A/N: Chapter 2 is here people!Thank you for your reviews, you really made me happy, this story was a major bet for me, since I started writing only drables and then one shots. This is by far one of the longest stories I've attempted to write and you guys are defiantly making me think that maybe I should do it again. Thank you so so much! Back to this chapter, we have a bit swearing, from the most unexpected source towards the end and a lot of happy memories of the team.

Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I don't own Criminal Minds, sadly, oh the things I would change if I did!

Chapter 2: A trip down to memory land [Part 1]

Previously

"Is your stepson alright?" Emily was taken aback by his answer, she knew the director for almost four years now, him being promoted around the same time, although he was always kind and fair to her he never really indulged in personal conversations " I'm sorry if I make you uncomfortable Emily, I just… well we have five and half hours in front of us, I've seen you in the office you are driven, loyal, bright, I can only guess that your family has something to with this strength but as your director I could satisfy my inner profiler and get to know you or your family, now though you are just a former Interpol officer and a future FBI agent, I am just talking to a friend, or at least I can hope I can call you that." Emily let a small smile appear on her lips that barely touched her troubled dark eyes, "You sure can sir"

"If we are friends Emily you can call me Robert."

Emily and Robert stayed in silence for the next three hours of their flight, she was preoccupied with the album she had snatched from her apartment and he was reading a thick file in front of him, the silence between them was light, easy, nothing awkward or uncomfortable.

They both jumped when two hours into the flight Emily's phone ringed. "I'm sorry I need to take this."

"Emmy!" she smiled wider than she had since she left D.C. three weeks ago. "Hey baby, did you sleep well?" she softened her voice unknowingly just like she did every time she talked to the little boy.

"I miss daddy Emmy, I can't sleep well without him"

"I know buddy, I can't sleep well without your daddy either. He's really good at bedtime stories!" Emily smiled when she heard the enthusiastic response she got from the little guy, Jack although was already ten years old, he still wouldn't go to sleep if he didn't got at least a good night from his father. Sometimes a bedtime story, well a story about how his day had went, still his father's voice was enough to lull him to sleep. Emily didn't even want to imagine a world where Aaron couldn't say goodnight to his son each and every night, even over the phone. That would surely kill both father and son. "Emmy are you coming? I want to see you." Her heart warmed at his words, he was the only person in the world that called her Emmy and his persistence in her coming to the states was always what made it harder to get back to London. So hard that in the end she just couldn't keep leaving her boys behind.

"I'm on the plane baby, in about four hours I'll be over." Jack left a squeal and the small happy sound made her heart skip a beat. She was delighted that he was even capable of feeling that happy after everything that happened today. "Henry drew daddy a picture and I made him a card, telling him how much I miss him and how much I love him, uncle Spencer will give them to daddy, he said he'll visit later, I want to visit daddy too but aunt Penny said that they don't allow kids where daddy is, she means prison right? Daddy is in prison isn't he? I still don't trust the FBI but you were right Emmy, our family is smart and they will get daddy out, because he doesn't belong there, prison is where bad guys go and daddy is a good guy! I still think I don't want you or daddy to work for the FBI again." Jack's words were flowing out of his mouth in an impossible speed and Emily thought that she and Aaron need to seriously reduce the time he spent with Spencer because little Hotchner was seriously starting to sound like Reid.

"Jack, baby slow down, I can barely follow. Aunt Penny is right, kids aren't allowed in the holding cells, your dad isn't in prison, he isn't a bad guy. We talked about it remember? I think he will love your card and Henry's picture, I bet you it's gonna make him smile."

"I hope so Emmy, because he seemed real sad when these men took him away. They didn't even let me give him a hug!" Emily took a deep breath, the experience stuck with the little boy more than he was willing to admit it. "Look baby, why don't you do draw another picture for daddy, maybe make him another card, and we'll talk when I'm there, I promise you, you can tell me whatever you want, alright"

"Alright Emmy, should I give you Aunt Penny?"

Emily smiled and told him to do that. "Hey Em, what's wrong."

"Pen, are the boys in the room?"

"No, bedroom"

"How is Jack, really, has he slept at all, eaten, I can tell that at least he stopped crying but, how about everything else? Has he spoken about what happened?"

"Oh Em, he said nothing, nada, zilch! Not to me, not to JJ, Dave, we all tried, even Tara she hoped that being new and not really an agent he might open up to her but he didn't, he closed off and… at least he talks to me now and doesn't think I'm a she-devil. I guess that's something. They still whisper with each other neither Henry nor Jack truly trust us. Henry hid his picture from me and Jack put his card in an envelope before I could see it. I don't know what to do Emily; I'm at my wits end here! JJ thought that being Henry's mom she'll get him to open up to her and maybe drag Jack along but he didn't, what he told her instead was that until Uncle Aaron was back the only person he will speak to is Jack. I just hope and pray they'll talk to you when you're here, given that you aren't FBI and Jack worships the ground you step on, I just hope… neither slept well. I know that Jack told you that he slept but he didn't he was waking up crying every ten minutes asking for Hotch, for you, for his mom, even his aunt Jessica, he has barely eaten half of the Mac and cheese I made him, I don't know what to do." Emily flinched when she heard what Pen had decided to cook for Jack "Oh Pen, try making him something else. Jack eats Mac and cheese only when Aaron makes them" her breath caught in her throat and a soft gasp left her lips "I made it worse, oh god I made it worse." She kept repeating the same thing again and again "Penelope, don't worry, you couldn't have known. Avoid spaghetti and pasta at all costs that's what Aaron likes to use as a base when he cooks. Try making them chicken and Aaron passed to Jack his love of all things spicy so you can throw some jalapenos, just not many. Jack loves when you bring weird foot at family dinners so maybe you should make them those chicken tacos you made last time, and Jack really loved the mango juice you made too. Oh and if you really want to impress them use your margarita glasses, put some sugar on the rim, make it look like our drinks do. Just whatever you do, do not use pasta or fries, use rice and vegetables instead." Emily looked up a shocked and amused look crossed his face, she turned her head to the window again "Pen, try to get them to remember the happy times, remember how much we love each other, you still have the tapes we all made don't you? Show them some of that. Also, try to connect with them; both Jack and Henry are old enough to be able to make a connection. We need to get them both to trust someone and soon, Jack needs to tell us if anything strange happened, if they had any weird phone calls at home if some person he didn't know visited Aaron, we need to know how the set up took place and Jack is the only person that knows Aaron better than anyone. Try using what happened with Derek, remember he was arrested on false charges, and maybe call him too; maybe he can get them to open up. You can also use the fact that even you were arrested by the FBI before you started working for them. Try to use past experiences to connect with them. Try to get them to trust you enough to open up to you. We can't afford to lose any more time and Jack is probably the only one that can help us. He is the only person Aaron lets his armor down for. Do these and everything will be alright."

"Thanks, oh Em, Jack is right you need to come back and never leave again, bad things happen when you aren't here or at least you make the bad things easier" Emily smiled at Pen's words "Don't worry PG I'm never leaving again." She hanged up and placed the phone on the table in front of her.

"They are lucky to have you Emily." She looked up to Robert and smiled

"I'm the lucky one."

"You know you are right, your stepson, Jack, he needs to talk to someone, but so do you. You need to talk to someone, maybe those signs you look for from him you might have seen some of them too." Emily looked at him straight in the eyes, she knew he was right, she knew she had to talk to someone, even if she hadn't noticed a thing she was still his wife and people will have questions. She looked around to the empty plane taking in the light gray walls, the white leather seats, the dark tables, and then her eyes turned back to the man she was traveling with, "if you don't have something else to Robert I'd love to."

"Well Emily, we do have three and a half hours left."

Penelope looked at the two boys sitting on her bed, they had multiple crayons around them, papers too, both seemed to be in deep thought each having a paper in front of them, she smiled and got up, she kneeled next to the TV and took out a square box she is always keeping there. "Jack, Henry, can you come over, I have some things I need to share with you."

"Ok Aunt Penny!" she turned back and sat down on the couch, she smiled at their confused faces and patted the seats next to her. Jack helped Henry climb on her left and Jack followed on the other side. "What's that aunt penny?" Henry asked pointing at the closed box on her lap.

"These are some of my best memories. Well around thirteen years ago I was a totally other person, I used to… do not so good things, I didn't really trust the government and I believed that we would be better off without them. I was hurt and angry because my mom and dad died on a car crash and the police never found the other driver. But I grew tired and I realized that, the government isn't that bad. Do you know who made me trust the government again?" both boys said no and Pen smiled "It was your dad Jack, he arrested me. I… I was leaving breadcrumbs and he was the only one who understood them. He saved me from a life that I couldn't get out of on my own. He talked to me like a real person, and offered me a job, a job at the BAU as a technical analyst. And that day, that exact day he gave me more than my freedom, he gave me my family back. Although not the original, he did give me a family. That's what's in the box, it's filled with all the amazing memories I've got from my family. Each photo has a story and if you want I can tell you each and every one of them, are you game?" the boys looked at each other and Henry nodded to Jack. The older boy turned to Penelope and leaned closer to her "Will you?" Penelope smiled, but tears kept falling from her eyes, "Of course my darlings."

She opened the box and took out a pack of pictures "Ok, here, this one is from my first Christmas at the BAU, here is me, uncle Derek with his hand around my shoulders, Spencer fidgeting with his hat and your dad. This was the first time I saw him smile and he blew me right away…

"Come on everyone baby girl needs a group shot!" Spencer's eyes widened and he looked up to Hotch who was sitting across from him at the table almost pleading him to put an end to this "Derek I told you, stop calling her that, you two are a sexual harassment waiting to happen!" Garcia laughed and threw her now blonde hair behind her shoulder "Come on my Aaron! Just a picture! And you HAVE to smile!" Hotch's face broke in a big smiled that had her squealing.

"Chocolate thunder hurry hurry take the picture!"

The boys laughed at Penelope's story and she placed the picture on the table carefully, she took the next picture in her head "Who is this aunty?" Henry asked showing at the woman in the shot with the long brown hair. "Oh, Henry… that's Elle, she was a great friend but she left, that's why you don't know her. And the man next to her, that's Jason Gideon, uncle Spencer talks about him a lot!"

"Daddy too." Jack said.

"Yeah, well that's… we took that picture the day Elle joined the team…

"Sir, I am not kidding I need to take a group shot and if grumpy faced isn't there I swear to god I will make him pay!" Hotch looked up from his paper work, days like this he was wondering why for the love of god he had offered her a job. She was defiantly giving him a headache.

"Look, Penelope, I can't promise for Jason that he'll be there. But you will have the rest of us." He tried to sound calm and almost kind and partially succeeded.

"But it's not a group shot!" Hotch rubbed his temples, "Look Haley kept me awake the whole night because she was having carvings and I had to drive in the whole damn city to find some damn mango ice cream, only to find that they don't have that damn flavor!" Hotch leaned back in his chair looking every bit exhausted as he felt right now. Garcia looked at the worn out man in front of her "Oh my liege!" she took one of his hands which were placed on the desk in hers and rubbed a few circles on his skin "Next time Haley wants ice cream, any of those crazy flavors just call me, I've got an ice cream maker, I'll just make a batch!" Hotch smiled at the quirky young woman in front of him and thanked her. Garcia got up and turned to leave the office "Garcia, I'll get Jason to be there."

"And as you can see he got him." Henry's eyes were stuck on the picture taking in all the faces, it was such a long time ago that even to Penelope it looked as if it was a lifetime ago. They were all such young faced, so bright smiles on their faces, so unaware of the monsters and the horrors the future holds for them. "My daddy looks tired." Jack mentioned showing Hotch, he had dark circles underneath his eyes, he had an arm around the younger Penelope and another around JJ who was hugging Spencer close. Derek was hugging Penelope with his left arm, giving her a big kiss on the cheek and had his right arm around Elle, she had a bright smiled on her face and used her right hand to give Gideon bunny ears. A nostalgic smile appeared on Penelope's face. She missed those carefree days. back them when they were all somehow happy.

She took a deep breath and placed the picture next to the other, she picked up the pile again and looked at the next picture. "Oh, look at that! Do you know this one?" Penelope saw Jack's eyes widen when he realized what picture it was. "This was from my christening!"

"Yes, it was my little G-Man"

"Ok, guys gather together, I need to take one good picture!" Haley said "Derek please stop giving Spencer bunny ears" the tall man lowered his hand from behind the young genius's head and looked as if he was caught with his hand in the honey jar. "Jason, a smile won't hurt you please, Dave! Don't even think about it!" Dave, who was standing next to Gideon lowered his hand in shame "You should be a profiler Haley" he said at the new mother, who chuckled "Yeah right, trust me Dave one profiler in the house is more than enough." Aaron turned and looked at her in fake hurt "Don't look at me like that Aaron, you are a handful, now get your team to act like adults so we can finally get the picture before Jack wakes up and starts wailing."

"You heard the boss guys!"

Jack was now laughing, a sound that warmed Penelope's heart. "Was uncle Dave going to give Mr. Gideon bunny ears?" he asked and Penelope felt the tears filling up her eyes again, she hadn't witnessed many moments between the two founders of the BAU but those few moments she cherished them in her heart. The two of them so different and yet they still managed to do the most difficult thing, they made each other smile and laugh and loosen up. "You bet he was going to! But your mom stopped him. It's a pity really, a BAU family photo without bunny ears? But I guess giving the fact that there was a professional photographer on site it made sense." Penelope smiled at the picture, the sight of Hotch holding his newborn son tightly on his arms, as if he could protect him from everything in the world, the loving look Haley had when she was looking at the small bundle in her husband's arms, those were the images that she needed right now. Elle was wearing a red sundress, she had an arm around JJ's waist who was wearing a light blue dress. Spencer was standing behind them, almost towering over JJ, who wore flats that day, he was dressed nicely for probably the first time, wearing a pair of dark jeans and a white shirt with no tie. To this day Pen still thanks the Gods for their grace to stop him from picking some weird tie that day. Dave and Gideon were standing next to each other on the other side of the parents and the newborn Jack, and they almost looked like the proud grandparents. In some weird way they did look like Haley's parents looked that day, as if Hotch was their son, she wanted to burst in tears and remembered why those pictures were in a box under the TV and not in an album, or framed. She quickly left the picture on the table and picked the next.

"When was this taken?" Henry asked.

"This was taken in September in 2006, Elle was shot few months back and this was her first case back, we worked with an old coworker of your dad's and we thought to get a picture when the case was solved...

"Come on Katie, if you leave without a picture Garcia might implode!" Hotch joked, Katie smiled widely and followed him and the blonde woman to the conference room "I heard that my liege! You are lucky you are cute!" Hotch rolled his eyes and followed the two women in the room, Jason was already sitting on his usual chair, stealing glanced at Elle who was chatting with JJ on the other side of the table. "Alright everyone you know the drill" Hotch said, everyone got up and walked towards him, taking their poses, and smiling at the camera Derek had set up, "Ok, Anderson, this button, got it?" the young agent nodded once again at Derek who told him the same thing for the fiftieth time. "Got it agent Morgan, got it"

"Who's agent Anderson?" Henry asked. Jack's smile fell a little "He is an FBI agent, he works in the BAU." Penelope felt the sting in her heart, no matter how better Jack treated her, his hatred for the FBI hadn't lessen up one bit. Anderson wasn't officially member of the team but Hotch always liked him a lot and more often than not he was included in their outings. Jack had spent a lot of time with him in the past and he seemed to like him, after all he did got him into Star Wars. "He is Mr. Grant darling, and yes he does work for the BAU." Penelope high lightened the BAU and not the FBI the same way she called Anderson, Mr. Grant and not Agent Anderson, maybe when this was all over the relationship between the two boys and Grant won't be completely destroyed. She left the picture on the table looking through the next few, mostly pictures of her and Derek, to find the next she was looking for. "Ok, look at this, it was my birthday! Uncle Derek had got everyone to surprise me. They got me a cake and balloons, it was amazing!"

"Miss Elle isn't here." Jack observed when he looked at the picture "Yes honey, she had left the team, that's why Uncle Derek got me the surprise, I was sad that she had left and I needed the pick me up. He surprised me to make me feel better"

"And did he?" Henry asked.

"Oh yeah, he did…

"Chocolate thunder, chocolate thunder, chocolate thunder! Thank you, thank you, thank you!" Penelope wrapped her arms around Derek's neck holding him tightly to her. Hotch had a big smile on his face after what seemed a really long time. She looked around her, all her gifts lying there. The flowers from Gideon, with the happy birthday card, the flower hairclips from JJ, the new watch from Hotch, the new phone from Derek and a book from Reid, her family was almost all here, she missed Elle so much, she understood why she couldn't stay, she really did, and she wouldn't like her to stay if she wasn't happy anymore. It just pained her that she had dropped off the face of the earth; hopefully it wouldn't be for long. She can't just forget them, can she?

"Ok, I think we need to go back to work" Hotch said, his smile flattering and falling, he had a HUGE pile of files on his desk making him to almost groan.

"No! Wait I want to take a picture!" Gideon groaned only to have Hotch elbow him in the ribs and throw him a glare that Penelope had categorized as 'Don't you dare' type.

"Whatever you want Garcia!" Hotch smiled at her, a significally smaller smile but still… better than nothing.

"Daddy elbowed Mr. Gideon?" Penelope's smile got even bigger at the memory; this was defiantly an Un-Hotch moment. "Yeah, he did. I got shocked, I never thought your daddy would do such a thing, especially given the fact that Mr. Gideon was your daddy's teacher when he joined the BAU, and his boss for years." Jack seemed to be in deep thought over what Penelope said.

"Do you have more stories Aunt Penny?" Jack said, his bid hazel eyes looked at hers, she gasped for a moment, they looked so much like his father's, as she studied the little boy she realized how similar father and son really were, usually someone took notice of Jack's dark blonde hair and Hotch's dark brown and thought that father and son were completely the opposite from each other. When in reality if someone pays closer attention will see the small similarities in their faces. Father and son have the same eyes, nose, lips, high cheekbones, and she could almost see the defined jaw line Jack will grow into having. They had the same look on their faces when they concentrated on things; they both were loyal and trustworthy. And stubborn… my God they were stubborn. According to Emily, Hotch said it was part of the Hotchner charm. Like the dimples.

"Aunt Penny when was this taken?" Henry had picked another picture from the file, JJ was holding baby Henry in her arms, Will's arms were wrapped around her shoulders, Hotch and Emily were standing next to him, he had his hands in his pockets and she had hers clutched in front of her. Penelope and Spencer were standing on the other side of JJ's bed with Dave behind them, his arm around JJ's shoulders, clasping Will's arm, big, proud smile on his face…

"Ok happy family, big smiles for the camera!" Penelope smiled widely at the characterization the nurse had used. No one said anything to correct her, not really caring that they weren't a "real" family. Blood related that is. Everyone put their best smile, it only took a second and this moment of pure happiness was captured forever on the camera for all eternity.

"It was right after you were born."

"Daddy and Emmy had gotten married too!" Jack said, his little face smiled wider for a moment before it fell "Daddy said that he and Emmy will get married again so I'll be there." Penelope bit her lip "Well Jack-Jack they will, and it'll be the best wedding in the history of weddings, I promise you that!" Jack gave her a half smile, not really trusting her words, although he truly wanted to. She couldn't blame him, she didn't trust herself either. She knew that Hotch was innocent, he couldn't be guilty. He just couldn't, how was it possible for someone as good, and kind, and loyal, to be planning to bomb the FBI academy? It couldn't be true. But could she prove it? That was a totally different story. She knew she'd try, she'd try her hardest, but was her hardest good enough?

"Aunty." Henry's voice drew her out of her haze, in his hand he had a picture, one of the most recent ones she had "when was this taken?" she took the picture from his hand "Oh baby, this one…

Dave offered his house for them to continue their partying, they all accepted, after all when they'll get Emily back in the states again, with their time consuming jobs in different sides of the ocean it wasn't as if they could jump on a plane. So they drove to his place, Penelope drove with Reid, Derek went back home to get Savannah who probably was back from the hospital, Emily drove with Hotch, JJ and Will drove in their car, and Alex drove in her car. They almost reached to the mansion at the same time, Dave first, Penelope and Spencer second, Derek and Savannah third, Alex fourth, Emily and Hotch fifth and JJ with Will last. Dave opened his house, let them in, all of them felt the exhaustion come over them. The day was way too long. They didn't know what they needed first, a drink, a shower, or sleep. Maybe a massage too, or even better all together.

Rossi dragged them to his back patio and gave them a pile of blankets each; the night was warm enough if they wanted to stay outside but mother hen extraordinaire Dave Rossi wouldn't even think of leaving them getting a cold, not in his watch! No one seemed to mind.

"I checked on Matt at the hospital, he'll probably check himself out in about…" JJ took Will's hand who had a huge smile on his face when he remembered JJ's friend struggling to get off the bed, "Thirty minutes. Unless the nurses decide to cuff him to the bed, then it'll take him about two hours, only because he might not have enough strength to break out of the cuffs using shear force right now." Everyone turned and looked at her shocked. They now knew that JJ and Cruz had a good relationship while working in Afghanistan, Emily knew that JJ considered him a friend as well as a coworker, but apparently the two of them were a little closer than just coworkers who had to be friendly with each other. "What?" JJ asked seeing the shocked faces of their friends.

"How for the love of God would you know how long it would take Cruz to break out of his restrains?" Derek said, his left brow was arched, his eyes shinning mischievously.

"Because he showed me, and taught me!" JJ said, a smile on her lips, a smug look on her eyes. Everyone burst out laughing.

Penelope looked around and saw her family in absolute happiness, it's been too long since the last time something like that had happened. JJ snuggled closer to Will turning her head and placing a kiss on his neck. She knew he was ticklish there and still did it. Her warm lips apparently were too much of a contrast to his neck because he almost squealed when she did it. It was refreshing seeing them like that, so happy and in love with each other, even after eight years. Especially after those eight years.

Alex was chatting happily with Emily who was sitting closer to Hotch than she had seen her do in the last three years. She wanted, her romantic heart did, to believe that the two of them still loved each other, maybe, just maybe they would be together… maybe even already were, (Hotch is with Beth!) her brain was screaming at her to see the light, that Hotch wasn't a cheater, he wouldn't cheat on Beth, no matter how much he might love Emily or not. After all they tried but it didn't work out for them, any feelings they might still hold for each other don't really matter that much. And maybe… just maybe that was for the better. Maybe they weren't that good for each other, but my oh my they looked good together.

Hotch was talking with Rossi, both of them had big smiles on their faces. He had a blanket on his lap, while Rossi looked like he wanted to bury himself in his blanket. Derek and Savannah were sharing a blanket, they were hugging tightly, a picture of pure perfection in her eyes. She never had seen her chocolate thunder so happy, so complete, so balanced. She was happy, oh so happy for them. And last she looked next to her, Spencer was looking around, profiling their family in the same way she was doing before, ok maybe not the exact same way but she knew he was studying them just like she was studying them.

They all got startled when they heard a car stopping outside the yard. Most of them reached for their guns, still holstered. They heard the door slamming and a man yelling "Motherfucker!" confused looks reached all of their faces. The man on the other side was coming closer to the house, or the back yard, who knew. A strain of crushed kept leaving his mouth and all but JJ were surprised at what that man could say. Spencer in particular was burning red. "Oh motherballs where in the fuckity fuck is the fucking door bell! Jareau! Get your ass here and open this motherfucking door before I fucking break it down!" JJ got up from Will's arms and one of the biggest smiles of the night crossed her lips. "Mattie I'm gonna wash your mouth with soap! We've got children here!" her voice ringed as she danced in the house and opened the door.

"Fucking nurses! No Mr. Cruz you have to stay in the hospital tonight! You were stabbed!" They all looked inside the house where their Section Chief was imitating the nurse who tried to keep him in the hospital "Big whoop I've been stabbed before, did I die? No!" Emily's mouth fell open at that and turned to Hotch "Jesus Christ he is worse than you, how did they find you people?" Hotch rolled his eyes, and turned his attention back to the house trying to see from the open patio door what was happening inside the house. "Mattie I swear to God you say another bad word and I will wash your mouth with soap!" JJ's voice sounded like a mother's with a naughty child. Emily could swear to God she had heard her friend use that tone on Henry before. Cruz groaned louder and got outside to join them in the patio. He looked around at their faces and his eyes widened "Oh fudgenuts! Did I just embarrass myself in front of like the whole BAU?"

"Uh huh!" he jumbled when he felt JJ standing right behind him. "For fucks sake JJ, I just got tortured."

"No shit Sherlock so did I." she arched her brow challenging him to answer to that, the man in front of her opened his mouth to answer but Will got him before he could, clasping a hand on his mouth "Just don't man, just don't you'll never win." He said

"And he is right, so Mattie take a blanket and sit your preposterous ass down. Or I'll drive you to the hospital and cuff you to the bed." He took a blanket and sat down next to Reid trying to put as much distance as he could between himself and JJ "Why is my ass preposterous? and you know fucking well I can break the fuck out of them!"

"I can't believe it people!" everyone turned to Hotch who was looking at all of them in fake shock "How did the bureau went from giving us Erin Strauss as a Section Chief who I don't even think she knew how to swear to getting us a section chief who swears like a drunken sailor. Not that I'm complaining, this can make budget meeting much funnier than they used to be but still." Everyone was looking around and as if someone counted to three they all busted out laughing till tears were rolling down their eyes. Cruz groaned and reached for his abdomen.

"Oh fucking pisstaker!"

They only laughed harder.

"Uncle Matt curses a lot and mommy says she'll wash his mouth with soap if he does it again. But he always do." Henry said smiling, Penelope gasped she had majorly censored her story, she didn't want neither her Superman and Wonder woman nor Batman and Robin to kill her for teaching their tiny superheroes the swear words uttered by their Section Chief.

"You mean Cruz swears in front of you?"

"Yeah, but usually I'm not in the room, only when he is alone with daddy and mommy, maybe aunty Katie too." Penelope smiled, here and the last five months their section chief, recently divorced (surprise, surprise!) started dating Katie Cole, a Unit Chief from the crimes against children division and former BAU agent. Their meeting, curtsey of none other than the one and only Dave Rossi who's been trying to be everyone's fairy godmother these days.

Any other time Penelope would ask about those get together, any other time she would have called JJ and drilled her to the ground till she gets her answers. But then again any other time she might not even need to bring out the box of memories and she wouldn't have remembered that their Section Chief swears worse than a drunken sailor on a good day.

"Oh well, next time Uncle Matt curses I'll wash his mouth with soap!" she turned to look at Jack who's been unusually silent the whole time, "Jack-Jack what's wrong?" Jack looked up to her, his hazel eyes filled with unshed tears "I miss daddy so much Aunt Penny! And I've been horrible to you, and Aunt JJ, Uncle Dave, Uncle Spencer, even Miss Tara." He buried his face in her chest and started silently sobbing there. Penelope felt the wet spot on her shirt and hugged the crying boy closer to her body, "Don't worry Jack- Jack, we all miss your daddy, he is the closest to a father I have, but you don't have to feel bad about what you said to any of us. We know how terrible this whole thing is, but look at me, we'll do anything and everything we can to get your daddy back. Do you believe me?" the boy in her arms had managed to stop his sobs slightly and nodded at her. "Good, and if that'll make you feel better we'll quit from the FBI, because we are a family and families follow each other to the end. Ok?"

Jack nodded and buried himself in her embrace again "When is Emmy going to be here?"

"In about an hour, Jack-Jack."

A/N: Did you like it? I got really carried away by this story; it's probably the biggest one I've ever written! It's probably going to be around eight to ten chapter (epilogue included). I think I'll start divert from canon a little bit, mostly the timeline and some of the ages because it just doesn't make much sense otherwise. I hope you like it, let me know! As always!

Till next time, Bye!

OHHH Here is another little sneak peak!

"Why don't you tell me how you and your husband met? Maybe we could start from slightly easier and happier subjects." Robert said. Emily looked up and looked at the man in front of her "Maybe you are right" we met when I was about twenty; he was twenty six, twenty seven maybe. He was assigned to my mother's staff to run security clearances…