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NINE: "Jealousy is an ugly emotion but it's all I can damn feel"
"Another new agent," Anna heard Emily almost scolding Hotch as they walked through the double doors.
"BAU team, conference room," Hotch spoke out, and everyone began gathering.
Anna walked in with JJ, "I heard Emily mention a new agent."
"That can't be right," said JJ.
"I know," she agreed.
"Everybody, this is agent Ashley Seaver," Hotch announced. "She'll be joining us, so please make her feel welcome."
"We also have a case," Garcia added. She briefed the team of the case which they would have to fly to New York for. At least it wasn't a long plane ride.
Anna felt a pang of jealousy in her chest. Her immediate reaction was to check and see if Spencer's eyes were on her. Anna remembered Ashley from the academy, they were in the same graduating year. She had a distinct memory of Seaver being assigned to the Domestic Trafficking Task Force. Anna was enjoying being the new, young, blonde, fresh out of the academy. Now, Ashley was the even newer, even younger, even blonder member of the team.
Spencer's eyes landed on her a few times, but it didn't seem to be anything special. Jealousy was not a good look on her, clearly, because she kept eyeing down Ashley as if she were the enemy. She had to remind herself that they were on the same team, the same team who's goal was to arrest the Unsubs.
"Wheels up in 30," concluded Hotch after the briefing.
Thirty minutes later, as per usual, the team was boarding the jet. This would be Anna's second case, and Ashley's first. Anna decided to seat herself next to JJ, who seemed to be turning more and more into Anna's mentor. Anna didn't want Ashley stealing JJ from her. Ashley sat next to Spencer, which filled Anna with so much regret and jealousy. She began scolding herself for making Spencer shake on being just friends. Then she started wondering if Spencer would take agent Ashley Seaver to the museum late at night. They were dumb and irrational thoughts, that she couldn't stop herself from thinking.
Spencer would glance over at her every so often, and whenever they made eye contact, Anna quickly looked away. Spencer was then left wondering if she was angry at him.
The flight was short, luckily, and Hotch had assigned Spencer and Anna together already, which she was grateful for. Spencer and Anna were assigned to the medical examiner, this time.
"Do you want to drive," he offered, noticing that he had driven her to the places they had gone together, even if one of those places was a murder site.
"Sure, I'd love to," she replied, she loved driving.
They were on the way as soon as they had plugged in the address. Spencer began giving her advice in the car as it was her first time at a real medical examiner. The simulations at the academy weren't quite the same. When they arrived, they learnt important information about the Unsub. Firstly, that they were probably female due to the trajectory which suggested that whoever shot the gun looked away, which was common with female Unsubs.
