It's the new update for the day, the last chapter was short, here's the resolution to the last chapter's cliffhanger.

I do not own Bones!

Booth pulled his gun up quick and as soon as he saw Pelant turn to him with a gun aiming right at him. Booth took the shot and Pelant was falling to the floor with a gunshot wound straight in the chest. Other men were running in to check to see if he was truly dead, and he was, Booth was sure of it, but all he cared about was Bones.

He sprinted his was over to Brennan and he saw everything Pelant did to her. He slowly pulled the duct tape off her mouth, then he started untying the ropes on her legs and arms. Once her arms were free, they instantly clung around him in a tight hug and her face rested in his neck. The agents left them alone together since it was obvious they had a connection somehow. Booth could feel the tears on his neck as she just couldn't stop crying, and that was a rare thing for his Bones to just cry, unless it was with him. Not that it was a bad thing, he tore her walls down when it was just the two of them, it told him that he was the only one she could really open up to and wasn't afraid to open up to.

He didn't move, he just held her in his arms, and rubbed her back. "It's okay, Bones, I'm here. I'm gonna make sure no one hurts you, you're going to be okay."

She couldn't believe it was true, one minute she's having a great day with her daughter, and the next Pelant is in her house torturing her and Booth comes in to save the day. She just couldn't believe that she was back in Booth's arms again. He was so strong, his body was so warm, she missed him so much, and it took him to actually show up for her to truly realize it. All she could think about was that day she left and how she probably broke his heart, and fifteen years later, he's comforting her. This made her cry even more, but she didn't care, she just cared about being help, nothing more, nothing less.

She still loved him, and he still loved her, finally Christine popped up in her mind. She slowly pulled away, but flinched from the pain in her cheek. "Bones, we need to get you cleaned up, c'mon." He took her hands and pulled her up.

"I'm fine, where's Christine?" She said.

He looked at her remembering about Christine. "Did Pelant get her, did he take her somewhere?"

"Didn't you know?"

"Know what, Bones?" There was a pain building up in his heart thinking of that bad news that could come out of Brennan's mouth next.

"She's been in DC for the past few days helping at the Jeffersonian." All Booth could do was just laugh. "Why are you laughing, Booth?"

"Because I was expecting to hear you say some bad news, that's all. C'mon, let's get you cleaned up." Booth kept a hand on her at all times as he walked her out of the house and out to the front. There was someone there that could help clean her face up and they led her over to sit on the back on their car with the trunk door open.

Booth tossed one of the backup men his keys. "Can you bring my car over here?"

"Yes, sir." He walked off.

"Since when do you make other people get your car for you?" Brennan asked.

"Since when do you drive off when I'm going to get the car?" Booth said back to her.

"You're still angry." She flinched when they started wiping blood off the cut.

Booth was angry, but not at Bones. "No, I'm not. I more pissed at Pelant and what he did to us." Booth said.

All of the Jeffersonian people showed up and they were getting out of their cars, but they stopped when they noticed the argument going on between Booth and Brennan, they didn't want to get into the middle of anything. They knew how bad that could turn out.

"Pelant didn't do anything to you." Brennan said as the person finished up with her face.

"Are you serious, Bones? He tore our family apart, I haven't seen Christine in fifteen years, I lost those fifteen years I could have spent with her."

"I did it to protect her, Booth. I did it so Pelant couldn't get to our daughter."

"Did you even think about how this was going to effect me? Did you even think for one second that you regretted your decision?"

"The second I left." She looked up at him with tears in her eyes. "And every second after that. I saw you in the rear view mirror of the car, and I had to fight the urge to turn around. The photo album Angela made me, I never went a day without looking at it. And trust me, it was hard raising Christine without you there to do fatherly things with her. I always dreamed that you would take her to work with you, teach her a few things about FBI, and every time a boy comes to take her out of the door, you can show him your FBI badge and gun to scare him off." Brennan laughed.

That made Booth smile and he got lost into Brennan's eyes. He slowly started moving forward to kiss her when Christine got grossed out. "Oh, god, no." Booth laughed and turned to face the newly arrive people. Booth noticed that Christine and Brennan were holding hands behind everyone hoping that no one was going to notice. "Hodgins, are you going to smack your son, or should I?"

Everyone turned to look at Michael and Christine holding hands, but Christine pulled away which confused Michael until a hand came smacking the back of his head. Booth then turned to Brennan. "How's that for scaring off the boys?"

Brennan just smiled and laughed. "I missed you, and don't think for a second I didn't."

Booth pulled her off the car so that she was standing and he pulled her in to give her the kiss he's been waiting for for fifteen years. It was amazing, and he was glad he didn't wait any longer, he wouldn't have lasted if he knew what he was missing out on. They came apart for air and they just smiled as they looked into each others eyes. "I love you." Booth said.

Brennan kept her arms around his neck. "I love you, too."