My Heart Is In Your Teeth
Summary: Coda to 04x02 - The Angel Maker // Morgan drives Hotch home from Ohio...unsurprisingly, they stretch it out a little.
Warnings: vomit (brief, due to carsickness) and sex (not smut, but still obvious)
** 18+ recommended (Probably unnecessary but being cautious.)
Notes: Written as a gift for the AO3 Bulletproof exchange using the freeform tags: Adaptive sex due to injury or disability/figuring out how to get a partner off in different ways and Character adapts to serious permanent injury (in this case, hearing loss after the NYC car bomb)
“Well, sleeping beauty,” Derek began as he arched his back, his breastbone pressing up against the steering wheel so hard he depressed the horn. They both jumped a little in their seats, an involuntary movement. He played it off like it didn't happen of course; of all the stupid things to do while your partner is recovering from an ear injury, honking the car horn is probably at the top of the list but it didn't seem to faze Aaron so he let it go. “We're in some nowhere town about an hour past Pittsburgh and I'm beat. I need to eat something.”
“Derek.” He said it like there was something important meant to follow it, but honestly, he felt sick, and he was tired. He wouldn't mind taking a break from the motion of the vehicle. “Okay.”
Stretching his limbs, rolling his ankles, he groaned at how old and useless he suddenly felt. He walked like Frankenstein's monster, his back ramrod straight, his injured leg bucking out from under him each time he put weight on it. Everything had frozen up in the car, he felt like the Tin Man, if only it were so simple as to obtain an oil can for his locked-up joints. He was barely on the planet, so focused only on moving his weary bones from the car and into the diner that he didn't notice the sound of a vehicle coming up behind him.
“Earth to Hotch,” Derek said, waving his hand in front of Aaron's face before tugging him out of the way like a parent might a child. Aaron glanced sheepishly at the car as it slid past them, wondering at how he hadn't heard it. He still didn't hear it, not above any of the other strange static floating through his head. There was either no noise or too much, he couldn't seem to keep track of when the fluctuations happened or why. “You doin' alright man?”