A/N: Thank you so much for all the reviews that I have been getting I appreciate them a lot! Now this chapter was definitely not one of my favorite things to write and I feel like it wasn't my best. I have also decided to leave out pretty much all of season 8, sorry but it doesn't work with my timeline and now things are going to get very interesting and very cute. So enjoy! The more you review the more it makes me want to update so please please do!

The day had come that Caitlyn had always hated. She didn't mind the dead bodies or occasionally getting pistol whipped or whatever the job required her to go through. But she did hate the events that the BAU team occasionally had to speak at; her husband on the other hand did not. Caitlyn sat in the front row of the Violent Crimes Seminar that was taking place in Chicago. Being an awful public speaker herself she just came to support Spencer and Emily who was speaking as well.

"Now let's give a warm welcome to Dr. Spencer Reid of the BAU." The blonde at the podium introduced, causing the crowd to clap lightly. Except for Caitlyn who clapped loudly and even slipped her thumb and forefinger into her mouth to whistle loudly. This cause Spencer to give her a look from the podium and then fumble with the microphone before beginning his speech. She could never understand how someone with an eidetic memory could get so nervous about public speaking, it wasn't as if he was going to forget anything he was supposed to say. Caitlyn tried her best to answer the questions he asked out to the crowd and respond to all of the cue's the young genius would try and set off from the podium because it seemed that the whole room wasn't the least bit interested in anything he had to say.

Patricia Cornwell the author leading the event was signing books while Emily was answering questions from those who were in the audience. Caitlyn had left towards the end to go grab a coffee and entered back into the conference room only to see Spencer standing alone, clutching the strap of his messenger bag.

"Hey." Caitlyn smiled "you did great!"

"Not really, I think the whole room would have left when I started talking but probably didn't because it would be hard not to notice if they did. No one is even asking me any questions." Spencer frowned. Caitlyn placed her hand under his chin to lift his face up.

"I thought you were fantastic and that's all that matters to me." she smiled, kissing him softly on the lips.

"I guess…" he frowned, placing his hand on the small of her back.

"How about I go downstairs and call a cab, we can go back to the hotel and then I'll be princess laya." Caitlyn purred suggestively.

"Well. Then I don't guess I know, I will meet you downstairs." The young doctor grinned at Caitlyn's acceptance of the sexual role play he had been suggesting for months. Caitlyn was regretting it already as she walked to the elevator, but hey, sometimes you have to do things for the ones you love.

As Spencer walked up to the cab there was a look on his face that wasn't the enthused one that she had seen when she left.

"I tried to be cool and thought I was giving a fellow list-memorizer help into the FBI internship program." he mumbled.

"That's great!"

"Yeah it would have been if he wasn't the leader of a multibillion dollar medical company that's going to change the world. And he's only a teenager."

"Yeah well… you probably have way more lists memorized than him and he doesn't have me, so don't let it bother you. It was a weird seminar." Caitlyn tried to comfort the young doctor.

"I just feel like he's so young and smart and have done so much, what could I have done if I chose a different path?"

xxxxxxx

The seminar had ended as soon as it had begun and there was yet another psychopath on the loose, this time the un sub was recreating the attacks and murders of the zodiac killer. Caitlyn and Spencer were to go and look at the crime scene. Within minutes Spencer made his conclusion.

"It's not the real zodiac killer." he stated.

"How can you be so sure?" Caitlyn asked, somewhat disappointed. She had studied the original zodiac case obsessively when she was younger and wanted to be the one to catch him.

"I just know it… I just can't really explain it." he answered.

"Well, that's good enough for me. But I don't know how well that will hold up with anyone else." Caitlyn said, looking inside the bloody car. After inspecting the agents then left the scene and headed to the police station. There was a man positioned on top of the steps; a crowd had formed around him and he was being killed. It seemed as though he was claiming that his cousin was the actual zodiac killer. Spencer started to go towards the crowd.

"Spencer-" Caitlyn tried call after him but stopped as she watched him jump in front of the camera and proceed to humiliate and discredit the man. Spencer looked into the camera,

"The FBI would appreciate it if only serious tips were sent and people stopped trying to get their 15 minutes of fame, thank you." he finished, turning on his heel and walking away. Caitlyn pulled her jaw from the floor and trotted to catch up to his pace.

"Dr. Reid I don't know what has gotten into you, but I kinda like it."

xxx

Spencer had decoded a message that had led them to a location where the unsub sent a messenger to deliver a note especially for him.

You're not as smart as you think you are.

"Okay, I know that I shouldn't take things personally but why is someone sending this to Spencer? Does that mean it's someone whose after him, not someone who is trying to continue what the zodiac is doing." Caitlyn asked the team as they looked over the fresh crime scene.

"Well if he's trying to compete with me he has to be within 5 years of my age, the question is why." Spencer said.

"The message may not have been for you, Reid." Hotch added.

"A letter was hand delivered to me last night." Spencer responded, only to be shot down by the other agents to try and rationalize that it wasn't for the young doctor. Caitlyn kept silent as she watched the expression on his face change with each of their remarks. Being honest with herself, she didn't believe that this was after Spencer either.

"We're ready to deliver the profile." Hotch concluded, walking away from the crime scene and heading to the sedan with JJ and Emily following behind him. Spencer stayed still.

"Babe, if you really think about it, it does seem kind of strange and very unlikely that this was directed to you." Caitlyn said softly, causing Spencer to deepen his frown.

"I know how it sounds, but I'm telling you, I don't know what it is but I know that this is about me."

"Okay, then I believe you."

xxxx

When Caitlyn had woken up in their hotel room she rolled over to find that Spencer was gone. It was extremely rare that he would leave without waking her up. She showered quickly and walked down to the coffee shop across the street to see her husband deep in thought, scribbling and flipping through sheets of paper.

"Are you going to tell me what's going on?" Caitlyn asked as she sat down, the young doctor not looking up from his paper. "You know you can tell me anything, it's me."

With that last sentence he sat back and placed down his pen.

"Do you ever wonder if you live up to expectations?" he asked, looking her in the eyes.

"I beat them, I thought I'd be in the army or something or I don't know, I am more than my dad's expectations."

"I thought I'd have cured schizophrenia by the time I was 25. You know when I was a kid, people told me that I could do anything." Spencer said.

"Wait, you're afraid that you've let people down?" Caitlyn asked.

"I'm afraid I've let myself down." Spencer confessed.

"By not curing schizophrenia?"

"Because… I don't know why I'm in the FBI."

"Oh I get it," Caitlyn smiled, "you're a genius but you have the same job as me and Prentiss, Morgan and JJ."

"Yeah that's exactly it," the young doctor started, but then cracked a smile, "no, I'm not saying that. Sometimes I just get this feeling that maybe I should have done something more with my life."

At that time Prentiss had come down and heard the end of their conversation,

"Sorry to barge in and eavesdrop but you're only 29." she said light heartedly.

"I'm 30." he corrected her.

"What! You mean we missed your birthday?" Prentiss exclaimed. Caitlyn and Reid had a small celebration of their own but he wasn't one to try and make a big deal out of birthdays and didn't want to mention it and made Caitlyn promise not to.

"Well, no matter what you really don't hear much about child prodigies when they grow up, they mostly grow up to be average." Caitlyn sighed.

"Are you trying to use reverse psychology on me?" Spencer retorted jokingly as Emily grabbed the paper he was working on.

"What are you doing?" he asked her as she started to write on the paper.

"Well I hear that you're washed up so I might as well see what you've missed." Emily joked, circling randomly on the paper.

"Stop you might actually mess it up." Spencer said, snatching it back from her. But what it did do was open a new path, one that led Spencer and the rest of the team one step closer to the un sub.

"That's it." he said under his breath before darting out of the coffee shop.

"Never a dull moment between you two is there?" Emily asked Caitlyn as she took a sip of her latte.

xxxxx

It seemed as though the rest of the case was solved purely by Spencer as the rest of the team watched. It was two geniuses who were doing the murders it only made sense that a genius was the one to solve it. Caitlyn fastened her bulletproof vest as they went to go and get the un subs, as they drove in the car Caitlyn placed her hand on Spencer's knee. The un sub was the man that approached him at the convention, Spencer was right all along. The young doctor slipped his hand in hers in response. When they arrived at the warehouse Caitlyn kicked down the door to see a woman tied up and the two un-subs.

"The murders are perfect, that's why the police won't catch us."

"If they were perfect, I wouldn't be here right now." Reid said, stepping out from the shadows, gun pointed. Caitlyn crept behind where she couldn't be seen in order to get the shot she needed incase she had to take him down. The one un-sub, the friend of the main killer, Caleb, easily threw him under the bus.

"You really worked hard to impress him, didn't you Caleb?" Spencer asked, "the murders, the chess game, all to entice him."

With each statement the other man agreed, only hurting the un sub more as he dug a deeper and deeper grave for his friend.

"I don't know if this guy is the best friend in the world if he's selling you out like that, after you killed once together you probably thought that you had an unbreakable bond…" Spencer started, causing the un sub to get distracted and admit that the two men committed the first murder, "but after that something changed, you two grew apart."

Caitlyn tried to keep as quiet as possible as she tried to make her way behind the un sub without being noticed and hoping Spencer could distract them long enough so that she could get into position. The un subs began to fight as Spencer played the two off one another- and then Spencer hit them with the ultimate mind game. Telling the one un sub that the other was planning to move away and hadn't even told him. Caitlyn was amazed at how strong and dominant Spencer was acting, he was cool and collected as he played the two like the perfect chess game between one another. The un sub then revealed where the first victims bones were buried, in the other man's backyard. The un sub and Reid lowered their guns, Morgan came out of his position and cuffed him and took him into custody. Emily and Hotch assisted in getting the other two out of the area. Caitlyn put her gun in her holster and hugged Spencer to her side.

"See, you are a genius. You were right all along. None of us figured out what you did or felt the instincts that you felt." Caitlyn said to him, the young doctor forced a small smile.

"I guess you're right." he said.

"Why the long face still?" Caitlyn asked, concerned.

"Because you're right and I like to be the one whose right." He fake frowned. Caitlyn rolled her eyes and gave him a shove.

"For a genius you can be so immature sometimes." she laughed.

"Am not!"

"Are too!"

"Are you two finished acting like you're adolescents so we can leave?" Hitch called from the outside, the two unaware that they were able to be heard. They both laughed and Spencer grabbed Caitlyn's face between both of his hands and kissed her hard and quickly before leading her out of the warehouse, holding her hand.

xxxxxxx

Caitlyn and Spencer walked into the BAU, both of them clutching a cup of coffee as they walked through the BAU.

"Hey, Reid. Or ReidS, but I'm addressing you, Spencer. Hotch wants to talk to you." Emily said, Spencer made a face of disapproval, "what?"

"He probably wants to talk to me about how I've been kind of weird lately." He answered, Caitlyn just looked up at the ceiling trying to act as nonchalant as possible. She knew what Emily had set up and didn't want to give it away. Spencer was an excellent profiler, especially when it came to Caitlyn, sort of.

"You are making a difference though, one person at a time." Emily said to the genius.

"I've been thinking a lot about why I stayed after Gideon left, why I take any of those other offers. And I realized I don't know theres just something…" he turned his head to look at Caitlyn as he continued, "incredibly right about being here. With all you guys." he finished, turning back to look at Emily.

"Well I'm glad to hear that, otherwise this would have been really awkward." Emily stated, placing her hand on the young doctor's back and leading him to a room filled with his fellow team members and a birthday cake.

"Surprise!" They all cheered in unison, each one coming up and giving him affection in their own ways. Kisses on each cheek from Rossi, a rare smile and handshake from Hotch.

Spencer's face lit up and he smiled widely as each one of the members of his team gave him a hug and wished him a happy birthday.

"Did you know?" Spencer grinned at Caitlyn.

"Yes and you have no idea how hard it is to keep anything from you." Caitlyn giggled nervously. There was something else she was keeping from him and she didn't know how long she could keep it from him. Secrets didn't sit well with her, and with all that was going on there never seemed like good enough of a time to say what she needed to say. A cake was held infront of him as Spencer closed his eyes and blew out the candles. Caitlyn tried to say, yay or happy birthday or woo hoo but instead the secret shot it's way out of her mouth.

"I'm pregnant!" she blurted, causing everything in the room to stop and all eyes to turn to her, "ummm… hehe… surprise? Again?"