The Lady and Her Genius.

The uncle who lies.

As soon as I walked back into the room with Hotch close behind me, again it was to make sure I wouldn't fight my uncle.
"Your fucken stupid if you think a hippo would beat a bear over a fucken Tiger, Mouse!"
"Your both wrong! A buffalo any fucken day!"
"Both of you are fucken idiots! Hippos would fuck up a bear any day!"
"River. You've gotten distracted." Hotch told making me look to him.
"Ok, but they are wrong."
"We just wanted to ask you a few questions Harold." Hotch told to see what he knew and didn't know.
"Shoot..... pun not intended."
"Who's the heartless killer?" He asked making Nik lose it in laughter.
"That's an easy answer." Nik told before he continued to laugh.
"Well?"
"Easy. No one knows who the heartless killer is. We never caught them." He told making Nik stop laughing and looked towards our uncle with a confused look. "What?"
Nik slowly moved his head to look at the table and contemplated everything that we told him about what happened to our father. After a minute or so, he looked up towards me and I saw he had a pained expression on his face as he looked towards me.
"He's dead?"
"Yes."
"And he did it..... in front of you?"
"He did."
"That's not right..... he.... He shouldn't have done that in front of you. He could have waited till you were asleep."
"I wish he did. But sadly he didn't. He shot himself in the head in the basement of the house." I explained making him tear up as guilt washed over his features.
"Mouse..... I am so sorry. If I had known, I wouldn't have kept you in that room. I am so truely sorry."
"It's ok Nik. I tried to tell you. It was just one of those things that you couldn't believe it till there was evidence proving otherwise."
"I'm so confused." Bill admitted making Hotch speak up.
"We know your not their father but in fact their uncle Bill, who is a well known and wanted con-artist." Hotch stated making him sigh and get out of the act he was pulling.
"How'd you figure it out?" He asked.
"Simple. Our father shot himself in the head. I witnessed it. Not only that. Our father told us you died at the age of seven not ten. He did have as one would call it a photographic memory."
"Great."
"But we do still want to ask you some questions, Finley." Hotch told causing him to pull a confused look.
"Finley?.... Oh that's still a thing isn't it. We could tell them you know." He told looking towards me.
"Do it, and the heartless killer will kill you. He's been wanting to do so since we found you and he is all about making sure I'm safe and happy."
"No one knows who that is." He pointed out.
"He's your nephew and he's sitting right next to you." I told making his face drain of colour as he looked towards Nik who was just smiling and gave a wave.
"Hiya! And she's not wrong. You tell them, and I will find a way to kill you. She's wants it kept hidden, so we are keeping it hidden. Deal?"
"Deal."
"Good."
"We want to know why you decided to pretend to be your late brother." Hotch told getting back on track.
"Because it's not right that I was taken out of the money."
"Your a criminal. Of course you were gonna get taken out."
"They should not get to decide who is allowed our families money!"
"They aren't the ones deciding! In the rules it states if anyone of us is arrested for a crime or are wanted by the fbi, then we get shut out! Your the one who decided to become money hungry and steal shit to resell!"
"Of course lil Miss money hoarder sides with the rule."
"Because it's in place and everyone knows about the rule. It is fair."
"It is not fair. Your livelihood yanked away because of one small mistake."
"You got shot for breaking into a rich guys house when you were 20 Bill! That's not a mistake! You were completely sober and in your car there was stuff from 16 other houses that day! Our great whatever grandfather, didn't want criminals to inherit and run the company. Get over it."
"Fine! You wanna go this route?! We will go this route! I'll fucken sue you to get the money!"
"Try it! You'll lose! Because it has been in the rules since day one that, that was how it was going to run. Hell! I'll even call Grace and Dave to come down and fucken explain to you why you won't be getting a fucken cent!"
"Not to mention. You are wanted in Idaho on six counts of theft, so you will be going to be sent there to go to trail. Another reason why you won't be getting any money." Hotch added as he got up and opened the door to the agents there to transport him. "Feel free to take Bill Finley now."
The agents came in and cuffed our uncle before leaving with him.
"Now it was just us three!" Nik told giving a thumbs up only to hurt himself since he forgot about the cuffs. "Ow!"
The two of us have a confused look as we watched Nik suddenly jerk his arms up only for them to get pulled down and him shout in pain. As we did, Hotch leaned a bit towards me before he spoke.
"You sure your not adopted?"
"Sadly. Yes."