*This chapter contains some adult content – not enough to change the rating, but I thought I should point that out.

Chapter 18

After everyone else was turned in for the night, Kahlan softly knocked on Hotch's door. She smiled when she realized he wasn't in his sleeping clothes yet. "Would you take a walk with me?"

Hotch looked at her for a moment then finally nodded. He grabbed his coat and followed her out of the house and onto the street silently.

"What's wrong?" she asked him.

"Why do you think something is wrong?"

"Because you haven't said two words to me since this afternoon." She stopped and pulled on his arm to make him look at her. "Did you think I wouldn't go home?"

Hotch bit his lip to stop himself from saying what he really wanted to. "I know you need to take Wyatt home," he told her instead.

"Well, yeah. I can't not go back to Reliance and let them see him. Besides I can't pack if I'm not there," she told him as she started walking again.

He watched her take a couple steps down the street. "Wait! What?" he asked her and caught up with her.

She flicked her eyebrows up quickly and smiled at him. "You didn't hear me or you didn't understand me?"

"What do you mean pack?"

"I can't move if I don't actually pack. You know, that normally comes first. Unless of course you know some other way," she teased him.

His mind and his heart were racing. Is she trying to tell me what I think she is? "And where would you be moving to?"

She smiled and kept walking. He took a long stride and caught up with her again. She glanced at him out of the corner of her eyes. "Actually, Garcia helped me find this nice little house outside Quantico. Great neighborhood, great schools, maybe you've heard of it, Rambling Woods?"

His heart started beating even faster. "Yeah, I know that place well. You'll like it there." He told her as his dimples showed up with a big smile.

Those damn dimples! Kahlan felt her own heart racing. "You think me and my son will be a welcomed addition?"

"Oh yeah, they'll love you."

"You don't think that our past will be a problem for them?"

He stopped her and looked her in the eyes. "Nah, everybody has a past."

She looked into his eyes and saw the dark orbs almost glowing with passion and desire. "If you're sure they'll give us a try."

"Oh, I'm sure," he told her and pulled her into a deep kiss. She leaned in to deepen the kiss, not able to hide her own desire.

After a few moments they had to come up for air. "You know," she started with a seductive smile. "I still have my room at the hotel."

Hotch moaned with the thought. "What about Wyatt?" he asked as he looked back to the house.

"He's actually staying with Dave tonight. I told Dave that I needed to talk to you, and he decided to teach Wyatt how to play Grand Theft Auto."

God, I love you, Dave! Hotch thought as he smiled at her. "Remind me to get him a bottle of his favorite scotch." He leaned in and gave her another kiss, a kiss filled with lust as his tongue slid across her bottom lip begging for entry. She complied and their tongues battled for dominance over the kiss.

Kahlan groaned as she felt Hotch's madhood press up against her. She finally pulled herself away from him and grabbed his hand. They were only a few blocks from the hotel. "Come on," she said as she pulled him along.

Hotch felt like a teenager sneaking out his parents' house.

Kahlan couldn't get the door open fast enough. They were kissing and pulling off their coats at the same time. Hotch used his leg to reach back and shut the door behind them. They were kicking off shoes and making their way towards the bed. The back of Kahlan's knees connected with it and she fell backwards, pulling Hotch with her. He laughed at her trapped beneath him. "Oh yeah?" she asked and stealthfully reversed the situation. She laughed at his look of surprise. "You ok? I don't want you to hurt your head," she told him with a smile.

He groaned and pulled her down to kiss her again. She started trailing kisses down his neck and nibbled on is ear. With moans of pleasure escaping him, she felt his manhood growing against her thigh. She nuzzled his head to the side and bit down onto the bump of his skull behind his ear. She felt him quiver and giggled into his ear. She tore at his shirt, trying to untuck it, but he stopped her. She pulled back and looked at him questioningly. "What?"

He wasn't sure how to tell her about the scars Foyet had left him with. He knew it shouldn't matter, but he was very self-conscious about them. He had never let anyone see them; there had never been a reason to. He and Beth had never gotten that far, and he'd even tried to keep them hidden from Jack. Now that he was faced with sharing them with someone, he wasn't sure how to handle it.

She sat up to study his face. She thought she knew what was bothering him. She'd known he had been attacked by Foyet, and the report had said he had been stabbed nine times. "Anyone with a past has scars, Aaron," she told him as she pulled off her own shirt. Hotch noticed the scars on her. A long thin one across her abdomen looked like a knife wound, and the two circular ones: one on her chest and one on her shoulder, looked like bullet wounds. "They fade with time, but they will always be a part of you. If you can't accept them, then you'll never accept yourself," she told him tenderly as she pulled his shirt up. She almost laughed. With the way he was acting she would have thought the scars to be hideous or something, but they weren't. They just added another layer to the sexy man laying beneath her. She pulled the shirt over his head and started trailing kisses down his neck and onto his chest. She kissed and bit him, leaving a trail of marks down him to claim him as her own, but safely hidden from the public eye. Hotch moaned with the pleasure of it. He'd always done that to Haley, and he found it to be a very tantalizing feeling. Knowing that he was being marked by an alpha female – someone who matched his alpha male so perfectly turned him on even more. His hands ran through her hair as her fingers dug into his flesh.

She sat up again and started to undo his belt, but stopped. It was his turn to give her a questioningly look. "Are you sure you want to do this?" she asked him seriously. She could feel him aching with need, but she also knew what type of a man he was. She wanted him to be sure. She knew that she wanted to share herself with him, but she didn't want to push him into it either.

It was his turn to flip them over. She laughed. "It's been a really long time, but yes, I think I'm ready for this," he told her honestly as he looked into her eyes. "If you are."

She pulled him down and gave him a passionate kiss. When he pulled away for air she smiled at him. "It's been a long time for me, too, but I think I can handle you," she teased as she undid his belt and his pants. She couldn't hold back the need any longer. Felling her need increased his own, and he stood up to take over getting his own clothes off while she did the same.

Hotch looked down at her, breathing heavily, her face flushed with desire; and he marveled at the perfectly toned body laying on the bed in front of him. He noticed more scars, too, but they just attested to what her body was capable of and that made him almost shake with his desire for her. "You are an amazing woman Kahlan Hunter," he told her as joined her in bed.

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As they finally came down from their emotional and physical high, they laid curled in each other's arms, their breathing and hearts moving in rhythm. She didn't want to move from his embrace, but she knew neither one of them wanted to have to explain spending the night somewhere beside the house. So she rolled over to face him and kissed him. "We better get up and get back to the house."

"Yeah," he sighed. "I just didn't want to move. This was too nice."

She smiled. "Extremely! Gives us something to look forward to, though."

He smiled at that, and his dimples almost made her forget about wanting to get back. "How long do you think you'll be?"

She got up and started to get dressed. "I wouldn't think it would take more than a couple of weeks."

That surprised him as he, too, got dressed. How can she buy a house and move in two weeks? He wondered but didn't ask. They would have plenty of time to talk later. "Are you going to need help packing and moving? Maybe I could get some time off."

"Not in Reliance, but I'll definitely need some able bodied men on the Virginia end," she told him as she put her socks and shoes back on.

"Oh, I think I can find a couple of those for you," he told her with a smile.

Once they were completely dressed, he held her coat out for her. She accepted it with a smile and waited for him to put his own on. They silently exited the hotel and walked back to the house hand in hand. They kissed goodnight before even sneaking back into the house and to their rooms. Rossi heard two doors shut and looked at his watch. Who the hell is up at 4:17? He wondered, but let himself fall back to sleep.