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Author Notes: This is my first attempt at a Criminal Minds fan fiction story. Please let me know if you like the opening prologue and think the story would be worth continuing.
Where the angels live:
Prologue:
"And…" I looked up from the report I was reading. Greg tilted his head as he often did when faced with news he didn't want to deliver.
"They want us in on this."
I could feel my eyebrows go up. "An invalid eval. Seriously? I show the collaterals back him up. Hell, even his team members back him and they know his work best."
"His team back's him up too well. That's the concern." Greg started tossing the plastic foam basketball I had in my office from hand to hand. "It could be a problem. At least that's the word."
"I'm not getting something from brass. Where's the gain here. You know policy about salvaging established agents."
"Anita"
"What?"
"He killed a man with his bare hands" Greg lifted his hands for emphasis.
"Justifiable, according to his own section chief and the review board. As stated," I flipped through the two page summary report, " 'in accordance.'"
"With. His. Own. Hands." He waved his hand in front of me. I smacked at it.
"Yeah, I got that. He took leave. He passed the FFDE eval and conduct review"
"With Mority for FFDE, that couldn't of been too hard for him. Mority wouldn't even know to look beneath the answers. And this agent knows all the right answers, which is the basis for the invalid eval by brass. The conduct review isn't in question."
"Greg, they're basing the invalid eval on response manipulation. This is based on the fact that he knew all the right answers and only that. It's not legit. Not in my opinion. If it came down to it, most agents know the right answers."
"Yes, they do." Greg came behind me and rolled my chair out. "And that, my love, is why you and I are doing this. We'll make sure there is no second guessing this time so brass can't do whatever devious plot they've conjured up."
It was a losing argument and I knew it. The brass wanted something from this team. Doing an in field evaluation was rare. Someone with connections was pulling the strings on this and I'd have to find out why before this was all done.