Feb 15, 2013

"Hey! Are you in the city?" Aaron had called Beth as he got off the train at Penn Station.

"Just getting off the train now, going to catch the subway to your neighborhood. You home yet?"

"Running a little late at work but I'm finishing up. Let's meet at my place, I should get there around the same time as you."

Sure enough, Hotch let himself into Beth's apartment and not even 5 minutes later Beth came in the front door. Looking a bit frazzled but very happy.

"I'm so glad you're here!" Beth dropped her work bag onto a dining chair and gave him a huge hug. She leaned back and found his lips with hers. It felt good to just be the two of them. A whole weekend of not needing to be chaste for poor Jack's sake.

"I'm glad to be here," Aaron smiled back at her before giving her another kiss. Beth's stomach grumbled breaking off their kiss as Aaron chuckled.

"Did you eat lunch today?" he asked her trying to sound playful but his worry broke through.

"It was a tad hectic at work today. Besides, I made us dinner reservations at one of my favorite restaurants so I wanted to be hungry! We should get going though. It's about a mile walk."

Hotch began to put on his coat and asked her "is the subway still making you sick?"

"Meh, on and off. It's getting better. Mostly I just want an excuse to hold hands with you." Beth smiled at him.

They walked hand in hand, mostly in silence. Hotch didn't mind but it was unlike Beth to be so quiet after having spent the last few couple weeks apart.

"Is something bothering you?" Hotch asked her gently.

"I'm trying to work up the courage to tell you something."

Hotch was worried. She hadn't been this nervous to tell him about the job in NYC and that had significantly affected their relationship. Was she going to break up with him? Would she do that when he had just gotten there for a whole weekend?

"Okay…" He probed hesitantly. Not sure he wanted to hear what was about to come out of her mouth.

"So I had an appointment on Wednesday to get my IUD replaced. They're good for 5 years and I was coming up on that and I was trying to be proactive even though it's a miserable process getting them changed."

Beth took a deep breath and kept going.

"They always make you pee before your appointment and I didn't think anything of it. But when the midwife came in to start the procedure she told me something."

"What?" Aaron asked. Growing more and more concerned for the health of his girlfriend.

Beth stopped walking and turned to look at him.

"Aaron, I'm pregnant."

Aaron stood in stunned silence. Before re-taking her hand and resuming their walk towards the restaurant.

"Are you sure?" He asked. Still audibly shocked.

"Yeah." Beth answered him, clearly still in shock herself. "They did an ultrasound to see how far along I was since I didn't know when it would have happened. I'm already 9 weeks along. It must have been New Years Eve."

"Wow." He replied. Processing all the information.

"I'm so sorry Aaron. I didn't realize the IUD wasn't working anymore and I've never had a problem with them in the past!"

"Hey!" This is not your fault!" Aaron told her adamantly. "We're both adults. We both decided to rely on your IUD as our only method of protection. This isn't just on you."

Beth leaned into him as they walked. Teary eyed but feeling a giant weight lifted off of her. One that she had been carrying for two days now.

"We're here." She stopped and gestured with her head towards the restaurant.

They waited until they had been seated and ordered before resuming the conversation.

"Tell me what you're thinking," Beth asked him.

"I'm thinking it doesn't matter what I'm thinking. It only matters what you're thinking. I'm with you. One hundred percent no matter what. So tell me what you're thinking."

"I'm thinking that I'm terrified. We've never talked about this. And I was fine with the fact that I was never going to have my own biological children. But now I know about this baby. This baby that's been growing inside of me for 9 weeks and I'm excited. Excited about the possibility of us having a child together and giving Jack a sibling and being a real family."

"Being a dad is simultaneously the hardest and best thing I've ever done. There's never a perfect time to have a child. It just comes and you make do. And it's the most rewarding thing. I'm not going to pretend that I'm not terrified too. But Jack is the best thing to ever happen to me, and I know this baby will be too."

"So we're really going to do this? Beth looked at him starting to smile.

"We're gonna do this." Hotch confirmed smiling back at her.

"We're going to have a baby!"

Beth started laughing with joy and Aaron got up from his seat to pull her into his embrace. Fully allowing themselves to both feel the excitement that they had initially repressed.

"We should probably sit down," Beth laughed as they continued to hold each other standing next to their table. "People are looking at us like we're crazy."

"I don't even care." Hotch said but released her anyway.

They sat down still grinning like fools. Beth asked him to tell her stories about Jack when he was a baby. She ate her food and listened to him recount memories of sleepless nights, first steps, first words. She wondered if their baby's first word would be "mama" or "dada" like Jack's was. If their baby would be a good sleeper or a good eater. If their baby would get his brown eyes or her blue ones. She couldn't stop thinking about their baby. Their baby. Would she get used to saying "their baby" over the course of the next 31 weeks? Because right now everytime she thought the words in her head she immediately got butterflies.

Beth rolled from her back to her side and placed her hand on Aaron's bare chest, playing with the dark hairs there. After dinner they had gone back to her place and had been quick to jump into bed and celebrate their good news. She slowly grazed her hand up and down his torso and Hotch kept his eyes closed in contentment.

"How do you think Jack will take the news?" she asked him.

"I don't know."

"How will you tell him?"

"I don't know."

"Are you still too far gone in your sex induced haze to think of answers to my questions?" Beth chuckled.

"Hmm possibly." Hotch answered her.

Beth giggled. "I guess I'll save my breath and put my mouth to better use then."

She straddled him and leaned down to start kissing his neck. She kissed, and lightly bit, and sucked, and soothed with her tongue. She kissed across his cheek and lips towards the other cheek and down to the other side of his neck where she continued her assault. Hotch started moaning and shifting his hips upwards to grind himself into her, desperate for any friction he could find. Beth smiled into his neck before resuming sucking on his pulse point. She loved when she could make tightly wound Hotch lose control. She was used to him taking charge in the bedroom and she had absolutely no qualms about that but every once in a while she liked to remind him what she was capable of.

"Tell me what you want, baby." Beth whispered against his ear as she slid herself over his painfully hard cock.

Hotch just groaned and thrust himself upwards as a response.

Beth licked from his earlobe to the top of his ear. "Use your words, Hotchner. Tell me what you want."

"I want you to put me inside of you and keep me there forever."

Beth was impressed that he could form something so hot and sweet at the same time given his current situation. She braced herself with one hand on his chest and grabbed him with her other. Slowly she lined herself up with him and sank down on top of him, joining them together once again that night. They groaned in unison as she bottomed out on top of him. With both hands placed on his chest and his hands firmly gripping his hips Beth started to move on top of him. She started off slow; steadying herself and finding her balance, before speeding up and rocking herself up and down on top of him. Hotch was finding himself struggling to form any sort of coherent thought as the sensations of Beth on top of him combined with his incredible view of her breasts swaying right in his line of vision. His vision went dark and hazy as he came hard into his girlfriend letting out strangled gasps. Beth eased him down from his high slowing her pace and Hotch took her by surprise and flipped her onto the bed. He reached his hand down in between her thighs and stroked the sensitive bundle of nerves there. While he stroked her he found her lips with his and slowly kissed her, he could feel her starting to lose control as she neared orgasm. Hotch loved the sounds of her heavy breaths as she finally released the kiss and gave in to her body unable to do anything but clutch the hairs on the back of his head keeping his lips near hers.

Hotch gave her one last sweet kiss on the lips before rolling over to lay next to her. "Yeah, I think I'm ready for us to live in the same state again."

"Hm just the same state?"

"Same house would be nice too" Aaron turned his head to look at her and smiled.

"That does sound nice." Beth smiled back at him. "I'll give work my notice on Monday. There are a few projects I want to finish up so it'll probably be longer than 2 weeks but I want to get the process started. I want to come home to you."

"I'll start looking for houses. For the four of us."