A/N thank you thank you thank you. You guys have been so nice with the feedback and helping to fill in the blanks I was missing from the d&g back story I know I haven't got everything right but you guys have been so nice with your reviews. On a personal note I can tell you truthfully that I was scared to post this story because I'm dyslexic and on some of my other stories I've been flamed pretty hard for some mistakes. So I really want to thank you guys for making this such a nice experience for me so far=)************************************************* ************************************************** ************************************************** ************************************************
Dharma's head felt like there was a team of little miners picking apart every crevice of her brain for gold. It wasn't a headache it was a million tiny headaches working together to turn her brain to sloppy gray goo.
She groaned and pulled herself to a sitting position. for anyone else it would have been hard because her arms where tied up to her elbows behind her back but thanks to years of yoga toning her muscles, her body obeyed without too much trouble. Besides her left side was sore from her lying on it so long so was kind of relieving to move it.
She couldn't remember exactly what had happened, but when you wake up tide up in a dark little room with a drippy pipe in the corner you can pretty much assume your ether having wildly kinky sex- or you've been kidnapped since she wasn't dating anyone she assumed the later.
"Hay you" she yelled out into the darkness "can I have some ginger or lavender oil? My heads killing me" only silence answered her she swallowed she didn't have a prayer if she couldn't get her kidnapper to do something as simple as talk. She cleared her throat "I'll even try feverfew in a pinch-but that one's kind of iffy there's no real proof that it really helps anything"
Blinding light flicked across the room in a narrow beam landing on the opposite wall where it formed into pictures dharma's eye had to adjust for a second before she realized she was staring at a picture of a woman, bloody and obviously dead.
The image changed to another woman dead and cut up like the one before. Dharma tried to pull her eyes away but she couldn't, she was frozen with horror as each picture flashed showing the two dead women from every angle. The sick little movie switched between images faster and faster. Dharma was grateful it was going by so fast she knew the pictures wouldn't have time to sear into her mind but she also knew she'd never forget them.
Suddenly the pictures stopped frozen over a single shot it took dharma only a millisecond to realize she was looking at Jane.
Jane was dead too but she wasn't cut up like the others. Dharma shook her head "no" she whispered the camera starred moving again slowly passing over Jane's body. A man with a knife stood over her he had the darkest eyes Dharma had ever seen. Jane's lifeless eyes stared into the camera dharma swallowed "please don't" she whimpered her friends body should be left in peace he had no reason to disrespect her like this
Dharma shut her eyes tightly just as the man lowered his knife she let out a sob and then couldn't stop crying every time she tried to get her breath a new wave of grief overcame her and she fell apart all over again. after a few minutes the room went dark but she still couldn't stop it was like all the air was gone and it was never coming back
Aaron pulled himself off his knees and flushed the toilet. He walked over to the sink and splashed cool water on his face after a second he sat down on the toilet and tried to pull himself tougher. he'd been sure he'd prepared himself enough to handle this but the moment he'd walked in the door to Jane and dharma's apartment he'd know he wasn't.
Dharma had kept so many of his old things from their life together that he couldn't drown out the memory's and focus on his work. He'd thought it would be better to come here instead of meeting with Abby and Larry he needed to find Dharma now not waste time explaining how he was still alive or caching up. There'd be time for all that later.
But when he'd walked into Jane's room and seen her body laid out on the bed it had been too much he practically run out of the room and found the nearest place to vomit.
he Pulled himself upright when he heard a sharp knock at the door he glanced in the mirror he was pale and still looked sick he didn't want to face the locals or his team like this "just a second" he called out the door opened anyway
Rossi stepped inside and closed the door behind himself Aaron glanced up at him "Dave?" he asked "why aren't you with the family? Where's Reid?" Rossi held up his hands "Reid's with the family" he said then reached in his pocket and handed Aaron a stack of pictures he waited while his friend looked through them.
When he'd finished Aaron didn't look up he sighed deeply. Rossi wet a face clothe and passed it to Aaron "you look like hell" he observed hotch nodded "I feel like hell" he finally looked up at Rossi "I'm not leaving the case David" Rossi frowned "I know that, what I don't know is why you felt the need to hide all this"
hotch leaned his head back "the last time I was anywhere near this guy he was killing people left and right, and our side "the good guys" hid me away from my wife and told me she was dead" he looked Rossi in the eye "I have a son now what's going to happen to him? what's going to happen to any of you?"
Rossi shook his head "nothing's going to happen to Jack, we'll keep him safe every person on this teams got your back and his if it puts us in our graves" hotch shook his head "you can't risk that-"Rossi cut him of "it's not up to you. . . Greg- but we have to know what we're up ageist so you're going back to that station and telling the team the truth"
Aaron hung his head "it's not that simple" he insisted "Rossi raised his voice "if you don't I'm taking them all back to Virginia" Aarons head shot up David continued "we're ether all in or we're all out otherwise this is a complete waste of time, meanwhile there's a stack of files on Garcia's desk full of people we might actually be spending this time to save- people who aren't withholding important information"
Aaron nodded slowly he had no idea how to break this to the team. But Rossi had a point he'd dragged them all into this and he had no right to hold out on them with so much at stake. His mind raced back to the time before when so many people had been whipped out he started feeling sick again.
