Authors note:

Hey every one, hope you all had a nice Christmas!

Ok so I've been thinking this up since I saw the season 8 episodes (can you believe that we have to wait until the 16th for the next episode!) and I thought I'd write this just for the hell of it.(Might be more than just a one shot.)

Anyway, in this story Reid and his wife Maeve live with their four year old daughter Sara...

A tired Doctor Reid walked to his desk with a cup of coffee in one hand and a file in another,

"Hey pretty boy! Get enough sleep last night?" said Derek Morgan laughing behind him.

"Hmm. What? No, I didn't" he said as if he'd been woken up from his sleep.

"Oh I see. Ok, it's either one of two things. Trouble in paradise or you and Maeve are trying for another kid" he said with the usual smirk on his face at the end.

Reid glared at him for a second, he was his best friend and all, but himself and his wife had just been up half the night and was not in the mood for Derek's banter.

"Sara's sick. High temperature, vomiting, Maeve and I probably got about four hours of sleep between us." Reid said, fatigue heavy in his voice.

"Is she going to be ok?" Derek said with concern for the little girl.

"Yeah Maeve thinks it's just a bug, she'll be fine in a couple of days." He said sitting down at his desk.

No sooner than when he was half way through the file he was holding, JJ walked into the Bullpen with an anxious look on her face.

"You guys all need to come to the round table, now" she said sternly.

They all sat around the table waiting for what JJ, Hotch and Garcia had to tell them.

"Five children all under the age of 10 have been admitted to St. Andrew's Hospital with what appears to be a new string of scarlet fever." Garcia said with panic and emotion booth evident in her eyes and voice. She looked at Reid with the saddest of all looks.

"What?" Reid asked with confusion.

"Reid, all the children went to Andersons Elementary School" Hotch said with a sad concern in his voice.

As he processed everything, one thought rang through his mind: "GET SARA TO A HOSPITAL!"

"Hotch I have to call Maeve" he said worried.

Hotch nodded as Reid stood up and walked out of the room. As soon as he was outside the doors of the round table room his cell phone rang which he knew wasn't good. He answered it and was immediately meet with a series of frantic, jumbled up words that came from his wife's panicked voice.

"Maeve, Maeve, slow down, I can't understand you!" he said trying to make sense of what she was saying.

"S-she h-has a f-fever of 110" Maeve choked out through tears and sobs. "She won't respond to me at all, oh god Spencer what do I do!?" she cried, panic rising in her voice again.

"Ok, Maeve, it's alright but you have to listen to me, take her to St. Andrew's Hospital. I'll meet you there and they can give her the treatment she needs, ok?" he told her, trying to calm her down( to no avail). He quickly went to his desk to get his mail bag which held his car keys and house keys and all but ran out the door to get to his car.

At the hospital

Reid walked into the hospital and looked around franticly for Maeve and Sara he saw that two more children had been admitted, but couldn't find the people he was looking for.

Just as he was about to call her, two paramedics rushed in with Sara on a gurney and Maeve running beside them. Reid moved quickly to his wife's side while the paramedics held an oxygen mask to Sara's face which was now red with the fever.

A young doctor stopped short in front of them: "I'm sorry, you can't come any further than here. We can't have anyone else in the ICU quarantine" she said to them both and with that she fled through the doors.

When the doctor had left, Maeve turned into spencer's chest and broke down in tears while he held on to her as tightly as he could and rubbed her back soothingly, trying hard not to cry himself. He closed his eyes and prayed silently that everything would be alright.

Authors note:

So what do you think? Please leave a review and let me know. Good or bad I welcome them all, so don't hesitate :))))))) there will be at least two or three more chapters after this, so thank you for reading. (Merry Christmas!)

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