Eve Baird - The Librarians

"Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.", L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

October 2016

David Rossi crouched down next to what appeared to be the most recent victim of a serial killer they had been tracking.

The first murder had been in Able Colorado 8 months before and they were slowly working their way along the Arkansas River.

8 Victims, all killed on the first of the month and dumped by the River. They'd arrived in Pine Bluff Arkansas less than an hour before, the jet dropping Emily, JJ, Luke and himself off leaving Reid and Tara in Quantico.

As with all of their previous victims there was no immediate cause of death. The coroner's findings would point to hypothermia.

Out of the corner of his eye a flash of red caught his attention.

Pulling out his cell he sent a text to Luke and JJ.

'The groupies are back'

They'd first noticed the four of them back in Syracuse, Kansas. Watching from afar and every time one of the team tried to talk to them they took off and disappeared.

Another flash, this time blond... so it was the two women watching them. He, JJ and Luke quickly co-ordinated via text. Rossi heading over to the Tahoe to try and cut of their escape while Luke and JJ chased them towards him.

15 minutes later the redhead had escaped and they had the blond in custody.

Their current working theory was one of the men was the killer and controlled the other three... although.

This woman wasn't a follower. She was an alpha... could she be the killer and the others worked for her?

"My name is Colonel Eve Baird, NATO Counter Terrorism." She claimed as Luke cuffed her and patted her down, confiscating her gun.

"And why would CTU be following a serial killer through the US?" Rossi shot back as they shoved her in the back of the Tahoe.

20 minutes later she was cuffed to the table in the interrogation room while Rossi filled Emily in. It would take an Alpha female to break another Alpha female.

"Did you say Eve Baird?" Emily asked incredulously.

"Wait.. you know her?" Rossi really shouldn't be surprised, Emily Prentiss had more 'friends' and 'contacts' than a mafia don.

"I know someone in NATO by that name... whether it's her or not..." It had been 20 years...

She joined JJ and Luke in the observation room and looked through the one way mirror.

"That's her..." she confirmed "Huh...?" and headed into the room.

Looking up at the new comer Eve couldn't keep the shock off her face.

"Wait..." the Colonel sat up straighter "I thought you left Fumble, Bumble and Incompetence?"

"Eh, I came back and at least I'm still not stuck with No Action Talk Only." Emily retorted.

"Fair call… and you were smart enough to leave Couldn't Identify Arseholes." Eve smiled.

"Very true..." Emily smiled back.

Outside the room Luke was very confused, he knew Emily came from Interpol and he'd heard a rumour or two about her work history but didn't put much weight on it... he looked at Rossi.

"What...?" he wasn't even sure what question to ask and whipped his head back and forth as JJ and Rossi had a silent conversation.

"Emily didn't join the Bureau until early 2005." JJ hedged "Most of her career is...? she shrugged unsure of exactly how to explain.

"If she told you she'd have to shoot you?" Luke cringed at the imagery as he said it.

"That works" Rossi agreed "We generally don't question how she knows the people she does."

"It's been awhile... I haven't seen you since that thing back then and the last I heard you went a little cuckoo and claimed a librarian helped to disable a nuclear weapon while stopping demons from being released? That's a little out there even for NATO."

"You're still calling 6 weeks playing dumb blond American in Cairo 'that thing back then'?" Eve shakes her head, Emily always did have a penchant for dramatic understatement.

"Hey... at least you never had to spend the night in an ER pretending you were a foreign tourist with only enough english to say bathroom and time…"

"That was you?" Eve laughed "Rumour has it the doctors spent two hours picking shrapnel out of your ass while you pretended to only speak French and Spanish?"

"Closer to four actually, I walked funny for weeks." Emily confirmed, stories like that one had a habit of making their way around the intelligence community. Studying her old friend carefully, Emily tried to decide how to handle this. "Eve... what are you doing here. This isn't of any interest to NATO and I know you haven't been with a unit for nearly four years."

Eve trusts Emily, but not necessarily with this and definitely not the people watching through the mirror.

"You guys are BAU right?" Emily nods "How specialised is it, best of the best and 99.9% of agents simply aren't cut out for what you do." Eve hopes making this connection will get them off her tail long enough to get back to the annex before her librarians do something stupid like send Jenkins in... or worse call Flynn.

"My team… makes your guys look like the dumbest shmuks out there. You hunt down the worst of humanity, we make sure humanity is there for you to do that."

"I resent being called dumb" Rossi muttered outside the room

"And resemble a shmuck?" JJ shot back

"Tell me." Emily presses knowing Eve wouldn't budge but trying anyway.

"No"

"Come on Eve... you've gotta give me something" Emily wheedled.

Rolling her eyes up to the ceiling Eve considered the best way to get Emily off her and by default her teams back. Of all the people running this investigation it had to be Emily Fucking Prentiss. The phrase dogs and bones came to mind.

"Is it just me or is this kinda like watching Emily talking to a blonde Emily?" JJ asked no one in particular.

Heaving a sigh Eve finally gave Emily something causing the brunettes eyebrows to shoot towards her hairline.

"Dirty Old Skanks Association" Eve finally told her.

"Really?" Emily chewed on her bottom lip as she considered her options. "I've heard rumours about them... Hetty thinks... and I agree it's all a smoke screen for something else..." Emily pauses as a report from a few years ago crosses her mind. "They have anything to do with a break in at the Vatican a few years ago? I got a report that no one could ever make sense of, they made a tentative ID on one of the men but it was dropped... what was the name...?"

Eve closed her eyes in weary acceptance. He couldn't just blend in.

"I'll tell you what you want to know… but not here"

"Damn there's got to be a good story behind the look on your face" Emily laughed before standing and taking the handcuffs off Eve "lets go get coffee."

Fumble, Bumble and Incompetence = FBI

No Action Talk Only = NATO

Couldn't Identify Arseholes = CIA

Dirty Old Skanks Association = DOSA (The Librarians Season 3 "Department of Statistical Anomalies)