Life and Love Reborn
Chapter 4
The whole team basically went into shock. How could they replace Spencer?!
Derek took a good look at the kid; black hair that was covering one of his hazel eyes. He was wearing simply a black hoodie with a pair of dark blue skinny jeans on his thin body, and around his neck were a pair of blue D.J. head phones. The kid raised his hand in a half wave and gave a lopsided grin, brushing his hair out of his face slightly. "Hey."
J.J. was the first to return the smile and extending a hand, "Hi, I'm Jennifer Jearoue; you can call me J.J." this seemed to make him feel a little better now knowing he wouldn't be entirely frozen out. Next it was Prentiss's turn. "Hello, I'm Emily Prentiss." Jamie shook her hand after letting go of J.J.'s, and then to Rossi who was being as friendly to the kid as possible when having a new recruit. "David Rossi, nice to meet you." Jamie seemed to have relaxed immensely, though when he looked at Derek he seemed to tense up again. His hair fell back over his eye, which gave him an excuse to break eye contact with the man as he brushed it back into place behind his ear. To Jamie he seemed like he wanted to kick his ass more than shake his hand, but never the less Morgan extended a hand towards him. "Derek Morgan." He said shortly before shaking his hand, hard, and letting it go just as quickly. Jamie flexed his hand making sure the muscle bound man didn't 'accidentally' break his hand in the process of the greeting.
'It's hard to look this Morgan guy in the eyes; he might take it as a challenge of his dominance and kick my ass into next week... Jocks, you can spot them a mile away." Jamie thought looking anywhere but Morgan's face.
J.J. gave him a look over. "Um, Jamie, if you don't mind me asking how old are you exactly?" Every one of them was wondering the same thing just not wanting to be rude and ask straight out. Jamie looked to be no older then fourteen of fifteen, and it didn't help that he only came up to just above Morgan's shoulder. "Uh," He started looking shyly at the team while rubbing the back of his head. "I'm twenty years old. Uh, but I'm very mature for my age I have been told and I will not let you all down." J.J. couldn't help but think this kid was the cutest thing in the world, almost like a kid who wanted to prove to everyone that he could do something great.
"Okay, so why meet at a coffee shop and not the station?" Asked Rossi raising a questioning brow. The kid perked up as if he just remembered something he has forgotten for weeks. "All the women had no connections to each other except for," He turned around to pick up his coffee. "Recites to the same coffee shop franchise they all frequented."
"They were all killed in different areas though, there is no way they all visited the same shop at the same time as out Unsub." Derek protested, hopping that that would bring him down a peg or two, but it seemed like it didn't faze him. Jamie knew exactly how to handle people who didn't like to be wrong. "I thought of that too; this coffee shop only uses one company for their coffee beans and that would be-"
"Java Co., we looked in that direction two and found nothing that connects any of the employees or makes us suspect them." Morgan was not giving up, but neither was Rory. "Look, just check again or let me look at the list, trust me it is most defiantly one of them." He had to make them, well mainly Derek, understand that they just weren't looking close enough.
The air around the group grew tense as the two men had a stare off to see who would break first, but it felt like Morgan, who was supposed to be the adult here, was going to punch Jamie into next Tuesday. J.J. stepped in before anything dramatic could break out between them. "Okay, so I will pull the files on the employees again. Jamie why don't you come with me to the station so you can look at them too." He nodded and started to follow the blonde lady out, but not before taking one last glance at Morgan and whipping his head back showing the man his dislike for the man with his little 'humph' sound.
Once the two were out of sight Morgan turned to his superior. "Hotch, I don't like this idea. How do we know we can depend never the less trust him?" Hotch gave an exasperated sigh; he knew this was going to happen, it happened when Reid first joined the team. "Look Derek, I know this predicament seems weird, but he is qualified in every field and is going to be an important part of this team so please will you try to find a way to get along with your new co-worker?" Walking away from the pouting Morgan Hotch himself wondered how this was going to play out in the end.
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J.J and Jamie road in the black sedan in silence. J.J. couldn't figure out why someone at the age of twenty who had so much potential would want to through their life away doing this job. Yes, she would even have to admit this job could be hard the first few years but would slowly get better, and that's the part that scares her.
"So," She said trying to start up some sort of conversation. "What made you want to join the B.A.U. at such a young age?" She glanced at the boy to find that he looked a little shy.
"Well, I guess you could say I just wanted to do some good in the world while I was still on it. Besides I'm going to be in Virginia to do some studying and Agent Strausse just sort of found me." He started to play with the cord of his headphones like a nervous habit. J.J. didn't exactly believe everything that was coming out of the young man's mouth but decided to move on with the conversation not wanting to ask something she shouldn't. "You must be really smart to be able to skip the academy and get straight into the field."
Jamie perked up slightly while a small embarrassed blush crept onto his pale cheeks. "Well I do have an I.Q. of 187, can read two thousand words per minute and have an eidetic memory so I guess you could say I'm a genius." He gave a small laugh, but all J.J. could do was stare, and before either of them could say anything silent tears started to stream down her face. "Ah, a-are you okay?" Jamie had no Idea what to do.
J.J. pulled into a parking lot of a little family dinner to try and calm herself down; she had started to sob and hiccup. This was just too scary! She had never thought she could or would hear those words come out of anyone else's mouth but that of Spencer Reid's. 'Spencer, could it be you?' She thought looking at the young man. Nothing seemed to remind her of Spencer, except that they had the same, she had to admit that, fair skin, and the same impressively scary I.Q... maybe she was just going crazy.
"I'm sorry you have to see this, you just reminded me of someone." she gave a small smile while she wiped away the remaining tears. Jamie looked at her sadly, catching on instantly of what she was talking about. "Did you know," He started. "That in some cultures people believe that when you die you are reincarnated based on your karma and the way you lived in your passed life. Maybe, you know, I'm somehow that reincarnation of your friend, maybe he had something unfinished to do..." Jamie looked at the pretty blonde woman trying to gage her reaction to see if she thought he was crazy. J.J. though didn't know quite what to say about all of that, but gave a small smile to him feeling that he was trying to comfort her with the only way, and things, he knew. "Yeah, maybe that's what happened."
She looked behind them to see that they had pulled into the parking lot of a coffee house. "Hey, do you wanna get some coffee real quick before we head over to the station?" Jamie lit up. "Yes please, I can always use a cup, or twelve, of coffee." She chuckled at the attempt at humor before getting out of the car and heading towards the shop with the kid behind her.
Hey, So I know this has been up for a while but bare with me for a little longer, I'm kinda stuck but am now un-wedging my self and my mind from the rock it was stuck under. Please review to let me know what you think, but if you don't, thank your so much for reading! ( ^ U ^ )