Rookie Profiler | A Criminal Minds X The Rookie Crossover
At twenty-four, Jade Chen joins the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit straight out of Quantico-brilliant, young, and already carrying the ghosts of two mothers and too many mistakes. Under the watchful mentorship of Emily Prentiss, Jade learns that profiling isn't just about understanding killers-it's about understanding herself.
"You don't have to be okay to be good at what you do," Emily tells her.
From small-town murders to the forests of Washington, Jade faces the monsters outside and the ones in her memory. When tragedy strikes home, she learns that family isn't always who you start with-it's who stays when everything falls apart.
"Sometimes," Jade says softly, "surviving is the bravest profile there is."
Years later, healed but never unchanged, she looks around the BAU-the place that broke her and built her-and whispers,
"Let's go home."
