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The Boogeyman

I found the perfect date for Spence and me, or at least I thought I did before this latest case we had. Since asking Spence to the rehearsal dinner was out of the question, and since Halloween is here, I decided to ask him to go with me to a haunted house. They have lots of them set up around DC for charity purposes. So I called him and was careful not to mention why he was upset. I was hoping that he would open up to me on our date. So I asked him if he wanted to go through a haunted house with me. He was silent for so long that I thought we got cut off. Then he said that he would go, but he didn't sound very excited about it. I just thought he was still upset about Elle's shooting and didn't say anything. I just tried to be really excited about it.

I went to the rehearsal dinner for Angie and met her fiancé Curtis. He's really cute and tall with really dark brown hair and eyes that are nearly black. He has a mustache and a cute little goatee. Angie seems to be over the moon. He's not as cute as Spence though. I was careful to tell her and she just rolled her eyes at me. Unfortunately I missed the wedding because we got called to Ozona Texas on a serial killer case.

Elle wasn't in the briefing and she wasn't on the plane with us. Hotch stayed behind too, and Gideon went with us to Texas. So Spence said something about Elle getting cleared and Morgan said that it was self defense. Reid said, "So it was a good shoot?" And I said, "She hit was she was aiming for." and he said, "That's not what I meant." He's so literal all the time. It's annoying and cute at the same time. We were discussing why she wasn't with us and if everything was okay, but Gideon told us to focus on the case.

The victims were kids, two little boys, and then I got another call saying that a little girl had been killed, which completely changed the profile the guys were working on. We got to talking about how kids shouldn't have to be afraid of killers. I said the only thing I was afraid of was the woods. Morgan said he was afraid of the dark as a kid. Spence said. "Some of us still are," so that must be why he's not excited about going to a haunted house, lots of dark places.

Ozona is a little town, and we got the adults and the kids together to teach them how to stay safe, like using the buddy system. All the kids were paired off in groups to walk home from school and we set up a curfew.

A little boy went missing and his brother told us about a house on the hill that was supposed to be haunted. There was supposed to be this old man that would catch, kill and eat kids. They were all terrified of him. So we went searching for him and the kid. We found the old man dead of a heart attack in the woods where he'd been setting traps for wildlife. He'd been dead since before the murders started.

Gideon, Spencer and some of the locals went up to the old man's house and found the boy. He'd been scared by a tree branch and was unhurt. They searched the house with Morgan, and found stuff that belonged to the kids. I guess the real killer was trying to throw us off by leaving the trophies there for us to find.

We were all sitting around drinking coffee the next morning, and we started talking about the stuff we were afraid up as kids. I told the guys this tall tale about a murder when I was a camp counselor. I really had them both going there for awhile. Morgan said "You're serious," and I said, "No, I don't know why I'm afraid of the woods, I just am." You should have seen the look on Reid's face. It was funny. Morgan told me payback is a bitch. I'm not scared of him. Spence said he was afraid of the dark because of the inherent absence of light. What is that supposed to mean? It sounded like a made up excuse to me.

The team found food trays in the old guy's house, brought by the church to the old man. There were finger prints that led us to a counselor at the school. We arrested him, but it turned out that it was his son that was killing the kids. He was angry at his father for paying more attention to other kids after his mother left them. The boy was allergic to milk and that's how we discovered it was him when Spence found and Epee-Pen and a refrigerator full of duct taped dairy products.

We caught the boy chasing his next victim in the woods. She was this cute little girl name Tracey that trusted him because we taught them the buddy system and he offered to walk home with her. He tried to attack her with a baseball bat, but we got there in time. I don't want to think about what might have happened if we hadn't.

Spence and I went to the haunted house tonight, the night before Halloween. Did you know that Halloween is his favorite holiday? There was a huge line out front and we had to wait to get in for about forty five minutes. We talked about a lot of things, mostly about work until the conversation got around to Elle. He told me about going to see her in her hotel room and how he tried to help her. I told him that her leaving the BAU wasn't his fault, but I don't think he believed me. He thinks he should have done more to help her. I can't believe she just went away without saying goodbye to us.

I asked Spence three times in the line, if he really wanted to go into the haunted house. He said that it was good therapy for his phobia. So we went inside and it really wasn't that scary I didn't think, but at least I got to hold his hand the whole time. It was a bit funny because most guys expect the girl to be all freaked out and holding their hand, but it was the opposite for us. Actually, about halfway through he sort of relaxed and I now know everything you ever wanted to know about vampires, and werewolves, and zombies. I also know everything there is to know about xeroderma pigmentosa and lycanthropy, and all about voodoo rituals and about Haitian Culture. I also got a lecture about how vampires couldn't exist in our time, and a bunch of other stuff that I kind of tuned out. It was nice to have him sort of back to his old self, so I didn't mind.

He was really pleased with himself, that he got through the haunted house and even seemed to enjoy it a lot. He went red when he realized after we left that he was still clutching my hand, but I said that it was alright. He kissed me on the cheek when we got back to my house. I was kind of hoping for more than that, but he was really nervous so I didn't complain. Spence is completely excited about Halloween and handing out candy. Sometimes he can act like such a little boy, but it's very cute, so I'm not laughing.

We're going to have an early dinner tomorrow so he doesn't miss the kids. He wants me to come over to his apartment to watch horror movies and hand out candy. I can't believe he asked me over to his place. Sometimes he surprises me. I'm not going to do anything to mess it up. From now on everything is going to be okay. Nothing bad is going to happen to us. I won't let it.