Chapter 3

"Hey, what are you two doing lurking around corners?" Emily asked.

The sudden presents cause both Morgan and Garcia to jump. "God, you scared me, Em!", Morgan yelled.

"You still haven't answered my question."

"We were kinda eavesdropping on Hotch and Strauss."

"Not 'we', she dragged me along against my will."

"Did not. You were as curious as I was."

"So, what was all the yelling?"

"Wellll, my raven haired beauty, I happened to make a very interesting, yet slightly disturbing discovery this morning. I found a lot of pictures of Hotch naked on the Internet."

"You what!"

"Oh it gets better, you'll never guess who put them on the Internet."

"Who?"

"Strauss."

"What?"

"Turns out they slept together after a night of drinking and when he said it was a mistake, she took revenge by posting the pics online."

"WHAT?" Emily repeated loudly, as anger built up within her. How could he cheat on her? She thought he loved her. Tears started to appear in the corners of her eyes, threatening to escape. Before Morgan or Garcia could respond to her reaction, she practically ran away from them, headed for Aaron Hotchner's office.

Aaron Hotchner was trying to push the thoughts of what Strauss had done to the side, but he couldn't. She had no right to do something so Pathetic. What if Emily found out about it? Sure it was months before he started seeing Emily, but it would still probably upset her. He tried to get on with his work until, suddenly his door flew open and a very angry, teary eyed Emily Prentiss stormed into his office. "HOW COULD YOU CHEAT ON ME, YOU BASTARD?

"What?" Hotch said jumping out of his seat. "I never cheated on you, Emily."

"YOU LIAR! Why the hell were you and Strauss arguing then and what's this about naked picture?" she raved, as more and more tears began to make there way down her red cheeks.

"Okay, I need you to calm down. Come and sit down." He motioned to the couch in the corner of the room, making his way to it and sitting down. Reluctantly Emily followed. "I think I need to explain this, Em."

"Yes, you better." She said as she took a seat, making sure she kept her distance.

"You see me and Strauss." He paused when her head snapped up from staring at the floor. "We had a one night stand, I was totally drunk. I'm sorry you had to find out this way, but I assure you it meant nothing and it happened before you and me got together." His words were sincere; she could tell that and the way he was looking at her confirmed that. "So, what's with the pictures?"

"Oh, well that's a little harder to explain."

Emily didn't speak, she just waited for him to continue."She took some pictures of me that night, we were really really drunk." He paused and stared into his girlfriend's eyes. "As soon as I woke up, I regretted the night before. I told her it was a mistake and just stormed out of her place."He stopped and looked down to the floor.

Emily placed her hand on his forearm. "So why did she put the pictures on the internet?"He let out a long sigh before continuing. "She kept trying to talk to me about it after it happened and I pushed her away. She caught me off guard one day, when she said she wanted more than a one night stand with me, I turned her down and I thought that was the end of it.""So she thinks its okay to do something so pathetic, just because you wouldn't sleep with her again?" Emily was angry again, but this time her anger was not directed at Aaron."There's a bit more to it than that."

"What do you mean?"

"I confronted her before, demanded to know why she did it." He paused and let out one more, deep sigh. "And she told me she was in love with me."

"She's in love with you. Do you really think that's true?" Emily responded sceptically, staring into his deep brown eyes.

"No. I mean how can she love me we slept together once, while I was intoxicated and she hardly knows me."

"So what are you going to do?"

"Talk to her I guess, make her see that this isn't real. And hopefully get her to remove the pictures."

"So why do you think she was crying?" Morgan asked Garcia.

"Wake up hot stuff, everyone know that our raven haired beauty is deeply in love with our boss man."

"Yeah, but she's never admitted it and they aren't going out, so whats caused such an emotional response to someone that is so good at compartmentalizing?"

"Maybe there more than what meets the eye, handsome." She said winking.