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"I'm sorry." She told him before turning and walking out the door. He'd given her almost all of him and she'd left anyway. It wasn't that he hadn't seen it coming because he had but that didn't make it hurt any less. He knew that there was only so much any one person could put up with.

Before he knew it he'd run out of his apartment door and, deciding to take the stairs, raced down the four flights in record time, almost falling twice. He'd be damned if he let the best thing that ever happened to him get away. As he got to the lobby he saw her walk out of the building and towards her car. He ran to catch up with her, not stopping until he'd blocked her path to her car. He was dressed in his slacks and a half unbuttoned shirt, forgetting to grab a jacket to protect him from the beating rain and strong wind – right at that moment however, he ceased to care. It didn't matter what happened as long it was because of him trying to change her mind.

"Stay." Spencer pleaded, breathless from the racing to catch her and the wind that was knocking his breath away.

"You're going to freeze, catch a cold even." She scolded, making him smile. It was a common thing for her to worry about him, especially when it came to him getting ill. He'd begun dating her two years ago after she filled in for his actual doctor for his check-up. "You could catch a pneumonia for goodness sake!"

He laughed. "I don't care, I need you." Dismissing her worrying had become easy for him as she had a tenancy to overreact. And anyway, there were just too many important things he had to say to her, she was more important than a cold. He'd never told her how much she meant to him and now he regretted it – I love you just didn't seem good enough.

"Please don't." Ellie begged, the beginnings of tears forming in her grey eyes, visible despite the storm. "Don't make this harder." Her arms crossed over themselves acting as a barrier between the two of them. God he'd really done a number on her.

"I need you because I love you." Reid continued. This was it. He would give her everything – he'd give her his whole heart, it would be hers to break. Only hers. "I'm never going to stop loving you and I'm fighting for you, right here, right now. I'm yours always but if you can't be mine then I understand. I just want you to be happy, to have everything you've dreamed of and more. I'll support you in anything you do even if you choose to leave me now, I'll always be here for you baby." He dreaded this part; the moment of truth. Chasing after her and giving this speech from his heart rather than his head had seemed like such a good idea five minutes ago but now he realised he was setting himself up for a massive fall. He wished he could've had this discussion back in the warmth and security of his apartment opposed to out in the open, exposed and cold like he was now.

"My dream is you Spence, but you won't let me have it. You won't let me have you. If I don't get out now it'll kill me, I need you like my heartbeat but-"

The genius shook his head vigorously, raindrops from his soaked hair splashing around him. "I'm giving myself completely to you now; I'm putting my heart on the line for you like you have me. Look, I've never done this before, never wanted a woman enough to sprint down four flights of stairs and pour my heart out in the middle of the street whilst it's pouring down. I'm standing out here in the rain risking a cold or even a pneumonia," she laughed which he decidedly took as a good sign. "If that isn't love, risking my health in front of a doctor who likes to shout at me for it no less, to try to stop the woman I love – the only woman I've ever loved – from leaving then I don't know what is. I'm yours."

She looked in his desperate brown eyes, the eyes that she still found mesmerising, and the tears that she'd attempted to hold back in a vain effort to be strong fell from her eyes. Immediately, he grabbed her and pulled her into his safe embrace, kissing the top of her head and neck just as she liked him to. "I want to be acknowledged. I want your fam'ly to know and I want to feel secure in us. I don't want to feel like some secret you're too ashamed to let out. I don't want to worry that you've got one foot out the door or that you're gonna find someone better." The woman cried into his rather cold and wet chest. Usually she'd chastise him or demand he get inside but she didn't make the effort, she needed his comfort right now and if it took all of this to get him to talk to her then so be it.

He pushed her hair back gently as he made her look up at him. "I am not and nor have I ever been ashamed of you. Never." He frowned at the fact that she'd thought he was, if anything he would've thought it'd be the other way around. She's too confident to think something like that – or she was before him. It made him feel like a prick for making her so insecure. "JJ's having a barbeque on Saturday, come with me. As my girlfriend." The look of pure surprise on her face made him kick himself; apparently it meant a whole lot more to her than him. It took him two years to realise that she'd been waiting for this all along – she saw meeting his team as him fully committing to their relationship whereas to him she was something to look forward to when he got home. To him it didn't matter whether she met the team; yeah they were important to him and he loved them like they were family but he didn't realise how important they were to her.

"No." Ellie declared. "I don't want to force you into this; I want you to want to. God we're so messed up. I don't know where it all went wrong." She asked more to herself than him but they both knew that he was the reason it all went wrong.

"You're not forcing me." His voice was adamant, leaving no room for argument. He needed to emphasise it in some way. Why was all of this so difficult? "I really want you to, if I didn't I wouldn't have asked or even told you about it. I'm so sorry for doing this to you but I'm promising now that I'll be there for you. I'll prove to you just how much I love you and spend every day for the rest of my life making this up to you, showing you how sorry I am." People were walking out and around them, all leaving or trying to rush to their cars and out of the rain. Some stared at them in curiosity listening for snippets of the conversation. He decided to use this to his advantage. "Hey, I'm in love with her!" Spencer yelled into the air, sure that most of the passer's by could hear his rather bold announcement. Good.

In return, she shushed him whilst he grinned. "I'm proving to you just how much you mean to me baby." Due to the rain his hair was flat and stuck to his head as water dripped down his face. In just the way he loved her to, she pushed it back, her fingers running along his scalp as she did.

"I love you so much." Ellie smiled. "Show me just how much you love me?" Her boyfriend's grin got wider as he picked her up and spun her around, kissing her as best he could whilst doing this.

"I love you too. Please don't leave me." She watched as the excited gleam in his eyes faded into more of a puppy dog look and she reached up to pull his forehead down to hers.

"Never." Given that answer they engaged in a passionate kiss – far too much so for a public display.

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