Prodigal Son/FBI Crossover

Chapter 1

The last time Malcolm saw people wearing FBI jackets in the precinct, his case was taken away from him. This time was different though, this time Malcolm was seeing four FBI agents he had never seen before walking into the precinct. Malcolm watched the FBI agents carefully as they walked towards the conference room where Dani and JT were setting up the case board. "Jubal, good to see you. Thank you for coming so quickly." Gil said as he stood in the doorway of his office, one of the agents stopped and shook Gil's hand, Malcolm could only assume that was Jubal. "Of course, if your team is ready then we can get started." Jubal said as his team walked into the conference room. Gil nodded as he looked over at Malcolm to let him know they were starting. "We're ready when you are." He said as Malcolm followed him and Jubal into the conference room. Dani and JT had already started introducing themselves to Jubal's team when Gil, Jubal and Malcolm had entered the conference room. "Good to see that you guys have already started doing introductions," Gil said as Malcolm moved past him to stand beside Dani, "Jubal this is my team, Detectives Dani Powell and JT Tarmel, as well as our profiler, Malcolm Bright." Dani and JT waved to Jubal as Gil said their names. Jubal nodded in a greeting to Dani and JT. "It's nice to meet you all.  This is my team, Analyst and Special Agent Kristen Chazal, Special Agent OA Zidan, and Special Agent Maggie Bell." Jubal said introducing his team to Gil and Malcolm who hadn't met his team yet. As OA and Maggie looked over the case board that JT and Dani had set up, Malcolm watched as they interacted with each other. Of course as he watched them interact with each other and the case board, Malcolm was profiling OA and Maggie, he always profiled people, he couldn't help it. Dani noticed that Malcolm was watching OA and Maggie, and she immediately knew that he was profiling them. "Bright, quit profiling them. Remember, not everyone likes to be profiled." Dani hissed quietly. Malcolm quickly looked at Dani, "I'm not..." He tried to lie but Dani knew he was lying, "Okay fine, I am. But I'm not doing it out loud, I'm just silently profiling." Dani rolled her eyes at Malcolm's comment knowing full well that it was only a matter of time before Malcolm was vocalizing his profile of OA and Maggie. "Malcolm doing something silently? That's new." JT said, adding to the conversation between Malcolm and Dani, making them aware he was eavesdropping. After a while, OA and Maggie walked over to Dani, JT and Malcolm to make small talk with them. "Malcolm Bright, why do I feel like I've heard that name before?" Maggie asked as she sized Malcolm up. Malcolm chuckled awkwardly, rubbing the back of his neck. "Well I did work for the FBI for a while, let's just say that I wasn't cut out to be an FBI agent." Malcolm said awkwardly as Kristen joined them. "Malcolm Bright, didn't you get fired from the FBI for punching a sheriff?" Kristen asked as Gil and Jubal had walked over to join the group. Malcolm chuckled awkwardly again, "Well that and they thought that and I quote "I might suffer from certain psychotic inclinations, not unlike my father's." But it's no big deal." He said and JT raised an eyebrow at him before looking over at Gil. "Okay, well I hope we have spent some time getting to know one another. Let's get to work on this case shall we?" Gil quickly said, changing the subject so that the conversation didn't end up getting too out of hand. 

After going over the case with his team and Jubal's team, Gil walked into his office, Malcolm following close behind him like a cheerful puppy. "Tell me Gil, how long have you known Jubal?" Malcolm asked Gil as he sat down on the couch in Gil's office. "Not long, I figured it was best to find a team of FBI agents that you would get along with if we ever needed the help." Gil explained to Malcolm as he sat down at his desk. Malcolm looked at Gil confused, "How did you know that there were no issues between Jubal's team and I? Colette Swanson isn't the only person I've pissed off before, you know." He said earning a chuckle to his comment from Gil. "Well I heard about Jubal and his team, and set up a meeting with him where we talked about having our teams partner up anytime we needed the FBI's help and I made sure that he and his team didn't have issues with you." Gil explained to Malcolm before their conversation was interrupted by OA knocking on Gil's office door. "I don't mean to interrupt, I was just going to grab lunch for everyone while we come up with tactics and our next moves, and wanted to get your orders." OA said to Malcolm and Gil after Malcolm had opened the door to let him in. "Why don't I come with you?" Malcolm suggested, "I've known Gil for a while now so I know his lunch order. Plus I don't want to make you carry all that food by yourself." OA nodded at Malcolm's suggestion, "Yeah, sure thing." He said before the two of them left Gil's office. Once Malcolm and OA had arrived at a sandwich shop a few blocks from the precinct, they got out of OA's car and walked inside. The drive to the sandwich shop had been quiet so as Malcolm and OA were waiting for their food order to be made, Malcolm racked his brain for ideas for some light conversation with OA. "So, does Maggie know that you like her?" Malcolm asked, remembering what he had internally profiled about OA and Maggie. OA raised an eyebrow as he looked at Malcolm, his arms crossed over his chest. "Does Dani know that you like her?" He asked before walking up to the food counter to grab their food. Malcolm was quiet as they carried the food to OA's car, he was trying to figure out how OA knew that he liked Dani. OA chuckled when he noticed Malcolm's look of confusion as they got in OA's car, "Dude, it's kind of obvious that you like her. Especially since you practically ran over to her before Gil and Jubal did introductions," He said as the drove back to the precinct, "it doesn't take a profiler's mind to figure out that you like Dani." Malcolm opened his mouth to interject but quickly closed his mouth when he remember the time his own father thought, and maybe even hoped, that he was dating Dani. Once they got back to the precinct and started carrying the food to the conference room, Malcolm finally spoke up. "Could you maybe not mention the fact that I like Dani?" He asked OA as they walked through the precinct. "No problem, though I can't guarantee that Maggie won't say anything." OA said before they entered the conference room.