Discs.: I don't own Criminal Minds or its characters...

A/N: Here is the first chapter of my newest fanfic. It has nothing to do with the episode "The Boogeyman" (well, it was inspired by the episode, but it is not directly related to it) even if the storyline of later chapters is going to remind you quite a lot of "The Boogeyman". This takes place at the and of "Aftermath", so there are spoilers for all episodes up to "Aftermath"...Another thing is that the first few chapters are going to be kinda weird. One of the reasons is that I'm going to combine the original storyline with another fic I have planned. Furthermore this fanfiction is including an Elle/Hotch pairing - and like my other Criminal Minds story I promise you that this is going to be worth reading even if you don't like the pairing...

Once again I want to thank my beta jadedragon500 for her great work...

The Boogeyman

1.Worried

Hotch was worried after Elle had left the office so he had followed her. He hadn't thought about what could happen…

When Elle confronted William Lee, Hotch waited and watched for a while. He only hoped Elle was not going to do anything stupid.

They started arguing. Hotch got out of his car to prevent the situation from escalating. He heard Lee yelling at Elle and saw him pulling out a knife. Aaron drew his gun and hurried to get to them.

"FBI! Drop the knife Lee!" he yelled.

Lee and Elle turned to him. Suddenly Lee grabbed Elle, pulled her close to him and held the knife close to Elle's throat.

"If you come any closer she's dead! And, well, if youdon't drop yourweapon right now she is also going to die!" Lee smirked.

Hotch thought only for a second, he looked at Elle's face and saw the fear in her eyes, so he surrendered and dropped his gun. He just hoped that he would be able to make Lee give up – without having to use his other gun.

"Why are you doing this? I mean, you could have walked – like you know, we didn't have any hard evidence against you…But now you are going to be arrested for threatening a federal Agent with a deadly weapon…At the moment you can still give up and your punishment is going to be not that hard…Are you really willing to have to spend the rest of your life in jail?"

Aaron hoped Lee would be clever enough to realize that he had no chance, that it would be better for him to give up now…

"Shut the fuck up – or you are going to regret it! By the way, why shouldn't I kill you both – that way I would be able to walk! There are going to be no witnesses and then I can move away and continue with what I'm doing…" Lee smirked.

Hotch was getting angry, who the hell did Lee think he was? He looked at Elle and realized that he had to do something – he couldn't stand seeing her scared like this…He still felt so guilty for what he had let happen to her nearly a half year ago. He realized that he was willing to do everything to protect her.

"Are you really stupid enough to kill two federal Agents in public?"

"I'm not so sure about me being the stupid one here…" Lee looked at Hotch without any emotion on his face. Then he focused his attention for a while on Elle and Hotch saw his chance.

He got down to the ground and pulled out his second gun from his ankle. He focused like he once taught Reid on Lee's front side and before Lee had time to react he pulled the trigger. Lee fell to the ground pulling Elle down with him. Still pointing his gun at Lee, Hotch got to them and helped Elle up.

After he had cuffed Lee, who had a not life threatening wound to his right shoulder, he called an ambulance and the police. Then he asked worried : "You okay?"

He looked at Elle, trying to read what was going on in her mind. She returned his look and finally answered : "Yeah, I guess. Thanks for…" she gave him a small smile.

"No problem…But don't do something like this ever again!" He gave her a glance that made perfectly clear that he wasn't going to tolerate behavior like this. But it was also obvious how glad he was that she was alright.

"Do you think we are now going to be able to press charges against him for the raping case?" Elle asked all of a sudden.

Hotch smiled for a moment then he replied : "Well, he has confessed it to us…But he will also go to jail for threatening two federal Agents…"

Elle's smile widened. A moment later they heard the sirens of the ambulance and the police cars. A black SUV pulled up and their colleagues hurried to get to them.

"What happened?" Gideon asked as soon as he was standing next to them.

"Elle has confronted Lee, he threatened her and I decided to do something before Lee could do anything stupid. The whole situation escalated and I shot him…But this incident also has its positive aspects – Lee has confessed that he has raped those women."

"That is good news."

Later that evening, at the hotel :

Elle wanted to get ready for bed, when she heard a soft knock on her door. She got up to open it, wondering if it was Reid again. When she opened it she was surprised to see Hotch standing in front of her. She looked at him, his suit jacket was long gone, his tie loosened, his shirt rumpled and his hair was tousled. She had never ever seen him like this before. Nonetheless she let him in after a moment.

"You want a drink?" She smiled at him.

He nodded and she opened the mini fridge and took two little bottles out. She handed him one of them and looked at him, expecting him to tell her why he had come to her room. He opened his mouth to say something but was kept from talking when his cellphone started ringing. Elle got up and went to the bathroom while Hotch answered the call.

When Elle reentered the room Hotch had gotten up from the armchair he had been sitting on before. He walked up to her until he stood directly in front of her. Before she was able to say or ask anything he pinned her roughly against the wall.

Elle looked up at his face. He had an unreadable expression on his face but before she was able to react he kissed her hard. After a short moment of surprise Elle responded to his kiss, which turned more passionate by the second. She tugged on his shirt as impatient as always. His hands were wound in her hair as he deepened the kiss further. A moment later they started to undress each other.

When they laid down on the bed they started to explore each other, but nothing of it was tender – on the contrary it was nothing else than rough and frantic sex that they had…

A few hours later :

When he laid down next to her and they were trying to regain control over their breathing he realized what he had just done.

"Listen Elle, I didn't want to…" he started.

Elle turned towards him and gave him a soft smile before she said in a low voice : "I know." Then she leaned and gave him a soft kiss on his lips. He pulled her closer, knowing she wasn't going to ask him questions. He couldn't even answer them for himself.

Tbc

A/N: Thanks for reading, I hope you liked it...However, please let me know your opinion.I guess I will update sometime in the next days - but I'm not sure...