Belladonna Le Faye

A Memories Shared

Bella is the first to dive into the memory.

She stands in the position Aaron stood talking to his team when Strauss, who she recognizes knows his boss comes up and asks to speak to Rossi privately. The team finds this odd, but shrugs it off and Aaron goes up to his office in order to determine the next case he and his team will help resolve.

He is looking into the finer details of one case in particular when Rossi comes to his office door with JJ in tow and asks Aaron to come with them to Strauss' office. "Why are they here? Usually you can handle this on your own." Strauss asks, after Rossi closes the door behind the trio.

"The more people, the better the profile is," Rossi says, with a small shrug. The director glares at him.

"What is so special about the case?" Aaron asks.

"It is for the MACUSA." Rossi states.

"Oh, what we got," JJ asks, taking a seat.

"What?!" The director exclaims. "You can't tell Nomajes," she yells at Rossi.

"He didn't tell us," JJ says. "Wil told me he was a wizard after Henry did accidental magic for the first time."

"I found out I'm a squib after Jack started his accidental magic. And Bella, my goddaughter is a witch from Europe," Aaron explains.

"Okay, first lets go over the case the MACUSA sent us." Rossi says.

The memory fuzzes out and then they come back to the group all standing at Strauss' desk as she closes the case file.

"Now, the Bureau has been considering for a rather long time to create a BAU unit that will help solve cases involving witches and wizards." Strauss starts. "The one drawback is that the entire team would have to know about magic and be trusted not to tell. There are members in other teams that know but we would prefer keeping an existing team together, not to mention many of the others don't get along that well with each other."

"So since there are three members of our team that know already, you would like us to assess the other three members of the team to determine if they can be trusted?" Mr. Hotchner asks.

"Yes, how you go about it is completely up to you, just make sure the MACUSA knows what you are planning to do. The Bureau has already told them we would like a team that we can give their cases to without it having to go through my hands. They said that would be wonderful and allow them to also close cases faster if they had a team they could communicate with directly." Strauss says. "So the sooner you determine their trustability with this particular secret the better."

The memory ends but another comes into focus of JJ and Rossi sitting across from Aaron in his office.

"How do we want to go about this?" Aaron asks.

"Not really sure," Rossi says.

"Accidental magic would probably be the best way for them to accidentally see magic," JJ says, "so them being around Henry and Jack would be a good idea for magic exposure after that it would be seeing how they react to seeing it."

"Seeing what?" Garcia asks. The three turn to look at her a little shocked. "Sorry, I knocked, but no one answered, so I just opened the door to see if anyone was in here."

"Nothing," Rossi says.

"Nothing always means something." Penelope says coming further into the room. She closes the door behind her. "Who sees what?"

"You, Morgan, and Reid seeing something." JJ says.

"Um, Garcia," Rossi says, seeing a leaf poke out of her scarf. "There is a leaf on your scarf."

"What? Not again!" She says pushing the leaf into her scarf. Rossi, JJ, and Aaron look at each other, before JJ gets up and walks over to Penelope, who blocks her from grabbing her scarf. They get into a small tussle and JJ finally removes a moving twig like creature from Penelope's scarf. "Give her back!"

"A Bowtruckle," Rossi says, his eyes wide as the small creature reaches out for Garcia.

Garcia pauses in trying to grab the small twig-like creature from JJ and stares at Rossi. Her mouth opens and closes a few times, before sound finally comes out again. "How?"

"I'm a wizard for starters, and they like one of the trees on my property," Rossi says. "Where did your friend come from?"

"A tree in the park, but it was about to be cut down, before it fell down. I noticed her clinging to it one day and went back when no one was around to get her. Took a little while, but she was really attached to the tree. Since then she has taken interest in one of the trees in my apartment. She still likes to come to work with me though." Penelope says. "And just so you three know, I've known about magic since my hacker days. Hacked into the wrong computer system you could say, had people wielding wands knock down my door."

"So you know, now we just need to determine if Reid and Morgan can be trusted." Aaron says, "but it is time to leave today."

The memory ends.