Jack- Jack

They were both up bright and early the next morning and to Emily's delight there was no awkwardness between that after last night's conversations.

"Good morning"

Good morning" He answered back. "I guess I don't have to wake you up and anger your alarm clock."

She laughed "I choose you over my alarm clock any day."

"Hungry?" He asked with a smile, he found that he smile a lot when he was around her.

"Famished" she answered back with a smile to match his.

"Good" He said getting out of bed and leaving the bedroom. He returned almost ten minutes later to serve her breakfast in bed once more.

On the tray was the previously promised toast and apple sauce, he had butter and grape jelly for her to put on the toast as well. There was also another glass of orange juice, she smiled when she saw that tray.

"You are going to spoil me, breakfast in bed, waiting on me, letting me cry on your shoulder."

"Well if that is all it takes to spoil you, then you are right I am going to spoil you every day." He said with a kiss to her nose.

She laughed and then began eating with a gusto he hasn't seen in a long time. This made him smile, it meant she was getting better; she was too busy eating to even talk to him. He just continued to smile while drinking his coffee. He was glad she hadn't asked to have a cup, he hasn't letting her have coffee till it was time for her to go back to work whether she liked it or not. When she finished everything on the tray, Hotch took it away, when he returned he could see she now had a serious look on her face.

"Let's get this over with, I am not happy we have to clean these damn cuts so let's just do it. Though first I want to wash off then clean the cuts it makes more sense to do it that way." She said, determination dripping from her voice.

"Okay let's do it," while he didn't like the idea that he was going to be causing her more pain he wore a huge smile on the inside. This was more like the Emily Prentiss he knew, that Emily tackled the hard stuff head on and that Emily was rarely controlled by her fears. To him this was a very positive sign that she was healing.

In the bathroom he helped her get undressed. As a result of the deep cuts on her shoulders she was unable to lift her arms above her head. This frustrated Emily greatly, she felt like a child being dressed by her parents. Yet there was no other person she would rather have undressing her than Aaron Hotchner. She stepped in the bathtub and this time because he didn't have to worry as much about her cuts he was able to do a much more thorough and faster job cleaning her off.

It may have just been his imagination or wishful thinking on his part, but her bruises looked as though they were beginning to fade. Regardless of her cuts and bruises he still found her to be a thoroughly beautiful woman and he felt so overjoyed knowing she was his to love.

Once he was done washing her off he made quick work with the alcohol. He heard her hiss every time he poured the sterilizing liquid on to a cut, but she didn't scream this time which he took as a good sign.

It still burned but it was nowhere near the intensity of the previous day. Emily knew this meant her cuts where healing this was a good sign and meant it would hurt even less tomorrow which was a very happy thought. She was still glad when it was over, the antibiotic ointment felt cool against her recently agitated skin.

As he helped her into some clean clothes she actually felt fairly clean and that was a very nice thing. As they moved back to the bedroom she made a request.

"Aaron could I have a popsicle?"

He couldn't help but busting out laughing the moment she said it. "Sorry I didn't mean to laugh, what flavor would you like?"

"Cherry and just for that you get to spend the day watching sex and the city with me." He laughed even harder as he left the bedroom.

He returned with two cherry popsicles, his laptop and all of her sex and the city dvds.

"Here is your lollipop little girl." He said making a reference to yesterday cleaning experience.

"You think you are so funny but I see you have a popsicle of your own."

"It's warm today a popsicle sounded like a refreshing treat." he said weakly

"Right, I think there is a little kid hiding under that calm exterior." She said with a teasing smile and then she seductively licked her red popsicle.

He just smiled ignoring her teasing. "Are we starting from the beginning?"

"Yes" she said with a grin.

He dutifully put the dvd in and sat down next to her and proceeded to check his email.

She looked over at his laptop longingly.

"No" he said before she could even ask.

"Why? Please, do you know how long it has been since I checked my email and I am not talking about my work email?"

"So you want to watch Sex and the City and take my computer away from me too?"

"Please" she pouted.

"Fine but when this episode is over you have to give it back, deal?" He found it hard to resist her cute little pout when the issue wasn't a serious one.

"Deal" she smiled with joy as he gently placed the computer of her lap.

She spent the next twenty minutes sorting through her backlogged email though most of them were not important, they were junk email informing her of an upcoming sale, not that she would be shopping anytime soon. She checked up on current events only to find that not much was new going on in the world. Reluctantly once the episode was over she handed him back his computer.

"Anything important?" He asked, he noticed that her smile from earlier had faded.

"Nothing at all important, just a bunch of emails from people asking if I was alright and wondering how I am doing. I should email them back but I just don't feel up to it right now."

"That's fine people will understand, especially if they are your friends."

"Apparently my abduction really was all over the news, people I haven't talked to in ten years managed to email and ask if I was okay."

"I suppose that is one way to reconnect with old friends."

"I wouldn't recommend it."

"Well I think if you haven't talk to these people in ten years you can take all the time you want to get back to them."

"You're right I don't know what it is but I am so use to privacy and anonymity and I feel weird everyone knowing what happened. I think it comes from being the daughter of a US Ambassador there were always people around and I hated it."

"Then pretend it wasn't all over the news, pretending what happened is not a good idea but I think it is okay to ignore all the people coming out of the woodwork. It is just the two of us forget that people know that you were abducted, it's over those people will more on."

"That sounds good to me." She said with a sigh

"Now we should talk about something more important. I have to go pick Jack up in a few hours."

"Is he going to be okay with me staying with you?" Emily bit her lip a little, she was concerned that Jack would be upset that she was staying at his house.

"Emily he loves you, he is always asking me when you are coming over. He is going to be so excited that you are here. My only concern is if you will be okay when he gets here. I know it has been just the two of us." He really didn't know how to finish his statement.

"I'll be fine don't worry, I just hope Jack understands why I can't play cars with him for a while. I don't want him to think I don't want to play with him anymore."

"I don't worry about it I will explain everything to him, within reason, I will simplify things for him but I will make sure he understands."

"Good, you two are my special guys; I hope its okay for me to say?"

"Well I am speaking for Jack which is always dangerous" he said with a laugh. "But speaking for both of us you are pretty special to us too." Her heart swelled with his comment and she couldn't help but give him a giant kiss, which turned into another mini make out session and ended for the same reason as the previous one. They spent the rest of the afternoon cuddling in bed watching TV. After a while she turned to him and without introduction she asked him a burning question.

"You aren't going to go all cave man on me when we get back to work and try to keep me back at the station and out of harm's way are you?"

"Let me clarify something before I say the wrong thing and you use it against me in a month. You are talking after the doctor clears you, when all your broken bones are healed, all the cuts have healed and any physical therapy is completed correct? Because I was pretty sure that I made it clear that you will only do the work that the doctors have cleared you for, same goes for every member of the team you understand that. I will not send an unfit agent into the field. You just happen to be in the unique position of living with be so I know exactly how you are doing, it is easier for other members of the team to hide how they are really doing, you can't do that." He said with a smirk.

"Yes that is what I was talking about, once I can run and carry a gun you are not going to be over protective?"

"No, I fell in love with a strong independent agent and I would never strip you of that no matter how much I want to keep you safe, it makes you the person you are. Will I worry? Of course but I always worry especially about you, but that comes with being a leader."

"That's good because I would have hated to kick your ass."

"That's why a doctor will decide when you are ready to go back to work again, that way you can't get mad at me. I know how this works if I'm not careful I will end up sleeping on the couch, nope a doctor gets to decide and I get to stay out of trouble."

"That's what you think." She said with a giant smile on her face and then turned back to the TV, as his smile faded a little but he thought it best to let the comment slide for now.

When the time came for Hotch to leave to go get Jack, Emily decided that she wanted to move out to the couch and read a book while he was gone. It was then that she discovered that Aaron had brought all her favorite books back with him. That earned him another long kiss before he left.

A little less than an hour later Aaron stood outside his apartment with Jack next to him.

"Okay buddy remember what we talked about in the car, Emily was hurt really badly by a mean man so you have to remember to be very careful around her, we don't want to accidentally hurt her. And she won't be able to play with you like she did before okay?" Aaron had stopped his son at the door to their apartment, he needed to make sure Jack understood what had happened to the woman inside.

"I remember Daddy, but she can still read me stories right?" He looked up at his father with big pleading eyes and Hotch couldn't help but laugh.

"Yes, but you can't sit on her lap for a while."

"Okay'

Hotch opened the door and Jack ran in looking for Emily

"EMILY" he yelled at the top of his little lungs.

"I'm right here Jack-Jack no need to yell."

Jack went running to where Emily was lying on the couch but he stopped right in front of her.

"Daddy said you got hurt by a bad man." He said with big wide eyes.

"I did but thanks to your Daddy I am getting better." She smiled hoping to convey to him that she was okay and that nothing was going to happen to her.

"He hurt your arm?" Jack said pointing to her cast.

"Yes he did." She said trying to keep the reassuring smile on her face.

"How long do you have to have that on?"

"About six weeks then my arm should be all better."

"Daddy said that you are going to stay with us while you get better."

"I am, is that okay with you?"

"Yeah, are you going to go back to your home once you are better cause I want you to stay longer, I like it when you are here and so does daddy, don't you daddy?"

"I do like it when Emily is here with us."

"Then why can't she stay with us forever?" He asked with the largest puppy dog eyes Emily had ever seen. She looked up at Aaron; they hadn't talked about telling jack about their new relationship.

Aaron wanted to tell Jack but he had no idea exactly how to tell him he was now in a relationship with Emily, how do you explain something so complex to a four year old. All he could do was give Emily a questioning look.

Emily decided she was going to have to take the lead.

"What if I did stay forever would you be okay with that?"

"Yeah" Jack yelled with joy then he stood there with a very serious look on his face like he was thinking about something very hard. "Would that mean you and daddy would get married?"

"Maybe someday but not for a while, but I do love you and daddy very much and I would really like to spend a lot more time with both of you if that's okay." Emily answered calmly, she could see Aaron was about to start to laugh and she forced herself to ignore him, one of them had to remain serious.

"My friend Ben at school his Dad got married and they moved to big house with an awesome pool. If you get married can we do that?"

Hotch laughed out loud this time, kids sure had their priorities set even at the age of four. "Maybe buddy but would you be okay if Emily was my girlfriend? Do you understand what that means?"

"Yeah Emily should be your girlfriend she makes you laugh. Sarah at school wanted to be my girlfriend but she licked my arm and it was yucky so I said no."

"Well I promise not to lick Daddy's arm but is it okay if I kiss him?" She said biting back a laugh of her own.

"I guess so but that is yucky too. I still think we should get a big house with a pool."

"In a few weeks you get to start camp and they had a pool there, will that do for a while?" Aaron asked trying to appease the boy.

"I forgot about camp, I guess we can wait on a pool."

"That's good" Hotch said glad they had finally resolved the issue for the time being.

"Emily will you come and watch m T-ball games with Daddy if you live with us?"

"Of course I will." She said tickling him.

"Once she gets better" Aaron added he was not going to let the two of them gang up on him, so he made it clear she would not be doing anything until she was better.

"Yay! Can I go play in my room?" Jack asked once Emily released him.

"Of course you can." Jack started to run away and then back to his Dad. "Daddy will you come help me with something in a couple minutes?"

"You bet buddy." Aaron answered as Jack ran off once again.

"That went well, you were a big help by the way." She said poking him.

"I learned several months ago that you are much better at dealing with the tough questions."

"Lucky me, he took it quite well had his priorities straight, he wants a pool."

"Well wouldn't you? At least it isn't a puppy." Hotch leaned down and kissed her, Jack choice that moment to run back into the room.

"Daddy" Jack called. Both Aaron and Emily stopped kissing and immediately separated, turned quickly to look at Jack."

"Yeah buddy" he said a little wearily.

"When Ben's Daddy got married again he also got a baby sister can we get one of those too?"

The two adults blushed at Jack's new question and Aaron started coughing a little.

"We'll see kiddo" he said "Babies take a lot longer to make than houses do.

"Daddy"

"Yes Jack." Hotch asked very tentatively, though after a baby what could Jack really ask for that would have been more complicated.

"Do you like kissing Emily?"

"I do"

"Then I guess it isn't so yucky." With that he ran back to his room.

"A pool and a baby Ben's Dad was really busy." Emily said with a laugh.

"I think I should make sure Ben didn't get anything else when his Dad got married. Also I don't think Jack understands what a baby really involves I'm not sure he is that good at sharing yet."

"No but he thinks he wants one."

Aaron was about to ask her if she wanted one but before he could Jack yelled from his room.

"Daddy will you help me?"

"I'm coming" he yelled "We will talk about this later." He said to Emily kissing her on the forehead he then exited the living room to help his son. Laughing to herself Emily returned to the book she had been reading.

A half an hour later Jack came running out of his room carrying a piece of paper with him. He ran up to Emily thrusting the paper at her, it said 'Get Better Soon Love Daddy and Jack' written in Aaron's hand writing. Around it were what Emily believed to be flowers and a rainbow.

"Aw Jack-Jack thank you so much this is so pretty. Would you like to stick it on the fridge so I can look at it every day?"

"Yeah" he yelled with joy, taking the paper from her he ran to the fridge.

Emily smiled at Aaron "That was so sweet"

"He wants you to get better so you can play with him and so you can come see him play T-ball" he whispered back to her.

"He is just about the cutest kid in the world."

Hotch smiled, it made him so happy to see the way Emily and Jack interacted.

"I think it is time to make dinner, how does Mac and Cheese sound?" Aaron yelled to Jack "would you like to help me?"

"Yeah" Jack yelled.

"Maybe I will even let you have a little." He whispered to Emily

"Promises, promises"

Aaron and Jack disappeared into the kitchen and left Emily to read once more. Dinner was a very light hearted, Hotch and Jack had Mac and cheese with a salad. As promised Emily had a small bowl of the cheesy pasta along with peanut butter toast and apple sauce. After dinner they all moved into the living room and watched Toy Story until it was time for Jack to go to bed. He insisted on giving Emily a goodnight kiss which delighted her.

While Aaron was reading Jack a bedtime story Emily moved into the bedroom which was where he found her once Jack was asleep. She was relaxing on the bed and watching an episode of Sex and the City.

"I see you are watching this without me."

"I didn't think you would mind."

"You are so very correct I don't mind at all." He sat down on the bed beside her and grabbed the remote. "Do you mind if we turn this off for a little while I want to talk to you about a few things?" He asked turning the dvd and the TV off.

"Okay" she said with a little trepidation "That is not really the best way to start a conversation you know."

"Yeah sorry that may have come out a bit more dramatic than I had planned."

"I think that might be a first for you" she teased.

"I will try not make habit of it. Though seriously I have to go into work tomorrow, I wanted to at least get the day off but I have to go in and deal with everything that happened in Connecticut. I am hoping that I will be able to make it a half day. We are off rotation for the next week so I will be able to take half days for the rest of the week as well."

"I will be okay Aaron I am not a child I can take care of myself for a while, I am still sleeping a lot, I am not eating much and I am certainly not going to be leaving the apartment on my own." She said trying to reassure him of her safety.

"I worry that you will need something and you won't be able to get it or the antibiotics could cause you to pass out or something."

"I can get the basic things I need on my own and the antibiotics haven't done anything but upset my stomach, I haven't even thrown up. I will be okay on my own for a few hours."

"I know, its just that I promised to take care of you and I feel like I am not doing that when I leave you alone."

"You have done a great job taking care of me, nothing is going to happen if you go into work, I promise you everything will be fine. I will watch TV and read a book and there is plenty of food in the fridge, don't worry you can even call every few hours to see how I am doing if it makes you feel better."

"I guess I can do that." He conceded.

"I can't imagine what you are going to be like when you have to go on a case and leave me behind." She meant it as a joke but the thought of him leaving her behind forced the air out of her lungs and a little panic invaded her mind. She took a few deep breaths to calm down and hopefully cover her moment of panic from Hotch.

"Well that will be at least a week from now you will be healed a little bit more, you will be ready to kick me out by then I am sure. Are you sure you are okay with this you have gone a little pale?"

"No I am fine everything is going to be fine, it was just the thought of you going away on a case I started to panic I am okay with you being gone for hours but being alone at night I don't think I am ready for that."

"I expected that, which is why I took us off rotation for a week, I didn't want to leave you for a long period of time. If you want you can go stay with Garcia when we do eventually get called out that way you don't have to be alone even then."

"I will think about that and we'll see how I am feeling, but you are probably right I will be ready once you finally have to go away."

"You will call me tomorrow if you need anything or if something goes wrong and if you can't get a hold of me for some reason call Dave or JJ they will know where to find me right away or they can help you."

"Aaron I know what to do and I will call if anything happens but really it will be okay."

"You're right, sorry." He said giving her a quick kiss. "I wanted to ask you something if that's okay?"

"A little ominous but ask away."

"I am not sure how to ask so I will just say it. You are great with kids, Jack, the victims we deal with, you'll forgive me for being blunt but everyone knows that you want a child why haven't you had one."

His question took her a more than a little by surprise, there were several different pieces of information she could give him to answer that question starting with the problem she got into when she was fifteen. She took a minute to get her thoughts and emotions under control.

"You're right I really do want a baby it was my only other regret when I thought I was going to die. As for why I don't have one, I guess it would be a combination of being a romantic and spending too much time getting this job. I really wanted to join the BAU and I spent a long time trying to get here and there was never a lot of time left for relationships, call me old fashion but I want to have a baby with someone I love who can help me raise a child in a loving nurturing environment. But now I have you and Jack and I know he isn't mine and I would never try to replace his mother but I can't begin to thank you for letting me spent time with him and being a part of his life."

"Let's have a baby."

"What? Whoa slow down there, I see I am going to be the voice of reason around her for a while. I love the relationship we started and I know some people would say we are moving too fast, I am practically living with you. But we have know each other for a long time and I don't think what we are doing is moving too fast, but even I think that is too soon to try and have a baby" She was taken completely by surprised by his suggestion it was unlike him and no matter how much she wanted a baby she wasn't going to rush into this.

He laughed "I didn't mean right now, you won't be up for those activates for a least a month. I was thinking of maybe in six or nine months from now, once you have had time to heal and deal with what happened. If we haven't driven each other crazy by that point then I think we should try and have a baby."

"See now that makes a lot more sense and sounds like the Aaron Hotchner I know and love or at least the one I am use to. A little spontaneity wouldn't kill you but babies aren't meant to be spontaneous." She was still a little surprised that he had brought up the subject of having a baby but she was very happy that he did because there was no one she wanted to have a baby with except Aaron Hotchner.

"So you like the idea?"

"I love the idea and I love you. It could take a while to conceive we're not exactly teenagers anymore you know."

"I hear trying to have a baby can be a lot of fun"

"I've heard that too and I guess in six to nine months we'll see if what they say is true, but until then I hear practicing can be fun too."

"Oh it can, be too bad we have to wait for that too." He said with a little frown

"Well my lips are perfectly fine maybe we could start by practicing there."

"That sounds like a great idea." He said capturing her lips in his. The two spent the rest of the night making out like teenagers and enjoying every moment.

A/N I thought it was about time to bring Jack into the story, I hope everyone had a great weekend and I hope you enjoy the chapter thank you for reading and extra thank for the reviews!