A/N: Hi! I'm very sorry I didn't post this sooner. I had a little accident... I fell and hurt my back and I could sit for much time so using the computer was out of question... I'm sorry again. I'm not one-hundred percent okay yet but I managed to finish this. My new fic will be up later this week, I hope. Please, go take a look...

Here is the end of This Thing Called Love and I'm so proud. This was the first serious fic I wrote and I know how much I evolved at every chapter and every review you guys let me... Thank you for sticking with me until the end. It's not really long because I just wanted to tie some nots and have some team fun before the end. Thank you again, I hope you like it!

Chapter 27

They were chatting at her room, answering the questions about how they hook up together when Hotch's phone started to ring. He pulled out from his jacket and looked at the ID. "Oh, it's Hay. I have to take this. Be right back". He said kissing her before leaving.

"So, Haley is really okay with you two together?" JJ asked.

"She was the one who gave him the push he needed after Foyet… she's really okay with it. We had dinner together sometimes, she lets Jack stay over our place… she recently started to see someone…" Emily explained.

"Really?"

"Hm hmm. Aaron even gave his name to Garcia do some research. He started with all his protectiveness shit but I talked to him and he stepped down…" She said chuckling.

"And you have no problem him being bothered about her?" Morgan asked.

"Why should I? She is the mother of his son, they have a bound. He will always love her and take care of her but he's not in love with her anymore. He's in love with me and he proves me that every single day…"

"And you're completely right, like always…" Hotch said entering the room. "There is a little boy wanting to speak with his Super Emmy". He said smiling.

Emily smiled brightly and took the phone. "Hi baby!"

"Hi Emmy! Daddy said you had a bad boo-boo…" He said worried.

"Yes, honey. I do have a bad boo-boo but the doctor already fixed me and I'll be home soon, okay?"

"And then we can have our picnic?" He asked excitedly.

"Of course sweetheart, as soon as I'm all better we'll have our picnic like we promised, okay?"

"Kay… Love you Emmy… mommy wants to talk with you…"

"I love you too, baby. Pass the phone to mommy…"

"Hey… Aaron told me the news, congratulations!"

"Thank you Haley… I'm still shocked but I can't even describe how happy I am…" She said smiling.

"I know… I felt the same with Jack… So, Aaron's already driving you nuts?"

Emily chuckled. "Not yet, but I think it's because we just found out. When we get home it's another story…"

"Oh, be prepared. He's insane…" Haley said laughing.

"He better behave himself because I may be pregnant but I still can kick his ass. And I have a gun…" She said and they both chuckled. They said their goodbyes and hang up and she passed the phone back to Hotch.

"What were you two talking about me, uh?" He asked amused.

"She was asking if you were already driving me nuts…" She said and he chuckled.

"That's really unfair… I have a right to worry okay?"

"I know babe, just need to learn to dose it…" She said kissing his cheek.

They stayed talking in her room until Garcia clapped her hands catching everyone's attention. "Okay, you boys go to the cafeteria get some coffee and leave us ladies alone, would you?"

"I think this is a code to kick us out and start talking about your sex life, Aaron…" Dave said amused at the look on his friend's face.

"Emily…" Hotch said warningly.

"Don't worry babe, I'll behave…" She said and winked at him.

"This really doesn't easy my worries…" He murmured before giving her a kiss and leaving with the others.

"Okay, spit out". Garcia ordered sitting at the chair beside Emily's bed.

"What do you want to know?" She asked chuckling.

"Everything! I can't imagine boss man doing romantic boyfriend, but by the amount of pet names we already heard today I'd take he is…" She said and JJ nodded in agreement.

Emily sighed contently and smiled. "He is so… perfect". She started. "I can't even describe it properly… he's so caring, so sweet and tender… he's the best I've ever had, you know. He just ruined me for any other man in the world…"

"The best you've ever had in every way?" She asked wiggling her eyebrow and JJ laughed.

"Oh, girls… you have no idea…" She said mischievously.

"Ohhhh, tell us more!"

"He's amazing… you know all the power he exhales in the field? Let me just say that in the bedroom it's one hundred percent more intense…" She said breathlessly and chuckled at Garcia's wide eyes. "Let's say that I've actually passed out sometimes…"

"So, I'd take that he's very well equipped?" JJ asked suggestively.

"Oh, he definitely has a reason to be called the Unit Chief…" She said and they burst out on laugh.

"You're really whipped, aren't you?" JJ asked amusedly after they calm themselves.

"I'm… I'm completely, utterly, deeply, totally in love with him…" She said smiling. "I can't even imagine my life without him by my side…"

"I'm really happy for you guys…" She said smiling. She honestly didn't know two people who deserved more being this happy and she could only hope that it really lasted forever.

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"Hey guys…" Hotch smiled answering the door. It had been five days since Emily's shooting and they had invited the team for the dinner at their apartment. "Come in… Em is resting a little bit but I'll be waking her soon…"

"Oh, you don't need to, boss-man… she needs to rest…" Garcia said.

"Try saying this to her… she already threatened my life a dozen times since we got back from the hospital… she said I was fussing her too much. I don't know if it's her stubbornness or pregnancy hormones but either way I've learnt to step back for my own safety…" He said chuckling.

"Oh, you finally found someone to boss you around, uh?" Dave smirked.

"She has me wrapped around her little finger and she knows it…" He nodded.

"As if you don't like it…" She said smiling coming from the bedroom. "Hey guys…"

"Hey princess… how are you feeling?" Morgan asked hugging her.

"Ugh, morning sickness sucks. I wasn't feeling anything before I knew but know I can't even smell coffee. I'm starting to think it's psychological…" She groaned.

"Oh, she can't smell coffee, steak and apparently my aftershave…" Hotch said rolling his eyes.

"You want to sleep in the guest room, don't you?" She asked him seriously.

He laughed at her. "Right, like you would make me. You don't even let me get change before you throw me into bed…"

"And why on earth would I want you to get change? You're just so delicious with nothing on…" She said naughty wrapping her good arm around his neck and nibbling his jaw.

"Oh you too, stop with the mushy!" Morgan groaned.

"Pregnancy hormones, Derek". JJ smirked.

"Yeah, this part of the hormones thing I'm quite fond with…" Hotch said and they chuckled.

They sat at the living room and ate the Chinese that they had brought with them. "So, when you guys will be tying the knot?" Dave asked.

"We have to wait at least for her shoulder to be completely healed and functioning… but I guess in a couple of months. Definitely before our little princess arrives…" Hotch said smiling sitting at the couch with Emily snuggled by his side.

"You're really certain that it's a girl, aren't you?"

"I have a feeling… if it's a boy I'll love him just as much but something tells me that it's a little Em…" He answered, everyone noticing the sparkle on his eyes.

"And you guys picked names yet?" Garcia asked excitedly.

"We discussed yesterday and came out with a winner if it's a girl. Anna Catherine Hotchner. Anna after Aaron's mom and Catherine because of my grandma…" Emily said smiling.

"It's so beautiful, Em…" JJ said. "And what if it's a boy?"

"We agreed in Anthony for his middle name, after Em's father. But we haven't decided the first name yet…" Hotch answered.

Dave got up and filled everyone's glasses with wine, except for Emily and Hotch who decided to stay with water like his fiancé. "I suggest we make a toast. To Emily and Aaron, because I don't know two people who deserve more happiness and love like you two. Thank God you decided to take your heads out of your asses and saw what was right in front of you all the time. Have a life full of blessing, love and respect and that this little baby, boy or girl, be just the begging of this beautiful family you two are building together. Emily and Aaron!"

"Emily and Aaron!" All of them raised their glasses to the couple while Hotch cupped her face and kissed her passionately.

"I love you". He murmured against her lips when they parted breathlessly.

"I love you". She murmured back.

After all they had passed through, all the difficulties, all the problems, all the doubts and mistakes, he had finally found on each other the meaning of true love. After suffering from the loss of his family, the end of his marriage and everything he thought would be his world for the rest of his life he had found, where he last expected, in the eyes full of compassion, in the arms full of understanding of his subordinate that he could be, should be and would be happy again. After denying himself so long and trying to fight against it he had succumbed at the reality he always needless feared. He was completely and shamelessly in love with this woman and would pass the rest of his life trying to make her happy, being forever thankful for her teaching him what the word love truly means.

THE END.