Disclaimer: See chapter one
A/N Wow more than 150 reviews I'm so happy. Thank so much for your feedback. It makes me want to write more, which is really good for me right now because I'm having a lot of trouble with writer's block. I know how I want to end this fic. I'm just having trouble with coming up with what happens between now and the end. So please be patient with me. And sorry for the mistakes.
EDITED: 7/2019
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Chapter Thirteen
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11:44 P.M. Wednesday
Half mile south of search area: One
"Booth, Come in. Booth please respond. Ahhh, come on Booth answer me," Kory threw her hands up in frustration. She and Smith had been waiting there a minute or two hoping that Booth would come back or at least pick up his radio. She gave up on trying to get a hold of Booth and decided to switch channels on her walkie talkie to call the temporary headquarters, "This is search team one calling headquarters, come in. Over."
"Where have you been?" Came the very angry voice of her brother. Kory winced, 'boy am I in for it now.'
"We need a medical lift and . . . "
Penning cut in, not angry this time, but worried, "Are you all right? Are you hurt?"
"Yes, I'm fine. It's Smith we got into an altercation with our suspect. Smith hurt his ankle while trying to subdue him. I can't tell if it's broken or if it's just sprained," she explained. Smith tapped her on the shoulder and pointed to something shining in the sunlight a few yards away. She stood up and went over to investigate.
"Where is the suspect now?" Penning asked as she made her way over to the object.
"He got away Booth has gone after him."
"He did what!"
Kory flinched and jerked the walkie away from her head, the angry voice was back along with yelling, "He went after the suspect."
"You mean he left an injured member of his team to pursue and armed and dangerous suspect on his own, is that what you are telling me. Get him on this channel now!" Penning demanded.
Kory took a deep breath and let it out slowly, she dreaded to tell her brother that she wasn't able to contact Booth, "He didn't just leave Smith to fend for himself. I'm here with him and we are both armed and able to defend ourselves if need be," she stated defensively, then hesitated, "And well, you see, I've tried but I can't get a hold of Booth."
"What do you mean you can't get a hold of him?" Penning demanded in the same menacing tone of voice he would use on her when they were younger and he had caught her going through his stuff. She had to stifle the urge to react as she had when she was a kid and he would talk to her like that, "I mean I have called him on his two-way but he's not answering. I don't know . . . oh, this is not good." She had found out what Smith had seen shining. It was Booth's walkie she picked it up and found that the little gadget that had clipped the radio to his belt had broken clean off.
"What? What's 'not good'?" Penning asked, a little worried.
Kory held up the walkie to show Smith, he looked at her, shook his head and gave her an 'I-hope-this-doesn't-end-up-getting-himself-or-someone-else-killed' look. She nodded her head in agreement.
"I think I know why Booth hasn't been answering my his walkie."
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2:43 P.M. Wednesday
Location: Unknown
Booth was slowly waking up he heard running water nearby from a creek or river and two feminine voices talking, but he couldn't make out what they were saying. He tried to open his eyes, but was hit by screaming pain in his head, he groaned.
Booth sensed someone sit down next to him and start to unwrap something from around his head. Then he felt a horrible stinging pain as someone cleaning out the cut on the side of his head.
He tried to pull his head away but he just could not make his body do what he wanted. Booth blacked out again after that. The next thing he knew something cool and wet was put on his forehead. Booth opened his eyes then blink a few times to clear his vision. He caught movement out of the corner of his eye and turned his head slowly to see what it was. It was a woman with long auburn hair. She had her back to him.
"Bones?" he mumbled to himself. He slowly reached out and touched her arm. The woman jumped away from him, frightened. Booth got a good look at her face, it wasn't Bones, but he knew who she was. "Your Linda Prat right?" He asked as he sat up, he had an attack of nausea and dizziness, but it soon passed.
She nodded her head, as a second woman walked up behind Linda. He recognized her too, "Jodee Wright? Where are we?"
She smiled at him, "I have no idea where we are, but I do know that we are safe from him as long as we stay hidden," he had this confused look on his face, and was looking around as if searching for someone. Jodee tapped him on the shoulder and pointed to something behind him, "She's over there."
Booth jumped up but nearly fell right back down as the world seemed to spin and tilt around him. Jodee instantly grabbed his arm to help steady him. As so as he got his balance, he smiled his thanks to Jodee. He then pulled away from her and rushed to Bones.
Bones was asleep so he just quietly sat beside, he didn't want to wake her he just wanted to see for himself that she was here and that she was alive. The tight choking feeling he had around his heart since the moment he found out that she was missing, seemed to lose its hold relief and elation took its place. He brushed her auburn hair away from her face and found dried blood caked in her hair. The joy he had felt at finding Bones alive soon melted away and was replaced with worry and fear as he took in the battered and weak appearance of his partner.
She was so pale except for the two dots of color on her cheeks that showed that she had a fever. She also had a huge bump on the side of her head and there were little scratches all over her. Booth noticed where Tempe had rubbed her wrists raw while trying to free herself, but they were now scabbed over.
Booth had a flash memory of the seeing Bones getting shot. Booth jerked the blanket off and pulled up her shirt so he could see her wound. He worried that she had been injured for more seriously than he had originally thought.
The sudden movement startled Temperance awake, she grabbed Booth by the wrist and stopped him before he could peel off the dirty and blood-encrusted bandage. Booth shot his head up to meet her gaze. Her eyes were glassy from the fever and she seemed to have trouble focusing. She tugged her shirt back into place and sat up, she looked as if she were ready to cry.
Temperance grabbed Booth and hugged him, "Booth? Are you Ok?" She mumbled into his shoulder. He pushed back from her so he could see her face, he was a little surprised that she was asking him if he was OK.
He just smiled at her, then pulled her back to him and held her, "Yeah, I'm OK."
After a few minutes, Booth decided that they should get moving soon. Booth moved away from Bones, but before he got up he gave her hand a gentle squeeze, just to assure himself once more that she was there. He scanned the area then he looked at the two women that had quietly been sitting by the creek giving Booth and Bones some privacy. He looked confused, Bones saw this and asked, "What's wrong?"
Jodee and Linda saw Booth stand up so they decided to make their way back over to them.
Booth glanced at them as they approached, "Where are the other two? Jennifer Murphy and Cyndie Winger?"
"They're dead," Jodee stated then began to tell Booth everything she had told Brennan the night before. Booth nodded his head grimly when she had finished. It sent a slice of fear through him to know that the man that had kidnaped Bones could have easily killed her too. It also made him furious to think what these women had to endure while being held captive by that man.
Booth grabbed for his radio only to find that it was gone, he cursed under his breath, then looked around with a deep sigh, "We should get out of here. There should be a search team not too, far from here. We might be able to meet up with them. And if we keep alert I don't think we will have any trouble running into that SOB." Booth said as he went over to Bones. As he reached to help her up his hand collided with his back up gun tucked in the waistband of her pants, she quickly grabbed the gun before he could. He shot her an accusing look, she just rolled her eyes and refused to let him take the gun from her. Booths' arm was still around her waist as he gave her a tight little squeeze and smiled at her, "It's good to have you back Bones."
She smiled in triumph thinking she had won.
"But I will be getting my gun back you know."
Bones gave him a dirty look as they started to hike their way out.
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