Please Remember Me Chapter Ten

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A/N – What did happen in Key West?

"Remind me again why are we having a party?" Hotch asked as he watched his wife yell up the stairs for the boys.

"We're celebrating." JJ said as she turned to face him. "The house is beautiful, our children are all healthy and happy, and my husband remembers me." She smiled at him as she crossed the room. "We just had a fantastic, relaxing, romantic vacation." She sighed as his arms wrapped around her.

"All orchestrated by your wonderful husband." He said, dropping a kiss on the top of her head.

JJ grinned. "Exactly. Life is good, let's party." She slapped his rear end as she detached herself and moved towards the kitchen.

"You know we're going to be doing this again once you have the baby." He grumbled as he trailed after her.

"I know."

"And we'll probably have to have one when Prentiss and Morgan finally admit that they're together."

She smiled over at him as she took the meat for grilling out of the refrigerator. "How do you feel about that Boss Man?"

"I hardly have any room to judge." He maneuvered her out of his way as he took over the task she was performing. "I'm not a hypocrite you know. What they do on their own time is none of my business."

JJ moved on to wrapping potatoes to bake. "They haven't done anything yet. Emily's a little skittish about getting involved with both a coworker and friend. But she totally wants to see him naked."

Hotch glared over at her. "You know I hate when you share your girl stories."

"Yeah, I know, that's totally why I do it." She giggled when the doorbell rang and he quickly moved to answer it. "See I knew I could make you glad we were having company." She yelled at his retreating back.

They had a great time laughing, eating, and just enjoying being with one another. They'd been out on the patio most of the day but as the evening came and the temperatures dropped they gravitated to the Hotchner's family room.

"So are you ever going to tell us what happened in Key West?" Morgan said, asking the question that was on everyone's mind now that the couple was back and everything was back to normal. The boys were down for the night so Derek felt it was a safe time to ask.

JJ looked over at Hotch and sighed.

Hotch shrugged a shoulder. "Your call babe."

"Come on Jen, we're all family. We dug through Hotch's email and phone when we thought he was stepping out on you. I'm not sure what you think could possible shock us." Rossi pleaded.

"It's not that." JJ muttered as Hotch moved across the room to come and sit at her side. She smiled at him as she intertwined their hands. "I've managed to convince myself that it was all romantic when it was honestly anything but."

"Hey, there was romance." Hotch argued.

JJ smiled up at him tenderly. "There was a little romance."

"Jeez, I wasn't even there and I believe there was romance." Garcia mumbled; she sat on the couch with Kevin.

Emily laughed. "You know you might as well just tell us."

JJ looked at all the curious faces staring at them. "Fine." She conceded and began her tale. "We were in Key West. The particular unsub we were searching for had a thing for blue eyed, blondes. He was raping and strangling them. We were called in when the third one was discovered. At the time Aaron and I were not a couple. He was," JJ shrugged, "I don't know, reluctant…"

"I was trying to follow the rules." Hotch said, taking over the story telling. "You were making it very difficult. My divorce was final, in fact Haley was getting ready to remarry Sam and you came to work every day looking better than the day before. Will was already out of the picture and Garcia was trying to find you a man." He glared over at his TA.

"Ah, you were totally smitten. That explains why you were so moody back then."

Recalling such a time when their boss was particularly moody Morgan chuckled. "Oh man, was that what happened during that case in New York were we liaised with the Missing Persons team? Is that why you were so…"

"Ridiculous, possessive, controlling." JJ volunteered, remembering how outrageous he'd been during that consult.

"You mean the one where all three of the men on the team hit on JJ?" Hotch growled, remembering the way the agents had leered at his now wife's legs.

"They did not all three hit on me. I knew Martin from training and Danny and Jack were just being friendly." JJ rolled her eyes. "No one from Missing Persons behaved inappropriately. Seriously, not every detective that we worked a case with wanted to sleep with me."

Hotch gave her a disbelieving look of his own. "A fair share of them did."

JJ shook her head. "Thank you for that demonstration. So he was doing this caveman thing where he didn't want me but God forbid anyone else dare to sniff around me." She chuckled at the memory. "You were actually pretty adorably jealous. I knew that you were struggling with your decision to keep your paws off me so I did everything to attract your attention."

Reid's head popped up. "That was your button down blouses and skirts with the stilettos period. Poor Anderson."

"Poor Anderson?" JJ asked.

"He would watch your every movement." Reid told his friend.

"Huh, I did not know that. I was too busy trying to get Aaron's attention." She winked at her husband and admitted. "Every time I was in your presence I would roll my skirt up to show more leg and I would conveniently forget to button the top couple of buttons."

"You would also sit where I could see the slit in your skirt exposing your thigh." He winked back. "I was well aware, I was watching you. I was just trying to follow the stupid rules."

"Until Key West." JJ said with a blush.

"Right. We get to the Keys and the killer is targeting women that look like you. Then you do a press conference and you're all over the media. I just knew the fucker was going to set his sights on you specifically." His fear had been palpable.

"Speaking from personal experience having a nutjob target you it is kind of scary, JJ." Haley stated.

"Of course it is. But I am a trained FBI operative. The best shot in the elite group that I was traveling with and there was no indication that I'd even come to this unsub's attention."

"Everyone in that office knew what they were doing when they put you in front of the camera." It was a move that had not been authorized by the section chief and he had been furious.

Morgan remembered aligning himself behind his boss. "I thought you were going to exchange blows with that police chief."

"Only to find out it hadn't been his call." He looked over at Rossi.

Rossi nodded, still believing he'd made the right call. "I wasn't worried about keeping her safe. I knew that we could handle it."

"Holy crap, that's right." Emily recalled. "You and Rossi almost came to blows."

"Until my beautiful wife stepped in and told me to knock it off."

"You were being a little outrageous," She reminded him pointedly, "Threatening to have me removed from both the case and the state of Florida. I was not to go anywhere alone. Even the ladies room. All that was missing was you beating your chest."

Hotch frowned. "To be fair, I just went through a similar scenario of my love ones being targeted not all that long before hand."

"I wasn't your loved one. I was your media liaison. You didn't want what I had to offer."

Hotch laughed. "Let's be perfectly clear on one thing. I always wanted you. From the first day you walked into the office." He leaned over and kissed her. "Even when you told me I was a bully."

"You ran hot and cold, I didn't know what you wanted from one day to the next."

Morgan snorted. "I got to say everyone in the Key West police department had a pretty good idea of what he wanted to do with you."

"Yet we still weren't aware that anything actually happened the following day." Rossi stated. "You two are very good at keeping secrets." He raised his glass to Hotch. "A talent you still possess."

"So what happened?" Haley was anxious to know how the story played out.

"JJ openly defied Hotch. He told her to stay put and while we were in the conference room she told one of the cops on duty that she was returning to the hotel if any of her team members asked." Emily shook her head. "Poor kid was maybe twenty and he had not been there when Hotch gave JJ the order."

"I was escorted to the hotel and to my room by a member of the police force." JJ grumbled. "I'm not an idiot."

Hotch looked at her.

"Jeez, kiddo, you know that he thought everyone was hitting on you and you knew that he told you to stay put."

"He would have never ordered Pen or Emily to stay put if they fit the profile." JJ argued.

Not wanting to open another can of worms Haley interrupted. "So I'm guessing Aaron followed you to the hotel?"

"After giving the entire team and Key West police force a thorough ass reaming." Morgan hooted.

"I don't think I was ever as pissed as I was when I got off the phone and found out that JJ had deliberately disregarded my direction and went back to the hotel on her own." Hotch squeezed JJ's hand. "For all I knew the officer that escorted you to your room could have been the unsub." Unfortunately it wasn't unheard of for members of law enforcement to be the perpetrators of crimes.

"How mad was he when you answered the door?" Garcia asked with a grin.

JJ giggled. "Oh, he didn't knock on the door. He got the key from the front desk and entered without any notice."

"What were you doing kiddo?" Rossi wagged his brows at JJ.

"I was in the tub trying to calm down because I was so pissed off at being so completely dismissed. Then I hear my door open and I start to freak out that maybe the unsub found me. Here I am naked, wet and vulnerable." She looked over at Hotch. "So I ease out of the tub and throw a robe on…"

Emily frowned over at Hotch. "Why didn't you announce yourself?"

Rossi started to chuckle knowing the exact reason. "You didn't know if she was in the bathroom alone."

"I thought there was a possibility that she might not be. She was beautiful, single and I was just stupid and jealous…" He would have destroyed any other man that dared to touch her.

JJ picked back up the story. "So when he came through that door I was ready for him and I dropped him, just like you taught me." JJ smiled at Morgan, her hand to hand instructor. "Then I tackled him and attempted to subdue him. Only I wasn't prepared for it being Aaron, or for my robe coming undone during the scuffle."

There was a round of laughter at JJ's expense then Rossi looked over at Hotch. "And the internal battle you were waging was at an end."

"You'd think wouldn't you?" JJ grinned. "Nope, after I realize it's him and back off, he orders me to get dressed."

Hotch shook his head. "It wasn't my finest moment. And in all of our time together I have never made the same mistake."

"What'd you do Jay?" Emily asked.

"I removed my robe completely, threw it at him, and told him that I'd get dressed when I damn well felt like it."

Garcia giggled. "Well don't stop there Peaches, how'd he take that?"

"He just stared at me like he wasn't sure what to do." JJ told them. "In fact he stared so long I finally told him that he could take his clothes off and join me or he could get the fuck out of my room. Then with my head held high I started to move past him to go out to the bedroom." His hand snaked out to grab her as she attempted to leave.

Hotch slipped his arm around JJ. "The rest of the story has a mature rating and we're not going to get into it."

"Oh, no," JJ laughed, "You have to tell them what happened next."

"Listen kiddo, we're close but there's such a thing as overshare." Dave told her.

"Yeah, honey, they all know that we have sex." Hotch laid a hand suggestively on the swell of her stomach.

"Yes, I know," JJ laughed, finding that she was enjoying the telling of their story, "Naturally they all think that you swept me into your arms and we consummated our relationship."

"We did." Hotch bantered back.

"You swept me up, deposited me on the bed and handcuffed me to it."

Morgan let out a chuckle. "And now we've reached the overshare part of the story."

"Oh no, it wasn't to have sex with me. It was to keep me put. He was going to leave me like that and have Emily come back and guard me." Hotch dropped his head and shook it as the group howled with laughter.

Emily frowned trying desperately to remember something when Reid's voice interrupted her. "You did call Emily, but you told her that you were taking the evening off and you'd be back the following morning."

"Oh my gosh, that's right!" Emily snapped her fingers. "I was to call if something broke but otherwise you were unavailable." She looked at the pair. "I remember that Hotch was supremely angry and I could hear you in the background but I couldn't make out what you were saying."

"She was taunting me." He could still picture her on the bed gloriously naked, stunningly beautiful, and furiously pissed off.

JJ shrugged. "Hey, it worked didn't it? You finally stopped fighting it and gave in."

"I have to know what she said to break you." Morgan asked.

"She suggested that Emily probably had a bigger set than I did and would probably know better what to do with a horny, naked female." She had stretched her body out as she made the pronouncement.

Emily snickered. "I'm not sure that I would, but thanks for the vote of confidence."

JJ turned to Hotch. "That's what did it?"

Hotch shrugged. "You said a lot of things. You brought up the interrupted kiss in my office and asked what happened to the man who came close to bending you over the desk. Then you demanded that I get my uptight ass over there and take care of you." He grinned remembering the way her eyes heated and she moaned in anticipation when he finally removed his suit jacket.

"And boy did you." JJ announced lustily, lost in the memory of how quickly he brought her to pleasure with his mouth and hands then continued to make love to her until she was thoroughly sated. "You were so wonderful."

"See, I told you it was romantic." Hotch leaned forward and placed a kiss on her lips.

"Because nothing says romance like a pair of handcuffs." Garcia snorted.

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