Disclaimer:I don't own the cast of Criminal Minds, they belong to creator Jeff Davies. However I do own Sarah Hunter, and her family.
From The Damage
Chapter 01
FBI: Behavioural Analysis Unit.
Supervisory Special Agent Aaron Hotchner's Office
Quantico, VA.
SSA Aaron Hotchner walked into his office, closely followed by the newest member of the BAU. Sarah Hunter looked around her new surroundings, sure she had been there when she had applied for the FBI, but she hadn't thought that it would actually happen. Aaron Hotchner motioned for the young girl to close the door behind her and sit down opposite him.
"It says here that you were accepted three years ago and that you denied," Hotch said, almost as soon as she sat down opposite him, he had her file in his hand and was looking over it. "It doesn't say why, so I'm curious why did you apply again?"
"Agent Hotchner, I denied the first time just over six years ago to have my daughter and the most recent time was to have my son," she paused looking at him and glancing out the window as people walked passed. "You wanted to know why I applied a third time. I'll tell you. I needed a challenge, I know that's not the best reason but it's the truth,"
"Your file also says that you finished high school early," Hotch raised his eyebrow, was he dealing with another Dr Spencer Reid?
"I was thirteen, enrolled in a school for gifted children since the age of three. I'm smart okay, not crazy smart but still smart," Sarah answered, not thinking that she would have to say anything else and that he could find out just how smart like everyone else did.
*flashback*
Thirteen year old Sarah King stood in the middle of the front of the class for gifted students among them was a tall lanky fourteen year old boy. She like him was younger than the rest of their class-mates.
"Take a seat anywhere," the teacher said, and almost immediately the lanky boy raised his hand and motioned for her to sit next to him.
"Spencer," he said quietly, so quietly that it was almost a whisper. Sarah smiled at him as she sat down and then spoke.
"Sarah," came her reply, just as quietly as what he had spoken.
*end flashback*
"Agent Hotchner, I know that you've read my file. So I know that you've seen that I've done all the training necessary to do this job," Sarah looked at him wondering what was going through the older man's head.
"Agent Hunter, I am aware of everything that you have accomplished so far which is why I asked for you to join our team,"
Hotch looked at Sarah, he couldn't decide whether to place her straight into the field with the rest of the team or send her in with Penelope Garcia. After studying her file for a few minutes he placed her with Garcia seeing that she was efficient with most aspects of a computer.
Technical Analyst Penelope Garcia
Location: BAU, Quantico, VA.
Penelope Garcia sat glued to her screen she was looking through the unsub's victims accounts to see if any of them had ever crossed paths. The room of the technical analyst was bright and colourful, small child like toys scattered across the desktop to keep the young woman in cheery state, in her job she needed it. Garcia was quite engrossed in her work, so she didn't notice Hotch standing behind her with Sarah.
"Ahem," Hotch cleared his voice, startling the technical analyst as she spun around in her swivel chair to face them. "Penelope Garcia, this SSA Sarah Hunter,"
"Hi," Penelope said, quickly standing up and shaking Sarah's hand before she sat back down again.
"Hey" Sarah answered, smiling at her before she looked at Hotch as if to say 'why are you leaving me here?'.
"Garcia, Sarah here will be shadowing you," Hotch said quickly, before he walked from the room and left Sarah and Penelope looking at each other awkwardly.
Sarah looked at Penelope's desk and couldn't get over how similar it was to her desk at home and her old office desk. She smiled at her and peered over her shoulder. She recognised some of what she was doing.
"I know what you can do, so why don't you take a seat," Penelope smiled at her, before she turned back to her computer. "Agent Hotchner doesn't know much about you does he?"
"No-one here does..." she paused, as she took up one of the chairs. "I'm taking a rather educated guess and saying that you however do,"
"You're right. I don't want to take any chances," Penelope told her, as she looked the young woman up and down.
"You have nothing to worry about. What can you tell me about..." she started to say as Penelope handed her one of the keyboards. "I know you must think that I'm nuts from doing this,"
"I can understand where you're coming from but why make it so nobody can access your file?" Penelope replied as she quickly typed into the computer and brought up the sealed file. "I can however access it,"
"I did it because nobody needs to know that my own father was killed when I was a child and that I witnessed it, that my mother is the one who looked after me and my brother my entire life," Sarah paused as some people stood behind them, before Penelope turned around and shook her head at them ushering them away.
Penelope looked at Sarah before she tapped in a password that had allowed her to gain access to the sealed file. Sarah raised her eyebrow at her, no one had know what that password was apart from her.
"I did a little research, your last name hasn't always been Hunter. Your fathers last name was King and your mothers Hancock," Penelope told her, "You also have daughter Anita, and you were one of the first people on the two thousand and five case that connects to the one that SSA Hotchner is working on," she paused reaching deeper into the file before Sarah interrupted her.
"You forgot, I also have a son Liam."
