Rewind 100
Chapter 2
Day Before

AN: Thanks for the reviews, hope you all enjoy. I own nothing

Haley woke up to the sound of Britney crying the next morning; it was almost seven so she cut the monitor off and went to check on the little girl. It was still early so she didn't want to wake Aaron up. Usually they didn't make it out the bed until after nine if he was home and didn't have to work. Jack ended up in their room and they went back to sleep again. This morning however, she wanted him to sleep more it had been after midnight when he'd gotten in and two before they'd went to bed.

She went into the nursery picking Britney up to soothe her cries. "You're okay, I got you," she said before going to the rocking chair with her.

"Mommy is daddy home?" Jack asked coming into the nursery few minutes later. He was still in his PJ's and half asleep still.

"He got in last night, but he's still sleeping," Haley said, "He'll be up in couple hours, you want to help me with Brit?" she asked.

"K," Jack said coming over to her and standing beside the chair.

It was almost eight-thirty when Hotch got up going down stairs finding Haley in the kitchen working on breakfast, the table was set, with the radio on low. She was singing and dancing to a song that was playing at the moment. It was times like this he was glad that they had worked things out.

Jack was sitting at one the empty spots that didn't have a plate at it coloring or drawing at the moment. He was lost in his own little world having his own fun before breakfast. Hotch knew he was waiting for him to come down stairs. He watched them for couple more minutes before he said anything.

"Daddy," Jack said when he looked over seeing his dad standing there; he got up going over to Hotch.

"Hey buddy," Hotch said picking him up giving him a hug, "What you been up to?" he asked.

"Helping mommy," Jack said, "Now I'm drawing," he said.

"What you drawing?" Hotch asked walking over to the table giving Haley a smile looking over at her.

"It's family picture," Jack said.

Aaron picked the picture up and smiled at it, "You're doing a great job, you have ways to go though," he said.

"I know, but Uncle Derek and Aunt Pen have a lot kids," Jack said with smile, "I'm working on Aunt JJ and her family as well," he said, "Uncle Reid, Aunt Em and Pop David," he added.

"You're going to need much bigger piece paper for that," Hotch said, "Maybe we can find you one later, how does that sounds?" he asked.

"Wonderful," Jack said, "I was running out room," he replied, "I haven't even got to the pets, and Uncle Nick," he said.

"How about we put away the drawing and we eat breakfast for now?" Haley asked bringing two bowls on the table. Hotch put Jack back down so he could put his drawing and other art stuff up so they could eat. "Did you sleep good?" Haley asked wrapping her arms around his waist.

"Best I could," he replied before giving her a kiss, "When we catch him I'll sleep better knowing you are all safe," he said hugging her again.

"Aaron, you have to stop worrying, I know that it is terrifying, and I'm hoping it never happens, but we know what to do if he does," Haley said, "Derek got Jack that phone and taught him to work it, he's got his number on speed dial number 2 you're number 1 Nick is 3," she said, "Between David, Nick, Derek and you I think I know every move there is in self defense," Haley replied, "Nick comes here twice a day when you're home, Derek swings by at lunch if you can't, and you are home at seven every night," she said.

"I know, but Foyet won't give you a fighting chance, until he is caught or dead, I'm not taking chances," Hotch said, "You three are all I have, I lose you all then it's over for me," he replied, "You're not the only one that is going stir crazy from this, and Derek still feels guilty," Hotch said.

"Aaron he's still got the bullet from the first time; till Foyet is dead he's not going to forget he almost died, and that you almost died too, if you had he wouldn't have forgiven himself for leaving you alone that night," Haley said, "It might annoy you, but David, Derek and Nick check this place out every day keeps them three sane knowing we're okay." She replied.

"I know, I'll be glad when this is over," He said before Jack came back into the kitchen.

"I'll go check on Britney then be right back," Haley said.

"I'll go, you sit and eat," Aaron said giving her a kiss before he went back upstairs to check on his daughter.

Derek was already up making breakfast when Melisa came down stairs at eight-thirty. Penelope and the other kids were still in bed though; he was going to wake them up once he had breakfast ready. "You're up early," Mel said rubbing her sleepy eyes before climbing into one the chairs at the table.

"Couldn't sleep, I thought you all would be up at seven," Derek said.

"Mommy wore us out last night," Mel said, "She let us watch Scooby Doo until nine after we played outside till seven," she said with smile.

"Are you tattling on your mom again?" Derek asked.

"No, just stating a fact," Melisa said.

Derek couldn't help but smile, "It'll be at least twenty minutes before breakfast is ready, you can go play, inside though, till then," Derek said.

"K," Mel said before she took off into the play room which was beside the kitchen. It was a smaller living room like; it had TV for their cartoons and the educational stuff for the younger ones that hooked up to the TV. The other side the room had toys, stuffed animals three book shelves all full of books for babies all the way up to some chapter books that they would sometimes read on the weekends when the kids were about to go to bed or at the weekly story time that Derek would do on Sunday afternoons when Jack came over to play as well.

It was half hour before Penelope came down stairs along with the rest of their children. "Daddy," three voices yelled in union when they saw Derek.

Derek squatted down giving all three of them a hug, "Hey guys," he said with smile.

"You can't leave again," Devon said, "Mel and mommy was going bananas," he said.

Derek looked up and Penelope with smile, "I don't see any Bananas growing out her," he said with laugh looking back at his son, "Mel looked fine to me as well," he added.

"Well they were at each others throats," Dev said, "Mel was being a little…"

"Don't finish that," Penelope said, "And I took care of smarty pants in there," she said, "I'll go get her, let daddy help you wash up for breakfast," Pen said before going to get Mel.

"So what happened between Mel and mommy?" Derek asked.

"Mel got in trouble at school," Devon said, he was fast talker just like his mom could be at times, and he loved to tell on his siblings, "She got put in time out for not listening after the teacher told her it was nap time she wanted to play. Mommy got a note about it after Mel tried to rip it up," he said, "She is on punishment, no desert," he added, "And she has to go to bed early, except last night when we thought you were coming home," he said.

Derek knew that Mel hated nap time at school, most the time she'd pretend she was sleeping, so far she'd been doing good, but he should known that she couldn't last much longer with that. He'd told the teacher she couldn't last long with a nap, she hadn't had one since she was two. It was like with Cam it wasn't going to happen any more and to force her to go to sleep for half hour or hour was like pulling teeth.

They'd thought about home school, but they'd wanted to try with regular school, it wasn't private though, it was public, they were trying that right now, but the way things were going with work Derek didn't know how he could home school her, unless Penelope stayed home full time working from here like she was doing right now.

Penelope was cleaning up the breakfast dishes, they had a system, if Derek cooked she'd clean the dishes up, and if she cooked he'd clean up. It had taken almost three months but he'd taught her how to cook, not wanting her or their daughter to starve while he was at work or out town. Fast food wasn't going to cut it either, she'd been patient enough to learn thankfully and after couple set backs she'd finally gotten the hang of it.

"Dreaming about your hot stuff again?" Nick Wells asked coming up behind Penelope. He was one Derek's closest friends outside the BAU team; he was US Marshall and right now was keeping an eye on not only Haley, Jack, and Britney, but Penelope and the kids when Derek was gone just in case Foyet came after them as well. Nick was well built like Derek was, and they'd grown up together in Chicago, went to college together, but Nick had joined the FBI right out college before joining the US Marshalls three years back. They'd kept in touch though since Nick had worked out of Chicago for the longest time, when Derek had moved down to Virginia he'd stayed before coming down three years ago when he joined the US Marshalls.

He had brown eyes, brown hair and was practical joker but knew when to be serious. Nick was also married to Derek's little sister Desiree, they had little boy Ryan who was one now. Desiree was on her way to becoming a nurse like her mom had been. The two of them and Ryan had moved across the street six months back. Nick had been assigned to Haley, Jack and Britney even though Haley had refused to go into Witness Protection Nick was still looking after the three them. He had become close friends with Hotch and the rest the team along with the kids, they loved him to death.

"I have you know I was thinking what I was going to do with you the next time you scared the shit out me," Penelope said, "You're not staking Hotch's house out?" Pen asked.

"Aaron told me that till Monday I was off duty, he wasn't planning on leaving the house, but I'm going by there in few, I wanted to check in here first," Nick said, "Derek upstairs with the kids?" he asked.

"Yeah, I think Devon is still talking his ear off about everything that happened while he was away," Pen said.

"He got it from you, first time I met you, I didn't think you'd ever stop talking," Nick said.

"Don't you start with me, Nick Wells or I will let Derek kick your butt," Pen said with smile.

"Ha, he's too busy being a dad to really care about kicking my butt," Nick said, "I'm going to talk to him then going to check in at Aaron's house," he said, "I'm going out the front door so I'll say bye now," he replied.

"Next time knock, don't use your key," Penelope said calling after him with laugh. Derek and Nick had been the closest thing to best friends they'd known back then, both their dad's had died when they'd been young, Nick hadn't had the misfortune of seeing his dad die, but Derek had. Nick had been four when his dad had died, and William Morgan had been a sergeant father to him till he had died.

Between the two of them they'd kept each other sane, they were like brothers, Nick had been there for Derek after everything had came out about Carl Buford, he'd turned the bastard in after what he'd done to Derek. Nick couldn't live with what had happened and not tell somebody even though Derek had been scared he'd lose everything he'd gained. They'd stuck together over the years and now Nick was there again for Derek helping him out checking in on his family while he was gone, along with Hotch's family.

Derek was giving Devon a piggy back ride when Nick got upstairs. "Hey bro," Nick said to Derek, "Think I can steal your dad away for minute, Dev?" he asked.

"NO," Devon said, shaking his head, "My time with daddy," he replied.

Nick smiled, "I promise I'm not taking him away from you," he said picking Devon up off Derek's back, "Five minutes tops," he added.

"Fine, but you owe me a bunny," Devon said, "Mel doesn't share," he replied with pout.

"You have to ask your dad one that one buddy," Nick said, "I do have a puppy that I'm looking for a home for, you might could convince him," he said with smile.

"Nick don't you even dare tease my son," Derek said standing up, "I said we are taking a break on animals right now, since Penelope asked for another cat, I mean I love them, but right now I think the ones we have are enough," he said.

"Well I got two rabbits, two dogs, three kittens and two puppies, not including the three horses that the two of us share," Nick said.

"What did you need?" Derek asked changing the subject.

"I found this on the back your truck; I was coming in to see if you wanted to ride with me to Hotch's place, but I'll let you have some fun here," Nick said, "Thought I'd give you that first though," he replied.

"It's not for me," Derek said looking at the envelope.

Nick put Devon down before taking the envelope, "It was on your truck, I thought it was for you," Nick said.

Derek took it back opening it up before taking it to the table that was in the room and dumping the contents. It was pictures, and all of them had The Reaper's trade mark sign in red on them. "Shit," Derek said grabbing the phone out his pocket and hitting Hotch's number on the speed dial.

Hotch was relaxing on the couch cuddled up with Haley watching Peter Pan with Jack while Britney was sleeping in the portable crib. His cell was in his pocket when it started going off.

"Where are you at?" Derek asked soon as Hotch answered the phone.

"Home, watching a movie," Hotch replied, "What's up?" he asked.

"Have you gotten a package or envelope?" Derek asked him grabbing his keys from the bedroom going down stairs.

"I haven't moved off this couch in three hours," Hotch said before he finally got up going outside to so he didn't disturb the movie and he didn't want Haley to over hear case they had gotten a case and he had to leave.

"I'm on my way over there, I just got damn envelope full pictures, Nick's staying here with Pen and the kids," Derek said. "Foyet's back," he said going out the door to the truck.

TBC

AN: hope you enjoy, I'm going to set things up like the show did though but Haley WILL NOT die.