Please do one where Emily âdiesâ and you go to Hotch for comfort and heâs the only one who knew about the readers and Emilyâs secret love? And maybe the reader drank heavily with Hotch?
I was listening to Lay Me Down by Sam Smith whilst writing this and in the tender state Iâm already in I definitely did NOT cryâŚNOT AT ALL! Iâm not going to lie Iâve written this many times in my head. Itâs all pretty fresh still so please donât judge if itâs really bad aha! I hope you enjoy it!xx-Ash
You woke up with a pounding headache and the smell of alcohol still on your breath. You couldnât help but grimace at the pain in your head as you sat up in bed. Â You reached for your phone, but it wasnât there, you reached out further for your lamp, but it wasnât there. Whose room was this? You moved to get off of the bed and landed your feet on the unfamiliar ground. Â Standing up brought back the all too familiar feeling of nausea. Running towards the door you burst out into the hallway and towards the open bathroom door, no longer were you concerned with where you were but how you could make yourself feel better.
Your hair was pulled out of your face and a familiar voice calmed you down âItâs ok Y/N, get it all out.â Hotch. It had to be Hotchâs house âI picked up your car from the bar and grabbed your go bag from the trunk. I will tell the others you werenât feeling well. Go and visit her today?â He handed you a glass of water, an aspirin and left. Â
This wasnât the first time youâd woken up away from your house. The first time was in the hospital the day after she died. Youâd managed to get from the hospital to the local liquor store and buy 2 bottles of whiskey; you hadnât even waited until you got home to drink them, drinking the entire 1st bottle before youâd even got to your car. You sat on the bonnet of the car you shared with her, drinking and cursing out the world that forced you to be alone and took the woman you loved away from you. Tears stained your cheeks until eventually it was impossible to tell where theyâd run and where they hadnât. You didnât remember how you got to the hospital or what exactly had happened but you woke up attached to an IV and a stern looking Hotch stood at the end of your bed. Thatâs when you told him about you and Emily; how youâd been in love with each other for so long and about your engagement. Heâd held you, tightly, like she used to. Caught your tears on his shoulders, like she used to.
At first youâd pushed away his pity, vowing you could survive without her, vowing you could move on and youâd be fine. But now? Now was different. Now was lonely nights and empty beds. Now was waking up at 3am and panicking when she wasnât there. Now was taking long walks in the dark hoping sheâd appear. Now was half empty liquor bottles and drowned sorrows.
It had been so hard to keep it together. When she died it was like you lost your better half, the half that made you smile, made you happy and made you love. It was only 3 days after youâd proposed that sheâd been killed and it broke you. It cut down to your core, to your very soul and nothing could stop the pain. Except alcohol, when you drank, it numbed it all; numbed the sadness, the anger and the love that you still felt. And thatâs why you were here; In Hotchâs house hiding from the world behind a bottle of whisky and more than enough vodka.
You stood up from the toilet and dragged your soulless body back to the bed, rolling yourself up into a ball, holding your hands over your ears trying to block out the overwhelming sadness that washed over your body. Thoughts of the day she had died flooded your brain;
JJâs face had told you everything you needed to know. Her voice held a pain you only amplified with your cries. No-one knew how you were hurting, how your heart had been ripped out and crushed. You felt your knees buckle underneath you, collapsing to the cold ground; you held your face in your hands and sobbed, for the woman you never got to call your wife. You wanted to run to her, hold her in your arms for one last time but something was stopping you, something in your heart told you to stay put, surrounded by your family.
Regret. All you felt was regret. Regret that you hadnât gotten to her sooner. Regret that yours wasnât the last face she saw but instead Morganâs, something you still resented him for. Regret that you hadnât been by her side in the ambulance. Regret that you hadnât gone to her after she had died. Regret that you never got to show the world how much she truly meant to you.
You slept for 3 more hours until you felt the sudden urge to get up, and go visit her. Â You pulled your unwashed hair up into a bun. Wrapped yourself in her old FBI jumper, inhaling what was left of her smell on the fabric, after 8 months it had started to smell less and less like her. She wasnât buried too far away, and there was a familiar liquor store on the way that you knew always had what you needed after visiting her grave.
A short walk and half a bottle of rum later you arrived at her grave. Still decorated with the beautiful bouquets, no doubt left by Penelope. 5 months and 24 days had passed since you last saw her; since you last felt love and light.
âHey Em, I hope you can hear me. I mean⌠I hope youâre ok wherever you are. Itâs so hard to get through this without you. I know I need to stop drinking. But when I donât drink, I hurt, I hurt so much.â Through the hazy fog of your tears you made out a dark figure in the distance, watching you. Maybe it was the drink, or the gut feeling something was wrong but you couldnât help but yell âHey! Hey! Who are you?â Stumbling around the gravestones you made a desperate attempt to get closer. Tripping over your own feet, you landed on the ground, hitting your head on the corner of a gravestone.
âY/N? Are you okay?â a familiar voice broke through the ringing that was piercing your ears.
âEmily?â your eyes felt heavy and it was a struggle to keep them from closing.
âHey baby, hold on, the ambulance are on their wayâ Her face appeared in your field of vision, her dark hair brushing against your face. Her hand snaking its way into yours.
âEmily?â your confusion faded as your consciousness did.
âNo Hotch! Iâm serious! She was there, at the cemetery! She called the ambulance. She held my hand, I know it was her.â You were suddenly defeated âI has to beâ
Hotch looked at you with sadness in his eyes. The pity in his face was enough to make anyone cry âY/N, you were drunk. You hit your head and had a concussion. It was just your imagination.â He was holding something back and you could tell âEmily is dead. Sheâs not coming back, ever.â
âGet out.â You spat, unaware of how much venom was in your voice.
âY/NâŚâ Hotch pleaded.
âI know what I saw.â You were so, so angry. âSo please. Get. Out.â
2 months later, you and Morgan had almost cracked the Doyle case. Derek had to almost pull you off of him when you finally caught him. And then Declan went missing, the one person Emily had always vowed to protect was in danger and there was no way that was going to happen.
âEverybody have a seat.â Hotchâs eyes met yours. Something was wrong, something was very very wrong. â7 months ago I made a decision that affected this team, as you all know Emily had lost a lot of blood after her fight with Doyleâ the mere mention of her name brought tears to your eyes âbut the doctors were able to stabilise her.â The air in your lungs was knocked out of you and your jaw hung open.
âSheâs alive?â your voice was barely above a whisper âSheâs been alive ALL this time and you never told me?â you were yelling, angrier than youâd ever been âYou saw me in the state I was in. You told me point blank she was dead and she was never coming back! When this whole time you knew, YOU KNEW SHE WAS ALIVE!â Â The realisation of what was being said hit you like a tonne of bricks, knocking you back into your chair.
âAs I said I take full responsibility for the decision, if anyone has any issues they should be directed at me.â
âoh my godâ Garcia glanced behind you at the door. Her mouth hanging open as tears slipped down her face. Â You didnât turn around. You couldnât.
âIâm so so sorry.â Emilyâs voiced flooded into your body.
âYouâre sorry?â you still hadnât turned to face her, scared that it wasnât real, scared that if you turned around she would disappear forever just like she had done so many times before.
âYou what? You wanted to come back? You wanted to help me? You love me? Because as far as I remember none of those things could you not have done. I was your fiancĂŠe, couldnât I have known? We were going to get married Em! We had the venue picked out, the date, everything! We were even going to tell everyone! Do you remember? Do you remember everythâŚâyou swung yourself round and saw her, for the first time in a long time you were sure it was real. Your eyes met, those eyes youâd missed so much. âEmily?â you couldnât force out much more than a whisper.
âTrinity House on 6th. On the 25th of July. We were going to ask JJ and Garcia to be our maids of honour and Hotch and Rossi were going to walk us down the aisle.â Her eyes were overflowing with tears.
âAnd Morgan and Reid were going to be our ring bearers.â You hadnât noticed her closing the gap in between you.
âI came back for you months ago. I saw you that day in the cemetery and wanted so badly to tell you. I went all the way to the hospital with you but I couldnât tell you. You werenât well. But I have been watching you, always. I had JJ and Hotch updating me every week. There was never a day where I didnât want to be back here holding you in my arms. I love you so much!â she pressed her lips to yours and wrapped her arms around your waist âGod I missed youâ
âI love you. Oh My God I love you!â