A New Life

I would love to hear your opinions and look to working further on the story. This is a follow-up to Undercover Family. How do they survive being children?

I do not own or have connection with the "Criminal Minds" program or its characters.

Chapter Twenty-Nine. Finally

The team was at the round table talking about a case in Southern Illinois involving three missing women.

Hotch says, "I think we should head out there and get a handle on this as quickly as possible."

Morgan speaks up, "Are you sure that you should go Hotch? Isn't momma due any day now?"

Spencer says, "Yeah and she is driving us crazy at home. She is strong and capable one minute and the next she is weeping and stating that she shouldn't be doing this. That she is too old and doesn't know anything about babies and taking care of children."

Morgan answers, "Well you could always become her little boy again."

"Ha ha, she sees me that way anyway."

Hotch interrupts, "Momma is fine and yes she is due anytime now. She does not want anyone catering to her, even though we do our best to do so. As for her stating that she is not capable, we know differently and she is just scared of what could happen. But the police here need us to help them find the unsub who has killed these women. Momma would not want us to stop working. If she needs us we will come immediately to her. But we are not going to stop doing our jobs. Be ready, we take off in thirty minutes."

He goes to his office where he picks up his go bag and calls the car to take them to the airport and the jet. He fingers the phone and then calls home.

After the third ring, a voice is heard, "Hello, house of insanity."

He smiles as he answers, "Is the chief of insanity there?"

"No, he should be working but she who must be obeyed is available. What can I do for you?"

"You can take it easy and let Lois clean the house while Sean does the cooking."

"That means that I all can do is sit around. I don't like to do that."

"The chief is telling she who must be obeyed that she must obey too."

"I don't think it works that way baby. Will you be home tonight?"

"No, we are heading out to Illinois for a case. Be careful and don't go into labor while we are gone."

"No promises but I will try. I really want you here with me in case something bad happens."

"I will be there and so will the family. I love you sweet momma. Tell Jack I will call him later and tell Sean that I am glad he is here right now to help out."

"I will do just that. You call later and tell the others to keep themselves safe. I expect to see them in a few days. I love my baby man." She gives a kiss to the phone and hangs up.

Thirty-Six hours later

Our agents have been working hard with victimology, crime scene role-modeling and have created a workable profile. The unsub has been identified they believe and the team is now getting ready to corner him with the local police department.

Hotch's phone rings and he answers quietly. "Hello."

"Aaron, it's Sean. How is the case going? Will you be finished soon and coming home?"

"We are going after the unsub now, what is the problem Sean."

"It's momma. She is in labor and is needing you now."

"WHAT? NOW? How long has she been in labor?"

"It started about two hours ago with her first heavy pain. She is scared Aaron and needs you. She is afraid that she is going to die. You need to come home now."

"As soon as possible we will be there. Keep momma calm and tell her that I love her."

"Will do and I will call you with updates."

"Later bro." He hangs up and continues with the rest of the team to catch the killer, within an hour he is captured and arrested. For several hours after, there is the clean-up with the local police department and then while in the office completing with the chief Aaron's phone rings again.

"Hotchner."

"Aaron, momma is not doing well."

"What do you mean Sean?" At this remark the rest of the team look up in wonder.

"The doctor say that she is not dilating like she should and she is getting tired and is worried about you and where you are."

"What did the doctor say about the dilation?"

"He said something like two centimeters and she should be double that. She also hasn't broke her water yet. She needs you Aaron."

"I have already ordered the jet to be ready; we should be lifting off in an hour. Just keep her spirits up and let her know that I will be there as soon as possible."

He hangs up and looks around at all the faces looking at him.

It is David who speaks up, "What's going on Aaron? Who does Sean need to keep the spirits up?"

"Momma is in labor." At that simple remark, there is a flurry of "Whats?" and "How longs?" As well as hands and bodies moving to prepare to leave the place. The local police chief looks at this in wonderment. Aaron says, "Momma is my wife and she is expecting our first child. The entire team is very close to her and we really need to get to her. It has been a hard pregnancy and she is scared of losing the baby and her life and I am scared for her. But we do need to finish up here."

"We are finished agent. You need to get out of here and head to your delivering wife."

"Thank you."

"Good luck agent to you and yours." The team hurriedly leaves for the airport where they are given bad news about the jet. It seems that doing the maintenance check a problem was discovered in the brake hydraulics. They would be at least twenty-four hours there in order to replace and correct the problem. Upon hearing this news, the agents head back into the private airport. There are no other planes leaving that evening and since it is not a commercial airport the major airlines do not land there.

Our agents begin to discuss their options and decide on heading east by car and driving to the nearest commercial airport which is about four hours. However, they decide to drive all the way home when they realize that when they get to the airport the next flight won't be until mid-morning. According to Garcia, if they take the interstate all the way it will only take about 14 hours to get back to Quantico. They decide to rent a larger car so that all six of them could fit in the one vehicle. They took straws to determine who would drive first and who would navigate while the other four would sleep. Derek got the straw with Dave navigating. The only one not happy is Aaron. We all know how much he prefers to be in control and would actually drive all the way there before letting anyone else do so. Dave decides to take him aside and talk.

"Aaron…"

"Dave, we don't have time for this, we need to get going."

"Aaron, I want you to sleep the entire way and not worry about driving."

"I am going to take my turn at the wheel Dave."

"Aaron, momma needs you more so than she needs of us and she needs you awake, strong and capable. She is afraid and she needs your strength. You know her needs about that and you can give her that more than anyone else. You need to be as rested and able as possible."

"All right Dave. I will agree to that. Is there anything else?"

"Yes, you need to change your clothes into something more comfortable and disposable."

Aaron gets that strong angry look on his face when he says, "What exactly are you implying Dave?"

"I know that momma puts a few in your go bag and that it because sometimes you forget to mention when you have urges to go. Usually I or one of the others can read you when you have an urge and can quietly remind you. Even though you sometimes don't like when we do; you know that it has prevented problems." Aaron looks around shiftily because he knows of the truth of this. "I also know that she puts them in there because at night when you sleep you relax enough to lose control. Aaron, while in the car and sleeping you will be hopefully relaxed enough and may lose control. Let's nip that in the bud, okay." Aaron looks at him in the eye; not happy but knowing that Dave is right.

"I will meet you in the car."

"Do you need any help?"

"No, but thanks for the reminder."

"Any time baby brother." Both men smile as they remember the family dynamics that momma had created for them. Aaron might have been the boss of the team but he was also made the baby of the family.

He comes out of the airport where the car is waiting. Derek is in the driver's seat, David in the front passenger seat, Jennifer is in the bucket seat behind David and Emily is on the back seat behind her with Spencer sitting next to her. The bucket seat behind Derek is empty and waiting for Aaron. He gets in and puts his bag by his feet and buckles himself in. Derek slowly leaves the airport and moves toward the interstate where they build up speed. It is just past midnight when they arrive on the interstate and they know it will be about another twelve hours before they get to the DC area.

Meanwhile back in DC, Sean is pacing up and down the hall at the hospital where momma is lying in labor. Penelope is currently in with her and keeping her going by feeding ice chips to her and helping provide strength to this rapidly tiring woman. She has a pain every few minutes, however has not dilated which worries the doctors. She is in pain but does not want to take any painkiller for fear of hurting the baby. She is very conscious of what could happen. Jack is with his Aunt Jessica for the night but had been there earlier to see momma and feel the baby move within her.

For the next six hours, she continues to have pain after pain and is beginning to struggle to maintain her strength and the doctors have put her on oxygen in order to help her breathe through the pains. They did this when she fainted in the middle of a contraction. It was at this time when Dr. Hovde came to her to discuss having a cesarean. She has so far said no to this procedure because of an innate fear of surgery and not waking up from it. This stems from a childhood tragedy of losing her grandmother to that. She also is afraid for the baby as she knows that dangers of it. She wonders where Aaron and the family is. It is at this time when Penelope brought in her laptop with the camera and sets up a face to face with the family in the car.

It is Emily that answers as David and Derek are sleeping in the back seat with JJ driving and Spencer in the bucket seat next to Aaron who is still sleeping. The others refuse to wake him and have kept very quiet to let him sleep. It is eight in the morning now when Penelope contacts them.

"Hi, is he awake? Momma really needs to see him as she is failing fast. You have got to get here soon."

"We are driving as fast as we can and still be legal. We don't want to get stopped for speeding because that will take time we don't have and wouldn't be worth it. We are about 140 miles away. We should be there in about three hours barring any detours."

During this intercourse, Aaron wakes up after being gently prodded by Spencer and he looks at the man prodding him.

"What is it Spencer?"

"Garcia has momma on the computer. She needs to talk to you."

Aaron sits up straight and takes the computer that Emily hands back to him. Momma is on the screen, she looks haggard and tired but smiles when she sees him. He thinks that she looks beautiful.

"Hello Rebecca. You look beautiful and a little tired but beautiful."

"I don't feel beautiful just haggard and old but I needed to see you sweetheart. I don't know how much more strength I have. The doctors want to do a c-section and that scares me. I don't like surgery or anything like that. But I am tired and becoming very…" She stops talking as a contraction over and she begins to do her breathing exercises and he is right there encouraging her and doing his best to give her strength over the wireless connection. After several minutes the contraction ends and she does a last cleansing breathe. She looks at him and gives him a kiss while she leans back and closes her eyes to rest. It seems that she needs to do that between contractions. At this moment the computer at the hospital moves and Sean is looking at his brother.

"Hi Aaron, I heard that she told you about what the doctors say. She is only six centimeters dilated, at this rate it could be another twenty-four hours and she is not going to make it another day like this. The doctors want to do a c-section. You need to convince her to do that, otherwise…" He begins to get tears in his eyes and his voice cracks. "The doctors aren't sure she is going to make it much more. She is very weak and getting worse every hour. The baby isn't in distress yet but it is only a matter of time. You have to convince her to have the c-section Aaron."

"We should be there in about two and half hours, put me back with Rebecca." The computer screen is moved again to face Rebecca.

"Rebecca, it is Aaron. Open your eyes sweetheart." With tiredness her eyes open and she looks at the man that she loves. "Sweetheart, you need to prepare for the c-section and have it if the doctors say it is the best way. You have getting too tired to continue to try to dilate and have the baby vaginally. I need you to be okay and the baby needs you to be okay. The c-section will help insure that. I will be there as quickly as I can but you need to prepare for surgery sweetheart." She looks at him with tears in her eyes and slightly nods her head in agreement as she leans back again and closes her eyes but before that happens she begins another contraction. Aaron talks with her and encourages her but sees how draining it is on her.

The computer moves again and it is the doctor looking at him.

"Hello doctor, prepare her for surgery. I will get there as soon I can but she needs to be prepared and doctor do your best to save both."

"I will agent Hotchner and we will put it off as long as possible but I think it is best."

The computer turns off as the connection is lost.