New story. So sorry for everyone who is waiting on updates on my other stories, but my muse is a very picky one, so it comes and goes as it pleases. This story starts at the beginning of the first series, and since I can't possibly write all the cases that have happened, I'll probably make up new ones. I'll have two OC characters in addition to Speed, Eric, Horatio, Megan and Calleigh. Anyway, sorry r any mistakes that might occur, but this is a slightly AU thing.

Chapter One

Bedroom. Bathroom. Kitchen. Bathroom. Bedroom and back to bathroom in a rush. That was her path every morning for two years now, and she doubted she'd change it any time soon. Not that she wished to do so, so it didn't matter.

She checked her reflection one more time on the mirror just beside the front door of her apartment and gave herself a satisfied grin. Her hair was pulled back in a clean and simple pony tail, falling into curly bangs on her shoulders. She pushed her glasses to the top of her nose, since they had the annoying habit of falling to the tip of her nose giving her a clumsy nerd look. Not that she knew, but they did. Although, it made her look cute, that clumsy nerdy cute. She wore little make-up, just a touch of lipstick and some eyeliner, but you couldn't really tell with the glasses. It was just for her to feel a little prettier, you know. Overall, she looked serious and nice, so she grabbed her keys and walked quickly to her car. She was probably late again.

She knew that someone would have probably taken coffee to the lab, so she didn't have to stop by Starbucks, and she went on her merry way to the Miami Lab, with Back in Black playing on her radio, like some alternative movie soundtrack.

She felt the sun on her back, and felt slightly annoyed at the fact that it was going to be another hot sunny day. It was a little stupid that someone who liked cold and winter would leave in Miami, but yeah. She felt strange and it was just one of those days.

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Anna Marcs entered the lab with her usual expression of thoughtfulness on her face, and she bit her lip walking towards the elevator. She felt a little awkward waiting with people she only knew by face, but she shrugged off the feeling. She was long over being a shy teen, and a shy young adult. She was now a… not-as-shy and getting a-little-older adult?

Something like that. Yes, one could say that Anna wasn't the most social person on the world, but she wasn't any sort of socialphobiac. She just didn't handle being around people she didn't know well in a perfect manner. Some have it in them, some didn't. She kept her eyes on the marble floor, as she waited for the doors to open, and looked over at her watch. She was two minutes away from being late to Megan's request for her to see her.

The doors opened and she looked up and smiled slightly. Alleluia. She got on the elevator, saying sorry under her breathe every time she had to step on someone's shoes because it was just a little crowded and no one seemed willing to move a little more to the right for her to get some breathing space.

Finally, she managed to get a corner in the back of the elevator (she hated being in the front), and rested her back against the cold metal and bit her lip in a thoughtful manner and waited for the doors to close. But just as they were about to close, she heard a familiar male voice that made her eyes roll.

"Hold it!," Eric Delko's voice was probably the last thing she wanted to heard that morning, unlike the whispering women beside her that sent him lusty looks, making Anna roll her eyes again. Now, don't her wrong, she would admit he was a very good looking guy, tall, dark and built, but after working with him for two years of constant fighting and bickering they sort of were the best people to leave alone in a room.

He stepped into the tiny space just in time and shot a thankful smile at the woman that had done it, a skinny and small blonde that looked like she had been left out on the sun for too long, making the woman smile back and then eye her friends and giggled like an idiot. Anna gave out a loud snort, and crossed her arms as her gaze fell on the back of his head.

She though about the current case she was working on with Speed, and she though about the victim with a small feeling of disgust. After a while she got used the blood, the dead bodied and the violence, but still you had to feel a little weird about the things you saw on a daily basis as she did with her job, or else, you wouldn't be alive would you?

This victim had been found decapitated, naked and bruised like he had taken the beating of his life. They were still trying to find out who it was, since no match for the DNA or the finger tips came up, and the head was pretty much all screwed. She knew Speed was fallowing a lead on the place he was found and today they were supposed to go and talk to the owner of the building.

The elevator finally reached her floor, and she pushed some people out of the way to get to the door. Being polite got old after you spent two minutes on an elevator filled with stupid women and annoying people taking away all your air and personal space. She got out and heard the doors close behind her with a metal noise. She was very much aware that beside her was the man she had no intention to talk to that day.

The funny thing about Delko was that he had a special talent to guess the days when she really wasn't in the mood for his constant jokes and comments. Really, the man was a mind reader, seriously. They started walking at the same time, without exchanging a word and she noticed with dry amusement that the situation was a little silly. They were walking side by side, and apparently towards the same place yet they didn't exchange a word, not even a glance of polite acknowledgement. In her mind, she though he was probably waiting for the perfect time to attack as another part of her mind told her he probably did not care she was there, just as she did not care he was there. Or something.

Finally, they both stopped in front of Megan's office and she shot him a strange look. He looked down on her with a similar expression and nodded. Well, he was politer then she was, she'd give him that. But not wanting to be the lesser person, she nodded back with a big, pearly white smile that could almost reach her ears if she tried a little harder.

Eric looked at Marcs and rolled his eyes at her, giving her an annoyed look. He hated when she did this, when she flashed him that fake smile that screamed she couldn't stand him, or when she would silently give him frustrated looks just because the were in the same room. She wasn't an unpleasant person, she wasn't stupid, dumb or slow. Sure, she gave was a good person to bicker with since she got all worked up about things, and she could come back with some decent answers every other time, but on a daily basis she was a plain bitch around him, while around Speed or Calleigh she was okay.

It's not like he hated her or anything, and he knew he could be as annoying to her as she was to him, but seriously, she could be a stuck up idiot when she wanted to. The reason why they didn't get along was still fresh in his mind, because everyday she'd say some sort of joke about it and then play stupid, acting like it was perfectly reasonable. Another thing that annoyed him.

Fact is, Anna could really be a stuck up. She didn't mean to be so, and she really wasn't an egocentric person, per se. But she was that sort of person who just did not let go of a subject until she proven she was right, and tended to sort of rub it in the face of the people who though otherwise. She was proud and she would rarely admit she had made a mistake, something that made Eric crazy.

After a few awkward moments in front of Megan's office, Anna finally knocked on the door and crossed her arms in a defensive manner. She hated feeling like this. Stupid. She always felt stupid around him. Stupid idiot.

Megan came to the door and smiled at the two. From her point of view, the two were perfect to work together, since they filled each other's faults. She was persistent and clever but se could be a little too quiet for her own good, and too proud to admit she made a mistake and go back to the evidences. As for him, he was hard working and focused but he could get a little sidetracked when he got emotionally involved.

And that was why she was putting them together in the decapitated victim case. She needed Speed to work in her case, and Calleigh was working with Horatio, so Eric and Anna had to work together on this one.

"So, I just wanted to tell you guys that you'll be working on the decapitated victim together since I need Speed on my case," Megan spoke slowly, waiting for reaction.

Anna raised her eyebrows slowly at Megan, and Eric looked form Megan to Anna with a neutral look, although not a very pleased one. It wasn't like they could argue with Megan, and it would be childish to take it up to Horatio. And after all, they could take working together for a couple of days. Right?

"Okay," Anna said before Eric could answer anything and relaxed her face, that fell into a displeased expression and she looked at Eric, meeting his gaze. They didn't hate each other. They just didn't like each other on a personal basis, but that shouldn't get in the way of their work, so they had to accept it…

"So, go…,"Megan said to them, as she looked weirdly at the two standing, silent and stone looking people in front of her, as they stayed there, eyeing her with neutral looks on their eyes, like they were accepting an unavoidable death.

Eric moved first and walked out the door and Anna followed behind and closed the door behind her.

"So, let's go, partner," She said her voice obviously filled with excitement as she looked up at him and rolled her eyes," We need to find the owner of the building where the victim was found," She said as she started walking with him beside her. He looked at her and gave her a nod that told her to lead the way. So, she did.

End of Chapter

I'm very sorry but something is wrong with my fingers today, so it was a crappy first chapter. But the next will be better [ I hope anyway XD R&R