For the next few weeks everything in Kit's life was grand and the only trouble she got was with whatever criminal the team were looking for. Even her mother was given her break after Reid and the fact that Lex and Sammy had heard back from the colleges they applied to. Both of them got into everyone one they applied, which was great news and so Lex was off to Harvard and Sammy was off to Princeton in the fall. So her world was all bright and shiny until today, where she got into work to find out about twenty people or so had contracted anthrax in a public park. Then her genius boyfriend went and locked himself in a room with it. "Hey… any news?" JJ questioned as Kit stood in the bullpen reading various amounts of papers as fast as she could.

"Um… Hotch is on his way back here, Nicholls is dead and Reid guesses that he's been dead for at least two days then he's found various things to suggest that he had an assistant whose gone rogue. Thus the one responsible for all this madness…" Kit said slowly and carefully.

"That's something." JJ replied.

"Any news on Reid?" Kit questioned as she fingered the silver locket Reid had given her for her birthday, trying her best to not lose her mind over this when her boyfriend was locked in a room with a strain of anthrax, which has already killed twelve people at the last count. If it wasn't for the fact that she could help find who was responsible for this, then she would have had a breakdown already. Kit knew that she was emotionally compromised given but this was Reid and he was infected with anthrax.

"Hazmat team have finished setting up the decontamination chamber for Reid when he comes out and the paramedics are on the scene waiting."

"That's good, it's something…" Kit began until the sound of her phone going off interrupted her and she looked at the caller id. Reid. Excusing herself, Kit made her way out of the BAU so she was away from the hustle and bustle from all the noise when she picked the phone up. "Spencer…"

"Katherine."

"Busy day today, huh handsome? Bet this wasn't what you were expecting when you woke up this morning because I know this wasn't what I was expecting when you dragged me out of bed." Kit said with a weary laugh and it was then she knew that she had officially lost it if she was laughing over anthrax.

"Where are you?" Reid asked ignoring the previous

"BAU, because of my history with the military I'm co-ordinating between everyone, doing everything and anything." Kit began before taking a deep breath, she couldn't do this and pretend everything was fine, not with him and where he was. "Jesus Spencer, why did you have to go and lock your self in a room with anthrax? Seriously, Spencer this may be the stupidest thing you have ever done…"

"Kit…"

"Don't do the Kit thing with me Reid, it won't work this time because this is serious. I'm dealing with military brass and their scientists and you have the hazmat team waiting to scrub you down once you finally come out of that damn room!"

"Katherine, it's going to be okay." Reid assured her.

She was freaking out and they both knew it, that's why he was calling her Katherine. To get her to calm down and focus because she wasn't good to anyone like this. They had to remain professional and not let their personal feelings get in the way but it was so hard not to. "How are you doing?"

"Been better…" Reid quipped.

"Tell me about it." Kit wearily replied until she was interrupted by one of the army soldiers tapping her shoulders and informing her that she was needed in the round conference room.

"You've got to go?" Reid figured.

"Yeah something's come up and I have to go check it out, but you'll be okay, right?" Kit questioned despite the fact that neither of them knew the answer to that question. But that was what hope was for, right? "Your going to come out of that damn room and do whatever it is hazmat need you to do and you'll be fine, because I c-can't do this without you Spencer…"

"Kit…"

"Reid I-I… I have to go." Kit said not being able to say the three words that she wanted to say, instead using the excuse that she was needed to go and moments later she and Reid bid their goodbyes and ended the call and Kit swallowed the massive lump in her throat; she was an complete and utter coward. Reid could die and she couldn't even bring herself to tell him that she loved him. Some girlfriend she was.

Things got worse, less than an hour after Kit got off the phone with Reid she got a phone call from Dr. Linda Kimura, it turns out Reid was very sick because the anthrax had got into his blood system and he was in respiratory distress and things were bad. Which just made things worse and made Kit realize that she should have told Reid she loved him when she had the chance. Thankfully everything somehow worked itself out. They caught the UnSub and stopped the anthrax attack, most importantly Reid was okay, They found the cure for that particular strain. "Agent Swanson…" Dr. Kimura began as Kit made her way into the hospital.

"He's okay, right? I know he called me to say he was fine but he likes to use his doctorates as a second opinion to downplay things but can you tell me for certain that he's okay." Kit questioned.

"Dr. Reid said you'd say that and yes he is going to be fine." Dr. Kimura assured her before pointing Kit in the direction of Reid's room and when Kit looked, she saw Reid sitting up in bed, with a smile and waving to her.

Before Kit had even gotten here she knew he was awake, she even spoken to him but when she walked into the room and saw Reid sitting up in bed really did it for Kit and before she knew it she was crying. "Hey Kit…"

Rushing over to the bed Kit leaned forward and kissed Reid as hard as she could before pulling away and looking Reid in the eye. But even then she couldn't stop crying and so instead she hugged him and sobbed into his shoulder. "Your okay, your really okay…" Kit kept repeating, for more her sake then Reid's.

"You already knew that I was Katherine." Reid replied pulling Kit away from him after a few minutes so he could look at her.

"I love you." Kit blurted out and normally she would have been shocked and embarrassed that she had blurted that out but she honestly didn't care anymore. Reid was okay and that was all that mattered to her. "I know it's been a few months but I can't help the way I feel… I love you Dr. Spencer Reid."

"Kit…"

"I wanted to tell you earlier when you called whilst I was at the BAU but I chickened out like a complete wuss…I-I was scared to tell you how I really felt because I didn't want it hurt more than it already did especially with everything that was going on. Then I got the call about you being even more sicker… the thought of me never seeing you again and not telling you how I felt was something I couldn't stand." Kit tearily admitted.

"You… you love me?" Reid squeaked as his face was burning red.

"Hard not to." Kit pointed out with a quiet sniffle and Reid shuffled over in the bed and Kit laid down next to him, with her head resting on his shoulder and the two of them sat or rather sat there in the silence in each other's arm.

"I love you too Katherine Marie Swanson." Reid admitted, so quietly than it was of a whisper than anything but he knew that Kit had heard it.

Kit beamed at the 'declaration' of some sorts and the fact that the one and only Dr. Spencer Reid, awkward yet loveable genius loved her until she realized what Reid had said and she slowly looked up and narrowed her eyes at him. "Who told you that my middle name was Marie?"

"A magician never reveals his secrets."