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I don't own Bones.

I do own Boots.

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Booth walked towards the back of the cabin and found the door leading to the porch. The porch was spacious and more deck than porch. Christine was helping Michael put some legos together with Boots trying to bat the pieces around. Hodgins was sitting on the porch with Angela, Sweets and Daisy. Seeing that the porch was occupied and feeling unsociable, Booth continued over to the stairs leading down from the porch, walked down them and started to walk across the yard towards the woods.

Boots seeing Booth doing something interesting, left the porch and followed Booth.

Seeing Booth walking towards the woods, Hodgins called out to Booth, "Hey, man, watch out for bears."

Tempted to flip a digit at Hodgins, Booth let it go and kept walking. "I'm getting tired of hearing about bears," Booth thought. "If someone else mentions bears one more time, I'm going to hit something."

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Booth and Boots had been walking for about an hour when they came upon a river. Booth knew he wasn't lost. He had Ranger training and could find his way back anytime he wanted to. He just didn't want to. He knew he wasn't being very nice; but, he had a rough week and had thought that this cabin thing was going to be a chance for peace and quiet. Daisy and Sweets turned his peaceful weekend into a chore. A chore he didn't want to do.

Stopping at the river, Booth sat down in the shade on the upper part of the river bank and watched the water rush by. Boots seeing that Booth was stopping for awhile walked down the river bank and found a hole. Sticking his front right leg into the hole, Boots felt around to see if he could find anything interesting. He found something very interesting.

Booth watching Boots stick his arm in the hole, stood up and said, "Hey, stupid, there might be a snake in that hole."

Boots feeling something latch onto his paw withdrew his paw from the hole and threw the creature holding his paw up in the air. The crayfish let go of Boots paw and flew through the air, landing about two feet from Booth. Curious, Booth walked over and picked up the crayfish. Picking it up around the thorax, Booth looked at the crayfish more closely. Boots, wanting this prey back, walked over to Booth and stood on his hind legs, placing his front paws on Booth's right knee. Looking down, Booth saw Boots looking at him and his crayfish. Reaching down, Booth gave Boots the crayfish. Grabbing his prey in his mouth, Boots walked two feet away from Booth and started to snack on the crayfish.

Turning his head, Booth sat back down on the river bank and pretended that Boots wasn't doing anything. Too bad he couldn't tune out the crunching sound.

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After Booth had walked into the woods, Brennan came out of the cabin and stepped out onto the back porch. Seeing an empty chair next to Angela, Brennan walked over to the chair and sat down.

Looking at Angela, Brennan asked, "Have you seen Booth?"

Nodding her head, Angela said, "He went for a walk in the woods."

Frowning, Brennan said, "Did he say anything?"

Shaking her head, Angela said, "No. Jack warned him about bears though. We saw a bear in the front yard when we pulled up this morning. It's been about four hours since we've seen the bear so the bear is probably far away by now."

Concerned, Brennan looked towards the woods. Christine, hearing that a bear was in the woods with her Dad, got up from where she had been playing and came over to where her Mom was sitting.

"Mom," Christine said, "Is Dad ok?"

Smiling, Brennan said, "Don't worry about your father, Christine. He has his gun with him. No bear will bother him."

Nodding her head, Christine said, "Boots went with Dad, he'll protect Dad."

Leaning over, Brennan hugged Christine and said, "Yes, he will."

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Booth had been sitting on the river bank for about thirty minutes when he saw movement out of the corner of his left eye. Turning his head, Booth saw a black bear come out of the woods and walk down the river bank to the river's edge. Boots, seeing the bear, walked over to where Booth was sitting and sat down next to Booth.

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Up next: A close encounter of the bear kind or maybe not, perspective is everything.