A/N: Hi again. Here's the second to last chapter. And this is the one that finally answers, "What's up with Will?" Hope you enjoy! Please R&R!

Disclaimer: I do not own Criminal Minds.

Post-Wedding 4:

Hotch hefted a full box onto the kitchen table. He paused to look at his friends, Morgan and Rossi, as they each respectively packed items from the kitchen.

"Thanks guys for helping me out," Hotch told his friends.

"It was no problem, Hotch," Morgan answered.

"And besides," Rossi said, turning to give him a wry grin, "We know this way you'll return the favour one day."

"Thinking of moving in with Emily anytime soon?" Hotch questioned curiously.

"Uh uh," Rossi shut him down. "This day is all about you and JJ, not me…"

"Speaking of you and JJ… does this mean you'll soon be asking a certain question?" Morgan asked slyly.

"One step at a time, Derek… how about I get moved in before we think of anything else," Hotch answered, and then grinned. "And yeah… I've been thinking about it."

Rossi came over and gave him a pat on the back. "Good for you Aaron."

Hotch smiled, taping up the box, he paused. "I can't believe any of this sometimes…"

"Believe it, Hotch," Morgan assured. "You deserve this…"

His two friends lifted their boxes and carried them away. Hotch continued to stand there, just marvelling at the fact that he was getting a second chance at happiness.

He wasn't going to mess it up this time around. But he knew the problems he'd had with Hailey wouldn't be issues for JJ. He finally was with someone who understood the drive he had to put every un-sub he came across away. JJ knew what the job was like. She understood things that Hailey couldn't.

But still, Hotch vowed never to take advantage of JJ's insight into his world. They were moving in together, their first step into true family-hood. And to be a true family he knew he couldn't shirk his responsibilities. He would be there for JJ and Henry, and Jack, even if it meant he might have to miss a case. He learned to trust over the past few years with the help of JJ and he trusted that his team was more than capable of solving a case without him.

Morgan and Rossi re-entered the room. They remained silent, forcing Hotch to meet their gazes. They were giving him a quizzical look.

"What?" Hotch said suspiciously.

"You really fell hard, didn't you?" Rossi stated, amused.

Hotch showed them his rare smile. "You have no idea."

JJ looked up when her rambunctious, red-haired friend re-entered JJ's bedroom.

"The two little princes have been whisked away by our genius knight in shining armour," Garcia announced with a flourish of her hands.

"Huh?"

"I think she means that Jack and Henry left with Reid," Emily translated.

"Oh," JJ said. "Good."

"Not just good, it's great," Garcia exclaimed, plopping herself onto JJ's, and now Hotch's, bed. "Now you can tell me what it's like sharing a bed with our esteemed boss-man. Is it hot? I bet it's hot. He's all calm and cool on the outside. But I bet he's got an animal side…"

JJ had chosen that exact moment to take a sip of her bottled water. The small sip chose to go down the wrong pipe, choking her. She started to cough fitfully, but that didn't seem to faze Garcia.

"…he's a gorgeous man… I bet he's even hotter under that suit," Garcia continued to muse.

Emily moved to JJ's side patting her back with some pressure. "Garcia!" Emily exclaimed, cutting off their exuberant friend. "Are you trying to kill her?"

Garcia glanced from Emily to JJ looking all innocent. "What?"

JJ pointed at the door and managed to croak out, "Out, now!"

She held her serious expression for all of two seconds before she cracked up and her two best friends followed.

When the laughter died down Garcia opened her mouth again, but JJ held her hand up to cut her off.

"It's great," JJ answered her earlier question, knowing that Garcia was like a dog with a bone. "I wouldn't be moving in with him if everything wasn't… great."

"Great, that's all you're going to give me?" Garcia stared at her in disappointment. "For all I know great to you is not having to fill up on gas in a month… great doesn't mean anything."

"Sorry Penelope," JJ said, laughing.

"I really wish there was some kind of meter you could measure guys with," she continued to pout.

"Like a sex meter?" Emily suggested.

"Don't encourage her, Emily," JJ scolded.

"Yeah!" Garcia bit," And then I can compare all my BAU hunks…"

"You'd have to sleep with them all," Emily continued to feed her.

"Yeah…" Garcia trailed off, getting a dreamy look. "All those lovely men…"

"Snap out of it Penelope!" JJ urged, not sure how she felt about her friend picturing Hotch which ever way she was picturing him.

"Kevin, Garcia, remember him," Emily said, actually snapping her fingers in their analyst's face. Apparently she didn't like the thought of fantasy Garcia and fantasy Rossi together either.

Garcia shook her head coming out of it. "It's a tie," she murmured.

The complete deadpan of her voice had them bursting out laughing again.

Their girl's day was interrupted when a distinctly male voice came from downstairs.

"JJ?"

"Is that Will?" Emily asked her.

JJ nodded, getting up.

"You want us to come down with you?" Garcia asked, eyes wide in concern.

She shook her head. JJ and Will had worked things out to the point where it seemed Will didn't hate her anymore. They hadn't really talked everything over in the two months they'd been apart. But that much she knew.

She made her way out of the room, calling, "Yeah Will, I'm coming."

JJ found him sitting in the living room. He looked the same as usual, if a bit nervous.

"Hey Will," she greeted.

"Hi," he replied. He took a glance around the slightly dishevelled room. A few of Hotch' and Jack's boxes had already moved on over. "What's all this?"

She felt her cheeks redden in embarrassment. She knew she should have told him the minute they'd decided, but she was still so unsure on what his reactions would be.

"Uh… Hotch and Jack…they're moving in with us," she said slowly, hesitantly.

Will instantly let out a sigh and put his head into his hands. She wasn't sure how he was taking this news. Trepidation seemed to be her best bet.

"Hotch, of course, wants to talk to you about the house, he doesn't expect it to still be under our names…" she was quick to assure.

Will lifted his head out of his hands. "You're happy?" he asked, eyes locking with hers.

She still couldn't get a read on him.

"Yeah," she answered, truthfully.

Will nodded. "Good, that's all I want for you. If it couldn't be me, JJ, you couldn't have picked a better guy. Hotch's great."

JJ's mouth dropped open. Open acceptance of her relationship with the man that had broken them up was not what she expected.

Will gave her a small smirk, with a quick tap of his finger on her chin, he said, "Close your mouth JJ. You're the mother of my son. If you're happy, he's happy. And yes I still care about you."

Her eyes watered. He was truly a great guy.

He looked to be about to get up and leave, but JJ had something to say too. She grabbed hold of his hands, holding him down.

"Will," she said insistently. "Despite all I've done to hurt you, I truly want you to be happy too."

He pulled his hands away from hers. He stood up and she heard him let out a harsh sigh. This she could read, he was frustrated.

"The thing is…" he started.

"Yeah," she said quietly.

He whirled around eyeing her warily. "The thing is… I think I've found it… happiness, I mean. But it's… strange…"

She looked up at him confused. "Strange? It couldn't be too bad if it's made you happy…"

"It's not bad," he quickly amended. "Just different…"

She frowned at him concerned at what he may have gotten himself into. "Will, what do you mean? Different how?"

"JJ…" he started, awkwardly. "I like Jason."

She looked at him, still confused. What did Jason have to do with any of this? The guy was nice, but they were in the middle of talking about Will's…

"Oh," JJ breathed out, realization dawning on her.

"Yeah," Will said, almost sheepishly.

"So… you're um…" she replied just as awkwardly.

"Gay?" he finished for her. "I um… I don't know," She threw him a quizzical look. "I mean, I know I like Jason. But… it's confusing because I know I was um… attracted to you…"

"Oh," she said again.

Never in a million years did she ever think she'd be sitting in her living room discussing her ex-boyfriends sexuality. The experience sure was surreal.

"Yeah…" Will trailed off unsurely.

He seemed to be at a cross roads of sorts. Happy that he'd found someone to share a part of his life with, but scared because it didn't seem to fit in his old definition of love. He'd come to her, seemingly for guidance.

"Well, Will, it's like I told Henry once, there are many different kinds of love," she paused, "They're all equal and all valid… Maybe Jason's love is the kind you need now."

"Really?"

JJ stood up and wrapped her arms around her former fiancée. "Yes, really, Will. Love isn't confined to certain parameters. Let yourself feel what you feel," JJ affirmed. She felt his arms go around her. "It's not wrong."

"I will always love you, JJ," Will murmured.

She pulled back from him, giving him a small smile. Suddenly, everything made sense to her, the long hours spent at Jason's, the short engagement, the quick rush to the altar. Will had been trying to commit himself so he wouldn't have any room to have feelings for Jason.

She gave his cheek a kiss and said, "I'll always care about you too."

They pulled away from each other a sense of contentment settling between them that hadn't been there for awhile.

"So," JJ started again. "Is that what you came to tell me?"

Will nodded. "Yeah, that and I'm permanently moving in with Jason. And I wanted to ask you how you felt about us making one of Jason's spare rooms a room for Henry?"

"You're sure about Jason?" she asked, just to double check.

"As sure as you are about Hotch," Will confirmed.

"Then yeah, I think it's a great idea," JJ agreed.

Hotch watched JJ from his spot on their new bed as she continued to fold laundry. He frowned at her, wanting her to leave what she was doing and join him.

"Don't give me that pout," JJ scolded. "This basket of laundry isn't going to fold itself."

"Come on JJ, take a break, we've been at this all day," Hotch tried again. "I'm feeling neglected…"

"Well in that case…"

He grinned, believing he was about to get what he wanted. Instead, he got a face full of balled up socks.

"Hey," he protested, as she laughed.

She came to the bed side, still laughing. "I'm sorry… I couldn't resist."

Catching her completely off guard, he grabbed hold of her pulling her down onto the bed. She let out a squeal of delight as he leaned over top of her. "This is more like it…" he murmured, before covering her lips with his own.

The kiss lasted only for a few seconds, but he intended it as a prelude to more to come. After all, the boys were having a sleepover at Penelope's; they had the whole night ahead.

"Sorry… couldn't resist…" he echoed, going down for more.

"Aaron," JJ said distractedly. "Will came over today."

And that was it for his plans for the evening. He knew she'd been preoccupied, but he'd thought it had just been because of the move.

He let out a calming breath; he lay back on the bed. "Everything all right?"

She leaned over him this time. He could see she was unsure of what to tell him by the way she bit on her lower lip.

"JJ," he said soothingly. "What's up?"

"Will's all right, he's ok with us if that's what you mean," JJ assured.

He gave her a skeptical look. "Really?"

She nodded, but still worried at her lip. "He's a bit busy worrying about his new relationship."

"He found someone, that's great! Is he happy? Do you know her?" Hotch questioned.

"Yeah," JJ started slowly. "I know him."

Hotch's mouth dropped open.

She gave him a small smile. "Yeah, that was my reaction too…"

"You mean?" he questioned.

"Jason," JJ affirmed.

"Wow," Hotch said in shock. "Well… I'm happy for him…"

She lay back on the bed, out of his view, but he could tell from her tone when she said, "Yeah, me too," that she really meant it.

Some profiler he had been, he'd never seen this coming. But he was glad. Now that Will was happy they could be too. He knew that JJ had felt awful about the way she'd ended things with Will. Maybe now they could really move on.

"I was kind of afraid," JJ broke the silence, "that he'd never move on… that his unhappiness would forever be my fault…"

He leaned on his elbow to look at her; she had a sad look on her face. "Well, there's no need for that worry now…"

Her smile was slow to come to her face, but it came nonetheless. "Yeah, I guess you're right."

She leaned up to give him a quick peck on the lips. "Now I can devote all my attention to my new family. You, Henry and Jack are my life."

Hotch nodded. "Mine too, I love you…"

"Love you too," she murmured, before reaching up to capture his lips with hers.

Things continued to get hot and heavy, but once again things were interrupted.

JJ pulled away, sitting up, currently straddling his body.

"JJ," he said in frustration.

"Marry me, Aaron," she blurted out.

It seemed to be the hour for shocks. "What?"

She gave him the most loving look imaginable. "It's the last thing I can think of that will make our lives as near to perfect as they can get."

He continued to stare at her with wide eyes. Marriage again? His first one had gone horribly wrong. Could he manage not to ruin yet another one?

Glancing into her cerulean blue eyes, he knew suddenly that JJ would help him to be the best husband he could be. With her by his side, he knew he could succeed at anything.

"Yes," he breathed out.

"Yes," she said giddily.

I hope everyone enjoyed Will's big revelation. I think a lot of people guessed at it a long time ago. And I was so tempted to make Will have fallen for Jason's sister or something like that just to throw you all off. But, I really liked this ending for him better.

So, one more to go after this, the last chapter is going to be more like an epilogue. Hopefully, I'll have it up by the weekend.

Just wanted to thank everyone who's reading and alerting. And a special thanks to those who took the time to let me know what they thought: angry penguin; countersteak21; deeda; Hotch Fan; JJandHotch4ever96; sweet-disposition-101; Zolidify; Reading Red; canny-bairn; and whimsical-one-ga.