Emily had been moved into Hotch's house for 2 months now, they had both settled well into living together and couldn't be happier, they hadn't even argued yet. Everyday had felt like they were still in the honeymoon period and Emily enjoyed living with Hotch and Jack too.

Emily was at work, talking with the team about their weekends as they were filing reports. Hotch was in his office, filing reports and going over their next case too look at. Once their relationship had been outed at Rossi's wedding, Strauss had spoke to them both and they all agreed that as long as it never affected their work life, it wouldn't affect their jobs.

It was still early morning when they had all arrived in the office, to finish reports and catch up on anything. As she was sat there talking to her friends, Emily suddenly felt sick. "I'm just going to go to the toilet." Emily said rushing off to the bathroom.

As soon as she made it to the toilet, she just about made it down the toilet as she threw up. Emily sat back, wiping her mouth with tissue, she sighed and helped her stomach. It wasn't the first time she had thrown up recently in the morning although she put it down to having a dodgy stomach.

However, she was also aware that she had missed her period by two weeks, but this wasn't uncommon for her as she sometimes missed it due to stress of the job. She ran a hand through her hair, she knew what she had to get.

She was nervous, the possibility of children had never crossed her mind she had always thought she'd never end up having them due to her job and the fact she'd never been in love. But this was different, even if she was pregnant would she keep it, and how would hotch react.

During her lunch break, she made up the excuse to Hotch that she wasn't hungry and that he should go out with the team. As soon as they had all left for lunch, she left to go to the chemist.

She picked up two tests from the chemist to be sure and went back to the office, she sighed and took them out as she went into the bathroom and went into a cubicle.

She had been through a lot in her life, but nothing had made her more nervous than as she started the test. She sat on the floor, with her hands covering her face as she waited for the result. She looked down after two minutes had been, and stared at the lines on the test

Positive.

Her eyes filled with tears as she tried to keep herself together, she didn't know what to do, or how she would even tell Hotch.

She put the tests in her bag and sorted her eyes out before going back out, they would be coming back soon and she couldn't look like anything was off.

As she made her way back to her office block, she was approached by the whole team rushing back. "What's going on?" She asked Hotch as he rushed in.

"Emergency situation, we need to get down to the mall in DC now." He said

Emily nodded, "Okay.." she said, grabbing her things, her news would have to wait.

Once the team got down there, they were informed it was a hostage situation with a shooter. He had already shot two people, and had requested the FBI.

"This man wants power, he wants to be recognised which is why he requested us. He wants the top authorities to know he has the power here." Rossi said.

As they were all putting bullet proof vests and loading their guns, Emily turned to them, "So what do we do then?" She asked.

"We need to be careful, he's already killed people which shows he doesn't care. I think we should send one of us in, if we send everyone it's too much of a risk and he may feel overwhelmed and kill more people." Hotch said.

Emily felt her stomach go into a knot, she knew Hotch was going to send himself in, she felt sick of the thought of him going in.

"And I could never ask any of you to go in...which is why I'm going to go in. I'm your leader, if he wants to speak to any of us..it will be me, right?" Hotch said, letting out an exhale as he looked at Emily. He knew she wasn't happy with this.

Derek shook his head, "Hotch..no, you can't-"

"Morgan. This is my decision, and I'll try and talk him down. If I can't..I'll call you all in and we'll try and take him out before he kills anyone else." Hotch said sternly.

Emily shook her head, "Aaron..please..we can find another way." She said, "I have a bad feeling about this.." she said, turning to face him.

"Emily..I'll be okay, okay? I promise. This is our best option to save as many people as we can." He said taking her hand.

"Promise me..you won't get hurt." She said, her voice breaking, the only thought running through her mind was that he was going to get shot and he'd never meet his child or even know she was pregnant.

"I promise." He said nodding at her, before walking off to go in.

She wanted so badly to tell him now, that she was pregnant, but she knew it would only distract him from what he needed to do and she needed him to be fully concentrated. She couldn't loose him.

"What if..what if it goes wrong." Emily said, turning to JJ, panic in her eyes.

JJ shook her head, "It'll be okay. Hotch is good at this...he'll be okay." JJ nodded, squeezing her arm although JJ was unsure herself.

As Hotch walked in, he held his hands up, putting his gun down. "This is Aaron Hotchner, I'm the leader of the FBIS BAU team, I just want to talk...I'm not going to shoot." Hotch said to the shooter.

The shooter pointed the gun at Hotch, "So they listened to my demands?" He said shouting.

Hotch nodded, "How about you put the gun down and we talk this through?" He said.

The shooter shook his head, "No. Even if I put the gun down...everyone in here is going to die." He smirked. "My goal is complete, killing someone so high up in the FBI will make me remembered forever." He smirked.

Hotch looked around, "What do you mean?" He said, before gasping, "Everyone get out of here now, he has a bomb!" He shouted.

The shooter smirked, as he pressed the button to his phone, "Your all not going to make it out of here." He said before Hotch picked up his gun, putting a bulletproof to his brain before the shooter could shoot.

Everyone started running out, including Hotch, until he heard the cries of a little girl who was hiding behind a tree. "Help me" she cried.

There wasn't long left on the bomb, he knew that, Hotch looked back and sprinted back after the girl.

He took her into his arms, and started running back out the mall, time was ticking and he knew he was pushing it here.

Emily gasped from outside, "JJ what's going on?" She said putting her hand to her mouth. All she had heard from people running out is bomb.

"Where's Aaron?" Emily cried, tears running down her face.

There was still no sign of Hotch as they all saw the mall explode.

The bomb exploded, taking down half the mall into crumbles.

However, there was no sign of Hotch.

(ahh has hotch made it out alive? ;)