The next morning on the Jet Roxanne was sitting opposite Hotch, reading the files on Matthew Jackson as she had not got round to it the night before.
"I thought you normally read up on things the night before?" Hotch asked, noticing how she was closely reading the file, when normally she would have already read it and just give it a quick scan through.
"I do, but I was so tired last night and figured I'd have time to read it today as it's a 5 hour flight." She replied.
"Ok. Well you are ok? Right?" He asked.
"Yeah, I'm just really tired at the moment..." She replied.
"Are you eating?" He asked, it was not just Reid who had noticed her recent weight loss, also he had been through miscarriages with Haley, he knew she lost her appetite after them.
"No not really, but it's not like I haven't eaten anything, I have eaten, just not much" Roxanne replied, slightly worried about how Hotch would react.
"Look, I'm not going to stress this enough Roxanne, you need to eat." He told her. "Haley had a few miscarriages... she lost her appetite too, I think it's a grief thing." He replied.
"Hotch, I didn't know." She replied. "I know I need to eat, I just have no appetite - none. The little I force down makes me feel sick to my stomach." She responded, explaining the situation.
Hotch sighed. "I know... Hey, I know there's chocolate in the fridge would you eat that?" He asked, knowing chocolate got Haley to eat after her miscarriages.
"Wow Hotch, you sure know how to get someone to eat." She replied, getting up to get a bar of chocolate.
"Well it worked with Haley, so I figured it was worth a try." He replied as she sat back down, eating the chocolate bar.
"I should finish reading this now." She told him."Thankyou."
"Your welcome, if you need to talk about it feel free." He replied, leaving her to finish reading through the file while he got on with some of his other work.
After reading throurelly through thr file Roxanne sighed heavily. "Do you want to talk about it?" Hotch asked her, knowing the miscarriage was still bothering her.
"Garcia." She replied. "I try to be happy for her, but it just upsets me. Makes me remember what I lost if you get what I mean?"
"Is that why you went out yesterday?" Hotch asked.
"Yes, I just couldn't be in there anymore."
"Roxanne, I know you feel you need to be nice and happy for everyone all the time but you've been through a lot in the last week. I'm sure Garcia won't mind if you just space yourself from her a little until you feeling more able to deal with her being pregnant and block the emotions from your lost baby out of your head."
"Thanks Hotch, really."
"Your welcome. Your mom wanted me to keep you safe." He said.
"You personally or the whole team?"
"Me personally. She came to me one day and said if anything was to ever happen to her can I make sure your safe." He explained.
"Well that was interesting." Roxanne said, after they came out of the interview and got into an SUV.
"Yes. It was. What do you fancy for dinner?" Hotch asked, he knew he couldn't have a field agent not eating, it would be dangerous to everyone.
"Pizza." Roxanne replied instantly.
"Ok, Pizza it is." Hotch replied.
Heading back to the hotel with their Pizza the two turned on the TV in Hotch's room and ate. Roxanne heard her phone ring, seeing it was her mom she picked it up without hesitation. "Hey mom." She greeted.
"Hey Roxy." Emily replied, sounding tired, you could also hear the sound of Harry in the background.
"What's up? Is Harry alright?" She asked.
"He's teething and really doing my head in." Emily replied.
"Well give him some calpol and something to chew on." Roxanne advised. "He will probably still be clingy though." She replied, having experienced this with Lottie.
"Thanks Rox. He'll probably fall asleep if I give him something to relive the pain." She replied.
"Do you want to talk to Hotch?" Roxanne asked, knowing they were an item.
"Sure, is he with you?"
"Yep." Roxanne replied and passed the phone over to Hotch.
"Hey Em." He greeted.
"Hey Aaron." She replied.
"Is my baby boy ok?" Hotch asked after hearing Roxanne talk about Calpol, which he remembered was a medicine sold in the UK.
"Yes, he's just teething." Emily replied.
"Poor boy. I remember when Jack was teething." Hotch replied. "Guessing your not sleeping much at the moment then." He added, realizing it was some ungodly hour in the UK right now.
"No, not really." Emily replied. "I miss you Aaron."
"You too Em. How about I come over for your birthday? Both Jack and Harry's are in the same month so it could be a triple present." He offered.
"Yes and then it's your birthday soon after Harry's." She replied. "And yes come over, even if it's just for a few days." She replied.
"ok, cool sorted. Love you Emily."
"Love you too Aaron." She responded before they wished each other goodbye.
After Hotch had finished talking to Emily and given Roxanne her mobile back she wished Hotch goodnight and went back to her hotel room to get some sleep, it was only 8pm but she was really tired after the miscarriage and had been sleeping a lot more than usual.
The next morning Roxanne groaned when she heard a knock at her hotel door, she must have slept through the alarm. "Roxanne!" Hotch called.
"Sorry, I must have slept through my alarm, give me 10 minutes." She replied. Heaving herself up out of bed before having a quick shower and getting dressed.
"Are you sure your ok?" He asked, as they were heading back to the air strip. "I have never known you to sleep late before. I understand if it's a grief thing, but you could have become anemic especially where you haven't been eating much." Hotch explained.
"Your starting to sound like Reid. And I'll go to a doctor when we get back to check everything's ok." She told him.
"Reid would have probably listed a load of statistics, I'm just saying what I've learn't from Haley's miscarriages." Hotch clarified.
"True, Reid would have listed a load of irritating statistics which don't make the situation any better." She agreed.
Getting home from the doctor that evening Roxanne sighed, she had become anemic. It was strange really considering that last time she miscarried she was further along bled more as a result.
Coming through the door she flopped herself down on the couch. "Hey honey, how are you?" Tyler asked, sitting by her and running his hand through her soft hair.
"Tired." She groaned and closed her eyes hoping to be able to get some sleep. "Did you put Lottie to bed?" She asked.
"Yes, Lottie's in bed." He replied smiling. "Hey, I seem to remember that last time you miscarried Sex perked you up a bit. How about we try that?" He asked her, knowing she often used sex to make her feel better even if it was only temporary.
"Sure. But not now." She replied.
Tyler sighed as she re-closed her eyes and proceeded to fall asleep while he was still running his hand through her soft hair. "I love you Rox." He told her while she was sleeping.
A/N: This will probably move on a lot faster once I get onto the actual running of season 9. There's a few things I want to happen before then XD.
