Jane blinked.

The smell of the leather chair barely reached her as she sat there in silence. The rustling of papers and ringing of phones couldn't reach her. Possibly because she was trapped in her mind; spiraling downwards into the darkness of fear.

She had never gone through something like that before; never touched against her will or threatened. Moreover, she never had to fight for her life like that before. She had stabbed a man just to escape him. However, he hadn't died. If anything, he was still alive and waiting for her somewhere out there.

The experience had revealed to her a world she had never known that had existed before. A dangerous world that scared her more than anything.

"Jane," someone called out, but he could barely reach her. "Jane!"

She looked up, but only saw a blurry figure before her. When he came into focus, she recognized him as Agent Booth. Those brown eyes filled with sincere concern stared right into hers, but hers were blank. Almost lifeless; void of any emotion.

In simpler terms, she was in shock.

"Come into my office, we can talk in there." Booth motioned her to follow him. However, she had some difficulty getting up until Angela wrapped an arm around her and helped her to her feet.

Once in his office, Booth had both of them sit down as he closed the door so that no one could bother them.

The office was quiet, but Jane barely registered anything until Booth asked, "How'd he get in?"

Once again, she looked up but quickly looked down at the clothes they had given her to wear since her own clothes had been covered in blood. That man's blood.

A shiver passed down her spine.

"I don't know." Her own voice sounded so foreign to her. It was scratchy and dry from crying since getting into the elevator, but she refused all drinks offered to her that night. "I heard shattered glass and…"

"Jane," Booth began, knowing that he had to let her go. She had a traumatic night and she needed rest. His questions could wait until the next day. "I want you and Angela to go to a hotel for the night or maybe a friend's house." Booth looked over at Angela. "Do you think maybe you could stay with Hodgins or maybe even Bones?"

"I already called Bones, she's more than willing to let us stay with her," Angela replied with a nod.

"I will drive you there and tomorrow we can resume this," he said as he stood up, but paused when Jane opened her mouth as if to speak. Unfortunately, she closed her mouth and averted her eyes to her hands. "Right, well, follow me."


It was around two in the morning when they arrived at Brennan's place, but Temperance Brennan was somewhat wide awake since she was used to late nights. When they arrived, Booth took his partner to the side to fill her in about the situation while Angela led Jane to the guest bedroom.

"She's very fragile, so don't talk to her too much, kay Bones?" said Booth, trying to get across that she shouldn't try to 'help' in the situation.

"Okay, I was going to go back to bed anyways. I have bones from Egypt to examine early in the morning and I need to be well rested," Bones replied with her usual serious face. Booth let out a sigh, but nodded.

"I'll be over here tomorrow to check on her. We'll get them into a hotel-"

"It's okay for them to stay here," Bones cut in. "I have enough room for both of them and Angela and I will drive to work together."

"There are going to be two men right outside in the hallway just for this night. Once we figure out what happened at least," he informed her on the way to the front door. "They'll be monitoring-"

"But they wouldn't be there if you would only let me have a gun."

Booth let out a sigh. "Yeah, and what's to say that you aren't hiding one from me like the last couple times," he said, recalling a few times that he had to suffer because Bones had went ahead and gotten a gun without his knowing.

They bantered back and forth for a few minutes while Jane refused to lie down on the bed and sleep. Angela had tried to coax her to get some sleep since she needed it, but nothing seemed to work.

"Don't think I'm afraid to put something in your drink to drug you." Angela crossed her arms and waited for Jane to climb into the guest bed.

Currently, she was simply standing by a window and looking out into the street as if waiting for him to reappear.

"I won't accept any drinks from you then," Jane replied in a rather monotone voice.

"I'll force feed you the drugs," Angela countered, but frowned when Jane didn't even turn to look at her. Her cousin's dark eyes were focused solely on the nightly activities of the city, waiting…

Just waiting.

Slowly, Angela walked over to her cousin and stood next to her. "Booth has a few men around to watch out-"

"I don't know them, I don't trust them."

"Jane, you're going to need sleep sooner or later. You have your performance thing tomorrow," Angela said even though she had no plan of letting her cousin even go to that even if it was her job. She wanted her baby cousin to relax and going to some performance wasn't relaxing; however, Angela doubted that Jane would listen to her in the first place.

"I don't see the point in sleeping now," Jane snapped. "It's already two and I have to leave by five to arrive at the studio in time for a few hours of practice and then get my dress from the shop before leaving for the actual place. I rehearse there and then…the list goes on…"

"You just had a horrific night-"

"And I need to get my mind off it! I need a distraction and playing the piano for hundreds of people is a distraction!" yelled Jane; she was on edge and her cousin trying to help really wasn't helping. She needed peace and quiet to think everything over.

"Look," Jane began, taking in a deep breath of air to calm herself down. "I love you, Angie, but you need to give me a little room to breathe right now. Please, just go to sleep. I'll…be there in a minute."

Angela shook her head, but hugged her cousin before heading towards the big bed.

"Goodnight, baby Jane," she sighed, pulling back the covers and climbing.

"Night," Jane mumbled.


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