(hii I know it's been a while but I've been finishing criminal minds and I've had no inspiration but I decided that I'm going to do a few 'flashback' chapters into the case that caused the accident and when the accident happened because it's going to be more than just a usual case...because it's foyet 😁 Obviously in this story he doesn't kill Haley or anyone, so this is what Foyet does instead
It had been two months since the reaper had first reappeared, and it was stuck on Hotch's mind ever since. Everyone could tell, especially Emily but nobody knew what to do. He had acted like he'd moved past it, but the guilt of Foyet escaping prison had dwelled on him ever since he escaped. They couldn't try and track Foyet down due to the amount of cases that they already had that they had to focus on, especially because Foyet hadn't killed anyone new as far as they were aware.
Hotch had got to work early this morning, just like he had for the past two months and Emily sighed as she woke up and saw the empty side of the bed. She sat up and ran a hand through her hair, she checked her phone to see if he had texted but he hadn't.
She could feel him drifting from her and she hated it but she didn't know what else to do, he'd denied anything bothering him and said everything was fine too many times. She'd had enough now. They were supposed to be trying for a baby, they were supposed to be in the honeymoon period again since they'd only been married 5 months. She decided she had enough of him pushing her away about all this and today she was going to talk to him.
Emily got ready for work and then headed into the office, she was a little earlier than the rest of them which was good as it gave her time to go to Aaron.
Emily knocked on the office door and walked in, "Hey, brought you a coffee. You wasn't there this morning-again." She said, putting a takeout coffee in front of him on his desk.
He looked up at her and smiled a little, "Thanks for the coffee, and yeah I know..I had paperwork to do."
"You've had paperwork to do for weeks Aaron, you deserve a break and I want my husband back." She said, folding her arms.
"I can't help-"
She stopped him, interrupting, "No, this is about Foyet. You think if you overcompensate it'll make the guilt of not catching Foyet easier and not seeing that it was foyet all along easier. But it won't. And it won't help going through the file a hundred times. Nothings going to change, Aaron!" She said, pointing to the folder on Foyet that she he had done a poor effort of trying to hide.
He exhaled, listening as he let her talk, "Emily-"
"I'm not finished. I just want my husband back, I just want you..to be you." She said.
Aaron got out of his chair, going over to her, "I'm sorry." He said, placing a hand on her face. "I'm sorry for not being there. It's just- I can't get Foyet out my mind. I should have done more."
"There was nothing you could have done" she shook her head, moving closer to him.
He nodded, "I wish there was. But I realise now, that I can't continue like this. We will find him...but I can't focus on this because it will take over."
She smiled and nodded, kissing him softly, "I promise you when we get a lead on him..the whole team will put everything into it, but until that you can't stop your life trying"
He kissed her head and nodded, "Okay...to make it up for you, how about we have dinner tonight? The Italian that Rossi took us too that time, that almost beat his own pasta?"
She nodded with a smile, "Oh. I would love that." She looked as the team had arrived, "And duty calls" she rolled her eyes, kissing him once more.
Luckily, that day was filled with paperwork and reports as no case had come through and their date was still on which was unusual as the majority of their dates had been postponed due to cases.
Emily had a red dress on and had curled her hair, she had applied a full face of makeup and sprayed herself with perfume before walking downstairs. Aaron had been ready 45 minutes earlier, he was used to Emily taking forever to get ready.
"You look amazing, as usual" Aaron smirked, kissing her.
"Thank you" she smiled kissing him back and then grabbing her bag.
They got to the restaurant and ordered their food and a bottle of wine, Emily had missed this and was glad Aaron had finally come to his senses.
They had been there a few hours, which had flown by and felt like nothing.
"I think we should start trying again.." Aaron said, looking up at her and sipping his wine.
Emily raised a brow, a smile grew on her face, "What? You really want too?}" she asked, she knew they had spoke about it but her worry was Aaron wouldn't have wanted too as he already had Jack.
He nodded, "Yeah. I want a baby with you." He smiled, moving a hand on top of hers.
"Okay, yeah. I really want that." She said, "You know..we could skip dessert altogether and start trying now" she smirked.
He grinned, "I like the idea of that." He said, downing his drink and putting money on the table.
It was 5AM and the pair hadn't slept yet, Emily was resting her head on Aaron's chest, "You know...we could always go once more." Aaron said, raising a brow.
Emily chuckled, "I don't think I could handle another...I think we've definitely had enough fun for one night" she said before yawning.
"Well, I suppose we should get SOME sleep before work" he said.
She nodded and snugged into him, as they both started drifting off to sleep both of their phone pinned off.
Emily groaned, "Typical." She said, getting up and checking her phone.
As they both checked their phone, they stared at each other, it was Garcia 'Urgent case, ASAP. It's Foyet.'
Emily swallowed, "Let's go." Aaron said, instantly getting up and going to the shower.
Emily nodded, and hurried to go get ready.
