Chapter 10

Alana was super scared now, because the mean lady was letting the scary man and one of his friends stay with them. They were all going to stay together, and every time they moved, they were going to move together. Alana knew it would only be a matter of time before she was left alone with the two men, who were looking at her in super horrible ways. She wished her mommy and daddy would hurry and find her, she didn't want to stay with these people, they were not people who knew how to help children and she was super scared that she was going to get beaten again, and have something much, much worse happen to her at the same time. Alana closed her eyes as she curled up in a ball in the closet under the stairs. She had been forced to eat the doggy food, because she was so hungry and it was all they would give her. They had laughed and taken a picture of her eating out of the bowl and they said they were going to send it out to some of the man's friends, because they would love to see this. Alana felt so embarrassed but there was nothing she could do anymore, she was just too tired to fight them anymore really, mainly because she was too scared to even sleep at night now that the men were staying with them all the time, but now she had no choice, no Alana closed her eyes and hoped that they wouldn't hurt her while she slept.


Brennan looked at the envelope sitting on her desk in her work office and wondered if this was another letter from her book editor. Brennan had started writing another book before Alana was taken, but she didn't have the heart or the time to write anything at the moment, all her energy went into tracking down her kidnapped daughter. Her editor didn't seem to care, she kept barking at her about deadlines and how she needed to get that book finished and sent into them so they could start the editing process and that they could tell her what they felt she should change about the book. Brennan had told her that she wasn't writing a thing until Alana was home safe and sound, and after that conversation she had started getting letters from her editor and the company she worked for. Sighing, she wanted to just burn the envelope without looking at the letter this time, but she knew she had to read it.

After opening it she stared in horror at the words written on the pages and the signatures on the bottom and then she looked at the pictures that were in there. She gasped in complete and total horror and wondered if when she got Alana back, if she would even be able to mentally handle anything anymore. She could see the bruises, the welts, the gashes on her daughters body, and she could also see how her arm was bent at a weird angle, showing that it had recently been broken.

"Booth!" Brennan screamed in horror. She heard rushing footsteps and suddenly there was Booth, Jared, Cam, Hodgins and Angela. She had jumped to her feet when she had screamed for her husband and now she collapsed, weak and helpless, into the chair at her desk, tears streaming down her face.

"Bones, what is it?" Booth asked, shocked at the sight in front of him. Bones didn't cry like this, he had seen her cry before but never like this.

"Honey, what's the matter?" Angela asked gently as she hurried over to her friends side and put an arm around her shoulders, giving her a gentle squeeze.

"The gravedigger sent me a letter, and she added a couple of new people to help her with Alana, someone else we arrested. A man that we sent to prison for raping and murdering little girls, a child pedophile." Brennan said as she felt like she was about to have a panic attack, something she never did but this was about her child, her little girl who was now in the hands of more than one monster.

"No!" Everyone else in the room seemed to shout at the same time.


Booth grabbed the letter that Brennan had been holding and read it, rage, fear, panic and helplessness entered his eyes before the letter was passed around the room. After everyone had read it, seeing the words on the paper, the general feeling was complete and total panic and fear at the moment. They knew that if those men were ever left alone with Alana or if gravedigger ever decided to just let them have free rein, then Alana was about to suffer unspeakable acts that no child should ever go through.

"That's not all." Brennan slowly handed over the pictures of Alana. As she watched Booth study them, she could see the color draining from his face and she could tell that he knew how bad this was. As the pictures made their way around the room, one thing was certain to everyone, they had to rush even more to quickly find Alana and bring her home, because the state she was in, she wasn't going to last much longer with the psycho's that had her.

"We are going to bring her home, and together we will heal her, I promise Bones." Booth said as he walked over and kissed Brennan on her temple and hugged her tightly as she hugged him back. They just stood there together, hugging and holding onto each other and thinking about their helpless and fragile little girl in the hands of some of the worst offenders out there.


Gravedigger was actually smiling for once. She knew that she was breaking the little girls spirit and her resolve. Alana was so sure that her mommy and daddy could do anything, and that they would find her and bring her home and everything would be better after that, but she wasn't going to ever allow that to happen. She had brought in her friends to help her with the child, to help make sure the pain and horrors that she suffered got even with her parents for ruining her plans and ruining her life. She knew there were a lot of people that were enemies of the team of Booth and Brennan, and they would be more than willing to help her with her task at hand, and that meant she could probably hide the child and herself for years to come. The men would only want to have with Alana while she was a young child, and who knew, eventually she might just kill her and send her body back to her family in pieces, she might be able to slowly drive Brennan and Booth over the edge, and the more she thought about it, the more she liked the idea. She even thought she could start making video's of everything that Alana was going through, start sending those to her stupid little mother, and she could already see the expression on Dr. Brennan's face as she watched the suffering of her child, oh yeah, she liked that idea as well.