Sorry for the delay- blame moving back in and school.
Ok, yeah, I definitely see Hotch crashing at Gideon's place when he and Haley split. Y'know, they met through the justice system (or, rather, "justice" system), became friends, and who is going to deny their friend a couch when they're going through a divorce? And it just so happened to work out. I can see them getting really smashed one night after a case/court thing goes really bad, and they start waxing poetic (or as poetic as drunks can get) about children, and how much they like kids, and how much the foster system sucks, and it just evolves into, "let's be heterosexual-life-partners-and-parents."
Ooo, yeah! Gideon is a profiler until they get the first foster kid and then, so he can be home more often, he switches to being a professor and consultant from time to time. Because the cases were getting to him ANYWAY, he was losing objectivity, so why not pull out a little early? That way, when he eventually leaves, it still makes sense. Maybe he consulted on a really bad case? Or- OMG, what if he consulted on the Frank cases, and instead of going after Sarah, Frank goes after Gideon's family?
(I did mention that I think some things in canon should transfer over into AU world- more on that later.)
Hmm. When did the kids come... well, they probably got whoever is the most well-adjusted first, at a fairly young age. And then the others came in sporadically. Who's the most well-adjusted? JJ? Then Jack would probably be around the same age as JJ, if only because I can imagine Hotch wanting a kid that sort of paralleled the one he can't see as often. What are your thoughts on the ordering?
Calling for Mom- either JJ or Reid, since they're the youngest and the most likely to bring in Mom to settle the fights.
(I have plowed through season 3 and am working on season 4 right now. Mum skipped the back portion of season 2, after Revelations, and the first two eps of season 3.)
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Ok, yeah, I definitely see Hotch crashing at Gideon's place when he and Haley split. Y'know, they met through the justice system (or, rather, "justice" system), became friends, and who is going to deny their friend a couch when they're going through a divorce? And it just so happened to work out. I can see them getting really smashed one night after a case/court thing goes really bad, and they start waxing poetic (or as poetic as drunks can get) about children, and how much they like kids, and how much the foster system sucks, and it just evolves into, "let's be heterosexual-life-partners-and-parents."
Ooo, yeah! Gideon is a profiler until they get the first foster kid and then, so he can be home more often, he switches to being a professor and consultant from time to time. Because the cases were getting to him ANYWAY, he was losing objectivity, so why not pull out a little early? That way, when he eventually leaves, it still makes sense. Maybe he consulted on a really bad case? Or- OMG, what if he consulted on the Frank cases, and instead of going after Sarah, Frank goes after Gideon's family?
(I did mention that I think some things in canon should transfer over into AU world- more on that later.)
Hmm. When did the kids come... well, they probably got whoever is the most well-adjusted first, at a fairly young age. And then the others came in sporadically. Who's the most well-adjusted? JJ? Then Jack would probably be around the same age as JJ, if only because I can imagine Hotch wanting a kid that sort of paralleled the one he can't see as often. What are your thoughts on the ordering?
Calling for Mom- either JJ or Reid, since they're the youngest and the most likely to bring in Mom to settle the fights.
(I have plowed through season 3 and am working on season 4 right now. Mum skipped the back portion of season 2, after Revelations, and the first two eps of season 3.)