Who: Hotch and Reid
When: 8:24 pm Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Where: The Hotchner's apartment
Rating: M for messed-up memories, missed meetings, and Mom!Hotch
Status: Incomplete
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Reid's fingers twitched, in the way that alerted him that some part of himself still wanted the dilaudid, and badly. )
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The sounds of the door unlocking sent a tense shock down Hotch's spine, his whole body alert, nerves singing--it was only when he heard coffee begin poured that he realized it must be Reid:who else could get in so easily; who else would go straight for the coffee maker?
"Little Jackie Paper loved that rascal Puff, and brought him strings and sealing wax and other fancy stuff..." Aaron stood and moved slowly towards, the door, backing away but continuing to sing. "Puff the magic dragon, lived by the sea, and frolicked in the autumn mist, in the land called Honah Lee--" Finally out of the room, he closed the door, smiling wanly. It had taken longer than he ever wanted to think it ( ... )
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"I'm glad Jack's feeling better." Luckily, despite all the thin, pasty evidence to the contrary, he hadn't been sick often as a kid. Reid knew what it was like to be the sole caretaker of someone. "Has he been missing the snow?" Prior to him getting sick, it seemed like there was a new snowman something popping up in front of the apartment building every day. In a way, he was glad for the distraction of Jack being around, but he was equally glad that the boy was in bed. He didn't need to know about what had happened in Georgia.
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"Unfortunately we can't pick and choose what stands out the most. On the bright side you've saved hundreds of lives since then, and, really who else but you would be lucky enough to be shot guarding a trauma surgeon?"
It had been one of the smaller ironies, the day after his own admittance to the same hospital, to see Reid wheeling himself into Hotch's hospital room two floors down from his own. As humorless as he'd been at the time, he'd still managed to look at Reid and deadpan: "What are you doing here?" At least Doctor Barton and his son were safe by that time ( ... )
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