A/N: People I'm now officially 16, Yay

Recap: "Don't worry Shal, I'm going to find you and kill that bastard once and for all" was all that came out of Brennan's mouth while he followed her signal.

Chapter 12: Tick, Tock

Shalimar woke up in a storage room it looked like, but it was much bigger. She looked around and she saw a couple windows, it had a really bad paint job that hadn't been redone. You could tell because the paint looked faded to the naked eye and like it was chipping off. /At least it's not a white room, with no windows / she shuddered at the thought. She looked around a little more to find a laptop on the ground, and it was beeping like crazy, it was driving her insane. She went over to see why it was beeping, clicked once and an image of Ian came up. It was a videoconference; she wondered what he had to say, so she listened in.

"Hello beautiful" he commented.

"Kiss my ass" she said in pure hatred.

"Oh sorry, already done that, nice to see that your up finally" he chuckled.

"Where the hell am I?" she asked looking around again.

"Oh nowhere that concerns you, or that your wonderful lover wont find you" he replied.

Shalimar felt for her com link and noticed it was still on. She smiled in knowing that Brennan will find her.

"What's with the smile?" asked Ian.

"What's it to you" she replied, sounding really bitter.

"Nothing really, just the fact that your mine and no one can take you away from me" he answered in pure happiness.

"Go fuck yourself" she responded again in pure hatred.

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Shal's signal brought Brennan to an old warehouse in Seattle. He turned on his com-link so Jesse and Emma could here whatever Ian had to say to him. He knew Shal was here because that's what the signal said, and the signal never lies. He just hoped he could make it in time before her time runs out. He slowly walked into the warehouse and cautiously peered around to see if anyone was there.

He could hear both a man's and a woman's voice. He guessed the woman's was Shalimar, so he assumed the man's was Ian. Soon Ian's voice disappeared, so he could only guess that he heard footsteps.

Shalimar watched as Ian left their conversation and she could almost immediately sense him. He smelled as good as ever, maybe even better. She just sat and waited for him to find her, and turned her attention over to the little present in a box that Ian had been generous to give her. She shook the box a few times until she heard a clicking sound. She listened in a little more and realized it was a 'tick-tock'ing sound. She threw the box to the other side of the room and back up toward the boiler, not knowing that what she threw was just a timer the bomb was in a the wall that was underneath the boiler.

Brennan walked towards a door that was closed, he tried to open it but it was locked. He was about to unlock it the easy way when he heard something. He turned back to the door but something stopped him.

"You just had to take her away from me, didn't you?" asked a familiar voice.

"What are you talking about?" asked Brennan as he turned around to face an angry Ian.

"You, just had to take her right out of my grasp, I almost had her" explained Ian.

"She was never yours to take" Brennan tried to explain back.

"Oh she was, you saw what I could do to her, you can just imagined what happened before you came along" Ian laughed.

"You wouldn't be able to, she's stronger, has more courage and hey she has a mouth that can piss you off" Brennan joked.

"Believe me, I know" Ian agreed.

"BRENNAN!" Shalimar yelled from the other side of the door.

Shalimar had opened the box and was now staring at the timer 5…4

Brennan ran towards the door but was only pulled back by Ian. They began to have a fight, all for the woman they both loved, of course for two entirely different reasons. Brennan because he really, truly loved her and Ian because he wanted her to die.

3…2, Shalimar was clawing at the door trying to get it open but however hard she tried she couldn't get it open.

Brennan kicked Ian toward the door that he entered to get in the place, pretty hard. And by the looks of it he was really and completely dead.

BOOM!

A/N: Uh-oh cliffhanger. What's going to happen to Shalimar and Brennan? Will Jesse and Emma get there in time? Will anyone die? So many questions, to bad I can't answer any of them. Don't forget, Review, REVIEW, REVIEW. Don't like it, DON'T REVIEW!