Chapter 11
Brennan knew that Booth was just as scared and freaked out as she was, especially knowing what was happening to their daughter now, and what would most likely happen to her in the future if they didn't find her soon. Alana was just a scared little girl, and she didn't think that her parents could do any wrong, she thought that there was nothing that her mommy couldn't do in the world, especially to protect her, and now she was going to let her down. Brennan wanted her daughter to believe that she could always rely on her mother to save and protect her, but this was going to be a wake up call and there was no way she could protect Alana from this.
"All these people, and all they are planning to do is hurt my little girl. She is just a child, she should be home safe and sound with me and you." Brennan said as she looked at Booth and could see that he was trying to control his anger at this entire situation.
"Bones, look at me." Booth said as he stopped and stared at his wife. As soon as she was looking him in the eyes he took a deep breath and placed his hands on her shoulders. "We are going to get Alana back and we are going to get through all of this as a family. I don't think that Gravedigger has allowed them to hurt Alana yet, I think that right now she is just using them as a threat and maybe even using them to keep Alana in line and break her down."
"Alana is tough, she won't just give up." Brennan said softly. "She is like you."
"You're tough as well, Bones. She is probably just like her mama." Booth said with a small smile and he kissed her forehead gently.
Alana wasn't sure what she should do now. She was trying to figure out what these men were planning, the looks that they sent her way made her scared but she was just a little girl, she wasn't like her mommy who knew how to tell what someone was thinking. Alana remembered that sometimes her mommy would tell her how to tell when someone is planning to hurt you or if they are good people, and everyone in the room seemed to be planning to hurt her. Alana knew that it would hurt her mommy badly if she didn't come home, and it would also hurt her daddy because he didn't get to meet her yet. Alana knew she had to get home, but she was so small and she wasn't strong like all the adults around her, and she didn't know how she could get away from them to get home to see her mommy and make her mommy take her to her daddy to meet him. Alana was pretty sure that if she got to go home, then she was going to make sure that her mommy let her daddy be her daddy, because little girls needed their daddies around.
"I want my mommy." Alana whispered softly to herself, unsure if anyone could hear her but hoping that they couldn't.
Gravedigger was laughing, knowing that everything was going so much better than she had originally planned and hoped for. She had wanted to make sure that Dr. Temperance Brennan, or Bones as she had heard some people call her, paid dearly for everything she had done. If it wasn't for Brennan and her little group of scientists, then Gravedigger might have been able to continue with her job, and she might have been able to make more money and keep the FBI at bay, unknowingly working closely with her on a daily basis while hunting her at the same time, trying to figure out who the kidnapper was. She had planned everything so well that no one could figure things out, and it had only come to head when those stupid twins had been found. She knew she should have figured out what to do about the second boy after she had hit him with her car. She shouldn't have buried the both of them, and she probably shouldn't have buried them in an area where they would be found like that and cause the FBI to bring in the scientists to solve the case.
She had been on top of her game, making so much money and fooling all the people she worked with.
"Soon we are going to be face to face, Temperance Brennan, and when we are, you are going to wish you had never agreed to help Special Agent Seeley Booth or the FBI work any cases, ever." Gravedigger said as she glanced towards the corner where the little girl who meant so much to Dr. Brennan was currently huddled in with her knees to her chest, her eyes wide and full of terror as she watched all the people in the room that were responsible for keeping her there.
Booth knew that Bones was trying so hard to pretend that she wasn't falling apart, but he could see it. She was frayed at the edges and she was struggling to keep herself afloat, and she was trying to be the rock for everyone else, including him and he felt horrible, because it should be the other way around. Brennan was a scientist who dealt with facts, and all the facts were pointing to the statistics of what happened to children in the first hours and days of their kidnappings. Brennan didn't know how to hope and pray, she didn't know how to have faith that Alana would be coming home to her safe and sound. Booth was the person in their relationship who excepted faith and hope, he was the one who understood how things worked and how to believe that good things could happen. Booth knew that deep down, there was no way his daughter was going to die on him, he just knew that there was no way that Fate would take away his daughter before he had the chance to actually meet her. Alana had to see what it was like to have a father, and she had to meet her brother, Parker. Booth had to be the one that showed Bones that there was always a chance that Alana was coming home, even if it was a very slim chance and the cop inside of him was telling him, that the odds were against them.
"She has to come home, she just has to." Booth whispered as he closed his eyes in fear.
