Saying Goodbye

A week later they were at the house getting ready to bury Daniel. Emily had only recently been allowed out of the hospital and they would be leaving for Washington soon. She was using a walking stick and Adam was on crutches. Lucy still wouldn't sleep without Hotch and for the moment he was fine with it. They would have to get her sleeping in her bed back in America or she would have really serious separation issues when he left for cases.

They got ready for the funeral together as the Hotchners/ McClarens had been staying here while the team was in a hotel where Rossi had paid for the rooms. Emily got her daughter to stand in front of her as she changed her into a black dress. She couldn't stand right now and do it so she trusted her toddler to behave herself and co-operate with her. Thankfully Lucy did.

Aaron soon came through to see if they were ready. He and Jack would be accompanying them in the funeral car. Lucy ran to him when she saw him and he picked her up holding her close. At her tender age she didn't quite understand what was going on but knew it was very sad.

He helped Emily off the bed with her cane and they all went downstairs to meet up with Jack and Adam. Adam was thankfully sitting waiting for the car in his cast. Soon there was a knock and Emily closed her eyes trying to bite her tears back. She was so thankful her best friend and father of her son was here to help her.

They all headed out to the car and Jack got in the front while Aaron helped his son and his son's mother into the car then took Lucy onto his lap. They were driven to the crematorium. Daniel had always said if he died he wanted to be cremated like his grandfather. Emily would keep his ashes and was taking them to America with them.

She cried into Aaron's shoulder looking at the coffin that held her husband's body. She couldn't believe he was gone. Never again would she be able to kiss him or hold him even. She'd known him since they were children and now he was gone.

When they got to the crematorium he got them all out. He carried Lucy while Jack helped Adam and they both helped Emily. Morgan, Rossi, Reid and some of Daniel's friends and his brother carried the coffin in. Hotch followed after holding Lucy and helping his family.

They laid the coffin on the stand while everyone took their seats. Lucy stayed on her godfather's lap as she didn't want to sit on her own seat. She turned her face into his chest while he held Emily's hand. Jack was looking after his baby brother. When the curtains close she sobbed into his shoulder as it hit her he really was gone. She really was a widow.

He wrapped his arm around her holding her close to him trying to calm his heart rate. It was hard to be at his friend's funeral when he had been in love with his wife for the last five years and they'd only come to know each other through her. He loved her so much but he wouldn't take advantage of her because of his love for her. He would be there for her as long as she needed him.

They left soon after and attended the wake at the local hotel which Rossi had paid for. He wanted to make sure the family got the best wake ever. After the car crash they deserved it. Two of them were still injured. Adam was on crutches due to his leg being broken and Emily was still in a cane due to her injuries.

A few days later they'd received the ashes and were heading out to a private airfield to pick up the BAU jet. As they were all in London and Adam's and Emily's conditions Hotch had called for the jet. He helped get all his family on the jet. Once on the jet he made sure Adam had his leg propped up on a seat and that Emily was comfortable.