Fic: Protective Wisdom (1/1 Criminal Minds)

[thefrogg]

Title: Protective Wisdom
Series: Of Innocence and Empathy
Author: Frogg
Beta: Nilandia
Rating: Mentions past child abuse. I hate looking the ratings up now.
Disclaimer: I don't own them. Damnit.
Pairings: Hotch/Haley, Hotch/Gideon
Word Count: 294
Author's Note: This is 8-12 months past the current run of OI&E, i.e., the whole fiasco with the end of The Evolution of Frank has been resolved (in some fashion). Gideon has been at his 'new'-since-The Fisher King cabin in Montana for a while.
Author's Other Note: This is an experiment in writing form (dialog only); please feel free to comment (love it, hate it, indifferent, go back to the old style you jerk, etc.). I may post a normal format version.

"Hotch?"

"Jason, it, it's--"

"Haley."

"..."

"Did something happen to Aaron?"

"He needs you."

"Haley--"

"I can feel him, Jason. I know about his father."

"Haley--"

"He never told me. He never had to. I can feel his need to control, and what it takes for him to not take it."

"..."

"It was bad enough after you left, but you had to take care of yourself first. But I, we, have Jack now, and I can't take us both away from Aaron right now. It would break him. I have to ask."

"Are you afraid of him?"

"No, God no, Jason, I don't even know how you can ask me that."

"Haley."

"Not yet, at least."

"When?"

"If I knew when you were going to be back, when you and Aaron would be back in the field...but..."

"But?"

"He needs you. He needs you now, whatever it is that you give him, because I can't. He needs me and Jack, too, but it's different. He's missing something I can't give him."

"Haley, Aaron told me the rules years--"

"The rules mean jack shit when it comes to Aaron's sanity, Jason."

"..."

"Jason, please. I made the rules, I'm repealing them. He needs it."

"It's that bad."

"Bad enough that I bought him a ticket to Helena tomorrow."

"You really think that--"

"I really think that we both love him, and that we both want what's best for him, and that this is the only way either of us is going to be able to live with ourselves."

"Does he know?"

"He's not so far gone that I can't push his buttons, Jason, he'll be on that plane."

"You're sure about this."

"Yes."

"What time's his flight get in?"

~~~the end~~~

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Comments

[panijeziora.livejournal.com]

you are sadly right abouth haley. i think she can;t be really THAT horrible bitch person, becouse [come on!] hotch married her for a reason, right? propably she didn;t really realize how much aaron will be away from home....so i fell pretty sad for her [and all cops wives]

[thefrogg.livejournal.com]

I think it's probably that Hotch and Haley got married while he was a lawyer, before he joined the FBI and BAU. And you can plan and talk and whatever, but you won't really know what it's like until you get there, so now Haley has to deal with Hotch's job and it's probably not exactly what she expected (and a whole lot more).

[panijeziora.livejournal.com]

i think that if they showed her more on the show, she would have been showed it slight different light, as it is now, we hardly know anything abouth her [her thoughts or/and feelings and all that...]