A/N: Sorry this is so late. I got so involved in all the online chat about Route 66 that I forgot to post this.

Chapter 4

Will LaMontagne could be devious in his own right. And he knew this group. Hell I love them he thought. Who showed up at our wedding? And I know Cait; I'm love her; I can play hardball. "Anyone want to shoot some pool?"

Morgan just groaned, as JJ was coming out of Cait and Aaron's bathroom with the boys, Garcia following. She shot her husband dagger looks. Garcia did the same. Dave, sitting in his usual place, with Jimmy at his right, roared with laughter. Cait and Aaron laughed with him. The boys climbed into their laps and JJ and Cait got them their desserts. Dave and Father Jimmy smiled at each other as the boys dived in.

Jimmy looked at Dave, as Alex looked at Cait, along with a smile from James. Dave shook his head at all of them. "We got handed the Sandy Hook profile earlier this year. And after dat," his accent showing again, "we had three cases in a row involving kids. Guess who provided the venue to unwind and how dat went?"

Jimmy and Alex both smiled. Jimmy smiled. "Davey, I may not be a profiler, but I would say the two ladies that Will sorta called out with their groans over imbibed."

Dave smiled. "Just a wee bit," he winked. JJ and Garcia groaned again. Jimmy laughed.

Alex smiled at Cait and Hotch. "Let me guess the Morgan part." Cait and Aaron both just smiled.

"GD you Will; don't you mention the downstairs to me again," Morgan growled. Cait pointed to them all.

"Boom," she smiled.

Jimmy smiled. "And knowing you and Aaron Cait, they all got home safely."

Aaron smiled. "Or stayed the night," he winked. Alex looked at him. "This is your haven; our haven, with my wife's cooking. And yes, if we have to let people sleep here to enjoy this haven, we will."

Matt shoveling in his second bowl of Cait's chili looked at Alex. "Thank God I didn't get bunked up with Uncle Dave; enough of them had sober cabs to get them home." Alex and James roared with laughter. Dave flipped off Matt under handily as Jimmy shook his head. "Mom and dad got him tucked into their study," Matt smiled at the couple.

"I got my own butt into dat bed," Dave growled.

Matt smiled. "Did you pull it out and make it up for you to do dat," Matt questioned, mimicking Dave's accent.

Jimmy roared. "Give it up Davey; you're not going to win this." Alex and James laughed harder with Cait and Aaron joining them. Aaron and his oldest son shared a high five.

JJ smiled. "I think this is where Penelope and I take the boys upstairs to get their teeth brushed." It had been made out from the morning that Henry was sleeping over with Jack. The desserts finished, they chased them up the steps.

Dave growled at Aaron. "You would rub it in."

Aaron smiled. "Why do you drink so much scotch here?"

Dave smiled at him and then Alex. "Because you, and that beautiful wife that you do not deserve because I didn't set you up, have gave all of us a haven. And we take advantage of it." Jimmy rubbed Dave's shoulder, smiling at Alex.

Alex looked at Cait wide eyed. "Dave didn't set you two up?"

Aaron and Cait both smiled. "In a way, he did," Aaron said, explaining to her how he happened to lecture in Cait's class.

Derek slid into the third lunch counter chair, rubbed Jimmy's shoulder and looked at him with a broad smile. "Ask what happened after that," he beamed.

Jimmy looked at Cait and Aaron. "I'll bite."

Matt just shook his head. "Old news of Uncle Dave getting toasted," he said, giving Dave a wicked smile. He rinsed his chili bowl and put it in the dishwasher. "I'm out all to do some gaming." He said his good-byes to all of the team as well as Father Jimmy. He nodded at him. "Egg them on; the story is good."

Alex looked at Cait. "Please, you've got to tell us the rest." Dave growled at Matt after sharing a hug with him. "Now, I've really got to know," Alex smiled.

Jimmy smiled. "Me too; especially the part about you Davey," he smiled at his friend, rubbing his shoulder. The entire group was gathered around for the conversation, including JJ and Garcia. They filled in the other parents that the boys were still goofing around in Jack's room.

Cait gave them all a belly laugh. "We talked a lot on the phone and then we met for a drink just before Christmas," she said and looked at Aaron, with a smile. "I knew by then it was God guiding my life." Jimmy smiled and nodded his head. "The rest of you would probably chalk it up to karma; either way, I knew," she smiled.

Aaron picked up on the story of Cait giving him some get Christmas gift ideas for his then three year old son and the coming over to wrap them. The team all smiled.

Derek looked at them, rubbing Father Jimmy's shoulder. "I'm sorry Jimmy; but I think the dirty deed is about to enter into this story and it involves," he said, nodding at Rossi, "Uncle Dave. I've got to hear this."

Father Jimmy looked at him. "I'll say seven Hail Mary's tomorrow and six Our Fathers," he smiled. "So do I."

Cait beamed and Aaron smiled. The team all was rapt with attention. Cait winked at Aaron. Aaron said, "I think this is where we two parents get two young sons into bed." He smiled at Father Jimmy. "And Dave makes his own confession to Jimmy," he winked. "About how my beautiful wife pulled the absolute wool over his eyes."

Cait and Aaron made a beeline for the steps with JJ and Will following them.

Jimmy looked at Dave. "'Fes up my son," he smiled. The rest of the team smiled, shaking their heads.

Dave just shook his. "I get a phone call from Cait. 'Dave, I need a huge favor. I'm in the city, having drinks with a friend. The boys are both gone for the night and I'm having a good time. Can you run over and let Beans out please. I don't want to drive; I'll get a room for the night. Jamaal and Lisa are gone for the weekend or I'd call them'."

Alex looked at Dave, with an eyebrow raised. Dave nodded to the east. "The next door neighbors; they're close." Alex nodded her head. "And the phone call had traffic noise in the background. I bought in and God knows I owed Cait and the boys for all the times they've took care of Mudg."

"But," Emily egged on.

Upstairs, Aaron and Will got the boys chased into bed, with Cait and JJ tucking them in. They both yawned deeply as the said their prayers. The parents said their goodnights, with JJ and Will giving Henry a hug. "We'll see you tomorrow buddy," JJ said rubbing Henry's hair. Henry, with the weather, the warm shower, the dessert and the extra play time with Jack was nearly conked. He sleepily smiled and nestled in. Aaron and Cait had the same with their youngest.

Aaron switched off the light on Jack's nightstand and the two sets of parents left the room. JJ and Will gathered Hotch and Cait into the little den the boys had. They smiled at each other. "We've got to hear the rest of this story," Will drawled.

Aaron smiled. "It was our time to finally get together; both the boys were gone."

Cait smiled as well. "Which was rare in my world back then."

"Anyway," Aaron smiled. "Since Cait had the time, I wanted her to stay the night. But she had to think about Beans."

Cait devilishly smiled at the couple as they made their way down the steps. "Jamaal and Lisa were gone for the weekend, which I knew. The only person that could take of Beans was Dave." She looked at the couple as they got to the foyer landing of the steps. JJ looked at Hotch. He was beaming. "I bullshitted his socks off," Cait wickedly smiled.

JJ and Will both roared with laughter as the group in the kitchen did the same. Will looked at Cait, as the four of them got to the landing in the foyer.

Will looked at Cait and drawled a question. "What did you say to him?"

Cait smiled. "Dave you owe me; can you be a dear." Dave said the same words to rest of the group in the kitchen in almost unison to Cait and Aaron's telling of the story to the other parents.

Jimmy looked at Dave. "And you bought that?"

Cait walked past Jimmy, rubbing his shoulder. "I sold it pretty well," she winked at him.

"Making the call out on the street was strategic," Reid smiled with a deep appreciation. Cait beamed at him and rubbed his shoulder.

"Thank you Doctor," she smiled.

Alex looked around. "When did you put it all together Dave?"

He sadly shook his head. "The weekend."

Cait burrowed a look into Dave. "That Saturday was not a loss in my world; and Haley knew it in the end. She told us."

Dave pointed at her, nodding his head. "As usual Cait, you're right." Questions abounded across the faces of Morgan, Alex and James, and Father Jimmy.

Morgan looked at Emily, his partner and JJ. He then looked at Garcia, who was also softly smiling. "You girls know the answer to this?"

Emily smiled at her partner. "Girls talk; Cait at Dave's cabin told us what happened."

Reid looked at Cait as Father Jimmy looked at Dave. The questions in the air was rampant. "Cait?"

Morgan looked at Cait. "Mother Goose?"

Cait smiled. She filled them all in on the Saturday when her and Aaron's relationship got exposed to Dave, with Haley being there as well, bringing Jack down so she could enjoy a night out with friends.

Aaron shook his head. "You all heard that convo." Father Jimmy looked at him. Aaron sadly smiled. "I was on a cell phone with Haley when Foyet killed her." He looked at his entire team, including Blake and then back at Jimmy. "She made me promise that I would show Jack love. She was talking about Cait and me; what Jack had here that she learned that day, without tipping off Foyet about this home."

"Oh my God," Morgan said. "It all now fits." Reid wiped his own tear, nodding at Morgan.

Father Jimmy just shook his head, looking at Aaron, with his arms wrapped around Cait. Alex looked at the two of them. "After losing Strauss, and Derek telling us that was a restricted case, I listened to the tape of that conversation. I had no idea." James held her close.

Derek looked at Dave. "You knew, didn't you?"

Dave sadly shook his head, with Jimmy looking at him. "Derek, I knew exactly what that brave woman was talking about." He softly smiled. "Once my shock was over, we did have a good afternoon that Saturday." Cait and Aaron both smiled. "Except of course for the part of me getting called out."

Cait and Aaron smiled at him. Cait burrowed at look into his eye. "You didn't tell us all of you secrets now did you?"

Dave smiled like only he could. "I owed you."

Just them Michael came in the door and walked into the kitchen holding an ice bag on his right eye. Cait took one look and walked to him. "What happened?"

"I got a finger in my eye." He pulled the ice bag down to let his mother look. Alex standing near him just shook her head as she looked. The eye was painfully red, and a bruise was starting under the eye and in the corner of his eyelid as well.

"Bare finger or glove," Cait asked as Aaron checked him over as well.

"The guy was wearing a glove."

Cait rolled her eyes, gently pushing Michael's hand with the ice bag back up to the area. "Oh goody; we'll be dealing with a rampant eye infection two days from now."

Alex looked at Reid. "The MD is before the Ph.D."

Mike looked around the kitchen at everyone, saying hello to them. Aaron introduced him to Alex and James. Cait rubbed his back. "You hungry? I've got some chili left."

Mike shook his head. "We all stopped at McDonald's." He looked at her. "Mom it really hurts."

Cait softly smiled. "I know Michael; it's going to for a day or two. Come into dad's and my bathroom with me." Mike nodded and followed her in.

Dave gave him a high five as he passed the counter. "Great game Mike; let me see the eye." Mike pulled down the ice bag and both Dave and Jimmy winced. Dave rubbed his shoulder. "Go with your mom; she'll help you out," he softly smiled, rubbing his shoulder.

Cait got him in the bathroom and pulled down the toilet cover for him to sit on. She was now dealing with her third six footer. Mike sat down as Cait pulled the Visine bottle out of her and Aaron's medicine cabinet.

Mike pulled the ice bag down and Cait gently spread the eye open, dropping in a few drops of the solution. She put the cap back on and handed it to him. "Can you get more in yourself in the middle of the night?"

Mike nodded. "It feels better already."

Cait smiled. "That's because it has an analgesic in the solution." Mike looked at her with a question. "Liquid aspirin; just don't overdo it. If you wake up and it's hurting, put a couple small drops in; just don't do it every fifteen minutes. And take three Advil when you get upstairs."

Mike got off the toilet and smiled at her. "Thanks mom," he said, pulling her into a hug. Cait hugged him tightly. Even with Jack in her life, Mike would always be her "baby". The youngest child she gave birth to. Maternal feelings ran deep. Cait loved Jack to the depths of her heart but that was the one bond they didn't share. And why Cait worked so hard to keep Haley alive in his heart. Cait owed that to her fellow mother that had entrusted her only son into her care.

Cait rubbed Mike's back as they walked into the bedroom. "Please stop in the kitchen before you go up and thank everyone for coming to your game. They didn't have to do that."

Mike smiled at her. "I know that mom." He smiled his big one. "And I could still pound down some chocolate cake." Cait just shook her head as they crossed the great room.

Morgan looked at them. "Got him covered Mother Goose?" Dave and Jimmy were working on getting the fire stoked again in the fireplace.

Mike smiled. "She's good and I'm good; but I'm a quart low on my chocolate quota for the day," he smiled.

JJ reached for a paper plate as Penelope grabbed the cake pan. Emily reached into the freezer and grabbed the ice cream bucket. Cait looked at Aaron. "They've taken over our home."

Reid smiled at her. "You two offered." Morgan pointed at him as Alex and James shared a smile and a nod. It was a haven.

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A/N: Thank you all so much for the reviews and the alerts. You have humbled me. Again.

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*Knightly bow*