*I do not own Criminal Minds *

Reid and Seaver sat at there desks working on paper work. Slowly their eyes started to drift to the empty desk that sat next to Reid's. It had been three months since Prentiss had died and it took a lot just to keep working for the BAU team. "Where's Hotch?" Morgan asks walking in with his coffee taking the young agents out of their state of grief.

"I have not seen him all day but his car was in the parking lot when I got here." Reid answers

"That's odd." Morgan states.

"I could go ask Rossi." Seaver offers standing up.

"Ask me what kid?" Rossi asks walking up behind them with the newly reassigned Jennifer Jareau.

"Where Hotch is." Morgan asks for Seaver looked to angry to speak. Ever since J.J had come back Rossi had not been spending as much time with Seaver as he had in the past.

"The second he got here he said he had to go talk to the unit chief." Rossi sat down on the side of Seavers' desk, she gave him a look and then sat down in her chair.

"Wait he said 'unit chief' and not Strauss." Reid asks

Rossi looked into space like he was thinking. "Now that you mention it he did."

"Maybe someone finally noticed how much of a witch Strauss is and fired her." J.J joked and everyone started laughing until they saw two people walking over the cat walk from Strauss' office. One was Hotch, but the other was a young women with light brown, curly hair that came to about her shoulder blades.

"Anna" Spencer stood up and said barley audible.

"You know her?" Morgan asks walking up to Spencer as they all watched the two walk to Hotch's office and stopping there to talk more.

"I went to the Academy with her. She is a year younger than me."

"Maybe she is Emily's replacement." J.J offered and everyone got quieter. J.J had been the one most eager to talk about Emily. She did not have trouble talking about her as everyone else did, except Hotch, but that was just his demeanour.

The silence was broken by Hotch yelling down to them. "BAU team in the conference room please."

Spencer made sure that he was in the back of the line of people as they followed Hotch and Anna. The team walks in and fills in around the table. Hotch and Anna stood up near the plasma. "Sorry sir." Garcia rushes in as she pushes up her glasses. "Do we have... a … case." She says slowly as she sees the girl standing with Hotch, then looks around at the other five confused faces.

"We do but you all need to know something before we start. Now understand you are the only people who know this so far so it must stay quiet." Hotch starts and wait as everyone agrees before continuing. "This is Anna Palanco and I will let her explain the rest." He says before sitting down.

"Hello everyone. I have some bad news. I am afraid Erin Strauss has been diagnosed with cancer and is not healthy enough to continue working." J.J and Garcia's hands flew to their mouths as Morgan tried to suppress a smile and Rossi did not even work to hide his.

"Dave" Hotch states with a stern look to his friend.

"What, I am not happy she is sick, I am happy that we do not have to listen to her any more." He explains.

"Then who is going to be the new Unit Chief?" Seaver asks as everyone's eyes find Hotch.

"I was offered the position, but I turned it down." The room was filled with a ton of 'what's' and 'why's'. "I saw how it made Strauss and I don't think I could do that."

"Aaron she was like that before that job." Dave says and everyone laughs.

"Wait so who is the Unit Chef?" Reid asks. Hotch turns to Anna as does everyone else.

"She is?" Morgan asks

"I know. I was very surprised to. But Derek Morgan this could have been you if you would have taken the position in New York. Which-" She picks up a folder from her pile in front of her and hands in to him. "They are offering you the position again."

Everyone was quiet as Derek took the folder and looked it over before closing it and tossing it back over to her. It slide across the table as he says, "I decline."

"Very well." Taking it back and sticking it in the end of her pile. "If you would all do me the favour of telling me your names. I know who three of you are but I would like to know the rest. I am well aware of how Strauss was and I will try and be different from her. But I have only just moved here from New York and I have not had the pleasure of looking over all of your files."

"Penelope Garcia" Garcia says standing up with a big smile. They shake hands before saying, "I love your scarf by the way." She says motioning to the bright pink scarf wrapped around her neck.

"Thank you. I have another at home if you would like it. I got two from my birthday once." She says before turning to the two other blonds who were standing behind this one. "Jennifer Jareau. Ashley Seaver." They say with a hand shake. "David Rossi." He says from behind Anna, she turns and shakes his hand. "Well know that I know you all you may get to work. I believe this case will be extremely difficult. Good Luck." She picks up her files and walks out of the room.

"She is like a baby." Rossi states as they all begin to walk out of the room.

"I know." Hotch says as he walks off to his office. Rossi following suit as does J.J.

"Where's he going?" Morgan offers to Seaver as he points after Reid who was walking up to Anna's office.

"Maybe there was more to their relationship than just knowing each other."

"You think?"

"Reid barely looked up from his hands the whole time she spoke. And her eyes repetitively rested on him."

"Huh. Lover boy has to work with an ex." Seaver rolled her eyes and continued to her desk.

"You couldn't have told me?" Spencer asks leaning against the door frame of Anna's office. She smiles not looking up from the box of files she was sorting through. After a while of silence he states, "So is that the scarf I bought or the one you did? Because-"

"What was I supposed to say?" Anna asks looking up and moving the hair that fell into her face. She crosses her arms across her chest before continuing. "Hey Spencer we haven't talking I five years but guess what, I got another promotion before you. Look who the genius is now...I did not know this is where you were working."

"Well not exactly those words but something along those lines." He jokes walking in and shutting the door, realizing this might turn into a big fight. "Congrates by the way." He comments sarcastically.

"Oh shut up." She says as he walks up to her desk. "I don't want this job. I wish Agent Hotchner took this job. I was pretty happy where I was."

"Then why did you take it?" Spencer tried to keep his voice calm begging her to follow.

"I don't know." She whined sitting down at her chair and putting her face in her hands. Spencer sat down in a chair across from her and waited for her to talk. Even though he knew the answer already, to push herself. That is what she does. "Do you think I can do this job?" She asks removing her hands from her face.

Spencer could see the tears forming at her eyes. "Your smart-"

She cut him off before he could finish, "That is not answering my question." She pulls her legs up to herself and says "Yes or no."

"Yes"

"Liar." She looks out the window refusing to make eye contact as a tear fell down her face.

"It might be hard at first but you can do this job, I know it."

"Go work. I have the power to fire you now." Was all she replied. With out another word he got up and walked to the door. "Hey, when you get back, come talk to me." And he walked out.

*I don't think this is written very well but it was written on a very long drive home to where I was so bored it was annoying. Please review good or bad.*