A/N Sorry about the long delay in updating. I was i the middle of an important arc in Emily's very own stalker, and it took all my time. But here is the next chapter.

"Ok the first official meeting of 'The Super Sleuths to discover if Emily and the Boss Man are doing it' has now come to order." Garcia informed those assembled before her.

"Baby Girl do we have to call it that?"

"Of course my chocolate Adonis, now why you and JJ think they are a couple?"

"Morgan noticed Hotch has a tattoo over his heart-."

"Wait, Hotch has a tattoo?" Reid sputtered.

"Yes, but for now let's try to keep our freaking out to a minimum. So Morgan noticed Hotch's tattoo, which was a Valentine's heart by the way. And the other day I noticed Emily has a tattoo of a heart, the organ not the Valentine, over her heart."

"That's weird."

"That's what I said. There is no way this is a coincidence, right?"

"Over 30% of people in the United States have tattoos, so statistically two members of the team having tattoos isn't unusual."

"Right Reid, but they have very similar tattoos in the exact same location."

"So Morgan you think they are a couple?"

"Don't you baby girl?"

"I don't know. I think Emily would have told me and JJ if she was with someone, especially Hotch. I've lost count of the times we have had to hear about her love for him."

"Yeah, but you know what the Bureau thinks of interoffice dating especially supervisor/subordinate. They could lose their jobs, even if Strauss wasn't gunning for them."

"But we would never betray them like that."

"I know that baby girl, but they might not want to endanger us as well."

"There's only one way to solve this."

"What's that Garcia?" JJ looked at Garcia curious where she was going to go with this.

"Simple we ask them."

"Ask them." Reid gulped. "I don't know, don't you think Hotch would get mad."

Garcia waved off his concern. "We don't have to bother the boss man. Besides with his poker face we wouldn't get anything anyway. We'll just ask Emily."

"I don't know about this baby girl."

"Trust me."

"Famous last words." Reid murmured to no one in particular.

/

Emily looked down at her watch. It was 4:39, almost quitting time. Aaron and her's plan was about to start. She had seen Morgan and most of the team all whispering to each other when they went off to lunch. So far they hadn't asked anything, but she knew it was only a matter of time. She didn't like lying to them, especially to Garcia and JJ. But it had to be done. She looked up from her desk, and saw the girls heading towards her. It's showtime. "Hey Garcia we are still going out tonight, right?" Might as well see if I can distract them for a few more minutes.

"Absolutely gumdrop."

"That's good I've been looking forward to it all week." Looking forward to and dreading. I hope this works.

Garcia and JJ were silent for a moment each staring at the other silently ordering the other to ask the question that was the reason they had started this conversation to begin with.

After a few moments JJ broke the silence. "Em, there's something we need to ask you."

Here we go. Emily looked out across the bullpen as JJ got the courage to ask her question and spotted Izzie. Look's like I dodged a bullet. "Hey do you know who that woman is?"

Garcia and JJ looked at the stranger. They shook their heads. They all watched as Hotch came out of his office and walked down to meet the woman.

Garcia and JJ were stunned. They had just been about to ask if Hotch and Emily were dating and now Hotch was greeting some other woman like they were on a date. This bore investigating. They walked over to where Hotch and the woman were standing. Hotch had his hand on her arm as they were chatting. He noticed the ladies coming over. "Ah, here are the ladies now. Izzie this is Penelope Garcia, Emily Prentiss, and Jennifer Jareau. Ladies this is Izzie Smith."

Each woman came forward and shook Izzie's hand as they were introduced. JJ was last. "You can call me JJ. It's a pleasure to meet you. How do you know Hotch?"

Izzie put her arm around Hotch and leaned into him. "I've known Aaron for a long time."

Morgan and Reid walked into the bullpen. "Hello, and who might you be?"

"Morgan this is Izzie Smith. Izzie this is Derek Morgan and Spencer Reid. Izzie is an old friend."

Morgan's eyebrow shot up slightly. He shared a glance with JJ and Garcia. Is this a fakeout?

Hotch could see the speculation in the teams eyes, they weren't buying it.

Izzie could see it too. "Aaron it's ok to share, they're your friends. I'm Aaron's girlfriend." And just to prove it she leaned up and kissed Hotch on the lips. Hotch put his hand around her and pulled her in slightly. After a couple of seconds they broke apart.

Everyone's jaw dropped, especially Emily's. Luckily for her the rest of the team was staring at their boss smooching "his girlfriend". Oh you are in so much trouble Aaron Hotchner.

Hotch looked around the bullpen. "So are we going to go, or we going to stand around in the bullpen all day?" He shot a glance at Emily. She's pissed. He sent a silent apology over. She ignored it. I had to do it the team wasn't buying it. Still I know that look I'm defintely in the dog house.

No one had anything to say, they couldn't believe their workaholic boss, was leaving work early to go out with the team. Whoever this woman was, she was a good influence on him.

/

When they got to the club Emliy and JJ headed to the bar.

"Emily, are you ok?"

"I'm fine." She said a little too harshly. "I'm sorry JJ. I didn't mean it."

"It's about Izzie isn't it?"

Crap.

"It's because she's with Hotch right? I swear guys are blind, even if they are profilers. They are all blind."

Whew, she didn't figure it out. And she thinks Hotch and Izzie are together. Hotch's plan worked. He's still in trouble for kissing her though. "Yeah, well what are you going to do? ... Actually I know exactly what I am going to do." And with that she handed JJ her drink and walked purposely over to a tall handsome looking man at the other end of the bar.

She leaned into him real close and whispered something to him. Seconds later she was leading him to the dance floor.

JJ walked over to the table that the team had commandeered with a tray of drinks for everybody."

"Hey JJ, where's Prentiss? I thought she was going to help you with the drinks."

"She seems to have taken a play from your book Morgan." JJ replied pointing twards the dance floor where Emily was getting very friendly with the man from the bar. JJ looked at Hotch waiting to see if Emily's actions got a response from Hotch. He didn't seem to notice her, he was too busy with his date.

Hotch did notice, however. He could see her out of the corner of his eye. He couldn't stare though, that would give it away. It took all of his will, but he managed to keep his eyes on his "date" and not on the woman he loved, who was now grabbing Patrick's ass and was entirely too close to him. There didn't seem to be a gap between them. Calm down, she's just getting a little bit of revenge. It's ok, breathe.

/

Hours later Aaron and Emily were alone.

"Are you going to ignore me all night?"

Emily said nothing just grabbed Hotch a blanket and a pillow.

"So that's it, you making me sleep on the couch. After my plan worked. That's the thanks I get."

Emily could not believe her ears. "Thanks. You kissed her Aaron."

"Yes I did. But, I did it because it needed to be done. They were still a little skeptical, but after the kiss they all bought it."

"It doesn't matter. You kissed her."

"I don't want to argue semantics, but Izzie started the kiss-."

"So. Is that supposed to make it ok?"

"No. What I'm saying is, Izzie kissed me cause that's what she's trained to do."

"She's trained to kisss other women's boyfriends."

Aaron thought about it for a second. "In a way, kind of. She's trained to get the audience to believe what she is saying or doing. The audience wasn't fully sold on the part she was playing, so she did what she had to do to get the audience to buy it. I guarantee you she thought nothing of it. I didn't enjoy it. She didn't enjoy it. To us it was the same as kissing a friend on the cheek." He moved towards her. She backed away.

"You still kissed her. You pulled her in and you kissed her." She was losing some of her conviction. But she was still mad.

"What was I going to do? Push her away, I was supposed to be her boyfriend. What boyfriend pushes his girlfriend away? If I did that the team would have known something was up. It was nothing. And I now that's what guys say when they cheat. But in this instance it was nothing. We were two people playing a part, the kiss meant as much to us, as a handshake. It of it was just a gesture, something we would do if we were a couple. But it meant nothing to us, and if you weren't my girlfriend and we had done it onstage. We would have never thought of it again."

"I'm still not happy about it."

"I know. But we fooled the team, and now I don't have to kiss any more girls. I'm all yours." Aaron moved towards her slowly. He hoped she wouldn't back away this time. She didn't. He pulled her in close.

"You promise?"

He looked into her eyes hoping she saw the truth in them. "I'm yours. For always. For keeps. Only, yours."

"Good."

A/N So I don't know about this chapter. I think there is a better story here, but I couldn't find it. Let me know what you think. Constructive criticism is apprectiated. As is praise. If you think it was good.