Roots/: Aaron Hotchner

Chapter One.

"What is a pretty girl like you doing in a dump like this?" Walker asks leaning on the bar. This place is a dump, the exact place to run a sex trafficking ring.

"Just passing through," she says not making eye contact, he needs to think she's weak, vulnerable and easy to manipulate. Tobias Walker is a greasy sorry excuse for a man, but he's not the one in charge of the ring, he's just a gross narcissist who likes to look at and sell kiddy porn.

"What's your name?" he asks getting closer to the undercover agent. She took a moment before replying, during this time Tobias reached over and twisted a piece of her hair around his fingers. The act itself made her want to throw up.

"Willow," she said finally looking at the man next to her. He is wearing jeans and a loose grey t-shirt, his face is unshaven and his air looks like it hasn't been washed in days.

"Well willow, I may have a proposition for you, if you're interested." the way he says that tells her she has him exactly where she needs him, "why don't you stay here tonight, warm food, you can shower, I have cousins staying they are probably around your age." Cousins? More like victims.

"Montgomery agree and have him take you to the girls." Willow heard her unit chief instruct in her ear. She looks up at walker and nods her head.

He stands and she follows him into the back room, the first thing she saw was three girls tied to the radiator and two more tied up on the bed. She turns around ready to pull out her gun but Walker was already there pointing his own at her. She holds her hands up in surrender, she can hear her supervisor asking what's going on. "you little darlin, are going to make me a lot of money."

Willow looked him in the eye. "No Tobias, I'm going to put you in jail." she took his moment of confusion to charge and knock the gun out of his hand. Realising what was going down Tobias punched Willow in the face taking her to the floor, she grunted but didn't back down, these girls needed her. She kneed him in the stomach and flipped him over reaching for her gun at the same time. A team of FBI agents burst through the door and Tobias knew it was really over. "Tobias Walker, you are under arrest for sex trafficking, rape and the possesion of child pornography, you have the right to remain silent, you have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to an attorney. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be appointed for you." she gave him the miranda rights and cuffed him passing him over to another agent.

Willow looked over to the girls, they are all crying either from relief that they are free or scared of what was going to happen next.

"Good job Montgomery, take the weekend off but Strauss wants to see you on Monday morning." her unit chief tells her giving her a firm pat on the shoulder. She wondered why Strauss wanted to see her, cant be anything good or her boss would've told her otherwise.

Willow left the gross bar and walked towards her car; she drove home trying not to other think why Strauss wanted to see her. Was she getting demoted? Or worse fired? All would be reviled on Monday.

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"Have you considered the fact you could be getting promoted? It could be good for you not to see the gross world of sex crimes," her sister said over the phone.

"Addison, you're a surgeon and an OBGYN, I could say your job is grosser than mine." she replies trying to decide what to wear for the meeting, does she go with a classic two piece black suit or inclide some colour?

Thats why she had called Addison in the first place, she had excellent taste in clothing,

"Sweetie I save babies lives, its beautiful not gross. Anyway, stop trying to change the subject, what do you think this meeting is about? Have you done something wrong?" Addison asks causing Willow to stop in her tracks, she hasn't done anything that broke protocol, she has been on assignment for the last month so she had hardly been in the office.

"Theres nothing, I haven't been in the office for over a month so I couldn't have done anything to piss off management." she said collapsing on her bed.

"So, you should stop worrying, she might just want to be brought up to speed on the bust you made,"

Willow did feel better but she still had an unsettling feeling in her gut that something drastic was going to happen.

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That dreadful feeling hadn't left Willow as she walked through the federal headquarters Quantico at 8 am on Monday morning. She hardly slept last night causing her to stress bake cookies like a lunatic, that wasn't even the dumb part, she packed the cookies she made and planned to put them in the kitchen of whichever office Strauss takes her to.

Willow walked towards the elevators, she pressed the call button and waited, she was soon joined by an incredibly attractive man in a well fitted suit. She glanced up and him but quickly looked away not wanting to seem creepy, he seemed like the serious type of agent, definitely a unit chief, she just doesn't know which unit he's in charge of.

After a moment the elevator and the two of them stepped in. Being in a confined space with this handsome man was suffocating for Willow, she could smell his cologne and it was intoxicating, it is taking all of herself control not to lean over and inhale deeper. She figured it would be weird and creepy to do that. Why is she so distracted by this man? It's probably to do with the fact that she hasn't had sex in almost a year and even then, it wasn't satisfactory.

"what happened to your eye?" the handsome stranger asked suddenly causing Willow to jump a little, "sorry I didn't mean to scare you,"

She looked up at him finally taking in his chiselled face and tall frame.

"A paedophile punched me in the face," she stated, she heard him give a little humph, it didn't sound condescending just surprised. "last week I went undercover to a sex trafficking ring, you should see the other guy," she added with a little giggle. He smiled a little too but soon enough the elevator doors opened and he left parting with a curt nod.

What is the matter with you Willow? She thought to herself as the doors closed once more and started moving.

Erin Strauss was a strong woman, willow had nothing but respect for her. However, as she sat in the womans office she wanted nothing more than to take a very expensive paper weight on Strauss's desk and throw it at her head.

"Agent Montgomery this is a good opportunity for you, you would be a valued asset to the BAU, and you will start immediately." the section chief had hardly looked Willow in the eye during this meeting.

"Ma'am I don't understand where this is coming from, I didn't ask for a transfer." after this statement Strauss finally looked Willow in the eye.

"They are in need of a new agent and you agent Montgomery are more than qualified for this job, your sex crimes experience will bring a new perspective that the team is missing. And before you ask no, you do not have a choice."

And with that it was off the BAU they go.