July 17th, 2013 - 30 weeks pregnant
Beth was relaxing on the couch when she heard the garage door open signaling Hotch's return home. He had been called to Texas the morning before but luckily had only been gone one night. She got up and went to the kitchen to pour him a glass of scotch as he came through the garage door.
"Hey," he said to her as he swooped in to give her a quick kiss. "Did your mom get to her gate okay?
Beth's mom Rosie had come to stay with them for 5 days and had thrown her a baby shower over the weekend. It had been wonderful having her mom and sister stay with them and she had shed a few tears when she dropped her mom off at the airport. Her sister had only been able to stay the weekend and had left a few days prior.
"Yeah, Jack and I dropped her off and she texted me that they had boarded. She should be landing soon."
Beth handed Hotch the scotch she had poured for him.
"I'm sorry that I couldn't be here to say goodbye to her."
"I'm sure she was sorry too; I think she's got a bit of a crush on you. She loves to brag about you to all the women in her bible study."
Hotch laughed and pulled her in for a hug.
"I hope she's not the only Clemmons woman to have a crush on me."
"No, definitely not the only one," Beth smiled at him before kissing him again. "She does have quite a controversial opinion about what we should name this baby, though"
"Oh?"
"She thinks if it's a boy we should name him after my father."
"Eugene?!" Hotch failed miserably at attempting to hide the horrified look on his face.
Beth laughed. "Trust me, I shot her down immediately. Even my dad didn't like his own name, he would roll over in his grave if I named our son after him. She's still pushing for it as a middle name though."
"Let's just hope for a girl."
"Agreed!"
Hotch placed his hands on her belly and felt the little kicks of their baby recognizing the sounds of their voices.
"How's our half baked human doing in there?"
"Officially ¾'s baked now!"
"Getting so close! You hang in there 10 more weeks, little one." Beth smiled as Hotch spoke to their baby. His hands were warm on her belly and they felt extremely comforting.
"Your mom sent a sweet card with a giftcard to Target inside. We should call her." Beth said softly. She knew Hotch's parents could be a touchy subject.
"And why is it exactly that she couldn't just come to your shower? Hotch let annoyance flood his tone.
"Aaron,"
"I know that my dad was terrible to her, Beth. I know that because he was terrible to Sean and I too. But we don't get to wallow in self pity and never leave the house."
Beth reached out and took his hands into hers.
"You don't, Aaron. You don't know what she experienced. You only know what you saw but you'll never know what you didn't see. You know the absolute minimum of what she went through. And I know he was terrible to you and you never deserved that. Nobody does. But you show so much grace to everyone around you, maybe try and save some for her."
Hotch squeezed her hands. "I'll call her in the morning."
Beth smiled gently at him. "Go relax on the couch, watch some trash TV, I'll heat you up some leftovers."
Hotch nodded and kissed her cheek before settling in on the couch and turning Friends back on. He didn't particularly find it as humorous as Beth did but it was certainly mindless which was exactly what he needed. Beth brought him leftover ravioli and garlic bread; it was delicious and he nearly inhaled it.
"So speaking of grandparents," Hotch began once he had finished his dinner. "Haley's parents texted me today. They want to take Jack to Disney World for a week in August."
Beth looked skeptical. "A whole week? Has he ever spent a whole week with them before?"
"No. And they've never taken him on a trip either. It makes me uneasy but I don't really have a reason to say no. They're fine grandparents to him. What should we do?"
"Honestly? I think we should ask Jack what he wants. If he's okay spending a whole week with them then we should let him go. If he doesn't want to then say you're only comfortable with him going for a shorter period of time."
"What if his dad isn't comfortable with him going away for a whole week?!"
"Well I'm not gonna lie, it'll probably suck. But something tells me we could find something to occupy our free time." Beth winked at him.
"I'll talk to Jack about it tomorrow when I get home from work and let them know. Let's go to bed, it's getting late."
Hotch stood up but Beth stayed on the couch, he stood in front of her with arms stretched out to help her up.
"There's just one thing I want to do first. You stay there."
Beth untucked his dress shirt and unbuttoned his pants and pulled down the zipper.
"Beth, what are you doing?!"
"Stand there and stay still, Hotchner."
She kissed the exposed skin above his briefs and slowly pulled them down kissing the skin that showed. Soon he was exposed and she was salivating. He wasn't quite ready yet but she wasted no time in taking him in her mouth.
"Beth," he sighed. She was warm and wet around him and he felt himself hardening in her mouth.
Slowly she backed off before engulfing him again. And again. It felt wrong that the gagging sounds she made when he hit the back of her throat turned him on but he kept his hands firmly grasped onto the sides of his pant legs, gripping the material for dear life. This was all her doing.
She eased off of him and reached up to smooth her hands over his. "Relax, Hotchner. Enjoy this." He released his pant legs on either side and she moved his hands to her shoulders before returning her focus to pleasuring him. She put her hands to better use playing with his balls and stroking the shaft while she toyed with the head in her mouth.
Beth could start to hear him inhale deeply and quickly as he neared the end so she abruptly pulled away and removed her hands.
"What the fu - why did you stop?"
"Just wanted to prolong the fun," she smirked at him. This time I'll let you finish. I promise.
She took him back into her mouth stifling her gag reflex as she pushed herself all the way down. She cupped his balls and massaged his perineum in the process. She bobbed her head up and down on him and drool poured out the sides of her mouth and down his dick. It provided lubrication for her fingers as she continued to rub him down below.
"Fuck. I'm close."
True to her word, Beth didn't ease up this time and soon she felt him explode in the back of her throat. She swallowed everything he had to offer before releasing him and pulling his briefs back up over him. She took his hands off her shoulders and used him as leverage to pull herself up from her sitting position on the couch.
"Now we can go to bed," she told him.
"I can't wait to marry you," he replied as he followed her to the bedroom.
July 18th, 2013 - 30 weeks pregnant
Hotch hadn't quite been at work much more than an hour when his cell phone buzzed next to him at his desk. It was from Beth.
*Call me when you have a free minute - nothing urgent :)*
He closed the report he had been working on and called her.
"Hey!" she answered.
"Hey, what's up?" They had just seen each other a couple hours before and it wasn't like her to just call to chat when he wasn't away on a case.
"So don't panic, everything's fine."
"What happened?" He interrupted her.
"I took a little bit of a stumble on my way into work. My dumb work heels and my offset center of gravity didn't agree with each other and I ended up on the ground. I didn't land on my belly but the midwife said I should go to the hospital for some monitoring so that's what I did."
"You're in the hospital?! I'm on my way."
"Aaron. It's okay, you don't have to come. They put me on the fetal monitor and they said the heart rate looks great. They just have to monitor me for four hours and then I can go back to work. Seriously Aaron, it's not a big deal, you should stay at work."
"Are you okay? Did you hurt yourself?" He was still worried and every part of him was telling him to go be with her.
"Just a couple of scrapes on my palms and knees from catching myself. They gave me some antibiotic cream and band aids."
"You're sure you and the baby are okay, you're not downplaying this?"
"Truly Aaron, we're fine. If something changes you'll be the first to know. I wasn't even going to come in but the midwife said better safe than sorry."
"Okay, well keep me updated. And let me know when you're discharged. Or if you change your mind and want me to come I will!"
"I know you will, Aaron. I love you.
"I love you too. Be safe, please. Go home and change your shoes before going into work."
"I will, I promise. Bye, babe."
"Bye."
Beth leaned back on the uncomfortable stretcher they had her in in the triage room. There wasn't a TV or even a door, just a curtain maintaining her privacy, but hopefully she wouldn't be there for much longer than four hours. She closed her eyes and listened to the fast and steady beat of her baby's heart.
"Dad's home!" Jack shouted as they heard the garage door opening. He was helping her slice veggies for stir-fry but abandoned his duties to run and give his dad a hug as he walked through the door.
"Hey, bud! How was your day?!"
"It was good, Aunt Jessie took me to her friends house and we swam in her pool and her friend had kids my age so it was super fun."
"That's awesome, Jack."
Hotch walked into the kitchen where Beth was still working on the stir-fry.
"How are you feeling?" He had been relieved when she had called to let him know they had both been cleared to leave the hospital but had still worried most of the day.
"I'm good, other than the stinging palms I feel fine."
Hotch kissed her before glancing at her hands and kissing those too. It did look painful.
"Jack, come sit with me. I want to talk to you about something."
Hotch took a seat at the island, across from where Beth was preparing dinner and he pulled the seat out next to him for Jack.
"So buddy, your grandparents want to take you on a trip next month. But before I tell them yes or no I wanted to see how you would feel about it."
"Where do they want to go?" Jack asked him.
"Well bud, they want to take you to Disney World for a whole week."
"I've always wanted to go to Disney!" Jack said excitedly. "Would you and Beth come?!"
"No Jack, your grandparents want this to be a special trip with just you and them."
"So I wouldn't see you or Beth the whole time?"
"No buddy, that's why I wanted to talk to you about it. If you want to go you should go but if you don't want to be gone a whole week you can tell me and I'll just say I'm not comfortable with you being gone that long."
"Do I still get to go to Disney if I don't go for a whole week?"
"I don't know, bud." Hotch answered honestly. "It's kind of a long trip so it would be hard to do it for only a few days. I think you will have a lot of fun if you go. Aunt Jessie will be there too and you can call Beth and I every night. But I only want you to go if you want to go."
"I want to go but I'm worried I'll miss you."
Beth piped in. "We'll definitely miss you, Jack. And you'll probably miss us, but that doesn't mean you won't have fun."
Hotch nodded in agreement.
"I guess I want to go." Jack said, sounding a bit conflicted.
Hotch leaned over and kissed Jack's head. "I think it will make your grandparents really happy, bud."
"Alright, enough talk of Jack leaving. Let's eat!" Beth announced.
Later that evening Aaron climbed into bed next to Beth.
"Did you call Haley's parents?" She asked him.
"Yeah, they're going to take him from August 12-17th so not quite a whole week."
"That's good. How did the phone call go?"
"It was fine, we didn't talk about anything except Jack. I'm sure Jessie has told them about the baby but they didn't bring it up."
"Jack's excited to be a big brother, I'm sure he'll mention it. Do you think they'll be okay with it?"
"I'm sure they'll handle it appropriately. They love Jack and they've always been good to him, it's me they're not particularly fond of."
Beth just squeezed his thigh not knowing what to say to comfort him.
"It's okay, their disdain started ages ago. Around the time I joined the bureau and they decided they'd much rather their daughter be married to a lawyer than an FBI agent."
"I don't know, I've never seen a lawyer with that good of abs before."
Hotch chuckled and kissed her temple before running a hand over her belly.
"Promise me you'll stop wearing heels to work, at least until you're not pregnant. I don't want to get another call like the one I got this morning."
"I promise. Let's go to sleep, I'm exhausted."
Hotch turned off the bedside lamp and laid down in bed. Beth laid on her side next to him and he dozed off to the gentle kicks from her belly.
