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Season 3 Episode 02 = In Name and Blood

I couldn't believe this was happening, people say profilers are paranoid, that we tended to see too much when we were home, but all that was ridiculous. When the phone rings and no one is there, but after ringing it again your wife answers and its her sister, that makes anyone to pay attention.

When that happens more times in those two weeks than I can count, things start to get ridiculous. I tried calling her out on it several times, but she always had an excuse, she always tried fighting me into dropping it.

After those two weeks she acted like she we were good, like our marriage was working, like things were great. But they weren't, I was trapped, I was angry, and I felt like a pawn.

And then when my two weeks were finally up I had to give up my life's dream job. To make matters worse Strauss decided to treat me like a convicted criminal of some sort, that was always fun and it always ended up happening. Prentiss interrupting our meeting however was not.

"Sorry to interrupt." From the look on her face, she wasn't sorry at all to see Strauss in the room. "Sir, I've decided to resign from the FBI effective immediately." The only thing on my mind was, what the hell happened on those two weeks?

"I don't understand." She had fought me tooth and nails to get this job, she had prove time and again that she was prepares for it, she was willing to learn and help and be helped which in the academy was a hard thing to find.

"I'm taking the Foreign Service exam, with my connections I stand a good chance of landing in the State Department." Now I knew something was wrong, one of the first things this woman said to me was that she hated politics, she didn't ask her parents to interfere in her career because she was a proud independent woman.

"Prentiss I think that is a mistake." I needed time to talk to her, without Strauss here. Wait, Strauss hand was all over this, I don't know how, yet. But somehow, Strauss was doing this she was trying to tear us apart.

"Well don't try to talk me out of it, Garcia saw my name on the list and she already tried. If she can't talk someone out of doing something, no one can." She looked decided, like there was no coming back. "Sorry for the interruption. But sir, it's good to see you back. The team needs you." She knew Strauss was after me, she made sure her massage was given loud and clear, but I wasn't the intended target.

As I got home, the whole I felt trapped in just kept getting bigger and closing tighter on me. The team was clearly struggling with Strauss not letting them do their job right and messing up the little bit of headway they had, if things kept on like that, this unsub would get away. The phone rang again and after not getting a answer and understanding where this was going I started to get angry. Did she think I was and idiot?

"Do you want to explain this?"

"Why? You never have time anyway, you are always running to another case, another good time."

"Good time? Really, that is what I do on cases have a good time?" She was getting ridiculous on this mission to blame me for everything.

"No Aaron, that is not what I meant."

"And I have being here, no cases, for two weeks, but you didn't want to address this then, so I'm asking now. Are we going to talk about this? Because you and I both know what this means, and Jessica is not it."

Her cellphone started ringing.

"You are not going to get that? It's for you." She left in a huff slamming the door and acting like a teenager. If I was honest this was getting me tired.

I went to Jack's room and we started playing together, for a while now I only had peace when dealing with Jack, and that was all I did when I was home. I took him to the park, to the zoo, we cooked together, got ice creams, played soccer and I felt free.

Haley and I needed to talk, things were getting unbearable. We had to solve this.

"It is never going to stop."

"This is who I am."

"No, this is what you do."

"We will talk, when this case is over." I left our bedroom and started to get down the hall when I hear her scream at me.

"Give your son a kiss before you leave."

I got Garcia to give me Prentiss address, something's needed to be brought to light, but right now this case needed to be solved, and we needed the entire team to do it, and Prentiss was an important part of it.

As she opened the door the posture told me she didn't want me there, and that she had already started building a wall so that when all the team found out she was gone, she could deal with the calls, and visits that would come.

I decided to talk first and analyze the place later, if everything happened according to plan, she was going with me, and it would give me time to profile.

"Can I come in?" She kept quiet, made motion for me to come in and was taking a defensive position against me.

"The team needs us. They are working a case in Milwaukee. Gideon hasn't shown up. And don't tell me you quit or I put in for a transfer."

"You put in for a transfer?" Right, she didn't know about that.

"They are both still hung up in the system, so technically, we're in dereliction of duty by not being there. " Maybe that was not the best way to distract her from the fact that I was also leaving the team.

"I'm sorry I can't go." I had to throw my last card, she was stubborn like a mule.

"Right. Sorry I barged in." I started walking back to the door.

"Wait, wait. Can I ask? Why are you really here?" Got her.

"I told you." I knew I wasn't getting off with just that, but seeing her lift one eyebrow at me was kind of funny, she didn't need to worry about me saying anything, we were both leaving. "I think Strauss came to you and asked for dirt on me."

"Why would she do that?" She wanted to see how much I knew, and how much I thought she was involved into it.

"I think if you have your eyes on top leadership at the FBI you want to know who might stand in your way." I didn't really think she wanted that, but I needed her angry, I needed her to see that I was here because we needed her.

"And what could I have told her?" She was getting angry, and I really wanted her to see my point.

"That one of my agents might have killed a suspect in cold blood, or another might have a serious drug problem, which I didn't report, and if Strauss had any evidence my career would be over." I knew my team's problems, I knew what my faults were, but I also would protect those people, her included. "I think she put you on our team and expected something in return, and to your credit you quit rather then whisper in her ear."

"I told you, I hate politics." And that is why I want her to stop this crazy idea of leaving, her life was in the team, in my team.

"Come to Milwaukee, I'll make you a deal" She was like me, I could bet I was right "If your ready bag isn't here, packed, I won't bug you anymore. If it is, I want you on that plane with me. One more case."

"I already turned in my badge and my gun." Those didn't matter, for now would be together on one more case.

"That's just hardware." I could feel the corners of my lifting up, and I tried to fight it. She was coming with me. "The plane leaves in two hours, so you have one more hour to get everything you need in order."

I would finally get time to look around.

"I just need to get a few things from upstairs, I'll be right back" I would be glad if she didn't take two hours getting ready, that always made me angry at Haley.

I could see she liked reading, a lot. She had more books then anyone I know, I hadn't being to Reid's so maybe not as many as him, but this was impressive, and of several different types. Work related, academy, college, fun, research, classics and the list went on.

She had a bar, something that I thought it was funny, when we went out as a group she only had beers, the girls had also commented that, but apparently she was a fan of the harder stuff, I could see a couple of open bottles of whiskey and even some closed one, also wine and brandy.

The coffee table was full of the text for the Foreign Service exam, she liked to study at on the floor, confortable. She had two boxes near the stairs, and that made me worry, was she already planning on moving?

Just as I was getting close to the boxes she came downstairs.

"Are you moving again?" I said pointing at the boxes. I looked up and saw that she had changed her clothes, had her go back and looked as ready as ever for a case, that was astonishingly quick.

"No, it's not my stuff" She didn't elaborate, was she involved with someone? Or maybe a roommate? "Hotch, I wasn't put here because I knew how to profile. You were right, someone did put me there, but I didn't know and…" That was what the doubting herself and the weight we all could feel on her shoulders were about.

"Prentiss, this week has being hell, from what I gathered, you have being with this sentence over your head and thinking of what to do, and knowing your mother, she must have had a few choice of words when she found out." Ambassador Prentiss knew how to put someone in their place, of that I had first hand experience. "But you are a good profiler, don't doubt that." I was confident in what I told her, she was good at this and it would be a great loss for the BAU.

We were on the plane, and she was avoiding me. As soon as I was done with Strauss one of the paramedics told me we should probably keep an eye on her but refused to elaborate, so I passed along the message to Morgan and sat down in front of her for the trip.

As we flew I knew her head was bothering her, she would wince, kept changing her position and huffing, it was almost driving up the wall.

"You can tell me anytime" Damn

"It doesn't hurt." Stubborn

"Really, not one little bit? Maybe if I turn the reading light on." Woman

I decided to let it go, she was probably not going to take much more and ask me to drive her to the hospital or home, I would make sure Morgan would do it for me, I still had a long and difficult conversation with Haley to go through. Her cellphone took me back to reality.

"Prentiss. Hi. You need an answer, right? Your meeting is in the morning. I… Liam I" After a few minutes she got up and went to the bathroom. Who was Liam, and what could be wrong? After some time she came back with a washed face, red nose and the sniffles. Something wasn't right, but I wasn't going to interfere for now, it was personal, and if the agent didn't bring the personal problems to you, you can't do anything as a Unit Chief.

The moment I stepped inside the house I knew something was wrong, at this time Jack would be all amped up from dinner and running and trying to get me or Haley to play with him, but I was met with a impossible silence.

When I went upstairs and saw their things gone I knew what she had done, she was trying to blame me for the problems we had, as if my job was the only wrong thing that we had between us.

I got back to my car and drove to her sister's house, there wasn't another place she would go, especially with Jack. As I got there I saw her getting out of the house and closing the door. If she thought she would keep my son from me she didn't know me.

"I want to see my son." I got out of the car and started walking to the door.

"Aaron, I'm not going to keep Jack from you, I just want to talk to you first. Please, please." I stopped in front of her, if she wanted to have this conversation here, in the middle of someone else's yard, it was fine by me.

"Talk then, I want to see Jack before he goes down."

"I'm sorry. I shouldn't have left like this, I should have talk an done things when you were in the house, but I was so angry, so jealous." Jealous?"

"Aaron please. I never said it made sense, but from some time now I have hated your job and I helped make our lives a living hell, and I'm sorry for that. But if those two weeks suspension taught us anything, it was that you can't live without the BAU, and I can't live with it."

"Haley…"

"We were different people when we got married, that I know it's true. And I don't mean that this job made you better or worse. We are just two people who grew apart. We have being together for so long now, that I really believe we were just together out of routine." She was crying now, and in my heart I knew we were just deciding to end a twenty years relationship.

"I'm sorry." There wasn't much for me to say.

"I am too. Especially for what you had to live those last two weeks, you didn't deserve that." She was admitting the affair, and affair. For an instant I thought about asking her, about demanding information, and how long and all those things. But would it help? Would it make a difference, we weren't even ending because of it.

"I know, but we both did this, we are ending this." I didn't want her to feel all that guilt, because I knew some of it was mine too. "I really don't want to be away from Jack, Haley, he is everything to me." I got a little disparate now, in court the mother always had more chances of getting the kid, and a parent that traveled as much as I did had even less chance.

"Aaron, you can see Jack as much as you can, because I never doubted that you would want that. You get every weekend you are here as well as a weekday, and if you are away you get the same amount when you are back." Hearing her say the words took a weight out of my heart, she would let me see Jack, she would help me figure the schedule and my job out.

"I know you are not leaving the BAU, I know you can't." I looked at her curious. "I saw the news, the little boy was in a house with a monster like that, and I was so glad you were there, I was so glad that you had helped." She looked genuine happy about the outcome of the case. "Wait, they said an agent had being injured, are you ok?"

"Yes, I'm fine. Prentiss took a wood board to the head, and is trying to tell us all that she is fine. When I left she was sleeping in her chair." I laughed at the absurd of it, I should have made sure she was fine, but things were piling up.

"Oh my God Aaron, why are you laughing?" Haley joined me laughing and for the life of me, I had no idea why.

"I don't know." I was trying to stop when my phone rang. "Hotch."

"OMG boss man, I have bad, bad news. Super power raven girl came to see me, and I, in my unbelievable silliness, shook her a little too hard, well not really I actually spin her and she threw up, and she knows I have a date, and she wont let me take her to the hospital and.."

"Garcia slow down.."

"Well she got sick, she said she refused the medical care the paramedics wanted to take her to the hospital for, and they said she should not fly, which she disregarded." I was going to kill Prentiss, I knew she wasn't fine, I knew she was keeping something. But that something being that she probably had a concussion and couldn't fly was not one of them.

"Uhn boss man.."I did not like the sound of that.

"Yes Garcia?"

"She left."

"HOW CAN YOU ALLOW A CONCUSSIONED PERSON TO LEAVE?" That was freaking great, and here I was thing Haley would be the pain in my ass tonight.

"I didn't, I'm sorry. I'm looking for the security camera's. Just a second, just a second." The women in my life were trying to get me crazy, that had to be the answer. "She left with Anderson." I noted the doubtful tone in her voice and I had the same weird thought, Anderson?

"Agent Anderson?" Creepy guy, but a nice one. "Ok, I'll call him and ask where he took her, and then I'm going there. Goodbye Garcia."

"Is everything ok?" I looked up from the text I had gotten on my phone. I had almost forgotten Haley.

"Apparently Prentiss decided to lie to me and say she was fine, when actually the paramedics told her she needed to go to the hospital to see the concussion she has and told her not to fly." From Haley's face she knew what I would do to Prentiss when I found her.

"Do you have time for Jack or…"

"Yes I do, I sent a text to the agent that is taking her home and he said they are stuck in traffic, so it should be fine."

"Good luck to her." We both walked inside the house and Jack came running at me.

"You know this was something that I liked to see those two weeks, it just confirmed to me, that you are a dad, you were born for it Aaron." I smiled and kept looking at Jack, she was right, he was everything.

I got to her floor and walked to her apartment, I was tired and in need of a shower, a good night of sleep, and maybe a drink. I wasn't much of a drinker but sometimes it was a much needed relaxing step before bed.

I got to her door and to my unfortunate surprise her door was open, she was definitely not on top of her game, she would never do something so careless like this. Even not knowing her so well I knew she wouldn't be stupid like this.

She was on her couch, legs under herself and a glass of, what appear to be whiskey, on her hand. She was drinking after a concussion, what was he suppose to do with someone like this?

"Haven't we done this once already." She was looking at me with a real lost expression, and I knew she was very much trying to decided if this was happening or not.

"How did you get here?" I asked naturally, I knew better then to start of with an attitude.

"I live here, what does it matter? How did you get inside?" She didn't even realize the door was open, she had to go to the hospital.

"Prentiss, do you remember how you got to your apartment?" She tried to remember, apparently that didn't work.

"Not really, shit where did I leave my car?" She was getting worried, and I didn't really wanted to scare her too much, at least not when she was hurt.

"You went to the airport with me, you didn't have a car in the BAU."

"Hotch, how did I get home?" I cracked at that, she was starting to sound like a drunken person, but it didn't look like she had being here long, at least not with what agent Anderson said.

"You have a concussion, you probably don't remember but you got a ride with agent Anderson" She made a disgusted face, which didn't help my humor at the whole thing. "And you decided to drink, do you really think it's wise, you were hit in the head with a board, for god's sake." She should stop drinking.

"Calm down, I don't feel anything anymore, Garcia shouldn't spin people with concussions."

"Believe me she learned her lesson, she almost had a heart attack when she saw you were gone, and I screamed at her over the phone, which I have already apologized for by the way." I explained

"Well if everything is good, goodbye." She got up to walk me to the door and I could see she was fine doing that at least.

"I'm not leaving." Was she insane? "You have a concussion and you are drinking, it would be beyond irresponsive for me to leave." Did she believed me to be this irresponsible?

"Hotch, you have a wife and kid. I'm sure I can stop drinking now and stay alive until morning, so you can definitely go home." Well not so much on the wife, and the kid was put to sleep before I had to hunt her ass down, so things were fine.

"That isn't a issue." Besides the whole, my marriage is over and I'm going to have to start dividing everything we lived and sell the house that has our whole memories, I really needed to step away and analyze what happened today.

"Ok then, if you are staying you are drinking." I was about to protest by looking at her one eyebrow up, and what the hell, if she started to show any signs of not feeling well we would go to the hospital. The fight would end up there anyway, damn stubborn woman.

"Are you ok?" I took a sip from a glass she gave me and a deep breath. I shrugged my shoulders, was I ok? I think I would need a few days to think about it.

"I have a concussion from having being hit by a wood board by an unsub, I had the biggest fight with my father, which may seem silly but I have never fought him, in all my life. I quit a job that I loved, got re-hired, and finally I just broke up with a wonderful guy over the phone." After some time quietly she continued. "So, basically not my worse week yet." I laughed at that, that was a really bad week apparently, for the both of us.