Chapter Nine
Garcia was typing away on her keyboard, searching databases and looking through files of men who fit the profile and lived in the vicinity Jefferson. She got five more hits and starting to print out the information for each. As the printer did its job, Garcia scanned the files. Starting the second one, she was taken aback by what she saw.
"Oh my god." Garcia jumped up from her chair, grabbed the print out in question and rushed to find Hotchner. She found him talking with Chief Malloy. Approaching the two men she caught Hotch's eye. He turned to her and she handed the papers to him saying, "Sir you need to see this."
Hotchner scanned the papers quickly before looking up at her abruptly asking, "Where is everyone?"
"Everyone but Montgomery is waiting for you in the conference room for the meeting."
"Where's Montgomery?" Before Garcia could answer that she didn't know, Officer Stevens, who was sitting at a desk near them, answered, "Uh, Sir, Dr. Montgomery went on a call with Deputy Kane."
Grim faced, Hotch turned to Chief Malloy and asked him to accompany him to the conference room.
Hotch didn't waste any time filling the team in on the information that Garcia had found.
"So our guy is Kane." Morgan said shaking his head, upset not to have figured it out sooner.
"I find it hard to believe that it could be Kane. I thought of him as a son." Chief Malloy said.
Looking concerned Prentiss asked about Montgomery,
"What are we going to do about Montgomery? She's with Kane and we don't know if he is still stable."
"We'll do our usual. Montgomery knows how to handle herself if he does get unstable. He most likely hasn't reached his breaking point. After all he doesn't know what we found on him.
"Hotch I think that Montgomery may have connected Kane before she left." Morgan spoke up.
"What do you mean?"
Morgan filled everyone in on Montgomery's response earlier to the interrogation and her distant attitude before she left, supposedly for a breather. Hotch listened and he settled on what was to be done.
"If she knows then he may have sensed it. We need to get to them ASAP." They all dispersed to their vehicles and made their way to where Kane had been called to.
"I thought that the store was down that way." Montgomery said as she noticed that Kane had just driven by the turn. He didn't respond, just kept looking at the road. Montgomery looked over at him and noticed that he held onto the wheel tight enough to make his knuckles white. Tension was radiating from him and she was starting to feel nervous. Sensing her look, he glanced over and she could see in his eyes that the playful flirtatiousness was gone and replaced with rage. Trying not to show her nervousness, she swallowed slightly before asking, "What's wrong?"
"Don't pretend that you don't know."
"What are you talking about? Know what?" She knew that she had to play innocent, at least for the time being.
He spat out her name in anger, "Rebecca don't play with me. It's insulting. I know that you know."
Still feigning innocence she shook her head and started to protest once again, "I don't…" Before she could finish, Kane reached out and struck her so hard that her head smashed into the passenger window, cracking the glass and knocking her out.
Kane drove to the parking lot of a store that had been closed for some time and stopped the car. Getting out quickly he looked around to see if there was anyone about. Seeing no other sign of life, he made his way to the other side of the car. Opening the door he caught Montgomery as she started to fall out. Swearing he looked down at the blood that had spilled from the gash on her head onto his uniform. Hoisting her up into his arms and trying to avoid more blood, he carried her to the back of his car and opened the hatch. Dropping her inside her he covered her with the blanket he kept there. Then moving to the backseat he took off his shirt and put on one of the ones he had in the box of clothes. He hid the blood covered one under the drivers seat before getting in and making his way out town.