11 parts Ongoing Aurora Cross walked away from the BAU years ago, trading crime scenes for operating rooms, nightmares for something closer to peace. But when Elle Greenaway leaves, Aaron Hotchner shows up at her hospital with six simple words: "Come work for me, again."
She swore she was done with profiling, with chasing monsters and losing pieces of herself in the process. But Hotch has always been hard to refuse, and the BAU was once her family.
As Aurora steps back into the world she left behind, old friendships reignite, buried tensions resurface, and she realizes that leaving was never the hardest part-coming back is.
And then there's Hotch. The man she once knew, the man who's changed, the man she maybe never stopped loving.
Duty calls. But this time, is she running toward it... or toward him?