[Criminal Minds] years before love

When Rossi went out, Hotch was leaning against the car and waiting for him, "Why didn't I know we still have things to deal with?"

"I just don't want you to continue the interrogation." Rossi signaled him to get into the car, sighing.

"For your old friend?" Hotch smiled, but he didn't intend to delve into it. It didn't matter to him who would solve the case if he allowed it, and he didn't want to say anything about the occasional harmless selfishness.

"Aaron." Rossi glanced at him, stopped what he was doing and sighed, "I thought you should know me better."

Hotch was silent for a moment, "D□□e, I'd rather believe that you're trying to help him than worrying about me."

"After so many cases, you know very well that I cannot stop speculating unless you tell me everything."

"I think you know enough, D□□e, I never tried to dig into your past." Hotch bit his lip and turned his head to look out the window, "You really don't need to know that it's not important anymore things. And I can handle it."

Rossi laughed and leaned closer to him, "Aaron, we all know if you can handle it. Yes, of course you can, but we both know it's still going to affect you, and I just wish you could... make it easier. And - I thought you came here just to learn about my past."

Hotch stared at his face close at hand, trying to maintain his composure, "I'm here for the case."

"I believe Jason suggested that you bring the evidence to me instead of popping up here, and I hope you're not implying that you doubt my competence." Rossi leaned closer, also lowering his voice, "Aaron, I already said Yes, I'm glad you're here, can you just...be more frank."

"D□□e." The breaths of the two were entangled, and Hotch couldn't escape, finally heaved a long sigh and closed his eyes, "...you will tell me if you promise."

Rossi's lips pressed to his, and then backed away quickly, and he started the car, "Yes, it will."

Although the two of them have done almost everything that should be done and should not be done, Hotch is still depressed by this touch without desire, not even a kiss. Can scan Rossi's profile.

Rossi was the first person who taught him how to read the inner world of others, his mentor, his boss.Although he doesn't want to admit it, Hotch also knows that what he expects from him is definitely not correct. He asks himself that kind of emotion has nothing to do with love in the usual sense, that kind of delicate balance between needing and being needed, but D□ □idRossi always responds exactly to what he needs.Both physically and mentally.

"…Jason told you he was spending the night at my house?"

"Why do you have such thoughts about him?" Hotch was stunned, frowning, "How could Gideon take the initiative to expose such a thing that is easy to be caught and make a fuss to me, I think I can at least believe that if you get back together with him Without some relationship, your attitude towards me will not be the same as it is now."

"My attitude towards you back then was not bad."

"But it's not like it is now." Hotch snorted. "I have to admit I'm not who I was then—if you get back to the relationship you had with him, I'm never going to last."

Rossi was silent for a few seconds. "Aaron. Usually, we call this possessiveness."

Hotch didn't answer, and turned his gaze out of the window, watching the car drive a few blocks before speaking again, "Sorry, I just... made a random guess, and Gideon didn't deny it."

"I'm not blaming you." Rossi was almost surprised. He didn't deny it, and then his heart jumped up, and he sighed softly, "He's drunk too much, and I have nowhere to take him. But Aaron, I'm glad you feel good about me." This...feeling."

Hotch pursed his lips and said nothing.

"Jimmy invited us to the funeral."

"Ah."

"If you don't want to, I can go by myself."

"I don't really like getting too close to the victim, but he's your friend," Hotch said softly. "And... Payne sees something?"

"Don't worry about him." Rossi turned her head and smiled at him. "Even if he guessed, he wouldn't say it. And, I don't think he thinks you have any special feelings for me, Aaron, you've been hiding it." So good, so good that sometimes I wonder if you'll never reciprocate my...love for you."