Hotch&Emily ღ

Written by ilovetvalot.
5 chapter Story



Lies I Told Myself

Chapter 3

“Go home, Hotch,” Emily said tiredly, trying to close the door on him. She simply couldn’t deal with this right now. The initial thrill of knowing he’d come to her had faded quickly, the adrenaline ebbing and flowing like the tide. Now, all she felt was an overwhelming sense of impending doom. And quite frankly, it was more than she could handle in her present state of mind.

Quickly inserting his foot in the partially open door, Hotch stilled its onward momentum. “No, Emily. Not until we discuss what happened this morning.”...

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To Parry or To Feint

Chapter Two

Two hours later, Emily laughed breathlessly as she feinted right, thrusting her weapon and hearing the satisfying clang of steel meeting steel as their sabers clashed. Small rivulets of perspiration ran down her neck, the bib of her mask capturing the moisture with ease as she swayed to the side.

Hotch was good. No, she thought with a mental headshake, better than good. Hotch was excellent. Graceful and lethal, his body flowed as he backed her toward the wall, advancing across the room with well calculated swipes of his weapon.

When they’d...

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Lies I told Myself

CHAPTER FIVE

Latching on to the inadvertent opening she’d given him, like a hand clinging to a lifeline, Hotch nodded. “You’re absolutely right, Emily. I don’t lie.” He paused, then added, deeply, “ I most especially don’t lie to you.”

“That’s what I just said, Hotch,” Emily snapped, wondering if the man in front of her was looking to extend their time together by repeating everything she had to say. If so, she could easily make that line of attack very ineffectual.

“Just hear me out, Emily....

Written by Ilovetvalot.



To Parry or To Feint

Chapter One

Emily Prentiss was tired, but not the physical kind of tired associated with strenuous activity. At this point, she would have much preferred the fatigue that came from overuse of her various muscles. But that was not to be the case this time. No, instead, her soul was tired. And from experience, she knew this kind of lethargy was much more exhaustive.

The entire team was running on fumes…and frayed tempers. Not a day had gone by that they hadn’t dealt with a harsh word, a cross look, and worse, the not-so-infrequent temper tantrums....

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Lies I told Myself

Chapter 4

“What? Why?” Hotch asked, eyes widening in surprise as he stumbled for one word questions. And even that was a stretch for the dark man sitting next to Emily Prentiss, his mind unable to comprehend anything beyond the last thing she had said.

Surely he had not said his ex-wife’s name in the middle of the night. Surely.

“You tell me, Aaron,” Emily frowned, watched as his face closely. A man couldn’t fake that kind of shock, could he? And that was the only way she could currently describe the expression that settled over his face. Pure...