Subject: CM Fiction Grade level: 6-8

He was running in the dark street, then in the woods, gun in his hand, he chasing someone; he heard the gunshot and the explosion. Suddenly Elle came to him, her hand held her chest, there was a gun shot wound, she looked at him, very upset,

" You sent me home, you supposed to watch my back, and you let me hurt."

"Elle, it's not supposed to be happened." But she turned around and vanished.

And then Kate appeared from nowhere, just lied down in front of him, whole body covered by the blood,

"Aaron, I feel cold, is that cliché, I feel cold just like in the cinema."

"Kate, Kate stay with me." He yelled. Then he heard,

"Daddy, help, help me, daddy!" He saw Jack, surrounded by dozen of hug, dirty pigs.

He was crying, his eyes full of fear, "Daddy! Daddy! Help me!"

"Jack! Jack! Hold on there, Daddy's coming. " He shouted, but he could not make a sound. Then he saw Haley running to Jack very slowly like a movie scene, she could not reach Jack, she's crying desperately,

"Jack, Jack, my baby!" She turned around, looked at him, her eyes filled of sadness and desperation, "Aaron, help, why don't you help, save our baby, why you put our baby in danger, he's your only son..." "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry." he cried out.

"Hotch, Hotch."

Hotch woke up. Reid's looked at him, " Hi! Hotch, are you okay?" Reid asked, his eyes showed the concern. He probably screamed in his dream, he found his cheek was wet, he cried in his dream.

"I'm fine." He hated himself to show the vulnerability in front of his subordinate.

"Reid, you shouldn't stay with me here, you should have a rest, you were injured too."

"All because I'm a lousy driver. Don't worry about me, I'm fine too, I just get up from bed. The

doctor passed, he checked on you, said everything will be fine."

"What about your leg? Are you in pain? You will make a full recovery?"

"I hope so, but the doctor told me I would probably walk with the clutch for a while. At least, I 'm a lucky guy, it is my leg, not my head, and my brain is intact."

'What time is it? I mean...how long since...? I'm a little bit lost."

"It's been already 26 hours 40 minutes after you were out of surgery."

"So Jack and Haley, they left ?

"They left yesterday evening with the US Marshall." Hotch nodded.

Hotch looked around the room, tried to catch up the time he lost. The room seemed different with yesterday, something more, some flowers, cards even toys were putting on the small table in the corner.

Reid followed Hotch's look, he knew that Hotch did not feel very comfortable with the people's attention, which dropped down with flowers and cards,

"The nurses brought them here, I assume that these are from the other colleagues of the Bureau, but I do know that Gacia brought you a Teddy Bear." Hotch tried to squeeze a smile.

His attention was drove by a very big basket of white roses, white roses are Haley's favorable flowers, and they were also their wedding flowers. Suddenly he had a stranger feeling

"Reid,"

"Yeah,"

"Could you pass me the card in that basket of white roses?"

"Excuse me?"

"I want to have a look at the card of the white roses, who sent this?"

" I don't know, this morning, when I came into your room, it was already there, wait, I will take the card for you, just one second."

"Sorry," Hotch said, on looking Reid walking with one leg and his crutch,

" It's okay, I got it." Reid picked the card envelop which was put in the middle of the white roses and handed it to Hotch,

Hotch opened the envelop, a white card dropped out,

"Wish you a full recovery!" Only one sentence with an eye of prophet as a bloody signature. Hotch's face turned more pale.

"Reid, ask the nurse who sent it in, and call Rossi."

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