so psyched that Season 7 is a go. Here it is a bit early

They hadn't gone very far when their feet found water. It was rising rather quickly. They were still pretty far from where Booth had been earlier.

"This is not good." Brennan stated. Booth could hear the fear in her voice.

"Let's just keep moving. I have a plan. You should be able to get out and go for help."

Brennan shot a look at Booth. "What do you mean I will? We both need to get out of here. I won't leave you. "

"Bones, I won't be able to make the climb. If you don't go, we will both die. This is our only chance." He explained.

"People will know we are missing, they will come looking for us. We don't need to separate." She was becoming slightly hysterical.

"Bones we told the rangers to stay away. I told them not to come back until we contacted them. They know we could have been searching the cave for a couple days. We won't make it that long. Then they would have to find a way to get to us, that is even more time. If we get you out the truck is only about a quarter mile down that trail. The keys are in the campsite I made in the crate with all the dried goods. You will be able to get help. I know you can do this. I have faith in you Temperance Brennan."

Brennan's lip was trembling. Tears began to stream down her face. "But…"

"No buts about it." He interrupted.

They continued down the walkway. The water reached their knees by the time the waterfall came to view.

"Be careful, there is a drop off up there. I have no idea how deep it is."

Cramps began to form in both of their legs. The water was frigid. The rain came down faster. Booth stood under the whole he had found. The early morning sunlight though stunted by the clouds shined through. It looked like the explosion had widened it a bit. He was sure Brennan would fit through.

The opening was higher then he had hoped, but to their good luck the cave had been formed in a fashion that the walls were ridged almost like a ladder most of the way up. He just needed to get her high enough to reach them.

He saw a large boulder nearby. It was slightly flattened on the top.

"Come on lets rest for a minute. We can get out of the water up there." He said.

Brennan climbed up with relative ease. Booth had a harder time but eventually made it up. His thoughts were racing in his mind. He had so much to tell her just in case. He reached over and grasped her hand. She looked up at him with doe eyes as he began stroking his thumb gently across the back of her hand.

"We need to talk." He said his voice thick from emotion. "I need to tell you some things and I need you to not interrupt. We don't have much time." She gave him a nod and he began.

"I died back there and I know you don't have the same belief system I do but just hear me out. I know you will have some sort of scientific explanation to it all, but for just a minute try and push it aside.

"When it all happened I saw things. The best I can say is my life flashed before my eyes. Only it wasn't my whole life. It was you. All of it was visions of you." She made like she was going to interrupt but he held up his hand and she stopped. "I when they stopped I saw the brightest, warmest, most comforting light I had ever seen before. I heard your voice calling me but the closer I got to the light the harder it got to hear. I saw my mom. She was holding her arm out for me to join her, but I knew I had to go back to you. I knew you needed me.

"I have so many things I have wanted to tell you for the longest time. I tried, but I could never quite do it. But I know now how short life is and all this might not work. I have to tell you everything just in case I don't have the chance again."

She started to speak and he held up his hand and again he stopped. He saw he raw emotion written on her face. She didn't want to think about losing him again. Although she knew it was a distinct possibility that their survival wasn't guaranteed, she had been pushing those thoughts to the furthest corners of her mind.

"I have been fighting my feelings for a long time now Bones. I tried to stop it but over the years they have just gotten stronger, so strong that I was considering of breaking our partnership. It hurt seeing you with other people. It hurt knowing it was all one sided.

"I love you Bones. I have for as long as I could remember. I know that you keep yourself protected because of how you grew up. That's why I never pushed it. That's why I kept it all to myself; but when your mortality is tested and you realize that at any moment, you may not be able to tell the people you care about just how much they mean to you.

"You mean everything to me Bones. The thought of the world without you in it… I couldn't live like that. Even now knowing that I would die I would do it all again. You may not think so, but you are loved, Bones. We are not all colleagues. We are friends… family really. When any of us are in danger, we don't do what we do out of obligation. We do it all out of love.

"I want to be with you. I don't just want to be your partner or your friend. I want to be all that and more. I don't want to pressure you, well I sort of do, but I don't want you doing anything that you don't want to. What I do want is for you to at least think about it. I think… no I know I can make you happy. I know that if you give me a chance that we could work. I can't promise you forever, but I can promise that every moment we are together will be worth it. It will be worth everything to me.

"I also have to ask you to do something else for me. A couple things… If I don't make it, I need you to tell Parker and Jared some things. I need you to tell Parker I will always be with him and how much I love him. Tell Jared, he is a good man. Let him know that I always knew he could do anything; that I just had to be his big brother. I had to try and help and protect him. Can you do that for me? Please?"

Brennan couldn't find her voice. She knew his tactic of changing the subject to try and relieve the impact of the previous statement. She had seen him do it many times before.

"Yes." She finally croaked out. Deep down she knew she had feelings for Booth. She always suppressed them. She was fighting an internal battle. Part of her wanted to tell him she felt it too. The other just wanted to push it aside to keep things the same. She knew that once the line was crossed they could never go back. She didn't want to lose him.

It seemed now she could lose him in any number of ways. If she didn't let herself go and be equally honest with him as he was her, he could leave their partnership. If she did and things didn't work they could lose everything. Then there was the last option that she didn't even want to think about. He could still die.

He didn't know how to take her silence. Had he made a mistake? Should he not have let her know? No. He had to let her know. Even if he were going to die, he knew she had to know. She could carry on with her that even though he wasn't there that he loved her. Everyone needed to know they were loved.

"We better get going." He broke the silence. "The water is rising." He forced himself to a standing position. "I'll boost you up to get you to those rocks. You should be able to climb from there." Once you're up, I will make it back to dryer ground."

"You can't Booth, you're not strong enough to hold both of our weights." She argued.

"Well you won't be able reach unless I do. We can do this Bones. "

She knew they had to do something. He was right on that. She looked around for an alternative and found none. She stood up and looked up. It didn't look so bad. At least if she fell she stood a good chance for a water landing. She had to push that out of her mind. She had to get out. She had to get out and get him help. She had to. She loved him too. She couldn't bring herself to tell him now. She didn't usually believe in such things as jinxes, but somehow she felt as that if she told him now it would be too much of a goodbye.

"Ok let's do this she said." Determination filled her voice.

Booth cupped his injured hands." Ok step here, then onto my shoulders. Hang on to the rocks for balance. She did as he said. Pain screamed through his body, but he held it in. He had to hide it from her to keep her focused on what needed to be done.

She was standing on his shoulders now, but she still wasn't quite high enough.

"Just a few more inches." She grunted as she stretched

She pushed herself higher and managed to grab a hold of the nearest ledge. Her injured ankle and shoulder begged for the abuse to stop. She pushed off with her foot to get it to a secure spot when it happened.

The added force from Brennan pushing,, splintered Booth's already fractured leg. The bone shifted and pushed it through his skin. He let out a shout of pain as he crumbled and fell sideways into the frigid water below.

"Booth!" Brennan screamed still clinging to the wall, ready to drop back down to assist him.

His head made it above the water, and Brennan felt the slightest bit relieved.

"Hold on, I am coming back down." She said.

"No keep going." He yelled. The pain evident in his voice.

She could see the fresh blood clouding the water around him.

"This is our only chance Bones, you have to go." He knew he wasn't fine. He knew that with the ice cold waters, his previous injuries and his new ones that his chances were slim, but he needed her to survive. "I'll make it back towards dry ground like I said. Just go."

She looked down with sadness in her eyes. He was lying and she knew it. He was always trying to protect her.

"I love you too, Booth." She called down to him and she began her ascend to the surface.