Disclaimer: Don't own… you know they say good things come to those who wait, well it's been six years and I am still waiting damn it ! (Don't want to own the ones with Elle in them … sorry no offense to the people that like her. I don't dislike her but I love Emily)

Summary: Will one selfless act bring two people together or will it all be too much for one of them to handle?

One Second Can Chang Everything

Chapter 1

SSAIC Aaron Hotchner and SSA Emily Prentiss moved their way along the edge of the roof looking for Shelby Ryan, the UNSUB who had been one step ahead of them for the past two weeks. In that time he had raped and murdered another four women bringing the total dead to fifteen. Fifteen senseless deaths that could have been avoided if the NYPD and the DA's office had been able to make the charges stick and not had to release him on a technicality.

The NYPD had caught Ryan after he had raped and beat his first victim; she had survived the brutal attack but the hospital had messed up the chain of command with the rape kit which made it inadmissible, throwing the whole case out.

Shelby Ryan wasted no time till he had moved on to his next victim; who hadn't been so lucky, they found her body in Central Park three days after he had been released from custody. In the four weeks and a half weeks that followed another ten women had been found; all brutally raped and beaten to death, their bodies dumped in Central Park. That's when the Police Chief decided to call in the FBI; the BAU to exact, but it was all too little too late because Ryan was on the run around the city and always one step ahead of them all.

At least that was the case till Hotch and his team had gotten a tip off of his location. Now they had him cornered on the roof of the abandoned apartment building he had been hiding out in.

Hotch and Emily moved cautiously around the roof, knowing Ryan was up here somewhere. Hotch moved ahead of Emily stopping when he heard a sound to the right of them.

"Shelby Ryan, this is SSA Aaron Hotchner with the FBI. I need you to throw out any weapons you have and come out with your hands above your head."

Silence… Hotch took another step when Emily saw Ryan out of the corner of her eye, he raised his gun aiming at Hotch.

"HOTCH!" Emily screamed running towards Hotch shoving him to the ground as the shot rang out.

Hotch heard Emily's second scream as he rolled on the ground; turning to see her holding her side under her arm where she wasn't protected by the Kevlar vest she wore. Blood seeping through her fingers as she looked at him; the power of the impact from the bullet making her lose her footing causing her stumble backwards over the side of the building, falling thirty feet to the roof below screaming for him as she fell.