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It was another boring day in the BAU. The team hadn't had any cases in over two weeks and, while they waited for another case, they had managed to finish all of their paperwork three days ago. Thus concluding that it was another boring day in the BAU.
The team, minus Hotchner, were all sitting around in the bullpen just chatting about nothing in particular. With the lack of interesting work floating around, the gossip mill had gotten rather dull in the past week. It was at times like these that had the team almost wishing for a serial killer to rear his or her ugly head. Almost.
"I am SOOO bored!" Garcia exclaimed, shocking Reid out of whatever statistic he was rambling off, "JJ, make me unbored!"
"I wish I could, Pen. I wish any of us could," JJ replied with a sigh.
"We could play a game," Reid suggested.
"Like what?"
"We could play chess."
Morgan laughed at the genius, "First off, chess is a two-player game. That would mean everyone but two people would still be bored. And second, no one is stupid enough to play against you."
"We could play Go Fish," JJ suggested.
"Or poker!" Garcia giggled.
"Hide and Seek!"
"I Never. . ."
"I Spy?"
Emily chuckled as she watched the team try to come up with amusing games. The chuckle died slightly as she glanced up at her boss's office, 'I wonder what they are doing up there?'
Hotchner had brought Jack into work with him that morning, under the correct assumption that they would not have a case again. Unfortunately, the Hotchner men had been holed up in the elder Hotchner's office all morning, causing concern to etch it way into Emily's heart.
Emily was debating going up there when the office door swung open, and Jack Hotchner came rushing out the door.
"Em'ly!!!" the young boy exclaimed as he reached the banister, "Daddy and I would like you to come up here.. . . . Please!" he said as an afterthought.
All eyes turned to her.
Emily just shrugged her shoulders, as she walked up the stairs towards the Agent-In-Charge's office. She didn't really know what was going on herself.
Garcia, JJ, Derek, Reid and Rossi all watched Emily walk up towards Hotchner's office, trying to figure out what the hell was going on. They were thinking about speculating ideas, when Garcia came up with one of her own.
"You know what we should play?" Garcia gave everyone an evil grin, "We should play 'Let's Spy on Emily and Hotchner in Hotch's office.'"
And before anyone could protest, Garcia had whipped out her computer, switching it to a perfect camera angle in their boss's office. Adjusting the sound, the nosy BAU team squished together, listening and watching the scene that took place in the room above them.
When the brunette reached the young boy, he practically dragged her into his daddy's office. Hotchner, (the older one) was leaning up against his desk, staring blankly at the wall.
"What's up Hotch?" the female agent asked, bringing Aaron out of his daydream.
"Daddy and I have a question to ask you," Jack said matter-of-factly.
Emily bent down to talk to the boy, "And what would that question be?"
Jack looked back at his dad, who gave him a short nod. Jack then grabbed Emily's hand and took her to the couch, where she sat down. During this time, Hotchner had gone to stand right behind his son, passing something to him in a stealthy manner.
Jack looked up at his dad one more time before he stood tall, cleared his throat and began speaking, "Miss Em'ly. Daddy says that we don't do stuff the way anyone else does, so he thought that I should do this."
The little boy paused as Emily sat there looking very confused. He took another deep breath before he continued, "Em'ly, you were here for us more than anyone else after Mommy went to live with the angels. You bwought us back to san . . . sani . . . sa-"
"Sanity," Hotchner whispered to his son.
"Yeah, that," Jack said before continuing the speech he had practiced all morning, "You saved us and you make us whole . . ."
Jack brought out the velvet box he had been hiding behind his back and dropped to one knee, " Miss Em'ly, will you marry my daddy?"
"WHAT?!?!?!!!?" The team exclaimed, unheard outside the room.
Emily, the only person inside the room who was surprised, looked between the five year old boy who had stolen her heart long ago, and the man who had given her his to hold, with tears rimming her eyes.
"Please Em?" Hotchner spoke to her for the first time since she entered the room, "Marry me?"
it was with those last two words that her tears fell, rolling down her cheeks and passed the smile that had bloomed on her face.
"Yes," it was with this one word that she picked Jack up, gave him a big sloppy kiss on the cheek, then leaned into Aaron, and gave him a much longer and passion filled one.
When the couple pulled back, they couldn't keep the smiles off of their faces even as Jack bounced in Emily's arms and squealed.
"Ha ha, Daddy! Em'ly kissed me first!"
Aaron Hotchner studied his son for a moment, "Is that why you wanted to ask her? So that you could get a kiss from my girlfriend first?"
"No," Jack replied cheekily, "I pwoposed so that I could get a kiss from your fiancée first!!"
Hotchner glared slightly at his laughing son, and fiancée, before a grin broke out on his face. The three of them were finally going to get what they had wanted for so long: to be a real family.
Meanwhile, down in the bullpen, five people sat staring down at the computer monitor.
Dave Rossi took the time to break the silence, "When The Hell Did They Get Together?"
So I discovered that I could not concentrate on anything else until I got this idea down. Soo. . here it is! My very first Criminal Minds story!!
I hope you enjoyed it!!!
P.S.- It is supposed to be a one-shot, but tell me if you want me to continue. Then I will "uncomplete" it. ;)