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Rick did not enjoy his time in Cleveland. One week and one more body later the team finally made a break in the case and Rick put his vest on to go make an arrest.

He was glad to be back on the plane at the end of the day, even though he hated trying to make his ears pop back. After landing, Hotch thanked them all for a good job. "You did well for your first time out." Hotch told Rick in his office.

"Thank you sir."

"I hope you'll stay with us, this job does wear on you."

"What job doesn't?"

"This one is different, just wait."

"Is that a warning?"

"I guess you could say that," Hotch said and Rick thought he saw a shadow of a smile. "I'll see you in the morning."

"Have a nice night sir." Rick nodded before gathering his things to leave.

"Hey Darius, you want to join us for drinks?" Derek caught Rick in the bullpen.

"Uh, sure." Rick smiled, happy to be included. He followed the others, and tried to get a feel for the area. He stayed with the team in a small bar, and had a good time. Outside of work they were relaxed and happy, and talkative.

"Where did you come from, Darius?" Garcia asked.

"Birmingham. I've worked there for a long time and wanted to make a change." Rick shrugged.

"What did you do there?" Derek asked.

"Regular investigations, CSI work, Internal affairs."

"Why did you want to come to the BAU?" David asked.

"I wanted to use my Psych degree for something." Rick made up as he went. He nervously sipped on his Brandy, knowing that they saw through the lies. He stayed with them until Benny called him, wondering where he had gone to.

Once he returned home, he saw that Benny was in the living room, along with Kyle, who was knocked out on the couch.

"How did he get here?" Rick asked.

"I don't know. He just showed up yesterday." Benny said and gave him a soft kiss. "How was your first case?"

"Terrible."

"Did you get the guy?"

"Yes."

"Then it was a good case."

"I guess so."

"Do you like your new team?"

"Yeah, I like them." Rick said while taking his gun and shoes off. "They're better than the people I had to deal with in Miami."

"You're not IA anymore, of course work will be easier. Oh, and have you heard anything new about Ryan?"

"He's breathing on his own. I think he'll pull through."

"He's young and tough. I wouldn't doubt it."


"Garcia, can you do a background check on Darius?" Hotch surprised Garcia at her desk.

"Of course." She said, but didn't want to just poke around in his life.

"Tell me what you find, I'll be in my office."

"Okay sir." Garcia nodded and proceeded to search Rick's records. She found a thousand other men that had his name, but she couldn't find one in the FBI, that came from Birmingham. "He doesn't exist." Garcia told Hotch after going through the system a few times.

"What do you mean?"

"I mean that he's a fake."

"Okay. Can you get an image off the cameras and run his face in the system?"

"I'll see what I can do."

"Thank you Garcia."

"No problem."


Kyle had taken about a month to find Rick. He had drove around to a few places, and talked to people. He was kind of glad his dad was in jail, if he could find Rick he was sure a cop could.

He wanted to stay with Rick and Benny until Marisol was found, and then he was going to figure out what to do with his life.

Rick remained in the BAU, and noticed they asked more questions about his personal life and his past cases he worked on. He was starting to run out of stories, and hoped Marisol would surface. His wish came true five months later.