(hii thisis another flashback chapter, and the question remains, is Foyet caught? Or maybe he'll come later...

11 months earlier-

It had been two days and the team were no closer to Foyet, the whole team were putting everything they had into it and none of them had got a lot of sleep.

"Okay, so Foyet has killed 3 people since we have been back on this case. We need to think, where will he go next?" Rossi said.

"Yeah, well we know he's staying local to DC, but what if he isn't?" Emily asked, "Maybe, because he knows he has our attention, he left the city?"

Aaron shook his head, "No. He wants to taunt us, this is personal to us and he wants to keep taunting us no matter if he gets caught or not."

The team kept searching, and after the fourth body they finally found a lead. "Okay, I'm closest. I'll drive to the address." Hotch said hanging up.

Aaron sped up, putting the sirens on, there was no way he was letting Foyet escape again.

But that's when everything changed.

Foyet had outsmarted them and was following Aaron behind in the car, and had trailed up close to Aaron as he was going near the main roads which caused his accident as he squashed between two cars.

Aaron's car flipped and he was instantly knocked unconscious.

"Do we have any word from Hotch? Foyet isn't here and neither is he" Derek said, as he called the team in the other car.

Emily furrowed her brows, "What do you mean?" She asked, getting a little worried.

Garcia was also on the line, "Um, guys, Hotch's cell has just pinged on the high street...and a crash has been reported there. His cell isn't moving."

Emily started getting a horrible feeling in her stomach after hearing Garcia, "Maybe he's just..helping the crash" Emily said with a shrug, "Or maybe it was Foyet and he was the one that crashed which is why he's there.."

When they arrived at the scene, there was no sign of Foyet and according to witnesses he'd rushed off as soon as Aaron had crashed. They got a Reg plate from the witnesses and Rossi and Reid went off to track the car, hoping to find Foyet.

Emily ran to the car, seeing Aaron unconscious with the medics, "Is he- is he okay?" Emily asked, panic in her voice and tears welling her eyes.

"We need to get him to a hospital now."

"I'm coming with you." Emily said, rushing into the ambulance.

In less than 20 minutes, their lives had changed.

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Emily and the team were awaiting news on Aaron, he'd been rushed off surgery and the doctors couldn't say much.

Emily was pacing up and down, biting her nails, "He's going to be okay, right?" Emily said shakily, it was the fifth time she'd asked this.

Derek got up, going over to her, "Emily..calm down, it's Hotch. No matter what, he's strong. Your not doing yourself any favours by panicking"

Emily nodded, tears falling down her face, "I just- I can't loose him" she shook her head as she fell into Derek's arms.

Derek held her, stroking her hair, "its gonna be okay.." he said comfortingly, but to be honest he wasn't sure himself. He'd seen how bad the crash was, and how critical Hotch looked. He was scared for his friend too, they all were.

"Aaron Hotchner?" The doctor called out and instantly they all stood up.

"How is he?" Emily asked, rushing over to the doctor.

"Agent Hotchner has suffered severe head trauma and we had to induce a coma...we won't know how bad the brain damage will be until he wakes., I'm sorry." He said softly.

Emily let out a sob, "Brain damage?"

The doctor nodded, "He had a few bleed on the brains and received major head trauma but head injuries cannot be measured until the patient is awake, every head injury is different"

She nodded, "Can I see him?" She asked.

He nodded, "Yeah, he's in room 144"

Emily nodded, "Thank you, doctor." Emily said, as she rushed to find the room.

She was scared for him too wake, when she heard the word brain damage she didn't know what to think. What if he didn't remember her? What if he was completely different?

Emily put a hand to her mouth as she saw Aaron led there, hooked up to machines and she rushed over placing a hand on his and sitting down next to his bed.

The first week passed and there was no change. The team all took it in turns of coming to sit with him, but Emily stayed there every day and night only leaving to get more clothes and shower.

She had barely slept or ate, she couldn't. Although she was happy he hadn't deteriorated, she was scared for him too wake and see the affect the accident had.

"Aaron...if you can hear me, please..just come back to me" she said, as she squeezed his hand. "I can't loose you, we have...a life we're building together. You have Jack, and we need to have our own family..and you can't die." She said, tearfully.

The second week had passed and Emily was loosing hope for him to wake, although she knew being in a coma could take longer, she was growing impatient and nervous. She had grown to hate this hospital so much, but there was nowhere she would go except home and back to the hospital.

Finally, the third week came and Aaron had woke. Emily was relieved he was awake, but he hadn't been awake for longer than two minutes and in that time he hadn't spoke. He just stared at her blankly. Maybe it was due to coming out the coma, she thought. Over the next few days, he only woke for a few minutes and in that time he had looked around the room blankly before drifting back off.

Nobody knew how bad the damage to his brain was yet.

On the 5th day of him being out of a coma, he had finally lasted longer than two minutes being awake. Aaron squeezed her hand and looked at Emily, "Aaron? It's me, Emily. Your okay, your in the hospital. Do you- do you know who I am?" She said softly, moving closer.

Aaron heard what she said, and opened his mouth to say yes, of course he knew who his own wife was. As he went to answer, a series of mumbled sounds came out of his mouth, which made them both confused.

Aaron widened his eyes, realising what had come out, why couldn't he speak? What had happened?

"I'm gonna- I'm gonna get the doctor" Emily said, rushing to go get the doctor. She was scared, could he not talk? Had the damage affected him this badly?

The doctors took some tests, and after asking Aaron a series of questions, they told them both that he had Aphasia. From what they could tell, he could remember people but he couldn't speak. Aaron knew what words he wanted to say, but every time they came out it came out as a series of mixed sounds and stutters, which irritated him. He'd cried twice already and got irritated.

This was unlike him at all, which had made him more angry as he knew this wasn't him and embarrassed him.

Emily also knew this, she knew her husband would hate this and she knew this wasn't Aaron. It scared her, she didn't want to loose him and she wondered if this was just as bad.

Over the next days, Aaron's mood swings were out of control. He was getting more frustrated, agitated and upset each time he couldn't say what he was wanting to say. It had embarrassed him when he was placed on colostomy and urostomy bags, and when he was placed on a feeding tube because he was choking on the tiniest food he had been given. This wasn't him, and he was filled with anger towards Foyet.

The team had caught Foyet and he was placed in federal prison, but his mission all along was to make Hotch suffer and nothing else. Foyet had succeeded with that.

Present time-

Aaron had just finished an appointment with the FBI therapist that he has been forced to see if he even wanted a shot at being put back under desk work.

Today was the first time he'd let out his anger towards Foyet to the therapist, he'd remembered everything Foyet had put him and his team through, he would kill Foyet if he could.

Emily smiled as she saw Aaron come out the door to the therapist room, he was walking with the Walker perfectly now and smiled as he saw her. "Hey." He said kissing her head.

"Hey, how was it?" She asked as they walked.

"It was..um, good. I finally told her about Foyet." He shrugged, "But it just made me more angry...because it was the first time I'd fully told the story about what happened"

"That's good I suppose, it's good to get it all out. I have some news when we get home by the way.."

"When we get home?"

"Yeah, you've gotta wait till we're home." She smirked.

Emily walked into the house and rushed to the kitchen, grabbing a small box she'd bought. As she walked to Aaron, he was in the living room. "What's this?"he chuckled, as she handed him the box.

"Open it." She said, smiling widely.

"Okay" he said, raising a brow as he opened the box.

Inside the box was a stick, a pregnancy test stick, with the word Pregnant

She was pregnant.

He looked at her, speechless, not knowing what to say.

"Your pregnant?" He said, looking at her.

He was unsure how to feel, before the accident he would of been over the moon for this but now he was confused. Could he even be a good dad with what had happened?

"Yeah!" She said laughing softly, "Are you happy about that?" She asked, looking at him confused a little. She could tell he hadn't seem overly enthusiastic by this. Unlike him, she was over the moon for this, it had all she'd wanted since they'd started trying.

"I- I don't know." He swallowed, looking her in the eyes.

Her face dropped, she was speechless.

(I know this chapter is a little all over the place, but basically it was Hotch retelling how his accident had happened which involved Foyet and then Emily is preggers :)