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A/N: I finally finished the new chapter - I hope you will like it...
I want to thank all my readers for their interest - especially those who reviewed...
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The Boogeyman
4. Memories
When they arrived at Seattle the team decided to drive straight to the Seattle Field office. The team split up and drove with two black SUVs to the office.
When they arrived they were informed about some news pertinent to the case. The team at the Seattle Field office had found out that the case could be linked to a case from seven years ago. Before they were able to talk about the old case a phone rang and interrupted the briefing.
A moment later the agent who had answered the call came to them and told them that they just received a tip concerning the hiding place of the unsub. So they got ready to check out the old warehouse the caller had mentioned.
Before they entered the abandoned building Hotch gave instructions to the others : "Reid you're going with Gideon and Agent Morris, Morgan and Elle you are with me. Okay guys, be careful this could be a trap after all…" They nodded and went in.
After a while Morgan said suddenly, "Hotch I think you could be right with what you said about this tip…"
"What do you mean?" Hotch looked at what Morgan was pointing at and nodded before he told the other agents over the radio : "Get out of here, we found a bomb!" And they rushed out.
They got out just in time before the bomb exploded. Hotch looked around to check if all his colleagues had made it. After a relieved sigh he told his team, "That was close…"
Back at the office :
"Morgan, ask Garcia if she can track down where the call came from. Okay, Agent Morris could you please tell us now about the old case?" The agent nodded and started filling the BAU team in about the case from seven years ago.
"Well, seven years ago there had been another series of crimes like this. They were not able to solve the case back then. Other than that there is not much we were able to find out about this case…" He looked at the other agents in the room.
"Thank you. Morgan, 'cause you are already on the line with Garcia, could you ask her to try to find out more about the old case?" Gideon said. Morgan nodded and told Garcia what she should do next.
A while later Garcia called telling them the results of her research.
"Okay guys, this case is really strange…Seven years ago they ran out of leads – I assume you already know that? Well, because of this fact a young agent had to play the decoy – now guess who this agent had been…"
"Garcia we don't have time for games like this…Could you just tell us who it was?!" Morgan replied stressed.
"Fine…It was Elle…" she told the team, "back then she had only started to work with the FBI."
The team was quiet for a while – totally surprised and Garcia went on : "I'm not finished yet. I managed to get access to allfiles and reports of the case…The thing with the decoy didn't work out but they received a tip and planned a cloak-and-dagger operation- a raid during which Elle had been nearly shot – if not for one specific SWAT team member who shot the perp. And this Agent happens to be – Hotch!"
The team was left speechless by those revelations while Elle and Hotch had to deal with the memories of the case from seven years ago, which were now all coming back to their minds.
Flashback, seven years ago :
They had entered the warehouse after they had received their instructions. After a while Hotch and his colleagues split up to be able to scan the area faster.
Quite a few minutes passed without anything happening, and then, after he rounded a corner he saw one of the FBI Agents struggling with a guy. The young woman fell to the ground and the guy pointed his gun at her. Hotch had only seconds to think about what he should do. He only needed merely a second for making a decision – and shot the guy.
After he had checked the perp's vitals he went to the woman and asked : "You okay?"
The woman only nodded.
Later, that same evening :
The team had finished their paperwork and now they were heading out to a bar where they were going to meet the members of the SWAT team to celebrate that they had been able to close the case.
During the evening Elle talked a lot with the guy who had saved her life. When they left the bar hours later it had started to rain so they decided to share a cab.
At Elle's apartment :
They had decided to have a cup coffee with each other to have the chance to continue their conversation. They talked for a while until the alcohol and the stressful events of the day got the better of them. They started kissing and undressed each other while they were going to her bedroom.
He had put off his wedding-band – having decided that this was something between him and this woman and Haley had nothing to do with it…
End flashback
"You had no idea that you have worked with each other before?" Morgan asked surprised and Elle and Hotch were interrupted in their separate trains of thoughts. Gideon, Reid and JJ were looking at them as surprised as Morgan.
Elle only shook her head slowly, overwhelmed by her memories.
"Nope. I mean I worked on so many cases…But wait a sec – The case had been closed back then. The unsub died during the raid – I shot him…"
Tbc
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