Stranded With You
By Daisymay390
A B/B fanfic
Chapter 1
Booth walked into the Jefferson Medical-Legal Lab with a spring in his step and whistling a happy tune. He had just found out that he and his partner would be going away on case to an exotic locale. Just then he spotted her on the platform bent over some ancient remains from long ago era that had probably been just discovered.
"Hey, Bones!" Booth said as he swiped his card and skipped up the steps.
"What is it, Booth?" Bones asked tiredly, she wasn't in the mood for his high spirited attitude today. She had been up for almost twenty-four hours and all she wanted to do was go to her office to take a nap and lose herself in her dreams for a few hours.
"We have a case, Bones, and you'll never guess where," Booth exclaimed excitedly. When Bones didn't ask where the case was, Booth groaned and said, "You're supposed to ask me where the case is, Bones."
"Fine, where is this case that you insist on dragging me to when I am in the middle of this examining this body that is very important to the prestige of the museum?"
"Gee, suck all of the fun out of it, why don't you? Fine, since you won't play along I will just tell you where the case is."
"Ooh, finally, I've been waiting on pins and needles," Bones interrupted sarcastically.
"Okay, I was trying to build it up for you but whatever. We have a case in the Bahamas, I will pick you up at your place in two hours." Booth said before turning and leaving the platform not offering any room for Bones to object to their current case.
Bones opened her mouth to object but decided it was futile and went back to the ancient bones on her table.
"Ooh, sweetie," Angela cried as she came up behind Bones, "you're going to a romantic island with Booth. It's the perfect setting for you and him to finally get together."
"Angela," Bones said tiredly, "Booth and I are not going to get together, we are only friends. Why do you insist on making lewd comments every time we go away together on a case?"
"A girl can hope, can't she? Besides you're lucky I'm already taken or else I would seriously think about tapping that myself," Angela said cheekily.
Bones just rolled her eyes and set her mind on finishing what she could on the skeleton before she had to leave to go home and pack her bags. Unwillingly visions of Booth in a swimsuit on the beach insisted on popping into head and she gave up on concentrating on the skeleton, instructing Zach what to do next and then packing up her briefcase to go home.
Booth rang her doorbell when she had just placed the last thing in her bag. After telling him to enter she proceeded back into her bedroom to grab her suitcase. Booth tried to take her bag but Bones would have none of that and insisted on carrying it to the SUV by herself.
Once they were settled in their seats on the plane, Bones asked Booth about the case they were investigating.
"What's the case?" she asked excitedly.
"Here," Booth said handing her a file, "a body was found in a small island that is a few miles south of New Providence. Artifacts around the body and the body itself suggest that it is American and that it is a child, which gives the FBI jurisdiction. When they called us I told them not to touch the body until we got there."
"Good, I don't like compromised evidence." Bones said happily. "Do you know anything else about the body?"
"No, besides the fact that the FBI coroner suspects its been there for about two years." Booth supplied.
"Hmm," Bones said before settling down to read the case file. They were quiet for the rest of the flight to the main airport on New Providence. From there they would take a small chartered plane to the island that was about fifty minutes away by plane.
They settled on the plane that was just big enough to fit a cockpit and small passenger area. Booth glanced over at Bones once they were seat belted in and noticed that she seemed tense. "Are you okay, Bones?
"I'm fine," she snapped, "I just don't like small planes."
"It'll be fine, Bones," Booth said as he reach across the aisle and took her hand. The feeling of her hand in his brought some comfort to Bones and she was able to drift off to sleep as the plane took off. She was woken up a short while later by a flash of light and looked out the window to see that a storm was raging outside. Immediately she tensed up and wondered if the plane would be able to hold up in what looked like an intense storm.
As if sensing that Bones was feeling uneasy, Booth reached across and took her hand again, "Bones, it will be okay. We'll be landing soon and it will be all over."
Before she could say anything, they saw another flash of light and then heard the pilot shout, "Mayday, mayday, this is Bahamas Airlines flight number 4930 declaring an emergency, we are 30 miles south, southwest of New Providence. We are rapidly losing altitude. Requesting an updated weather report, please?"
"Booth," Bones said worriedly, "what's going on?"
"I don't know, Bones," Booth said truthfully as he tightened his grip on her hand.
Before Bones could reply she felt a sudden drop in altitude as the plane went into a nosedive and the ground started to become rapidly closer. Bones found herself doing something she had never done in her life, she started pray. Beside her Booth was doing the same thing. As the ground became closer, Bones' grip on Booth's hand tightened and Booth braced them for impact. The last thing Bones remembered was thinking how if she had to die like this, she was happy that she got to spend her last minutes with Booth.
Bones woke up several hours later to sound of Booth's voice, "Bones, wake-up please?" Booth pleaded. He had woken up a few minutes earlier to find himself lying outside the wrecked plane on his back. Miraculously, he seemed to be unharmed, and then remembering that Bones was on the plane with him, he frantically called out to her only to receive no answer. Once he was on his feet his stepped gingerly through the hole in the plane and looked around in the darkness for his Bones. Thankfully, found her a few seconds later still strapped into her seat. Gingerly he searched her neck for a pulse and relieved when he found one. Deciding that for the time being she didn't seem to be terribly injured, Booth went to check on the pilot and quickly discovered that he had had no chance of survival as he had taken the brunt of the collision. He carefully made his way back to Bones and tried to wake her up so he could assess her injuries.
Booth's voice slowly made its way into Bones' subconscious as she started to wake up, "Booth," she mumbled, "what happened?"
"The plane crashed, Bones. Can you move your legs and arms?" Booth asked anxiously. He watched in the moonlight as Bones did exactly as he asked. "Good, I'm going to undo your seat belt and carry you outside, once we build a fire I can better determine how injured you are, okay?"
Bones simply nodded as she let Booth pick her and carry her out onto the beach. The fact that she was so compliant worried Booth but he didn't have time to waste on that thought as he busied himself with a fire. The temperature was dropping fast and they would have to use their body heat to keep warm if they hoped to survive. As soon as the fire was started, Booth went back to Bones who was now sitting up and looking more alert. Thankfully, by the light of the fire, Bones did not seem to have any serious injuries, just a few scrapes that had already stopped bleeding.
"Booth, where are we?" Bones finally asked.
"I don't know, Bones," Booth answered with a grim face.
"What about the pilot?" Bones queried.
"He didn't make it, Bones."
"Oh," Bones replied, and then after a few silent minutes she said, "What do we do now?"
"I guess we try to survive until rescue. Tomorrow we can look for shelter and find our bags and anything else useful on the plane. We will also have to search for some fresh water and food. We can survive, Bones, I've had all sorts of survival training as part of my army career and you've got your medical training. Hopefully we won't have to use it for too long but its good that we are prepared." Booth explained.
"I guess, I just can't help being scared, Booth. This is something I never expected." Bones said with a slight tremor in her voice.
"Hey, don't cry Bones, at least we're together. I couldn't think of anyone other that you that I would rather be stranded on an island with. If you had been killed in that crash, I might as well have died with you, Bones. Besides Parker, you are my whole life and I want you to know that now, given that we have no idea how long we will be on this island." Booth declared.
"Booth, you can't possibly feel that way about me, I'm so screwed up. That's why relationships never last me, the men can never seem to put up with me." Bones said with her eyes downcast.
"Hey, don't do that. I've put up with you for as long as I've known you and the reason is that I knew right from the beginning that you were something special. But how about we table this discussion for now and get some sleep, we can discuss it more tomorrow."
"Okay, just so you know Booth, I have this feeling for you but I don't know what it means. I've been trying to push it away for so long now that I've almost forgotten it. I was just so afraid of being hurt, that's why I never let myself get too close to anyone." Bones admitted.
"I know, Bones, that's why I kept trying to get under your defenses but I don't want to move too fast for you. I want you to set the pace of this new relationship, though, so you don't get too freaked out or scared. I don't care how slow we move as long as I know you and I are together, okay?" Booth said tentatively.
"Thank you, Booth, I truly don't know what I would do without you." Bones said with a smile. "You know, I can think of one thing that would be considered something couples do and it would also help us stay warm tonight," Bones said with a wicked grin.
"Really, what's that Bones?" Booth played along.
"I believe the correct term for it would be snuggling. Would you care to join me over here, Booth?"
"I'd be happy to, Bones." Booth said with a charm smile firmly planted on his face as he got up and walked around to fire to where Bones was already laying down. They soon settled in to sleep, with Booth spooning Bones from behind and Bones recalled as she drifted off to sleep that she had never felt this content while sleeping with a man before.
Angela Montenegro was working on the facial reconstruction of the latest ancient skeleton when Cam came walking into her office with a serious expression on her face.
"What's up, Cam?" Angela asked cheerfully.
"Can you come out onto the platform, please? I have something to tell the whole team," Cam said without preamble.
"Okay," Angela replied slowly as she got up and followed Cam to the platform.
When they arrived, Angela discovered the whole team was waiting for them already. Cam started speaking as soon as she had everyone's attention, "I've just received a call from the FAA, at 8:25 last night, the plane carrying Booth and Dr. Brennan went down somewhere over the Bahamas. They've dispatched a search and rescue team but there is little to no hope of survival for them. I'm sorry." After finishing her speech Cam walked off the platform and left the group to mourn over their two friends.
"Oh my gosh," Angela said as she turned to her boyfriend, Jack Hodgins, "What are we going to do, Jack?"
"I don't know, Angela," Hodgins said soberly, "We will just have to pray that Booth and Dr. Brennan can survive on their own until they found."
"You're right, Dr. Hodgins," Zach chimed in, "If anyone could survive in the wilderness, I believe it would be them."
"Thank you, Zach," Angela said gratefully as she started to pray for her friends to be alright.