Okay, lets get going. Lets see what Parker finds...

Chapter Nine

Parker Booth woke up when he realized he needed to go to the bathroom. It was still dark but the clock next to his bed flashed 12:00. Momma Bones told him that when the alarm clock flashed like that, it was because the power had flickered. He stretched and rolled out of bed. Parker hurried to the bathroom to relieve his self.

Parker walked down the hall to his momma's room. Maybe she would let him crawl in bed with her. He liked sleeping in momma's bed. It was warm and safe.

He pushed the door opened and looked inside. There was no one there. He walked to the bathroom but there was no one there either. Parker's heart started pounding and he was getting scared.

"Momma?" Parker called. He got no answer.

"MOMMA?" Parker yelled this time. Still no answer.

The little boy went to sit on her bed so he could think, but when he did he felt something wet and cold. He looked at his hand but he couldn't tell what it was. He turned the bedside lamp on and screamed.

It was blood. Looking at the bed, there was a lot of it. Parker ran down the hallway to the kitchen. Running hurt his feet a little but his momma said they would hurt less and less every day.

He grabbed the phone and dialed. It rang and rang and no one answered. He sniffled wishing his daddy would answer his phone and come home.

He dialed the phone again, this time to a number he was sure was answer. "Hello?" a sleepy voice answered.

"Uncle Jack, is Aunt Angela there?" Parker whispered.

"Parker? Whats wrong?" Jack Hodgins asked. It was three am and the ringing phone earned him a jab to the ribs from his pregnant wife who was finding it increasingly difficult to sleep comfortably. She mumbled something about too early for work. Why the hell was Parker calling and asking for Angela.

Hodgins covered the receiver and woke Angela up. He told her it was Parker and put the phone on speaker.

"I'm scared. Where's Aunt Angela?" Parker's little voice trembled.

"I'm right here Parker. You're on speaker phone sweetie. What happened? Where's Bren?" Angela assured him.

"I don…don't know. Shes not here and there's a bunch of blood in her bed. I'm scared Aunt Angela," Parker started crying and Angela gasped.

She looked at Hodgins and whispered, "We need to get there now."

"Parker, I want you to go to your room. Go in and lock your bedroom door. Get your stuffed monkey and go get in your closet. When we get there open the door." Hodgins gave his instructions.

"How will I know if it's you?" Parker asked.

Hodgins thought for a minute before a light bulb went off in his sleepy brain.

"I'll give you the code word okay? What word should we use?" he asked.

"Umm, Cerambyx cerdo," Parker whispered. No one else could say it like him nor would anyone else know what it meant.

"Okay. We are on our way Baby Booth. Everything is going to be okay." Angela tried to assure the boy, but Parker knew nothing would be okay until momma was back.


"Jack, we have to hurry." Angela pushed. Hodgins had chosen his fastest car and they were currently going 90mph in a forty five mph zone.

"Ange, I am going double the speed limit. We are less than two minutes out. Did you call the cops and Cam?" Hodgins tried to calm her down. Parker had become a big part of everyone life recently. There were days that Brennan just couldn't handle Parker and he would spend a few nights with Angela and Hodgins for a 'sleep over' while Brennan collected herself.

Angela nodded, "And Charlie." They had called Cam to help in the lab. They wanted the equipment turned on and warmed up when they got there. Cam was calling Zach and Caroline to meet them in the lab.

Hodgins pulled into the parking garage and Angela ran, well waddled, to the stairs. The two of them moved up them at Angela's break neck pregnant speed and came to stop in front of the door. Angela was about to walk in when Hodgins realized the door was ajar. He quickly pushed Angela behind his and pulled a 9mm handgun out of his waist band.

"WHEN THE HELL DID YOU GET THAT THING?" Angela whispered loudly. He just shushed her and quietly pushed the door in.

"Stay. Just for a minute," Hodgins told her. She just looked at him like yea right. He rolled his eyes and swept the apartment. There was no one here that shouldn't be.

Hodgins put the gun back in his waist band and knocked loudly on Parker's door.

"Cerambyx cerdo," Hodgins called through the wooden barrier.

It only took a second and the door flung open. Parker clung to Angela's leg and cried.

She pulled him up into her arms and rocked him back and forth. As much as he knew she shouldn't be lifting that much weight, Hodgins couldn't bring himself to tell her so, not when they both needed the reassurance. He trusted her know when to much was too much.

She took him out to the living room and rocked some more. Hodgins saw a few tears roll down Angela's cheeks. He hated to see her hurting. He pulled her to him and held the both of them.

There was a big bang out by the front door. Before either of them could do anything there was a pack of cops around them with their guns drawn.

Hodgins put his hands up and Angela's eyes widened.

"Boys, put your guns away. It's just Mrs. Montenegro and Dr. Hodgins. I told you they would already be here." A man behind all of the men spoke. Hodgins put his hands down and grabbed Angela before she could freak out on them.

Charlie pushed his way through the crowd and stopped in front of them.

"You guys take him with you. I will have all of the evidence sent to you immediately and be back to the lab as soon as possible." Charlie promised.

Angela carried Parker into his room and Jack followed her. Angela started telling him what to pack and what to leave. She was scared for her friend. She didn't know who would want to take her. Why would they want to take her?

"We'll find her Ange," Hodgins promised. He knew they would, they didn't have a choice. They have always find a way to save their family. That's what the team was, a family.

"I know we will," Angela whispered.

"We do need to get in touch with you-know-who," Hodgins stated.

"But how? Bren has been trying to for weeks. Not to mention she has had a Lieutenant Colonel help her. There has been nearly a world wide man hunt for him run by not only the FBI but us as well." Angela asked.

"I don't know, I'm thinking."

"Come on. Let's get to the Lab,"


Max Keenan rushed into the lab. He had gotten a call from Angela that Brennan had been injured and kidnapped.

"Where is Nigel Klein?" Max demanded. He knew this was going to happen. Even the most secure prison's couldn't contain Klein. Klein was a master at escaping. He could get out of anywhere.

Charlie's eyes went wide. He had come by after they finished at the scene. Charlie remembered what Klein had said at the end of his interrogation.

"I will get what I want," Klein had laughed.

Charlie whipped out his phone and dialed the jail. He hadnt' 0even thought about Klein.

"Special agent Charlie Burns. I need to know the status of one Nigel Klein," he ordered.

Cam, Zach, Max, and Caroline watched. They waited for him to say something.

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE ESCAPED? WHO THE FUCK THOUGHT IT WAS A GOOD IDEA NOT TO CONTACT THE FBI AGENT WHO ARRESTED HIM?" Charlie's deep voice boomed through the Jeffersonian building causing everything to come to a complete halt.

"Well tell him he had better get every shred of evidence out of that cell. If I find out that he didn't he will be a very jobless man." Charlie demanded. Charlie had fallen into a leader roll. Ever since Booth has been gone, Charlie has taken on the temporary duty of keeping Brennan safe. Right now he was more afraid of what would happen with Booth found out than anything.

"I knew Klein would come after her. I tried to warn her but Tempe wouldn't listen. She said she would be fine, that she could take care of herself." Max paced. Klein was the only one stupid and smart enough to pull off getting Temperance Brennan without Max Keenan killing him first.

The prison agreed to send over the file and any and all evidence from the cell. Max didn't like it though. If Tempe had just let him kill Klein, none of this would have happened.

Hodgins and Angela heard Charlie's voice all the way in her office. They looked at each other and Hodgins closed his eyes.

"No," he groaned. Klein had wanted Brennan as soon as he had seen her. He could tell by the look in Klein's eyes. After what he had done to Parker Hodgins could only imagine what he would do with Dr. B.

"It's Klein isn't it. That man that took Parker," she whispered tears in her eyes. Her voice hitched and when Hodgins nodded she collapsed against her couch. Brennan was her best friend, she was all she had other than Jack. What would she do if they couldn't find her? Her time with Klein would be miserable and torturous.

"Ange," he sat on the couch next to her and wrapped her in a tight embrace. His strong arms were like a security blanket to her. Nothing could hurt her when she was in his arms.


Charlies phone rang again and he figured it would be the prison.

"Burns," he spat into the phone.

"Agent Burns sir,"

"Yea, Dubious." he sighed a little angry with himself at loosing his temper the way he did.

"I know where Agent Booth is."

TBC

We are one step closer. At least someone knows where Booth is... But now where is Brennan?