Title; Rain Days and Steamy Nights

Author; Magrat 70

Rating; T some chapters may hit M

Spoilers; up to 200 for Criminal Minds Season 3 Scott and Bailey apart from slightly AU Janet took the Sergeant job plus I have gave them the proper title of Greater Manchester Police,

Disclaimer; These characters don't belong to me, I promise to put them back when I have finished.

Author's note; Another insane idea from my insomnia. I wanted to have Prentiss and Rachel Bailey together in someway in the BAU mostly because they look like sisters and though it would give a weird dynamic. Paget, Suranne Jones, Angie Harmon, I have a type and I stick to it :-) . Still a Prentiss/ JJ so if you don't like don't read. Am I the only one who thinks Brewster and Jones could pass as sisters or is this the insomnia speaking!

Watching in The Rain

The life that I have

Is all that I have

And the life that I have

Is yours

Leo Marks

Stakeout still the most boring thing a cop could do and this one had lasted over a month,getting painstaking information in a joint operation between DCI Gill Murray's Major Incident Team and Interpol. Normally DC Bailey would be with her partner DS Scott but it had been agreed that 2 teams would mix. She had been sure that she had been paired with the leader of the interpol IRT, to keep her in check and because she looked more like her older sister than her actual sister did. She was glad Kevin had been kicked off the team or he would have spent the whole time taking the piss.

She had given her usual couldn't give a shit attitude with the American, but a month stakeout it is hard not get to know the person you're spending time with. Plus at first she had to admit that there was a lot of hero worship involved afte all she had been a profiler in F.B.I Once they got to know one another they had a surprising amount in common. The yank may have come from old money and diplomatic luxury, while Rachel had been dragged up on the tough streets of Manchester with an alcoholic father that didn't give a shit and a mother who had ran off and left them when they where kids.

The American had very little love while growing up Rachel had at least had her annoying busybody of a sister, who at least had loved and shown what family admitted the first she felt real love was from her old team in the BAU. It was only question she wouldn't answer, why she had left. The both knew the cut and burn of the ignored child, rich or poor neglect is neglect.

Prentiss's cell rang again for what seemed like the hundredth time time today.

"Tell Godzilla that nothing changed since 5 minutes ago," said Rachel, exasperated that her boss couldn't trust them. True, if the chatter they were picking up was true the arms shipment was being moved tomorrow. MI5 had chosen to ignore the intelligence from Interpol, that a one time low level gang member from Moss Side was taking a leap into the big leagues. He was the middle man in a deal between a former Irish Republican terrorist, turned gun runner and Muslim extremists. MI5 had called it a waste of time, luckily enough Greater Manchester Police had taken it deadily seriously. Prentiss had gone straight to DCI Murray, knowing the woman had been trained by Gideon & Rossi and the tough talking former profiler had done the rest.

"Hotch...Blackbird, when she was my handler we used it. If there is anything for Garcia to find that'll be it...no she would know you'd call...I will be there."

Rach, I have to go," said Prentiss, hardly able to look the younger woman in the eye.

"What the fuck Emily, this deal goes down in 36 hours, you can't piss off now."

"I have to JJ's been kidnapped, she could be dead already but I have to try...you would go if it were Janet," pleaded Emily. "24 hours is all I need,"

Rachel flashes back to a couple of years ago, Janet's blood on her hands after she was stabbed by the serial killer Geof Hastings. Her friend begging her, not to let her end up on the patholigist's table if she died. "Go, I'll get Janet to cover, but if Godzilla is on the warpath, you better come back with kevlar on."

"You're the best Rach."

"Yeah, yeah, go save the girl, come back a hero, in time for the fucking raid," said Rachel getting out of the car into another sodden Manchester day. She calls Janet and waits in local cafe that still gives her line of sight.

The older blonde pulls up outside the care about half an hour later. Rachel gets into the passenger seat, but to Janet's suprise the usually volatile DC is silent. "Gill is furious, she can't believe Emily has run out on us."

Rachel says nothing just passes her phone to Janet.

I owe you this. If I haven't come back in 24 hours I will have eaten my gun, sorry to lay this on you Rach, I left because I couldn't see her with someone else, but at least she wa alive. If she is dead I have nothing to live for. Emily

Included is a picture of a beautiful blonde woman.

"Shit."said Janet.

Couldn't put it better thought Rachel.

TBC