any case, you were unconsciously releasing those pheromones as I was, although you didn't, even know what you were doing until I explained it to you sometime later."
"Well, I knew that wolves had scent ducts, but it never occurred to me that I could have those same glands since I considered myself mostly human at that point in my life," Spencer shrugged. "I just never made the connection, even though I know I probably should have, but to me being a wolf was just one more reason William Reid left and why Mack Burke threw Dylan, Trev and I out of the pack. I figured if I had been human that there would have been no ranks of Alpha, Beta and Omega, because humans don't really have ranks, at least not formalized, except in the military, and those are just given ranks as you advance, not essentially what a person is, by the force of their personality.
"I thought that maybe if we were completely human, with no rank designation William Reid wouldn't have left. I realize now, that I was wrong and that William Reid still would have left and that my rank as an Omega and Dylan's and Trev's rank as stronger Betas then our former father was only one of a multitude of excuses to leave, but not the cause.
"I also believed at the time that if the three of us hadn't been werewolves that we would've had an easier time of it, even if we had to go into foster care. I thought that being partly wolf was just an inconvenience, and never caused anything but trouble.
"I'm older now though and hopefully, wiser and you helped me realize that it wasn't the wolf in me that was causing the problem it was William Reid that didn't love his own family enough to stick around and also the former Alpha of the Las Vegas pack. It wasn't really my status as an Omega or my intelligence or my clumsiness when it came to sports that was the cause of William Reid's evidential departure, those were just excuses nothing more," Spencer finished.
"I'm glad you realize that," Hotch said softly. "William Reid no longer matters and neither does Burke since both are dead and they both richly deserved their fate. I'm only sorry that I didn't get to deal with Burke myself and that he had been dead for five years, which was years before we had met."
"Make love to me, Aaron," Spencer begged, suddenly feeling the need to have the tender, loving touch of his mate stroking him to completion or nibbling on some part of his body leaving him with multiple bruises, which he didn't mind since they faded in just a few days and he knew Aaron looked on the bruises while they lasted as a sign of his ownership of everything that he was, just like the permanent mating mark on the side of his neck. "I want to feel your cock inside my body and feel your gentle, tender touch that turns me into a quivering mass of jelly every time."
"I will never deny you, when you need me to show you love," Hotch said gently, as he began to run gentle hands up and down his mate's still gorgeous body. It didn't matter at all that Spencer was in his 40s, his body was still simply gorgeous in his eyes and just looking at his mate naked like this brought up a depth of feeling that Hotch had never known he possessed until Spencer had come into his life all those years ago. His lover was still in excellent shape just as he was as both still used the exercise equipment upstairs frequently and also went running in their wolf forms as much as time allowed in the nearby forest and the two of them had made out in the woods more than once over the years.
"You never deny me anyway when I want you to make love to me, no matter what your mood is," Spencer teased and Hotch grinned at him.
"You know by now and that I'm always in the mood for fucking you senseless and that's never going to change as long as I'm alive and I don't care if I do live to be a 150, I'll always enjoy making love to you, whether that's rough, tender or anything in between."
"And I'll always enjoy you doing it too, so why don't we get started?" Spencer suggested baring his neck in a gesture of submission.
"As you wish," Hotch murmured, as he began to suck on one of his mate's nipples, which perked up immediately in reaction to his ministrations.
"Oh, that feels so good," Spencer whimpered, as the pleasure went through him as strong as a lightning bolt just from Aaron sucking on his nipple. His body had always responded strongly to his mate's attentions and that had not changed one iota in all the years they had been together. In fact, if truth be known his body responded even more strongly now after 25 years of being together than it had in the beginning, as he remembered that time very well due to his eidetic memory, but Spencer knew that was due to the fact that Aaron knew his body inside and out and how he responded to various techniques.
Of course, Aaron should know his body considering they had spent so much time making love over the years. Aaron was a very imaginative and prolific lover and he had no problem having at least a dozen climaxes in a night when they were in the mood. Spencer knew intellectually that was probably at least partly due the fact that his mate was not only an Alpha male, but also a werewolf, as he couldn't imagine a human man, Alpha or not, being able to get it up so many time in one night no matter the motivation or how vital he was. Of course, he always came quite a few times during those sessions as well, so many he always lost count.
"More! More Aaron! I want to feel your cock inside me. I want you to dump your seed into my body!" Spencer cried finally wriggling enticingly underneath his Alpha, making himself even more tempting then he already was as he was unable to take anymore of the slow torture that Aaron was putting him through, as he felt as if his entire body was electrified as if attached to a live wire and that he was slowly being burned alive from the inside out.
"Your wish is my command," Hotch said smilingly, as he positioned his cock at his mate's entrance. "I'm always happy to give into you when it comes to this kind of thing as you know by this time. Of course, I could torture you for the next hour or two if I was really in the mood and you would thank me afterwards, but since I want you as badly at the moment as you do me, I'm happy to give into your wishes this time."
What Hotch said was true as his cock was so engorged that his sperm was leaking out of the tip at a steady rate of speed and soaking the sheets, that were between Spencer's opened legs. Sheets could be washed, but if Aaron didn't enter him soon he was going to explode and leave a mess behind.
Hotch started placing kisses, licks and nips along his mate's stomach while at the same time he gently inserted his cock into Spencer anus, it was going to be painful, because he didn't have time to use any lube, which happened fairly frequently as he wanted his lover that badly.
Spencer didn't bother to protest about not using lube, as it was not exactly an unusual occurrence and he enjoyed a little pain, because the pleasure was always more explosive afterwards. Since there would always be a little pain involved, because they were two men having sex, lube or not and even though the pain was worse without it he was more than capable of putting up with it as it faded quickly, never lasting very long. Besides, the pleasure that came after the pain was so much more intense and explosive that he really didn't mind the pain at all.
Besides, Aaron had ways of distracting him from the pain when he didn't use lube and his normal method was to place kisses, licks and even a few nips along other parts of his body in order to distract him from the momentary and short lived pain.
Finally Hotch exploded into his mate's tight passage and Spencer came at almost exactly the same time, his cock exploding with thick ropes of his seed all over his stomach and the sheets of the bed. Some of his seed even landed on his mate since Aaron was only inches above him. His Alpha never seemed to mind though and in fact, seemed to love being covered in his mate's seed.
"I love you, Aaron," Spencer told his mate quietly as soon as he had recovered from his earthshattering climax.
"I love you too," Hotch told the younger man kissing the side of his neck, breathing in his scent. "We had better get some sleep now, as much as I'd like to make love to you all night long as we don't want to miss our daughter's wedding. She'd kill us if we did."
"Now that's the truth," Spencer laughed.
Their daughter Jenny was definitely an Alpha female, which she got from Aaron via his sister Arissa, since it was her eggs that had been used, but then again so was Algie. It wasn't unusual to have two Alphas as mates, although one was always weaker in personality, even if it wasn't by very much or very obvious who was in charge as you would have to know both Jenny and Algie to know who was actually the leader of their relationship. However, both Jenny's and Algie's personalities matched extremely well, but that wasn't surprising considering they had been mates ever since they were two and four years old and had met that first time. Basically, they had grown up together, so tomorrow the two of them would be walking down the aisle to make it official.
"She's definitely your daughter, a very strong Alpha female," Spencer added with a laugh and a smile.
"She has a lot of your personality traits to," Hotch said not disagreeing about the fact that his and Spencer's daughter was a very strong Alpha female. "She has your compassion, your kindness and can often put things together just the way you can in much less time then most other people. I know she's never had an IQ test done, but I wouldn't be surprised to discover that it was at least near yours."
"That's likely considering that the teachers wanted her to skip grades and we wouldn't let her, because of the hell that me and my brothers went through when we did, but really she just breezed through elementary, junior high and high school and I have no doubt she'll breeze through college as well and might even get more than one degree like I did. Of course, I can't see her staying in college after Algie completes his degree, so if she can get two degrees in that amount of time I'll be very pleased if that's what she decides to do."
"It's possible that she could get her bachelors as well as her masters and that's usually at least 10 years of college, but she could probably do it in five or six since I do believe she's truly that intelligent."
"Well, unlike me and my brothers anyway she'll have a husband to do fun things with when they're not studying and the money to do them," Spencer said.
"You know she's planning to be a lawyer like I was before I joined the FBI and she certainly has the intelligence and the temperament for it." Hotch said. "The way to be a success as a lawyer is to be aggressive and never let criminals off, just because you're afraid of death threats and she's definitely that when she needs to be."
"I just hope she doesn't decide to join the FBI, because there is no way that she's going to be happy being separated from Algie for any length of time," Spencer said. "Besides, she might get posted somewhere far away and I'd rather her stay in the Virginia/Washington area so that we can see each other frequently, well, as frequently as time allows."
"There are positions within the FBI that won't require her to travel," Hotch pointed out.
"I know, but there are no guarantees that she'd be posted close to home," Spencer said. "It's bad enough that some of the pups have moved to other cities, but after we retire we can visit them, but right now we don't see them very much."
"Pups grow up and get their own lives," Hotch said philosophically. "It's the way that things have always been since the beginning of human civilization. Parents might not like their pups moving so far away, but the good ones let them go when it is time."
"I know, but it's still a major hit to my heart," Spencer said. "You just love your children so much that a lot of parents have trouble letting them go, but you're also very good at distracting me, so that I don't dwell on them too much."
"I miss the ones that have moved away to, but they have a right to their own lives and the careers they chose, well, they just got positions that weren't close to home that's all. At least they'll be here for the wedding tomorrow."
"Yes, and some of them have been here for a few days so at least we got to spend sometime with the ones that are coming just for the wedding, which was really nice," Spencer said.
"Yeah, I enjoyed it," Hotch said smiling kissing the side of his mate's neck. "We really need to go to to sleep though."
"You're right," Spencer agreed sleepily. "I'll see you in the morning."
"Goodnight," Hotch said with a smile giving the younger man one final kiss before closing his eyes and curling as close to Spencer as he could get before he dropped into sleep.
~~~The Alpha Werewolf and his Mate~~~
