A/N: Hello everyone! Thanks soo much for your reviews! I have decided to write a sequel to this, so the ending is close, but it won't be the end. I hope you'll enjoy this chapter; I had to re write it a couple of times because I wasn't satisfied with it.

Enjoy!

Disclaimer: Not mine!

Previously

She didn't spoke to him, she sat there in silence rubbing circles on the back of his hand, partially trying to relax herself as well as soothe him.

Her eyes were heavy and she tried to keep them open as hard as she could but in the end failed. Laying her head on the bed over his hand she let her eyes close and sleep took her over…

Chapter 11

He started getting feeling back on his hands, legs, torso, the itchy sheets, the light blanket covering him and a weight on his hand. He didn't need to open his eyes to know what the weight was. He knew it was Emily probably sleeping with her head on his hand. that didn't worry him, what did thought was the fact that there was something blocking his airway, there was something, a tube and it was gagging him, his eyes flew open and he used his right hand to pull it out.

"Aaron, Aaron! Hey calm down, baby calm down." He felt her hands on his face, and he turned his eyes to land on her face, she was looking straight into his, her face calm and collected.

"The tube is helping you breathe, you had a collapsed lung, just relax and try to breathe normally, and I'll call the doctor alright? Blink once for no twice for yes." He blinked twice and saw the smile on her lips that was probably all he needed to relax…

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Emily woke when she felt Aaron moved beneath her. She opened her eyes seeing him trying to pull off the breathing tube from his throat, he was thrashing, and trying to pull the tube violently, Emily put her hands on his face, cupping his cheeks softly

"Aaron, Aaron! Hey calm down, baby calm down." She said, trying to keep her voice steady, and her face collected, he didn't need to know that she was more or less crumbling down, fear was paralyzing her and her breath was having trouble coming out.

"The tube is helping you breathe, you had a collapsed lung, just relax and try to breathe normally, and I'll call the doctor alright? Blink once for no and twice for yes." She saw him blinking twice and a smile forced its way to her lips, the hold of his hand on the tube relaxed dropping it back on the bed as softly as he could not wanting to cause any more pain to himself.

She looked at him closing his eyes and trying to breathe slower, she was impressed that he had managed to calm down so fast. "I'm going to call the doctor, I'll be back in a second." She kissed his forehead and left his hand softly on the bed, turning around to the door she walked to the corridor and grabbed the first nurse she could see. "My husband woke up can you call Dr. Altman? His name is Aaron Hotchner." Emily walked back in the room in less than a minute after she left, Aaron had his eyes closed but she could tell he was awake, his right hand was twitching something that over the years she came to recognize as a sign of nervousness.

"Hey I'm back" she walked to his side and sat down at the chair again, which she had moved so he could see her better. Emily smiled at Aaron and took his hand in both of hers. "The doctor will be here in a while. How's the pain out of five? Show me fingers." She looked down at the hand she was holding, to see him holding three fingers up. "Alright, we'll tell the doc to give you something for that." She saw him showing the tube with his right hand and making a sign asking what. "You had three broken ribs, they caused your lung to collapse, hence the breathing tube and the chest tube." She gently touched his side few inches below from where the chest tube was "Dr. Altman said you'll be okay, they fixed most of the damage and hopefully the chest tube will be gone in two to three days. they also fixed the damage from the bullet hole, it broke your collarbone, the doctor can explain better, and your knee… well you have to stay off of the field for at least two months, stay in bed for a week, no running for a month, I'm afraid that you'll lose this year's triathlon." She noticed the right side of his lips curl upwards slightly.

Dr. Altman walked in the room about ten minutes later, "Agent Hotchner good to finally see your eyes." She said smiling, she walked to her patient and stopped by his bed. "I get that you want the tube removed but I need to check if you are able to breathe normally on less oxygen, so I'll try lowering the amount of oxygen we're providing and see if your lungs can keep up. alright?" he blinked twice and the doctor smiled. "Good, I'll be back in a few hours and we can talk about removing it then, now how is the pain, from one to five." Aaron raised three fingers again and Emily could see the doctor winching, "Ouch, let's get something for that then." She smiled again and turned to leave the room. Emily looked at her leaving smiling and turned to Aaron to find the same amusement in his eyes, although mixed in with the pain he was feeling.

"I like that one." She said, she leaned forward and kissed his forehead softly, "I know you want to stay awake but you need rest more, so go back to sleep I'll be right here when you wake up."

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Matt walked into his car, he unlocked it and stepped in, everything around him was spinning, he wasn't drunk, after the couple sips he had in Bern's office he didn't drank anything but he felt everything spinning around him, his life was unraveling, bit by freaking bit. Turning the key in the ignition he started the engine and drove out of the parking garage, it's morning, he vaguely remembers that it was night when he walked in the building.

He wanted to get as far away as he could from Quantico, and drive to Dulles International in less than an hour, Katie had taken an early flight from L.A. to D.C. called him to come get her from the airport, not that he was going to let her drive on her own…

Driving to the airport, everything that Bern had told him were turning around in his head, was it possible? Was it possible for the deputy director of the FBI to want to kill them… he could easily fire them and never have to see them again. Destroy their carriers, their lives and reputations. It wasn't as if they could do the same job, the job that they adored in any other federal agency. No other agency had a behavior analysis unit. And all in all, why the heck did they bothered him? What did they do? They were just doing their jobs, and no one from the Unit would ever want to take his job. It was a senseless act of revenge which was making no sense at all.

He parked his car outside the airport and walked out taking a deep breath, he heard a loud noise and looked up, a United plane was landing right about now, he smiled, and he made it on time after all… He walked in the building looking too out of place, with his dark suit, wrinkled white shirt, no flowers or cards, or bags for the matter. He looked like he didn't really belong in an airport but rather in his bed, and then he saw her, it wasn't long since he walked in, maybe fifteen minutes, or twenty, he didn't knew he forgot his watch at Dave's after all. She was dragging her brown back behind her, her shoulder length hair help back in a messy ponytail, her eyes tired, black circles beneath them visible, or maybe that was just him, knowing her that well that he knew that she was too tiered not to have them.

"Matt." He wrapped his arms around her tightly holding her to his chest feeling her breath on his neck and her hands holding his waist. "I missed you." She whispered on his skin and he felt as if it was embedded there.

"I missed you too Katie." He pulled back from her arms and cupped her face "So much." He leaned and kissed her lips, he missed her so much, everything seemed to be so much more difficult when he was going home alone, when all the terrors and troubles he faced couldn't share with anyone. He tried to remember why or maybe when he became that dependent, he couldn't, but it couldn't have been long. he remembers that when he was married he couldn't confine in his wife, she didn't want the burden and he didn't want to load it on her. So why was it so easy to become dependent to talking to Katie? He probably would never know.

"Let's go home Matt. You look ready to collapse." She said smiling, she pulled herself from the hug they were still sharing and took his hand. That's how the left the terminal, holding hands.

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He heard his phone ringing but he made no move to pick it up, he was content in the bed, it was warm in there, Hayden was sleeping next to him peacefully, he liked the scent of her shampoo filling the air around him, he didn't want to leave that state of bliss. "David. Your phone." she turned in his arms and pushed him lightly. That caused Dave to groan, he really didn't want to get up from the bed. "David it might be Emily." That made the difference, Emily, Emily calling meant that there was a change with Hotch, Aaron, who was lying on a hospital bed, after going through hell in the last seventy two hours. He got up from the bed and grabbed the phone from the nightstand, answering without seeing who was calling.

"Rossi."

"Dave, it's Matt, I talked to Bern and there is a lead on who might have done it, who might have wanted Hotch out of the picture. We need to look into it, all of us." Dave blinked a couple of times that was defiantly not what he was expecting.

"Alright, we need to look into it, but first priority is Hotch, as soon as he is better we will investigate it." His voice held a finality and Matt wasn't about to question it, he did agree with him after all.

"I agree, first priority is Hotch."

"Good, now get some sleep we have a long day ahead of us."

"You too Dave." The call disconnected and Dave place the phone back on the nightstand "What was it David?"

"We night have a lead on who was targeting Hotch." He said looking straight ahead, all the new info, as few as they were, were spinning around his head, he tried to compartmentalize, in no avail.

The simple line from Matt, so generic gave him a headache.

"You can talk to me David, whatever it is." She placed a soft hand on his forearm and he closed his eyes leaning closer to her, "I know… I know cara, I just don't know what's exactly going on yet."

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Aaron was sleeping peacefully on the bed, Emily just sat there watching him, knowing that he was alright, that he was just sleeping and not slipping into a coma was a relieve, of course her whole fear was completely unrealistic but she couldn't stop it. The fear was griping her heat like a vice. Looking at her watch in her wrist she saw that it's been three hours since Aaron woke up. She took her phone and walked to the door of the room searching her contacts she found Dave's name and pressed dial.

"Rossi." Dave sounded as if he was just woken up.

"Dave, it's Emily, Aaron woke up, and the doctor lowered the oxygen supply to see if his lungs can keep up, he'll probably be out of the ventilator by tonight." The sign of relieve from the other side was clearly audible.

"That's amazing, I'll tell the kids, Jack's been worried a lot since you told him Aaron was injured."

"I know… have him call me as soon as he wakes up alright?"

"Sure bella, I'll do that."

"Thank you Dave. A lot."

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Matt opened the door to his apartment letting Katie pass him by, she dropped her jacket on the back of the black leather couch and dropped down on it. "Now tell me what's going on with Hotch?" He placed her bag by the door and dragged his feet to the couch sitting down next to her. "Well Hotch's been cleared of all charges, it's gonna be official today. Seaton is suspended pending an investigation of his conduct and John is… he is dead."

"The director is dead?" he turned and saw her blue eyes widen to the revelation "Starting today Bern is the new director of the FBI." Matt leaned back on the couch, resting his head on a pillow and closing his eyes. Everything was still spinning, he thought that since the nausea left him while he was driving he wouldn't have the same problem.

"Any clues who might have orchestrated?" she asked, his eyes flew open and he raised his head looking at her eyes.

"We're not sure but we do have a theory. It all started last November when Hotch arrested the NSA director. He came in contact Stafford, yes I am talking about our deputy director, they contacted Rawdon and he told them how they could use Hotch, make it look like he wanted to blow up the building. They were going to have someone, we haven't identified the individual yet, to put the bomb in the backup generators of the building and the gasoline would… well just destroy building." Katie guided his head on her shoulder, and Matt complied closing his eyes and breathing in her scent.

"They would have started a war."

"Yeah… they would."

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Two hours passed way too fast and Emily was glad for that. Aaron had been sleeping quite peacefully in the last two hours; she was monitoring his heart beatings, the slow rise and fall of his chest. Everything she could to calm herself, to reassure her brain that he was alright, he was healthy, he wasn't going to be ripped away from her hands any time soon. Dr. Altman walked in the room silently looking at her patient on the bed, "Has he woken up since my last visit?" she asked quietly,

"No, he's sleeping, he had a few nightmares but he didn't wake up."

"Poor guy, he is probably exhausted." The doctor mentioned, she looked down at the sleeping man with a small font smile on her lips. "He reminds me of my husband a bit." Emily smiled at the doctor. "Sadly we have to wake him up now. I need to make sure that he can breathe alright with less oxygen. Emily smiled at the doctor. "I can wake him if you want. He might react better." Dr. Altman chuckled, "Please do." She took a step back while Emily got up from her chair and leaned forward towards the sleeping man on the bed.

"Aaron." She whispered in his ear. Her fingers laced themselves through his hair, he really needed a shower, he'll probably be mortified when he sees himself on the mirror. His eyes opened slowly, hazy with sleep, he blinked a couple of times and looked straight to her he smiled slightly, the best he could with the breathing tube still going down his throat. Emily smiled back at him, with the biggest smile she could.

"Doc's here." His hazel eyes, hazy and glossy from sleep turned to the doctor standing at his bedside, she was smiling softly, "Hello sleeper." She said, he nodded slightly to her, "Well, I'm going to disconnect the ventilator, I won't take out the tube, just in case, try to breathe normally, alright?" Hotch blinked twice that had Teddy smiling at him; he looked so much like her husband when he woke up it was hilarious.

"Alright sleeper, let's go." She turned to the ventilator and Emily saw her messing with some buttons, the noise started reducing and slowly stopped. Both women stayed frozen for a couple of minutes waiting for the small rise and fall of his chest. Emily felt the world on her shoulders waiting for those few seconds before Aaron took a breath, the raising of his chest was probably the most reassuring sight in her life.

"Good job sleeper, just keep it up, try getting some more sleep, I'll be back in an hour… with food if you're good." She smiled and turned to leave, she walked to the door and stopped turning back looking at the couple, her patient was still breathing steadily in and out, his wife was holding his hand tightly, leaning towards him she whispered something in his ear, and ran her fingers through his hair. She smiled at them one last time and turned leaving the room, she needed to get some sleep.

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Emily nodded smiling at the doctor and turned her attention to the man on the bed. She grasped his hand tightly and leaned down to kiss his temple, "I love you, you know that? I love you more than I ever thought I could." She whispered to his ear.

She felt his index finger tapping her upper hand and she turned down watching him, he slowly traced his finger on her hand tracing softly the three words that could always make her heart jump just a little bit, the words she knew he wanted to tell her but couldn't "I love you" she raised her head again and looked at him in the eyes, "I love you too baby, now go back to sleep. I'll see you in an hour." She leaned down and kissed him temple again.

Aaron closed his eyes, and soon fell asleep again, Emily kept a tight hold on his hand but leaned back on her chair, she thought about everything that happened in the last three days, her whole world turned upside down, their whole world turned upside down. Her left hand went to her flat stomach, and she thought that maybe… just maybe it wasn't that bad after all.

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Dave stood in the kitchen watching his family in the dining room, Jack, Henry and Kai eating their cereal, smiling and laughing at something Shawn had said, Will looking fondly at them, JJ leaning to Michael whipping his lips, his small perfect family. He felt a feeling of fullness and happiness overcomes him, this was something he wanted but never thought he'll get. After three failed marriages and a dead son he never thought that there would be a time in his life that he was going to have a house full of people.

A huge house, three stories high, and enough rooms to house almost all the members of the BAU, past and present, when he got it 20 rooms, most of them with their own en-suit seemed at a huge and unnecessary extravagance but now… well now he couldn't help but think that maybe he did a good thing.

He looked at the clock on the wall and wondered whether or not Emily and Hotch were awake by now. He could see through Jack's façade that he was worried about his father and wanted to talk to him. He was startled when his phone ringed, he walked to the kitchen table and picked it up,

"Rossi"

"Hey Dave it's Emily…" she stopped for a moment, a coarse voice interrupted her, "And Hotch!" he smiled listening his friend's voice, it's been too long since the last time he did "For god's sake stop it. You had a tube down your throat. You want to talk to Dave tell me and I'll give you the phone." he smiled widely when he heard Emily scolding his friend. "Come on Em, it's not that bad." His friend started complaining but a cough interrupted him. "See I was right!"

"Guys not to interrupt you but is there something you'd like from little old me?" he asked, amusement obvious in his voice.

"Well, Aaron would like to talk to Jack, is he up?" Emily asked, Dave started walking to the dining area, where everyone was sitting, "Wait a sec." he said to the phone, covering the mouth piece he called Jack, the boy raised his head "Yeah Uncle Dave?" he asked, Dave smiled at the boy, "Well your dad is on the phone!" Jack's eyes widened and he dropped the spoon in his bowl; he jumped from his chair and run to Dave. "Here bud." Dave passed the phone to Jack who took it fastly.

"Daddy?" he asked anxiously…

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Around an hour later the doctor walked in the room again, "Hello again. How's sleepyhead?" she asked, Emily had an amusing smile on her lips. This doctor was surely fun. "He's good, breathing normally, sleeping like a baby since you left." Dr. Altman nodded happily, "Good he needs sleep, good sleep. You should wake him up again, but I'll need you to leave the room afterwards, you don't want to witness that." Emily nodded, she bit her lip softly, "With all due respect doctor, I came home and found my husband's blood on the carpet, found him in a hospital with nine stab wounds on his chest and abdomen, I saw him in much worse condition, I want to stay." A look of sympathy crossed her face momentarily, "Alright, you can stay, but it's not gonna be pretty."

"I know. Trust me I do. I want to be here." The doctor nodded, "Alright, wake him" Emily moved closer to Aaron again, leaning to his ear whispering to him, he opened his eyes, looking around, trying to focus, Emily place her hands on his cheeks, she turned his head softly and his eyes focused on her.

"Hey, doc's back." Aaron closed his eyes slowly, opened them back and turned to look at the doctor.

"Hey sleeper, I'm back, since you've breathing on your own for an hour without a hitch, I'm gonna take the tube out so we can finally hear your voice, kay?" Aaron blinked twice, "Like you'd say no." she said, a small sarcastic comment which made Emily smile widely.

She walked outside and called a nurse, who appeared back in the room quickly. "Okay sleeper, lets lean your head back" she said, Emily saw Aaron trying to roll his eyes, apparently he wasn't that approving of the nickname, the doctor slowly removed the tape holding the tube in place, "Alright, when I tell you I want you to cough, don't try to breath in, just cough it out." Aaron blinked twice and drew in a deep breath. She gripped the tube softly and looked at the nurse and then Emily, Emily saw her look it was like telling her that she still had time to leave if she needed, but Emily just tightened the hold she had on Aaron's hand. "Okay sleeper, cough, now!" the doctor pulled the tube out and Aaron coughed, to Emily though it sounded as if he was trying to cough out his lungs or something.

Still it wasn't as bad as some of the other things that she had seen. Aaron took a deep breath and opened his mouth, a sound came out, something that resembled her name, but the nurse stopped him "Oh, no, no handsome, have some water first." She placed a cup on his lips, slowly tipping it, Emily watched him as he drank the water he was being offered, "There you go." She took the cup and placed a mask on his mouth and nose, "That's a good boy." She said smiling, a groan left Aaron's lips that had all the three women in the room laughing, apparently he didn't like that nickname anymore than the last one "He's not that big on nicknames. He's too used being called Hotch, or sir to appreciate them." Emily joked.

"Em." He groaned, "Seriously?" his voice coarse, still even though he drank some water, the nurse smiled and left the room, "You'll get used to it handsome." Emily laughed at the shock on Aaron's face he always felt shocked almost uncomfortable when he had people calling him things like that.

"Okay, what's pain level agent, still at three?" Altman asked, the smile on her face only caused Aaron's frown to deepen. "It's a two" he whispered, the doctor seemed pleased, "Good. The meds are working, I'll leave you two alone, try not to overdo it, or I swear I will cuff you to the bed." The doctor left the room, "I don't like her" Aaron whispered,

"Yeah, how about we call someone you like? Jack wants to talk to you." A smile crossed his lips and for the first time in days. She pulled out her phone and dialed Dave's number.

"Rossi" he answered

"Hey Dave it's Emily…" she said, before she had a chance to continue Aaron pulled down the mask and yelled "And Hotch!" she threw her hands in the air

"For god's sake stop it. You had a tube down your throat. You want to talk to Dave tell me and I'll give you the phone." he pushed the mask back in place for a little while, a smile on his lips.

"Come on Em, it's not that bad." He tried to protest but a strong cough interrupted him

"See I was right!" Emily said, she hated telling him I told you so but this was one of the moments that he utterly deserved it.

"Guys not to interrupt you but is there something you'd like from little old me?" Rossi said, the amusement was clear in his voice.

"Well, Aaron would like to talk to Jack, is he up?"

"Wait a sec." Emily passed the phone to Aaron who pulled the pressed the phone to his ear with his right hand.

"Daddy?"Emily saw his eyes fill up, the anxious voice of his son on the other side of the line, brought him to his limits.

"Hey buddy, it's me." He said, Emily realized that he kept his sentences short so he wouldn't break on the phone with Jack.

"Daddy! You are alright?"

"Yeah buddy, I'm okay, a little hurt, but, I'll be home soon, probably in week, and we're gonna spent a lot of time together." He said, Emily saw him taking deep breaths trying to calm his, probably, raging anxiety and fears.

"Good, Emmy said that you guys won't go to work before talking to me, and Aunt Penny said that if Henry and I aren't comfortable with you all working for the FBI you'd quit, but I talked with Henry, we don't want you to. Not for us." Aaron closed his eyes tight, some tears escaping; Emily saw them but chose to ignore them altogether.

"Thank you for that buddy, we can talk about it better when I'm home, okay, you're old enough now to have a say in what's going on in our house." Emily bit her lip, understanding what Jack had said that probably had made Aaron so upset, she expected that to be something that Jack would bring up.

"I love you daddy, you know that, right?" the boy asked, a smile formed on Aaron's lips.

"I know, I love you too buddy."

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The first day passed fast, Aaron was wheeled for one test after the other, Emily barely had time to see him, much less talk to him, she did talked to Jack again though, the boy was restless wanted to see his father immediately and Emily didn't have the heart to say no to him, father and son spent way too many nights without saying goodnight to each other, that's how she ended watching the two most important guys in her life sleeping peacefully.

"Emmy when is daddy coming back, the doctor said it won't be long." Jack came to the hospital just five minutes after Aaron was taken for another MRI, and he didn't have the chance to see him, although Dr. Altman happened to be there and saw a distraught boy and told him that it wouldn't be long before Hotch was back.

"It hasn't been that long, don't worry an MRI takes about thirty minutes and it's only been twenty, he'll be back quite soon." True to her word around ten minutes later Aaron was wheeled back to the room, "Daddy!" Jack ran to his father and hugged him as tightly as he could. Aaron smiled and wrapped his good right arm around his son. "I'm sorry I scared you buddy." Aaron whispered to Jack. "It's okay dad, did you get the bad guys?" he asked, at ten Emily was almost sure, as well as Aaron, that all signs of child-like innocence would have left the boy, but it seemed as if he still believed, well wanted to believe that his father was always getting the bad guys.

"We did, most of them." Jack smiled widely, "Then all's good right?" Aaron's smile froze for a second, he wanted to lie and tell him that everything was perfect and nothing was wrong, but he couldn't, because above everything he had promised that he was never going to lie to his son. "I hope so son, I do, I don't know for sure, but…me and the team will try to make them." With that Jack gave his father a shrug, and told him that he needed to go and lie down to rest, causing both the nurse and Emily to burst out laughing.

"You're watching us." She turned and came face to face with Aaron's eyes; he was smiling while tugging Jack closer to him. "I could feel your eyes on me." He kept his voice down trying not to disturb Jack sleeping peacefully.

"I'm sorry, go back to sleep." He shrugged and turned to look at her "You told me something, before, is it true? Are we… you really…?" Emily smiled at the nervous demeanor Aaron was having.

"It's true; we are going to have a baby." A look of pure happiness crossed his face and she couldn't help but smile as well. "I thought I was hallucinating, I… how far along?" he asked, she saw the tears fill up his eyes again although she knew that this time there wasn't anything sad about them.

"A month." She said with a knowing smile.

"Aaa, the welcome home in the police station!" a mischievous smile appeared on his face and Emily had no doubt that he probably was remembering every detail about her welcome home in the NYPD station.

"You better get your mind out of the gutter Hotchner!"

"Yes ma'am!"

A/N: Here is chapter 11! Hope you liked it, please let me know what you are thinking I'd love to hear what you are thinking.

Sneak Peak

The week passed fast, although Aaron was in strict bed-rest for the whole week, he was grumpy and really wanted to go back home as soon as possible. Dr. Altman walked in the room and found him sitting on the bed fully dressed

"What are you gonna sneak out of here?" she asked smiling

"If you don't let me."