A/N: I had to edit out the lyrics to the song to follow the guidelines on FF. Sorry.

Chapter 6

Emily made her way down the the beach and spread the blanket out on the sand. Dusting the sand off her feet she sat down and put the ear buds in her ears and turned on her IPod. Finding the song she wanted she pushed played and then set it to repeat.

Hotch got up and threw on some shorts and went looking for Emily. He finally found her down on the beach sitting on a blanket facing the water. He walked up close enough to where he could see her IPod on the blanket beside her and stepped closer and then stopped when he heard her singing, and he listened to her soft voice so enthralling and hypnotic, pulling him in like a sirens song.

Hotch moved and sat down behind her with his legs wrapped around the outside of hers to where she was sitting against him in the V his legs made. Wrapping his arms around her waist pulling her back up against him he leaned forward leaning his chin on her shoulder.

Emily didn't have to look to see who it was; she automatically knew it was him. She always knew when he was near, it was just this sixth sense she had with him that she didn't understand. Not that she tried to understand it she just knew and accepted it. She turned to smile at him taking the ear buds out of her ears.

"Hey."

"Hey, what are you doing out here Em?"

"Just enjoying the stars and listening to this song over and over, and just thinking."

"Thinking about what?"

"Honestly?"

"Yes. I always want you to be honest with me Emily."

"Well when I listen to this I only think of one thing."

"And what is that?"

"Well it's really not a thing it's more of a; whom."

"Oh."

"When I hear this song I think of you Aaron. This song says so much sometimes I feel like it was written about me."

"Can I listen to it with you?"

Emily smiled at him and turned around to where she was facing him. She put her legs over the tops of his and scooted closer to where there was only about a foot separated them. She gave him an ear bud and she put the other one back on. She started the song over and looked at him as she started to sing along with it as it started. The song was 'Until it Beats No More' by Jennifer Lopez.

Emily wanted him to see into her soul, for him to see everything she was feeling as she looked into his eyes not able to bring herself to look away.

She raised her hand and cupped his cheek rubbing her thumb over his lips gently.

Emily never realized that she had started crying, the tears running freely down her face. She was so caught up in the emotions and the power they held over her.

Hotch could not tear his eyes from hers, he could feel her fingers trembling as she cupped his cheek. He raised his hand to cover hers trying to reassure her that everything would be ok.

Without taking her hand from his face, Emily moved so that she was straddling Hotch with her legs wrapped around behind him. Looking into his eyes Emily slid her arms around his neck leaning forward to the ear that didn't have the ear bud in it; she sang the next line of the song with every ounce of love that she felt for him.

At that moment Emily stopped fighting her head and started listening to her heart, throwing all caution to the wind and all her doubts with it.

"I love you Aaron, more than anything." She whispered into his ear hugging him tighter. "You don't have to say anything; I just needed to say it."

Hotch leaned back so he could see her face and he rubbed his hands up and down her back and before thinking about he started to speak.

"When you and Reid were held hostage by Benjamin Cyrus… that was the first time I realized that I had feelings for you. When Cyrus was beating you I felt my heart break with every punch and kick I heard you take from him. Dave had to stop me from running in there to get you out and when I heard you tell us that you could take it; I felt that you were talking directly to me and not just for whoever was listening. You never hesitated to protect Reid no matter what could have happened to you. Afterwards I disappeared to get a few minutes to myself and I just cried because there was nothing I could do to help you or Reid for that matter; but it was you I wanted to get to, you that I wanted to save and at that moment no one else mattered. When I finally saw you walk out of that compound all battered and bruised with blood all over you I wanted to run to you and just hold you just to make sure you were really there and that you were ok. Later on the jet when were on our back home I watched you with Reid, trying to comfort him and tell him that you were ok and that you would do it again if need be. I realized then that what I was feeling was for you was love. Not just the love that friends feel for each other, I knew then that I was in love with you, and it scared me. I had just gone through a divorce and I was still reeling from that and I wasn't ready to even think about a relationship at the time but I knew it as you that I loved and wanted to be with. I just couldn't deal with those feelings for you at the time so I pushed them back and didn't acknowledge them. Don't get me wrong I loved Haley I really did but we had grown apart and neither one of us was happy anymore. I wasn't in love with her and I think the only reason we had stayed together was because of Jack. I know it was not easy for her, this life we lead, she never got why it was so important for me to stay in this job. Never got that this job is a part of me, apart that I can't just shut off at will; that it is who I am." He lowered his gaze from hers and she tried to speak.

"Aaron I…"

"No Emily let me finish or I don't think I'll get the courage again."

He continued after a long pause and another deep breath as if trying to calm his nerves.

"You see me for who I am not just the agent or a single father of a headstrong six year old. I don't have to be two different people people with you; I don't have to shut one off, I am just me with you. I don't have to censor myself with you; I can talk about the job or the fact that Jack filled the bathtub with water and started to pour Jello mix in it because he wanted to help make the Jello for his class party."

Emily couldn't help but laugh remembering when Hotch had told her about that and the look on his face was priceless.

"I can talk to you about anything and everything and you don't judge me even though my parenting skills are sometimes lacking. Everything was so messed up after Haley was killed but you were the one that was there whenever I needed someone to talk to. Someone to just listen and that's what you did. You were the one that kept me sane and pulled me through and help Jack understand what was going on when I couldn't. You made him feel safe again and let him talk about his mom and held him when he cried and I couldn't comfort him. You make me feel alive again, for the first time in my life I feel like I am really alive."

Hotch stopped talking as he felt her wipe the tears from his face.

"I love you Emily. More than the air I breathe I need you in my life, in Jack's life. I want you for who you are not who you think your past says you are. I don't care about the fraternization rules or Strauss or the Director, who by the way owes me favor. If you want this with me I will call him on it in a heartbeat just so we can stay on the team together."

"I love you Aaron, yes I want this but do you really want someone that's so messed up around Jack?"

"We're all messed up Emily. How could we not be with the work we do? Let me help you heal, let me show what it's like to really love someone, to really let yourself go. Maybe you can help me let go too and help me heal in the process."

Hotch leaned down and kissed her gently, tenderly moving his lips against hers. Emily sighed and leaned into him more; wrapping her arms tighter and his neck resting her elbows on his shoulders as she ran her fingers through his hair. Cupping the back of his head she pulled him to her running her tongue along his bottom lip before taking it between her teeth nipping it gently.

Hotch groaned opening his mouth granting her access to the hot depths of his mouth. He ran his hands up her back one hand encircling the back of her neck while the other pushed through her hair holding her against his onslaught of her mouth. Slipping his tongue into the wet heat of her mouth he moaned as her tongue danced against his. The tenderness of the kiss morphed into nothing but pure heat as desire overtook them, both consumed by the fire of their need for one another. The flames engulfed them as time seemed to stand still. The world around them disappearing, leaving just the two of them as they are swept away in an inferno of sweltering heat and passion.

Hotch's arms wrapped around her waist pulling her flush against his chest and he reveled in the feeling of her breast pressed against him. His hands moving down to her hips as he felt her grind down against his cock and he bucked up against her. Emily threw her head back with a moan, breaking the kiss. Hotch took advantage and kissed his way along her throat, nipping and licking at the little bite marks he left as he went.

"Aaron…" Emily moaned throatily and Hotch thought that that was the sexiest sound he had ever heard.

He slid his hands up the front of her shirt cupping her breast through the thin material covering her. Brushing his thumbs across her nipples, feeling them pebble beneath the pads of his thumbs he groaned against her neck.

"God you're so responsive." He moaned his breath hot against her skin. He pulled down the V of her tank over her left breast; bending his head down he traced the clover over heart with his tongue feeling her shiver at the contact. He felt her tighten her grip in his hair as she gave him a breathy moan.

"You taste so good Emily. So good…" he said as he slid his mouth over the swell of her breast till he reached her nipple engulfing it between his lips, circling the tip with his tongue before flicking it over and over. Feeling her squirm above him he smirked against her skin. While he teased her nipple he ran his other hand down over her smooth, taught stomach, sliding it beneath the waistband of her shorts and panties and then slipping his fingers through her wet folds.

"God Em, you're so wet. Do I do that to you?"

"Yes…" she moaned as she moved against his hand. It's always been you… only you."

He groaned at her words, enveloping her lips with his once again. The passion overtaking him as she moved against him; He pushed a finger through her folds to her opening but then stopped pulling back so he could see her face. Her eyes were closed and her head thrown back with her mouth slightly opened. He had never seen her like this before, so beautiful, sensual the epitome of a goddess was there sitting in his lap. It was an image he knew he would never forget as long as he lived.

"Emily look at me. I need to see your eyes. Please…" he said almost begging and when she looked into his eyes he sank a finger deep within her. He watched as the flames engulfed her, if he looked close enough he swore that he could see the flames reflected in her eyes.

Slowly he withdrew his finger only to add a second before he pumped them back into her. He pushed forward with the heel of his hand against her clit as he moved his fingers in and out of her hot core over and over again. He loved the emotions that flashed in her eyes as he brought her pleasure. He would never get tired of the little noise she made in the back of her throat and the fact that he was the one causing them was even better. If he had his way no other man would ever see her like this again.

"Oh Aaron I'm so close… I'm gonna…" but she couldn't finish as her orgasm built in the pit of her stomach threatening to consume her in its fiery depths.

"Cum for me Em; let go baby… don't fight it. I want to see you cum for me Em."

"Aaron…" she screamed over the sound of the waves crashing against the sand; and she was gone over the edge of the most intensifying orgasm she had ever had. So powerful that she felt like her soul had left her body, as she struggled to breathe she felt the tears on her face but before she could wipe them away she felt Hotch's lips on her kissing them away.

After he kissed the last of her tears away he withdrew his fingers from her, bringing them to his mouth he sucked her juices clean and moaned at the taste of her.

Emily moved her hands to the waistband of his shorts when she felt him stop her.

"No Emily."

Emily looked up at him.

"Aaron? Don't you want me to?" she asked.

"God yes Emily I do but not now. This was about you not me. I wanted to give you pleasure, I can wait. Right now I just want to hold you and lay beneath the stars for a little while longer."

Hotch moved Emily off his lap and lay back on the blanket pulling her down beside him, holding her close to him. They laid there and talked all the little things going on in their lives. Talked about Jack and soccer practices and how Dave had jumped on one of the other coaches for yelling at the other teams little five and six year olds for not winning the game.