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Hotch had been trying to get out. He'd never been the sort to just go out for the sake of going out, but in London he knew so few people and the town itself was a mystery. He'd taken it to heart that he should find at least one new place every week and this week he'd found a lovely restaurant that served Asian food. Of course he had had Chinese in mind when he heard 'Asian' and was surprise dwhen he arrived that it was Indian cuisine. He'd enjoyed a delicious meal and then had started off to the tube when he spotted a bar. He could have one drink, he thought, and had made his way inside.
A piano bar, neatly appointed and apparently popular. Hotch took a seat at the bar and ordered a scotch, then turned to watch the pianist. He didn't recognize the song, but that was no shock. It sounded jazzy and that really wasn't his specialty.
A piano bar, neatly appointed and apparently popular. Hotch took a seat at the bar and ordered a scotch, then turned to watch the pianist. He didn't recognize the song, but that was no shock. It sounded jazzy and that really wasn't his specialty.
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Date: 2014-09-30 03:27 am (UTC)"Hmm...I did have my mother and brother, but I had to become the man of the house," Hotch said, suddenly struck by how easy it was to open up to this man who was virtually a stranger.
Maybe it was the scotch loosening his tongue.
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Date: 2014-09-30 03:54 am (UTC)He thought of how Hannibal thought of him as a therapist at times. Maybe there was some truth to that.
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Date: 2014-09-30 05:18 pm (UTC)"I try," he replied, though the truth of it was that he shot a lot of people and only haphazardly held his team together...or had, until it had all unraveled a bit.
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Date: 2014-09-30 05:38 pm (UTC)"Do you have any kids?" he asked.
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Date: 2014-09-30 06:06 pm (UTC)"I have a son. He lives with his mother," Hotch said. "His name is Jack."
He didn't say they were divorced, but with one subtle sentence he knew he'd revealed quite a lot. His mother instead of my wife. The implication they were still in America rather than here in the city with him...
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Date: 2014-09-30 06:25 pm (UTC)"Sometimes I wonder what it might to have a child," he said after a moment, though it was just a statement of fact, not something wistful or heavy.
... though he didn't mean it in quite the same way. He was referring, instead, to the fact that he'd never turned another vampire. He had no progeny.
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Date: 2014-09-30 10:29 pm (UTC)"Mine's only four so...sleepless. And always sick," he said, chuckling fondly.
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Date: 2014-10-01 12:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-10-01 12:59 am (UTC)"Something like that," Hotch said softly, turning to his drink to wash away the sting of the memories of Jack. Haley was wonderful and Skype was a blessing, but the time difference made things difficult.
"You've got plenty of time to start a family, I'm sure. If that was ever the direction you saw your life going."
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Date: 2014-10-01 01:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-10-01 01:26 am (UTC)Hotch accepted that with a nod. Frankly he'd never given much thought to the realities of having children for other people. He was just aware of how long they'd tried for Jack. Surely other people had a much easier time with building families.
"Am I keeping you from work?" he asked then. "I don't want to distract you from your night."
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Date: 2014-10-01 01:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-10-01 01:43 am (UTC)"It's a waste of a nice dress," he said politely.
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Date: 2014-10-01 01:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-10-01 02:21 am (UTC)"You do your own sewing?" he asked, clearly surprised by that revelation.
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Date: 2014-10-01 02:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-10-01 02:27 am (UTC)Hotch gave him a critical looking over, then shrugged.
"Women's clothes are a mystery to me," he admitted.
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Date: 2014-10-01 02:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-10-01 03:00 am (UTC)"I never thought of anything like this like art, but I imagine it is, isn't it? You're clearly talented," he replied.
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Date: 2014-10-01 03:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-10-01 03:39 am (UTC)"Is that what it is? Mystique?" he asked. "All right, then. I won't ask."
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Date: 2014-10-02 12:15 am (UTC)Most people would be polite enough not to ask something like 'so where's your dick?' anyway, though there was more to the mystique than that: how did his face look softer with makeup, and how did he have a waist?
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Date: 2014-10-02 02:35 am (UTC)"Do you do anything other than run the bar and perform?" he asked.
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Date: 2014-10-02 02:48 am (UTC)"There are only so many hours in the day, honey," Kersen said instead, smiling at him. "What do you do when you're not working?"
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Date: 2014-10-02 02:54 am (UTC)"I like to run," he said. "I Virginia I ran 5K's and I was considering doing an Ironman. Here...I just jog."
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