favorite hcs for aaron and emily?
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Aaron is untidy. Not a slob by any means, but in comparison to what his office is like at home it’s like he is a different person. He just leaves stuff everywhere, and Emily often finds herself almost tripping over his briefcase at least once a week. It drives her crazy
Emily can’t cook. At all. Aaron finds it endearing, and more than once he’s come home later than her to find Jack trying to teach her how to make mac and cheese.
They struggle to sleep without each other, and for a long time, it’s not an issue - one of the benefits of working with each other. As soon as Emily goes on maternity leave with their first kid it becomes a problem. Emily tries to hide it at first but as soon as he admits it she does too. They don’t resolve it, but often fall asleep on the phone with each other when they are apart.
Aaron can’t vacuum to save his life. Emily is convinced he does it badly on purpose so she won’t ask him to do it. She does it without (much) complaining since he does all the cooking.
They split responsibility with helping Jack, and eventually their other kids, homework. Emily helps with English, French and any other languages as well as history. Aaron helps with the sciences and maths. When the homework gets a little harder as the kids get older they get Reid in to help too.
Emily is anxious her entire first pregnancy. So worried that something will go wrong because of her age, or complications caused by her scar tissue from Doyle, that every tiny thing makes her worry. She’s only even slightly placated when her baby is placed on her chest for the first time. (she’s just as anxious the second time around)
Despite what everyone would think - Aaron is often the ‘fun parent’, largely because he can’t say no to Emily, and therefore had no hope with kids who have her eyes. It means Emily sometimes has to be the voice of reason, and no one from the team believes her.
Everyone in the Hotchner household is all about Emily when they are sick. Aaron included. She hands out hugs and head scratches like she has an endless supply, and when she inevitably catches whatever they’ve had they do the same for her.
They elope. Emily doesn’t want a crazy wedding her mother would demand, and the idea of waiting after Aaron proposes seems too much. So they go and just get married with only Jack in tow. Emily diffuses some of the anger from their friends by announcing that she’s also pregnant when they tell the team. (They are still angry at Aaron.)
No matter how hot it is Emily always wants to snuggle in bed. She would rather have the AC cranked all the way up and no covers than sleep with any space between them. Aaron doesn’t complain - he likes it too.
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This prompt was also requested by @kinqslcys so I hope you both like it <3
The prompt is "Did you just call me sweetheart?"
I reworded it slightly to fit the sentence/story to make it work :)
(I know this is a fluff prompt, but it very much turned into hurt/comfort and Aaron whump. I am who I am, ok?!)
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-x-
Words: 2.4k
Warnings: Canon typical violence/injury, frequent mentions of blood, hospitals
Read over on Ao3, or below the cut
She hears the gunshot.
It’s the first sign of trouble since they entered the abandoned building, intel telling them this is where their unsub would be.
“What the hell was that?” Derek asks, his voice coming down over the earpiece, the same panic in his voice that Emily felt in her chest.
“I’m just down the hall, I’ll go check,” she replies, “Is everyone ok?”
She hears responses, Aaron’s noticeably absent, and she feels her heart beat faster in her chest.
“Does anyone have eyes on Hotch?” She asks desperately, turning the corner into the room she’d heard the shot come from, her answer laid right out in front of her.
The unsub was on the floor, a bullet hole in his chest, and Aaron was slumped against the wall, his hands pressing into his abdomen as blood poured out from beneath his fingers.
“Aaron’s hurt,” she chokes out, any pretence of being professional immediately out of the window, his first name slipping free like they were at home, curled up on the couch they had argued over in the furniture store when they purchased it, “we need an ambulance.”
She hears Derek curse over her earpiece, shouting orders about needing a medic, but all of her attention is on Aaron. She lands on her knees by his side, one hand over his on his abdomen, the other cupping his cheek to make him look at her.
“Hey,” she says, her voice shaky to her own ears, the pain in his eyes ramping her fear up even further, “you’re ok, we’ll get you out of here.”
“He stabbed me.” He grits out his teeth, and she looks behind him and sees the knife next to the dead unsub. “He got the jump on me.”
“That's ok,” she says, “everything will be fine.” She feels the blood under their hands and looks down, knowing they needed to do something before the ambulance arrived, far too much blood was already around them for her liking. “We need to get your vest off, so I can put pressure on it properly.” He shakes his head, ready to protest but she cuts him off, “we need to ok, you’re losing too much blood.”
Aaron stares at her for a long second before he nods, and she kisses him quickly before she undoes the buckles of his vest, good enough to protect him from bullets, but not from the knife laying a few feet away from them. He shouts out in pain as she removes it, and she shushes him, her forehead against his.
“I know baby, I know, I’m so sorry.” Her eyes widen as she pulls back, the sight of the blood against his white shirt making her heart clench in her chest. He groans beneath her as she presses her hands hard into his abdomen, the feel of his blood pouring out beneath her fingers enough to make her stomach twist, a stain she was sure she’d never be rid of.
“I love you,” he chokes out, his voice strained as his hand reaches out to cup her cheek, his fingers sticky with what she was sure was blood, “so much.”
“I love you too,” she replies, her throat tight, panic taking residence in her chest, “but we’re not doing that, we’re not saying goodbye,” she looks around the room, selfishly grateful for a second that it is still just the two of them, “where the fuck is that ambulance?” She all but shouts into her mic.
“Morgan is meeting them out front so he can bring them right here,” Dave says, his voice so calm she thinks she’d strangle him if he was in front of her, his ability to keep it together when the man she loved could be dying in her arms too much to take.
She looks back at Aaron, ready to try and assure him that help was on the way, when she sees his eyes drifting shut.
“No, no, no, Aaron,” she says, shaking him slightly, “sweetheart, I need you to stay awake,” his eyes meet hers, a faint smile appearing before his eyes drift closed.
When the medics arrive moments later, Derek in tow, she has to be pulled off of him.
___
“Em?”
Emily looks up from where her gaze had been fixed on the ground, repeatedly counting tiles to keep her mind occupied, a fruitless attempt to stop the anxiety in her throat from choking her. Her eyes meet JJ’s, a kind smile on her friend's face as she lifts the strap of a bag into Emily’s eye line.
“I got your go-bag from the hotel,” JJ says, placing it in front of her, “I thought you’d want to change.”
“I’ve got to stay here,” Emily replies, looking back down at the floor, her view of the tiles now blocked by the go-bag Aaron had packed for her, her clothes neatly folded in a way she could never quite achieve herself, “for when the doctor gets back.”
“Em,” JJ sighs, crouching so Emily had no choice but to look at her, “the doctors said it would be a few hours, your clothes are covered in blood,” Emily can’t help but flinch at that, her eyes darting to the sleeves of her shirt, cursing her earlier self for wearing a light enough colour for it to show on, “I’ll come with you, and the guys will be here. If the doctor comes by, they won’t let him leave until you’re back.”
Emily looks past JJ to Derek and Dave, who both nod in agreement, and then she looks back at JJ.
“Ok.” She says, clearing her throat as she stands, her eyes meeting Dave’s “I’ll only be a few minutes.”
JJ carries her bag for her, and Emily doesn’t reject what she would usually consider coddling, walking alongside her friend in silence as she guides her to the bathroom, her arms tight around herself. Holding herself together until she knew Aaron was ok, until he could do it for her again.
“I’ll wait out here, ok?” JJ says, handing her the bag as they get to the bathroom. Emily just nods in response and hopes that the smile she offers up is thankful.
She immediately walks into a stall, locking the door behind her as she sits down on the toilet, opening the go-bag with shaky hands. She doesn’t look at the t-shirt that once belonged to him, can’t bring herself to as the scent of it hits her nose, and she digs past to her own change of clothes. She changes quickly, grimacing at the slight tint to her skin where her shirt had stuck to her, glued down by his blood. She could still see it on her hands too, the skin bright red from where she’d scrubbed him in a mirrorless bathroom seconds after they arrived.
She leaves the stall, her bag over her shoulder, and makes a beeline for the trashcan, throwing away clothes she knew she’d never get the stain out of, clothes she could never look at again even if it was possible. The grim pattern of Aaron’s life force forever splattered across it, a memory she would never be able to shake off.
She washes her hands, and catches sight of herself in the mirror for the first time since they’d arrived at the hospital. She looked ragged, bags under her eyes caused by the stress, her skin pale, fear stripping anything else away. What catches her eye, what stands out against her pallid skin, is a thumbprint on her cheek, painted in Aaron’s blood. She can almost feel his desperate touch as she was trying to keep him awake, as if he was trying to press everything into her skin. A lifetime of love and happiness that might just be stolen from them, washed away like the blood down the drain.
It burns her, a shadow of how it felt to have his skin pressed up against hers, his warmth ever-present in their home, in their bed. She wonders if when she wipes it off there will be a permanent mark left behind.
For a moment she’s furious the others didn’t mention it, that they let her sit there with the blood of the man she loves tattooed against her skin, but it’s gone as quickly as it came. Recognition that it was an impossible thing to say, to tell her that what could be the last time he’d touched her was something she’d have to wipe away. She touches her hand to it, shaky fingers over the ghost of his touch, and she knows if she closes her eyes, she’d be able to still feel him there, his affection as familiar to her as breathing.
She blows out a breath, and comes as close as she has to crying since she found him slumped against the wall. She shakes it off, doesn’t allow the preemptive grief to take over, and she starts the faucet again, washing her face with more force than necessary.
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It felt like it had been hours since the doctor had come to tell them Aaron had made it through surgery, and asked if anyone would like to see him.
She’d sent the others back to the hotel, promising that she’d call when there was any news, and stopping any suggestions that she should go with them in its tracks with a stern look. She sits in the chair next to his bed, her back aching from the discomfort of it, her hand firmly gripping his.
It reminded her too much of a similar situation years ago. The sight of him in a hospital bed, recovering from what Foyet had done to him, the very thing that had made her realise what she felt for him was more than it should have been. Love that she had semi-successfully tampered down for years after that, sure that he could never feel the same way.
Back then he hadn’t been hers. She couldn’t comfort or help him beyond what she had done, the practical ways he would allow. It’s why she’d driven him everywhere. Taken him to and from work and hospital appointments, forcing him to eat the snacks she’d brought specifically, a white lie on her tongue as she told him they just happened to be in her car.
He was hers now, and she was his. And it made this worse because she now knew exactly what she would lose if she lost him. It was no longer a fantasy, or hypotheticals she would allow herself in the darkness of her bedroom, it was absolutes. He’d taken up parts of her that she hadn’t known existed, showing her love that she had long ago convinced herself wasn’t real, or at least wasn’t on the cards for her. It was beautiful, raw and real, and she knew one day it would tear her apart. The price for loving someone so completely the grief that had left her guarded for so many years, afraid to feel anything so sharply.
He was worth it though, what they had built together in the ashes of their old lives was worth it, and if she lost him today, or 30 years from now, she could never regret it.
“Em?”
She looks up at him, her name accompanied by a slight squeeze of her hand, the usual strength behind it lacking. She feels relief the moment his eyes meet hers, the tears she had been forcing back all evening welling in her eyes.
“Hey you,” she says, offering him a shaky smile as she stands, sitting down on the edge of the bed, lifting his hand so it was clasped between the two of hers, “how are you feeling?”
“Terrible.”
She nods at him, sniffing as she moves one of her hands, her knuckles running down his cheek.
“You lost close to half your blood volume, so I think that's to be expected.”
He hums, squeezing her hand again. “Are you ok?”
She chuckles dryly, shaking her head. “Physically, yes. Emotionally? Not at all. But I’ll be ok.” She leans forward and presses her lips to his, a quick thing just as a final reassurance to herself that he was ok, that he’d recover. “I love you.”
“I love you too, Em.” He smiles at her, his gaze slightly hazy due to the medication in his system. “What did the doctors say?”
“Well,” she says, shifting to look at him a bit better, needlessly rearranging the blanket over him, “the knife knicked your liver, and you lost a hell of a lot of blood, but they said you’ll be fine. It’s a long recovery though.”
“Nothing I haven’t done before,” he says, his thumb tracing over her hand. “Can I ask you something?”
“Of course.”
“Did you call me sweetheart earlier?” He asks, a curious smile on his face, “I’m sure I heard you say it.”
She tries to hide her smile by biting her lower lip, but she fails to hold it back. “Yeah, I did.”
“You’ve never called me that before. Usually, it’s honey, or big-”
“I was panicking,” she says, cutting him off, aware that the nurse sitting at the desk just outside his room could probably hear everything. She narrows her eyes at him slightly, aware that he was just trying to cheer her up, to bring the usual playfulness they had when they were alone, “and…I don’t know. I like it when you call me sweetheart, it just kind of slipped out.”
“It’s not a criticism, I like it,” he says, his eyes drifting shut, “I like being your sweetheart.”
She laughs, shaking her head at him. “You’re lucky I love you, otherwise I’d tell Dave you said that.” She presses a kiss against his forehead and settles back into the chair next to his bed. “Get some sleep, I’ll be right here.”
“Love you.”
“You too.”
“You too…”
He drifts off and it takes her a moment to realise what he’s getting at, rolling her eyes despite the fact he can’t see her, his eyes already closed.
“You too, sweetheart.”
-x-
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Jack + Aaron Hotchner
I’ll meet you there
Hotchniss requested by anon - thank you for request! <3
the way they always just missed each other
maybe if one time they hadn't, they'd have seen it
LOL: Last one laughing - Staffel 2
“Dieser scheiß Waschbär.”
hab gelacht und geheult zugleich 🥲
Anke Engelke + ihr ärgerliches Ausscheiden bei Last One Laughing - Staffel 2
Bastian Pastewka and Anke Engelke, Germany’s most popular comedy duo. I love them so fucking much. Their friendship!! >>>>>>>>>>
die nummer war aber auch heftig 😂
LOL: Last one laughing - Staffel 2
Pastewka: *betritt den Raum* Chaos: *bricht aus*
jack: it’s old person day at school
hotch: what does that mean?
jack: i dressed up as rossi
hotch: oh i love this
1x04 Death At Victoria Dock
hotch: so, i sat down with emily and jack around dinner yesterday
rossi: ah, what kind of interesting conversations did the kids have?
hotch: … well, emily asked jack if friday was his favorite day
hotch: to which my son responds “i don’t know. i don’t know a lot of things, i’m confused all the time”
hotch: and it was in that moment i knew he was my son, and raised by emily
unsub: let’s be real, you are a monster and you’ll never know real fear
hotch: first of all, have you heard director erin strauss yell at you, full fucking name?
prentiss, sipping her juicebox next to hotch in the interrogation room: agent hotchner’s got a point, you know
prentiss, no
– a book written by david rossi, co-authored by jennifer jareau, spencer reid and penelope garcia. introduction written by erin strauss. includues excerpts from the prequel “prentiss, calm down” written by aaron hotchner
do also enjoy the feisty counter argument, “prentiss, yes!” written by derek morgan
jj: any cute things to call your partner?
prentiss: sugar
hotch: honey
prentiss: flour
hotch: egg
prentiss: 1/2lb butter
hotch: stir
prentiss: pour into pan
hotch, high-fiving prentiss: preheat to 350 degrees
hotch: you guys have written … fanfiction about us?
morgan: it’s not about you
prentiss: the main characters are two police officers names aarya and emilio
morgan: okay so it’s a little about you, but relax, it’s not like anyone here has read any of it
jj: i’ve read it. i think it’s well written. morgan has quite the nuance for subtle characterization
garcia: i’ve read one story. i’d be more concerned with morgan’s fixation of aaron’s – excuse me, emilio’s arms than anything he has ever written about well … aarya
hotch: has anyone else written about us?
reid, slowly raising his hand: unlike morgan, i stay away from the mature stuff becuase, that’s too weird since we’re friends, but i do write stories about when you two will finally admit your feelings
rossi: reid’s is really good, but i prefer the fics where hotch realizes his feelings before emily
strauss: enough! i don’t want to hear anything more about this fanfiction, from this moment, there will be no more reading or writing about any of my agents. is that understood?
the bau: yes, ma’am
garcia, as soon as strauss has left: rossi, tell us more about your fics
reblog to show the writer person u reblogged it from appreciation and love
AARON HOTCHNER + THE GREY SHIRT
hotch: i need some serotonin
prentiss, standing up, only to sit back down: i didn’t remember what serotonin was until after i stood up, so i was deadass about to go get you some
unsub: oh man you’re gonna need therapy for all the trauma you’ll have once i’m through with you, asshole
hotch: joke’s on you man, i already have enough trauma to last me three lifetimes
rossi: no, hotch, we’ve discussed this
hotch, sighing: i should warn you, i'm not good at keepint secrets from emily. she's been known to use physical torture
rossi: you mean she tickles you?
hotch: as i said, physical torture
Hotch and Prentiss doing what they do best: looking at each other while standing in a room full of people💘That little smirk on her face though😏
5x01 ~
Are we all in agreement that Hotch was talking to Emily and not the doctor?
He saw the concerned look on Emily’s face and was trying to reassure her that everything was fine 💕
🌹
She wasn’t looking forward to attending her mother’s huge Christmas party at all, didn’t want to converse with all these people she didn’t know, but seemed to know an awful lot about her. This giant building her mother referred to as “their home“ wasn’t home to her. To her, it had always felt like she didn’t belong. Politics, a world she was born into, a game she still learned to perfect, something she tremendously hated. She didn’t want to have to deal with any of it tonight, but seeing as she came “home“ for the holidays, she didn’t really have a choice.
She forced laughter at the bad jokes her mother’s friends made, the stories they told her the most boring things she's ever heard and she faked smiles when her mother introduced her to yet another person she had no interest in getting to know.
All of it seemed to never have been relevant, though, as she locked eyes with him.
spencer reid - intj: the architect
elle greenaway - enfj: the giver
aaron hotchner - istj: the inspector
jennifer jareau - infp: the mediator
derek morgan - entj: the commander
penelope garcia - enfp: the champion
jason gideon - isfj: the protector
emily prentiss - intp: the thinker
david rossi - estj: the director
ashley seaver - isfp: the artist
alex blake - infj: the advocate
matt simmons - istp: the crafter
kate callahan - estp: the persuader
tara lewis - esfj: the caregiver
luke alvez - entp: the debater
(the titles of the mbti types don’t fit exactly, but i feel like the descriptions of the types do fit)
current hotchniss works :) pls check cw/tw before you read and perhaps maybe you're welcome to request something (i can't promise i'll write it but i'll definitely see it and Think Thoughts)
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doomed | hurt/comfort // healthy communication hotchniss aka emily and aaron have a Talk
twice, three times | angst // hotch mourns losing the second love of his life after losing the first one too
home again | angsty hurt/comfort // emily’s alone in paris missing what she was forced to leave behind
see you later | angsty // emily’s back and hotch leaves for witness protection
not like this | fluff // hotch and emily go undercover as a couple
'another nightmare?' | hurt/comfort // emily has a nightmare and hotch is there to help her
‘i still find myself falling asleep with you on my mind’ | angst-ish? // drunk emily calls hotch but they’re exes and hotch is with beth
illcit affairs // inspired by the song by taylor swift. not finished yet but catch up on the snippets/details here and feel free to send any ideas/feedback!
also sticking this here bc i don’t have another home for it yet…
hotchniss + illicit affairs
GARVEZ