Rossi waited quietly in the interrogation room he couldn't get the image of Hotch crying out of his mind. In the ten years he'd worked on and off with the man he'd never seen Aaron fall apart like that, even after Haley he'd kept it together in front of his subordinates. It had taken almost fifteen minutes for Hotch to calm down and to admit to the team that he'd know there victim, Jane.
Nobody on the team blamed him for lying it wasn't unheard of for an agent to be pulled off a case when the higher ups felt it might be too personal. Considering Aarons behavior David was starting to wonder if pulling his friend might not the wiser thing.
The door opened and Reid stepped in "there here" he announced David nodded. The team had split up on arrival visiting crime scenes and victims' families. Hotch had gone to Jane's apartment with the local police and he'd asked Rossi and Reid to interview Abby Edwards parents. He'd told them that'd that he'd known her parents briefly but didn't feel it would be helpful for them to see him. They followed Reid into the room the mother came in first. the first thing Rossi noticed was the way she carried herself easy and confident, like her daughter had on the tape before she'd stepped into the trap in her appartment. The father was another story he looked uncomfortable and a little lost.
David stood up "miss O'Neal And Mr. fincklstein?" he offered them his hand "I'm agent Rossi and this is Doctor Reid" they all sat down as he continued "I know this isn't easy but I need to ask you something's about Abby, now these questions can get a little personal but I need you to be as truthful and forthright as possible –the sooner we can build a profile of your daughter the better a chance we have of bringing her home"
they nodded the father spoke up "call her Dharma" he said "my little girls name is dharma" Reid pulled out a picture of Abby pre drugged this girls name is Dharma?" he asked wondering whether there wasn't some kind of mistake her father snorted "don't play dumb" he said "you feds all know what you did to her, you think you can just erase someone? And we'll all just play along?"
David sat back and glanced at Reid "I don't understand" he admitted the mother sighed "calm down Larry that little boys not even old enough to be a full blown fed they probably keep him out of the loop on purpose" Reid glanced over at Rossi it was his turn to look confused "little boy?" he asked David couldn't help but smile as Reid looked over at Abby "I'm not a little boy I have my PhD's in chemistry mathematics and engineering I have my BA 's in sociology and psychology and I'm an agent in the FBI" he suddenly seemed to remember they were the victims family "I'm thirty" he added awkwardly
Rossi cleared his throat "O.K." he said drawing them back on subject "so you're saying someone erased your daughter and she changed her name?" Abby nodded "they said it was for her safety" Larry shook his head "I knew she shouldn't have married that fed" Abby rolled her eyes "Greg wasn't a fed he was a D.A and none of this was his fault" she looked at Rossi "don't mind Larry he's always been a little parodied about the government" Rossi smiled politely great, one of those "it's alright honestly so far you've both been calmer than I expected" Abby nodded again "this isn't the first time we thought Dharma was in trouble the universe brought her back to us then we have to trust it'll whach over her again" Rossi had to avoid looking at Reid he was sure the young genus was having a difficult time keeping his mouth shut.
Instead Rossi leaned back in his seat "why don't we start at the beginning" he suggested "why exactly did your daughter change her name?" Larry put his hands up "because she married a fed" he said louder and slower than before as though he believed Rossi and Reid hadn't understood him the first time Abby stood up "and pushed aside Larry's statement "when this all started our son in law Greg was working at his father's company. He'd tried his hand at opining his own office as a DA but things just worked out better for everyone once he moved to his father's company although he would take a case on the side every now and then. Well one day about three years into working for his father his friend Pete brought him a case Greg never told me the specifics of any case. But I found out from Dharma that they wanted him to defend a man with strong ties to organized crime that was very clearly guilty.
Dharma always tried to find the good in people but she told me the more Greg had found out about this man the harder it had been to see the good in him eventually Greg refused to take the case the man went to trial and was later executed" Abby frowned I think his name was alpine or something" Rossi raised an eyebrow "Ashford?" he asked she nodded "yes I think so. Anyway he was executed and we thought we'd heard the end of it but then a lot of people started turning up dead who'd been involved in the case. I mean like people you'd think where untouchable prosecutors jurors cops, even some of Ashford's prison guards we thought since Greg had refused to work on the case he and Dharma wouldn't be bothered, but then they started getting threating phone calls and Dharma said she had the feeling someone was watching her"
Abby shook her head "everything got so confusing. Greg wanted to find out about getting into some kind of protection program but Dharma didn't want to have to hide from her friends or her family" Abby suddenly took Larry's hand this part of the story must still upset them "we got the call a few weeks later that there car had been run off the road they told us" Abby took a deep breath and closed her eyes "Dharma was dead Greg too," she opened her eyes and waved away the tears "of course we didn't believe them right away we kept praying that Greg had just talked her into hiding out for a while and we were right"
she frowned "half right anyway a few weeks later Dharma contacted us she said they had been run off the road and that Greg had been taken and killed she told us the FBI had given her a new identity and where hiding her but she broke there rules because she couldn't stand us thinking she was dead –and she wanted us to take care of kitty and Edward they were Greg's parents" Abby put her head down in her hands. She was worn out.
Rossi blew out a deep breath he'd have to get Garcia to conform there story "I'm sorry" he told them both "during that time did you hear anyone say the name Montgomery?" he asked Larry looked at him like he was nuts "man they don't tell you anything" he said "Abby lifted her head "that was there name" she told them "Dharma and Greg Montgomery" she shook her head "but all the Montgomery's are dead now"
Abby grabbed her purse "I don't know if it'll help but I brought some pictures of them" she smiled fondly at the pictures "dharma and Greg where soul mates" she pointed at the people in the first picture "that's kitty on the right and Edward with the glass of scotch there's me and Larry of course and Dharma my beautiful dharma and that's Greg" she said softly.
David starred at the photo for a moment and then shuffled though all the pictures he stood up abruptly "thank you for coming in" he said "agent Reid has a few more questions for you if you'll excuse me there's something I need to take care of"
!A/N so sorry it took so long to update I'm in the middle of moving and things around my house are a little crazy right now. But I haven't forgotten about the story
Also sorry if this story was a little ooc for everyone it's a lot harder than I thought it would be keeping everyone in character since the shows are very differently toned also I couldn't remember exactly what Greg did at his dads office and they don't have it on dvd in the usa (that I've been able to find) so I hadda do it based on fuzzy memories and clips on YouTube. So I kind of went off on my own there.
Hope it works for everyone
