A/N: I'm sort of fudging the timeline of the show please bare with me. Also I have no clue how the selection process for the FBI goes so yeah this probably is not realistic at all. Enjoy!
Chapter Three
August 12th, 2009
It's hard to believe that in two months it would be three years since that fateful day. A lot has changed, my family moved from New York, my father took a job in Maryland. Happy to report that he doesn't use his job to hide anymore, his ASL is improving but he's still not that great but it's a start. Emily loves her new school, I think being here is doing her good, she's making lots of friends and its a fresh start for her and Dad.
Currently Dad and I were apartment hunting for myself. I graduated from NYU early, I had been enrolled at the FBI academy from almost a year now. I hope it won't be long and I'd be able to call myself a Federal Agent. Until next time...
Forever Always,
E.A.
"Alright kiddo, this is the fourth apartment we looked at today. Are you sure you want to move out on your own?" Dad asked as I put my journal back in my messenger bag.
"Don't you think I should? Not knowing what my hours may be like, I don't want to disturb you and Emily relies on a normal schedule." I answered looking out the window as dad drove.
"I'm not saying this because I doubt your abilities, it's just your not an Agent yet. Maybe we should just wait to see how things pan out." I sighed, dad was a hundred percent right. I looked over to dad and smiled as he continued driving down the highway.
"Your right, we should wait." I answered.
-Seven Months Later-
~Hotchner's PoV~
It was a down day for the BAU, a day to catch up on paperwork as we had no active cases. Gideon was taking up residency in the seat across from my desk, our discussion topic just so happened to be that of Derek Morgan and the case which targeted him as the Unsub. We agreed to never mention Morgan's past outside of case documents.
Our conversation was interrupted by a knock on my office door. "You can come in." I called out, my eyes were still glued to the file in front of me. I looked up as the door opened to find Gideon's attention had pulled to J.J. as well. "Case?" I asked.
"Not at this time sir." J.J. answered though she held files in her hands. "Actually I'm here because it's the BAU's turn to select a FBI Academy candidate for field training." J.J. explained as he crossed the office to hand me the three files she was holding.
"Only three candidates?" Gideon asked.
"There were five in total this round. We're the third department to choose." J.J. answered.
"Why so few this round?" Gideon again asked, I could understand his curiosity it was rare to have so few.
"Actually this is a breakout round, early graduates." J.J. explained.
"Early graduates? Like Reid early?" I asked taking the files and opening the first.
"I couldn't tell you, I can say Desenberg was recommending the last file to the BAU. Anyway our selection is due by Friday." J.J. responded taking her leave.
"Do you want to stay and look through their profiles?" I asked Gideon, the file before me a thirty-four year old make, degree in criminal justice. High marks at the academy. Gideon remained in his seat, his answer obvious. "Richard Phillips, I know it's just field practice but I don't see anything here that matches him to the BAU." I stated handing Gideon the file.
The second file held a thirty-two year old male, a degree in forensic science, six years of service for Metro P.D. Again high marks at the academy. "Nathan Harris, he looks more suitable than Phillips." passing the second file, Gideon gave a curt nod.
"Your right, he looks good. What about the third? I'm curious why would recommend someone for profiling." Gideon stated skimming through Harris' file.
Opening the third file I was surprised , I was met with the face of a twenty-two soon to be twenty-three female. Not just any female either, Erin Adele. "Interesting. Is this the same Erin Adele from the New York case three years ago?" I asked moving the file so Gideon had a better angle while I continued to read. Of the three files she had the highest marks in the academy. She completed her college degree in three years, majoring in Basic Behavior and Social Science, minoring in Communications and Linguistics.
"Give her three Ph.D's and I would think we were looking at Reid's transcript from the academy. She doesn't look like she's changed much." Gideon confirmed. "Desenberg noted student shows a heightened sense of detail, mental patterns." he read out loud from the file.
"Mental patterns? What do you think she meant by that?" I asked.
"Think back to her father's abduction, she looked at the board for what maybe five minutes?" Gideon stated analyzing the notation with her actions.
"She pieced together the Unsub's target motivation as if it was a simple pattern." I supplied following his train of thought.
Taking the time to reread the three files in front of us it was easy to determine that Richard Phillips wasn't a good candidate to have temporarily on their team. The decision now was between Nathan Harris and Erin Adele.
"Who would you choose?" I asked Gideon, he shrugged.
"Depends, are you choosing for the sake of the exercise or for a future team member?" Gideon answered with his own question. He always did have a way of guiding me without actually voicing his guidance directly.
The next morning I informed J.J. of our decision so she could pass on the final two candidates to the last branches. Our new temporary team member would be starting in a week.
