Hannah Powers was 34 years old when she met Spencer Reid at the FBI academy. He had just arrived a couple of days earlier. She had tall, thin with flaming red hair and green eyes. Very athletic type of woman who didn't care if she got her hands dirty. Spencer Reid couldn't take his eyes off her.
"We became close friends. I can tell you when I first met him he was like a child. Had never dated a woman, had never...well, I'm not getting into that but you know what I mean. "
Hannah Reid paused for a moment. JJ had looked over her paperwork. Hannah Powers-Reid went to the FBI academy when she was 21 years old. She was at the top of her class. Was one of the best FBI agents in the field. When she was 35 years old, she retired and went to live in a farm house in West Virginia that she had inherited from her grandfather, the house the team had seen earlier. The money she inherited allowed her to do so. After she left the bureau, she basically disappeared off the radar. Other agents that she worked with hadn't seen her in years.
"Spencer and I got married two years after I retired from the bureau. Guess he never bothered to tell you guys about it until years after the fact. . We already had two children, so we thought it best to tie the knot. I was pregnant when I retired. Well, we had a total of four children (a set of twins and two births). I had two babies in one year. One in January, the other in December. He wanted me to have as many children as I could. After four, I've had enough. We joked about him getting another wife and he did as Spencer was concerned about my age. After 40 is getting old for childbirth.
JJ couldn't believe what she was hearing. Nor could the rest of the team who were in another room watching the interview via TV. The Spencer Reid they knew was afraid to have any children. He also didn't date women or seem to have interest in women romantically. . He was shy and clumsy around them. None of this made any sense to any of them.
It appeared to Hotchner that Hannah pretty much ran the show and controlled the lives of the three other women. . To a certain degree she controlled Reid. It appeared that way at the farm house and evidence taken from the farm house proved this. Reid had mentioned to him last year that he had married a woman named Hannah but he had never met her. He had not idea that she was Hannah Powers. He never mentioned that he had children with her or any other woman.
