Thanks for all of you who is reading the story. It feels amazing after the long time without writing finally find a flow for a story. I hope you enjoy the reading as much as I enjoy the writing.
I this chapter Hotch and Katie gets a little bit closer. They are on the right way I think ;-)

I don't own Criminal Minds

The Dead Man

Two days later Rossi called Hotch while he was in the zoo with Jack and Katie. "Aaron, I think you should join us in the office."
For a brief moment Aaron thought about to let Jack and Katie do the tour alone, but he noticed her fearful look when they run into a big group of people. He was sorry that he had to cancel the visit, it was more fun then he had for month.
It took more than forty five minutes through the traffic to get to the FBI-Building. Jack had fallen asleep in his child safety seat.
"You don't have to wake him. I'll stay with him in the car." Katie offered and Aaron smiled thankfully to her.
The whole team was in the conference room when he stepped in.
"You look relaxed." Derek Morgan joked and JJ added: "That unexpected holidays are doing miracles on you, you're not looking tired." Aaron overheard that hint on account of his late nights at work.
"What do you have?"
Garcia pressed the button on the remote control and the dead man they found nearby the park appeared on the screen.
"Vadim Bogdanow, right hand of Michail Petuchow." She started.
"The Russian mafia boss?" Reid interrupted and Blake asked: "What is he in? Drugs, prostitution, murder and nobody can catch him, because he always has people around him, who help him out?"
"Exactly that is Petuchow." Garcia pressed another button and the screen was changing to a picture which showed Bogdanow alive, made by a security camera of a bank opposite the park.
"Vadim Bagdanow was in custody several times, mostly for aggravated assault. He never went to prison." The screen changed again. It showed another picture of the dead man. "The pathology report says that he was strangled and the murder must have known what he or she was doing."
"So it could be done by a woman?" Hotch asked.
"A woman or a small person with small hands." She replied. Then she went on in with the report. "Also the pathologist found female DNA. The guy had sex before he was murdered. And here are the worst news. The DNA matched with the DNA of Katie."
"That means he is the guy who raped and mistreated her." JJ didn't ask a question, it was more formal. They all knew what it meant.
"If she is involved with the Russian mafia, we have to be much more careful." Morgan said.
JJ agreed. "And we definitively can't go on the news as we planned. If she is in trouble, we would hand her to the mafia right away."
"Ok guys that mean we have to find out what Petuchow and Bagdanow were doing for the last several weeks. And if there is any trace to Katie." Hotch ordered the team. Rossi recognized that his voice was tense and he joined his friend. "You like her?" he asked Hotch when the others can't hear him. The look Aaron gave Rossi said everything. "For a long time I see Jack happy like a kid in his age should be. He already loves her."
"The way to the heart of a single father is through the heart of his son." David said, intimate that Hotchs heart was more involved like he would admit right now.
They heard a gasp from the door. There stood Katie, shaking and with panic in her eyes, which lay still on the showing picture of the dead Bagdanow.

Katie couldn't remember how she got back to the apartment. The first thing she recognized was Jack, lying beside her, Teddy Bo in his arms and sleeping like a little angel. She tried to get up, but still felt a little dizzy. A few attempts later she was sure that her legs would finally bring her to the kitchen to drink some water.
It seemed that Aaron had the same idea. "Hey, feeling better?" he asked her with a worried expression on his face.
"The floor is still moving under my feet." She tried to joke.
"I had to call the doctor; he gave you a mild sedative."
Because she couldn't stand still she grabbed the teapot and started to make to tea.
"I was pretty freaking out do I?" The memory of the picture still made her feel weak and her hands started to shiver. Quickly she put water in the pot and put it on the stove.
"Where there any memories coming back in that moment?" Aaron knew that he might be went too far, but he had to know.
"It's not clear. It's like I'm standing before a door, I can hear what's on the other side, but I still can't go in and I'm afraid I get the wrong picture." She tried to explain her feelings.
"When I saw that picture, I knew that I know that man. And I think he did something bad to me." Flashbacks of the rape turned up in her mind.
"He can't harm you anymore." Aaron approached to her. His touch switched her out from the panic attack. With tears in the eyes Katie looked at him. "Why doesn't that make me feel better?"
For the first time since they met she wanted to be hold. He made her feel safe. Without thinking she fled in his arms and he was holding her as long as she needed.