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Main Street Motel; Smallville Kansas
They had spent the last hour at the Talon, Booth and Brennan were going through the bank records. Booth, sensing that Clark was feeling useless, was instructed to see if he can ask around to find Mr. Kevin Schuster. Clark had gotten word that he was staying at the local motel.
As they approached the main office there was a scream in one of the rooms, smoke was pouring out of one of the windows from the second floor. Clark was about to jump into action. Quickly realizing who he was here with, he develops a different strategy. Taking advantage of the momentary confusion and panic, he shouts, "Agent Booth! Call the fire department! I'm going to try to get them out!" Booth, upset that Clark was barking orders, decides this isn't the time to argue and immediately gets on his phone. "This is Special Agent Booth at the Main Street Motel, emergency assistance required! Fire department and EMT's are needed immediately!" Clark was hoping that Booth would have moved to a safer position but he stayed in plain sight of the motel room in question. Clark starts to run at "normal" speed (normal for an adrenaline fueled human) and gets inside and starts to pull out the young woman and her son from the smoking hotel room. Booth was amazed at how quickly Clark reacted to this emergency and before Clark knew it Booth was up there, having grabbed a fire extinguisher he had found outside the office on the ground. He was in the room trying to put out the fire, unsuccessfully. He heard the sirens and decides to help Clark with the victims.
Bones, during all this, decided that Booth and Clark had this under control. She entered the main office to find out what room Kevin Schuster was staying in. When she walks into the office, she finds the office manager, an elderly gentleman, sitting in a chair in front of a TV, out cold. Bones rings the bell a couple times, the manager doesn't stir. She shouts a couple times, "Excuse me?" When there is no response, she immediately goes around the counter to check vitals on the older man. He has a pulse, but she notices bruising on the left temple, suggesting he was knocked unconscious. She runs outside to find Booth upstairs trying to put the fire out with an extinguisher. She shouts up to him, but he can't hear her over the panicked woman worried about her child. Clark, in fact, does hear her, "Agent Booth, you got this handled? I'm going to check on Dr. Brennan." Booth still focused on the woman and her son, just waves Clark off. "Go! I can get this from here!" Clark immediately heads down the stairs towards Bones. Once he gets to her position, he can hear the sounds of a vehicle racing near the location, guns being loaded and someone saying, "We just want to send them a message, so try not to actually shoot anyone." Luckily, to Clark's relief, Dr. Brennan immediately pulls Clark into the office to show him what she's found. Suddenly, they hear a car screeching around the corner. Once the first shot fires Clark grabs the manager and Bones and covers them up as the car flies past.
Meanwhile, Booth has grabbed the mother and child and has kicked open the door to another room and pulled the two in with him, gun drawn. As soon as he's sure the vehicle is no longer an immediate threat, he sees local PD, who had responded to the fire call, has just taken up pursuit. He turns to the two people that he had just pulled into the motel room with him, "Are you okay?" He looks around the corner to make sure it is safe again. Looking back at the pair, "Were you hurt?" The mother and child, still in shock over all the activity in the last few minutes, shake their heads 'No'. Booth then runs downstairs to check on Bones.
Once in the office he sees Clark and Bones getting up and dusting themselves off. Booth pushes past Clark, grabs Brennan and starts looking her over, "Bones! Are you okay? Did you get shot?" Bones had composed herself quite quickly as she usually does, "I'm okay, Booth... Clark grabbed the manager and myself and pulled us to the ground, covering us, behind this brick wall." Booth was amazed, he had never seen any of the squinterns stay that cool under fire. He turns to Clark and grabs his shoulders with both hands, "Kent... I-I don't know..." Clark, immediately, cuts him off, "Don't worry about it, I'm sure you would have done the same for me or my wife, if the circumstances called for it." Booth just placed a single hand on Clark's shoulder, "Thanks..." Clark does the same to Booth and simply nods. Booth realized he has seriously under-estimated this kid.
Clark was told to stay in the office with Bones while he dealt with the fire crews. Bones took it upon herself to check the registry to find out what room Kevin was in. Clark was looking over the unconscious body of the manager. Using his x-ray vision he found a minor fracture on the left sphenoid, where the man had been hit over the head. After Clark finished looking him over he walks out the door to try to get the medics attention. He points into the office, "We have an injured man over here!" He was able to wave one of them over. Once he had gotten them inside, he decides to see if Booth needed any help.
Booth had been giving his reports to the one officer that stayed at the scene, when Clark approaches him. Clark starts to give his report, "Well, we arrived on the scene..." Clark continues to explain what had happened and included the part about the unconscious manager. Just then Bones comes out of the office with the medic who is wheeling out the elderly gentleman on a gurney. The officer approaches her and she tells her version of the events. Once all the legal details were attended to, Clark goes over to Booth who has brought the extinguisher back down. Booth noticed a dent in the side of it, he initially dismissed it and was just bringing it back to the office. That is, until he heard Clark and Bones explain that the manager had been knocked out. Bones turns to Booth, "I found Kevin Schuster in the registry he's in room 114." Booth was taken aback by that, the fire was in room 210, "So there is no obvious connection between Kevin Schuster, the fire or the drive-by?" Bones replies, "They all occurred at the same Motel? That seems to be the only connection." Booth turns to Clark, "Well this is your town, anything you can think of?" Clark takes a moment, he cannot think of anything that would link the two events to the individual in question. But he does find it strange that this is all occurring after they had run into Lex at the bank this morning. Without probable cause and that fact that he knows Lex has no police record, other than a couple routine traffic stops and a drunk driving charge. It isn't enough to convince Booth to pay him a visit. "No, this is a lot of activity, for one day, in this little town." Clark knows that a lot of the stuff he had to deal with as a teenager, around here, went largely ignored. Booth, frustrated by the bank manager, then dealing with a fire and a drive by, then finding out that Kevin isn't even here, decides that it would be best if they all went back to the house to wait for any more lab results.
Looks like Clark and crew have had an eventful day hopefully thing will start making sense to him soon, (and probably to the rest of you as well)