[CLOSED] Aaron Hotchner, Emily Prentiss, Spencer Reid

[likemy_role]

[Sitting around the table, eating and talk was a common enough event that it almost felt normal. More normal then waking up in a forest and talking to old women about sentient trees, at least. The four BAU agents had all ended up in the cabin where Reid and Emily had been living. It wasn't as small as JJ had feared when she'd first heard 'cabin

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[numbersnfigures]

Sitting at the table enjoying a meal with most of his team was the best thing he'd done since he had been brought to the woods. Spencer had missed them so much. They were his family. At JJ's comment, he gave her a blush and gazed down at his plate.

"Well... t-there's only so much a profiler can do here. Plus, there are so many children. It's not fair to them to be stuck here. I want them to have some sort of normalcy in their lives. You guys know how much that helps with things like Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder."

Sometimes Spencer wondered if he wasn't on some sort of crusade to save the childhoods of these children. His own had been so rough that he didn't want to see any other child have to go through that as well.

[didntblink]

Hotch was smiling, a little, again. It had happened more times since he came to the Wood than he had smiled without Jack around for quite some time. He was always able to get his energy and mood up for his son, but with the rest of the world, the hardships of the last year or so weighed him down a lot. But here, he had Emily, JJ, and Reid, and they were all relatively good and okay.

"We can make sure to take care of them," Hotch agreed. He had plenty of experience over the last year to being a father - finally. And it was hard with rough spots, but...these children didn't have anyone else, just them. He would have wanted someone to help Jack if something happened to him.

[savesherself]

"I don't think it would hurt to have someone in the room who can do Reid-to-English translation," Emily confides to JJ, flashing a grin to Reid as she does. She does actually mean it, but not in a bad way. It's just that he manages to confuse most adults every now and then - even the brightest children don't stand a chance if he really gets going on some topic that interests him.

[likemy_role]

She understands what Emily means completely. Sometimes she just has to blink and nod and pretend she knows what Reid is saying. There's no one she trusts more to understand what kids in this situation are going through, though. If there was one benefit to growing up the way he did it was that it gave Reid a keen understanding of non white picket fence childhoods.

"Are very many of them here without parents?" JJ frowns at the idea, but she's already met one child here alone.