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“Get in the car,” Hotch ordered when he saw that everyone was there for work.
“Do we have a new case?” Emily said grabbing her go-bag.
“You don’t need that.”
The BAU followed Hotch to the elevator. Making a detour to grab Garcia from her room.
“Hotch what’s the case?” Morgan asked, growing more annoyed that Hotch is taking them to a case without telling them even the basics.
“I’ll tell you when we’re there,” Hotch kept up his poker face as they got into the car. The rest of the team filling in the rest of the seats. There were a few grumbles about being so cramped together. But Hotch knew that if he has split them the other half would have turned away when they saw where they were going. When they were getting close Hotch decided that it was a safe enough bet to tell them, “So as I’m sure your all aware, Strauss requires every team to go through a day of team building.”
“Hotch. Do we really have to do this?” JJ asked from next to Emily, “I mean we spend basically every day together.”
“I have to agree Aaron.” Rossi looked at Hotch from the passenger seat, “Also is this why you told me not to wear my good boots?”
“I don’t make the rules. And yes. We live together and I was not in the mood for the aftermath.”
“Aftermath of what?” Emily asked right as they pulled into the parking lot.
“Quantico Ropes course,” Hotch killed the car and looked at the team, “welcome to this year’s team building.”
“A ropes course??” Garcia looked up from the back where she was squished between Derek and Spencer.
“They have uniforms for us, including sneakers.” Hotch unclicked his seat belt and opened his door.
“I’m sorry they just have uniforms?” Emily asked following Hotch out the door.
“Most of the teams have to be tricked into coming here.”
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After all of them got changed into their provided clothes they went to the harness area and got all the safety gear that they would need for today. The team was still a bit cold to Hotch for tricking them into going to a team-building day when they could be busting a bad guy.
“Aaron,” Rossi started, “I love you, you know that. I mean you are the only person that I was sober when I married them.”
“Dave. That’s not getting you out of this,” Hotch moved Rossi towards the first obstacle which was a simple rope bridge that gradually sloped upwards to the start of the actual course. Rossi grumbled but walked off.
The team got onto the starting platform and looked at the course before them. It was very big, it’d probably take hours to get to the top. Hotch is smiling to himself, it’ll be a miracle if they get all the way up without something happening.