Max

Booth better keep my daughter safe. I just heard from an old friend that their shrink's family had been killed. I called around to a few of my friends and am now offering my type of protection towards Angela's family and Booth's son as well as Russ, Amy and the girls. I do not want my little girls friends to be hurt anymore and it pisses me off to know that there is some asshole out there who is trying to get back at them.

One of my old buddies said something about it being My Tempe's ex-boyfriend and Booth's ex-partner who are after them. For some sick and twisted reason they think that they need to kill everyone in order to move on with their lives. I have been unable to get their locations or I would have killed the two of them personally.

Booth said that I need to let the FBI handle things and for me to stay out of trouble. I know that he will do everything he can to keep them safe but one man can only do so much in stopping two psychopathic killers.

I have to admit putting a hit out on them was brilliant. Recruit the help of all of the people Booth and Tempe have put behind bars. Hell, I have done it myself in the past. My way of protecting people is similar in the way that the majority of my contacts have at some point spent some time behind bars. We have a network across the country that we can in one way or another always seek help if needed.

When they called to tell me that Sweet's parents had been killed I was infuriated. I had been in the process of getting protection on everyone's families when their accident had occurred. I am pretty sure that I found out they died before Booth and the rest of the kids on their cruise.

When Booth called me to tell me what happened he was not the slightest bit surprised that I already knew. "I know you are keeping your eyes out on us all but can you refrain from killing people and instead just have them tied up or something until the FBI can get there that way someone can go to jail?" He asked me.

"How is my baby girl?" I asked her. Her safety was all that I truly cared about.

"She is fine. She's in the cabin with Sweets now."

"How is the kid?" I asked him.

"Bones knows what it is like to lose parents. We will be fine." He answered. Irritation. Threat. With Booth I couldn't always tell if his feelings for my daughter were more than friendship based. It was hard to believe that they were not in a romantic relationship.

"Take care of her. Kenton and Sullivan may be on their way to Mexico. I have heard they are in Texas but no one knows for sure."

"We are in Cabo tomorrow."

"Don't do anything stupid." I told him.

"I should be the one telling you that." Was his response.

Booth

I knew I had to call Max. If I didn't he would go and do something stupid, if he hadn't already. And hell, maybe he knew something that we didn't. I thought calling him would make me feel better but after getting off the phone I felt worse. They may have found out where we were and tomorrow we were going away from the safety of the ship to the openness of Cabo San Lucas. I had to hurry and make it up to the room to get Bones. I promised her I would watch the sunset with her and that is where I was headed.

"Do you want a sweatshirt Booth?" She asked me as I walked in the door. I shook my head no.

"Are you ready?" She asked me. I looked over at Sweets who was sleeping on the couch. "Chris said to knock on his door when we go and he will come sit in here."

"Lets go watch the sunset then." I said trying to sound enthusiastic. I don't think I succeeded. I felt as she intertwined her fingers within mine as we walked up the steps to the sun deck. She led me to a spot she had picked out because it was secluded from the majority of other passengers.

We sat down on one of the lounge chairs and she leaned into me. "What did my dad say when you talked to him?"

"How did you…? He said that they might be on their way to Mexico."

"They know where we are?" She asked me, fear showing in her eyes.

"We don't know Bones. We don't know."

"Tomorrow we are going to Cabo." She stated.

"Yup." I said leaning back into the chair and watching the sun slip below the horizon.

"They could be there just waiting for us." She said laying down on the lounge with her head in my lap.

"Yup." I said as I aimlessly ran my fingers through her hair.

"But we still get to go diving?" She asked turning her head and looking into my eyes.

"Yup." I said smiling. She always had a way to bring me back to a place where I felt like we could make it through anything.

We sat up on the deck as the sky went from shades of red to black. Relaxing with each other enjoying our time away.

"I don't remember the last time I could see so many stars." I whispered looking up at the night sky.

"I don't remember a time where I have had someone play with my hair for so long." She said scooting closer to me and resting her head on my chest. I did not even realize that I had been doing it for the last couple hours.

"Bones I need you to help me tomorrow." I told her wrapping my arms around her when I felt her shiver in the cool ocean breeze.

"Help how?" She asked me.

"Keeping everyone together. If Kenton and Sully do know where we are things could get interesting.

"Can we go see how Sweets is doing?" She asked me after a couple minutes. I nodded and lifted her up when I stood up.

Bones

I ran over to Sweets as soon as we got back to our room. Chris was sitting next to him trying to wake him up from a nightmare. I pushed him away and lifted Sweets up so he was looking at me. He was still sleeping and definitely still having the nightmare. I wrapped my body around his and held him into me. "Shh Honey we are here now…" I whispered into his ear.

His eyes came into focus and immediately filled with tears. "Sweets we are here now." I told him over and over. We should not have left the kid alone. Obviously Chris did not know how or was too scared to help him. I watched Booth talk to Chris and pretty much just push him out of our cabin before he came over and sat down on the couch next to where I was holding Sweets.

"Sweets you are going to stay with us until we know that you are okay to go back with Chris. Tomorrow when we are on Cabo Carrie is going to spend the day with Chris. It is possible that they know where we are and so tomorrow is going to be dangerous. If I had my own way we would just stay on this ship until Sully and Kenton were both caught, unfortunately that is not practical and so we are going to need to be extremely cautious tomorrow."

"And with my emotional state I am a risk." Sweets said between sobs.

"Yes." was all Booth said.

I could feel as he tried to fight control over his own emotions, to compartmentalize as he often saw me do. "That doesn't mean you have to suck it up and pretend like you are fine. It just means we need to stick together and watch out for each other even more." Booth said putting his hand on his shoulder.

"It also means we should get some sleep." I said letting go of Sweets and getting up from the couch to change into pajamas.

After I was changed I crawled into bed next to the wall, Booth told me the first night it was safer for me there and if someone were to come in they would have to go through him first. I turned the lights down so that only the picture of the ship in the corner was lit up. I laid down and tried to fall asleep but couldn't take my eyes off of Booth and Sweets.

He had sat down and put his arm around the kid and Sweets had leaned his head onto Booth's shoulder. They were not talking. They were just sitting. Contemplating the events of tomorrow. I fell asleep watching the two of them. My dreams were of diving and seeing all of the amazing sea creatures that we would see in the morning.

Next Chap is Cabo...I promise it will be more exciting than this!! Please review!!