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Here's the next part. Thank you so much for all the great reviews and please keep them coming. From here on out you will only see a blurb about the squints as the story is going to focus more on Booth and Bones. And of course if I write every day of their long stay on the island, it would be very very long, so it will be moving kind of fast.

Stranded With You

Chapter 4

By Daisymay390

"Bones," Booth said as he paced behind her a short while later, "How did you manage to find a murdered body here on a deserted island?"

"She wasn't murdered," Bones said without looking up from the remains, "At least not from what I tell."

"It's a woman?" Booth asked as he bent over Bones' shoulder to get a better look at the body.

"Yes, between eighteen and twenty-five. The remains seem to be at least two hundred years old, maybe older. I also found these," Bones said as she held up several round metal objects.

"What are those?" Booth said as he took the objects from her.

"Well, I'd have to clean them to be sure, but I think they are some kind of currency. Most likely silver." Bones said while continuing to use her fingers to dig the rest of the remains out.

"Interesting, can we go now?" Booth said impatiently.

"What? No we can't go, I still have to uncover the rest of the body," Bones said.

"Bones, there's not much else you can do here. Until we get rescued, this body would be better off staying where it is and not being disturbed." Booth said guardedly.

"I guess you're right," Bones sighed.

"Hey, I bet we can still clean these coins and see what they are." Booth suggested.

"Okay!" Bones said, her face brightening at the suggestion.

"Good, how about we walk back to the camp and try to figure out what to use to clean those things up." Booth said.

Booth tried to get Bones' mind off of the body as they walked back to camp but she refused to be distracted. Immediately after they got back to their hut, Bones started to clean the coins with some chemicals she had in her kit. Meanwhile, Booth had long since gotten bored with her cleaning and had taken to carving something as yet unidentifiable on a piece of wood.

A short time later, Bones held up the coins and said triumphantly, "Booth these are pieces of eight!"

"Huh," Booth said as he looked up from his carving.

"It's a Spanish dollar, it was the first worldwide currency in the 18th century. They were called pieces of eight because the coins were cut into halves, quarters or eighths. It was preferred by pirates the world over."

"Pirates?!" Booth said excitedly as he put down his slab of wood and turned his whole attention to Bones.

"Yes, pirates, Booth," Bones said rolling her eyes.

"Wait, you said the body was a woman. How can she be a pirate?" Booth asked.

"Booth," Bones said very slowly, "There were women pirates as well. They just aren't as well known. The most famous one is Anne Bonny, she disappeared from an English jail sometime after her arrest in 1720. It's never really been proven what happened to her after that. This body could even be her, we'll never know. The fact that she had a pistol in the vicinity of her body suggests that she might have been a pirate. Of course we won't know more until she can be taken back to the lab and we have no idea when that might be."

"I'm sorry, Bones," Booth said.

"Why are you sorry?" Bones asked bluntly.

"Because if I hadn't have dragged you to go this case in the islands, we would not be stranded here on an island that no one has ever heard of and you would be safe in Washington, D.C."

"Booth if you had not dragged me to this case, you would have gone by yourself and you would be stranded by yourself. I would also think you were dead and I would have not gotten the chance to tell you I love you, so I don't want you to be sorry. This may not have been what we planned but I am very happy that you are the person I'm stranded on an island with. I would not want it to be anyone else but you and I would hate thinking that you are dead. Too many people in my life have left me and you promised you never would. If you had gone by yourself you would have broken that promise. I don't even want to think about what would happen if something had happened to you in the crash." Bones said with tears in her eyes, she had been on such a roll with her speech that she had not even noticed that she had declared her love for him for the first time.

"You love me?" Booth asked shocked that she had actually declared her feelings first.

"Yeah, I do and I will love you for the rest of my life. I never thought I would fall in love but now that I am, I swear that I am not going to stop." Bones declared.

"I love you, too Bones. I have since the moment I saw you and I will love you until the day I die." Booth said with a smile.

"Good," Bones said before she went back to looking at her coins.

Booth rolled his eyes and went back to carving. Several minutes later he held the slab up and declared it was done.

"Um, what is it," Bones said while squinting at the object.

"It's a cribbage board, Bones!" Booth said as he started to put some small pegs he had also carved in the holes. He then got out the deck of cards and started to shuffle them.

"I don't know what that means," Bones said.

"Cribbage is a card game, Bones. I'll teach you how to play. For two players you deal out six cards each and put the deck in the center. Then you see how many different ways you can make your cards add up to fifteen or which ones form a run or pairs. Then you throw the two cards that add up to the least amount of points or that don't give you any points into the crib. After that you cut the deck and the card I turn over is the 5th card we use in our count." Booth explained.

"Okay," Bones said slowly as she looked at her cards, "So what should I throw away here." Bones asked as she showed him her cards. She had an eight of hearts, an eight of spades, a seven of spades, a five of diamonds, a two of clubs and six of hearts.

Booth took a quick look at her cards and then said, "Throw away the six of hearts and the two of clubs. They don't do anything for your hand and they probably won't help you in the count."

"Okay," Bones said as she did what Booth suggested and then asked, "Now what do we do?"

"We go around and count our cards until we reach 31 and then we start over and go until we run out of cards. After that we count our cards, each set that adds up to fifteen is two points, and each pair is two points. I'll tell about any other points when we come across them. Once we go all the around the board we are finished with this game. The person who reaches the end first is the winner." Booth said.

They played for about thirty minutes before Bones reached the end of the board. After that they played another game which Bones also won. Booth grumbled about it being beginners luck and decided to stop playing for now. He decided his time would be much better spent while kissing Bones. Bones agreed with him and didn't protest.

Booth rolled over several hours later and buried his face in Bones' shoulder, Bones giggled and said, "Booth stop, that tickles."

"What you don't like my beard," Booth said as he pulled back with a grin.

"I don't hate it but I think you look much more handsome when you are clean shaven." Bones said while blushing.

"Did you just say that I am hot, Bones?" Booth said in disbelief.

"No, you don't feel hot to me." Bones said completely missing his point.

"I don't feel hot Bones, I look hot," Booth clarified.

"If you say so, Booth," Bones conceded.

"Thank you for agreeing with me, Bones," Booth said sarcastically.

"Booth you are very well structured, I definitely agree with that. And I have to say that if any other woman tries to hit on you I would be very upset and probably would have to tell her to back off." Bones said vehemently.

"Well, it's good to know that you can get jealous like any other woman." Booth chuckled as he took her into his arms and closed his eyes to go to sleep.

A/N: Well, that's it for now. Please hit that button and review. They keep me motivated to write. I'm sorry the squints are not in this chapter but I ran out of time. Thank you for all your reviews in advance.