Hooray. Here is your sequel.
Title: The Agent In the Game
Summary: When dangerous goes beyond the definition, it's a race against the clock. But it's also a game...a game of Life...
Rating: T
Characters: Temperance "Bones" Brennan, Seeley Booth, Angela Montenegro, Jack Hodgins, Zach Addy, Rebecca Stintson, and Parker Booth
Pairings: BB and Hodgela
'I'll be close behind
And follow you into the dark...
...If Heaven and Hell decide
That they both are satisfied
Then I'll follow you into the dark...'
-I'll Follow You Into the Dark, Death Cab for Cutie
Temperance Brennan couldn't think. Actually, she didn't know what to think. Booth had woken up from a horrible nightmare that seemed to be turning fast into a reality. She gripped the steering wheel, clenching her jaw. She was supposed to be picking up Parker from Rebecca's, but what scared her was the fact that Rebecca would have no idea as to what was going on. Worse, Parker would be asking questions. Questions Brennan knew she couldn't answer.
Turning into the driveway of Rebecca's house, she horridly got out of the SUV and ran up onto the porch. She rang the doorbell several times and knocked. "Hello! Rebecca! Open up! Hello!"
Temperance shifted feet and looked around almost nervously and snapped her head back to the front door when Rebecca Stintson answered, her blonde hair in a high ponytail. "Doctor Brennan?" She looked. "Where's Seeley?"
"I don't have time to explain. Where's Parker?"
Angela Montenegro knew something was wrong. She could feel it with everything in her body. So as she made her way into the living room, she grabbed the phone and dialed Brennan's cell phone.
One ring, two, three...why wasn't she answering? The voicemail came on and Angela sighed. "Hi, Sweetie. It's Ange. Just called to see if everything was okay. I'll try Booth's cell next. Bye."
Yet as she hung up and dialed Seeley Booth's cell phone, she knew that without a doubt that something indeed was very, very wrong.
"Ange?"
Angela held up a finger when Jack Hodgins walked in behind her. She was listening for a pick up, but Booth did not answer his phone, either. With a sigh, she hung up and it was right then and there that Jack knew something was wrong.
"What's going on?"
Angela shook her head. "I just had this bad feeling something was wrong. I tried calling Tempe's cell, she didn't answer. Then I tried Booth's, he didn't answer, either." She paused. "I just--something's wrong."
Hodgins sighed. He knew better with Angela. Often times her worries were nothing. "Angela, you know what happens when you start doing this."
"I know, but--I just can feel it." She gazed at her engagement ring. About a month before, both Booth and Hodgins had decided to do the proposal together. They had and the four planned on a double wedding. Angela had been so excited about it, but now, she had a feeling that the wedding would be held off.
But for how long, she did not know.
"Come on," Jack took his hand. "We can worry about it in the morning."
Nodding, Angela followed him. Her mind, though was still focused on her best friend. Brennan always answered her cell phone. It didn't matter if she was sleeping or not. She always answered.
"Ange."
"Yeah?"
"Worry about it tomorrow."
Angela smiled. "Sorry."
"You know, sometimes I wonder what goes on in that head of yours," he smirked at her.
Angela lightly punched his shoulder. "Haha. You're very funny."
As Angela laid down in bed with her arms around Jack, she still couldn't shake the feelings she had. Brennan always said that she had a sixth sense for things like this. And right now, it was kicking strong.
"Parker. Parker, wake up," Brennan gently roused the four-year-old, despite Rebecca's ranting fits and calling Booth a hundred times and over.
Parker opened his eyes slowly and looked at her. "Doctor Brennan?"
"Hi. Listen, you're coming with me, okay? Your daddy sent me to come get you," Brennan smiled, trying to make the best out of the situation as to not scare him right off.
Parker rubbed his left eye. "Where are we going? Where is Daddy?"
Brennan picked the boy up. "Sorry. I can't say anything around your mommy." She grabbed his packed bag that she had done before waking him with her free arm, carrying Parker on her hip out. Yet it wasn't long before Rebecca stepped in front of her. "Youa re not taking my son unless you or Seeley tell me what the heck is going on!"
Brennan remained calm, but was glancing nervously and anxiously outside. "Rebecca, I can't. I really can't."
Rebecca reached for Parker, but Temperance was fast. "Please. Booth told me to take him and go. He said he would call you." She looked outside and saw a black Hummer pull up the street and stop near Booth's SUV.
"Not unless I know exactly-"
"Get down," Brennan said suddenly.
"What?"
"Get down!" Brennan pulled Rebecca and pulled her down along with Parker, gun shots ringing through the silent night and penetrating through the door.
A moment passed before Brennan heard the Hummer squeal away and she got up slowly. "Are you okay?" She asked Parker.
"Yes," Parker nodded.
"You?" She looked at a shaken Rebecca. "Rebecca?"
Looking with wide eyes, Rebecca Stintson looked from the door to Brennan and Parker. "I don't know what the heck that was all about. And God only knows what, but you have my changed permission to take him."
Nodding and stopping at the door, Brennan told her, "Honestly, I don't know what's going on, either. But I trust Seeley."
Seeley Booth didn't know what to do next. He couldn't leave, he couldn't call anyone. The best thing he figured he could do was show up to work at the Jeffersonian and FBI Agency and lie until he thought of what to do next.
His cell rang. Angela again. Like his dream, he couldn't risk taking personal calls. Being in the FBI, he knew how tracking worked. Both phones could be tracked. So could Brennan's cell. He couldn't ask for help.
He had to play this on his own.
Brennan sped towards the highway. Both her and Parker's bags were in the trunk and her cell phone was on the passenger seat. She'd found an extra gun in a bag underneath the driver's side seat loaded. She thanked Booth for his obsession of being overprotective.
Parker was in the backseat, staring out the window. The boy had asked questions and everytime she would answer with an "I don't know", "Your dad didn't tell me", or an "I'm not sure", he understood. And from that, Temperance knew he was like his father. He had even asked to call her "Bones", since "Doctor Brennan is long." Brennan gladly took to it...it was almost like having Booth with her.
Brennan thought of her team. Angela, Zach, and Hodgins. Would they understand? Would Booth tell them what he didn't tell her? What was going on? After all, they were supposed to have a double wedding. Would that all go to waste or not even happen at all? She looked at her ring. A beautiful diamond on a gold bang, Booth had it especially engraved so it was perfectly her own. She spun the ring and grinned at the writing. Always and Forever Bones-Booth She may not know what was going on, but she did know that he would sort it all out. Booth was good at that.
Looking back at a sleeping Parker, she found the will to smile in spite of current situation. Taking the engagement photo taken of them a few days after by Angela out of her pocket, she stuck it on the dashboard. "Always and forever, Booth."
Ta-daaaa.
Jay