William lent against a kitchen counter with Rossi and Hotch a few feet away, he was obviously uncomfortable with them being there. "I don't know what to tell you" William finally said as he shifted his weight from one foot to the other.
"Start with the day of the abduction; did you see anyone strange hanging around the track or your neighbourhood?" Rossi asked.
"Does Spencer know you're here?"
"No" Hotch replied quickly and glanced over at Rossi and as they shared a mutual look.
"You didn't tell him about Desiree, did you Mr. Reid?" Rossi asked.
"No… I didn't see the point. The police had told us unofficially that the likelihood of her still being alive was extremely unlikely at the one year anniversary… When I found out Diana was pregnant with Spencer I asked again and they told me even if she wasn't dead I'd never see her again… I didn't want to drag Spencer into that" He said quietly as he avoided eye contact with the men.
"You didn't see the point in telling Reid he had a sister?" Hotch asked with a hint of anger.
"No, I didn't. I was- am his father and It was my choice to make" William said indignantly.
"What about your wife" Rossi countered as he too became emotionally involved. Will opened his mouth to reply but sighed and ran a hand through hair eerily like Reid did.
"Why are you so interested in Desiree now, anyway? The world stopped caring about her long ago" William asked, the last sentence secretly full of hurt that the profilers picked up on.
"We think her abduction is linked to other girls going missing" Hotch replied.
"So you'll be able to find her?" William asked with the smallest of smiles on his face. There was a long pause as William's hopeful face slowly faded. "You think she's dead, don't you?" William asked as the same disappoint me and lose descended onto him after the brief hope of finding his daughter had shook it off.
"There's no physical evidence to suggest that… but the profile does imply the abductor no longer has your daughter" Hotch replied quietly, he couldn't help feel sorry for him even after everything he'd done to Reid.
William felt the grief surround and absorb him like it had done when Desiree had first gone missing, he couldn't take this a second time. He took a deep breath as he tried to push the painful memories out of his head and pleaded with the agents "I just want my little girl back"