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Empty Planet

I went home again this weekend. My little cousin's Christening was Sunday, and my cousin begged me to be there for it. Of course I asked Spence if he wanted to go. You should have seen his face when I told him my whole family wanted to meet him. It was mean of me, but it was funny too. He stuttered and stammered and got all red in the face and so cute. He went off on some tangent about meeting the girlfriend's family and a couple of other things I didn't really listen to. I decided to put him out of his misery and kissed him.

Did I ever mention that he tastes like coffee and that he has the softest lips of any guy I ever kissed?

Anyway, I explained that my family was going to have to wait to meet him. I told him that I didn't think we were ready for the "meet the family," routine. He was really relieved and I was too. I want him to meet my family, but I just don't want to rush things with Spence. I want us to have time to get to know each other.

I got home really late and then this morning I got the news that someone was going to set off a bomb in Seattle. He had called many news agencies and we had to do a threat assessment. I walked right past Spence at work without stopping. He said something to me, but I didn't really hear him. All I could think about was that we had another bomber out there. I was bound and determined that it didn't turn into Boston again. We couldn't really do anything till he set off a bomb, and when he did two people were killed. It was terrible…

We got to Seattle and I had the very fun job of talking to the survivors on the bus that had the bomb. We had to match them to their seats to find out where the bomber might have been sitting. Spence and Morgan went to talk to the bomb squad, while I did a PSA to see if we could get him to call in.

The guys didn't think he wanted to kill anyone because of the size of the bomb. They decided that he was a personal cause bomber and that it had something to with hating technology. The guy called the tip line and talked to Gideon. He called himself Allegro and said he had another message. We heard him set off the bomb and everyone freaked out. I was so scared that he'd killed someone else. But no one was injured, thank God. One of the bomb squad found his so-called manifesto about destroying technology. Spence was the one to figure out that he was living out a science fiction book called "Empty Planet." He went off on this big explanation about robots taking over the world, and the human boy and his army that destroy them. It was so cute to watch him get all excited about that book. He's so sexy when he's excited like that. How am I supposed to concentrate on my job?

Gideon and Spence talked to a man who was on the bus and was an expert in artificial life. The guy wouldn't accept our protection and he got blown up by a car bomb. We couldn't do anything to stop it. The author of the book, Ursula Kent, was right there in Seattle teaching at St. Dennis University. Gideon and Spence went to talk to her to find out if any of her students may have had anything to do with the bombings.

While the guys were checking Dr. Cooks car, Allegro called Gideon and demanded his manifesto get printed. He told Gideon we'd be very busy. He led Hotch and Morgan around looking for bombs at a bunch of different government buildings.

The scariest part of the whole case was the bomb in Dr. Brazier's car. The guys got there in time to stop her from driving off, but the bomb was under her seat. Morgan stayed with her while the bomb squad worked to get her out of the car. Hotch tried to order him to get away from the car, but he wouldn't do it. He told me about how Morgan stuck with her till they were able to get her out of the car. Morgan might be too gung-ho, and he might like to tease Spence too much, but he's a brave and compassionate man.

So the bomb techs blew up the car on Gideon's orders. He did it to convince Allegro that the doctor was dead and keep her safe.

The bomber turned out to be an old student of Ursula Kent's that was adopted. He'd read Empty Planet and thought it was prophecy about his life. He thought Ursula Kent was his mother. His ultimate goal was to confront her and kill her.

The guys went to the college to get her, but he got there first. There was a confrontation and Dr. Kent got shot when one of the SWAT officers got trigger happy. She's going to be okay and Allegro is in custody. It turned out that she wasn't his biological mother, but even so, she took a bullet for him.

I kind of felt bad for him. After all he only wanted to be loved by his real mother. It made me glad that I have a family. I felt bad for resenting my Aunt Gina bugging me about Spence in my last visit. She was a little irked that I didn't bring him with me to meet them. We got in a shouting match about it and now I'm sorry for that. I'm going to call her and apologize.

I finally got to talk to Spence after the case was over. We played gin on the plane home. Of course, Spence couldn't keep his hands off Hotch's cards when he got up and left the game for a minute, even after Hotch told him not to cheat.

He was going on and on about how science fiction is deeper than I would think, and that there was genuine human emotion. So I said, "Let me save you the time Reid, I'm never going to Comic-Con with you."

He got all cute and flustered, and then I moved in for the kill and put down my cards. He had to look at them to make sure I didn't cheat. I accused him of not trusting me. He said he had to make sure. So I said, "I beat the genius Dr. Reid," and he said "Genius Dr. Reid let you win." He made me laugh and I was grateful for it, after that case.

I think the next time we play poker, I'm gonna flirt with him and see if I can win again. Hm… I wonder if innocent Dr. Reid has ever played strip poker!