Love like you

Chapter 2: Coffee Mate

The next morning you decided to wake up a little earlier to get everyone some good coffee as a thank you for the warm welcome. You had Garcia send everyone's preferred coffee orders and made your way to the café and quickly read off each order to the barista. After a good 10 minutes, all 7 drinks were made and put into 2 separate drink carriers. As you looked at all the drinks you wondered if you should've had someone come along to help you carry them all. As you were lost in thought someone touched your shoulder lightly and made you jump. You turned around quickly to find none other than your boss staring down at you with that small smile from yesterday.

"Good Morning Agent Y/l/n , I apologize I didn't mean to startle you."

Your face heated up. Dammit you've been here 2 days and you've somehow managed to embarrass yourself twice in front of your new boss, that's gotta be a new record right? "No it's ok, it's my fault really, I'm very jumpy at times."

"Being jumpy and working in the FBI doesn't seem like it would mix well." He pointed out, his brows furrowed once more.

"Gee, thanks for pointing that out Captain obvious." You replied sarcastically. 'Holy shit y/n get a grip he's your boss not your BFF!' Instead of getting upset though, he simply chuckled. 'He actually thinks I'm funny? What kinda alternate universe am I in right now?

"I'm sorry sir I just tend to blurt things out."

"It's alright y/l/n and please, call me Hotc-" he paused mid-sentence and looked over your shoulder at the mountain of drinks you had on the table and then looked back at you with a raised brow.

"Oh yea I came here to get everyone some coffee as a sort of thank you for yesterday." You explained, smiling brightly. Your smile was so infectious he couldn't help but smile back in return.

"Well that is very kind of you, do you need help carrying them all?"

"Oh yea that would be very much appreciated." You grabbed one tray off the table and quickly handed it to him, your hands brushing lightly. You made eye contact before quickly turning back to grab the other tray.

He made his way to the door and pushed it open before turning to look at you. "Shall we?"

You made it back to the office just in time, everyone else was already there looking tired and groggy. 'This outta cheer em up!' Hotch once again held the door open to let you walk through first before following. You set the trays down in front of Morgan who's eyes lit up at the sight.

"Woah mama you got all of this for me?" He smirked. You couldn't help the laugh that escaped you. The rest of the group overheard and began making their way towards the strong smell of coffee.

"Of course not Morgan this is for everyone. I wanted to thank you all for such a warm welcome yesterday." A small chorus of 'AWEE'S' reached your ears as you began handing out their coffee's. You had even written their names on each one with a heart next to it. 

"JJ, Garcia, Morgan, Reid, Rossi, and last but not least, Hotch." You beamed, you were already so happy to be working here. Hotch reached for his cup and once again, your hands brushed. You knew he realized what had happened because he coughed and muffled a quiet 'thank you' before he excused himself, heading straight upstairs into his office. Your eyes were transfixed on his now closed office door until Penelope sidled up next to you.

"So....do you think Hotch is cute?" She nudged your shoulder while grinning mischievously. Your eyes widened and your face reddened at the question. Morgan laughed and added.

"Come on y/n we all saw that whole hand touching today AND yesterday. It's pretty obvious that you've got the hots for Hotch. And, by the looks of it he seems to have the hots for you too." Everyone else murmured their agreements while you covered your bright red face. 'You couldn't deny that he was attractive, and that his laugh gave you butterflies, but he was your boss. Your new boss. There was absolutely no way he thought you were attractive as well...right? That's besides the point you couldn't afford to ruin your work relationship over a silly crush.' You sighed before making eye contact with every single person on the team.

"Ok, so maybe I think he's attractive but, for one, he does not find me attractive, why in the world would he, and two, he's my boss, my new boss at that. Whatever I'm feeling will have to be kept in check." They all thankfully nodded in understanding and changed the subject. After a good 10 minutes you all dispersed back to your desks, but it was hard to focus when your mind kept replaying the little moments you've had with Hotch so far. Before you could read too much into it though Hotch came out of his office and said "conference room in 5." You grabbed your supplies and headed upstairs, before you could make it inside Hotch gently grabbed your shoulder and gestured for you to come off to the side. You followed suit, his voice coming down to a near whisper.

"Y/l/n listen, this would be your first case here and it's only your second day, so if you'd like to sit this one out I completely understand." You could tell by the look in his eyes and his tone of voice that he wasn't questioning your abilities at all, he was simply worried about you. 'Wow I could get lost in those eyes.'

"No sir- I mean Hotch I wanna start now, ya know just jump right into it if that's alright with you." You smiled up at him. He seemed to relax slightly at your words.

"Yes of course I just wanted to make sure." He nodded his head and walked with you towards the conference room, letting you in first -of course- like the gentleman he is before asking Garcia to present the case. You took what you assumed was Prentiss' old seat between Derek and Reid smiling at them both before turning your attention to the screen behind Garcia.

"Alright crime-fighters let's get into the gruesome."