"Hey, hey Reid! Slow down!" Morgan yelled after the young doctor in a hushed tone in order to keep his voice out of hearing range of the women walking out of the conference room and into their cubicles. Reid stopped his quick pace and turned around to meet the gaze of his fellow colleague.

"What?"

"What the hell was that, kid?"

"What do you mean, what the hell was what?" he responded quickly.

"Cait was totally trying to start a conversation with you and you ran."

"I didn't run!"

"You definitely did, if you picked up your pace a little faster you would have been in a full sprint."

The young doctor shook his head and then smoothed a piece of hair behind his ear. He gazed over at Caitlyn, who was sitting in a cubicle with Garcia who was talking a mile a minute.

"Okay, maybe I got a little nervous. But I don't really have the best experience with girls. Last time I tried asking J.J. out it was a disaster."

"Well I saw her looking at you in the conference room, since you were too busy staring down at your case file to notice and then she tried to start a conversation with you. She could be interested in you." Reid snorted and had to keep himself from erupting into a full fit of laughter.

"Yeah, sure Morgan. Maybe your profiling skills need a little tune up. And anyways I DID notice her looking at me, that's exactly why I was looking at my case file." He answered, the need of looking all knowing and alert not helping his case with his fellow agent.

"They definitely don't. Just talk to her." At that moment Hotch bursted into the bull-pen and all of the agents heads swiveled around quickly into his direction.

"There was a bombing on a bus, let's go."

Since Seattle was less than an hour away from D.C. all of the agents jumped into the black sedans instead of the BAU's personal private jet. Caitlyn rode in the backseat of the car along with Spencer, Morgan, and Gideon all in the sedan as well. They wouldn't be able to review more of the case files to make any connections without seeing the scene of the crime. Caitlyn bounced her leg, a nervous habit as they drove in the loudest silence she had ever experienced. Morgan turned to look back at the young doctor from his position in the passenger's seat. Reid cleared his throat.

"So, um, why did you choose the SWAT unit?" he finally stammered out, fumbling over the first few words. Caitlyn ignored him at first, she thought the young doctor hated her and didn't think that he would be talking to her. When she finally realized that he was, she turned her gaze to him.

"Oh! Uhm, well after my training in the academy I saw what my strengths and weaknesses were. I was in pretty good shape and had boxing and martial arts training which is good in combat and had really good tactical skills so I thought that with the additional training that was offered that it would be the best fit for me." she answered.

"Yeah, you can kick some ass." Morgan chuckled.

"Why the BAU?" Caitlyn asked, staring directly into Reid's eyes, which made him divert his glance right away from her eyes to his hands.

"I find it extremely interesting, on average there are about 40 murders a day in the United States. According to data that was gathered by the bureau an estimated 14,612 people were murdered in the United States last year. So I don't know I guess I want to help give closure to the families that are apart of that statistic and stop the serials that would add to it."

"Wow," Caitlyn breathed, "Tall, smart and handsome." Instantly she wanted to take the words right back into her mouth, tall smart and handsome? Like tall, dark and handsome? Why was she trying to be clever? Oh god, how stupid did she sound. The young agent wanted to slap her palm to her forehead or maybe give herself a smack in the face or the lesser and open the car door and throw herself onto the highway they were speeding over. So fuckin stupid, Caitlyn. She had been around guys all her time in the academy especially the juice heads in her unit, what was the deal?

"We're here." Morgan announced, saving Reid from trying to come up with a response to the agent sitting next to him which would have been absolutely impossible. Morgan gave Reid a small smirk before exiting the vehicle.

"So I guess Seattle is the beginning," Reid started, as they all filed out of the sedan.

"But I still can't understand what the beginning is." Morgan inquired.

"It's a personal cause bomber, it only needs to be significant to him." Gideon answered. The group walked over to the rest of the team where Hotch was introducing the agents to the officer running the case.

"Have you identified the device?" Hitch asked the officer.

"Its a small pipe bomb attached to an umbrella."

"I'd like to take a look at those bomb fragments as soon as possible." Caitlyn started and then looked over at Hotch, "if that's okay."

The team leader nodded in approval as the officer walked them around the crime scene.

"How many people were on the bus?" Reid asked.

"27, only two were killed."
"A pipe bomb on a crowded city bus and only two were killed?" Caitlyn spoke up again, "It must have been a relatively small charge."

"She's right, the two who were killed were the two who were the closest to the bomb." The officer confirmed. The rest of the agents continued to talk as Gideon stepped onto the bus.

"He detonated the bomb from close by, was it because he wanted to be close to the explosion or he needed to be?" Hotch asked looking over at Caitlyn.

"He probably had to be, those remotes are pretty limited."

"Maybe he was nervous." Hotch stated, lifting up his sunglasses off the rim of his nose to get a better look at the crime scene, squinting his eyes to protect himself from the glare of the sun.

"Should we set up a press conference?" J.J asked.

"Yes," Gideon began, "and it's going to be about getting this unsub to call us."

"Alright we'll get the press conference set up, Robertson and Reid you go and take a look at the bomb fragments."

Caitlyn and Reid were silent as they rode back to the station with the head officer on the case. Caitlyn couldn't tell what the young doctor felt about her, he was so hot and cold. But she didn't have time to worry about that, especially when a serial bomber could be on the loose. When they finally arrived, she slipped on a pair of latex gloves and sat with Reid infront of her. She looked through the pieces and held up the device with a small chuckle.

"You know, Doctor Reid,"

"You can call me Spencer." he answered, leaning closer to her to take a look at the device.

"Alright, Spencer. The un sub could have bought this at any old toy store. You take a remote control car, plane or boat, attach a detonator like this to a motor, touch the remote… boom." she explained, Reid nodding his head in understanding with everything she said. At that time another bomb tech entered the room, she introduced herself to both agents and explained her reconstruction.

"Can you tell me what else was used?" Caitlyn asked.

"Well he used dried peas."

"Dried peas?" she questioned, "he chose an explosive that would do limited damage, why?"

"There's also a picture engraved on it," the bomb tech said, holding up the reconstruction. Caitlyn and Reid both leaned their faces close in order to take a look.

"It's a robot with an arrow through it."
"Anti-robotics?" At that moment they realized how close their faces were and made eye contact and both shifted back into their chairs as if they were yanked by gravity, even Caitlyn had to keep herself from blushing. This was completely unlike her, she didn't even know Spencer and thought he hated her… she actually wasn't even sure if he didn't hate her.

"Doesn't Seattle use smart busses? High tech busses that use time sensors to give out departure and arrival times?" Reid asked, his voice high pitched in the beginning from the close faced encounter until he cleared his throat halfway through and returned to his normal tone of voice.

"Yeah, they went online last year." The bomb tech confirmed.

"So he's anti technology?" Caitlyn assumed.

"Maybe." Reid answered, "We should call Hotch I think we have enough to deliver the profile."

A/N: Sorry that it's kind of short it's late but I wanted to give those who followed an update. Don't worry I'll have longer chapters in the future and I really hope that you guys enjoy it and I'll be able to get far enough along to begin their epic but sad and honestly tragic awful love story. But it's in the skinny love stage… oooooooohhhhh. Sorry, tired sleep. Review and thanks for those who did and are following :)