Criminal Minds: Haley & Aaron Hotchner - "Let Her Go" (song cover by Tyler Ward & Kurt Schneider)

"Only hate the road when you're missing home..." (Voiceovers are transcribed at the bottom of the description.) ~~~ My first Criminal Minds fanvideo! ;) I've also now included Criminal Minds in a few collab parts & a multi-fandom vid - check out this playlist of mine: • Video I plan to vid this show more in the near future. I have at least 1 general series tribute including all of the characters in mind. It's my newest obsession and I totally adore the whole series. ;) All 9 seasons of it. I love a lot of the characters, although Hotch... and Reid... are my favorites, I think. And I ship both Hotch/Emily Prentiss (Hotchness? Hotchniss? I sort of have come across their ship name, haha, but only like once so I've already forgotten it) and Hotch/Beth. (I think "Botch" is an anti-ship name for them, like "Pucas" for Leyton on One Tree Hill lol, coming from all the anti-Beth people who were too attached to Hotch ending up with Emily? But I don't think they have a positive ship name, and I like Hotch/Beth a lot. And hey, ghost-Haley totally ships Beth/Hotch now haha. And Rossi does too. So there.) I love both ships. I don't really ship Hotch/Haley, but I love Hotch too much to not appreciate the story here. I also shipped Reid/Maeve hard and will likely write a fanfiction story concerning them and some kind of real, unique plot, some point soon. :P
If you love Hotch and this sad storyline of his surrounding Haley, I'd really appreciate it if you could read and review my short fanfiction story I just wrote around this theme, too. Or even better yet, listen to the podfic (audiobook type thing for fanfiction) I made for it, reading aloud my story! archiveofourown... -- or if you'd prefer to just read: www.fanfiction...
or an alternate link to the same thing: archiveofourown...
I plan to post a 4th and final chapter to that fic soon, but I wanted to have finished this fanvideo first so that I could link to it in the author's note for the 4th chapter. Lol. I want people who read it to watch this, and I want those of you watching this to read that. If you're Criminal Minds fans, at least.
Anyway... I was really inspired to make this by seeing this gorgeous The Good Wife video of cardiffgiant02's: Peter/Alicia || only know you love her when you let her go • Peter/Alicia || only k... I loved how it worked so well for that couple that had been married and thought about the divorce Haley & Hotch went through. I also love this version of the song more than the original. Randi's editing is gorgeous and I don't think mine really compares, but I tried my best.
I almost didn't cut down the song, because I know I didn't use every single Hotch/Haley related moment on the series, but I was running out of moments so I decided it'd be better to make it a little too short than try to force using the whole song.
Please leave me a comment, if you watch this video, and let me know what you think! The old vidder saying, "hours to make, seconds to comment" is so true... lol.
Song: Let Her Go
Artist: Tyler Ward & Kurt Schneider (song is originally by Passenger; this is a cover)
Lyrics: www.azlyrics.co...
Voiceovers:
Hotch: So Haley wants me to sign the divorce papers uncontested, so nobody wastes money on lawyers.
Reid: You don't want to?
Hotch: What I want, I'm not gonna get.
Haley's sister, Jessica: We both know you and Haley didn't separate because you stopped loving each other. Your job just got in the way!
Rossi: You used to call Haley ten times a day.
Rossi: Everybody has their breaking point. Your wife reached hers.
Hotch: Haley's left. And I don't know if she's coming back.
Hotch: I know you didn't sign on for this.
Haley: Neither did you.
Hotch: W. S. Gilbert wrote, "It's love that makes the world go round." And if that's true, then the world spun a little faster with Haley in it. And I will make sure that Jack grows up knowing how much I loved her.
Rossi: This job cost him his wife!
Morgan: It cost him that a long time ago.
Haley: Promise me that you will tell him how you used to make me laugh.
Hotch: Hermann Hesse wrote, "Some of us think holding on makes us stronger. But sometimes it is letting go."
Hotch: I miss her, too.
Rossi: I'm pretty sure Haley wouldn't want you to avoid moving on. You deserve to be happy.
Hotch: I know.
Haley: Goodbye, Aaron.
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