Who is the Victim Here
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Chapter Nineteen.
During the week after the agents came to New York, there has been no new news about the capture of the couple after Hotch and Rossi. Hotch is still in a very regressive state with Angie at the nursery and he refuses to be anything but be the baby that the man wants him to be. Sean is preparing to bring Aaron home to his apartment and has been creating a nursery there. Angie sent him a crib and he got the other agents to come and help him set the bedroom up. They painted the walls a baby blue with a midnight blue on the ceiling and Garcia and JJ stenciled cute little animals all around the top of the walls and at the baseboards. Sean had gotten a changing cabinet similar to the one that Angie has and has filled it with bags of disposables and had purchased some cloth diapers and plastic pants. He got powder, lotion, oil and everything that a nursery layette needed. The changing table was placed along the wall by the window and a wardrobe was brought in with many drawers and a place for hangers. Sean placed Aaron's clothes in there. He bought a lot of new clothes, but did keep some of the old although much of the old was boxed up and put into storage. The crib fit into the room well with the other furniture in the room.
In the dining room, Sean had placed a double rocking chair that he bought to feed Aaron in, he put the dining room set into storage and bought a small table with two armchairs and a chilled wine cabinet into which he put Aaron's bottles. He bought a bottle warmer and plenty of bibs designed for the adult baby. In the bathroom, he has gotten an adult form fitted seat in the tub to wash his brother in.
For the living room, He bought another double rocker and also a large toy chest with a lot of different types of toys for stimulation and enjoyment. He bought a duffle bag for his diaper bag and when he goes to pick him up in New York, Sean brings along the Dreamer Design Axiom size 3 stroller with a bunting bag and weather cover for his brother.
In New York, Sean arrives in the SUV and goes up to the house and enters, he goes into the office and sees the door to the nursery open. He enters the playroom and sees his brother in the toy area playing with cars and trucks in the small village. He is wearing a red pair of overalls with a blue and white striped top under. He has blue booties on his feet. He looked like an adult sized child of two. Sean walks over to him and bends down and asks, "Can I play?" Aaron looks up and smiles. He reaches out to hug and the men hold each other for awhile. When they finally break apart, Aaron hands him a car to play with.
The scene that Angie comes in to see is that of both Hotchner boys playing noisily and having lots of fun. "Good morning, Sean." He looks up and nodded good morning with a smile. Aaron looks up and smiles at her too. He points to his mouth. "No, Aaron, it is not yet time for a bottle." He pouts and goes back to playing. Sean kisses his forehead and gets up to talk to her.
"Angie, I know that it didn't quite the way we wanted but we just have to accept him as he is right now. Thank you for caring for him and helping him to become more comfortable in the life. The team and I created a nursery at the apartment. Thank you for the crib, you will have to come and see it."
"I look forward to seeing it and I want you to know that he is a wonderful man and although he thinks that he needs to do this to keep the people that he loves safe from that man. Do not forget that he is still a man under that baby façade. It is only a façade. Love him as both the man and the baby. Soon he will break and be there to help him in whichever way he goes. Encourage him to walk and talk, so that he can go back to work. He can work if he can do those two things. Don't worry about the rest, it doesn't matter."
Angie then begins to help Sean get Aaron ready to take home, Sean goes to get the stroller that he bought out of the car and brought it in the house. Aaron sees it for the first time and doesn't like it because it does look very much like an infant's jogger stroller, just made for larger infants. There is a bunting bag attached to it for when he is outside in the cold. Angie finds it a very fascinating accessory that Sean has gotten Aaron and she is definitely looking forward to seeing what other baby accessories that he has gotten for his big baby brother.
She changes Aaron's diaper and Sean puts Aaron into the stroller and wraps him in the bunting bag, where we only see his face. She gives Sean a bag of diapers and bottles for the trip back and kisses Aaron good bye. "Good bye darling, I'll come down and visit in a few weeks." She kisses her two fingers and places the fingers on his lips while he smiles back at her and purses his lips in a kiss. She gets up and leaves the room while Sean pushes Aaron to the car and then picks him up in the bunting bag and all and puts him in the back seat of the car and buckles him in. He puts the stroller in the back and drives home to the DC area. Angie watches the SUV leave with tears in her eyes as she watches the man she has come to care deeply for going away.
Meanwhile back in the DC area, Rossi and his current babysitter, Morgan, are heading out of the office. The team still won't allow Rossi stay at his home alone and he is really getting irritated. Morgan and he are going out to dinner and then plan to head to the Hotchners. They know that Sean is bringing Aaron home today and decide to stop by and see how the boss man likes his new digs. When they get there and knock on the door, Sean answers and welcomes them in. They walk in and see Aaron sitting in the living room on the double rocker as he had just been sat up when Sean had to get up to answer the door. It seems that the agents arrived during feeding time. Sean sits back down and Aaron lies back down in his arms to finish his bottle.
Morgan says, "Sorry we didn't mean to come during dinner. We just wanted to know that you got home well."
Rossi pipes up, "We should have thought that it might be dinner time, we just finished dinner ourselves, nothing like a good steak." Aaron narrows his eyes at him and scowled as best he could with a bottle in his mouth, but he wasn't about to stop drinking. He was hungry. "Have you eaten Sean, I could feed Aaron so you can eat?"
"That's okay, David. This is his first bottle here and I want to give it to him." He rocks the chair while holding his brother and talking with the Morgan and Rossi. After the first bottle, Aaron was given a second bottle because he was still hungry. He hadn't had anything since noon, because Sean wouldn't give him one in the car on the way home. Aaron slept in the car and the brothers have been bonding a little since coming home when Sean showed Aaron all around the apartment and then they played for an hour before Sean got Aaron's dinner bottles ready. The men talk for several hours while Aaron has his bottles and then falls asleep in Sean's arms while being rocked.
When Rossi and Morgan leave, Sean gets up and takes Aaron to the changing table and changed his diaper and puts him in a night sleeper. Aaron does not wake up while being changed and when Sean put him in his crib, he hugged his brother and said, "Good night Galahad."
The first days at home for our boss man were easy and Sean tried to make it simple for by creating a daily schedule that was easy on the boys. Sean would get up and shower about six in the morning and dress before going to wake his brother. He would then bathe and dress Aaron after which there would be the first bottle of the day. Sean would then put Aaron down onto the floor of the living room to play and explore the room. A few hours later, Sean would feed Aaron another bottle and then dress him to take out for a walk in the stroller, bundled up in the bunting bag. They would walk for a few hours in the park and come home for a lunch bottle and a nap. Aaron got another bottle after his nap and played until another bottle two hours later. He would then take a small nap before his two dinner bottles and then the boys would watch some TV or DVD movie until his bedtime story and bottle at about 10pm. This is now the life for Agent Aaron Hotchner of the FBI BAU. Will it be his life forever? Sometimes fate takes a hand and changes things but for the better or for the worse.
