Pulling the curtain back Jessica let the steam from the hot running water hit her face. Holding a hand under the running water she tested the temperature. Perfect. Undressing she threw her clothes on the floor, stepped into the bath and under the shower head. The water cascaded down her body, pulling her into a warm embrace with the steam. Pulling her hair off of her face she let her hair become water logged, before letting it fall against her back.

She tried getting thoughts of the handsome Dr Reid out of her mind, she needed to unwind and clear her mind so that sleep would come and he would not appear to her in her dreams. Smothering herself in shower gel Jessica began showering. Closing her eyes she inhaled the scents of her shower gel. Rinsing off she reached for the shampoo and spotted it.

The large black spider on the wall behind it. Just out of the reach of the hot water. She was screaming before she had even fully registered the black shape. Stumbling back she almost fell out of the bath. Her worse fear had been centimetres from her finger tips. If she had reached for the shampoo without looking she surely would of touched it.

Running into the living room she continued to scream. She could not stop the sound from escaping her mouth. She felt the shaking start and remember that Daphne was at her boyfriends, she had stayed the night and there was no saying when she would come home. The shower was still running. It took a minute or two to build up enough courage to tip toe to the bathroom. Standing in the doorway she slowly pulled back the curtain to turn the shower off, as she slowly turned the dial she felt something on her fingers and discovered the spider was trying to get onto her hand.

Letting out a blood curdling scream she shot out of the bathroom again. "Oh my god! It touched me. Oh my god! Ahhhh!" Running around the living room she flapped her arms. She did not stop screaming until she heard the banging on the front door, before she could catch her breath enough to call out she heard a crash. Screaming she ducked down behind the sofa and at that exact moment she realised she was naked.

"Jessica! Jessica Lambart?"

Gripping the top of the sofa Jessica slowly started to peep over it.

"Jess? Are you ok?"

Looking over the back of the sofa Jessica found Dr Reid and five of the people from the hallway in the living room staring at her, or at least the top of her head and eyes. "Oh good you've got guns. The creeps in the bathroom, it was hiding behind the shampoo."

"What?" Dr Reid looked at her puzzled.

"Spider…"

The blond haired woman put her gun away and smiled at the guy Jessica assumed had kicked her door in.

"Morgan?" The man named Morgan put his gun away and went to move towards the bathroom. Realising that he would have to pass the sofa Jessica reached over and pulled one of the sofa cushions over the top and hugged it to her. Standing up she backed into a corner a bit trying desperately to hide herself from the others view. She could feel her cheeks burning now as she realised how embarrassing this whole situation was. She avoided Dr Reid's face and shuffled uncomfortably .

"What the hell happened to my door!" Glancing up Jessica found Daphne standing in the doorway staring at her front door then to Jessica.

Jessica dropped her eyes to the floor. "There was a spider." She mumbled.

"And you called the FBI?"

"No, they were next door. It's Dr Reid's birthday and-"

"I don't care if it's Father Christmas's birthday what has any of this got to do with my door?"

"I might of screamed a little bit. Which is your fault seeing as it was you that gave me a fear of-AHHHHHH!" Jessica was not sure how but the second she saw the spider scarry into the room she leapt up onto the window seat and managed to wrap the curtain around herself. The sofa cushion lay abandoned on the floor. She did not even care if the gathering had caught a eyeful. Standing on tip toe she tried putting as much distance between her and her tormentor. "Please get rid of it!"

In one quick swift movement Daphne grabbed a library book and dropped it on top of the spider. "There, gone. Jesus you were five. Get over it." Daphne walked through the living room and glanced at Morgan as he reappeared then back at her cousin. "And Jessica? I'm grabbing a change of clothes and I'll be out again. When I get home tonight, a new door." Daphne pointed at the door and disappeared.

"Sorry, it got away." Morgan looked over at Jessica as she stood on the window seat. Gulping Jessica nodded.

"Are you ok?"

Jessica could not bring herself to look at Dr Reid and nodded as she felt her cheeks redden even more. "I'm fine thank you." Humiliated, but fine she thought.

Someone mentioned that they would close the door on their way out but Jessica did not say anything or look up. Once she was sure they had left she got down and stepping over the book hurried to her room and closed the door. Why her? Why of all the people to come to her rescue when she was starkers did it have to be him? Of course she had thought of being naked in front of him but in them scenarios they were always on a equal footing. She had just dressed for bed and was heading out to the computer to look for someone to fix the door when she heard a knock on her busted one.

"Hello?"

"Hi, I called someone for you." Dr Reid's head poked around the door. He was smiling at her and she felt her face redden.

"Thank you, that was extremely nice of you. Was kinda hoping you were knocking to say today hadn't actually happened." Shrugging she picked at the bottom of her night top.

"I'll leave you too it, you must be tired. Just wanted to let you know. They'll be out before five."

"I'll probably stay up, knowing my luck I'd sleep through getting robbed. I hope I didn't ruin anything."

"No, they were just dropping by and promising to drop by later for dinner. I'm going to order food in..?"

Jessica looked at him before realising that he was offering. "Er, no thanks. I mean, I just really want today to be over and I don't want to ruin your birthday anymore." They said their goodbyes and Jessica watched as her neighbour left. Feeling bad she hurried out to the hallway. "Dr Reid! I-Another day?" She felt stupid suddenly, he was only offering to be nice and she was trying to turn it into a date?

However he nodded and carried on to his door, where he paused and turned back to her. "Spencer's fine."