Secret Uncovered Chapter 6

A/N Here's chapter six. Enjoy!

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Angela's face was terrifyingly ashen. She looked as though she may faint. "Brennan... and her sister were taken..." she repeated for the fifth time.

"Yes, Angela," Booth sighed again. "Bones and her sister have been taken."

"Do you know where they've been taken?" Zach asked softly.

"No," Max sighed. "We don't."

"Then how are we going to find them?" Hodgins asked, his arm wrapped comfortingly around Angela's waist.

"That's what we were hoping you could help with," Booth said, crossing his arms.

"We've got a trace on her cell phone," Cam repeated herself. Finally, somebody listened. They all turned and looked at her.

"Why didn't you say that before?" Booth asked, rather snappily.

"I did," Cam mumbled. She looked down at her paper. "6550 Harverd Square."

"Did you say Harverd Square?" Angela asked, the colour returning to her face slightly.

"Yes," Cam nodded.

"That's where Madelyn lives."

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"Aren't they clever," Wes smiled. His two attendants stood on either side of him, "using a nail file to escape. Too bad we expected this."

He hit a button on a large tank and then grabbed a gas mask. "This should slow them down," he smiled a little then tossed gas masks to each of his assistants.

The small green light lit up on the tank.

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Madelyn finally got the ropes off Temperance's hands and then Temperance quickly began to untie the ropes off Madelyn, and then the gag off herself.

By that time, the gas had gone all through the room.

"Tempe... do you feel something?" Madelyn's eyes began to water. She coughed once.

"Yes..." Temperance wiped tears away from her own eyes and looked at them. "What the..."

Madelyn coughed again as the gas filled her. "Tear gas," she said. "What'll it do?"

"Chlorobenzylidenemalononitrile temporarily makes people unable to function by causing irritation to the eyes, mouth, throat, lungs and skin. The term "tear gas" comes from the immediate flow of tears that typically follows exposure," Tempe explained, quickly. "

"What is chlorobenzy-something?" Maddy sounded scared as she ran over to the window and tried to open it. "It's locked!" she said, worried.

"Chlorobenzylidenemalononitrile is "tear gas"," Tempe said with a sigh. She wiped her running nose on her sleeve.

Maddy wiped the corner of her mouth. Her throat was dry and sore. She looked down at her arms. There were small patches showing up.

Temperance covered her mouth. She felt ill. She went on all fours and heaved as she threw up.

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"Okay. Good enough. That's plenty," he said, nodding to his men to turn off the gas. "Wait a while. Not too long, then tie them up again, with the chains this time."

The brawny men nodded and walked over to the door, checked that their masks were on securely, and then walked inside the room. Both Madelyn and Temperance were throwing up now. They went over to the wall and flicked a switch that started a quiet whirring air filter. One man went over and grabbed Temperance from behind. Even if she had wanted to fight right now, she couldn't have because she was so incapacitated. The other pulled Madelyn over to the pole and sat her there. Madelyn leaned her head against the pole and gasped for air while her sister was pulled up to the opposite side of the shaft. Chains were pulled tight around them and a padlock was put on.

Temperance looked around with runny, hazy eyes. She felt as if all the happiness in her life had been pulled away and she was simply drained. Five minutes after the two hefty men had turned on the air filter, all the gas was gone. Just like that. Temperance knew that it would be a while before she would be completely okay again, so she leaned her head back like Madelyn and closed her eyes, allowing the slumber that she was so desperately wanting to fall over her.

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"They aren't here!" Booth said, frustrated as he slammed a fist against the wall. "There's nothing here to prove that they were taken."

Suddenly, both heard a ring. Max looked over at Madelyn's phone and then at Booth. He edged over to it and picked it up. "Hello?"

"I thought I said no cops," Wes said. Max could hear the click of the gun. He gulped back the urge to yell.

"And I didn't call the cops," he said, as calmly as he could.

"Then who's that, standing beside you? Hmm?"

"Don't you know everything?"

"I know who he is, that Special Agent Seeley Booth from the FBI. FBI! That's the cops!" Wes had lost his cool and was yelling he finally calmed. "Now. I hate to do this to you, Max, but your daughter, Temperance? Is going to have to go."

"No! Wait!" Max yelled desperately. "Wait! Where are you?"

"You'll know in a moment," Wes hung up the phone.

"No! Temperance! Don't touch her!" Max yelled into the now silent phone.

"What about Temperance? What's going on!" Seeley asked, the same desperation that had been in Max's voice was now in his own.

"He's got..." they heard a very, very loud gunshot from the left.

Seeley pulled out his gun and ran towards the next apartment over. He tossed Max a gun as well and then kicked the door down, running inside. He saw an empty room with many controls and screens in it, he ran through the next door and saw them. Temperance, lying with blood covering her clothes, her eyes were closed, and tear stained her cheeks, Wes, standing there with the old fashioned pistol in his hand, a small puff of smoke flew from it, and Madelyn, trying to turn, trying to do something to help her sister.

"Look at your poor daughter, Max. Look at what you've done to her."

"I'll kill you!" Max yelled, cocking the gun and aiming it at Wes.

"Ah but will you risk life in prison for it?" Wes asked, pointing his own gun at Madelyn. "And will you risk your other daughter for it?"

Max gulped as lowered the gun and his eyes.

"That's right, Max. Don't be stup-" there was another gunshot and a yell.

Max shot up and saw Wes falling to the ground, clutching his arm, blood covering it, and screaming in pain. He looked over at Booth and nodded. Max went over to Wes and grabbed the keys off his belt and then he turned back to his daughters. He slid several keys into the lock before finding the right one. He quickly pulled the chains off them and went to his eldest daughter.

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A/N sorry that took so long to get up. I went on vacation for another week, yes that's no excuse, but I was writing! I had this whole chapter written out so I hope you enjoy!!

-S-D-

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