A/N: Hello again everyone! Thanks so much for all your favourites/follows/views. I am so honoured to think that people are reading my story! I would love some reviews, I want to know what you guys want to see. Now I'm going to try to do Spencer's POV, sorry if it's not perfect, I'm used to doing female POVs. Anyway, on with the story!
June 2011, Quantico, Virginia, USA
SpencerPOV
I sighed in relief as the last applicant left. It was lunch time, and there was a muffin in the cafeteria with my name on it. Though, I knew lunch would probably be given a miss until Strauss and Hotch were done analysing each and every one of the twenty applicants they interviewed that morning.
"Okay," Strauss began and Spencer inwardly groaned, great, I thought, looks like I'll be missing lunch today. "Who do we think stood out as a good contender for the position in the team?" She asked, looking around the room at each of the different faces.
Hotch cleared his throated and Spencer breathed a sigh of relief, at least Hotch is taking one for the team, I don't want to speak to her. "Miss Botecelli, well I guess I should say Dr Botecelli, definitely stood out for me, 12 languages, three doctorates and three masters? She sounds exactly like Reid but in a female form." He said
"Yeah, but she actually passed physical training unlike boy wonder," Morgan teased. Ouch, well it's not my fault I'm not sporty.
Strauss rolled her eyes at us, "yes, Dr Botecelli's academic achievements are impressive, but she is so young, and so inexperienced in field work. I am not sure that she is the right addition for this team. What about Agent Hill? His field work was very impressive-"
"Yeah, he's been in the field a lot, but he graduated borderline bottom of his year at the academy, we're not looking for coasters, we're looking for the best of the best." JJ interjected, looking irked at Strauss' ways.
"Okay then, Garcia, remove the files of the people who did middle or poorly in their graduating class. Also remove the ones who didn't perform best in their profiling classes. How many does that leave us?" Hotch asked Garcia, who began typing quickly at the open laptop in front of her, people's faced being removed from the TV screen.
"Four sir, Agent Phillip Smith, Agent Jacob Fitzpatrick, Agent Alexander Robertson and Agent Amelia Botecelli." She said, looking up from the screen with a slightly smug grin. It seemed everyone was enamoured with Agent Botecelli. I had to admit that I was too- her accent was pretty, mostly sounding Scottish with some Italian accents to her words, she was really pretty too; I like her red curly hair.
I knew I recognised her from somewhere- I had seen her around the academy whilst I was there and afterwards when I helped in the profiling classes with Gideon before he left a couple of months ago. Everyone used to say that they were so alike, now I could see what they meant.
I picked up her file and began to examine it more extensively; it revealed a lot more about the reasoning behind her harbouring guilt and her slightly guarded personality. Garcia was very extensive in her background check and I saw things in that file that I would rather not see. I put the file down, not wanting to read anymore.
"We should hire Agent Botecelli." I said, speaking for the first time and suddenly all heads turned to me. "She is clearly the most qualified at profiling and behavioural analysis. She has a PHD in it after all." He noted, pointing to that part in the file. "Whilst she may be inexperienced, I believe that she would benefit from this line of work, like she said herself, she has guilt. Helping to put bad guys away will help her with that. She is broken, like all of us in some way, this job will help her fix herself, we can help her fix herself." He finished, smiling sheepishly at the others.
Prentiss spoke, "I agree with Reid, she is by far the most academically qualified, and we know of her past trauma, we've all read her file. But, she has managed to combat it and push through, that shows strength of mind. I believe that she could cope with the baggage that this job comes with. Plus she is only 21, she might be able to speak to younger suspects or witness' better than these other applicants or any of us would be able to." She added.
Strauss frowned, clearly not happy that the team was going against her recommendation. "Very well," she said coldly, almost icily, "hire Agent Botecelli, but Agent Hotchner I expect weekly reports on her work and progress on this team for the next two months." She said and with that, she swept out of the room without as much as a parting goodbye.
Hotch smirked, looking like he wanted to laugh at Strauss' hasty exit. "Well, it looks like we have a new team member. Spencer you will be her mentor during her first couple of months here. Make sure she doesn't kill herself on the job, for God's sake. I don't need any more paperwork to fill in." He said with a chuckle as he stood to leave the room. "She begins tomorrow," he added as he left to head to his office to inform her of the good news.
Morgan looked at the clock and sighed in relief. "That didn't take too long, you know we wouldn't be in such a rush to re-recruit if both Elle and Gideon hadn't left at basically the same time. Strauss was in such a rush to replace them. Wonder what her beef with the new girl is."
Garcia was packing up her laptop, "she's a middle aged woman, dollface. She doesn't like younger people being more qualified than older people. This new girl is scarily like boy wonder though. I sense a new OTP to ship." She finished in a sing-song voice.
I rolled my eyes at her statement, even though I didn't fully understand the context of it, "don't be ridiculous Garcia." I said, as I left to grab my lunch before all the good muffins were gone.
Morgan, Garcia, JJ and Prentiss chuckled at the young genius' behaviour. "He likes her doesn't he? He thinks she's pretty." JJ added with a smile.
"Who knows JJ? Only time will tell." Prentiss added, as they all left the room to head back to their desks and offices.
Rossi was the last to leave the room, "Three months, and they'll have kissed." He said, to no one in particular.
A/N: So? Spencey thinks she's pretty! Who knows where it will go from there? As you can tell I don't like Strauss that much, but our Amelia got the job! See her reaction to finding out and her first day at the BAU from her point of view in the next chapter. Remember to read/follow/favourite/review! See Y'all soon!
