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Chapter 31

An hour later, Hannah had had her first breakfast and was now freshly changed slumbering in her mother's arms again while Henry was napping on Dave's lap, and the three adults were quietly talking until they heard a small knock on the door, followed by Hotch sticking his head in.

"Hey, may we come in?"

"Sure," JJ smiled widely as Dave and his mother got up from their seats to make room for Hotch, Prentiss, Morgan, Reid, and Garcia.

Even though they all tried to be as quiet as possible because of the sleeping children, the sudden disturbance woke Hannah up right away, and she began to cry at the top of her lungs.

"There's no doubt that this is your daughter, Dave," Emily snorted dryly, and the others burst into laughter, waking Henry up as well.

Jabbering happily as he recognized all of his aunts and uncles from Mommy's work, he pointed at his little sister. "'Nah!'Nah!" He called out cheerfully, clapping his little hands, and everyone turned to give the newest addition to their BAU family their full attention.

"Aww, she's so cute," Garcia cajoled. "Congratulations, Mommy and Daddy!"

JJ rearranged her in her arms so that everyone could take a good look at her daughter.

"What's her name?" Morgan wanted to know.

"Hannah," JJ answered, prompting Dave with a look to explain her middle name.

"And we decided for Emilia as the middle name," he continued, looking at Prentiss. "After you, Emily," he said softly. "If that's okay with you, of course."

Emily was caught by surprise, and didn't know what to say at first, except for a shortly stammered "After me?"

"Well, yeah. It was Dave's idea," JJ smiled. "And while I don't know his full reasoning behind it, I have to admit that I love the name, and honestly, she couldn't have a better role model, right?"

Emily looked at Dave and immediately understood. Touched, she nodded lightly, feeling a few tears burning in her eyes.

"Thanks, guys. I'm honored," she whispered hoarsely.

"Do we get to know the reason why?" Garcia asked curiously. Emily realized that Dave was still the only one on the team who she'd ever told of her abortion and the events in Rome, but now was not the right place or time to tell everyone else.

"One day, maybe," she told Garcia with a small smile, hoping for her understanding that she didn't want to talk about it at the moment. Seeing her and the others exchange confused looks, she knew, however, that at least Garcia would get back to the topic another time.

Realizing that Emily felt uncomfortable discussing whatever her secret with Dave was, JJ quickly decided to change the subject before there were more questions.

"There's something else. Hotch, Dave and I were talking and we want to ask you if you'd like to be Hannah's godfather." Hotch's eyes lit up and a bright smile appeared on his face.

"Of course." He gently stroked Hannah's cheek. "Thanks you." He smiled gratefully at JJ and Dave while playing with Hannah's fingers. The little girl had stopped crying and stared curiously at him.

"Wanna hold her for a moment?" JJ wanted to know.

Hotch nodded and accepted the little baby from her arms. "Hey, there," he whispered softly. "I'm your Uncle Aaron. I'm gonna be the best godfather you can imagine."

The others were standing around them, waiting impatiently for their turn to hold Hannah while tickling her face or stroking her hair and congratulating the new parents to their beautiful daughter.

Dave, who still had Henry in his arms, took a step back and watched the scene in front of him. Taking a deep, content breath, he was relieved that everything had turned out well. He knew he still had to face JJ's parents, and he was sure that this was not going to be a pleasant first meeting, but seeing that everyone else was standing behind him and JJ, willing to support them as best as they could, there was not much to worry about at the moment.

A hand on his shoulder pulled him out of his thoughts. "I hope you won't screw this up again," Morgan said in a warning tone that left no doubt that he'd have Dave's head for real should he ever hurt JJ again.

"I won't," Dave assured him firmly. "Believe me, Morgan, I've learned my lesson."

"Just making sure. Because next time it won't be my fist you'll be looking at, but my gun. And you'd drop dead before you could even reach for your own gun."

"I hear you, Derek. But there won't be a next time."

"Good. I'd hate to deprive that beautiful little girl of her father."

They all spent the rest of the morning admiring the baby until Hotch decided that it was time to get back to work around noon.

JJ and Dave had had to fill them in on all the details of the slightly dramatic events of the past evening, and Garcia was almost a bit sad that she hadn't been around for the show this time.

Dave's mother was deeply impressed by the close-knit group of people her son was working with. What astounded her more than anything else, was that her son, who had always been a loner, working for himself, had found a place in this team, was accepted and highly respected by the younger agents, had even become close friends with them, and was actually enjoying his role. And while she was still quite a bit angry with him for his stupidity that very nearly cost her a grandchild, she also realized that she'd never been prouder of him than at the moment.