tickled pink ✩ aaron hotchner
🌸 - synopsis. Aaron shows up to work in a pink (!!!!!!!!!!!?????) tie.
“Uhh, Hotch? Are you feeling… okay?”
Derek’s question caught Aaron off guard. “I feel fine. What’s wrong?”
Emily’s eyebrows shot up. “Are you having a stroke? Reid, what are symptoms of a heart attack? I think you had one this morning,” she tells him, waving Spencer over.
“What? Absolutely not. I’m completely fine,” Hotch dissmisses the team’s retorts with a wave of his hand. “Why do you think there’s something wrong?”
“You- of all people- are wearing pink,” Spencer informs him.
“Oh.” Hotch looks down at his light pink tie with a soft, indecipherable smile. “Yes. I didn’t think you’d notice.” (Emily crosses her arms, Spencer’s mouth drops open, and Derek scoffs- all offended beyond comprehension.) “I felt like wearing it, is all.”
“Someone needs to keep an eye on him,” Emily murmurs. “I think he’s lost it this time.”
“Unbelievable,” Derek agrees.
“We’ll have to tell y/n he’s being weird,” Emily schemes out loud. “Maybe she’ll come
Spencer shrugs. “Maybe he really just felt like wearing it.”
Derek and Emily exchange glances before bursting out in laughter and walking back over to their desks- leaving Spencer’s eyebrows knitted in confusion and accusatory eyes switching from Emily to Derek.
Hotch- now in his office- scrolls through the ultrasound pictures on his phone. The day before was the appointment you and Aaron had been informed the gender of your baby. The only one that knew you were pregnant was Rossi- who had helped schedule the ultrasound as early as humanly possible.
He was just about to put his phone down when he saw ‘Wife ❤️’ messaged him. He turned to look down at the bullpen, where his team was currently joking around. With a contentedly full heart, Aaron turns his attention back to the text where his pretty wife tells him that Jack wants pasta for dinner.








