Emily had been feeling pretty crap that day, the chemo had finally started to affect her, Aaron wanted to take the day off work to look after her; but she didn't want him having to miss work because of her; so eventually he went in.
On the way home he stopped off to get her some flowers; thinking maybe they would make her feel a little better. Poor Emily...
He had not been able to keep his mind focused all day; what if something bad had happened to her? He saw how ill she seemed that morning, the only reason he went to work was because Emily insisted upon it.
JJ had offered to take their kids kids for the night after noticing how unfocused Hotch seemed and then him telling her about Emily not having a good day. Although the kids were older now and could probably manage to phone 911 and administer basic first aid if home with Emily he didn't want them to see her in such a state if it were to occur. Fortunatly it hadn't yet.
Parking is car outside their house he went in, seeing Emily must still be in bed. Going up to their room he entered. "I bought you flowers." He told her, showing her the bouquet of roses.
"Thankyou Aaron. Their beautiful." She responded weakly, smiling a little because he had got flowers for her and she was happy he was back from work.
Aaron went to put the flowers in a vase before sitting on the side of the bed next to Emily. "How are you feeling?" He asked, running his fingers gently through her soft hair which was starting to fall out.
Holding the clump of her hair he sighed. "Em... I'm sorry..."
"It's ok Aaron..." She replied, trying to stop the tears in her had felt awful all day and now she was losing her hair; she loved her hair. "And I'm the same as I was this morning." She continued.
"Oh Em... cry if you need to." Aaron told her, a warm and comforting tone of voice to his words. He moved on to rubbing his hand gently down her back; not wanting any more of her hair to fall out after seeing it was upsetting her.
"I'm losing everything Aaron." She said through tears. "I can't work, I can't go out with you, the kids or the team when I'm like this and now I'm losing my hair!"
"Emily sweetheart." He tried to reassure her before she clamped her hand over her mouth and rushed for the bathoom.
Following her he sat beside her while she threw up and helped her stand up after. "I can't keep anything down." She sobbed some more.
"Hey, calm down. You should have called me." He told her sadly.
"I know, but I didn't want to distract you." She replied before doubling over and dry heaving.
"Emily, don't ever worry about distracting me from my work; I just want you to be safe." He told her, helping her back into bed and sitting back next to her. "I will drop everything for you Em."
