Hopefully you will see this posted correctly, otherwise this will chapter 6 on it's on. I don't have more than a couple chapters left…..I don't own any of the character, show, etc. I just borrow them and bring them back no worse for wear.

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It had been a very cold night; Bonnie is buried up to her neck in coats and airplane blankets and a red skier's hat on. She wakes up and looks around, it is still dark outside, but the sun should be up soon. She looks to her side and Patrick is gone, his blankets and coats still next to her in a bundle. She hears Cho trying to get comfortable, so she moves from the warmth of her blankets and stands up and goes over to Cho. His eyes are open and he looks in pain.

"Can I get you some more pain pills and some water?" she says softly, feeling his forehead with her hand, and makes a small face. "You've got a little bit of fever."

Cho looks over at her and then out the window, through the frost on the outside of the window. "Pills and water sound good, where is Jane? He looks back at her.

"He must have gone outside for a bit….bathroom call? I'm sure he'll back in a few minutes. I'll be back with some water…do you feel up to eating some peanut butter crackers, or I could go look for the sandwiches over by the bar?

"No, not now, but thanks. How are you doing?" He says quietly.

Bonnie looks towards her husband's body and back at Cho. "I've been better, I don't have time to grieve for him now, I'm sure once I get home it will hit me that he isn't coming back home. We have a son at home, so I'll still have a bit of him."

"What's his name?" She smiles as she is leaving his side. "His name is Morton James, but we call him MJ for short. He's going to be two in January."

She goes over to where the tarp is, and moves it a little and looks out. The snow has stopped, but there are still some strong winds. Where could he be, she decides to wait a bit more and see if he comes back, hoping that he didn't get lost.

Patrick stands still and looks around the area, stamping his feet he knows he should go in. Sleep was not going to happen tonight, too much to worry about. By now Lisbon must know about the accident. Abbott and the rest of the team where there to help her out. Right now his plans for Christmas were getting slimmer. Bonnie said they would start looking for them at day light, but she was worried if they were off the course they should be at. Maybe the pilot didn't have any plans of were to crash and didn't move off course, he hoped.

He turns around to go back, when he stops and turns back, he sees a glimmer of light coming from below their crash site. There it was again, the tree branches moving with the wind would hide it, and then come back when the wind slowed down. He moved a little closer, how far it could be. The light means people are there…and he was planning on moving towards them.

He moves back to the tarp and moves it aside and goes in. He gets most of the snow off his shoes as he goes in. Bonnie is awake and moving behind what is left of the bar. She has a bag in her hand, and some bottled water. "Hi, you came back just in time. I found the sandwiches, and have some water for Kimball and some more pain pills. He is running a slight fever, I'm sure it's nothing to worry about. The sun should be up in another hour or so. Maybe they will find us quickly." She says trying to smile.

"I saw a light it's below where we are. I not sure if it's a small town, or only a cabin, but it's a sign of people. We'll wait and see if were are found today before we make any more plans. We can talk about it later. " Patrick takes off his wet shoes and coat, and motions for her to follow him back to their beds. He goes over to Cho and see's he is awake. He gives Cho a big smile.

"So how are you enjoying our great adventure Cho?" He looks closer at Cho, and notices that the man is in some pain.

"I'll live, it could be worst I guess." Bonnie hands some pills and a bottle of water to him. "Thank you."

"The search planes should be out looking for us now, the sun has been up for a few minutes. We were only about an hour away from Denver."

Cho looks at her, not wanting to say that where they were, with the snow probably covering the plane it would hard for the search planes, and that was if they were on course.

"I was out before the sun came out this morning, there is a glow from a town or cabin, and it's down in a valley from us."

"We may have to look into that…you could probably make it by yourself and get help for us." Cho takes another drink from the water bottle.

Jane doesn't say anything, and goes back to the small kitchen area and gets a pan and pours some water in it and goes out of the plane. Bonnie follows him, as he is looking around from some tree branch on the ground that might not be too wet. She takes some paper out of her pocket and a box of matches.

"I'll help out; we can all use a hot drink." They both walk a short distance and pick up some firewood. Jane piles it up and takes the matches from her. After the third time, he looks a bit discouraged. She takes the matches, lights a piece of the paper and puts it under some of the dryer sticks, she blows on it and yells out in glee when she sees smoke and then a small fire. "I bet you weren't a Boy Scout…but I was a great Girl Scout and I love camping."

He puts the pan of water over the fire happy to think that soon he will have tea." Glad to hear that…without my tea in the morning I tend to get grumpy."

They are quiet as they watch for the water to heat up, both wondering how soon they can get out of here and get Cho some help. Bonnie sure that the airplane search would find them, and Jane knowing they may have to walk out of here.

Lisbon sitting at a window seat looked out at all the snow the plane was going over. How could they find a plane in all this, the plane started going down for a landing in Denver. Abbott looks over at her, her hands gripped together tightly. He didn't want her to come with them, but he couldn't say no to her.

"We will be landing in a few minutes; the FAA will be meeting us to discuss what is happening with the search. Also the FBI agents from Houston will be there, since all except Cho and Jane were from their office."

"Thank you for letting me come along, I couldn't just stay there waiting…for any news." She says wiping a lone tear going down her face.

A short time the Austin team, the Houston team and the FBI were in a conference room. Tom Horton from the FAA is pointing at a map. "The air controllers lost sight of them about forty five minutes into the flight. The plane belonged to Gibbons Flights, he has five jets and he has a perfect flight record on all the planes. What concerns us the most is the pilot Gerald Rainy left a note telling his wife he was taking one last flight and that he loved her. So this makes us believe that he was not following the flight plan."

He notices Abbotts hand raised. "Yes Agent Abbott?"

Abbott stands up "What do we know about the Co-Pilot?" "A good pilot, lot of flight time, in fact was getting close to getting his Captain license. We know that he or the captain didn't send any messages regarding a problem."

Lisbon puts a hand to her forehead; Abbott and Vega kneel down by her chair. "Lisbon are you okay?" Vega says putting a hand on Lisbon's knee.

"I'm just very tired…"

Abbott stands up and says to the room "Agent Lisbon needs to rest now, as you may know Mr. Jane is …a very close friend." Abbott says not wanting to tell everyone he knows the relationship that the couple have.

"The planes involved with the search will be calling in with any results with the search; we have some cots set up in case the search goes longer…until they are found. Julie will you show Agents Vega and Lisbon to the room and get them anything that they need."

A woman stands up and goes over, she and Vega help Lisbon stand up "Agent Abbott…you'll let me know if anything…anything comes up?" Lisbon says in a quiet voice.

"You can trust me Lisbon, you'll know right away. Try to get some rest."

Abbott and Wiley watch as the women leave, as they turn back to the rest of the meeting.