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A/N: From now on, I am going to dedicate chapters to people who have reviewed the previous chapters. If you want a shout out, review the chapter. Good or bad, I want to here from you.

This chapter is dedicated to "nataliebianca" and "Sierra Clearwater"
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The alarm went off as per usual, but this time, Emily jumped out of bed.

"What's the rush?" Hotch asked, sounding tired.

"No rush." Emily lied. She started throwing her pajamas off and flinging her clothes for the day.

"No rush? Do you think I'm blind?" Emily hesitated.

"I wanted to get to work before you."

"Why? I can drive you." He offered.

"Hotch; you've been driving me you work a lot lately. Plus we took exactly the same weekend off." Emily began.

"You think they suspect something?" He asked.

"What do you think? We knew about Will and JJ almost a year before they admitted they were together and we didn't see them both every day." Emily pointed out, almost running around Hotch's room to get her things together.

"Well," he began. "What if they knew? Would it really be that bad?" Emily stopped dead in her tracks. She really didn't want the team to know. If they knew, it would be...real. It would be serious. Whenever it got to that point, everything fell apart, and she didn't want their relationship to end.

"I don't want to have this conversation at 6 in the morning. We agreed to keep this under raps until we knew what this was." She protested.

"You don't know what this is?" He asked. She paused. She was in love with him, and wanted to be with him forever, but if the team knew...

"No. I don't know if we're really there yet." She lied.

"Oh." Hotch breathed. He didn't know if he had a right to be bothered by Emily's comments, never the less, he was.

"Sorry." She lied again.

"No, its okay I guess. We'll keep it quiet for the time being."

"Okay." She said, feeling very guilty. "I'll see you at work then?"

"Yep." He said quietly, rolling away from Emily as she got ready.

**

"So how was your weekend with the kids?" Rossi asked Hotch when he got to work.

"It was nice. Riley was a bit...standoffish in the beginning, but she warmed up to us." Hotch said.

"Us?" Rossi asked.

"I meant me." Hotch said quietly.

"Anyways," Garcia cut in, realizing where this was going. "Riley said you saw Alice in Wonderland this weekend. Was it good?"

"How did you know?" Hotch asked.

"It's her Facebook status." Garcia shrugged.

"You have Hotch's daughter as a friend on Facebook?" Reid asked with a laugh.

"Yeah, she added me when she came here on the weekend. Is that creepy?" She asked, sounding concerned.

"If it was anyone but you, I'd be concerned." Hotch said, cracking a small smile. Everyone stopped dead.

"Did I just see that correctly?" JJ asked cynically.

"I think I saw it too!" Morgan said, going along with the joke. "But I don't believe it."

"Maybe it was a twitch?" Reid asked.

"Oh, screw all of you." Hotch said.

"So, how was the movie?" JJ asked. "I actually want to see it."

"I liked it. Riley loved it." Hotch said.

"Jack was..." Emily said, but she realized what she was about to say. "Scared I assume?" Everyone looked oddly at Emily. They caught her mistake too.

"Yeah, but he pretended he wasn't." Hotch said, trying to cover up Emily's slip.

"You've seen it?" Morgan asked Emily.

"Yes."

"Speaking of this weekend, why did you take the weekend off Prentiss?" Rossi asked.

"I...I...was." She stammered. She didn't have an excuse planned. "Seeing my...my...mother?"

"Your mother?" JJ asked, clearly not buying it.

"Yes?" She said, but it sounded much more like a question.

"Let's get back to work." Hotch said, trying to change the subject. Emily was very thankful.

**

"Emily, come in here." JJ called. Emily went into JJ's office.

"What's up?" Emily asked.

"Are you going to tell me where you were this weekend? Or do I have to get Morgan and Reid in here to interrogate you?" She joked.

"I don't know what you're talking about." Emily lied. Apparently she was doing a lot of lying that day.

"I'm no profiler, but I can tell you're lying. Do you remember when I started seeing Will and you all knew?" JJ asked.

"Yeah." Emily said.

"You didn't even see Will and you knew. Imagine if you'd seen both of us?"

"Why are you telling me this?" Emily asked nervously.

"Emily, everyone knows." JJ said, rolling her eyes. "I wanted to tell you so you didn't find out from anyone else. They're going to ask Hotch about it later."

"How the HELL did you guys know?" Emily shouted.

"You underestimate the profilers here." JJ shrugged.

"You're not a profiler." Emily pointed out.

"Yes, but the profilers here are chatty."

"Who told you?" Emily asked.

"Well, about four months ago, Rossi and Morgan started speculating. They told Reid, Garcia and I. Reid and I didn't really buy it right away, but after a while, we caught on."

"Wh-" Emily began but JJ cut her off.

"I think it's great. Are you happy?" She asked.

"More than I've been in a long time." Emily blushed.

"Then I'm happy for you." JJ said, pulling Emily into a small embrace.

"Can you do me a favour?" Emily asked.

"Depends on what the favour is." JJ laughed.

"Call the team into the conference room."

"You're going to tell them?" She asked, shocked.

"Why not? You all already know. Might as well make it official." Emily laughed.

**

"JJ, what's going on?" Rossi asked, once they were already in the conference room.

"Yeah, you rushed us in here, is it bad?" Hotch asked.

"Nope." JJ said. "Emily wants to say words."

"Alright. So apparently you've all been taking bets about whether Hotch and I are sleeping together." She scoffed.

"That wasn't all of us!" Garcia protested. "Only Derek, Reid and Rossi put money on it."

"Rat." Morgan whispered loudly. Everyone laughed.

"Well, the betting and wagering of any kind can stop." She said more seriously.

"Em." Hotch began.

"It's fine." Emily said turning to Hotch. "I lied this morning. I know what this is; I just got freaked out by the idea of everyone knowing."

"Does this mean...?" Spencer began.

"Yes. I am in LOVE with Aaron Hotchner." She said loudly. All was silent for a few moments.

"And, I love her." Hotch said awkwardly. The silence dragged on for about 5 minutes. Finally Derek cleared his throat.

"Two things." He began. "One, I'm really happy for you guys and I've kind of seen it coming since Emily started here." Hotch and Emily smiled.

"I agree." JJ said.

"And the second thing?" Rossi asked.

"Reid owes Rossi and I ten bucks." Morgan laughed. The rest of the team laughed too, with the exception of Reid who was pulling two ten dollar bills out of his wallet. Hotch kissed Emily on the head, thankful that she decided to tell the team. The secrets were all out in the open.

So there wasn't any Riley and Jack in this chapter, but I needed to let the team know. Anyways, the next chapter will focus on Hotch's relationship with Riley. It will also look at Emily and Jack's relationship. Thanks for reading, and please review :)