The Note

When Booth landed, he took off his parachute-backpack and overall before he looked Brennan. They hadn't landed exactly in the same spot, but rather a few hundred yards from each other. Booth had at least seen at what direction Brennan had gone down so he worked his way there. His other backpack had hung across his chest while he was jumping, but now he had swung it to hang on his back. He walked for a few minutes before he found her. She hung from a tree in her parachute harness. She was furious and kicked and hissed like a cat. He started to laugh when he saw her this angry.

"What are you laughing at" she screamed angrily towards him. "Help me down".

He hurried to her side, took up a knife that he had strapped to his leg and cut the harnesslines, causing her to fall down and land her feet, kneeling a bit because it was a small distance between her feet and the ground.

She untangled herself from the lines with a little help from Booth. Then she took off her backpack and overall and took off the protectionglasses and the hat. Putting up her hair in a ponytail she then looked around as though she was searching for someone.

"Where are the others?" she asked Booth.

"It seems like they never jumped" he answered. "It seems like we were set up or something, here's a note from Angela." He handed her the note and she read out loud:

"Booth and Bren, I'm sorry that we did this to you,

but frankly we couldn't take it anymore. We had to do something

so that you could work things out between you. Your arguing is

a major pain-in-the-ass and well, I hope you two have the opportunity

now to work things out and come back to civilization.
I have put some stuff in Booths backpack for you to be able to get back.

Sorry again, love Ange"

Booth opened his backpack and saw a compass, two waterfilled canteens, some tools to be able to make a fire and some ammunition and gun to be able to shoot wild prey if it came to that. They both were wearing warm clothes at least, proper hiking boots, a warm feltjacket and armypants and not to mention some warm underwear.

"Great" Brennan grumped and sat down on a rock.

"Hey, this is at least my element a bit, I can get us home again" Booth said sounding more confident than he felt.

"Oh really" she answered with a voice full of sarcasm. "Then by all means, get us out of here you chauvinistic pig."

"Hey, I'm not a pig, if I am then you're a sow"

He realized a second to late that he shouldn't have said that. She immediatley stood up, walked up to him and hit him hard right into his stomach causing him to bend over by loosing his breath. He was gasping for air while she looked pretty full of herself.

"Obviously, we have to cooperate to get out of here" he managed to get out.

She stayed silent.

"Come on Bones..."

"Don't call me Bones"

"Bones" he didn't care what she liked of his nickname for her, he liked to say it and it was easier to say than Temperance Brennan. "We better get out of here and start working our way towards civilization before the dark gets here".

She stood up hesitantly and started walking in a direction.

"Hey, you're going the wrong direction, we should be heading that way" he pointed to the direction opposite of what she was walking.

She turned around and started walking in the right direction. Booth quickly got his backpack up on his back again and hurried after her. He realized this was going to be a long journey back.