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Cragen gets called into his office as the phone rings, he closes the door behind him. The team looks over after a few minutes seeing Cragen unhappily rubbing his head in his hands and sitting at his desk. “What’s happened captain” fin says looking at his defeated superior. “The FBI will be taking over the Rachel Grey case”
The nauseating sound of her phone ringing awoke Emily this morning. Her head was pounding from the aftermath of the previous night's hookup, unfortunately this was not uncommon for the agent. Drunk nights and sex, Emily told herself it helps her focus on the job. No agent can handle a healthy and stable relationship while doing such a demanding job. Emily Prentiss was never one to settle down; she told herself love would only stop her from doing her job properly, however she knew its all she yearned for but she just couldn't allow herself to get that vulnerable with somebody instead she would go bar to bar to find that night's hookup.
“Prentiss” she says, throat burning, she looked at the clock at 3:48AM lit up, she rubbed her eyes stifling a yawn. “I’ll be there in 20 Hotch”. Great another case Emily thought to herself before struggling to find the energy out of bed. She gets up rubbing her head and turns. “Fuck” she whispered looking to the woman laying on the opposite side of the bed. A blonde not Emily’s usual type but after the last case she just needed to burn off her energy.
Emily went to the bathroom to speedrun getting ready, luckily she lives close. She tries to be quiet but once she leaves the bathroom she sees her bed empty once again. A breath left her lips, thankful she didn’t have to wake the woman at this hour to kick her out of the apartment.
The drive to the quantico was quick but the silence made it feel nauseatingly long. Another day another case, Emily joined the FBI to live up to her mothers expectations though she knew she never truly could. Now she works for the victims, she saves people, it's what she believes her purpose is. Stepping out of the car she breathes in deep, the air is cold and crisp, stars still litter the sky in inconsistent patterns.
The building was quiet, few people working at such an hour only night shift and workaholics left sat in the dimmed lights.
As the elevator doors opened Emily could hear the light chatter in the bullpen loudens as she came in, welcoming her in. “Sleep well, Prentiss?” Derek laughs patting her shoulder. “Yeah, what was this one's name? Was it Jenny? Jane?”. Emily rolls her eyes, the team likes to pick fun out of each other so this was nothing out of the ordinary, however JJ sat looking at Emily with a concerned look, before Emily could ask what was wrong Hotch walks in “good morning everyone, sorry to call you in at this hour but we are being sent to take the case from the new yorks SVU team, i will be speaking with their captain to get our teams to work together. I need everyone to grab their go bags, wheels up in 30.”
The plane ride was nothing out of the ordinary, Hotch explained the case each detail covered, crime scene photos shown which Reid analysed to the best of his ability. Once the briefing was over the team went to sit on their usual seats. Emily sat near the back, book in hand going to her last page, she sat reading for a few minutes until JJ came over and joined her, a slightly concerned look on her face. “Everything okay Jayje,” Emily asked, trying to read her friend's face. “What are you doing Emily? I'm worried about you.” “I'm fine JJ, what are you concerned about?” Emily said with a confused smile on her face “you haven't been yourself Em, all of the one night stands, the drinking and your picking at your nails again.” jj said solemnly. “I'm just having some fun, it's nothing serious”. Jennifer went to speak again but hotch interrupted talking to the team as a whole “we are landing in 10 buckle up.”
The team leaves the plane quickly stopping by the hotel and dropping off their bags before heading to the SVU. walking through the doors the BAU team felt out of place,the team had worked with small county police stations before but they have never worked with anything like the SVU, surrounded by detectives already so certain on their plans for this case and they are about to tear them down.
Hotch walks straight to Cragen's office, closing the door behind. The team watched as the two shook hands and discussed Hotches plan of collaborating teams instead of taking over the case completely, which he had already run past Strauss and she is willing to try. The team watched as they stood face to face discussing. The team stood together awkwardly ignoring the looks and lingering glares from the detectives covering the room. A door closes which grabs the agent's attention, Cragen and Hotch stand united waiting for everyone's attention.
“This is Agent Aaron Hotchner, he and his team have offered for us to collaborate on the Rachel Grey case, i expect everyone to be grateful for this opportunity” he hands over to Hotch who introduces his team one by one then Cragen does the same. The teams analyse each other, trying to read into one another as the introductions fail to settle their nerves.
Boards fill the room covered in notes, crime scene photos, anything which the SVU linked to the case. The BAU stands reading each note as they may know the case top to bottom however they need to be on the same page as the detectives, get into their heads to understand their thoughts and viewpoints.
The teams chat about the case quietly, it's not been an easy case since no id showed up on the database. The bau needs to figure out why the unsub is doing this, what pushed them over the edge to send them to murder. They feel unwelcomed no one has been rude but lingering looks show the team that the SVU aren't too used to visitors.
Emily can feel someone watching her, it wouldn't be out of the ordinary as they are a new team and the SVU is tightly knit, adding new people would be difficult let alone a whole team, so she shrugs the feeling off and continues to work with reid until the feeling persists and begins to feel irritating. She looks around yet everyone's eyes are glued to the evidence in front of them. The team grows increasingly tired. They've been at this for twelve hours now and though it was a short flight the jet lag is beginning to crawl up to the team.
“I think its time to call it a night” cragen announces, everyone gets up and ready to go home except Emily, she reads over the case file over and over as everyone filtered out. “Didnt you hear cragen, time to go home Agent.” Emily looks up from from the papers he forest eyes meet the hazel ones looking back at her. “Im going to pack up soon, I just wanted to try and memorise what i could… Olivia, right?”
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