A/N: This is the first chapter of my new story. The next chapter will be up tomorrow or the day after that, it depends. All kinds of feedback is highly appreciated, but no flames please.
Disclaimer: I don't own Criminal Minds, only the original characters.
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Prologue
"See you guys Monday!" Reid called out as he walked towards the exit on Friday evening.
"Bye Reid," Morgan replied, his eyes not once leaving the report he was writing.
"Bye Spence, have a nice weekend," JJ called back, and kept her eyes on the young agent's back until he had completely disappeared from her vision. She had only been working at the BAU for two months, but had taken a liking to the young genius. He was like a baby brother.
"There's nothing like writing reports on a Friday night," Morgan sighed, and JJ agreed.
As she walked to her desk, JJ spotted something out of the corner of her eye that made her stop. She walked over to Reid's desk and picked up a framed photograph. It was a picture stripe, like the ones you get in a phone booth. In the first picture, Reid and a girl with long scraggly long red hair was laughing at the camera. By their positions JJ came to the conclusion that the girl was sitting sideways in Reid's lap, her arms around his neck and his around her waist. The second picture was like the first, except that Reid was now kissing the girl's cheek. In the third, the couple was looking at each other, now with serious looks on their faces, and in the fourth they were kissing like sweethearts.
"What are you doing?" Morgan asked, standing up and walking over to JJ.
"Who's this?" JJ held up the picture, and Morgan took it from her and looked at it.
"That's Anna,"
"I didn't know that Reid had a girlfriend,"
"Well...she isn't exactly his girlfriend,"
JJ raised an eyebrow. "Care to explain?"
"It's a long story," Morgan said, and sat down on the desk.
"I've got time," JJ persisted.
Morgan sighed before answering. "It started almost a year ago, in September. We had a case in Meridian, Mississippi; two students had been killed at a private high school. The school board didn't want any media or attention drawn to the murders, so Hotch suggested that someone would go undercover,"
"Reid?"
Morgan nodded. "He's the only one young enough to pass as a high school student, since he's only 21. Hotch weren't sure first about letting Reid go undercover, he'd only worked here for a few months." he paused. "Reid was working undercover for nearly all the school year before we caught the unsub. The janitor, if my memory's not failing me. It took three more victims before we caught him."
"What does that have to do with the picture?" JJ inquired to know.
"Be patient, it's a long story. Anyway, while he was there, he made friends with a senior girl called Anna Marshall. They became friends, and then Reid started to fall for her big time. But she didn't know him as Spencer Reid, but as Ryan Becker. She fell for him too, hard,"
"It must have been devastating for her to learn that he wasn't who she thought he was," JJ said, feeling sympathy for both the girl and Reid.
Morgan nodded. "I was there when she found out. Anna was crying, and Reid looked like he was about to cry too. They argued, she slapped him and then ran off,"
"And they haven't talked since?"
"Yes they have. Reid visited her a few days later, before we went back here. They agreed that they would take it slow until she graduated."
"When does she graduate?"
"Next weekend,"
"What's she like?" JJ was intrigued by Anna, and her relationship with Reid. It was difficult for her to picture him in a relationship, his character so far had let her know that he was very self-conscious around women.
"She's a bit like Garcia, very straightforward. If you do something that she doesn't like she'll tell you right away. I never would have guessed that she and Reid were gonna hit it off, but they did,"
"I admit, it is pretty weird thinking about Reid in a relationship," JJ confessed.
Morgan agreed, and the two agents sat in silence until a door opened and Garcia stuck her head out.
"You talking about me babycake?"
Morgan laughed. "I was telling JJ about Anna."
Garcia smiled and walked down to join the other agents. "I like Anna, she's sweet."
JJ frowned. "Wait, you know her as well?"
Garcia nodded. "I started working here in January, right in the middle of Reid's undercover work. Reid was wearing a pin with a hidden camera in it, so I saw what he saw." She paused. "Well, until he decided to shut the damn thing off as soon as he was around Anna."
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