#but i also adore platonic!jemily!best friends in my hotchniss fics

[criminalmindsgonewrong]

 "Uh, what have you missed? Henry’s birthday’s coming up. He’s going to be six.” Here, she stopped, again, collecting herself. It had gotten easier, as the time passed, to fight the tears that sprung to her eyes upon entering this room, and since Hotch had been discharged and Ava had gone home, she could almost pretend everything was normal when she put Henry to bed at night, but it wasn’t. It was still so far from normal. “I asked him what he wanted for his birthday.” Her words were choked now, her throat full of emotion and her eyes full of unshed tears. “He said he wants to see his Aunt Emmy again.”