Subject: CM Fiction Grade level: 6-8

"They didn't find the trace, didn't they?" Hotch looked at Rossi, asked, " No, they checked everything, questioned everyone, the flower shop, the delivery service, all lead to the dead end, nobody recalled having seen him before."

"It's not a surprise, he sent the flowers and card not for making our job easier, he wants to tell me that he knows everything about me, everything about my life, and I do not know so much about him, and we can not track him down even with so much fingerprint he left behind."

Rossi stood in front of Hotch''s bed, "He planned all these, one episode after another, he can monitor from distance to continue his psychological torture on you, and he wants eventually see you falling apart at the end."

"I know." Hotch said calmly,

"What else do you know?" Rossi stared at Hotch,

"What do you mean? Dave."

"Would you guys mind to take a cup of coffee outside, and let us to stay alone for a moment?" Rossi turned around, looked at the other agents,

"Of course, of course." Prentiss and Morgan exchanged glances,

Reid looked like a little bit confused,

"Spence, take you crutches, I will buy you a coffee." JJ said to Reid, she didn't understand why sometimes the genius was quite slow than normal people.

Rossi opened up till all of them left the room,

"Don't you think that we should know more details?"

"What details? I don't understand."

"Aaron, I know physically you are in pain, "

" I'm fine."

"I know, Haley and Jack have been taken away from you , that breaks you heart, but I hate to say this, besides all these, is there anything else bothers you?"

"Dave, please, profile me is the last thing I need now."

"I know Aaron, but what is it? You are holding something, I can tell, is it about Foyet's attack, because till now, we didn't hear any detail from you. And you told the local police and the other agents that you did not remember what have been exactly happened during that attack."

Hotch lowed down his look, "Yeah, I can not recall everything after he stabbed me."

Rossi approached to Hotch,

" Aaron, I need you to talk to me,"

"About what?"

"From your medical record, we know what he did to you, but we don't know what he exactly said to you during the torture session? I understand what you have borne and what you are going through, but I don't think I have to remind you, the FBI senior agent, the BAU unit chief, as a victim, you do have the obligation to provide all the details of the attack to help catch the unsub. You have to talk." "

Hotch kept silence for a long moment.

"Come on Aaron, you have to talk."

Hotch cleaned his throat, " He said he would not finish with me quickly, he would like to have more fun. He profiled me, I had to say some of his profile has certain accuracy. "

"That's mind game. AAron."

"I know. But the truth is the truth. The truth can hurt and humiliate, but they are still the truth, even the truth was told by the evil, came out from an evil's mouth. Even sometime, you try to ignore it and deny it"

"You know, Dave, he told me that I became me of today because of my father, I did not want to follow my father's step, I wanted to over him, so I choose to pursuit the objective seemed to me more noble than my father's achievement. But at matter of fact, it was my ambition, my desire for the power which drive me into the obsession for the chase, and which lead me to repeat my father's mistake, and became more failure than my father as a husband, loss Haley, and more failure than my father as a father, loss Jack."

"Haley made her choice, and you do not loss Jack."

Hotch smiled with bitterness,

"You know it was Foyet who told me about, about Haley's… He also told me that Jack would forget me very soon."

"He said I wear externally so called solid shell, but the day when the shell was broken, I would never repair it from inside till the outside."

"Don't tell me you will make him satisfied."

Hotch shook his head, and continued,

" I just realized that I fight the devil, but I found on myself some common points with the devil."

"Hold on, Hotch, I think you just found his motive, when he talked about you, it seemed he talked also about part of himself, he probably see the reflection of himself from you. He found, I'm sorry, the similarity of you two, he found on you his match."

"That's important, he is never satisfied with the tortures on his other victims, even with Shaunessey who compromised and took his deal. Aaron, you are not only meaning for him just as another victim of his, it seems that he found you as the one in his life, a perfect rival which he determined to defeat."

"He is invincible." Hotch's eyes were shinning as usual,

"We will defeat him." Rossi said.

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