Hey everyone! I'm on a roll today! I've written another 2 chapters of this story, I'm just planning to space them out a bit (to keep the suspense up of course hehe), but here's the first of three! I'm really excited for where I'm going to take the story, and I hope you are too! There's a slight language warning in this one, so I'm sorry if any of you get offended by that, it was just so hard to write without getting super passionate and wanting to make the characters equally as passionate!

I've also written chapters for 'Shaken' and 'Trapped Minds', so if you want to, you should totally check them out, I'm gonna upload them a lil later :)

Hotch only had a second to move. He leaped towards Morgan, throwing his full force against him as the agent lunged for Kevin. As he struggled to subdue the agent, Hotch could feel something snap inside him. All he wanted was to see Morgan give Kevin Lynch what he deserved. Over Morgan's shoulder, he could see Garcia – absolutely paralysed in fear. He could've sworn his grip went slack, just for a moment, and then he was struggling against the agent once more. He couldn't give in, no matter how much he hated Kevin Lynch. They would do it right. If he let go of Morgan now, Kevin would walk.

"Let me… Go… Hotch, come on, and let me at that BASTARD. LET ME GO!" Morgan half growled, pushing as hard as he could against his boss. Hotch spoke quickly and quietly, knowing that the stronger agent's force would soon outweigh his own.

"Morgan, you shouldn't do this. I know you want to. Trust me, I know, but you can't. Not if you want her to ever feel safe again. Not if you want him gone for good."

Much to Hotch's relief, he felt the agent relax.

Meanwhile, Rossi, Emily and JJ had joined forces in front of Garcia, shielding her from Kevin. Reid had started forward, possibly to help Hotch with Morgan, possibly to confront the analyst. The young agent was almost shaking with anger at the sight of him, and his hand had moved toward his gun – an instinct that was uncommon for Reid, compared to the rest of the team, as he was always less comfortable than them when drawing his gun. However, Reid would have no objections to pulling his gun out right then and there and shooting the smug bastard right between the eyes.

All of this had happened within the space of a minute, and Kevin stood in the doorway, looking entirely terrified. He threw up his hands, shaking his head slightly.

"Woah, Morgan, buddy, you okay?" he asked, taking a step forward. Morgan gave an animal-like snarl, and Hotch stepped towards him, holding his hand up.

"Back off." He said coldly, glaring directly into the analyst's face. Kevin looked around, still acting confused. Then, as his eyes landed on Garcia, still cowering behind Rossi and the women, his face changed.

It was the most disgusting, contorted expression Hotch had ever seen on the face of another man. His mouth rose in an angry sneer and his jaw became set in a straight line. He shot the shaking Garcia the blackest look a person could give another person, full of threats and promises that Hotch never intended to let him keep. But his eyes were the worst part… they had hardened, in anger, in fear and in defiance. And there was darkness in them… A darkness, which, had Hotch seen it on the face of any regular unsub, would have made sure that anyone who interrogated him went in pairs. This was a darkness which, a week ago, would have been foreign and almost grotesque-looking in the eyes of Kevin Lynch – the dorky technical analyst, who's worst quality had been that he was possibly a little too clingy, but now, Hotch welcomed it. The sick glint in his eyes mirrored the sickly nature of his soul. Hotch only wished he'd been able to see that soul sooner…

Kevin glared at Garcia, whose tears began to flow more freely, at the sight of her ex-boyfriend's evil expression. Rossi had his hand on her shoulder, and his grip was so tight you could almost see his nails digging through her clothes, but she welcomed it. It was a promise – a reassurance, that no matter how close he might seem, there was no way he was getting any closer.

"Hey man," Kevin said, still looking at Morgan, who was breathing slightly more heavily, and attempting to hold himself back, "I don't know what you think is going on but-"

"What I think is going on-" Morgan started, backing up slightly, like a cat getting ready to pounce, "is you… You FUCKING bastard… You had the audacity to lay a hand on the purest, sweetest, most perfect thing that could ever walk into your life… And then you did it more than once. What'd you do Kevin? Did you enjoy it? What, how was she different from the others? Huh? Was she a bit more your type? Did you wanna keep her around? Keep a good thing going? HUH?"

Morgan stepped forward with clenched fists, and Hotch shot him a warning look, while Kevin began to blabber in his defence, watching Garcia the entire time.

"Others? I have no idea what you mean by others. Listen, it was only one time – this one time…"

"Bullshit," Emily spat, from where she stood in front of Garcia, "that's bullshit, Lynch, and you know it."

Kevin turned to her, looking affronted. Then, his face contorted again, and he took a step back.

"Alright, you can all listen to me. God, do you even hear yourselves? How much do you really know about the so-called 'perfect' woman you work with? Because let me tell you, she's not all you think she is. You have no idea what I've had to deal with over the past few months… Jesus, if you'd had to live with her, you'd have hit her too."

"SHUT THE HELL UP." Morgan screamed, unable to conjure up anything more intelligible amidst his cloud of rage. Reid's face went dark, as he took a step towards Kevin.

"You have no idea what you're talking about. Whatever sick delusion you have, it's inside your own head. It's your fault."

"And don't you dare make it seem like it was anyone else's." JJ added, and a poisonous anger filled each one of her words. "Especially not Garcia's. You'd be lucky if you were ever half as good a person as she is. And you fucking know it."

And then, just as Hotch began to hear the ghosts of high-heeled footsteps making their way up the stairs from the bullpen, probably responding to Morgan's loud outburst, Kevin Lynch did the last thing that any of them could have expected. He threw his head back and laughed.

The team stared at the laughing man with complete and utter disgust. He was no longer hiding – here was Kevin Lynch, standing before the team, with all defences, lies and acts aside. And he was laughing about the fact that he'd ruined Garcia's life. And he was in that moment, without a doubt, the worst person any of them had ever encountered.

Hotch nodded to Reid, who was obviously also beginning to notice the signature footsteps that were making a beeline for the round table room. The younger agent needed no more of a prompt, as he ripped his handcuffs from his belt and marched towards the analyst, grabbing him – none too gently – by the arms and locking the cuffs around his wrists.

"Kevin Lynch," Hotch said, revelling in the normally tedious task of reading the bastard his rights, "you're under arrest for assault of a federal employee…" and as many other charges as we can make stick, Hotch thought, but he didn't say it. Because at that moment, FBI Section Chief Erin Strauss burst into the room, hair flying at all angles, and high heels clicking rapidly.

"What the hell is going on here?" She demanded. Her eyes had skimmed around the room upon her entry – from Morgan, clenching and unclenching his fists, to Garcia, still protected by JJ, Emily and David, and finally to Kevin, who was maintaining a slow, haunting laugh as Reid tightened the handcuffs.

"Ma'am," Hotch said slowly, glancing at Garcia and then taking a step forward, "can I speak to you outside?"

"You'd better start explaining quickly, Aaron," she warned, turning and heading for the door again. Hotch followed, turning back for the second time to make sure Garcia was okay. Before the door closed, Hotch looked at Reid, as if to say 'keep him the fuck away from her.' Reid nodded at him, and yanked the man even further toward the corner, and away from the analyst.

When he and Strauss were finally alone, Hotch explained the situation, slowly watching the angry expression on her face turn from one of anger into one of horror – and a different anger entirely.

"Listen, we think we might have a case. I know, you probably think it's our personal attachment but… If it were any other case, a possible live victim would be a major break. And I'm willing to bet that if you set any other team onto this, you're not going to get anything out of Garcia."

Strauss sighed, and Hotch could tell what she was thinking. Sure, Garcia's personal situation was unfathomably horrible, but this was, as it always seemed to be with this team, a bureaucratic nightmare.

"Please, ma'am, all I ask is that you keep us on this case. We'll be able to treat it like any other case, but let us go hard at Kevin Lynch, based on evidence that is right in front of us."

Strauss rubbed the crease between her eyes, sighing heavily.

"Don't make me regret this Aaron."

Hotch almost crumped with relief, before returning to his usual, professional manner, nodding curtly and saying "we won't ma'am."

Half the bureau turned to watch, as Kevin Lynch was marched out of the round table room, and toward an interrogation room. The shocked faces of many of his co-workers reminded Hotch of Lynch's deception. How did he have all of them fooled for so long? How had none of them been able to tell?

That's it for now! But like I said, I have a couple more chapters lined up, and I have a pretty clear vision of where I'm taking this story. So if you're upset about something that has/hasn't happened in this story yet, please let me know in the reviews, as I want it to be as good as possible for you! For example, I know I'm making Garcia into more of a victim than she actually would be, but let's just say it's not gonna stay that way (and also, for those people hoping that Morgan is gonna beat the shit out of Kevin, you're just gonna have to wait and see hehehe)

Anyway, I hope you all enjoyed this chapter as much as I enjoyed writing it, and, as always, please please please review, because I LOVE hearing what you all think! And, while you're waiting for new chapters, I'm gonna remind you once again to check out my other stories, because I'm uploading chapters for both very soon!

(P.S. I had a bit of trouble uploading this chapter because it kept going into some random code, so I hope it's okay now)