[DISCLAIMER: I do not own Criminal Minds or any characters but I do own the plot and any characters I have made up]

Authors Note - This takes place in season 6 - JJ/Prentiss have not left, Hotch is the leader and Spencer has his new haircut

F.B.I Behavioural Analyst Unit
Quantico, Virginia

Spencer Reid was sitting at his desk bright and early on Monday morning waiting for the rest of his team to arrive so they could discuss their new case. Agent Jennifer Jareau known as JJ their Media Liaison officer who deals with the media and the local police was in Erin Strauses office, talking at her desk. Spencer wondered what they were talking about, maybe their new case? When he heard the elevator doors open, he looked over and saw two other members of his team arrive; Supervisory Special Agent Emily Prentiss and Supervisory Special Agent Derek Morgan.
They walked past Spencer on their way to their own desks "Hey Reid" Prentiss greeted him as she placed her coffee on her desk "Where's everyone?" asked Derek.
Spencer nodded to the Directors office "JJs talking to Strause but I no idea where Hotch or Rossi are".
Morgan looked up from his desk and saw one of his best friends Penelope Garcia their Technical analyst walking towards them in one of her usual bright outfits "Hey baby girl" Morgan greeted her and Garcia's face lit up
"What's cooking good looking?" she replied which made Morgan smiled his usual big grin back at her "Do you know what's happening with JJ?" asked Prentiss but Garcia shook her head.
Spencer heard the elevator door open once again and looked over expecting to see his other two team members, but it wasn't. A young woman stepped out of the elevator, looking from side to side. Morgan noticed Spencer starring at this woman
"Hey genius, why don't you go talk to her? See if she needs any help?" and he winked at him "Yeah Reid, she looks pretty lost" added Prentiss smiling cheekily at him.
Reid looked over again at the woman who just begun walking when some documents she was holding fell to the ground. "Here's your chance" Morgan said getting up from his desk and pulling back Reid's chair to go over and talk to her. Reid quickly walked over and helped the woman to pick up her documents "Thanks so much for the help" she said standing up straight and smiled at Reid which made him blush. He was speechless; he didn't know how to speak to girls, let alone pretty girls. Spencer looked at this girl and noticed her eyes were light blue unlike JJ's whose' were dark and had light brown hair with highlights.
The girl could see how nervous Spencer was so she spoke again trying to break the awkwardness"So... do you think you could point me in the direction of Erin Strauses' office?"
Spencer nodded "Oh yeah sure. It's the office at the top of the stares" he said pointing to where JJ and Erin were talking. The girl smiled at him thankfully "Thanks" and walked away but before reaching the stairs looked back at Spencer and smiled again.

About 10 minutes had passed and Morgan, Prentiss, Garcia and Reid were all waiting in the BAUs conference room when JJ walked out of Erin Strauses office chatting to the girl Spencer had talked to. When she walked into the conference she spoke
"Sorry about this morning guys, it's been a bit hectic. This is Trainee Agent Samara Walker"
"Sam's fine" she said with a wave of her hand
"This is Special Agent Derek Morgan" JJ said looking at the gorgeous black man as he got up and shook Sams hand "Morgan specialises in fixations and obsessive behaviours"
Then Prentiss stood up "This is Special Agent Emily Prentiss" Sam shook her hand as Prentiss pulled back some of her dark brown fringe from her eyes then Garcia waved ecstatically at the new girl
"This is our Technical Analyst Penelope Garcia" Garcia jumped up and down flinging her newly red dyed hair "and this is Dr Spencer Reid" Spencer embarrassingly waved "Who I believe you have already met" JJ added
"Doctor? In what?" Sam asked "Mathematics, Chemistry, Engineering and Psychology and Sociology" Sam looked impressed "Wow"
"He also has an eidetic memory and can read 20,000 words per minute" Added Morgan giving Reid a cheeky look
"Sam's going to be tailing us for a few weeks as part of an final assessment for her training in the FBI. The other two members of the team you will meet when we land." JJ said starting to walk out of the office "Where we off to?" Prentiss asked
"Beverly Hills".

On the jet Morgan and Prentiss were facing Reid when Samara came and sat next to him. Reid did a double take as she sat down and Prentiss and Morgan smirked at each other.
"Over the past month in Beverly Hills 2 girls have been murdered in their own homes" JJ said as she handed each team member files of the two cases.
"No sexual assault" Morgan as he said as read the coroner's report
"Look at the way the bodies are staged, whoever did this didn't care about them" Prentiss observed and JJ nodded "Amy Hills victim number 1 went to West Beverly High but victim number 2 Melissa Graves didn't. Garcia, could you look up and see if Amy and Melissa might have known each other somehow?" asked Prentiss
"That's what I'm here for, over and out" JJ looked at Trainee Agent Walker "Sam, Hotch said he'd like you to Reid go over the victimology and because you haven't got your gun licence approved yet, you need to stay with one of us at all times."
Sam nodded "Of course".

Once the team arrived at the Beverly Hills Police station they were greeted by Hotch and Rossi "Hotch, Rossi this is Trainee Agent Samara Walker" They all shook hands "It's a pleasure to be working with both of you"
Hotch nodded with all seriousness and showed the team to the conference room to get straight to work "By the looks of the crime scene photos, the first victim Amy Hills was hit to the back of the head with a lamp found in her own home" he said pointing at a photo of the lamp on the white board
"And by what we can tell the body wasn't moved and the UnSub left as soon as he killed Amy" Rossi added.
"So by the looks of it, it was a blitz attack" Prentiss concluded.
Reid got up and looked closely at the crime scene photos "Amy was hit in the hallway near the front door, so maybe she let the UnSub into the house?" Sam spoke up "She knew her attacker" she said with all confidence "So she knew her attacker but the UnSub was disorganised, he didn't take the murder weapon, dropped it right next to the victim and ran"
"But knew to wipe the prints off the doorknob and lamp" Morgan said.
They all stood in silence for a few seconds until Hotch spoke up "The second victims crime scene is still locked off, Morgan ,Rossi, Prentiss and I will go to see if we can see anything more. JJ make sure the media don't get wind of this, two teenage girls killed in their own homes in one month is not something we want to publicise just yet. Reid, you and Walker will find out anything about the Victims, see if anything crosses over between them".

FBI Trainee Agent Samara Walker was looking over the crime scene photos in a spare office of the Beverly Hills police station while Dr Spencer Reid was writing on the white board
"So Amy Hills was 17 years old & went to West Beverly High school and the second victim Melissa Graves also 17 went to a Private school on the East Shore but both live in the same 90210 zip code" Reid said backing away and looking at the white board.
Sam went and stood next to him "They could know each other through anything? Sport maybe?" just then JJ walked in the door holding her phone up to her ear
"Garcia's on the line and she's cross referencing Melissa and Amy's lives to see if they've ever exchanged paths" JJ placed her phone on the table and clicked a button so Garcia was on speaker phone"Hello my lovelies"
"Hey Garcia" Reid said sitting down at the table while Sam and JJ stood.
"Okay so the 2 victims had nothing in common except they lived in the same zip code"
"Really? Nothing?" JJ asked
"Nope my darling. They were both 17, lived in the same area and that's it. I pulled their school records and they were both average students"
"What else did you find out from their school?" asked Sam "All I could get was their academic records my young one" Sam half laughed at Garcia's comment and looked at JJ who laughed back at her
"Keep looking Garcia, anything else you can come up with" "Don't worry my sweet, you'll be the first to know" and Garcia hung up
"Is she always like that?" Sam asked Reid but JJ replied "You get use to it" she said picking up files and walking out of the office.
Sam walked to catch up to her, while holding the rest of the files "What's next JJ?" Sam asked "Well when Hotch & the others get back, I'll be told if I need to have press conference. But I'm sure the others will have some news for us by seeing the second crime scene today" and just as she said that the rest of the team arrived and they all walked back into the office.

Hotch told Reid, JJ and Sam what they saw at this crime scene "It was the same cause of death but this time, the UnSub brought their own weapon instead of finding something at the scene" Hotch looked at Sam "Agent Walker, can you tell me what this means?"
Sam was a bit caught off guard by Hotch's sudden interest in her ideas, she looked around the room at the other agents staring at her "I would say their evolving"
Hotch nodded "The UnSub strikes after 4pm, so he could be a teacher or someone like that who has a job from the hours of 8 – 4pm. Reid you and Walker go to each girls high school and find out as much as you can about them and their teachers. We never know what we might find" Hotch and Rossi walked out of the room with JJ, while Prentiss, Reid, Morgan and Walker looked at the new crime scene photos from Melissa Graves
"When should we go to the schools?" Sam asked Reid. "We'll go now but err Morgan, you should come too so we can interview more people at once" Reid said quickly getting up and leaving the office.
Samara looked at Prentiss and Morgan "Did I do something wrong?" she asked them. Morgan laughed and got up out of his seat and followed after him. Prentiss smiled at Samara "How long am I going to be seen as the new kid Emily?" Sam asked and Prentiss shrugged
"It took them a year to let me in, but as for Reid don't take it personally. I think he just doesn't know how to act around you. He's been the young one of this team for so long"
"Is he like jealous or something?" Emily smiled "I think its more along the lines of your more his age...and he may be intimidated by your age and looks.
Meanwhile Morgan caught up with Reid as he was heading to the BAUs assigned black SUVs "Hey kid, can you be a little more subtle?" Reid looked at Morgan "What are you talking about?"
Morgan laughed again as he leant against the SUV "You know for a genius, your not that smart when it comes to women" Reid sighed "I'm not like you. I can't act normal and charming around girls"
Morgan opened the door as he saw Sam walking towards them "Since when do you act normal anyway?" Morgan looked back to see how far Sam was from then and whispered "Just act cool Reid"

Once Reid, Morgan and Walker arrived at West Beverly High they saw that it was lunchtime and all the students were outside eating. They walked up a path that lead to the school hallways
"Garcia sent me Amy Hills class schedule, so I'll go talk to the principle and you two go find some of her teachers" Morgan walked off before Reid could say anything back to him.
After talking with a few teachers, Reid and Sam found themselves with Amy's English teacher "Can you tell us about Amy? What kind of student was she? How was she socially?" Reid asked.
"Amy was a lovely girl, average student, kept out of trouble with the teachers..." Sam interrupted her "What do you mean with the teachers? Did she have trouble with some of her classmates?"
the teacher nodded "There has been some incidents involving some other girls in her year, some bullying. But the principle sorted it all out" Reid and Sam shared glances at each other "Could we have the name of some of the girls who had trouble with Amy?"

Morgan met up with Reid and Sam shortly after their discussion with the English teacher "We found out Amy had been involved in some bullying with some other girls in her year"
Morgan nodded "The principle told me the same thing, but apparently they had resolved it." Sam sniggered "Since when does bullying stop just because the principle says it has?" she asked rhetorically.
Morgan got out his phone and rang Hotch, putting it on loud speaker "Hotch, do you want us to talk to some of the other girls? Find out what happened?" "Go talk to them, but Agent Walker?" Samaras head popped up "Yes Sir?" she replied "You're more their age, you do most of the talking but Morgan and Reid guide her through it".

As they walked outside into the quad, they saw one of the girls was waiting for them after been called out of class "Sorry for calling you out of class" Samara said as they approached the girl and she shrugged "Only biology, not missing out on anything"
Sam sat next to the girl where Reid and Morgan sat across "I'm Special Agent Morgan, this is Dr Reid and Agent Walker" The girl looked at Samara with curiosity "You look young to be an FBI agent" Sam smiled
"So Carly, what can you tell us about Amy Hills?" asked Morgan. Carly rolled her eyes "Amy was in the so called Popular group and a cheerleader"
"So in other words, everyone liked her?" Morgan said and Carly nodded "No one could see how fake she & those other girls were."
Sam then spoke "What did they do?" Carly started playing with her hands "They use to make up rumours about other girls – anything. One rumour was that a new girl came to a party of one of Amys friends... I think it was Tiffany Barlocks and they all said that she slept with half of the football team that night"
Reid looked at Morgan with concern "Then what happened?" asked Sam "The girl was mocked for months and called names"
"So Amy wasn't nice to a lot of girls. What about you?" asked Morgan.
Carly picked up her bag and took out her laptop "Ill show you what she did to me" Carly opened a webpage and showed the 3 agents "She made a website about you with fake photos?" Sam said in a disgusted tone
"She also posted them around the school" Carly closed the laptop "That's when I went to the principle. We all got called in for a peer counselling session, Amy said she was sorry, but a week later, it just started up again" Carly stopped when she heard the bell ring "I'm not the only girl she's done this too" she said getting up and grabbing her bag "I'm just going to say, there are plenty of girls who want her dead" and she walked away.

Reid, Morgan and Walker told the rest of the team along with Garcia on the phone what they had found out about the two victims "After going to both schools & talking with each victims teachers & friends, we found out they both share similarities" Morgan started and looked to Reid
"Amy Hills & Melissa Graves both fell under the Popular crowd in their school, both cheerleaders, average students and were also class bullies towards other girls in their year" Reid pointed out.
"So we have ourselves a type of victim" Prentiss said
"It all sounds like they were getting what they deserved" Garcia said over speaker phone, Sam agreeing with what the techie was saying"Yeah they were the typical Mean girls, making life hell for anyone who wasn't considered popular" Sam said sitting herself down next to JJ.
"I guess high school hasn't changed" JJ said while looking at the crime scenes again "I remember how hard it was for me sometimes, I could hardly get motivated to get out of bed to go to school" Prentiss said looking at the other girl agents "Moving schools all the time, I never had set friends but in every school I went too, there were those Mean girls"
JJ nodded "They use to call me & my friends 'Teases' and such just because we wouldn't go out partying because we had to train all through the week"

Morgan knelt against the wall and folded his arms "Dam, hearing all this makes me glad I was a jock in high school"
"Being a jock has nothing to do with it, your a guy enough said" Prentiss teased Morgan "Hey, I was a 12 year old, graduating high school student in a Las Vegas public high school. I got my fair share of bullying" Reid said and then Rossi stepped in
"This isn't a sexist debate, but by what Emily and JJ have said makes sense. Girls terrorise each other in high school"
"What are you saying Rossi? That maybe the Unsub is someone from their school?" Hotch asked
"It makes sense, I could have killed heaps of girls who picked on me in school" Garcia said over the phone once again. Sam looked at Morgan and Reid "We interviewed heaps of girls at both schools, complaining of being bullied, anyone of them had motif & could be the killer"
and just then JJ's phone rang "There's been another murder". The whole team looked around at each other and got up at the same time to leave the police station
"This Unsub is getting bold" Hotch said to his team "Agent Walker, stay with JJ & Reid. We have to catch this guy soon, or we'll have more bodies piling up on us".

Sam got into the black SUV, sitting next to Reid with Emily Prentiss & Derek Morgan in the front seats. As Sam was putting in her seat belt, her hand and Reids touched
"Sorrry!" Reid apologised and looked away quickly to stare out the window. Sam smiled to herself, she could understand now why Reid had been acting weird towards her all day. Reid was attracted to her but didn't know how to control his feelings, Sam was intrigued by Reids composure and oddness... maybe this FBI training would be more than just a learning curb for her? Maybe she could help Reid in the romance department? Samara Walker looked outside her window and then looked to her side and watched as Reid babbled on about some random statistic to Morgan and Prentiss.
Maybe this guy was different? She thought to herself. Of course he was different! She thought again, maybe different would be good for her? She would have to wait and see...

What do you think of the new FBI Trainee agent? Will she crumble & fall? And is she the right kind of girl for Reid?

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