Hello guys! Thanks for the reviews, I'm glad you like the story. Here is the next chapter. We are near to the end I think.
San Diego and Miami
Two days later the team split into two groups. Morgan, Blake and Reid flew to Miami to interview Hermandez. The rest were on their way to San Diego to get Rose out.
They had needed a whole day to convince Strauss that they can't do anymore from far away, that they had to go on the spot. And that Aaron wanted to bring Amy with him didn't make it easier. At the end he had also take Jake with him, because his Sister-in-law was sick with a stomach-flu and there was no other babysitter so short-termed.
"Please," Aaron that for the hundreds time to Amy, "stay with Jack in the Hotel. Don't try anything to get to Rose. We will handle everything."
Amy smiled at him. "I will Aaron. You do your job and I take care of Jack."
Rossi sat with JJ behind Aaron, Amy and Jack and whispered to her: "Do you think she'll do that?"
"If it was Henry who went missing, I probably would try to get to him." JJ told him, but then she added: "On the other hand I trust Hotch that he knows what he is doing."
After they landed and settled into the Hotel, Aaron and Rossi started with a talk to the local police about Petuchow. They made it a searching case for Amy, so Aaron hoped that she really didn't leave the room. It would make the police suspicious, when somebody would recognize her at the streets. Because Amy worked for the San Diego Police they were very concerned about her well being and her former superior Detective Miller assured the team all the help they need.
Garcia called from Quantico: "Hey Boss, I found a big, and if I say big, I mean big, money received at the bank account of Hermandez wife."
"How big?" asked Rossi who could hear her on speakers.
"One million dollar."
"And from whom?" wanted Aaron to know. He could hear Garcia typing something in the computer before answering.
"From a company called MicPet, which you can see are the first letters of the name of Michail Petuchow and which are in import and export and they have warehouses at the San Diego Harbor which I'm sending you the address right now."
A beep on their mobiles showed them, that the address has arrived. Rossi looked at it.
"That's where Amy saw the FBI-agents get shot and dumped into the river."
"Thanks Garcia!" Aaron said and hung up.
At the same time the Team in Miami went straight to the apartment house of Hemrandez. As soon as they arrived on the right floor they recognized the smell of decay and death. A neighbor looked out of his door; he looked as sleazy as the whole house.
"Are you finally doing something about this smell?" he asked slurring and Blake saw the bottle of beer in his hand.
With drawn guns they stopped before the door. Morgan knocked three times, than shouted: "FBI, we have a warrant!"
He only waited for thirty seconds before his foot rammed against the door and open it with a loud crash.
They split to search the rooms, but the only thing they found was the dead Rodrigez Hermandez in the bathroom.
Morgan searched the victim for apparent wounds. "Looks like he was strangled."
Reid agreed with him. "The same way Bogdanow died."
When Blake came in Morgan asked: "Any sign of the wife?"
But Blake shook her head. "Nothing. There are no clothes in the cupboard, so I assume she left him."
Morgan called Garcia. "Babygirl, can you find out if the wife of Hermandez filed for divorce?"
"I would if I had that much money."
Because the team in Miami didn't know she filled them in.
"Garcia, does have Hermandez wife any connection to Petuchow?" Reid asked. It needed a few minutes before they became their answer.
"Oh guys, I have no Idea how I could miss this. Benita Hermandez is working for the MicPet company as an office administrator for two and a half years. She had a good income, but get bonus the time Amy was moved in the witness protection program."
"So she used her husband for the information." Reid assumed and Blake added: " He never was that secretive about his work, must be easy for her."
Garcia caught the speaker's eye: "She was world champion in Kickboxing and Taekwando in 2001 and 2002."
"That explains how she overpowerd the bigger men." Reid looked to the dead man on the floor.
At the same time Rose wasn't in her Hotel room anymore. She and Jack wore both a base cap and sunglasses; she made it a game for him. She didn't want to make any trouble; she just wanted to look at her little girl for a moment. It was afternoon and the school was out. Jack and Amy stood behind a corner of house, looking at the children who left the building.