Undercover Love

Getting There

She watched as tubes were shoved down his throat to pull out the bacteria that he'd grown to weak to cough up himself.

She saw him jerk and tremble as the fever caused his muscles to jump and clench.

She watched as he became to disoriented to call her by name and hold a conversation.

She watched as the fever took the man she loved and occasionally spat back at her broken prices of the man she loves.

She saw him through his more in than out days and the more out than in days.

She saw it all.

"Hey," Emily whispers, tears fall down her cheeks and she sees that he zeros in on that.

Sweat. Sweet glorious sweat is what Emily was greeted with when she walked into Aaron Hotchner's hospital room. Sweat sings that the fever is breaking.

"W..w.." he can feel the words getting struck in the back of his throat.

"Here," she lifts the oxygen mask off of his face, the mask gives off more oxygen, and slips the little pink cup up so he can have the water.

He drinks the water but looks confused. "Where are we?"

Emily looks over to the nurse in the corner and back to him," Saint Sebastian. We were in a car accident. You have pneumonia."

He doesn't have time to react to her news because an itching begins to settling in his lungs and throat. "Emily."

She stands and the nurses rush over.

Emily helps pull him up to allow air to flow better into his lungs. The fit is over and is a lot less painful than any of the others he'd had.

"Jack?" She told him all of their injuries. How the baby is fine and that they'd chosen Jason as his name. How Jack had been out of the hospital now for a while and that she's here for him. "Can I see him?"

Both Aaron and Jack had this fear of losing each other. She knew that he loves her but the pain they went through left them damaged and afraid and she's not close to fixing it just yet.

"I can asks," she stands and just as her fingers leave his palm he grips them tightly.

"Wait! Just-Just use the call button?" She can see the panic in his eyes and she nods, not risking to push it.

"Of course."

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"Daddy." Jack waisted no time in  scampering up the bed right into his father's open waiting arms.

"Hey buddy." With his son in his arms everything bad erases itself from his mind.

Jack looks him up and down, undoubtedly looking for all of his father's ailments.

"Have you been good for Uncle Dave?" He tries to gather his sons attention but the little boy is more interest in the monitors and wires.

'Uncle Dave' makes his presence known then as he walks in with a steaming mug of coffee. "He's like a puppy hopped up on coffee and cocaine."

Jack stops and waits for his father's reprimand but it doesn't come.

Rossi doesn't look bothered by Jack, his chipper smile sells this.

"Have you see Jason?" Jack asks attention back on his father.

Hotch adverts eyes to Emily, unsure of how to tell his son that he hasn't been able to because he had pneumonia. He could have died.

Emily speaks up with her normal even tone and relaxed body language. "Your daddy was a little sick so he couldn't see Jason but I'm sure that he will be able to soon."

Clearing his throat of the raw emotion Hotch smiles," tell me about him? How do you like your little brother?"

Eagerly Jack tells his father and the room about the little Hotchner in the NICU.

Nananananananna Batman

"King me, Bitch!" The unmistakable voice of Derek Morgan breaks through Hotch's thick cloud of sleep.

A grunt from the bed causes all heads in the room to snap towards him. He deflects the attention with a," it's cold as hell in here."

Emily's up from her spot in an instant to grab the blanket he can't quiet reach at the bottom of the bed.

As she pulls it up she locks eyes with Morgan. He grins mischievously," I told you it was cold I'm here."

Hotch sees the sweatshirt that Morgan's sporting and Reid's signature sweater vest," there better be paperwork on my desk."

Morgan rolls his eyes. Garcia smiles though, even though he's back to his old antics, because the boss is back.

Once the samon colored hospital blanket is pulled up Emily pats his hand to gather his attention," hey."

The other's all watch them as Emily delivers the news.

"I asked one of the nurses about earlier..." Emily lets the anticipation build. "We've got a little surprise."

His lungs still aren't complelty healed but he's not contagious and his temperature has come back to it's natural 96º.

"Aaron." Sean smiles brightly at his older brother and Emily squeezes his hand," we got you some wheels."

Emily's mom pushes in a black wheelchair.

Hotch turns to Emily," are we-am I.."

Emily smiles and wipes away a tear," you're gonna go see our baby."

Up next we have some quality cuteness and team bonding 😊❤...
-SH