Disclaimer in part one.

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Lying awake in bed Brennan played with lose strands of Shalimar's hair while she slept. He still couldn't believe that they had finally gotten together. He stared at the ceiling as he thought about all the bad things he had done in his life and whether or not he deserved something so good. Looking down at her sleeping face he vowed to himself and to whoever else could hear his thoughts that he would protect her no matter what.

He awoke several hours later to someone placing feather light kisses along his neck. He moaned as he opened one eye to see Shalimar grinning at him. "Wake up sleepy head" she said as she continued to kiss his neck

"Can every wake up call be like this?" he asked as he cupped her face and kissed her passionately

"Mm if you want it to" she replied after breaking the kiss and moving to straddle him.

Just as things were getting heavy a hard knock was heard at the door. "Brennan you awake in there? Adam wants see you" said Jesse through the door. "Oh and if Shalimar is in there with you bring her too"

"He is so dead when I see him" Shalimar said rolling off Brennan and out of bed. After throwing some clothes on they went to find out what was going on

"Oh good the two of you are up" Adam said as they walked into the lab

"What's up?" asked Brennan

"Two safe houses were broken into last night. Nothing was taken but whoever did messed the place up good. I want the two of you to go to the safe houses and see if you can turn anything up"

"Think it was the GSA?" asked Shalimar

"No if it was the GSA then they would have at least tried to take any information they could from the computer but that doesn't seem to be the case here"

"Alright we'll let you know if we find anything" said Brennan as he and Shal left the lab for the garage.

They arrived at one of the safe houses to find the furniture overturned, food stocks strewn all over and several broken plates.

"Wow someone tossed this place good" said Brennan as he began picking up furniture

"Yeah but who would do this and why?"

"Hey Adam"

"Yeah Brennan" replied Adam over the comm.

"This place is trashed and they must be a good thief"

"Why do you say that?"

"Because someone picked the lock and whoever it was knew what they were doing"

"Friend of yours maybe" said Shalimar playfully

"Ha Ha"

"Well see if they left anything behind and then head over to the other safe house"

"Ok we'll contact you when we get there" replied Shalimar as she flashed her eyes trying to see if there were any traces of who had done this. "I got nothing how about you?"

"No let's try the other safe house"

"Ok" she replied following him up the steps to the exit. Just as they were about to get back to street level Shalimar heard a sound causing her to stop and turn

"What is it?"

"I don't know I thought I heard someone" no sooner did she finish when there was a bright flash of light blinding them. "What the hell was that?" she yelled trying to clear her vision

"I don't know but" suddenly he felt a prick on his upper arm and then his whole began to get heavy and numb as he fell to the ground.

"Brennan what is it?" she asked moving to him but was quickly stopped when she felt something stick in her neck and she collapsed in a heap next to him on the ground.

"Going straight has made you sloppy Brennan" said a voice from the end of the hall.

Turning his head towards the voice Brennan was able to get a look at him through his heavy eye lids "Alan" he whispered and then passed out

"Now the fun begins"