Disclaimer: I do not own Criminal Minds.
AN: Just a little something I came up with after catching up with the show. hope you all enjoy!!!
Becca Portman put her ear buds in her ears and pushed play on her phone. Letting the music over power her ear drums. She smirked up at the camera, knowing that even though she was alone in the elevator, she was still being watched. At that moment she didn't really care as an upbeat song came through hear ear buds. She bit her lower lip and started to dance. Her long, straight, tawny brown hair swishing side to side as she bobbed her head to the beat. She did a little twirl and came face to face with an open elevator door, and two men staring at her.
"Oh sorry." Becca said as she quickly took a step back and allowed the men to enter the elevator. Her cheeks turned a deep crimson as she pushed her black framed glasses up her nose and quickly straightened her black pant suit. "I dance when I get nervous. I'm Rebecca Portman."
"Dr. Spencer Reid." The youngest of the two men said with a nod of his head. He looked down at the numbers on the elevator and quickly looked back up at the girl. "You're going to floor six as well?"
"Yeah I have an interview." Becca said with a nervous smile. She tucked a few strands of hair behind her ear and bit her bottom lip.
"With Emily Prentiss?" The other man asked and Becca nodded. The man instantly set his jaw and stared at the elevator door. Hoping the ride would be over soon. Reid gave the man an odd look, but said nothing about the sudden change in his friends mood. But for some reason he had a suspicion that this new girl was the cause of the mood rollercoaster.
When the door opened the other man quickly got out and headed for his desk. Reid on the other hand stayed back to escort Becca to Emily's office. He knocked on the door and Emily called out to say her office was open.
"There is a Rebecca Portman here to see you." Reid said with raised eyebrows. Emily cursed under her breath, clearly forgetting about the interview that morning.
"Uh, go ahead and send her in." Emily replied and was a bit surprised when the girl came around the corner behind Reid. She was dressed the part of an FBI agent. Black pant suit, light pink button up shirt under her jacket and black kitten heals. She just looked to young to be brought into the BAU. No older than twenty-two. Emily looked over the girls file once more then smiled up at the girl the girl aged well. She was close to her thirties. That could make her useful. "Have a seat. This is going to be a quick interview, we have a case."
Becca nodded. "That's ok with me. I'd rather my interview go fast if that means getting you all off finding a killer."
Emily sat back in her seat and handed the young girl a file. "Take a look at this and tell me what you see."
Becca nervously bit her lower lip and glanced over the file. "Well, the bruises on the three victims are almost identical. They look more like domestic violence victims. All three victims are blonde with blue eyes, around the same hight. So the Unsub has a specific type. I'd guess him to be around the same age as the girls. late twenties early Thirties. The woman are surrogates for the woman who has either left his abuse, or was his first kill. He is also most likely white."
Emily nodded. "Very good. Keep that file. you can come meet the rest of the team. I'm going to offer you a trial run. Make sure this is what you really want to do. This job isn't easy. I see you've done a bit of undercover work with the sex crime unit. That background could help you in this line of work. Welcome to the team. I hope you have a go bag ready."
"Go bag? "
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The rest of the team sat around their desks in the bullpen, waiting for Emily to come out of her office. They where all curious about this young girl who was interested in joining the team. They knew if the girl walked out first, she would not be joining the team, but if Emily walked out first, it meant they would have a new member to their team.
"So what do you all think?" Penelope Garcia asked nervously. She was a bit surprised to see that Emily was holding an interview. Usually she knew such things and had a full Penelope background check done.
The rest of the group looked at her in about the same surprise as she felt. They all knew her dirty secret of searching potential members.
"She doesn't seem to be built for profiling." Reid answered first. "She was dancing in the elevator."
"Oh I got to see this!" Penelope said as she pulled out her laptop and set it up on Luke Alvez's desk. She looked down at him as he sat in his chair and gave him a pointed look. Luke raised an eyebrow at her and she rolled her eyes.
"Move, Newbie." She said placing her hands on her hips. He held his hands up and got to his feet, then dramatically gestured to his chair. Penelope smiled her best fake smile and sat down in his chair "Such the gentleman."
She quickly got to work and soon had the elevator video up on her screen. The group surrounded her as they watched the girl dance wildly around the elevator. They couldn't help but chuckle when the door opened and she got caught dancing.
"Oh that's gold." Penelope said with a smirk. "I'm archiving this in case she makes the team."
Just then the door opened and Emily walked out of her office. Becca not far behind hugging a file to her chest. Penelope quickly shut her computer and smiled at Emily, hoping that her smile didn't come off as guilty.
"Everyone this is Rebecca Portman." Emily said introducing the young girl. "She'll be joining us on a trial bases. Now I would have liked to brief you all a little bit on this case, but we will just have to catch up on the plane. wheels up in twenty."
Every one went up to congratulate the new girl, except for the other man that had been on the elevator earlier. He quickly snuck away and got his phone out.
As everyone got onto the plane, they noticed that there was a couple people missing.
"Where are Rossi and Alvez?" JJ asked after Emily gave the OK to take off.
"Rossi had a family issue come up and will meet us in Iowa." Emily said then looked deep into JJ's eyes. "Luke asked to take a few personal days."
Reid gave his Unit chief an odd look. He had car pooled with Luke that morning, and the man had never mentioned needing some time off. He was about to open his mouth to ask when Emily's stern eyes warned him not too. He knew she would eventually let her know. But he couldn't help feel a bit upset that Luke hadn't said anything to him.
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"Penelope, I'm going to need those amazing skills of yours." Emily said over the phone a few minutes after they landed.
"My amazing skills are all yours beautiful. What can I do for you?" Penelope asked as she quickly got a search screen up and ready.
"This is going to need to stay just between us." Emily said, knowing she was, yet again, asking too much of the tech girl.
"Yeah of course. what's up?" Penelope said sounding a but concerned.
"Are you alone?" Emily asked and Penelope quickly got up and shut her door.
"Yes"
Emily took a deep sigh and Penelope could just imagine the woman on the other end holding the phone away from her as she debated going on with the conversation. "Garcia, I need you to do a full background search on Rebecca. I need to know what the connection between her and Luke are."
"You think our Newbie knows our new little cutie pie? " Penelope said in surprise. She really didn't have to ask. Emily didn't just ask such favors unless she already had a pretty good hunch.
"Luke has taken a leave of absence till we make a decision on Rebecca." Emily replied with another heavy sigh. "If we decide to keep her on the team... He will turn in his transfer papers. and if I deny them, he will resign from the FBI."
"But he can't do that!" Penelope demanded. "He can't just get up and leave us that easily. He's family now. We can't keep Rebecca. Send her back to where she came from."
"I don't want to see Luke go either." Emily replied. "But we don't have many applications. I can't be as picky as I usually am. We can't afford going through the application process again. Rebecca is the only one that applied with good enough credentials."
"You can't seriously be thinking of keeping her and letting Luke go!" Penelope said in shock.
"Of course not." Emily said calmly. "I need you to find out what Luke's problem is with this girl. See if it is something we can work with."
"And if it isn't?" Penelope asked worriedly.
"Then Rebecca is going to need to find a new unit to join."
