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The Woman in the Chair

Chapter 17

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Booth slowly entered the room and looked around. Sure enough something was there. He ran over to the center of the room where a broken chair lay on its side. Someone was in the chair.

He ran in front of the person to see a woman bound and gagged. Her head was slumped over and he gasp at the sight of her. He could see she was still breathing and quickly tilted her head up to take the rag out of her mouth.

When he looked at the woman's eyes and his heart sank. It wasn't Brennan. The woman was still unconscious when Booth started to remove the tape that she had been bound with.

"I need a paramedic up here now." Booth yelled at one of his men.

"Is it Dr. Brennan?" The rookie asked Agent Booth.

"No, it's not Dr. Brennan. I would be happy if it was Dr. Brennan and right now I am not happy. I asked you to do something….NOW DO IT." Booth felt a fleeing feeling of remorse for yelling at the young agent but right now he really didn't care. That man still has my Bones, if he so much as laid a hand on her I will kill him.

The man nodded and ran downstairs to show the EMT the way up. Booth managed to free the woman from her bondage and lay her down flat. She was still breaking but not very well.

This woman bared a striking resemblance to his Bones. He's toying with me. Booth punched the wall just beside him.

The woman was unconscious and though she was still alive might as well been dead to him. He wasn't getting anything out of her tonight.

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Brennan lay motionless on the floor. She feared the man that she now knew it was. "Your husband just saved an innocent woman's life. To bad it wasn't your huh?"

Nichols kicked the chair and Brennan help back her tears. "You fool, you thought he would come for you? Nope…he went for someone else. Just like everyone else he will leave you and go for someone else. But me…. I would have stayed with you forever Tempe, if you just would have let me. I would have loved you. But no, now it is to late. Not only will your husband die but you will have to watch it. Once I am finished leading him on his hunt I will bring him here. And you will get to see the fear in his eyes when I kill him."

Brennan was trying not to listen but she knew what he had planned. He was going to trap Booth and kill him right in front of her eyes. She knew Booth was too smart to fall for his tricks but she knew what this man was capable of. She knew he was smart and wouldn't stop till it was finished.

Nichols picked her chair back up and took the gag out of her mouth. Brennan spit in his face.

Nichols wiped his face of her spit and hit her again. This time with so much force that she felt her nose break and she tasted the blood running into her mouth.

No matter what, don't talk, don't say a word. Booth will come and he will be okay. Booth is smart too. Brennan reiterated to herself for the millionth time since she found herself in this prison.

"Alright my dear, keep your mouth shut for now, you will be talking soon enough!"

Nichols stepped out of the room but Brennan could still hear what he was saying. He had made a phone call.

"Booth."

"Why yes Agent Booth, this is…"

"You son of a btch. If you touch her or hurt her in any way I will kill you, do you understand me?"

"Is that any way to talk to the man who holds your wife's live in the palm of his hand? Now listen, and do just as I tell you to or she dies."

Booth quietly walked over to a side of the room so he could hear what the man said. "I see you found the present I left you? I assumed you would find it. That woman holds the answer to your questions. Now, I will give you 2 hours to figure out what I mean and then I will call you back. I am watching you Agent Booth, make one wrong move and she dies."

"How do I know she is still alive?"

"Because I said so!"

"Nope, not good enough, let me hear her voice."

"She isn't talking to me right now but I suppose I could see if she would like to speak to you."

Nichols walked into the room and put the phone up to Brennan's ear. "Talk."

Brennan heard Booth on the other end and began to cry. The first time she had shown any emotion to this man. "Booth." She managed to cry.

"Bones, are you okay? Has he hurt you? Where are you?"

Before Brennan could answer Nichols was back on the line "She is alive, you heard her. Now do as I say and she stays alive."

Booth heard Brennan cry out in pain and then a dial tone. He cussed loudly as he slammed his phone shut.

He turned to the same rookie agent just a few feet away from him. "Okay, did you get a trace?"

"It wasn't a long enough call sir."

"Wasn't long enough? Wasn't long enough?" Booth pushed the rookie against the wall and yelled in his face "That is not acceptable. My wife's life depends on that and you couldn't get it. It was long enough if you had started when I told you to. Do you not know how to follow orders?"

Just then Cullen had entered the room and saw the entire thing. "Agent Booth, release him right now. Do you not know how to follow orders? I know that I gave you some just yesterday. You have crossed the line."

Booth dropped the rookie on his heels and look at Cullen. "I have crossed the line? My wife is out there with some mad man and you are telling me that I have crossed the line?" Booth was about to go postal on the man when he realized it was his boss he was talking to.

"Yes, you have crossed way over the line. That is just it Booth, this case is too personal. You are letting it could your judgment. And I do realize that this is your wife and it should be personal but I can't keep you on a case you might compromise because it's personal. You have basically assaulted two of your fellow agents in two days and that is it. I have given you chances. Now I have to do my job. Give me your badge and gun; you are off the case."

"You can't be serious? You can't pull me off of this case?" Booth attempted to stare Cullen down.

"Yes, I am serious Booth. I can and I am. I put my neck out there for you and you replay me like this? That's it. You are suspended AGAIN! Give me your gun and badge and leave before I have you removed from the premises."

Booth took off his gun and badge and handed them to Cullen "He said the woman was the key. Please let me talk to the woman. There is something we are missing." Booth pleading with Cullen to give him one last shot.

"I will have them look into it. The woman is still unconscious and if I see you going within 100 feet of a hospital or that woman you won't be under review. You will be gone with no questions asked."

Booth stormed off How could everything go so wrong so quickly.

Cullen felt for the man. When Amy had been dying he would have moved hell and high water to save her. He could see the same fire in Booth's eyes but unfortunately Booth was going to go way off the deep end when it had to do with Dr. Brennan. Cullen did the only thing he could do to possibly save Brennan's life as well as Agent Booth's.

Booth walked away from the crime scene. His car, his gun, his badge and most importantly his wife were all gone. He had no where else to turn. What could he do?

In times like these he turned to the only people he knew were willing to go above and beyond. The only people he knew would go as far as him to save her life. He picked up his phone and called his friends. Yes, they might be squints but in times of need they were the ones he could count on.

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