Undercover Family

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Chapter 15.

Momma immediately goes to where her little one is and sees this person putting him down, the man looks the worse for the wear with bites and beginning bruising.

"What do you think you are doing?" Aaron runs over to her while screaming mommy and with tears streaming down his face. The people of the tent and in the nearby parents' tent come running and the man is caught and stopped from doing anything. Momma picks up her crying baby and goes back to the chairs. The other kids come running over.

"Is he okay?" "What happened?" "Calm down Aaron, you're okay now." Momma is rocking him trying to calm him down. He got quite a scare thinking he was about to be abducted. His adult mind saved him by screaming and defending how he could, but the baby inside of him is terrified now of being anywhere but in momma's arms. Eventually, he does start to calm down, but he kept his arms tightly around her. Penelope in the meantime looks through the bag and stuff to see if there is anything there to help calm him down, all she found was a baby bottle of kool-aid. She hands it to momma, who moves Aarons face from her shoulder and shows it to the baby. He takes it and begins to drink hungrily. Spencer says that he was hungry too, others chime in.

"Okay, let's get some food and head to the park to set up to watch the fireworks." David takes the cooler, Penelope takes the backpack and JJ picks up the diaper bag and the other things to take with them. Momma carries Aaron and they head through the food booths and pick up some food for each of them. They make it over to the park and look for a place where they can put down the blanket on the ground. They find a spot big enough and begin to set up the blanket, the kids are setting it up since Aaron won't let momma go and it gives her no hands to work with. Once the blanket is set up, momma sits down and she attempts to set Aaron down next to here, but he won't have any of it. He has no intention of letting go.

The other kids sit down, but Spencer seems to have ants in his pants and asks David if he would go with him to the porta potty. Smiling Dave says sure. Emily pipes up and invites herself along and Derek decides to join the group. Momma surreptitiously talks to David and actually gives him a pull-up for Spencer, in case he doesn't make it. Penelope and JJ go to the best buy stage to listen to the music playing and promise to be back by 7:30pm to join the family to listen to the army band play in the Petrillo Stage. Eventually, it is just Aaron and momma again and he slowly relaxes enough to climb out of her arms and sits down next to her.

"I'm sorry momma; I am acting really babyish right now. It's just that when that man pickup me up, I freaked. I didn't think and there was no reason or logic to my actions or reactions, just fear and lack of control over myself. I have faced down serial killers and seen the most horrible of death and torture of people and this was nothing like I had ever felt before. It was terrifying. How can I lead my team now? What do they see me as? I remember how they saw me when I went through the teething and that was bad enough. They forgave me for that because we viewed it as an illness. But this, I screamed and cried and I couldn't help myself, it was like it wasn't me but it was. I did that. This was no illness; this was the boss man being a baby. I can't live that down. They must be laughing now as to how the boss became a baby. How can they respect me or my authority now? I should quit the agency now; I don't think that I can continue this assignment. I don't even know who I am anymore. Am I the FBI agent who is the Unit Chief of the BAU or the seventeen-month-old baby that you made me?"

"Aaron, why did you choose to be the baby?"

"What?"

"Remember, you chose to be this age instead of allowing one your other agents to do it. Why?"

"I knew it would be a very difficult role to perform, that the person would have to lose control and become dependent upon others to care for him. My agents have enough to deal with as adults and struggling to accept and go forward after a bad case, none of them needed this to happen to them, to question whether they can continue. Sometimes I think they wonder about that already, they didn't need to be dependent upon others to eat and keep clean."

"Did you think that it would easy for you to deal with it? Are you so immune to what happens around you, that you wouldn't be affected? What happened to you today was unexpected; you acted naturally and within the role that you are supposed to be performing. If you think that your team will think less of you because you are playing your role excellently, then you don't think very highly of the members of your team." He looks at her thoughtfully. Is he really underestimating them? He doesn't know about that right now, he just knows that he is not sure about himself. Is that worse? Expecting others to respect you or respecting yourself, which is more important?

Momma offers Aaron a bottle of water; she put water into a baby bottle for him, rather than give him a bottle of water. He's hesitant, but takes the bottle and began to drink. He lies down and looks up at the sky, although not really tired; he does fall asleep after a few minutes. The adrenaline from the scare finally began to reduce enough and it just puts him out.

In the meantime, David and his troupe are waiting in line at the porta-potty; there is a line of about fifteen people ahead of them. Spencer is hopping from foot to foot.

Derek says, "You know just looking at you makes me want to go even worse, stand still."

"I can't, I really gotta go."

"Well, if you don't calm down, you will pee in your pants."

Spencer sighs, "Too late." As he lets go into his pants, he feels a little better.

"It doesn't look like you went." His shorts still looked dry.

David says, "Well, it's a good thing momma gave me a dry pull-up for you Spencer. She wasn't sure that you would make it."

"You're wearing a pull-up little boy." Derek looks at him trying not to laugh at the idea of Spencer in pull-ups. "I thought you only wear those at night. So you becoming more like Hotch now and needing to be changed during the day"

"Momma thought because we would be gone all day and the lines to the porta-potty might be long, I might not be able to keep dry. She asked me to wear a pull-up to keep my shorts dry." The group finally got to the porta-potty and they let Emily go first, since Spencer had already gone. When she finished, Derek went in to go and after he got out, David and Spencer went in together. David helped him take off his wet pull-up and then had the boy go further into the toilet before giving him the dry pull-up to put on. When Spencer was dressed again, he went out and stood with Derek, while David used the potty.

Two bigger kids approached the three waiting for David and started to talk to them. Derek says that their momma told them not to speak to strangers and that they were waiting for their big brother. The other kids laughed at that and tried to touch Emily, who screamed. David came out of the porta-potty and stepped in front of the kids. The other people around looked at them, but didn't really see any problem. It just looked like some kids playing. David punched one of the kids and Derek took the other two away, while David followed them.

They arrive back at the blanket and see the other girls gone. Momma said they went to listen to the music at the Best Buy Stage.

David says, "They could've waited to us."

"I said they could go and you were busy with your own group. Did everything turn out okay?"

"Someone didn't make it all the way there. Good thing you anticipated that."

"That's my job."

Spencer says, "Hi mommy, oh I see Aaron fell asleep again. I guess the adrenaline rush from the almost abduction slowed enough to realize that it is tiring. Hopefully, he'll wake up before the fireworks."

"Well, I would bet that when the band starts to play; the loudness of the music would help wake him up.", says Derek

"Mommy, will you read to me?" asks Spencer

"Yes, come and sit in my lap." Spencer sat in mommy's lap and the Emily and the boys sat in front of mommy. Derek got a book out of the backpack. Mommy started to read the story to her children. A short while later, Penelope and JJ came back and sat down to listen to the story. The band began to play patriotic songs and music flowed throughout the park. It was loud and eventually it did jar Aaron awake. At one particularly loud note, he shook and sat up. He woke up disoriented and uncertain of where he was. The music continued to be loud and at one note, he jumped. He saw Spencer sitting in momma's lap and leaning against her. The baby in Aaron did not like seeing him sitting there. Aaron hit Spencer on the arm.

"Ow, what did you do that for?"

"Mine."

"What?"

"Mine!"

"What's yours, I don't understand." The rest of the team is watching this conversation with great interest. They were wondering what Hotch was talking about and what was going to happen. It seems that baby Hotch is still in control of the boss man.

JJ comes up with the answer. She says, "Spencer, I think he believes you are sitting in his spot." She says this while trying not to laugh at the idea. The others look at her in disbelief.

"You've got to be kidding." "Hotch isn't that childish." "He can't be that possessive."

"You mean he doesn't like me sitting in momma's lap. Well too bad, I like this spot. He needs to learn to share." He wiggles himself more into the spot and turns to Aaron. He says, "I'm sitting here." He looks away.

Aaron glares at him and hits him again, screaming "MINE."

"Ow, stop hitting me." He hits Aaron back. Aaron screams again.

This is when momma finally steps in tells them both to stop it. David comes up with the idea that maybe momma can hold both boys on her lap. He picks up Aaron, who screams and tries to get down, but David keeps hold and places Aaron in momma's lap on the other side of Spencer. Aaron calms down and wiggles closer to mommy. He is happy now that he next to mommy, but doesn't really like sharing the space with Spencer. He hits him again.

"Ow, would you stop hitting me." He starts to whine and almost cries.

"It's okay Spencer, right now he's not fully understanding what he's doing, otherwise he would never do that to you. He loves you too much and he cares about you. But remember, you are the big brother, you need to control yourself."

"Okay, but he better not hit me again." Which Aaron attempts to do and momma grabs his hand.

"No more Aaron." He pouts at that.

Mommy hugs Spencer and asks if he would move to sit next to her. He looks at her hurt that she didn't want to hold him. Mommy whispers to him that she needs to change Aaron's diaper and needs to open up the space. He looks at her with understanding and moves over. Aaron smiles when he does that.

Mommy lays Aaron down in front of her and begins to undress him, Emily helped out by pulling a diaper out of the diaper bag. Mommy cleans him up and places the dry diaper on him; after which she redressed him. She put him back on her right leg. Spencer crawls back over and sits on her left leg.

9:30 finally comes and the fireworks began to show in the sky.