Chapter 7.
After the Police Officers and the Agents got back to the Police Department, Hotch and Blake worked with the Forensic scientists to get any finger prints for any evidence on the note. Spencer, JJ and Morgan were going door to door to ask them questions or any information about if they know anyone who had a history of molestation and abuse. Dani and David were down at the autopsy, looking into the folder with the reports of the murders. She was still shocked at what she had read, but she composed herself in a way. "The stabbings on the victim's sides are wide enough to be from a kitchen knife. It looks like that Miss Knight here was stabbed 5 to 10 times and it killed her almost immediately when she was stabbed." The Medical Examiner told Rossi and Dani.
Danielle looked up at the doctor from reading the reports. She knew what she was going to ask him. "Now what about the state of the burns on her bare back there, Doctor?" She asked him. Rossi walked over to her and looked over her shoulder to read some of the reports about the victim. He then gazed at Dani before he placed his hand on her lower back. The Medical Examiner told the 2 Agents that cigarette burns were looking like second degree burns on the victim's back. They spoke some more before they walked back to the conference room to meet the others.
Down in the Forensic's lab, Hotch had the 1 of the Forensic scientists to do a fingerprint and blood sample. If that blood belonged to Danielle's family relative, Dani may be in danger that she maybe the next victim and that can't be good. Neither Hotch and Rossi would never let that happen. They were 1 step away to get the 2 Unsubs for the murders of the women, who look like Danielle Prentiss.
Later on that day, Hotch called Ted, Emily and Eric about what was going on. Danielle sat down onto a couch in another room with blinds down and she had her cell phone in her hand. She wanted to know who would call her first. David Rossi opened the door to see Dani worried. He knew that look on her face. Walked over to her and he sat down right next to her. The minute Rossi sat beside her, Danielle leaned onto him and resting her head on his shoulder. It was almost about 6 in the evening. Dani knew that Emily and Eric were asleep in London in which was 5 hours ahead of them from the east coast. Form Oregon to England time span, it took 8 hours ahead of then from the wast coast. David wrapped his arm around her waist and his other hand reached up to her cheek as he turned her head towards him to look at him straight in the eyes. "Everything is going to be alright, my bella, amore." He told her gently as he pulled her in closer to him. Danielle loved the feeling of his body heat radiating from him to keep her warm, especially to help her calm herself down.
She nodded in agreement, but she didn't trust her voice with a shaky breath at first as she wrapped her arms around him. Then, the phone rang and she recognized the phone number. It was her father, Ted. Dani answered by the third ring. "Hey, Dad." She said softly with a bit of worry in her voice on 1 end of her cell phone. Good thing that she was on speaker phone to talk to her father.
David knew her father for years. They worked on a case before of a murder in the DC area where the Unsub was targeting prostitutes and they got the guy. Rossi listened in with Dani as they talked. "Hey ,sweetie. Hotch called me up and told me of what was going on. Are you okay on the case that you're doing?" Ted knew that there was something going on in Portland that he needed to know about. Ted also knew that Ellen was not being herself personality before and after she moved out of Quantico over to Oregon with Roy just before the killings started, but Ted never knew that she had a son named Josh.
Danielle chuckled at this. She knew that her father was always worry about her, but she knew that he was serious about it. Rossi sat beside her and he was still holding her close. She sighed. "Dad, I'm doing okay. Well so far anyway." Dani said over the phone. "We found a note that has my name on it. It's in the Forensics lab right now. And the note said, 'Watch yourself, Agent D. Prentiss, or I will kill again.' Someone out there must have watched the news and knows me when he or she saw me on there. And there was blood on it, so the Forensics are almost done with the samples." She told Ted. "And there are 2 Unsubs that are doing the murders of the women who looks like me." She added. David tightened his arm around her in response to help her calm down. Danielle was scared, but she never showed it on the outside, but on the inside, she was scared out of her wits that could be a target for the 2 Unsubs to come after her.
Ted sighed deeply. "Oh boy, I knew what this is what I'm afraid of, Dani." He paused a second. "I'll have to have Hotch call Miss Garcia for Ellen's records. And you need to come home to be safe from the 2 Unsubs, who may come after you. I already told Aaron over the phone about it and he agrees that you do what he tells you to. I don't want anything bad happen to you. You are the only daughter that I got." Her father said with determination and some emotion in his voice. There was something brewing there in Oregon and he knew it. And he was right that something may happen with Agent Danielle Prentiss and he won't let anything happen to his little girl. Ted may never know what Ellen maybe capable of doing now since she moved to Portland, Oregon with Roy. God knows what would happen then.
Danielle was about to protest, but David held up his hand. She wanted to get the 2 criminals as much as every single Agent, Detectives and Police officers do. "Now, Danielle, before you protest over this, your father is right about this. He has a very good point about this here." Dani nodded at him in understanding. "I will go with you to your house and stay with you. No matter what happens. I love you with all my heart." Rossi told her softly as he and Dani held each other in their arms. Ted started to know now that Dani and Rossi love each other. David, Danielle and Ted spoke for a good half an hour. Father and daughter said their 'I love you' to each other before Ted hung up the phone for now. And they stood up when Dani placed her cell phone into her pants pocket before they walked out of the conference room hand in hand. "I love you, Danielle Prentiss." Rossi whispered.
She turned to look at him and she gave him a loving smile when she stopped for a moment before they got to the door as she went on her tip toes to kiss his lips to her gently. "I love you too, David Rossi. Come on, we need to talk to Hotch to know what he has to say." She said softly before they completely walked out of the room to go see Aaron either in the conference room or in the Forensics lab about what find about the note. Danielle did not have a choice, but to go home to be safe until the Unsubs are arrested for the murders.
A few hours later, the Forensics found the results of the samples of the note that had the sloppy handwriting and blood that was on the paper. The ballistics came and all of what evidence they had belonged to none other than Ellen Ramsey and Danielle's younger brother, Josh. The Portland Police Department has all the strong evidence against Ellen and Josh Ramsey. Danielle and Rossi walked into the conference room where there was only Hotch, the Detective along with David and Dani. The other Agents were waiting outside of the room to know what was going on. "The results of the DNA came back about the note from the victim's pants pocket." The Detective said before he looked from Hotch towards Danielle and David. Jones looked at Aaron for a moment to know if it was alright to tell Dani and Rossi what the note and the blood belonged to in which Hotch nodded to tell him to continue as he looked at Danielle. Then Jones told them the news. "Agent D. Prentiss, I think you better sit down for this." He told her. Danielle was confused at first when she gave the Detective the look of 'what the hell is going here' look before she and Rossi sat down right next to each other, waiting for the news. Aaron stood by the table with a stoic look on his face, but he was more concerned for her.
The Detective sighed and both Dani and David new that something was up. Jones hated to break the bad news to good Officers, other Detectives and Agents that come from either NCIS and FBI. "Agent D. Prentiss, the DNA results came back and the samples on the note belonged to your mother and your younger brother, Josh." Jones told her and David. Danielle wondered who Josh was. She never knew that she had a younger brother in her life. David Rossi looked at them like, 'what the fuck is this shit?' look on his face as he wrapped his arm around her. On the inside Dani was trembling and stiff at the joints, but on the outside, she was in between stiff and being calm at the same time.
Then an idea from what her father told her from earlier on the phone. Dani took out her call phone and she called Garcia. Danielle had to stay calm at this. Penelope called at the first ring. "Hey there Miss D. Prentiss, cousin of 'the Emily Prentiss." Dani softly chuckled at this. "What can a Goddess do for you, sweetie?" Penelope asked her happily after she saw her ID number from her phone. When Danielle met Garcia, they became friends right away.
Dani took a deep breath when Rossi rubbed her back up and down. Hotch walked and stood near her to make sure that she was alright and he knew that the 2 of then fell in love with each other. Aaron suppressed a smile to that. Danielle was grateful that her good friends were there nearby to help her out. Dani sighed. "Garcia, what can you find in Ellen Prentiss-Ramsey's medical records from the DC area where she is from?" She asked her over on speaker phone.
Penelope's eyebrows rose to her hairline in between interested to look it up for her and concern for her friend. "Danielle, honey, are you sure that you want to know of your mother's records, sweetie pie?" She asked softly. Both Hotch and David nodded at Danielle to tell her that it was alright to go with it. Dani told Penelope that she was positive that she was alright with it and just then, Blake, JJ, Morgan and Spencer and they wanted to know what was happening. "Okay, my super Agents, here are the medical records of Ellen Ramsey. And It said that she killed her father when she was she was a teenager and she was institutionalized for the strange behaviors that was having back and... oh." She said sadly. On the other end of Dani's phone, Jones and the Agents were wondering what Garcia was saying there. Then she continued. "The records said that Ellen was molested since she was a kid by her own father." She said to them on her other end of the phone. Penelope told them more of what had happened to Danielle's mother and she told them that Ellen and Josh are the Unsubs.
At this point Dani was shocked to the core and she never knew of this about her mother from the medical records back when she was a kid, but she was also determined it was that Dani's own Grandfather on her mother's side that was what the cause of Ellen's strange behavior and that was the beginning of the killings. Hotch and Rossi were determined as well with her on this. After they spoke for a good 15 to 20 minutes, they hung up the phones. Ellen's father was her stressor after all that caused of what she was doing all this time. They need to find out and soon, they will get them when they confess to the murders. "Bring them in ,Agents, please. I want to get these guys put away for what they did to these innocent women. And I'll have 3 of my Officers to go with you on this in case anything goes wrong and bring in Roy Ramsey. He needs to know of Mrs. Ramsey, behavior." Jones told them before he left the room to go into his office to think of what their next step into the investigation. Every Agent except David and Danielle, who they had to go on the plane and go back home to Dani's house. For the time being, it was now the safe house for her and David.
Hotch called the pilot and told them that the 2 FBI Agents were going back to Quantico pronto. He also told the pilot about the 2 criminal maybe coming after Dani and Rossi was coming to accompany her going back and stay with her. Aaron also told David and Danielle that they need to go back to the hotel to pack their things and they drive to the airport to meet the jet pilots to go home. So the 2 love birds left to drive to go there and pack their go bags and her laptop to get ready to go home with no interferences along the way what so ever. David and Danielle drove the Chevrolet Suburban to the airport. Dani knew that it was best that she would stay as far away from her mother and her brother as much as possible to stay away. They had been the killers all along. Danielle was still figuring out about Ellen's records. This was very creepy that if your parent was a killer. Ah!.
Meanwhile at the Portland Police Department, some Police Officers, Hotch and his Agents had brought in both the 2 Unsubs, Ellen Ramsey and her son, Josh, who killed innocent women, who looked like Danielle Prentiss. Roy Ramsey sat down in a chair in the conference room with Hotch and JJ. Aaron showed Ramsey the photos of the victims, who were killed during the night. Roy was shocked about this whole situation. Ramsey was beginning to believe that Ellen did the murders. "Whoa, I never knew that my wife would do this." He sighed and JJ and Hotch both nodded. "I mean, from the other night when she told me that she was bringing Josh with her to get some gas at the gas station and she lied to me about it and I fell for it." He sighed deeply in hoping to calm himself down before he looked at the 2 Agents. They spoke some more, Hotch knew not to tell the Ramsey's that Danielle and David were going back to Quantico. He's pretty sure that Ellen and Josh would want to know where her daughter was. And he won't tell them anyway.
In the 2 interrogation rooms, Ellen was in 1 and Josh was in the other. Ellen sat in a chair, waiting for 1 or 2 people from either the FBI or from the Police. Jones walked in and he sat down in front of Josh, who he looked up at the Detective. "Well, if it isn't Detective in front of me." Josh said arrogantly to him. No wonder he gets that kind of personality from his mother. "So, tell me, Detective, I want to know where my sister, Danielle is, so I can talk to her. So, where is she?" He asked him with the glare angry look in his eyes.
Jones gazed down as he shook his head no. "You know that I can't do that. I can't tell where your sister is."He said to him. Just then, 2 Officers walked just in case Josh starts to get impatient. " need to know why you killed those women, who look like your sister." Jones then brought up a paper and pen for his confession to write on.
Josh darkly chuckled at him. "Well, Detective Jones, I'll tell you why I killed those girls was because Mom told me to." Josh now at the moment was beginning to get a little emotional and he gave in. "Mom told me to kill these girls, because they look like my sister, who has brown hair and she also said that women with brown hair are demons." He sighed a bit. I never meant to hurt those girls, Detective. Honestly I never meant to. It was all of Mom's idea to kill the women." Josh confessed, being emotional as he trembled a bit before he sat up straight and he started to pick up the pen and he wrote down the confession. That was more than enough evidence to arrest both Ellen and Josh for the murders.