December Skie stepped out of the elevator and into the BAU trying desperately to keep her nerves in check. She held her recommendations along with her file in her shaking hands and tried to calmly make her way around the people. She had no idea where Agent Hotchner's office was and she was looking around trying to find his name on one of the doors. As she continued to look she slammed right into someone. Her papers went flying and she tumbled to the floor.

"I am so sorry, I wasn't looking where I was going and I- I'm just so sorry." she rambled as she frantically tried to put her papers back in order. She glanced up to look at who she had ran into an was stunned. He was skinny and tall and just about the most gorgeous man she had ever laid her eyes on…and he was getting on his knees to help pick up her papers.

"No, it was my fault. I was thinking of something and was totally out of it." he said, both of them standing and then him handing her back her papers. "Are you ok?"

"Uh, yeah. I'm fine. Thanks for helping me pick all this up." she said extending her free hand, "I'm December Skie, Emmy for short."

He grabbed her tiny hand in his large one and gave it a shake. "Reid, Spencer Reid."

"No way!" she said as her shock began to grow deeper. "I have heard so much about you. My Granddad talks about you all the time!"

"Oh, uh, really? Well who's your Granddad?" he asked looking at her like she had lost her mind. Emmy felt her face turning bright red and cursed the fact that she had such fair skin.

"Sorry, maybe I should have told you his name first, Jason Gideon."

"Wow! Really? I had no idea! I mean I knew he had a son and a daughter, but I never knew his kids had kids."

"Yeah, well Granddad has been staying with mom and me since he retired from the BAU and he talks about everyone here, but mostly you. He's really proud of you. Talks all the time about Dr. Reid. You should really go visit him if you get some time off, he would enjoy it."

"That would be great, I would have visited him sooner but I had no idea where he was. In his letter he just said he needed to get away."

"December." Hotchner's voice came from the top of the stairs and it had Reid tuning around and Emmy's head snapping upward. "I was beginning to think you weren't going to show, shall we get on to the interview?"

"Uh, yes, sorry. I ran into Dr. Reid here, literally, and then we got to talking about Granddad. Nice meeting you Dr. Reid."

"Just Reid is fine, or Spencer, whichever."

"Spencer." she said blushing slightly and walking toward the stairs.

Morgan walked up to Reid who's eyes never left Emmy.

"Hey Reid," he said and thrust a box of tissues at him, hitting him right in the chest, "wipe the drool." Reid just frowned at him and sat at his desk to go through paperwork.

Emmy sat across from Hotch in his office as he went through her file. "So how's Gideon?"

"Getting better. He just takes it day by day."

"That's good. Tell him I say hi."

"Will do."

Hotch closed the file and looked at her.

"Does he know you're here?"

"No." she told him looking down at her hands. "He knows I've been training to become a profiler. He doesn't know that I actually finished the training before he even retired. He doesn't know I'm here either, so I hope you don't think he pulled some strings to get me here today. I have worked very hard to be here."

"I know you have, and I wasn't suggesting that Gideon pulled some strings to get you here. He used to fill me in on your progress in school all the time. You're only twenty-two and already finished with all of college and you're sitting in my office today. You do realize that you will be the youngest member on the team, even younger then Reid right?

"Yes, sir. I realize that."

"Why do you want to be a profiler?"

"Because I want to stop the monsters. I know that you may not always win, and I know that things don't always end the way you want them too, and good guys don't always triumph, but sometimes they do. Sometimes you stop the monsters from hurting more people. I want to do that. Stop the monsters."

"You know you can't choose this just so you can go on some crusade because of what happened when you were ten, don't you December?"

"I know, but if I can stop what happened to me from happening to another then I did what I set out to do. I stopped a monster."

A knock came at the door at that moment and J.J. walked in. "Sorry to interrupt but, I have a case that requires immediate attention."

"Ok, get everyone into the conference room." J.J. nodded and closed the door. "Well Agent Skie, welcome to the team." Hotch said standing up and shaking her hand.

Reid sat at his desk doing his paperwork trying to concentrate solely on the files in front of him. As simple as the task usually was for him, it now seemed to pose a problem. His thoughts were consumed with Emmy. Gideon had never mentioned having a granddaughter, and certainly not one that was as beautiful as she was. She was short, maybe 5'1, 5'2. Her hair was brown and it stopped at her chin. She was fit but not skinny, maybe slighlty pudgy, and for some reason Reid felt drawn to her. It was outrageous! He had never really been interested in anyone. Yeah he had dated a couple of times in his life but he had always been the weirdo type. Most girls didn't ever really enjoy his company because no one really cared about hearing statistic's on just about everything and being told the history of everything they started talking about.

Reid had faced the fact a long time ago that he wasn't exactly dating material. He never really got interested in many girls either. He was usually to busy with work and when he wasn't he was writing to his mother or just relaxing, and he rarely had time for that. Sleeping wasn't exactly an easy thing so when he had time to do so he tried to take advantage. He looked toward the office behind him and saw J.J. sticking her head through the door. He still couldn't believe she was here for an interview. She looked really young, younger than himself. J.J. closed the door and turned to the team.

"Guys, we got a case." she said. The team made their way to the conference room. When Hotch entered with Emmy Reid's heart flipped into his stomach. Her face was lit with determination and happiness.

"Everyone, this is Agent December Skie, she is joining the BAU and will be working her first case with us today, make her feel welcome. December these are Agents Derek Morgan, Emily Prentiss, David Rossi, Jennifer Jareau or J.J., and you already met Reid."

"Hello, pleasure to meet you all, I have heard so much about all of you." she said smiling at everyone. They all looked a bit puzzled by the fact that she knew them.

"Gideon is her grandfather." Reid told them, shock surfaced first on everyone's face then and they all greeted her warmly.

"I have heard of you Agent Rossi, but not through my granddad. You have quite a reputation. A very good one I might add." She said smiling at him also.

"Sorry to cut your welcome short December, but we need to here this case." Hotch said as he continued flipping through the file. "If you'll have a seat over there by Reid we can get started."

Emmy sat next to Reid and gave him a smile that was probably the sweetest he had ever seen.

"Ok, in a local high school in Tennessee four teenage boys have gone missing. The teachers say they were in their classes when the day started but as things went on one by one they disappeared." J.J. told everyone.

"Maybe they all just ditched." Morgan suggested.

"That's what they thought at first considering they are known to be best friends but then they received this." J.J. picked up a remote off the table a pointed it toward the TV, hitting a button. Four boys showed up on the screen locked in a room banging on walls and yelling for help and at the top right screen, there was a clock counting down. "they put the school on lockdown."

"What makes them so sure that the kidnapper is in the school?" Prentiss asked as the file was passed to her.

"They received a letter with it." J.J. clicked yet another button and the screen turned to show a letter on the screen. Rossi began to read it aloud.

'One more to go. They need to pay for what they've done. Everyone just lets it happen. Boys will be boys they say. Well no more. Now is the time for this to all end. They will get what they deserve.'

The Avenger

"This Unsub calls himself The Avenger, so obviously he feels that he's been wronged by these boys." Morgan said passing the file to Reid.

"Actually, I think it's a girl." Emmy said and everyone turned to look at her. Reid watched her as she stared at the letter. Inspecting it. "It says, 'boys will be boys' indicating that the Unsub may very well not be a boy. Plus the handwriting." she turned to everyone else.

"What about the handwriting?" Morgan asked looking at the letter again. "It looks like a guys handwriting to me."

"Exactly." Reid said. "I get what you mean Emmy, it looks to much like a guys handwriting."

"It looks forced." Emmy said nodding.

"That can't be determined just yet." Hotch said. " According to that clock we have 24 hours, let get going."

Chapter 1:end:

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