A Broken Trust

Chapter 11

While the BAU team were packing up their belongings to prepare for their flight back to Quantico, Ronnie was pacing back and forth across the hallway.

Finally, finding her voice, she walked right up to the door she'd been trying to get up the courage to enter.

She rapped on the door to Emily's Interpol office and called out, "Em, can I come in?" Hearing a reply in the afermative, Ronnie turned the knob.

"You okay, Ronnie?" Emily asked, when the door opened. While searching through some paperwork, she mumbled to herself, "The team's about to leave and I'm just sorting through some files so I can leave with them'.

Ronnie didn't really hear her mumble, not that it mattered to Ronnie. She had her own topic she wanted to discuss.

"Emily, can I talk to you for a second?"

Sensing her nervous, tense, tone, Emily dropped what she was doing and collapsed into her office chair, "'Sit." she directed, pointing to the chair opposite her. "What's wrong, Ronnie?."

Ronnie sat in the chair, and sighed deeply.

"Emily, I can't do this job here, anymore," She confessed, "Interpol, these cases. I just had to arrest my own brother. I've been thinking of transferring to the FBI."

"The BAU?", Emily asked, then bit her lip to keep from smiling. She already knew the answer. What other unit would she possibly want to move to?

She only been hanging off Reid's hip for the whole trafficking case, after all.

"Kinda." Ronnie said uncertainly, "But I wanted to talk to everyone here first, you know?"

Emily didn't answer her question. She just looked her colleague in the eyes and bowed her head, slightly.

"Emily?", Ronnie double checked, "Is that a yes or a no?''

"You already know my answer." ,Emily responded

"Which is?." ,asked Ronnie, Nervously

"Ronnie, you couldn't find a better team to transfer to." ,Emily continued

That was enough of an answer.

Emily stood up, motioned for her to follow and McCormick, Andrews, and Simmons were pulled from their duties. Easter was asked to Join them as well.

"I just wanted to talk with you guys about something." Ronnie felt her cheekbones turn red when the group all clumped together.

"We are still working on Case G590897. Now that the kids are back you can join us.", Clyde said. Then ,noticing a pained look on the inspector's face, he added, "What's this all about, Ronnie?"

"Are you okay?" Simmons added.

Ronnie looked out into one of the other rooms, where she could see the BAU packing up; Reid, Rossi, Garcia, JJ, and then her eyes fell on Henry and Jack in the corner.

Just from her gaze, McCormick realized what Ronnie was about to say. She wanted to leave. With them. With the BAU.

He raised an eyebrow, "You're going to Quantico ,aren't you. "You're leaving us."

"Yeah." Ronnie replied, with another sigh. Emily squeezed her shoulder supportively, understanding how difficult it was to tell a group of colleagues that she would no longer be working with them.

"You'll be back though after the pregnant agents return to work,right? You'll be back like Emily will?", asked Simmons. Ronnie just shook her head, sadly. She hated to hurt her friends, but this is what she had to do.