London Calling Chapter 20

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A/N – My timeline has always been a little fluid but I'm setting this chapter for the present week. This story begins on Friday (reasoning that Monday, President's Day would be a holiday). I hadn't planned on Hotch and JJ nuptials but then decided they deserved a wedding too.

Hotch found her out on the patio staring into the night sky. "Hey." He slipped his hands around her slim waist and pulled her close. "You're being awfully quiet."

"Are the boys asleep?" She asked, leaning back into him.

"They were out before their head's hit the pillow." Hotch told her.

"They had a busy day." It was a ten hour flight, then they arrived at the Hilton Hawaiian Village and the boys had been captivated by both the koi and the penguins, then after a light dinner the family walked down the beach where they watched the waves crash into the shore. They were both excited by the prospect of going into the ocean tomorrow.

"So what's going on with you?" Hotch wanted to know. "Are you getting cold feet?" There were times when he was surprised himself at how quickly they had moved, but it felt right, natural, so he didn't question it. He was just grateful that she chose him.

JJ turned in his arms. "Absolutely not." She told him honestly. "I was just thinking."

"About?" He prompted.

"I wonder if we shouldn't have done this back home with the team." She sighed.

Hotch leaned down and placed a soft kiss at her temple. "Whew. You had me worried there for a minute."

JJ grinned up at him. "No I did not."

"You could have." He told her earnestly.

"I knew the first time I slept with you that I was going to marry you. I've pursued you relentlessly…"

Hotch raised a brow. "You pursued me? I staked my claim at the airport. I believe I kissed you first."

"Please, I was giving you the go ahead signs."

"The 'go ahead signs'?" He asked questioningly.

"I kept giving you subtle hints. Didn't I ask you to drive me to the airport? Honestly, I thought I was going to have to just show up naked to get your attention."

He captured her lips in a thorough kiss. "That would have definitely worked." His hand caressed her cheek and then rested on the back of her neck. "Do you want to change our plans, sweetheart?"

His gentle tone brought tears to her eyes and had her confessing. "I feel bad that the team isn't here with us. I know I was the one that said I wanted it to be just you and me and the boys …"

"But now you want to share it with the other people that you love." He finished. "So we'll have another ceremony when we get home." He shrugged, "We were planning on having a dinner anyway. Marrying you twice isn't exactly a hardship."

She lifted her eyes to his. "That might work." Then maybe she wouldn't feel so bad for essentially eloping. "Everyone was so supportive and thoughtful and I know that they wanted to be part of this." Rossi even went so far as to arrange for them to be married on a private beach at the home of one of his literary contemporary's.

"I thought Garcia was especially thoughtful." He told her recalling the basket she had provided for the pair. "In fact, if you can be quiet we could probably sample some stuff tonight." His hand skimmed down her side.

His playful tactics were working. "Did you forget that we have two young boys sharing a suite with us?"

"They have their own room. We'll keep the door open, and I've blocked the door leading to the main hallway." He had already turned her around and was walking her back into the room. The soft sounds of their sleeping boys could be heard in the adjoining room. "Tonight is the last time you'll have sex as Jennifer Jareau."

JJ stopped the progress. "You know I'll still be Jennifer Jareau tomorrow."

"I already saw the forms that you filled out to have your named changed to Hotchner." He smirked, heading for the dresser he'd watched her put her clothes away in.

JJ frowned at him. "That was supposed to be a surprise."

After a quick search he pulled the teddy out and handed it to her. She could see his barely contained glee. "I was surprised." He had been stunned and elated at the discovery. His JJ so was very independent he hadn't considered that she would willingly change her name.

"Do you know why I decided to change my name?" She asked unbuttoning her jeans and letting them slide from her legs. Stepping out of them she moved closer to him, shedding the light cotton top she wore as she approached. She loved seeing the arousal flare in his eyes. "Because if I didn't then Haley would always be Mrs. Hotchner, and you're mine. I want the world to know that."

"You know what?" Hotch asked, stepping out of his own jeans. "You don't need this." He pulled the teddy from her hands and let it fall to the floor.

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She woke the following morning to an empty bed. "Aaron?" Frowning she got out of bed and made her way across the suite to the boys room. "Boys?" She wasn't alarmed, just puzzled. Moving back to the main room she stood wondering where they could have gone. The knock on the door startled her. She peeked through the peephole expecting to see her boys on the other side but was surprised to see room service.

"Good morning, Ma'am."

"I didn't order…" She faltered as she noticed the bouquet of Forget Me Nots.

"I know, Ma'am, Mr. Hotchner arranged everything." The waiter slid the tray into the room. If you need anything at all, please do not hesitate to contact us." With that he turned and left the room leaving JJ still trying to grasp what was happening. She picked up the note from the tray.

Morning Beautiful. Happy Wedding Day. The boys and I are off to take care of some last minute wedding details. You are to have a restful day of peace and relaxation pampering yourself. Your spa appointment begins at 10:00. I'll see you at sunset.

JJ frowned down at the tray. It was bad enough she was feeling guilty that she let Emily and Pen back home but now she wasn't even spending the day with Hotch and the boys? She appreciated the gesture but honestly sometimes she wished he would ask her before he just did stuff. Grumbling she pulled the lid off the room service and decided that she had worked up an appetite the previous even and it did look pretty good.

She found herself standing at the entrance of the Mandara Spa shortly before ten rolling her shoulders she decided to make the best of it.

"Aloha." She was greeted as soon as she walked in.

"Hi my name is Jennifer Jareau, I have an appointment."

"Yes, right this way. Your party awaits you."

Her party? The hostess must be confused. She started to correct her when they turned a corner and Emily and Pen suddenly appeared.

"How?" She gasped, dumbfounded. "When?"

"Oh Peaches, you didn't really think you wanted us NOT to be here did you?" Garcia teased as she pulled the surprised blonde into a hug.

"No." JJ laughed, tickled, amazed and unbelievably relieved to find them there. "But how?"

"Hotch knew that you'd want us here. He's feeling supremely smug this morning. He wanted to be here to see your face but he also wanted to give you this day." Emily told her, embracing her as well.

"How in the world did you get past the check in? Did you fly over with a plane of convention bound doctors?" JJ asked the ready to pop brunette.

Emily laughed. "Do you have any idea of how much disposable income Dave has? The studio that is courting him for movie rights provided their jet. And a nurse."

JJ's jawed dropped. "No way."

"Cute little blonde." Emily confirmed. "Although she was much more interested in taking Reid's pulse than mine."

"Get out." She pictured their intellectual friend getting flustered.

Emily couldn't resist adding, "Reid might actually get laid in Hawaii."

JJ groaned at the lame joke. "Wow. I'm so glad that you guys didn't listen to me. You wait until I get a hold of my soon to be husband though, he let me mope last night and didn't even break."

"Your bridegroom is a pretty special guy."

JJ spun around and discovered her final surprise. "Mom?"

"Hey baby." Sandy Jareau enveloped her daughter in a hug. "You didn't really think I would miss your wedding, did you?"

JJ looked at the three in shock. "I, oh, wow." She bit her bottom lip as she sniffled. "I am really happy." She pressed a hand to her stomach, now jittery with nerves. "I'm getting married today."

"Yeah, so we need to get to work. Looks like you didn't get a lot of sleep last night." Emily said with a grin. "Practicing for the honeymoon?"

JJ returned her grin. "This is what a satisfied woman looks like in the morning. It's a shame you don't have any experience with it." She winked at her. "Don't give up on Derek just yet. He could get better with age."

"I guess I'll have to let you know when he gets as old as Hotch."

JJ narrowed her eyes. "So next year?"

"Please, you'll be needing Viagra for Hotch by the time Derek reaches his age." Emily's mouth dropped. "That's it, isn't it? Hotch takes Viagra, that's why he's such a love machine."

"Uh." JJ scoffed, "I hardly think so. He's a virile man; he doesn't need any pharmaceutical help."

"Do they do this often?" Sandy Jareau asked Penelope watching her daughter and her friend ping pong back and forth.

"All the time." Penelope sighed. "You know, as much fun as it is listening to the two of you smack talk one another, what do you say we get this thing started? JJ is getting married at sunset."

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JJ smiled as Henry walked into the room. Her little boy looked adorable in his tuxedo. "It's just like Jack and Hotch's." He informed her. Henry was going to walk her down the aisle where they would meet Hotch and Jack.

"Are you ready, Mommy?" Blue eyes stared up at her with barely contained excitement.

"I am, my little man." She responded. "What about you? Are you ready buddy?" She shared a smile with him as he nodded. "Then I think it's time for us to go and get married!" She grasped his small hand in hers and walked out of the enclosure she'd been waiting in towards the makeshift altar. Her smile widened as she locked eyes with Hotch looking breathtakingly handsome in his tux.

She couldn't resist hugging Jack before slipping her hand in Hotch's. They stood, all four of them, hand in hand, as JJ and Hotch repeated their wedding vows as the sun dropped below the horizon.

"That was so sweet." Penelope gushed, as she blew her nose once again. "Destination weddings totally rock." She announced as she looked over at Kevin. "Maybe we should do this."

Derek chuckled. "You ladies have completely changed your stance on holy matrimony. Two weddings in less than a year and now my Baby Girl is talking about making it three."

"I think I'm going to have to give up that moniker pretty soon." Garcia said with a pout, rubbing Emily's protruding stomach.

"You will always be my Baby Girl." Derek stated, squeezing her arm affectionately.

"No really, Derek, you're going to have a baby girl." She needlessly pointed out.

"Speaking of babies," Dave started, grateful for the opening, "Was there a particular reason the two of you rushed to the altar? Should we be anticipating an expansion to the Hotchner Jareau brood soon?"

Hotch grinned at JJ. "Should we tell them?"

JJ giggled into his side as the team stared at them with various expressions of joy, disbelief and shock.

"Are you serious?" Dave laughed as Derek and Reid grumbled reaching for the wallets. "I told you, JJ is glowing and Hotch is walking around like he's hit the jackpot. I told you she was knocked up."

"We're just teasing you." JJ told him. "I'm not pregnant, Dave."

"Not for lack of trying." Emily mumbled.

"I'm not pregnant, yet." JJ amended.

"We didn't even have to practice." Derek felt obligated to point out.

"But that doesn't mean you shouldn't." JJ advised him. "Then maybe Emily would glow, too."

"Eh, I'm too tired to glow these days." She grinned over at them. "Which is why it is really nice to have friends in high places, I couldn't imagine having to fly commercial over here. But," she was quick to add for JJ's benefit, "I'm sure I'll be glowing again soon."

JJ snorted, "You think you're tired now? Wait till little Princess Morgan makes her appearance. Late night feedings, dirty diapers…"

"Teething, shots, fever…" Hotch sighed wistfully, as he intertwined his fingers with JJ's.

"Jeez," Rossi interrupted. "Here's to being old. I'm glad I don't have to worry about any of that."

"Here's to being single." Reid added. But everyone caught his not too subtle look at the nurse that attended the wedding with him. Their boy might not be single much longer.

JJ laid her head on Hotch's shoulder as she watched her boys walk the sandy beach hand and hand with her mom. Jack was already as enchanted with his new grandma as she was with him. They had changed out of their tuxs after the ceremony and were now racing in and out of the tide.

"You want to join them?" Hotch asked, noticing where her gaze was. She nodded slightly and they slipped away from the team.

They weren't quite to the boys when JJ stopped. "Thank you." She rose on her toes and placed a soft kiss on Hotch's mouth. "Thank you for knowing me so well that you knew that I would want all of my family here today. You went to so much trouble to make sure everything was special for me."

"I'll tell you a secret but you can't repeat it." Hotch told her, placing his hands on her hips. "It was every bit as important to me as it was to you to have everyone here."

"You're a big softie."

"I'd prefer if we kept that between the two of us." He bent and captured her lips once more. "I wish I could have seen your face when you saw Emily and Penelope."

"It occurs to me that we now have several possible sitters for the boys." JJ said mischievously moving closer to her husband.

"The boys are going to fly home with the team and your mom in two days. We're going to fly to Maui for a week."

JJ's mouth dropped apparently the surprises weren't yet over. "I didn't pack enough clothes." She protested, already mentally calculating her wardrobe.

"You won't need any clothes." Hotch assured her. "We can start the brood enhancement."

"Have I told you lately how much I love you?" JJ asked, throwing her arms around him.

"Not nearly enough to make me tired of hearing it again." He told her, kissing her deeply. "I love you, JJ." He smiled tenderly down at her. They were just about ready to continue their trek to the beach when the noise behind them exploded with excitement.

"I said I'm not ready." Emily could be heard complaining.

"Ms. Prentiss, you might not be ready but the baby is." Stephanie, the on loan nurse, advised her.

"You don't understand. I'm already registered at Fairfax Inova and I'm not due for fifteen more days. Everyone knows first babies come late. I refuse to have my daughter in Hawaii. My doctor told me it was perfectly safe to travel as long as I followed his guidelines, and I have!" Emily wailed.

"Honey…" Derek started only to be stopped by a mutinous look from his wife. "JJ!" He hollered. "JJ!" He turned to the last spot he'd seen the bride and noticed that she and Hotch were walking back towards them. "Jay, you've got to make her listen to reason."

The panicked looks from both Derek and Emily were a dead giveaway but JJ still asked. "Hey Em, what's going on?"

"Do you think you could work your magic to get our plane readied to fly back to Virginia? You used to do it all the time. You ask any of the pilots that fly the BAU jet and they'll tell you that you were always their favorite, no one was as competent as you in reading us for flight." Emily pleaded.

JJ smiled as she looked into the terrified eyes of her friend. "I could do that, or," She said as she reached out and took her friends hand, "Or we could find a nice hospital here on Oahu. Maybe we can just go and check it out?"

"We're kind of in the middle of a celebration here." Emily argued.

"Ms. Prentiss' water broke, we need to stop negotiating with her and get her to the hospital." The nurse interrupted.

JJ ignored her completely. "And obviously this baby takes after her daddy, always needing to be the center of attention."

"Standing right here Jay." Derek mumbled.

"But I'm not ready I still haven't finished 'What to Expect' yet."

Her excuses were getting more pathetic but JJ knew that it was just nerves. "You know what? Reid can read it for you on the way to the hospital and fill you in on whatever you might have missed."

"I don't know, JJ." She winced slightly as another contraction hit her.

JJ saw her tense slightly. "So, what are you thinking here Em? You want me to drag you down to the water and do this au natural? Because probably the only one here that has actually enough medical know how to actually deliver a baby is going to be Dr. Reid, and I don't think you want Spence looking at your hoo ha."

She watched as Emily's eyes grew big and looked over at Reid. "We should probably get to the hospital."

"You sure? I don't want to rush you." JJ told her even as she helped her stand.

"How is it that you always know what to say to her?" Morgan asked as he slipped a supportive arm around his wife's waist.

"She's fluent in crazy." Dave responded, earning him a smack from Erin. "I was just teasing. Everyone knows all you women are fluent." He mumbled the last part and was rewarded with a smack from Garcia.

"You realize that we totally get to be the godparents, right?" JJ stated to no one in particular.

"Hey!" Garcia protested.

"Yeah," Reid added, also disagreeing with JJ's supposition. "You yourself said you couldn't even deliver the baby if needed."

"Hello, whose day is this?" JJ bickered back. "Did either of you get married today? No, I don't think so. And she would have delivered on the beach if it were up to any of you."

"Well if you would have just married at home we wouldn't be moving this reception to the local hospital." Dave pointed out.

"I'm really sorry this happened today." Emily said, effectively defusing the hopeful godparent squabble.

JJ scoffed. "Don't be ridiculous. I shouldn't have thought I could get married without all of you here and forced you to fly thousands of miles away from home when you were hugely pregnant."

"I owed you a long flight to support you. After all, you came to London when I called you." Emily sniffed.

"Hey, what are friends for?"

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"Look at her." Penelope sobbed. "Have you ever seen anything so beautiful?"

They were crowded around Emily's hospital bed gazing with adoration at the newest member of their family.

"You did good kid." Dave said, dropping a kiss on first Emily's brow, then Morgan's.

"Your wife looks pretty good holding an infant." Derek told Hotch.

Hotch's eyes met JJ's. "Yeah, she does."

"Yes she really does." Emily smiled. "Don't you think you two should get started on your honeymoon?"

"I'm fairly sure that's what they were doing when they went missing for about an hour earlier." Dave stated, enjoying the blush that lit JJ's cheeks. "Although the where and the how I'm not sure of. I just know they both came back looking a little too satisfied."

"Without the drinks they left to get." Reid pointed out.

"Oh." JJ looked up at Hotch. "I guess we forgot." She said completely unapologetically.

"So do you have a name?" Erin asked them.

"Ava." "Alyssa." The new parents turned to one another with a frown.

"Penelope is a nice name, it's unique." The Technical Analyst advised them.

Derek looked back at the Section Chief. "I guess we're still thinking about it."

The baby began to fuss and JJ handed her to Hotch to give back to Emily. "I guess we should get out of here and let you get some rest. Do you need anything before we go?"

Emily looked up at Derek. "I think we're good."

"I think we're pretty darn perfect."

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