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A/N: I hope you will like this! There are spoilers for episode 8 of season one "Natural Born killer"
Dangerous situations
3.A tough case
After they brought Vincent away he sighed heavily. The memories were threatening to come back. He went to the restroom, feeling like he would start to vomit any moment. When he came back he went straight to his office and tried to focus on his paperwork.
One and an half hour later :
He had just finished his paperwork when someone knocked on his door. When it was opened, he wasn´t surprised by seeing that it was Elle. He had started to become used to the fact that she was spending most of her evenings in the office, often ´til the early morning hours, doing paperwork, often even the one of the other – mostly Morgan´s. He thought a moment then he asked : "Would you like to grab a drink?" She looked at him, totally surprised, but one look at him was enough for her to realise that he needed some company so she smiled and answered : "Why not?!" So they left the office together once again.
During the ride Hotch was lost in his thoughts, not noticing that Elle was watching him wondering whst was going on in his head. He was totally exhausted by the fact that Jack was crying and screaming nearly the whole night, letting him not sleep a single moment. He of course loved his little, newborn son but he also needed his sleep…
When they arrived they took the same seats, where they had been sitting also a few weeks ago. They ordered and after they received their drinks, they started talking about the case they just had finished. "How are you feeling?" "Better, but I can still feel the wire on my throat…" They were silent for a moment. Elle looked worried at him then she asked : "Why did you actually wanted to grab a drink with me instead of heading home – to see Haley and your son?" "Well, I think Jack is asleep and Haley, I don´t know…I don´t want to worry her and I need a bit of time outside the office, but I also need a bit time for me –without a baby that screams nearly twenty hours a day," he smirked exhausted before going on, "I mean I love him very much but, after a case like the one we had today I need a moment without him crying. To get the energy I´m going to need the next day, to calm down and to figure out what I´m supposed to tell Haley when she asks how my day was…" Her expression changed to a sad one when she saw the exhaustion and sadness on his face and automatically she searched for a way to make him feel better. But she found none. What could she say to make him smile again? "I can understand what you mean. You don´t want her to worry about you too much…And that´s right, I mean that you want to protect her from the horror we are seeing nearly everyday during work, you don´t want her to be afraid that something could happen to you. That just shows how much she is meaning to you!" He gave her thankful smile. Elle smiled back she was happy about having been able to light up his mood a bit. They started to talk about other things, cases with happier endings, about cases they had worked on before she had become a member of his team, they even talked about what had happened in Boston. It was getting slowly later and Hotch´s mood was getting better and better with the time. So when they parted hours later Elle was sure he was okay when she waved goodbye to him from her frontdoor and went into her house.
At Hotch´s place :
When he opened the door he was trying to be as quiet as possible, unsure if Haley was asleep or not. In case she was sleeping he didn´t wanted to wake her up from her well deserved and most of all very rare sleep. The moment he entered the living-room his wife got up from the couch and met him half way. He was starting to feel guilty, so he said : "Sorry, if I have woken you." "I haven´t slept. I was waiting for you." "Sorry I should have called to let you know it would get late, sorry. How is Jack? Was he today more quiet than the days before?" He knew about the horrible headaches of Haley. And this combined with the lack of sleep and the crying and screaming of Jack they had started to increase. She smiled at her loved husband : "It´s okay. Jack is fine and today he was really a sweet and lovely child and slept most of the time. Aaron do not worry so much, okay!?" He nodded and gave her a tender kiss. When they had went to their bedroom and starting to dress in their pyjamas she saw the still present marks on Aaron´s throat, which had been left by the wire of Vincent Perrota. "Oh my god…What happened?" She was standing right in front of him letting her fingertips trailing over the mark on her husband´s throat and was looking at him sadly. "Our unsub has tried to kill me. But I´m okay he is on his way to prison and I´m here with you!" They smiled at each other and laid down on their bed. He gave her a kiss, pulled her into his arms and they fall asleep.
Tbc
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