The team seemed to have taken their snuggie venture very seriously and were determined to get Hotch into one if it was the last thing they did.

They had been on the jet flying home from a case and it was late at night, the entire team was asleep. Well, they appeared to be asleep. Garcia and JJ were most definitely not asleep, instead they were leaning over their unit chief's sleeping form with Garcia attempting to place the snuggie over him and JJ standing back with her camera phone at the ready.

"If that touches me you are fired Penelope Garcia" Hotch said in a firm voice without even opening his eyes. The girls felt the threat and retreated back to their seats red faced at being caught and outwitted by their boss.

xxxx

The next attempt had come only a few days later when the team were situated in a small town in North Carolina, whose only hotel had a broken heating system and the team were therefore reduced to piling on blankets and keeping close for body heat. The team had been split into two rooms; men in one and women in the other. Emily brought a pile of blankets into the men's room for their use that night, passing the bundle to Reid which appeared to be weigh more than he did. Unfortunately for the unit chief, the ladies pretty much could get Reid and Morgan to do their bidding with only mild persuasion and a lot of threats. Hurriedly Morgan switched off the light and grabbed the blanket that Reid held out to him, so in pitch black darkness he also took a blanket for himself, threw one to Rossi and then finally, the one at the bottom of the pile to Hotch. The other three agents quickly got under their blankets and tried to force themselves to sleep, while Hotch was trying to spread out his blanket in the darkness, however something was different about it. It was not flat and thick like the other blankets, it had extra bits.

"Conspiring with fellow team members against your unit chief is not a wise use of your time and if you try to do it again you will be staying behind with Garcia in her office during the next case" Hotch announced to the room, he had become aware of what indeed the object was that he had been given. Nice try, he thought, but Aaron Hotchner was not so easily fooled. Using his phone as a torch, he walked over to where Reid was trying to hide in his blanket, and grabbed the blanket from Reid, throwing in its place the offending snuggie.

"Why me?" Spencer squeaked, surprised by the quick burst of cold air that he was now being exposed to.

"You are the weakest link and so give in to the girls easier than the others, this will teach you not to be so ready to do so next time."

The next morning, the girls found out what had happened as Spencer was refusing to speak to them and kept a permanent pout on the whole time. They had all apologised profusely but he simply responded each time with "have you ever had to sleep in a cold building with only a snuggie?" They agreed not to use Reid again as their infiltrator, something which Dave and Morgan groaned at in displeasure as the task would now fall to them.

Xxxx

"Oh yeah...that's nice...ahhhhhh yesssss" noises such as these were being heard from behind the closed bedroom door of the apartment. The woman had just shut the front door behind her and could hear moaning coming from the bedroom, knowing that her boyfriend was the only one home she was curious and angry, how could he be cheating on her? Silently slipping off her shoes and creeping over to the source of the noise as to not give away her presence before she wanted it known, she put her ear to the door to double check that her ears were not deceiving her.

"So good...mmmmm" she heard her boyfriend say, at which point she slammed open the door, causing it to hit the wall, and stepped into the room.

"How dare you?...Oh" Her anger faded immediately when she saw the real situation her boyfriend was in. The woman stood in the doorway in shock, the brunette pair's eyes staring at each other, both thinking of something appropriate to say. "Well don't you look cosy?" She said smirking at him before being unable to hold her laughter in any more. While she laughed at him, her boyfriend didn't move from his place, but simply frowned at her and she could detect a definite pout appearing on his lips.

"Emily, this isn't what it looks like" he tried to plead with her, as he made to move off of the bed. However, she was quicker than him and managed to quickly grab her phone out of her pocket to snap a picture of his situation.

"Hard evidence Hotchner." She told him.

Erin Strauss was headed towards the BAU, it was getting to the end of a very long day in the office as all teams had been temporarily grounded so that paperwork could be filled out concerning budgets and resources. It is definitely not the most exciting thing to do and she felt the need to go home more than most, but before she left for the day she had to collect the files from Hotchner's team. She was well aware that between Rossi and Reid they tried to alter the paperwork so that they could get extra out of the budget and they thought she didn't know; she's Erin Strauss and knows everything that goes on in her department. As she entered the bullpen, none of the team could be seen but she could see the lights on in the conference room where she guessed they had all grouped together. Strauss entered the room without knocking, and was greeted by a surprising sight. The entire team were seated around the table with papers strewn all over it, and they all seemed to be wearing blankets, with sleeves. They all turned to stare at Strauss with wide eyes as they realised how they must look to her, however they were too in shock to think to try to remove themselves from their snuggies, and so sat there in silence waiting for their boss to respond to the situation.

"Ma'am.." Hotch tried to say something to fill the awkward silence.

"As you were" Strauss said simply before backing out of the doorway and closing the door. Her day had just been greatly improved; she only just managed to shut the door fully before bursting into laughter.

The team could see her walk away out of the windows and watched her laugh her way out of the bullpen.

"Garcia, the next time you find some new craze, please do not bring it into work; seeing Strauss laugh is scary."