I've always been resistant to Hotch-related slash on the basis of his canon marriage to Haley. I've never bought into the idea of him cheating on his wife or breaking up with her in order to have Gideon, Morgan, Spencer or a happy meal combo. This is a clever way around the squick...I'm still not totally comfortable with it.
Thank you very very much! You know what for. I'll have fun playing with it this weekend!
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I have to believe that Hotch and Haley took steps to minimize the damage to their marriage that Hotch's dream of running the FBI (and the work ethic he has, and would be necessary to get there) would otherwise cause. Including: Hotch can't tell Haley a lot of what goes on at work, not even to protect her (Lessons Learned). He probably doesn't tell her/doesn't like telling her what he can, at least in my mind, because Haley and Jack are his, how shall I say, anchor to normality? A reminder of why he's doing what he does? He was tickled pink at being able to do housechores!!! in The Fisher King part 1... He doesn't want to taint her with the ugliness he sees, but he still needs an outlet and connection he can go to to deal with it. And I think Haley would be much more accepting of him having a relationship with someone on the team to give him that outlet than of a '
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Umm, ok. I just can't see Haley being ok with it. This was a very fluffy version of slashing Jason with Aaron (I also have a problem with slashing Hotch, because of his marriage).
A lot of people do, including me, believe it or not. When I'm reading other people's work, I tend to kind of (maybe purposely) ignore things like "What would Haley think?" and "OMG! Hotch is cheating!::gasp::"
I really tried not to have a side of Hotch/Gideon in this series. I realy did. Unfortunately, my muse refused to listen to me, and that left me with the not-so-easy chore of trying to figure out "Just what DOES Haley think about this?" I really can't see Hotch being able to do his job effectively while cheating on her, and I didn't think either getting separated/divorced or killing Haley off would be much better, so she would have to know and either A) turn a blind eye to it for Hotch's sake or B) support it, for whatever reason.
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I've always been resistant to Hotch-related slash on the basis of his canon marriage to Haley. I've never bought into the idea of him cheating on his wife or breaking up with her in order to have Gideon, Morgan, Spencer or a happy meal combo. This is a clever way around the squick...I'm still not totally comfortable with it.
So where's the Morgan/Reid smut? ;)
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ROFLMAO!!!! Happy meal combo!! Squee!
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Thank you very very much! You know what for. I'll have fun playing with it this weekend!
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I have to believe that Hotch and Haley took steps to minimize the damage to their marriage that Hotch's dream of running the FBI (and the work ethic he has, and would be necessary to get there) would otherwise cause. Including: Hotch can't tell Haley a lot of what goes on at work, not even to protect her (Lessons Learned). He probably doesn't tell her/doesn't like telling her what he can, at least in my mind, because Haley and Jack are his, how shall I say, anchor to normality? A reminder of why he's doing what he does? He was tickled pink at being able to do housechores!!! in The Fisher King part 1... He doesn't want to taint her with the ugliness he sees, but he still needs an outlet and connection he can go to to deal with it. And I think Haley would be much more accepting of him having a relationship with someone on the team to give him that outlet than of a ' ( ... )
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I really tried not to have a side of Hotch/Gideon in this series. I realy did. Unfortunately, my muse refused to listen to me, and that left me with the not-so-easy chore of trying to figure out "Just what DOES Haley think about this?" I really can't see Hotch being able to do his job effectively while cheating on her, and I didn't think either getting separated/divorced or killing Haley off would be much better, so she would have to know and either A) turn a blind eye to it for Hotch's sake or B) support it, for whatever reason.
I chose B.
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