Reid noticed her instantly across the room. His eyes seemed drawn to hers. JJ taps him on the shoulder, "Reid, we need to have the meeting" she says.
Reid nods his head, his eyes still not leaving her. He watches as she rubs a frustrated hand through her shoulder length brown hair, with a hint of curl. She rolls her bright blue eyes at Hotch, who she is now talking to. Morgan snaps his fingers before Reid's face, "Dude!"
Reid reluctantly takes his eyes off of the young girl to glance at Morgan. "Yeah?"
"Meeting, now." Morgan says.
Reid follows Morgan into the conference room, where Emily, Rossi, and JJ are already. He takes his usual place at the far end of the table, waiting for the meeting to start. Hotch comes in quickly followed by the young girl Reid had so readily been watching. "Everybody, this is Christina Anderson, she's going to be helping with this case."
Christina glances around the room, "Not by choice I assure you." She says.
Everybody raises an eye brow at the brown haired young girl. "You could try pretending like you wanted to be here." Hotch says.
"I could try a lot of things Aaron, but lets not go there. Not that it's not nice to meet you all." She says looking at the faces around her.
"Okay, well I guess the sooner we get to the case the sooner it gets solved." JJ looks at Hotch as he sets down. "Three young mothers have been murdered in rural Kentucky. The bodies are positioned on their beds with their infants, ranging from one week to three weeks, having been placed in her arms."
"Sounds perverted." Morgan says.
"Sounds like something I read about," Reid sets up, "It's been twenty three years through, there was a string of murders like this in another Kentucky town."
"See, he knows all about it, why am I here?" Christina asks.
"Because he doesn't know the details." Hotch says.
"He's right, I don't know the details, the details were never made public, and the officers didn't really do reports on it…" Reid says looking at Christina.
"FINE!" Christina pushes herself up. "The officer that investigated was convinced it was a young man by the name of Adam Spiker. Mostly because Adam lived within walking distance of the murders, and done work for all six of the women. However no evidence was found, and the BAU was called in. The agent gave them this profile," She hands them each the profile, "And Adam did not match. As you can see this is not a sexual crime. Which actually suggest we may have a woman serial killer."
"How?" Emily asks looking at Christina.
"Because," Christina sighs, "the way the bodies were positioned was the same way a mother would feed her child. It also was the way in which the killer took such great care to lay the infant where it would come to no harm."
"Maternal instinct" Morgan says.
"Exactly, this was later confirmed when they found a single blond hair at the scene. However, no DNA was recovered." Christina continues.
"Do we know why a woman would do this?" Emily asks.
"In theory it's because she is infertal or perhaps lost her own child. Or she could have lost her own mother at a very young age." Christina looks at each face.
"How do you know all this kid?" Morgan asks looking her over, "You ant no older the Reid."
Christina shakes her head looking at Hotch, "He'll find out." Hotch says.
Christina rolls her eyes, "My father, Michael Anderson was the lead FBI agent. Three weeks after the case started, I was born. One week after bring me home," Christina throws a picture at Morgan, "He came home to find that."
"Your Mom" Morgan says looking at Christina, "Sorry."
"Don't be," Christina shakes her head, "My father chased this guy until he died, almost a year ago. I have his notes, and everything, you're welcome to it.
However I must warn you, they are very colorful notes."
"Colorful?" Reid asks slightly amused and interested.
"You're the genus right, the one who reads a mile a minute?" Christina asks looking at him, Reid blushes, "You'll see when you start reading." Christina turns to Hotch, "Am I done?"
"No, you're coming with us." Hotch says standing up.
"Shit." Christina says.
"Excuse me?" Hotch turns.
"You heard me." Christina glares at him.
"Your supervisor will be notified" Hotch says leaving.
Christina sighs deeply before following the others into the bullpen. She takes the empty desk across from Reid looking over the folder. "Are you an agent?" Reid asks.
"Do I look like an agent?" Christina asks not looking up.
"Um, I was just making polite conversation." Reid says looking slightly taken aback.
"If it's one thing my father taught me, it's that there is no polite conversation when somebody is fighting for their life." Christina looks at him. "You are?"
"SSA Dr. Spencer Reid." Reid says.
"I would say nice to meet you, although under the circumstances it's really not." Christina says leaning back, "You read the file yet?"
"Yeah, I read it while I was in the meeting." Reid says, "It's brutal, and factful."
"If that's a complement, thank you." Christina says.
"Legs up in half an hour guys, your supervisor has be notified that you won't be coming in until the case is solved." JJ says coming into the bull pen.
"I bet that thrilled him" Christina says looking at her.
"Can I ask you why you aren't happy to be here, most under agents would love something like this." JJ says.
"Yes, I just love people getting murdered, especially when they are killing young mothers." Christina says with a sigh, "It's not that I'm not happy for the advance. I just think I'm best off not getting involved. This case basically killed my father."
Three days later, the BAU come into the office. The case was trying to say the least. All of them were weary and tired. Yet there was the feeling of accomplishment that went with the catch. Christina had opened up on the plane to Kentucky, become more open to conversation, especially those with Spencer Reid. The two seemed to share a certain comrodery. Christina fell down into the seat beside his desk, "Oh gosh I'm so ready to crash."
"You didn't sleep at all did ya girl?" Morgan asks looking her over.
"And you did Mr. Work All Night." Christina looks over at Morgan.
"Okay Okay, I get it. You keep talking like that you might just become part of this team." Morgan watches her for a moment.
Reid sets down on the desk, "We couldn't have cracked this case without you."
"Oh you could have, just took a little longer." Christina smirks slightly.
"Well I hope you enjoyed working with us." Hotch says coming up to them.
"Yeah Yeah, but time to go back to my little desk right?" Christina says setting up slightly.
"Actually, you've been transferred." Hotch says.
"Transferred?" Christina raises an eye brow, "tell me you aren't about to say what I think you are."
"Welcome to the team Christina." Hotch says extending a hand.
Christina reluctantly takes his hand, "Great, I get stuck with you."
"But on the bright side, you get me." Morgan says smirking.
Christina laughs, "Thinking highly of yourself there Morgan."
"There's a lot to think of." Morgan says.
"You'll get used to him," Emily says, "Welcome."
"Thank you Emily." Christina says, "There any rule this paperwork can't wait till tomorrow?" Christina says holding up the paperwork.
"Nope." JJ says.
"Then come Reid, you're buying me a drink." Christina says linking arms with Reid. "And if you aren't careful you'll be buying for them too."
Reid laughs shakily, "Demanding huh?"
"Yeah, you think you can handle another demanding woman?" JJ asks following them out. Emily and Morgan also follow them out.
"Hey Garcia!" Christina says stopping in her office door, "Come on girl."
Garcia turns, "Something I can do for you?"
"You can get a drink with us." Christina says holding a hand out.
Garcia readily accepts as all of them make their way to the bar.