Wherever You Are

Wherever You Are Chapter 15

Chapter 15:

Feelings

(Hotch's Point Of View)

I woke up a little later and we were still flying. I tried to sit up but couldn't. JJ was still by my side and helped me up, smiling as she handed me yet another water.

"Thank You ." I smiled and Slowly started to drink it.

Strauss was asleep her arms crossed. I gulped, i thought about leaving on the plane, and her hysterical voice.

JJ set her hand on mine, I froze and felt tingling go up my arm. Her hand was cold, but I felt myself relax, JJ had my back, I knew it.

"We shouldn't wake her up, she's tired. She's been awake for a Long time, making sure your ok. You scare her."

"But why do I scare her, why does she worry "

"She's afraid of... She's afraid of losing you. The job is dangerous, she wants you to be ok. She's trying to make sure your safe Hotch. She loves you Hotch. Even if you don't think it. It's a mom thing."

"She loves me?" there was a questioning tone in my voice.

"Of course she does Hotch. While you were sleeping we talked." she looked down, and her hand was still on top of mine. She smiled.

"What did you talk about?" I asked.

"You."

"What about me?" I was extremely curious.

"She told me about you as a child, and how she taught you some piano, and how you use to sing songs together. She said you use to be stubborn and a daredevil, how you threw a baseball threw your neighbors window, how you crashed your bicycle and got a concussion. How she lobed you death, and the days after she gave you up. And how much she misses you..." her voice trailed off.

"Hotch, she loves you and she's sorry, she loves you you have to see it."

I looked over at her sleeping, the troubled expression on her face, her eyes shut tight. She was mumbling something,

"Aaron ... She loves you."

I nodded. "I know, and I love my mother, I do. I feel so bad after today... For her because I let my stubbornness get in the way."

"Hotch she's way more worried about you, she isn't mad she's scared."

"I understand. I'll listen to her from now on." I said.

"Thank you, she needs that." JJ hugged me and her body seemed frail, and that long gash under her cheek looked like someone had beaten her. I hugged her this time, and then looked at her face again. She laughed a little at me, and she started to smooth out my hair with her hand.

Strauss woke up then her eyes blinking sleep out of her eyes. We both looked at her, why hair was still messy, JJ had only managed to get half of it to stay down.

"How do you feel?" she yawned and looked me over.

"Fine." I replied.

"Are you sure.." she still looked concerned.

"Promise." I smiles reassuringly but I still saw a look of fear and concern lingering in her eyes, it made me cringe.

"Alright." she crossed her arms and I waited for a lecture.

"i should lecture you but cant bring myself to." she said frowning with a hint of a smile on the corner of that frown.

"That's good." I tried to get up but she snapped her finger.