emotional infidelity cheater aaron hotchner who refuses to make a move on spencer reid but can't ever get over him and thus cant ever give himself in any relationship. when his new gfs come to the bau to drop off lunch or meet him for his date and he walks off hand-in-hand with her, he looks back just to see reid looking back at him. reid who hasn't dated in a while because he knows. he's waiting. even if hotch doesn't catch on, he won't say a thing. because one of these days the dam is gonna break and it will be glorious. because no matter many times hotch swears up and down he loves his current relationship, he cant ever get away from the sound of the man that loves him. it haunts him even during witness protection, during reid's prison arc. and when they come back to each other, torn and worse for wear, when hotch finally gives in after leading on countless women, reid is going to savor it.
