Title: Five Things about Aaron Hotchner that Aren't in His Personnel File
Author: Kuria Dalmatia
Rating/Warnings: R (profanity, offensive language, physical and verbal abuse), spoilers for Season 5. Occurs after "Faceless, Nameless"
Characters/Pairing: Hotch (Hotch/Haley, Hotch/Reid)
Please see Chapter 1 for Disclaimers, Warnings and Comments
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Fact Two: Aaron Hotchner spent his first semester in college eating at McDonalds every chance he could get even though he was on the university meal plan.
This was before the movie Super Size Me came out, and it wasn't because Hotch was performing some experiment on the effects of fast food on the human body. No. He ate at McDonalds every chance he could get because, as a child, his mother never allowed him to.
Only poor people eat there, Aaron, she would say haughtily. And we're not poor.
The one time Aaron did push the issue—on a road trip to the beach house for the long weekend—his mother slapped him across the face hard and his father made him stay in the car while they went inside Cybil's by the Sea for dinner. It was hot outside even though the sun had started to set, and Aaron was not allowed to open the door or roll down the window. It was a miserable two and a half hours.
He learned his lesson, of course.
And when he learned about retaliatory behavior in one of his psyche classes during his sophomore year, he realized that his semester long splurge on McDonalds was a subconscious rebellion.
Stupid, of course.
But compared to what some kids did as revenge against their parents, it was pretty tame.
What he told Frost at their next session was: "I like the McRib sandwich on the McDonalds menu."
She had no response for that. Instead, she pursued the "Han Solo" line of questioning because, really, he wasn't giving her all that much to work with.
Hotchner two, Frost none.
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