*** Six Years Later ***

Reid stepped off the elevator on the sixth floor and walked into the BAU holding a to-go coffee cup containing a double espresso. "Actually, people commonly use the word jiffy as an arbitrary definition of time to just mean quickly. However, it is a quantitative unit of time equaling 1/100th of a second."

"Okay, I will add that to my list." Morgan advised.

"What list?" Reid asked.

"Of words to never use around you again." Morgan looked up to Hotch's closed office to see he was speaking to someone. "Who's that in Hotch's office?" He asked Prentiss while pointing to the window.

"I don't know, but he has been in there for over a half hour." She informed.

Reid recognized his old boss, Elis Parker, who is now the Deputy Director of the CIA, talking with is current boss. He instinctively took a deep breath wondering why he was there. He knew he wasn't allowed to say anything to the team. He wasn't allowed to tell them anything. However, most of the stories of his childhood were true, the stories he told after high school were not.

While his teammates believed that he was recruited by the FBI out of college, after earning several PhDs and BAs, they do not know his life as one of the CIA's best operatives while still completing his education.

Hotch exited his office and leaned over the banister. "I need you in the conference room." He announced to the team.

The group gathered at the round table. "What's this all about?" Morgan asked.

"This is Deputy Director Parker of the CIA. He has come here needing our help." Hotch advised then opened the floor for Parker to speak.

"Six years ago, I was in charge of a team of the very best the CIA had to offer. We were working on a mission to take down Harris Knight." He shot a quick look to Reid.

"I remember him." Prentiss announced. "I read something about it, how all of his shareholders denied any culpability with Knight after his arrest. The whole corporation floundered."

"So, if he was arrested, why do you need our help?" JJ asked.

"Because two weeks ago Knight escaped from Leavenworth and we have been unable to locate him." Parker admitted.

"Wouldn't you CIA guys usually do some overt ops and track him down?" Morgan leaned back in his chair. "Why come to us?"

"Even though we do not know where Knight is, we suspect that a series of murders were caused by him. The victims have all been involved in Knights Corporation or its subsidiaries. It is too close to be a coincidence." Parker confessed. "Normally this is something that the CIA would handle internally, but I am coming to you for assistance."

"Why us?" Rossi was curious. "You already know who he is, how he operates. I am sure that you don't need a profile on him."

"That is correct. We are not actually looking for your assistance with Knight. We need it when we speak to his partner, Alex Marcus."

Reid's eyes widened as he stared back at Parker.

"And who is Alex Marcus?" JJ looked confused.

Parker cleared his throat. "She was one of my operatives. She was a part of the team that was assembled to bring down Knight. What we didn't know at the time was that she was a double agent and was working with him the entire time. She was arrested with him and sent to a separate institution. We want to question her to see what information she knows. That is where I will need your help. She is a trained spy and knows how to respond to questioning and to withstand torture. We need a profile on her."

Reid looked down at the casefile that was handed out. He opened it. There were pictures of Alex clipped to the inside. He stared at the one of her smiling, like the Alex he remembered. Then he looked at one behind it was when she was booked. The defeat in her eyes. He had only seen that look once before from here, and that is when he held the gun to her right before her arrest.

"Alright everyone we are heading to Hazelton in West Virginia, wheels up in thirty." Hotch and the team left the room. Reid lingered behind.

"Did you tell Hotch?" Reid asked Parker.

"Of course not. Look, I was serious when I told you that your past needs to stay there, but if we need to reveal pieces of who you were to track down Knight, then we will do that. I am going to need you with me on this case."

"Don't you understand how difficult this is for me? I will have to continue to keep what I know a secret, while asking my old partner for help. I trusted her, I put my life in her hands and she stabbed me in the back." Reid started to show his anger. "You know that I can't even be seen by her, no mention of my name or anything. My team can't know."

"I promise, Reid, we will keep your past out of this as much as we can." Parker tried to calm him down.

"And if we can't?" Reid started toward the door then stopped. "I will have to admit to my friends that I have been lying to them since I've met them." He walked out of the conference room.

Morgan approached Reid after watching the interaction through the window. "Hey, Kid. What was that about?"

"Oh, nothing." Reid didn't want to tell a lie by giving some fake story, then walked to the bathroom.

Reid leaned over as he placed his hands on the cold sink then looked up into the mirror. He remembered who and what he was six years ago and what he has done to get past it. Reid turned on the water and splashed it onto his face, trying not to think about when his friends discover that he is a fraud.

Reid got up and went to grab a paper towel but saw Rossi holding one out for him instead. "Oh, I didn't see you there." Reid was taken aback.

"I got the feeling that you have met Director Parker before." Rossi observed.

"Oh? Why is that?" Reid asked.

"Ah, avoidance. Answering a question with a question." Rossi nodded.

"Are you profiling me, Rossi?" Reid became defensive.

"Just pointing out an observation." Rossi stared at his friend.

Reid pursed his lips. "Okay, then." And walked passed him, exiting the men's room.

"Okay, indeed." Rossi said to himself knowing this was only the beginning.