Hey everyone, I thought I would combined my two favorite things in this universe together; Zombies and Bones. I'm trying to keep everyone in character so suffer through this with me and we'll see how the finished product looks!


It had been three long months since Temperance Brennan had crossed the boundary between water and land. Three months since she stepped onto the over crowded house boat that she despised. She turned her head slightly and caught Angela's eye who waved back in assurance. Jack Hodgins rowed frantically in an effort to keep up with Seeley who aggressively rowed forward. Temperance could feel his anger and knew today would not be the day to screw up anything. Seeley. When did she start calling him that?

"He'll be fine." Jack assured her, as though he was reading her mind. "Burning off a little tension will be good for him."

Brennan said nothing. She knew he still disagreed that she should be going on this raid, but she had a good point in going.

"What if we get infected?" Jack had asked. "What happens to them? Would you rather that they tried to figure their way around by themselves or we showed them the safest way?"

"Nobody is getting infected." Booth argued.

"That isn't realistic."

"No. Nobody is getting sick, I won't let that happen."

"I'm sorry, I didn't realize you had a cure." Hodgins snapped.

Brennan stepped around the corner and Jack immediately stopped. Booth turned slightly, barely moving his head.

"Bones go bac-"

"Booth I need to go." Temperance stated as though there was no argument at all. She turned her gaze to Hodgins. "Could we have a moment?"

Jack nodded and walked inside.

She begged and yelled and he matched her, but soon fell silent as soon as she suddenly broke down in a fury of tears. He sighed and leaned against the railing with his head in his hands. He went back to that first night on the houseboat where she was finally allowed to mourn the death of their child. Tonight he couldn't reassure her though. Their separation felt new and painful.

"Okay, you can go."

Hodgins and Booth leaped over the side of the boat and anchored a few feet away from the shore. Temperance followed suite while Hodgins rummaged through the boat and threw an orange plastic item at her.

"It's an inflatable life jacket, in case you need to swim back to the house." Jack explained. "The infected can't swim or maneuver through water very well."

He handed her a hatchet and helped himself to a crossbow. Booth was waiting impatiently for them a few feet ahead already. He was found himself unable to look at her without feeling a swelling rage in his chest. Not at her exactly, at the situation and what caused them to be in that situation. An urge to kill every last of the infected filled him to release some anger. What pissed him off most was that the infected were oblivious to the damaged the caused. For whatever illogical reason, that made him the angriest.

"The grocery store and the sporting good store." Booth informed Hodgins. He glanced over at Temperance. "Only grabbed essentials."

Temperance merely nodded and followed the two into the dense forest ahead.