London Calling Chapter Thirteen

Disclaimer: Not Mine.

A/N – Sorry life got really busy with both work and Christmas. Hope Santa was good to all! My title doesn't work any longer but I'm not going to change it. They're back but they have some stuff to work through. This is mainly a JJ and Hotch chapter with a little JJ and Emily mixed in.

JJ sighed as she looked at her phone again. She'd been home almost a week but oddly enough she missed Hotch more now than when she'd been in London. The flight home had been ridiculously romantic. He'd been unbelievably sweet and attentive, to both her and Henry. Unfortunately almost as soon as they landed he'd gotten called in on a case.

It was a bad one; she knew that from the sporadic texts he had been able to send. He hadn't had the luxury of a phone call. She missed the sound of his voice and that made her feel guilty. She knew better than most the importance of his work.

"It's not going to ring just because you're staring at it."

JJ shook her head at her new roommate. "Explain to me again why you think living here would be best?" She needed a distraction and was glad of the one that Emily provided. It wasn't that she didn't want her there she just didn't quite understand why her friend was choosing to stay with her rather than the man she was in love with.

Emily sunk down into the plush seat and stared over at her friend. "I'm letting him romance me." She ran a hand over her stomach. "I want this time to be romantic and sweet. I want to make sure that this is something he really wants."

JJ raised a brow. "He met you in Paris, in the bridal suite of Le Meurice, and according to you he romanced the shit out of you. Trust me, he wants it and you. You should be living together now to get used to one another before the baby comes and you have to get used to another new change." She reasoned.

"We're going to look for a place." Emily confessed with a sly grin.

"One of Derek's four homes won't suit?" JJ asked dryly.

"We want to pick it out together." Emily frowned at JJ. "Is this your way of telling me you no longer want me here?"

JJ sighed, sorry that she was taking her mood out on her friend. "No, of course not, you're welcome as long as you want. I just," she shrugged, "You realize that you're nuts, right?" She envied Emily's easy relationship with Derek.

"Is this you being jealous?" Emily raised a brow, knowing instinctively how to get the best of JJ.

JJ stared at her incredulous at the suggestion. "Jealous? What am I jealous of exactly?"

Emily grinned widely; she'd missed her daily bantering with JJ. "Maybe jealous is the wrong word. You're really just cranky because you haven't been laid yet." Emily giggled. "So you want to explain to me why you haven't sealed the deal with Hotchman?"

JJ sighed again, not bothering to argue the latest claim; she was a little testy for that specific reason. She wanted him, badly. "Oddly enough we were on a public flight and couldn't leave Henry sitting alone in the row while we joined the mile high club. Then pretty much as soon as we landed he got a call." No time for any one on one activity. She frowned as she realized that she hadn't heard from him in almost forty-eight hours.

"You know it is okay for you to call him, right?" Emily told her as she watched JJ glance again at her phone.

"He's on a case, Em. I don't need him to check in with me." But a quick text would have been nice.

"Of course you don't need him to. Want and need are two different things, JJ. It's okay to want to hear his voice, just that small reassurance that he's okay. I get that." She chuckled at the amazement on her friends face. "You know, he could probably stand to hear your voice as well."

That little encouragement was all she needed to reach for the phone. Just as she grasped it his ring tone alerted.

"Isn't that adorable?" Emily quipped as Lady A's Just a Kiss sounded.

"Bite me." JJ responded before breathing into the phone. "Hello."

"If that's a request, I'm interested."

She grinned. "Are you okay? I was worried about you. You probably haven't gotten any sleep." She didn't let him get a word in edgewise.

Hotch let out a self-depreciating chuckle. "I slept almost the entire way to Seattle and back." And had been ribbed mercilessly for it by his team.

"You're back!" JJ squealed.

"Just barely. I'm going into the office finishing the report then I plan to head home and see Jack. I was hoping that I'd be able to see you tonight too." His voice had dropped an octave setting off a responsive tingling in JJ.

"You'll have a better chance to see me than you will Jack. Did you forget you okayed a sleepover with his friend Tommy?" After much cajoling from his son and after Garcia did an extensive background on the family, Hotch finally conceded.

The dejected sigh told her that he had, indeed, forgotten. "You know he would reschedule if you asked him to."

"I can't ask him that. Look how long it took before I finally agreed to it." The change of plans had definitely affected his mood. "Maybe I'll just go home and get some sleep and we can meet up tomorrow? It's Saturday, we can make a day of it."

Now it was her turn to feel dejected. "Oh, okay. That's fine." She bit her bottom lip.

"I'll give you a call in the morning?"

"Sure." He disconnected and left JJ staring at the phone wondering what the hell had just happened.

"Hey, what the hell was that?" Emily asked. She'd forgotten that she had an audience.

JJ was still frowning at her phone. "That was me getting blown off."

"WHAT?"

The yell snapped JJ out of it enough to focus on Emily and repeat the conversation.

"Oh sweetie, you know how he gets when he's working or coming off a case. I wouldn't take it personally." Emily leaned forward in her chair. "Hell, I wouldn't take it at all."

"So what am I supposed to do, just show up unannounced?" She had to admit, the idea had some merit. If only to let him know that he couldn't and shouldn't just dismiss her.

"Exactly." Emily nodded. "Go make yourself all pretty and slide into that get up that you bought especially for the big occasion."

"I didn't buy…." She stopped the denial when she saw Emily's look of disbelief. "Fine. But that is for after we've already, you know. I can't just show up at his house wearing lingerie."

"That's what the jacket is for." Emily rolled her eyes. "Don't be stupid. And don't let his mood deter you. He had a rough case, his usual method of dealing with it, Jack, is unavailable. You yourself said he wanted to see you after he saw Jack but when he realized that Jack wasn't going to be there he flaked. You just need to give him another option to release his pent up emotions." She winked at JJ. "What better way than a physical release?"

She was incredibly torn. She really liked the idea but was cautious. "He won't think I'm being too forward?"

"He'll be happy that one of you isn't completely stupid."

JJ laughed. "I liked you better when I was the smart one in the friendship."

Hotch glanced at the phone sitting in front of him. He'd come home to an empty house in a foul mood. He realized that he made a misstep with JJ almost as soon as he'd hung up the phone but he wasn't sure how to correct it. He had let his disappointment over not being able to see his son override everything else.

He scrubbed a hand over his face and wished for the hundredth time that he was better at this type of thing. Smoother. He wished Dave or Derek would have been around to offer advice but Dave had raced off to find Erin as soon as they landed and Derek was still on leave. He could just call her. She appreciated honesty. He made the decision to do just that when his doorbell rang.

He didn't stop to look through the peephole as he grabbed the door opening it wide, he was so certain that JJ was going to be on the other side. "Hey." His smile faltered as Beth stood on his welcome mat.

"Aaron." She breathed out his name. "Hi. Surprise." She threw her arms around him. "God, I've missed you."

Hotch detangled himself from her arms and stepped back, sniffing at the air. "Have you been drinking?" He asked as she stepped into his foyer and began to remove her coat.

"A little." She giggled. "I was out with some of my girlfriends…"

"I thought you were in New York." Hotch interrupted as his mind worked furiously trying to figure out how to get out of this situation.

"I was. I came back." She smiled, failing to notice his less than welcoming response. Turning she hung her coat on the coat tree. "I can't stop thinking about you." She advanced on him once more, her arms went to embrace him again but he grabbed them before they could encircle him.

"I was wrong, you know." She stated. "I don't know why I didn't try to see what you were saying." She scrunched up her nose. "Well, the truth is I was jealous. I should have known that you and what's her name were just friends but you were so concerned over her and to be honest a girl doesn't like it when the guy she's with is worried about another girl, you know?" She tilted her head at him. "I was with my girlfriends tonight and we were talking about you and they told me that I was stupid and I needed to get off my butt and get over here and fix it." She giggled. "So here I am." She flung her arms wide open.

Hotch frowned. "How did you even know I was home?"

Beth pouted for a minute trying to remember how she knew that fact. "Oh, your SUV is out front silly." She smiled, "The girls wouldn't have just dropped me off if you hadn't been home."

"Did it occur to you that Jack could have been home? Do you think he would have appreciated you coming here drunk?" He knew that he certainly didn't.

"You're so cute when you're stern." She giggled. "Maybe I deserve a spanking." She pulled her body flush against his. "Oh, I definitely deserve a spanking."

"What you need is a cup of coffee." He couldn't put her back in a taxi in the shape she was in.

"I don't want coffee. I want you." She boldly announced leaning forward and kissing his mouth.

He hit the wall jerking away from her. "Beth, I'm in a relationship." The words stopped her forward progress.

"But." She looked around the home not seeing anything different from the last time she'd been there. No signs that he had a woman in his life or in his home.

"Let's get you that coffee." He took her arm and led her back to the kitchen.

"Where is this woman that you're supposedly involved with?" She managed to convince herself during the short walk that he was giving her the brush off because she'd broken off with him.

"She's at home. I made a stupid error in judgment this evening and apparently you are my reward." Hotch grumbled as he pulled the coffee from the cabinet.

"It's not necessary for you to invent a woman to make me grovel for my mistake." She slid up against him and pressed herself to his back. "I'm sorry; let me show you how sorry I am." Her hands were traveling forward and downward from his hips when the doorbell rang and he jumped.

"Jesus! I'm not lying, I'm in a relationship! Now sit down so you can sober up." He growled, wondering who the hell was at his door now. He stalked back through the living room to the front door and pulled it open, once more not bothering to look through the peephole.

"I thought you might be interested in some company."

He stared at her for a long minute before stepping out on his stoop and gathering her into his arms. He held her tightly, sighing softly into her hair, before easing back slightly and capturing her mouth in a welcomed kiss.

"HER! That's who you're in a relationship with?" The screech had JJ pulling back and looking from a disheveled Beth to a clearly agitated Hotch.

"I can explain."

Had she not seen the genuine pleasure in his eyes when he realized who it was at his door, or felt it in his welcoming hug and kiss, she might have been skeptical. "You may want to button your blouse." JJ commented to Beth.

"What?" At JJ's remark he turned to see that Beth had indeed attempted to remove her top. "She had that on when I left her in the kitchen." He turned back to JJ.

"Well this sucks." Beth grumbled as she turned to head back to the kitchen.

"Am I going to have to put up with a parade of disgruntled girlfriends coming around in an attempt to seduce you?" She asked Hotch jokingly.

"Why aren't you mad? I told you that I would see you tomorrow and you come over here and find me with another woman and you aren't upset?" Most women would have responded much differently.

JJ raised her brow. "Should I be?"

"Well no, but that's not the point." He realized that he wanted her to be a touch jealous.

"You're sincere happiness to my presence here was enough to convince me that you weren't doing anything shady. Plus Beth was aware that you were in a relationship. You'd obviously already told her you weren't interested." She leaned up and placed a soft kiss against his lips. "Now, if you wouldn't have been surprised by that fact that she'd started to undress then we might have had a problem."

He pulled her close when she would have stepped away. "God I'm glad you came over. I was just getting ready to call you when the doorbell rang. I thought it was you."

"I wanted to surprise you." They jumped at a loud crash from the kitchen. "What do you say we get rid of her and start over?"

"That's a really good plan." He pulled her into the foyer with him and closed the front door. "You want to give me your coat and I'll hang it up?"

"That might not be a good idea."

He finally noticed what she was wearing and recalled their airport conversation. His hands involuntarily reached for the belt.

"Aaron," she slapped at his hands and hissed, "I need some clothes."

"Do you think if we were really quiet she'd just go away?" He questioned as another loud noise came from the kitchen followed by a quick reassurance that everything was okay.

JJ gave him an 'are you serious' stare.

"Fine." He grabbed the belt and pulled her to him. "I'd just like to say that I really thought the first time you were in my room I'd be undressing you, not dressing you." He led her into his room and pulled a pair of boxer shorts and tee shirt from his dresser and handed them over to her.

JJ stepped out of the heels she was wearing. "I always assumed the first time I had your boxers in my hand it would have been because I just removed them from your body." Her hand rested on the belt of her jacket.

"Do you want me to …?" He swallowed the word leave as her coat flapped open. "Holy shit." She was perfection. Not caring that Beth was waiting for them to join her in the kitchen he stepped forward and slid his hands around her bare midsection, groan at the feel of her silky skin and the pebbling of her breasts. He couldn't prevent himself from leaning forward and kissing the top of her breast, pushed up by the very pretty bra. Nor could he stop his hands from skimming her ass and coming to rest on her thighs where her garter belt met her stockings. He was enchanted by the soft skin he encountered there.

"We better stop." JJ whimpered as his mouth descended on hers.

"I'm not sure I can." Hotch moaned as her hips rocked into his.

"Wow. You two really are a couple. I thought you might just be trying to get rid of me." Beth held a coffee cup in her hand as she leaned against the doorframe and stared in fascination at the couple in front of her. "You're really hot together."

Thanks for reading! Don't worry, JJ and Hotch will eventually consummate their relationship without an audience! Next chapter Emily and Derek will begin their search for the perfect house and Derek will continue the romancing. I hope this was worth the wait. A huge thank you for all that continue to read, follow and review, it is greatly appreciated!