Undercover Love

Uncle Dave?

"Your life is not your own so keep your hands off of it. Once it's over it's not you who will miss it. You're own death is somthing that happens to everyone else."
-Sherlock Holmes BBC

8:00 A.M. November 1st

"You already called them both?" Morgan asks with a yawn.

Reid rubs his eyes," we could just call them again."

Garcia bites nervously on the corner of her colored lip," the last time Hotch didn't answer his phone..."

Rossi stands up out of his chair," I'm sure they just had a rough night. We can swing by after the briefing and wake them."

               Emily & Hotch

Emily pinches her eyes shut as another wave of pain washes over her. "A-Aaron!" Her breath catches and she moans in pain.

Ten feet away her Hotch lays face down in the ditch. If she could just seat up she would actually be able to see him.

In his cart seat, almost completely alright without a single laceration, Jack lays sleeping.

"Aaron!"

                  The Team

Rossi knocks against Hotch's apartment door. After a ten second pause to wait for a response Rossi knocks again.

Kimberly, Hotch's neighbor for the last year or so, steps out into the hall dressed in her usual skinny jeans and random shirt. "Oh," she smiles and blushes as she makes eye contact with Reid. "Are you guys looking for Aaron?" She digs her old tennis shoe toe into the carpet," they didn't come home last night. I called them, I sometimes watch Jack, and neither picked up."

Rossi finds this as reasonable cause and inserts his spare key.

"They didn't come home last night?" JJ asks the younger woman, she's at twenty and she hardly looks that.

Kimberley shrugs," like I said, Aaron usually lets me know he won't be there." She blushes," I stock up the fridge and look after the boys. I would have heard them come home."

Rossi opens Hotch's door and sweeps widely to the left while Morgan goes right.

"Hotch never told us that he's harboring the local abuse vics," Morgan says taking note of pillow discarded on the floor.

"What?" Rossi stops his calculated movements to turn and face Morgan.

Morgan juts his chin towards the door," Kimberly. Didn't you see the bruise?"

Rossi shakes his head.

"He's looking after-"

The sound of glass hitting the floor has both agents swinging their guns around.

"Sergio," Morgan breaths out, relief that it's not a serial killer flooding through him.

The rest of the team and Kimberley stick their heads into the door. "What was that?"

Rossi points his gun at Sergio," the damn cat."

Garcia inhales deeply, trying and failing to keep her composure," if Sergio is here... that means that they.."

Morgan pulls his baby girl into a warm embrace. "They were close, baby girl."

They all think the worse, how can they not (?), and everthing they think is more them possible and that's terrifying.

"They were always close."

Emily & Hotch
(Three weeks ago)