Breaking the Rules
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters from Criminal Minds wish I did but I do not, they belong solely to their creator and as such I do not make any money from this story or any other that I write on this site.
A/N: This is my first ever criminal Minds story so I hope it goes well and you the reader like it. I always do what I call taster chapters as the first chapter of any story I write, just to see if people would like it.
Summary: Everyone makes their way back into the office after the holidays and New Year celebrations but two members of staff have done something different, they've broken the fraternization rules in a big way.
It was still early on in the day when the various workers in the FBI headquarters made their way back into their various offices at Quantico; Reid had almost been late this morning and was currently stuck at the back of the lift going up to his floor. In front of him were several agents from other departments, some he knew and others he did not, it were two of the agents he did not know who were discussing a rumour that they had heard a few days before.
"Did you hear about Section Chief Strauss?"
"Hear what?"
"She got married on New Year's Eve, heard her secretary talking about it with a co-worker yesterday in the canteen."
"Married…..Who would marry that old trout?"
"Well someone did."
Both agents shook their heads in disbelief that anyone would marry someone like her. In fact they were not the only ones as Reid noticed several others who had been listening in to the conversation shake their heads in disbelief that anyone would want to marry Erin Strauss.
Reid felt someone nudge him in the side and he turned his head to look, an agent that he knew briefly from a case he had worked on, arched an eyebrow at him as she nodded towards the two discussing his section chief's marriage.
"What you think about this Spencer, after all she is your boss?"
Reid pondered for a moment before answering, chewing his lower lip as he thought how he should answer before shrugging at the question.
"Good luck to her and her new husband, everyone deserves to be happy."
In front of him agents turned in shock that someone would actually wish the one that they all regarded as old dragon happiness. Reid stared back at them unperturbed by their shocked looks, a few of the agents who knew him were not at all surprised as they knew that he did not have a bad thing to say about most people even the criminals that they hunted, he even tried to find something nice about them. That was just Reid's way, he accepted that there were monsters in the world but he always tried to find something good about even the worst of society.
Shaking their heads at Reid and grinning that there was one person in the lift who had dared to say something different to what everyone well nearly everyone was thinking.
"You sure about that Reid, I mean she makes life hell for you and your team mates, the amount of times she has tried to split you all up and make you go to other departments."
Reid looked over at Anderson, he knew that Strauss actually thought that Anderson might make a very good agent one day but he refrained from letting his colleague know that as he replied to his question.
"I know she does not like my team but as I say, everyone deserves happiness. Who knows maybe this marriage if it is true and not a rumour will change her."
Before anyone could reply to Reid's statement, the doors pinged and opened signalling that they had reached the floor that the BAU was to be found and Reid shouldered his way through to the front before they could shut again.
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Section Chief Strauss had been in her office for almost an hour before most other's had made it into the bureau, she glanced down at her hands and focused on the finger on her left hand that sported two new rings, one was a simple plain gold band and the other was an engagement ring, this too was of a simple design with a single solitaire.
She grinned as she glanced down at the two rings and could not believe that she had actually got married on New Year's Eve and to a man that, she smiled as she thought for a moment about her new husband, a man that no one least of all herself would have thought she would have married. They say that opposites attract she thought and that was one thing that could be said about her new husband, he was the total opposite to her.
A/N: That's all for now folks! Just who has Strauss married? If you think you know or want to hazard a guess than please review and let me know. Oh and HAPPY NEW YEAR one and all.
