Where It All Started

I promise:

~Aaron's pov~

I hate that this had to happen in front of everyone but she can't keep taking advantage of the situation. I won't always go easy on her just because I broke her heart. I really thought the talk we had in the hospital a few days ago really got through to her, but I guess I was wrong. She's worried about everyone finding out about us, but I'm sure it's extremely obvious now. A part of me doesn't care. My chest will feel lighter with other people knowing.

I take a deep breath to calm myself and I order Morgan to call Garcia to try and connect a few missing dots for us. I don't know what I would do if something happened to her. I'm just trying to protect her.  I don't know why she doesn't see that. The team gets back to work quickly. I could tell they were whispering about us. Trying to figure out why there's so much tension now, so much hatred when we used to get along so well. I can't tell them that it's all my fault, that I lied to her and broke her heart as I did Haley. I can't tell them that I'm just trying to protect someone I love because how would that make me look? My team would lose respect in me, my friends would lose respect in me. A secret like that getting out could ruin us both. And enough people already found out. I'm relying on Rossi and Garcia to hold a secret. I know it's difficult for them and it shouldn't be something I ask of them.

But what else Is there for me to do?

~Emily's pov~

Hotch and Blythe's conversation replays In my head again and again. As a profiler it's hard to turn it off. Finally clicks. They use to hold romantic feelings for each other. Of course. That's why it feels so weird around them all of the time.I just don't understand why everyone else is so clueless...Rossi has to know. I think to myself as I watch him walk over to Hotch putting his hand over his shoulder to assure that everything is okay. But what about Penelope.. how is she tied into all this. I sensed something was off my first day of work then he pulled her aside to have a private conversation. She seemed shaken up about it afterward. Maybe she suspects the same way I do or maybe she knows. I make a mental note to ask her later. 

I pull away from my thoughts focusing back on the team. "Where's Edythe, she should've been back by now." Reid questions and everyone gives him a dumbfounded look. "The coffee shop is right around the corner, it would take her 15 minutes or less." JJ adds once she comes to realization. "I'll call her." Rossi says pulling out his phone and putting it to his ear. "She didn't answer." He tells us. Hotch then pulls out his phone though, he didn't have much luck either.

~Hotch's pov~

"Where's Edythe?" I overhear Reid asking and worry races all around my mind as the conversations sink in. I sent her out of the station... 

A pit forms in my stomach once I realize why she isn't answering. I look over at Reids map and there is indeed a coffee shop within the unsubs comfort zone. I call Garcia in no time and ask her to locate where Edythe's phone was last seen. "Why am I tracking Edythe?" She questions. "Don't ask just do." I instruct.  What if I just send Edythe out and got Elena killed? What if we can't find her? "Sir with all due respect I am, but is something wrong?" She asks concerned. I know she's searching I can hear her fingers punching down on every key fast and hard. "Where's her phone?" I ignore her question. "Her phone never left the premises sir." She says  and I bang my hand on the table "Goddammit Edythe." I say frustrated. She's always getting into some kind of trouble. This time the fault is my own. I shouldn't have told her to leave. I just had to make an example of her so the rest of the team doesn't walk over me. I still need to be her boss, but it is impossible to love her and work with her. "Sir-" I cut Garcia off. "Yes, something is wrong." 

"Hotch." Emily calls my name walking into the room showing me Edythe's badge, gun and phone.

~Edythe's pov~