Chapter 37
... so close ...

"Sammy... Sammy... it's alright... yes, she's a bad cat... she'll be gone soon, my precious little Sammy... they are coming back soon, okay?" the old woman was babbling to her cat, which was hiding under a chair. A beautiful and big Maine Coon cat was sitting on said chair, apparently not willing to let poor – and definitely – old Sammy come forth.

Brennan rolled her eyes. There was not time for cats right now... they had to find Tammy.

The old woman offered them something to drink, but both of them did not want to loose time and started to question the woman, when they suddenly heard the unmistakable sound of tires. In an instant Booth and Brennan were at the window.

"Booth... the Keller house... that's him ... with Tammy!" Brennan exclaimed.

They stormed out the house and ran to Booth's car to follow the limousine with Marks and Tammy... leaving a very confused Mrs. Haverson behind.

"These young people..." she muttered to herself when they ran out.

Booth immediately passed on the information about the car by phone. By the time they reached Booth's SUV Marks' car was long out of sight.

"He can't be far away" Brennan murmured and Booth sped along the road, searching for the dark limousine, but there were too many intersections.

After some time they had to give up "Damn it, damn it, damn it... we lost him!" he cursed infuriated. Brennan just clenched her fists. 'So close, so close...' she thought.
They decided to drive back to the lab and neither of them spoke a word while they were driving.

Tammy had seen Tempe and the Agent who had told her he was Tempe's partner... Booth had been his name, right.

She had seen them and she had wanted to scream Tempe's name, but she still was gagged. Marks had been cursing all the time... but he had calmed down a bit when he saw that Booth's dark SUV was not following them.

"Hah...i think we got rid of them.." he had said... and these few words had dashed Tammy's hope.

But still Marks was breaking every speed limit, trying to get away as fast as possible.

Suddenly a dog crossed their way and Marks lost control over the car...

Tammy heard the noise of the tires, heard him curse and heard herself let out muffled screams... and then everything went black... and she felt nothing anymore.

20 minutes later Booth's cell phone rang. "Booth"
"Agent Booth? Officer Craig here... we found the car.. he drove it against a tree... it was empty... we think they fled by foot, but we found great amounts of blood... somebody is bleeding hard... I guess they won't make it far... we hope to be able to follow the blood stains to find them" The police men told Booth where to find the car and quickly
made a u-turn causing other people to honk and gesture.

Then he informed Brennan, who had been watching him curiously.