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Not updated in a while but I had no inspiration to write and then my beta has been on holiday so it's taken a bit of time :P. Not sure when I'll update next (hopefully soon) as schools starting next week and I have to find time to think of what to write. I have an idea on where I'm going with this story but getting there is a problem! I do, however, have 997 words of the next chapter already written =D
***Chapter Ten***
Brennan was sleeping peacefully in Booth's arms when the sound of her phone pulled her from her calming slumber. She gently untangled herself from him trying her best not to wake him. She left the room before pulling her phone from her pocket and answering it.
"Brennan," she whispered.
"Temperance, where are you? I thought you were going to pick Zach up and then come back! We've been worried sick, we thought something had happened to you," said a frantic Max on the other end of the line.
"I'm fine, I was with Booth," she explained, hoping that it would be enough. But, of course, it wasn't.
"Tempe, darling, we talked about this. Youwillbe safer with us, I promise," he said. Brennan sighed; there was no way that he would win this argument. She needed their help. For the first time in her life, she prayed. She prayed that everything would go back to normal, the murderer would be caught and she could go back to laying in Booth's arms. The only good thing about the whole situation was the fact that her son was with her.
"Fine," she sighed. "I'll be back in an hour," she whispered, not giving him enough time to respond, instead ending the call and putting the phone back in her pocket.
She moved quickly through the apartment, gathering her coat, her bag, and everything that Zach had brought with him. She waited slowly back into Booth's bedroom. She watched him sleep, his chest rising and falling, unaware of what was happening around him. Brennan quietly leant over him and whispered 'I love you' in his ear, tears began to roll down her face. She quickly walked back out and into the room where Zach was asleep.
She carefully lifted him up; she decided it would be best if she tried to keep him asleep, which meant not changing him out of his pyjamas too. Brennan carried Zach out of the apartment, grabbing her things as well as Booth's car keys. Her car was still at the Jeffersonian parking lot so Booth's car would have to do, she'd make sure that he'd have the car back in the morning. At least he wouldn't be able to drive after her if he awoke.
Thankfully, they had kept Parker's car seat in the car for Zach to use while he was with them. He was still asleep as she climbed into the front driver's seat and started the engine. She always complained that he wouldn't let her drive, but right now she wished that he was the one driving. Driving the three of them off to safety.
She pulled up twenty minutes later outside her apartment building. She carried Zach out of the car and up to her front door; she couldn't risk leaving him out of her sight. She unlocked the door with her free hand and went to lay Zach down on the sofa, closing the door behind them.
She rushed around the apartment collecting anything and everything that they might need; clothes, toiletries, money and a few of Zach's toys. As she walked by, she picked up and put both Jasper the pig and Brainy Smurf into her bag. She couldn't bring herself to leave them behind, however irrational that was. She needed to keep a part of Booth with her and this was the best she could think of.
She knew she needed to get back to the warehouse before they came out to find her – a risk for them all. No matter how much she wished or hoped there was no going back now.
Brennan drove up to the warehouse just under an hour after leaving Booth's house. She picked Zach up, who was still asleep, and lifted him out of the car. She decided to leave the things in the car, she could get them later when she had gotten Zach settled again. She knocked on the metal door, unable to open it on her own. Max greeted her on the other side of the door with a warm smile on his face.
"Welcome back Tempe, you're doing the right thing," he said as she walked through the door. Brennan didn't respond, instead she walked through another door that led to the room that they were in earlier. However, now there were mattresses, quilts, and pillows – make-shift beds made up on the floor.
"We may be here for a while so we might as well be comfy," said Charlie as he noticed Brennan looking at them. "An old store manager owed me a favour so we borrowed a few things," he admitted.
"You stole?" questioned Brennan. "You know what? I don't care anymore," she admitted, laying Zach down on one of the mattresses. She tucked the quilt in around him before standing up to talk to the others.
"I had to bring Booth's SUV; it was the only way of getting here without calling a cab. He was asleep when I left. I packed everything I should need and it's in the back of the car," she explained, yawning into the palm of her hand. She sat down on the sofa, closest to where her son slept.
"We'll bring everything in for you, you get some rest. Pete'll be back in the morning so that we can plan what we're going to do," said Max, making his way to the door so that he could fetch her things in as soon as possible.
"You did the right thing Tempe; we'll sort the car out. Just leave it to us," said Tommy.
"Don't burn it, just leave it somewhere. My prints will already be there, wear gloves or something. Just don't destroy it," sighed Brennan, trying to relax into the sofa. Tommy and Charlie nodded as they left the room leaving her to listen to her son's soft gentle snores.
Booth climbed out of the cab early the next morning. He had found his car missing when he awoke. He had hoped that Brennan had taken it, that way at east they were safe. Any other theory had him worried sick and he couldn't stand to think like that. When he had turned his cars GPS system on, he was thankful when Charlie told him that it was in the Jeffersonian parking lot.
He walked into the lab, expecting to see his Bones on the platform, hunched over one of the two bodies they had currently. When he saw Cam's serious face instead he was filled with worry once again.
"Where's Bones?" he asked, already knowing the answer to his question but hoping that Cam would tell him that she was just around the corner. Waiting for him.
"Since both of your cars were here when I got to the lab this morning, I was hoping that she was with you. But, obviously, she is not, meaning we don't know where she is," admitted Cam.
"Thanks Cam. She's probably out with Z... her father again," he suggested, narrowly missing the subject of Brennan's son. "You found anything recently," he asked as he followed her into Angela's office, where Angela and Hodgins were stood talking.
"Actually, I've been looking at the photo frame and I was able to work out what was in it; what the photo was I mean," began Angela, bringing up a faded picture onto the screen. Booth watched as more could and detail was added to the picture. In the photo there was eleven people laughing and smiling. Booth could identify all of the Kent family and Brennan, however there was a third woman in the picture that none of them recognised. Obviously, Brennan knew who the woman was but she wasn't here so they'd have to out the hard way. They would have to run her face through the FBI's database and hopefully they would get a hit.
"They all look so happy," said Angela sadly, as she began the search. Hopefully, if they found her she could give them some answers. "Bren looks so happy," she added. Booth murmured in agreement but all he could focus on was the fact that Brennan was in the photo hugging her son and no one noticed the similarities between them. Normally they would have noticed it right away but right now they were too focused on other things. Hopefully, they would figure it out soon, he didn't know how long he could keep it bottled up. Especially with Brennan not around. "We should know soon if we get a match. Also Hodgins and I were looking at the necklace."
"It was a simple silver chain that can still be purchased in most jewellers. Millions of them have been sold since it was first released. It was worn, which suggests that it was precious to the family," explained Hodgins, taking over where Angela left off, as an image of the necklace rotated on the screen. "Obviously the murderer knew that it meant something to the family. That's probably why he took it."
"We're looking at the teddy now, we'll let you know if we find something," finished Angela.
"Thanks. I need to get back to the FBI but ring me if you need anything," he said as he began to walk towards the door. "And if you hear from Bones, call me," he asked as he left the room.
"Credit card bills prove it Booth," announced Charlie as he walked into Booth's office with a piece of paper in his hand. "At the time of the call the family were at a restaurant – it wasn't Andrew Kent who called his sister," explained Charlie putting the papers on his desk. Booth had discovered that the phone call had originated from the house but at the time no one was supposed to be in the house.
"So someone broke into the house so that they could ring Sarah Kent so that she would think that it was her brother," Booth clarified.
"There's only so far we can go with this Booth unless we can find a recording of that one call," Charlie stated.
"I know," Booth sighed. It was hopeless, they were wasting time on something that now was unlikely to fiver them anything else. "How are the DNA searches going?" he asked, hoping for some better news. They had been running the children's' blood samples to try to get a match somewhere.
"We've ran all of the blood samples and we're running names and faces through every database we can look at. Nothing has been found yet but it's still early days. We're trying to find everything out but whatever is being hidden is being hidden well," explained Charlie looking through the little notes he had.
"Thanks Charlie."
"No problem Booth, it's what we do." Booth stood up and walked to the elevators with Charlie. He needed to get back to the lab to see if they had found anything useful. Unlike him.
"You don't understand, I need to see Dr. Temperance Brennan. This can't wait, she promised to see me and she never did, I needto see her," the woman screamed. Booth walked into the lab to find a blond woman being restrained by two of the Jeffersonian guards. Cam was trying to calm her down, but nothing was working.
"Whoa, what's happening here?" he asked, rushing to Cam's side.
"I need to see Dr. Brennan," she repeated, calming down a little in Booth's presence. "You're Booth," she stated.
"Special Agent Booth and you are?" he asked, signalling to the guards to let the woman go now that she had calmed down.
"Jennifer Waters, I'm a friend of Dr. Brennan's," she told him. "I was supposed to meet her for coffee, she promised me, but she never showed. That's not like her, she would've called," she answered calmly, even though inside she was screaming. Temperance was gone, her daughter was dead, the Kent's were missing and she was the only one, in the room, who knew the truth.
"And how do you know Dr. Brennan?"
"Through a friend... Through Andy and Rachel."
"You're the woman in the photo," Cam stated, suddenly realising where she recognised the woman from.
"Would you answer a few questions for me?" he asked. When she nodded he led her away from the entrance and towards Brennan's office.
Once inside the office he led her to the sofa and told her to sit down, while he sat in the chair opposite.
"What were you meeting Dr. Brennan for?" he asked.
"Coffee," she answered simply.
"Miss Waters, what were you meeting to talk about?" She stayed silent, choosing to look at her hands instead. "Why were you meeting up?" he asked again, and once again she stayed silent. "You said that you met Dr. Brennan though Mr and Mrs Kent, how do you know them?" She still kept silent, now picking at her nails. "Okay, you're obviously not going to talk, so I will; I know about Zach," he admitted. For the first time since they had entered the office she looked him in the eye, shock evident in her face.
"You know?" she whispered.
"I know that Zach Kent is Dr. Brennan's five year old son. I also know that Temperance agreed that Zach should live with Rachel and Andrew Kent," he said, telling her everything that he knew.
"Do you know everything?" she murmured, obviously she was nervous about what was happening and what secrets were being revealed. "Do you know the truth?" she asked, a little louder this time.
"The truth about what?" And with that she stayed silent. He had said the wrong thing and now he wasn't going to get her to say anything. "Miss Waters, I could have you arrested for withholding evidence from a federal case," he said, trying to gently scare her into telling him what she knew.
"Go ahead Agent Booth; I have nothing left to live for."
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