Part 9

A few days later

The phone rang and Aaron answered it quickly. "Yes Becky. I see. Send him up in 15 minutes."

Aaron hung up the phone and immediately dialed another number.

"He's here," was all Aaron said and didn't give a chance for the other person to respond. Safina would call Spencer who was at work and they'd be here inside half an hour.

Finally, the door opened and Becky entered.

"Thank you Becky, no, we don't need drinks," Aaron said before Becky could ask.

That order would tell his secretary, that this was not going to be a cordial meeting. Becky left and shut the door softly behind her knowing that William Reid was in a lot of trouble if her boss's mood was anything to go by.

William Reid looked rather mad that he had been made to wait, but that was the way Aaron wanted it. Angry men, as his brother-in-law had pointed out a few days ago, made mistakes.

"What can I do for you Mr. Reid," Aaron asked calmly, after studying the man that was Spencer's father. He wasn't impressed, but then, he didn't impress easily.

"I came to ask you to convince my son to let me see my grandchildren. I have no way to talk to him, as I don't know his address or his phone number and I don't want to approach him at work. I'm afraid that the boy has a grudge against me."

"Mr. Reid, my sister and Spencer have every right to exclude you from their children's lives. From what I know about your relationship estranged wouldn't cover it. You were not a good parent to your children. Even if I could convince him to allow you to see them I will not do so."

"The boy is telling tales," Will tried.

"He's not a boy, Mr. Reid, he's a grown man of over 30. He has no reason to lie," Aaron said.

"Mr. Hotchner, I could tell you some things about my son..."

"Which would all be lies made up in your own mind," Aaron said interrupting, staring a the man in front of him fiercely, his dark eyes glimmering in anger, though his expression remained for the moment neutral. "You haven't seen Spencer since he was eight years old. You have no idea what that young man is capable of. He's brilliant, something you don't appreciate. I offered him a place in my company just months after he had joined the FBI and he politely turned me down. He could be making far more than he does at a government law enforcement agency, but that doesn't matter to him. He's doing good work."

Will didn't know how to respond to that. He had been sure that he could convince this Hotchner to either let him see his grandchildren or bribe him to go away.

"Let me tell you what I think," Aaron said, as he studied the Senior Reid, which made the other man very uncomfortable as he had the impression that Hotchner thought of him as nothing more then an annoyance. "You think your son is incompetent, a fact, that is definitely not true, no matter what you want to believe. You treated your children badly until you're mate forced you out of the house after breaking the bond with you. She told you to get your priorities straight. You broke your son's arm and although it was an accident, you showed no remorse for your actions, you thought what you did was right and that it would stop your eight year old son from bothering you. You didn't give a damn that he was in pain you probably wouldn't even have driven him to the hospital or called an ambulance. Luckily, for Spencer and his siblings their mother was there for them. You abandoned your family completely and didn't even bother to pay the minimum amount of child support, which is in very bad taste at the very least."

"Diana had a job," Will defend himself, looking rather flushed.

The Senior Reid was angry, very angry. Good, Aaron thought in satisfaction while looking at the angry man.

"Lucky for you," Aaron snorted in clear disapproval. "I have no doubt that you would've done exactly the same whether your ex-mate had a job or not. You didn't even bother to maintain minimum contact so how you can declare your son incompetent is beyond me."

"I have some information that can do my son a great deal of damage," Will tried and Aaron looked at him in contempt, his eyes flashing angrily, causing Will to shrink back in his chair.

"We suspected you would try something like this, if you didn't take the letter my sister sent you seriously," Aaron said. "The only information you have is from when your son was just a boy, so probably no longer applies and to try to make money off a child's pain is despicable. Let me tell you something here, Mr. Reid. If you cause Spencer even the slightest bit of trouble, worry or concern you will regret the day you were ever born. It's bad enough that you didn't treat him like a human being when he was young, but now, you've tried to get me to give you a bribe, so you'll leave and never return. I don't believe for a moment you won't be back for more. I'm not stupid, nor am I naïve. If I fell for your tactics you'd be back sooner or later wanting more," Aaron growled, glaring at William Reid fiercely with murder in his eyes.

Will tried not to show his reaction to Aaron Hotchner. The man frightened him. He had figured that this Hotchner would just give him what he wanted to get him to leave his brother-in-law alone, but he was beginning to realize he had bitten off more than he could chew.

"Let me tell you exactly what you're going to do, if you don't want to end up dead," Aaron told the man before him his voice very menacing. "You will immediately go back to Las Vegas. You will not bother Spencer or my sister again or try to get money from me or them, as that would be considered blackmail. You make a more than a decent living and you don't need more, but like a lot of people you're greedy. I heard all about how you treated your son and so has my sister. That's one of the reasons she sent you that package, to make you see what you'd lost because of your stupidity, you arrogance, your lack of familiar feeling towards your family, and your carelessness, but it's obvious you didn't take it to heart. You could've been a very familiar figure to your grandchildren if only you had treated your son like a decent human being instead of a bother and pain. Now, your grandchildren will never know you unless they want to when they are grown up. If you don't do this, I have a link to the Council and I'm sure you don't want them to know of your past crimes or your current ones for that matter. It was very stupid of you to try to blackmail me, Mr. Reid. You're lucky that I'm not sending you back to Las Vegas in pieces, but despite your disdain and hatred of your son Spencer doesn't want you dead, something I know you don't appreciate, though you should. All he wants is for you to stay out of his life. He tried to convince my sister not to send you that registered letter, but he didn't succeed, though he certainly didn't argue too much about it, as he likely saw he couldn't change Safina's mind. I could very easily ruin your reputation in your community and you'd lose at least half of your clients, since I'm sure a lot of them are our kind. If they found out how you treated your children they'd abandon you in droves. Think about that before you try to blackmail me."

"You'd be wanted for murder then," Will tried.

"I could have a dozen witnesses swear that I was somewhere else entirely when you die Mr. Reid, never doubt it. I know how to cover my tracks. What you did to your children is absolutely despicable and then you tried to profit off a little boy's pain and misery. Spencer is a fine, upstanding, young man, certainly better than his father. He chose a very hard career that he's doing very well in. He's close to a lot of people that would tell a judge he wasn't incompetent, in anyway. His team would walk through the gates of hell for him. Instead of supporting him, you've disdained him, you've disrespected him, you told a little boy a lot of lies to make yourself feel better. Thank God, for his mother. I hate to think of what would have happened to him if you were his only influence. He probably would have become a master criminal or something because of your parenting techniques. Instead, he is a man I'm beginning to love as a brother, a good man, who will raise his children with love, with appropriate rules for bad behavior. You locked him in a dark cellar for God sakes for several hours until his mom got home. If his siblings had been there they would've released him, but lucky for you they weren't, because I'm sure they would've called the cops on you. You would've been arrested for child abuse Mr. Reid, so that's something you need to think long and hard about, before you start spreading rumors."

That was one incident that Aaron and Safina had just learned about within the last day or so. "Because of you that young man was scared of the dark for years."

"Weak," William muttered not seeming to care that Aaron Hotchner looked ready to kill him.

"He was a child!" Aaron roared. "Any child would be afraid after such an experience. He was only four for God sakes! That does not make him weak Mister Reid, as any child whether Alpha, Omega or human would have had the same fears after being locked in a dark cellar for hours, especially considering he was so young when you did such a cruel thing. He got over his fear on his own with no help from a father that should have loved him, once he was an adult."

William sat back in his chair now deathly afraid of Aaron Hotchner. It was clear the man was more than pissed he was damn furious. Why he was William didn't have a clue, his son was only an Omega after all, a non-entity, worthless. It never even occurred to him that not all alphas thought like he did, as many loved their sons and daughters whether or not they were Omegas.

Aaron pushed the button on his desk and suddenly, Spencer and Safina appeared. They had been there for most of the conversation. Aaron had a private elevator that led to a little alcove that was hidden from obvious view. William Reid had never heard it ding, as he was too concentrated on getting what he wanted.

"Weak, dad?" Spencer asked staring at his father who looked astonished that he was even there. "If anybody is weak it's you. You think you deserve more than you have and are willing to try to blackmail me and Aaron here. I could arrest you right this minute and have you up on charges, as I am FBI. However, I'm willing to let you go this one time, on the understanding that if you ever try to blackmail anybody again, then I'll find out about it and you will regret being born. You think you deserve some of my money that I got honestly through hard work. I certainly didn't blackmail people like you were trying to do. Know this, if you are ever so much as caught littering again I will know about it, as I have numerous contacts too. Believe me, or don't, I don't really care. You told a little boy that he would never be better than a House Omega, a boy who wasn't even a teenager at the time. Is it any wonder, I went out of my way to shatter every single one of your 'predictions'.

"You're damn lucky I talked Safina out of teaching you a lesson for how you treated your own kids, but this is the only warning you're going to get. Try anything underhanded again, ever break the law again and I'll shoot to kill. I promise you I won't regret it if you die by my hand and mom will understand that what I did was to defend my own life and also those I love. Nobody will ever fault me for protecting my family, a family I never imagined I'd have all thanks to a father who went out of his way to break a little boy's self-confidence, in his self-worth or his desirability. Get out of my sight," Spencer ordered his eyes glimmering with his emotions of anger, hurt and disgust.

Will stared at his son and saw the determined gleam in his eyes and knew that Spencer would do exactly as he said.

"You had to know deep down that this would be the result if you want ahead with your scheme," Safina said speaking for the first time. "If you really expected Aaron or Spencer to just give you what you wanted to make you go away you don't know anything. You didn't bother to really study the people involved. You just assumed that Spencer was the same little boy that you left behind 22 years ago. You should be grateful that Diana didn't report you to the Council, but of course you're not, because I'm sure you assume you can make them see it your way. Either that or you don't fear the Council like you should. You assume that you have a right to do anything you want, even if it breaks the law and it's that kind of mentality that creates serial killers or some other criminal. You haven't seen Spencer since he was an eight-year-old boy and yet you assumed, he was exactly the same, which is just stupid, arrogant and very shortsighted. Heed my warning or not, as like my husband, I don't care whether you do or not, but let me reiterate my husband's words. Try anymore underhanded schemes anything at all and one of us will know, your life expectancy will then drop considerably. I hope I have made my intentions clear, Mr. Reid. How you ever produced such a brilliant, kind, caring man is beyond me. The only explanation I can come up with is it must be his mother's genes. Thank God, his mother is such a lovely, sweet and kind woman, something you definitely are not. I would suggest you leave now and I better not see, hear or even smell you ever again.

"Go now!" Safina almost roared her voice low and menacing.

William Reid's was out of his chair on the word and was out the door of Aaron's office in a matter of a few seconds.

"Think that's the last we'll see you him?" Aaron asked having calmed down somewhat now that the Senior Reid was gone.

"If he's smart he better stay away from me," Safina snarled, but calmed down once Spencer placed a gentle hand on her arm.

"I'm positive we'll never hear from him again," Spencer said calmly. "You both scared the shit out of him, which I know is what you both intended. He's not stupid, just stubborn and arrogant, thinking he deserves more than he really does. You scared him enough he won't dare ever show his face within hundred miles of Virginia or Washington for that matter. If he does he's a dead man walking and he knows it."

"Good," Safina snarled again.

Spencer said nothing simply silently supported his mate, who calmed down little by little.

"I'd like to see the children now," Safina requested more calmly and Aaron nodded.

"I'll take you. I know you could go on your own, but still, I'll take you," Aaron agreed. "I would leave them with me for one more day until we're sure William Reid is gone from the city. It's true, that he doesn't know where you live, but still, I think it's safer for the time being. I'll know the second he gets on the plane and then, you can take them home. Jack and Britney have certainly enjoyed having three infants in the house."

"Well, if your relationship with Garcia goes well then maybe you can have a few more," Spencer suggested with a grin. "She's been upbeat, even for her lately, so that tells me your relationship is indeed going well."

Aaron didn't answer and the three of them got on the elevator, the only one that led to the penthouse.

"Yes, our relationship is indeed going well," Aaron admitted. "We both have time demanding jobs so it's just taking longer to court and then normal. Still, Jack and Britney adore her and that's a big thing in my book. I think that I am going to ask her to mate. My feelings are certainly stronger for her than they ever were for Haley. She knows her place for one thing, and appreciates any time I can manage to spend with her, something Haley did not."

"That's good," Safina said pleased. "I really like her, so you won't get any argument from me."

"Didn't I tell you, you would?" Spencer asked with a teasing grin.

"So you did and you were right," Safina admitted. "I like all of them actually, and this gives me a few females to hangout with, go shopping with."

Both men simply rolled their eyes at that last comment simultaneously. Every women they knew was a shopaholic.

~~~Spencer and Safina~~~

Las Vegas, Nevada

The law offices of Harris and Smythe

"There is mail for you, Mr. Reid," the Secretary Carrie told William.

"Thank you," Will said absently. He took the mail not noticing in the letter with the crest of the Council on it. He put it to one side of his desk and continued to work on the case he had just been assigned. Finally, a couple of hours later he remembered his mail and started opening it a piece at a time, throwing some of it away as trash.

He had thought about the incident with Aaron Hotchner a lot over the last few weeks. Hotchner had scared him shitless, which he knew the man had meant to do. He still didn't understand why such a powerful man had such an attachment to his son, but it was clear that he did. Maybe it had to do with the fact that his sister had married him, Will had often speculated over the last several weeks. After all, they were siblings, so they were probably pretty close, which meant that his son's kids were Hotchner's nieces and nephews. He couldn't think of any other reason why a powerful man like Hotchner, would bother with such a useless waste of space as his brother-in-law otherwise.

On the other hand, Hotchner had offered his son a position in his company, apparently long before he had met the sister, something that he didn't understand. After all, his son was only an Omega, which made him useless as far as he was concerned. Why should it matter how brilliant he was when he wasn't at least a Beta? Why would anybody want to procreate with an Omega anyway, ignoring the fact that he had married one, had three children by her, even if he had been thrown out after a mere nine years.

Will finally opened the letter from the Council staring at it for a moment before he removed the letter from the official envelope it was in.

He read the lead us slowly getting madder and madder.

To: Mr. William Reid,

From: The Council of Alpha/Beta/Omega Affairs

It has come to the Council's attention, through our contact Mr. Hotchner, that you tried to commit the crime of blackmail. That you were sent away with the flea in your ear, is the only reason you have not been arrested and tried for your crime. The Council is warning you Mr. Reid, if it is discovered you are involved in anything else that is against the law it will be your last mistake.

We have also heard how you treated your children when they were young and while we can do nothing about that now, it will certainly count against you, if you were ever brought to trial.

You might protest that Mr. Hotchner is just trying to get you in trouble, but know that he recorded your entire conversation and as it was his office, this was perfectly legal to do. We have the tape as well as the video in our possession and they will be well protected in case they are ever needed.

Do not make us take such actions Mr. Reid. This is the only warning you will receive. Take the warning for what you will, but know we will be watching you closely.

Cosmo Willowby

Alpha

Member of the Council

of Alpha/Beta/Omega Affairs

1980-2011

Will was enraged at the warning letter, but knew that he would indeed be arrested if he ever committed another major crime and the wrong people found out. He hadn't considered it blackmail when he had gone to Hotchner asking for money to keep his silence, but he supposed technically, it was, he admitted somewhat reluctantly. He had never imagined that Hotchner had recorded their conversation, but now, he knew he had been dense. It had just never occurred to him that the man would do that and it should have. Powerful businessmen did it all the time when they had meetings. Hotchner was a very powerful businessman with his fingers in many lucrative pies. Of course, there had been considerable money there to start with, from what he knew of the Hotchner family, but from all he had heard Aaron Hotchner had added considerably to it over the last 20 to 25 years.

He still didn't think his son deserved to have all those millions to his name, but knew that the Hotchners and probably the Council didn't agree with him. If the Council even knew.

He thought that money would be much better in his possession or at least a good portion of it, but he knew no one else would agree with him on that. Really, what was his son going to use it for? Will didn't even imagine that his son was thinking about the future and setting up trust funds for each of his children. Didn't even imagine that he was thinking of giving some of it to charity, to people who truly needed it. Socking some of it away for his retirement from the bureau.

Will didn't care that he had plenty of money of his own, he could always use more after all to use for his own selfish ends and that was himself.

He knew though that there was no way he was going to get his hands on any of it now, as he had been warned about trying to blackmail his son and his supporters.

So he would have to leave well enough alone, because he knew that he would be given a trial and then thrown in prison. He wouldn't be surprised if the trial was stacked against him from the beginning.

Will scowled, but took the threat seriously and decided he had better let it go. For now

~~~Spencer and Safina~~~