Paige is my character, and the plot is mine, but unfortunately, I'm not the genius behind Criminal Minds. Sad face.
Read and Review por favor! (That means please in Spanish).
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Paige opened her eyes. The sun was shining bright through the French doors and it was warm in her room. For a minute, she almost thought she was in Florida again. She sat up and sadly realized that she wasn't. She was probably never going back to Florida. She could hear voices outside of her room. One voice was Spencer Reid softly rattling off statistics about injuries caused by hauling boxes incorrectly.
"Stuff it, kid." She heard Derek say. She couldn't help but giggle. She got out of bed and stretched. The mirror on the closet door showed her reflection.
"Gosh, I look like hell," she said to herself. She had dark circles under her eyes, and tear stains from crying. She ran her fingers through her hair to remove the tangles. She opened the door to her room and peered out into the hallway. Derek and Spencer had hauled up several boxes of her things from Florida. They must've gone back downstairs.
Paige went into the bathroom to wash her face. Rossi knocked on the door.
"Paige, are you awake?" He asked.
"Yeah," she replied. She quickly dried her face and left the bathroom. Dave was standing there.
"Is there something you wanted me to do?" She asked.
"No," came another voice. It belonged to Derek. "You're going to go sit down and read, or do something to relax. We've got this."
Just then, Spencer came up the stairs, panting and out of breath, hauling her makeup case.
"God, Rossi. Got enough stairs?" He said between breaths.
"You seriously need to lift some weights." Derek teased. Paige smiled.
"I'm sorry you're going to all this trouble. It's really not needed. I could have handled this myself." Paige said.
"No. It's no trouble at all. And before you tell Rossi he shouldn't have asked us, he didn't, we volunteered." Reid said.
"Profilers," Paige muttered. "Are you sure you all aren't just psychic or something? You know way too much."
"I know I'm not." Derek said, then laughed. "Where do you want these boxes?"
"Um, out here is good. I'll move them into my room after breakfast." She said.
"You mean lunch. It's noon. And no, you won't be moving them." Derek said.
"Come on, you gotta let me do something." Paige begged. Spencer smiled at her.
"Okay, we'll make you a deal. You go eat, and let us haul everything up here and into your room, and we'll let you unpack." He said.
"Reid, we were going to let her do that anyway," Derek said.
"Well, she didn't know that!" Spencer yelped. Paige giggled and rolled her eyes. Suddenly she heard more voices coming from downstairs. One belonged to J.J. and another to Hotch. The other two belonged to people she didn't know.
"Aw, Jayje! You brought little Henry!" One of them said.
"You know, I think I will go downstairs." Paige said, having heard Rossi talk about Henry a few times. She dashed down the stairs to find J.J. watching a pretty brunette hold her son, and a slightly chunky, very quirky-looking blonde woman tickle him. J.J. smiled when she saw Paige.
"Paige!" She exclaimed, then pulled her into a hug.
"Hey, J.J." Paige replied quietly. J.J. continued to hug her for a few minutes, rubbing her back, then kissed the top of her head.
"I'm here if you need me, okay?" J.J. whispered into Paige's ear. Paige nodded after J.J. let go of her.
Hotch put a gentle hand on her shoulder.
"Paige, this is Emily Prentiss," he said gesturing toward the brunette woman. Emily smiled at her, and gave Henry back to his mother so she could shake hands with Paige.
"Nice to meet you, Agent Prentiss." Paige said, smiling.
"Nice to meet you, too, Paige. Call me Emily." she replied. The other blonde woman seemed to be antsy.
"And this is--" Hotch began.
"Penelope Garcia, at your service!" the woman exclaimed.
"You're the one that called on the phone the other day," Paige said.
"Yeah!" Penelope grabbed Paige's hand and was walking with her toward the kitchen.
"Come on, your dad told us you still needed to eat!" Paige nodded.
"We are going to be really good friends! I almost always stay home while the team's gone, so you and I will be hanging out a lot! Your dad told me that if it was okay with you, I could stay here with you, or you at my house while he's gone on cases." She said.
"How do you know Dave?" Paige asked.
"I work at the Bureau too. I'm a technical analyst, so I stay in my office with my awesome computers and help out by tracking down creeps and all their dirt." Penelope replied.
"Computers? I love computers." Paige admitted.
"Well, we'll have plenty of time to spend on them." Penelope said, looking through the kitchen, trying to find something for Paige to eat.
"Wow, Rossi sure doesn't have a lot of food. Except a lot of week-old Chinese. Yuck." She said, digging through the fridge. She finally gave up on the fridge and looked in the cupboards, finding nothing.
"Okay, Rossi needs to take you shopping to get soem food and stuff. Geez. Let's go out to lunch. As a big group!" Penelope said, then power-walked to the living room, where J.J. was sitting with Henry.
"Come on, kitten, we're going out to lunch." She said, then rushed off to alert everyone else. She turned to Paige.
"Go get dressed and ready to go out to lunch!" She ordered. Paige liked this woman. She was odd, and meant business. She seemed like she would be a fun person to stay with while Rossi was out on cases.
Paige ran back up to her room and threw on some clothes. She put on bright orange and yellow tanktops, neon green leggings, and a short, hot pink petticoat. A bunch of bright, multicolored glitter and water bracelets on her left arm topped off the look. She put a neon rainbow hairclip in her hair, and threw on her bright blue high heels. Then she did her makeup with some simple foundation, a little pink blush, plain white eyeshadow, and a little black eyeliner. Then she was ready. She stepped out of her bedroom. Reid just stared at her.
"What?" She asked.
"Nothing, you're just very colorful." He replied.
"Thanks, the colors are cheerful. They make me feel better." She admitted. Just then, Garcia came up the stairs with Derek.
"You ready?" Penelope asked Paige. "Oh my word, I love your outfit! Happy colors!"
Paige giggled at the plump blonde.
"Ready for what?" Spencer asked.
"We're going to lunch as a group. Wanna come?" Paige asked.
"Why not? Sounds like fun!" He said, smiling.
Soon everyone was downstairs, getting into cars. J.J., Henry and Hotch rode with Rossi, while Derek, Spencer, and Paige rode with Penelope in Esther. Penelope dragged Paige to the car.
"Paige gets shotgun and total control over music!" She squealed. Soon they were on their way to the restaurant, and Paige was having the time of her life.