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Becca sat at her desk and nervously tapped her pen on the small pile of paperwork that seemed to have accumulated over night. She could feel the teams eyes on her. She couldn't help the paranoia that they knew she had been the reason Luke wasn't with them. It wasn't that hard to put two and two together. He had been distant the morning she showed up, then took a leave of absence when they where told she would be joining the team. She just wished he would allow her to explain.
She knew she had taken a lot of things to far with him. Wanting revenge on him after he had turned her down that first time. She had never been used to being turned down in any aspect of her life. Being an only child and the only grandchild and niece, she had been born spoiled and catered too. She wasn't used to being denied what she wanted till then. And as a selfish and petty attempted at revenge, she filled sexual harassment charges against Luke. Of course the charges didn't stick, which she was now grateful for.
Since that time she had learned that she was going to have to get used to not always getting her way. She had been looked over on a promotion she believed she deserved shortly after the whole Luke thing. But by a twist of fate, she transferred to a new unit that worked in close quarters to Luke's unit.
She had to admit the man had not changed much. Her attraction for him growing every time she laid eyes on him. She knew she should have kept her distance. He clearly wasn't interested. How could she blame him. She could have ruined his life. But she couldn't make herself stay away. For months she silently watched him from her desk. Taking notice of all his little quirks. The way he smiled at his friends jokes. Or the gentleman antics he showed to all the women he met. Even with her, he couldn't deny his upbringing and treat her any different. It was those little things that made her heart flutter every time she saw him. Even in the elevator her first day at the BAU, her heart flip flopped at the sight of him after all those years. No matter how hard she had tried to forget him, she couldn't. He was the one that had opened her eyes to the real world. The one that she didn't always get her way.
Becca looked up when she heard the elevator open and her heart seemed to stop beating as he stepped out of the elevator. He must have felt her eyes in him and glanced up meeting her eyes. The Tech woman, Garcia stepped off soon after and took Luke's arm as she led him towards her office.
"Well that's new." JJ said with a slight smirk as she looked at the other two agents in the room. Tara and Reid smirked up at her as if they all where hiding a secret. Becca raised an eyebrow at the blonde and she smiled back at her. "They usually don't get along so well."
"It's not that they don't get along, it's more or less the fact Garcia refuses to warm up to him even after a year." Reid said with an amused smile on his face. "You'll see it if you stay on with us."
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Emily watched the new girl from her office window. Her body language was showing she was deep in her head. Running down a uncomfortable memory lane. She would shift in her chair every so often, obviously feeling Emily's eyes on her. But the girl gave no other sign that she had noticed or cared. Emily shook her head, unable to come up with solution to her recent problem at hand. If She didn't hire Rebecca, or find a new member of her team, the agency was going to bring Rebecca in themselves. Emily only had a couple other applicants to look at. Neither of them would make it long in the BAU and the agency would quickly replace them with the girl anyway. Not even her many contacts where able to help find a quick replacement.
The last thing she wanted was to lose Alvez, but so far it wasn't looking good. He had made it quite clear that if Rebecca stayed, he was gone. The team couldn't afford to let him go. Emily would ground Rebecca if she had to, knowing that would bring fire down on her from the higher ups. How the girl had been favored by the agency wasn't surprising. She excelled in every position she was given. And other than the two incidents where Luke was involved, she had a clean work record. She was a textbook goody good FBI agent.
As the elevator door opened, Emily kept her eyes on the girl. She watched as Rebecca seemed to lose her breath at the sight of Luke. Her whole body tensing. when their eyes met Emily could see the girl shiver as her skin became covered in goosebumps.
"Well I sure the hell didn't see that coming." Emily groaned to herself.
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"Hey Garcia, are you able to talk?" Emily asked soon after the team landed in South Dakota. She had sent the team out to check the crime newest crime scene and talk to the victim's family, so she could set up in the local police station. Emily knew Luke had sort of attached himself to Garcia that day, stay in her office even after the team had left for the case.
"Yes thank God." Garcia said tiredly. "That man has no concept of keeping his hands off my things. He's like a toddler going toto Chucky Cheese for the first time. I sent him to his desk to finish his paperwork that he hasn't finished in weeks."
"Garcia, he never has paperwork left over. he's my best one about finishing his pile." Emily said a bit confused.
"Yeah well, he has paperwork now." Garcia said with a slight smirk. "You know the ones you do for the team like Hotch, used to do. The ones you think they don't need to bother with. Yeah well, he's out there doing it all for you. you're welcome."
Emily smiled and shook her head. "And what do I tell him later when he doesn't get those papers again."
"Not my problem." Penelope replied back. "He's out of my hair right now so I'm not really to worried about that."
"Well he is actually why I am calling you right now." Emily said then sighed heavily. it seemed to be a reoccurring sigh that she saved for the whole Luke and Rebecca situation. "I think Rebecca is in love with Luke."
"What! If she was so in love with him, why is she being so creepy, butch, stalkerish." Penelope couldn't help herself from becoming curious about the theory Emily just through out there. She loved a bit of office drama from time to time.
"I don't think she is meaning to be." Emily answered honestly. "You told me that Luke had turned her down the first time. Then she filed those charges against him. She sounds like a woman scorned. Heart broken by the man she believes she loves. She's not trying to stalk him she's trying to be close to him. Like how in some man and woman best friend relationships start with one being attracted to the other. They stick to the other person as their feelings either grow or dwindle away. But in this case Rebecca and Luke never got into a friendship."
"I'm sorry, but that is still a bit creepy." Penelope admitted and Emily rolled her eyes.
"Think if it this way. If Morgan and you hadn't have become friends, would your little crush still gone on?" Emily asked.
Penelope scowled at the phone. of course Emily would have to bring up Morgan. "Had you actually taken a look at that man. I would have been stupid not to have a crush on that man. But Luke? He isn't exactly... I mean he does have a very good looking body and those dark locks of hair you'd want to run your fingers through, but he isn't Morgan."
"Woman find Luke attractive just as much if not more than Morgan." Emily said with a smirk. She didn't think Penelope knew how much she had just revealed and she was just going to let it go, but store it away for another day. "What I'm trying to say, is if we can get that through to Luke, we may not have to lose both of them. and maybe they could have a relationship like you and Morgan."
Garcia rolled her eyes. "Fine, but until I get proof of this theory of yours, Cutie Pie can stay the hell away from my Newbie. Do you know how long it took me to convince him to come in side once we got here? Poor guy is pretty much scared of this girl."
"We'll work this out Garcia." Emily said with a smile. "Your Newbie isn't going anywhere."