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Ch.1
Doctor Spencer Reid sat at his desk with his head in his hands. His head hurt so bad. He had been having headaches for half a year now and no doctors could figure out what it was.
"Excuse me." He jumps about a foot in the air and turns to where the voice had come from. There stood a young brunette with curls. She had on black jeans and a black jean jacket with a black tank top on underneath. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to sneak up on you." She says. She was standing behind Prentiss's old desk and it made him think about when he told Prentiss about his headaches.
"It's okay" He says before turning back to his computer.
She takes a step closer. "You have a headache." She says looking in his eyes.
"Yea"
"Pretty bad." She says
"How can you tell?" He asks
"You eyes, when you have a headache they react to any sudden noise or light in a different way then they normally would." She says. Wow something that he didn't know. "Here" She says reaching he bag. She pulls out a big bottle of pain medication.
"It probably won't help." He says handing it back to her.
"Never hurts to try, unless you like over dose so don't." She says not taking it back. "Can you point me to Chef Struass' office?"
"It's up the stairs and to the left and then right." He says using his hand to show where it was.
"Thank you." She says walking up there.
Reid watches her as she leaves. Then opens the bottle and pulls out two before picking up his coffee and taking them. "Another headache?" Morgan asks coming up behind him with Seaver and few steps behind him.
"Yea." He says leaning back in his chair.
"Can everyone meet me in the conference room?" Hotch asks walking down to them.
"Wait" Chef Erin Strauss says coming up behind them. "Can I see you in my office?" She asks Hotch.
"Yes Ma'am." He says following her up to her office. Now Reid was confused about who the girl he just met was. "Will you go and get Garcia and Rossi?" Hotch asks the team and they agree to.
"I wonder what that was about." Morgan says before walking off to Garcia's office.
Seaver walks off to get Rossi as Reid walks up to the conference room. I wonder who that girl was. He thinks sitting down at his spot at the table. Seaver and Rossi walk in talking about some video game they had played. Garcia and Morgan walk in a few moments after joking around.
"Does anyone know where this case is?" Morgan asks sitting down.
"No idea, Sugar Plum." Garcia says as they both sit down.
"Everyone" Hotch says walking in with the same girl who Reid had met earlier that day. "This is Agent Andris Carter. She will be working with us from now on."
The whole team paid more attention at this. "Welcome" Rossi says standing up and extending her hand to introduce himself. "I'm Agent Rossi."
"This is Agent Morgan, Seaver, Penelope Garcia and Doctor Reid." Hotch explains pointing to each of them.
"It's nice to meet you all. And I do not hope that my being here will be intrusive. I am sorry for your loss." She says walking over to the only open seat. She noticed the movement in the room. "I don't need to sit here." She says moving backward.
"Don't be ridiculous, where else would you sit?" Garcia asks. Carter pulls out the chair and sits down as Hotch starts going over the case.
Reid stood at the boarding area looking at his phone with his sun glasses on. "I didn't know the FBI had their own personal jets." Carter says walking up next to him. They were the only ones there so far.
"Yea, there pretty nice." Reid says then he thinks for a second. "How long have you been an agent?"
"Not long." She says sounding a little worried. Reid could tell she was hiding something.
"How old are you?" He asks
"How old are you?" She asks him back.
"Twenty-nine."
"Twenty-eight" Reid nods and looks back at his phone. Carter kept her eyes on the man. He was cute. She thought.
"Wow someone who is here almost the same time as Reid, that has never happened before." Garcia says walking up to them.
"I guess I am a bit of an over achiever." Carter says
Reid huffs. Which makes Carter's focus return to him. "You haven't known Reid for very long. He is the definition of over achiever." Garcia says
"Well I would love to hear about that Doctor Reid." She says giving him a smile. He looks up and smiles back at him. They hold their gaze as Garcia smirks from behind Carter.
Ch.2
It had been about a month since Carter came to work for them. Morgan, Seaver, Reid and her sat at their desks in the bullpen working on paper work.
"Go home." Hotch says walking through. "Enjoy a night off." He adds as he walks out of the office.
"Thank You!" Morgan rejoices. The rest of the team packs up to leave. Seaver and Morgan are out the door first leaving Reid and Carter alone.
"Want to do something tonight?" Carter asks without looking at Reid.
He doesn't look up just responds with. "What did you have in mind?"
"Oh... I think we can think of something." She says still not looking over but a smile comes to her face. Reid looks up at her and smiles as well.
It was dark out now. The clock on the bedside table read three am. A phone silently starts to vibrate from inside a drawl. Carter slowly get up making sure not to move her sleeping genius beside her and grabs the phone from where she hid it in a sock.
"Hello?" She whispers walking out of the room and toward the living room grabbing her clothes as she goes.
"Hey, He's headed to Paris. I booked you a flight for five am." A familiar female voice came from the other end.
Carter pulls in her jeans and her shirt from that day at work and sits down on the messy couch to pull on her boots. "Thanks J.J" She says
"Keep her safe." J.J says from the other end.
"I will."
"Good luck." She says before the line went dead. Carter stood up and walked over to a window on the other side of the apartment. She threw the phone so hard that when it hit the opposing wall it busted. She slowly closed the window and walked back over the grab the rest of her things.
"You leaving?" Reid asks walking out too.
"Yea, I can't sleep and I need to go get cloths for tomorrow anyhow." She walked over and kissed him on the lips long and hard before pulling away and saying. "I love you Spencer Reid. And don't say anything because I don't need an answer."
"Hey, He says pulling her closer. "I love you too." They kissed again.
"Bye" Carter says pulling away and putting on a jacket as she walked out the door. Next came the even tougher part. Fighting.
Ch.3
Carter walked toward a flat door and knocked. It took a while but it opened. Her hands flew up. "Let me explain." She said in a calm voice at the gun pointed at her.
Slowly it lowered and she was left in. "It's kind of boring." Carter says looking around the flat.
"Well, I hoped I wouldn't be here that long." The other women says.
Carter turns back to her. "How are you Emily?"
The other end was Agent Emily Prentiss. "I've seen better days." She says walking over and sitting down on the sofa.
Just then there was a knock on the door Carter reaches for her gun as she stops Prentiss from joining her. She looks through the peep hole before opening the door with the gun at her side. "Clyde" She says motioning him in.
The man walk in and to Prentiss. "Emily" Without a word Emily gets out of her seat and walks over to him. Without any hesitation punched him in the face.
"Well I missed something." Carter says as Clyde holds his nose to stop the blood.
Back at the BAU Reid had just walked in and sat his things down on his desk when he notices Carters' absence. He sees Seaver, Morgan and Garcia joking around at the break area. He walks over to join them.
"Well hello doctor." Garcia says slouching back in a chair. Morgan sat on the table right in the front of her. Seaver standing a few inches back.
"Have any of you seen Carter?" He asks making sure he does not let Andy slip.
"No, she has not been here yet, Maybe she is running late." Morgan says before noticing Reids' worry. "Why.. Is there some reason that you know that she should be here already?" Morgan had been wondering about them for a while now.
"No, why would I." Reid says before walking away and out of the office pulling out his phone. The rest look back at each other. Because that did not shout relationship.
"So how are we doing this?" Clyde asks in his British accent. They stand in front of a run down building.
"You take the back. Emily and I will take the front." Carter plans
"All right, good luck." He says before running around to the back.
They push open the door and run in. Ian turns around and trys to pull his gun but Carter gets to him first and shoots his hand. "God Women." He yells. He looks up at them holding his bleeding hand. "Lauren?" He asks
"It's been a while since I have been that." Prentiss says walking closer to him with her gun up.
"Camden?" He asks looking at Carter.
"Same amount of time has past since she was alive." Carter says joining Prentiss.
Then a gun shot went off and went right through Doyle's chest who falls to the floor. "Enough with the formalities." Clyde says walking up from behind him. Prentiss looked shocked. She wasn't ready to see him die.
"Emily" Carter says grabbing her as she became weak. "Clyde that was not the plan!"
"Well it was taking to long." He says
"It was barely a minute" Prentiss says
"You wanted him dead did you not?" He asks
"Lets get out of here." Carter says walking with Prentiss out of the door and down the street. A few tears fell from Prentiss' eyes as they walked.
Ch.4
Carter and Prentiss sit on the plane on the way back to D.C. Carter was asleep with a blanket covering her. While Prentiss sits starring out the window.
Carter stirs and sits up to look at Prentiss. "Emily? You okay?"
"Yea, I'm fine. Just thinking about what it will be like to see everyone again." She says looking away from the window.
"I'm sure they will be really excited. They miss you a lot."
"How would you know?"
"I took your place at the BAU so I would be close enough to work on this OP."
"Oh, How is everyone?"
"Good" Carter says looking away and smiling to herself. Emily noticed. He wondered who it was.
Carter walked into the BAU alone. Everyone's desks were empty but she saw them up in the conference room. "I had to make them stop trying to find you." J.J says coming up behind her. "Where is she?"
Carter turns to her, "In the back. I thought we could explain before so a dead women is not just walking in."
"Good idea, lets go." J.J says with a smile.
"You missed her a lot." Carter says as they walk up.
"Yea." She says. They walk in and the group turns.
"Andy" Spencer says standing and walking over to her. He had already told the team as to get them to help. She stops him as J.J and her walk to the front of the table.
"As you all know Carter has been in Paris for the last two days."
"I work for the CIA. I was never an FBI agent. I had to take this job to finish an OP that was open a long time ago."
"Now we have to tell you something that you might not understand right away." J.J starts then looks at Carter for confidence and then continues. "I lied to you three months ago. Prentiss did not die-"
"What!" Morgan yells standing up.
"She went to Paris and that was where I was."
"So where is she now?" Hotch says being the only one who could get words out.
"Right here." Prentiss says coming from the back way. Everyone runs to hug her. Carter pushes away and out to her desk.
She stands packing her things up. "So... what now?" Reid asks walking over to her.
"I go back to the CIA."
"And how far away is that?"
"It's not that far." Carter says she puts her bag over her shoulder and walks over to him. "I will see you later." She says kissing his cheek. She walks out of the BAU, as Reid watches her leave.
The next day Carter walks into the CIA in a new outfit. A deep purple dress. She walks with her coffee to where her office was smiling at people as she went. "Hello Sarah." She says to her secretary and walks into her office. She puts her coffee down on her desk and bag as Sarah comes running into the room.
"Ummm... Any." She says
"What is it?"
"The headquarters is coming to see you today."
Carter stops drinking her coffee and puts her hand to her mouth. "What?"
"They wish to talk to you about feedback they received from the BAU."
"Oh gosh." She says walking behind her dress and pulling out a jacket from a drawer and putting it on. She sits down on her desk and crosses her legs. "Go look like you are doing stuff." Carter says shoeing her out the door. Oh Goodness.