A/N: You readers can thank my manager for letting me go home early because if he didn't this chapter wouldn't have happened so soon! Now is where it's going to start getting good. Thank you guys for the reviews that you've given, they really motivate me to write more so do the math… more reviews, faster and longer updates so review review and enjoy!

"Okay, good. Now blow it up." Gideon said before hanging up the phone. Reid let out a sigh of relief, he would have been concerned if it was any one of his team mates. The young doctor never had as much contact with women, most of what he knew about them was from what his mother told him or what he read in books. Being a 12 year old in college never sent the ladies his way and when he rambled he would instantly be shut down if his lanky looks didn't do it before he opened his mouth. So he focused on his work and excelled with his superior intelligence. So the feeling in the pit of his gut, the one that he couldn't really put a scientific explanation for or any legitimate term confused him.

"You're blowing it up!?" The author exclaimed.

"That's the best way to keep doctor Braiser safe, by making the un-sub believe that he was successful in killing her." Gideon responded, looking over at the young doctor and giving him a knowing glance. Spencer once again diverted eye contact the second that it was made.

"You have a complicated life," She responded. Gideon held back a chuckle and smirked,

"Complicated world." Spencer picked up his messenger bag and threw it over his shoulder as they headed out of the office, he was eager to get back to the rest of the team.

"I'm sorry I couldn't be more help." The author sympathized, looking down and rubbing her arms.

"Yeah, me too." Gideon said softly.

"Give the manifesto a little more thought when we're gone," Reid advised as they started to walk out of the office, "maybe something will come to you without the pressure of us looming over you."

"Go over your student lists, any males that were odd or probably had a temper. Maybe one's

that you haven't thought about for years." Gideon advised.

"I'll have my TA pull the files."

"May I ask you something?" Reid inquired, "why didn't you write another book?"

"It was the only story I needed to tell."

xxxx

Caitlyn, Hotch, JJ and Morgan sat at the table in the conference room awaiting for the return of Reid and Gideon. There were boards with evidence and Caitlyn was going over excerpts from the Empty Planet book, nearly not as fast as Reid and with spark notes at her side to help jot her memory. When the door opened none of them looked up from where the other agents walked in until Gideon spoke.

"We need to go over the plot of this book to maybe get a better understanding of the Manifesto."

"I'm already getting started." Caitlyn said, holding up the book and the laptop.
"Well, Reid probably has it all memorized, you two go and write up the key points on the whiteboard while we look more into victimology and the crime scenes. Both Caitlyn and Reid made sure not to even look at Morgan as they went into the conference room next door to grab a white board.

"Hey, Caitlyn." Reid said, the young blonde looked over at him.

"Yeah?"

"I'm glad you're okay."

"Really?" Caitlyn asked, raising her eyebrows.

"Why wouldn't I be?"

"I don't know I just thought… we should just really get started on this." Caitlyn said diverting the conversation from anything deep. Yet another thing that was a habit of hers that didn't always work in her favor. She couldn't get the woman's words out of her mind, tell him you like him. But not until the case was over.

xxxx

After getting the key points efficiently on the board the two brought it back into the conference room. Caitlyn was so surprised at how much he was able to remember and the two were able to crack a few jokes and find some time to talk about the mutual parts of the tale that they enjoyed.

"Wait… so Allegro kills his mother?" Gideon asks.

"Yeah at the end he discovers that he's adopted and is reunited with his birth mom and thanks her for having the strength to give him away to live a better life, but ironically he realizes that she herself has become a robot so… he kills her." Reid explained.

"He kills the one person he has a biological connection with for the greater good." Caitlyn added, playing with a pencil.

"Wow," J.J started, "I thought we were talking about some geeky sci-fi book here."

"It's really awesome." Caitlyn said.

"It sounds more like a greek tragedy." Hotch mumbled.

"It's not really a tragedy at all though," Reid corrected, "his mother is incredibly proud of his final act. Like it's the ultimate fulfillment of his destiny. To prove that she was right to have given him up in the first place."

Caitlyn stared at Gideon as she saw the change of his facial expression, it was almost as if you could see a lightbulb starting to go off in his brain.

"If he kills her, how do you know that she's proud?" Morgan asked.

"It's told from her point of view. The whole book is, it's like she's talking to the reader from heaven. " Caitlyn countered.

"The mother… is the narrator?" Gideon asked once more.

"Yeah! It's really her story actually." Reid answered.

"It's the story she needed to tell…" Gideon finally realized.

"And to finish it he needs to kill his mother." Hotch finished.

"Let's go." Gideon ordered as all the agents jumped up.

"Here you go, Robertson." Hotch said, throwing the young blonde a bullet proof vest with FBI printed in bold white letters, she smiled and nodded as the other agents dispersed to get their gear. Caitlyn walked out of the room to where her gun was, while Reid stayed in the room and J.J went to go inform the rest of the police officers what was happening and to make sure to keep it under wraps and to make sure there was no leakage to the media. Caitlyn strapped on the bulletproof vest, same fit, but different lettering and colors that her black SWAT vest. She put her gun in her holster and tied her hair up in a ponytail. Her adrenaline was pumping as it always did before a takedown, a mix of anxiety and excitement swirled through her veins. When she was finally ready she looked up to see the rest of the team in the same uniform ready for the takedown and the young doctor sitting in the conference room in which she had to pass through to get to the exit. She couldn't get out of her mind wha the woman said to her on the roof, and she never was one to think of a takedown going wrong, she always tried to think positive. But before she walked out of the conference room she turned to look at him.

"Hey Spence," he looked up from his papers, "I like you." With that she turned away and jogged to get the unsub. Reid just stared at her even after she left, and J.J returned with two cups of coffee.

"What's wrong with you Spence, see a ghost or something?"

xxxxx

The author of the book was dead. There was nothing that could have been done, no way that she could have been saved. In some ironic way the un-sub had got what he wanted. With this job you couldn't take the small failures with you, you had to focus on the victories. Aboard the jet, Morgan was listening to his usual music while Reid and J.J played cards and Gideon was reading a book.

"Gin!" J.J exclaimed, "I'm beating a genius."

"The genius is letting you win." But in reality his mind was elsewhere. Hotch motioned Caitlyn over and she sat down infront of him, afraid to look him in the eyes.

"What you did with the bomb was stupid." He stated.

"I know, but I couldn't leave that woman up there."
"I didn't say that you were wrong." Caitlyn breathed a sigh of relief. "Stick around for a couple more cases. We could use someone like you."
"Thank you so much, sir." she smiled, getting up and moving back to her position in a bucket seat alone in the back of the plane. J.J moved to the long couch like area to lay down and get some sleep and Morgan was instantly in her spot.

"J.J beat you? What's really going on, other than the obvious." Morgan asked, Reid looked around and kept his voice quiet.

"Before you guys went to do the take down… Caitlyn told me she liked me. But she probably meant like, you're a swell dude." Reid deflected.

"Reid if you don't get over there and talk to her right now I'm going to grab you by your ear and drag you over there." Morgan threatened.

"What would I even say?"

"Just do it already." Gideon said, both of the agents surprised he overhead their conversation. The young doctor smiled and walked over to where she was sitting, her head leaning against the window as they flew over the city. Too exhausted to drive they just decided to make the thirty minute flight back.

xxxx

"Hey…um… hi." Reid started, "can I sit here?"

"Yeah, sure." Caitlyn said turning towards him.

"Why didn't you think that I was glad you were okay after incident with the bomb on the rooftop?" He asked, looking down at his hands as she looked directly at him. Do I just tell him? I did blatantly tell him that I liked him before I left and if he hated me he wouldn't be talking to me. So fuck it I guess.

"I don't know," she started, "I kinda thought you hated me."

"What!" his voice raised a pitch but he immediately cleared his throat and went down to a soft whisper, "I don't hate you."

"Well… it just felt like you did. Anytime I tried to talk to you you would blow me off and then you would be nice and then it was like you instantly got cold." Caitlyn began to babble, she paused still looking at him, "and you never look me directly in the eyes." Finally the young doctor looked up and connected his chestnut eyes with her blue orbs.

"They're… really pretty." he blurted out, and Caitlyn smiled.

"If you thought I hated you, why did you tell me that you liked me?" Caitlyn chuckled softly.

"Well when I was on the roof with Dr. Braiser I was trying to distract her and I told her how I thought you hated me and she told me to tell you." Spencer then joined in with the laughter.

"There's a Thai restaurant that's open 24 hours, do you wanna go?"
"Yeah, definitely."

"Atta boy," Morgan smiled looking at the two smiling agents. Gideon turned in his seat to look at them as well.

"That's going to be really good, or a recipe for disaster I see it already."
"Aw come on Gideon, why? I never thought that there would be a girl who could keep up with Reid and be able to listen to him babble as long as he does and then want to go somewhere with him. I didn't think there was any human who would want to." Morgan joked.

"Because they're going to fall in love with each other."