Spider Showers

I don't own Criminal Minds, or the ever-so-sexy Dr. Spencer Reid. Natalie Strippe however, is my own creation (:

Dr. Spencer Reid had just gotten back to his apartment, looking as tired as he felt. "Natalie?" He called, hoping she was home. He hadn't seen her car in the parking lot.

"In the shower, babe!"

He smiled, dropping his jacket and bag onto the couch, where he sat down. He pulled off his old pair of battered Converse when a high pitched scream sent him running towards the bathroom.

"Natalie!?"

He threw open the bathroom door, his eyes wide with concern. His girlfriend of seven months, Natalie Strippe, was jumping up and down, completely naked and soaking wet, pointing to the wall of the shower. Her eyes were wide with fright and she looked close to crying.

"Natalie?" He asked, moving closer towards her. "Baby, what's wrong?"

"There's a spider!" She shrieked, pointing towards the wall again. Reid looked closer and sure enough, there was a rather large daddy long legged spider on the shower wall. An incredulous look crossed his face when he looked back at his girlfriend.

"You screamed bloody murder because of a spider?" He chuckled.

"Don't you dare laugh at me, Spencer Reid!" She huffed, grabbing a towel to wrap up in. "If I hate one thing more than you leaving me for cases every other week, its spiders!" She sounded close to tears.

Reid immediately felt bad. "Hang on one second," he went back to the living room to retrieve one of his shoes and walked back to the bathroom. He turned the shower water off, and slammed his shoe against the spider. He threw his shoe back into the living room.

Natalie still stood in the bathroom in a towel, sniffling.

"I'm sorry for laughing at you," Reid said, tilting her chin to make her look at him. "Forgive me?"

She smiled. "Of course, Spencer. I'd hug you, but I'm all wet."

"You're forgetting that I don't really care," He pulled her close.

"I really hate spiders," Natalie remarked, shivering. Reid wasn't sure if it was the memory of seeing a spider in the shower or from the cold. "You're all wet now," she said.

"I bet I can make you just as wet," he muttered under his breath, but Natalie heard him anyway.

"Care to try, babe?" She whispered in his ear.

She wasn't even finished with her sentence before his hand was between her legs.