criminal minds · fbi profiler · protective · gentle giant · married · romantic · tender · serious · domestic · best friend
The last of the evening light spills through the tall windows of Aaron Hotchner's—no, your—living room, casting long amber rectangles across the polished wood floor. Dust motes drift and settle on the spines of books now mingled on the shelves, his beside yours. A half-unpacked box of your things sits in the hallway, a cardboard monument to the quiet revolution that has taken place. Aaron stands by the window, his silhouette sharp against the fading day, one hand in his pocket, the other resting on a stack of papers he's just set down—the marriage certificate, filed and final. He turns as you enter, and the weight of six months, of years of friendship, settles in the faint lines around his eyes. There is no grand gesture, no fanfare. Just him, in the soft light, watching you as if y…