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Season 3 Episode 06 = About Face

I'm going to kill JJ. She could at least have told me to come wearing something nice. A text at 6 AM in the morning saying *wear a dress* was not a good enough warning that she should look nice, hence the quickly run to the bathroom to put make up and fix her hair.

Now Agent Rossi was coming and I had the worst dress on, and was mostly the worst dressed on the team. Well that didn't include Hotch or Reid, since one only wore the same thing every day, and let's face it, you had to work hard to look worst then Reid.

Morgan and I had agreed to go over a file, and then do paperwork, but Garcia had called him, so I probably had a good chance of going to annoy JJ before he was back.

"Seriously? You couldn't give me a better advice then that he was coming today? Now I'm the only one in horrible clothes." I complained entering JJ's office.

"Why would you need to wear good clothes today agent Prentiss? And why are you wearing a dress?" Oh God, JJ wasn't alone.

"Well…You know." Good line of reasoning thought Emily, you barely sound crazy.

"No, I couldn't say that I do." He was staring, intensely.

"To look presentable for agent Rossi." And today was probably the day I would be arrested at the FBI building for killing a very blond and very irritating fellow FBI agent.

"Prentiss is wearing a dress because of Dave?"

"Pretty much." Murder would be easy, and could bet with my reasons Garcia would help me hide the body.

"Prentiss, walk with me." I gave one last very dirty look at JJ before following him out.

"Sir?" I asked as we stepped out.

"I don't believe that I have to remind you how inappropriate complicated relationship between members of the same team are Prentiss, so I just wanted to clarify that David is coming back, and will be a part of this team." I really didn't know who I was angrier at.

"Sir, before you actually put more of your foot into your mouth. No, I'm not interested in agent Rossi, I don't even know him. But what I do know is the how old agents tend to judge woman working in the FBI, if they don't look their best or about how they handle the family life."

"I.."

"And for what I could gather, when agent Rossi left, there weren't any women working in the BAU, and we all can make a full profile of a guy that will be reluctant to work with woman. So if you will excuse me sir."

"Prentiss." He started following me, I wasn't even mad at him anymore, so what if he thought I was looking for a relationship.

"Hotchner"

"I didn't mean it like that."

"Like what?"

"Prentiss."

"Like telling me I was looking for a hook up?"

"I said I didn't mean it like that."

"Did you noticed that JJ is wearing make up and has new clothes on?"

"No, but.." Before he could start I continued and he realized I wasn't going to let him speak.

"And did you noticed that Garcia actually dyed her hair and has make up as well as new clothes on?"

"No I did not."

"And did any of them get a reminder of the appropriate relationship conduct between team members?"

"No."

"Oh! Then you think about that sir." I turned around and went to my table. I was actually funny to mess with him, I had no idea, I just found my private source of secret entertainment.

When I had joked in the hospital about the boob touch, he had gone major blush and didn't know where to look, or what to say, and I thought it was because of the place, and his son was in my lap. But now, pretending to be pissed, I could see he could get embarrassed by me easily.

But I knew for a fact that he could give as well as Morgan, and he provoked Morgan and Reid regularly, sometimes even Garcia. So ether it was me, or just the fact that I was the new and less intimate. Whatever it was, I was going to start using it for fun, he needed to let go a little, even more so that he was alone.

We were on the plane on our way to Texas and I really was down, we were going to miss Halloween. But unfortunately that was something just me and Reid were sad about.

"I really want to be back before Halloween." I huffed as we got on the plane.

"That's right, you didn't tell us your planes for the special night. Big party or a date?" Morgan asked already with a smirk and a wink.

"None of the above, you creep. But I do enjoy staying at home and giving out candy for the kids. It was something I never did because of all the moving around, so I guess I am sucker for this tradition."

"I guess after I turned a teen I never bother doing that anymore." Piped in JJ.

"I was taking Jack this year, since Haley is out of town, but I guess we will leave it for next year." Hotch said sadly, we all knew he hated not being there for Jack, but since our talk I knew he was afraid of disappointing and making Jack resent him, now that he was taking some of the responsibility by himself.

"Well there is always next year." Agent Rossi said trying to lift the mood.

"Let's go over victimology." Hotch changed the subject.

I could see agent Rossi and Hotch in his office talking, but for my plan to work I needed to talk to Hotch before it got too late, and for that they needed to end the male bonding soon.

When ten minutes passed and Morgan had to yet again tell me to stop clicking my pen, so I decided to interrupt the old days BAU reunion that was going on in the office upstairs.

"Hey, sorry to interrupt, but can I talk to you Hotch?"

"Sure."

"I'm going home, this time around I'm not doing extra hours."

"I doubt it, you were always an over achiever." Both man laughed at their joke, and I just kept looking at my clock, come on, we were going to be here again.

"Well, I'm going. Good night you two." Rossi left and Hotch made motion for me to sit down.

"No, thanks. Look, you are going to pick up Jack today right?"

"Yes, why?" Hotch looked curious.

"After you get him, put him in his Halloween costume and take him to my place." I started walking to the door.

"What? Why?" He asking trying to stop me.

"You will see. I'll see you later."

I got home and quickly started to call my neighbors, time was of short and I would have to hurry if I wanted to have everything ready for the little Hotchner.

After getting things ready I decided to go the extra, since it seemed like they would still be a while and most of it was already done, I went to the kitchen. Time to get my hands dirty, I would take a shower later, when I had time.

At exactly eight I heard a knock on the door. Just in time.

"Hey."

"Miss Em'ly" I got two pair of arms wrapped tight around my legs.

"Hi Jack, how are you?"

"Good. I gots costume"

"Yeah you do. Hey Hotch, come in." After getting both of them off their coats and asking if they needed anything, I decided to start the nights fun, soon it would be Jack's bedtime.

"So Jack, daddy told me you were looking forward to go trick or treating?" I asked, and saw Hotch giving me a dirty look.

"Yes, but we not go." He said sadly.

"So since you missed Halloween and I missed it too, how about we go together to ask for candy?" His eyes immediately sparkled and he started nodding his head.

"Hmm…. Emily, Halloween is gone, there is no way to…."

"Leave it to me Hotch. Come on Jack, let's go get some candy." I got a bucket for the candy that I had stopped to by and went to the door. After directing the boys to my next door neighbor I nocked on the door.

"What do you say Jack?" I smiled down at him.

"Trick or Treat?" He giggled.

"Oh, look what we have here. What are you sweetie?" Mrs. Newman a very lovely old lady said opening the door.

"I Spiderman." He even did the pose for her.

"Oh, you deserve a lot of candy for that, here it is. Happy Halloween."

"Thanks" Hotch looked surprised at Mrs. Newman, but she just winked at him.

"Come on, there are still a lot of apartments to knock." I laughed at his face.

We got inside my apartment with little Hotchner giggling happily and running around, tonight was a good night. He had gotten all the candy and was happy to have a late Halloween.

"Who wants dinner?" I walked to the kitchen

"You made dinner?" Hotch looked scared.

"What does that mean? I know how to cook." I started getting the plates out.

"Seriously? I mean, it's just, you don't look the cooking type." He uncomfortable started helping me set the table.

"And what do I look like Hotch?" I am glad to say I had never seen the "deer in the headlights" look on Hotch's face before today.

"I…"

"I'm going to save your foot from your mouth and end this conversation here. But I do know how to do some things, I had to survive college after all." I put the pasta on the table. "I hope you boys like Italian."

"Italian what?" Jack asked coming into the room with his mouth dirty, oh boy, he had gotten to the candies before we got to him, we were going to have a hyper child soon.

"Food honey, you hungry?" I asked.

"Yes. You cook miss Em'ly?"

"Yes I did."

"It got to be yummy daddy. Let eats."

"Yes Jack, let's eat."

"You have to let me clean up" Hotch had gone to the guest room to tuck Jack in, after a very big sugar high, he had crashed so Hotch just took him to the guest bedroom.

I still didn't know when the whole feel welcome vibe had started going on, but both me and Hotch, outside work, were acting like we got along fine for years, even more so when Jack was around.

"It's mostly done." I was just finishing cleaning the pan.

"I'm sorry, you had all the trouble to cook, and I didn't even clean."

"It's fine, tonight went just as I imagine. A perfect Halloween experience for me and Jack." I was just as happy as Jack, I never got to do Halloween, and as an adult without kids all I could do was get the visitations on this special night. Doing it with a kid and seeing all that was really great, even more so with such a happy and easygoing kid like Jack.

"You really wanted to have Halloween." I nodded just as excited as jack had earlier and we both laughed. "You have to tell me how you got this done."

"I had about four pounds of candy that I had bought for this, and I really didn't want to be temped to eat it all. And you sounded so sad that Jack was going to miss it. I called the neighbors that I knew were nice and had kids. They all understood the need to do something for special in a occasion like this, I just gave them the candies I had, and we could enjoy our late Halloween."

"You called all this people just to make sure I could give a good Halloween to Jack?"

"Well….this was the only time I could ever go trick or treating. You know, adults can't really do that, so it was more selfish when you think about it." I rambled embarrassed.

"Emily, thank you. You made a very special night, for all of us."

"You are welcome, thank you for agreeing to it."

We sat down on the couch and I put my feet on the coffee table, he soon follow suit, and we sat comfortably in silence.

"David knows about the divorce."

"You told him?"

"He knew. He profiled the team." He said shrugging his shoulders.

"God, he is good. It took him what five minutes to read your poker face."

"Yes, that feels about right. You liked him?"

"Seriously, what is up with you and people liking him, or is it me liking him?"

"I'm just curious."

"Well don't be, I have no interest on agent Rossi. Weirdo."

"Yes, call your boss names."

"Come on, you totally made me loose it here. We don't talk about that."

"About me being your boss?" Ok I know it sounds insane, but to be the least bit confortable with him, I had to stop thinking about agent Hotchner, hence in my mind they were two different people.

"Yes. This." I made motion between both of us. "Isn't work related, that is why we don't talk about Agent Hotchner."

"I still call you Prentiss."

"Well, in my mind there is a difference."

"Ok, I wont talk about being you boss."

"Good." We stayed quiet. "This is weird."

"It doesn't have to be." Why was he serious when he said that.

"Yes it does, you don't like me, I'm not a big fan of you either."

"We have our differences."

"Yes, let's call it that."

"How about a horror movie?" He asked getting up and walking to the kitchen.

"Sure, but why are you in the kitchen?"

"Popcorn." He said as if I was insane.

"We just had dinner." He couldn't be hungry.

"I'm already hungry again."

"I don't have popcorn….I think."

"Ok, then I'll go buy popcorn and ice-cream. Anything else?"

"Chips, if we are going to eat junk food let's go all out."

"I'll be back in half."

Things were getting weirder and weirder around here.