Aaron sat in the back of the s.u.v. Five hours and thirty three minutes had passed since they'd received the text from Ashford, and they were still two minutes from the place Ashford was sending the signal from.
Aaron tried to make his heart slow down. Five and a half hours was more than enough time for somebody to bleed to death. He tried to stop himself from thinking about what the best case scenario was, who's blood he was willing for it to be that was on the three people in the picture.
he hated himself for it but -he prayed it was dharma or Beth's. To think of ether of them hurt like that made him sick, but he couldn't take the thought it might be jacks. It was wrong, but he knew he'd trade ether woman's life for his sons if it came down to it.
He opened his eyes to see Morgan checking his gun and pretending not to be studying his face. Aarons hands shook he knew what Morgan was going to say before he opened his mouth,"are you sure you want to go in there man?" he asked lightly. they both knew how heavy this question was,
if hotch went in and someone he loved was dead Morgan didn't want him to have to see whatever disrespect Ashford had treated the bodies with, and he didn't want hocth to lose control on Ashford as he had with foit.
It wasn't do to any pity for Ashford. It was his concern for Aaron. Nobody on the team ever talked about it, but they all knew hotch had lost something when he'd killed foit. Morgan couldn't stand to see his friend go through it again.
hocth took a deep breath "you know I have to." He said simply Morgan nodded slowly "okay" he said but his voice only came out in a whisper. Rossi pulled the car up to a large sky scraper.
It was a place Aaron knew well his father's law firm offices. Aaron should have expected that Ashford was so hung up on the past and he was determined to be as stupidly poetic as possible about his vengeance. It was the only thing that made sence.
As soon as they'd had a location they'd called local law enforcement to seal the building off. Aaron Rossi and Morgan stepped out of the car. Rossi led them over to the officer in charge. After a moment J.j Reid and Prentiss appeared at their side they spoke with the locals getting a run-down of the situation and setting up a plan.
Greg wasn't listening. He was staring up at the building as if it was some kind of detached nightmare, jack was in there somewhere, with the Ashford brothers. He was so close but still imposable to see to hold to protect.
Aaron swallowed. Jack wasn't "somewhere" in that building Aaron knew exactly where he was -the Ashford brothers would be holed up in his old office the place he'd turned there brother away all those years ago.
Suddenly, unable to wait a moment longer- he turned and walked away from the group, past everyone. When he got to the door he pulled out his gun behind him he heard Morgan shout "hocth don't," but he ignored him and stepped into the building. . .
A/N It was never brought up on the show {to my knowlage} but it seems to me that a guy as good as Aaron would be hunted after killing a man out of rage even one as evil as foit-also sorry if I'm spelling that name wrong as always thanks for reading. :)
