After All This Time || Prologue
Word Count: 389 (it's short since I don't want to get into the stuff with meeting the team until the first official chapter!)
Summary: You being a new recruit pissed SSA Aaron Hotchner off. You being smart enough to give Spencer a run for his money pissed him off even more. Really, he just despised your presence. Hated your every move…
Until one day, he didn’t.
CHAPTER WARNINGS: None really! This is just the background necessary to get the story flowing.
A/N: There's not much reader x hotch interaction for this one, since it's just giving the background necessary for the rest of the story
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You'd been a member of the Los Angeles FBI team for just under a year. At twenty-two you had graduated college and started your job there. You graduated a bit early since you were taking summer semesters alongside the normal two semesters each year.
As soon as you graduated college, you applied to the FBI workforce in LA. It was the closest one to your house, so you worked there because you didn't want to try and rent an apartment while you were just getting on your feet. Your mother was sweet enough to let you live with her for a few more years
Your team there loved you. You didn't do much field work, but when you did, you were on top of it; you were the best shooting eye in that building. You wanted more though. You didn't want some SWAT-type raid every now and then. You wanted the action, the feeling that you're saving people.
Mark Hanes, one of the men you worked with in the LA unit, made jokes all the time about how "BAU is the dream," and if a phone rang then, "That's probably the BAU trying to snag ya".
The whole team had started joining in. If your phone ever rang while you were with them, then you could bet your ass that the whole group would make those jokes at you about it.
So when your phone rang two weeks ago with Behavioral Analysis Unit, VA showing up on your caller ID, you thought it was just Mark screwing with you.
Thinking back on it, you're so glad that you didn't answer the phone with, "What do you want, Hanes?"
Eris Strauss, the SES from the BAU unit in Virginia had called you asking about a transferal request that had been on her desk from SSA Aaron Hotchner.
She had mentioned that he requested you specifically because of you sharp-shooting and the fact that you had applied to join that unit right of the bat when you graduated.
Strauss had also mentioned that for the first six months of your transfer, housing and grocery bills would be paid in full by the higher-ups of the BAU. That had been your only setback when she brought up the offer, and it was a solved problem.
So of course you took her offer.
