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**The next evening **
Brennan was waiting for Booth with Angela, Cam and Hodgins. All the girls were dressed beautifully. She had decided to go for a dark blue knee length dress and had worn her hair up.
"So I see your keeping your tradition up of never going to these parties Hodgins?" Brennan asked when she noticed he was dressed in his normal work clothes.
"Yep, I'd rather talk to bugs all night than go" Hodgins replied seriously. Cam and Angela laughed.
"It's alright we know how you feel about it" Brennan said.
"We really need to be going now" Angela piped in and looked at her watch.
"Yeah it's already after half six" Cam agreed.
Booth. Where is he?
"But we can't leave Booth isn't here yet!" Brennan reminded them.
She was starting to get worried. Booth was never late for parties or anything really.
"I wonder where he is. Booth is usually very punctual" Cam commented as if she heard her thoughts.
Brennan glanced at Angela.
"Don't worry Sweetie. I'm sure he just got stuck in traffic or something" Angela said and patted her on the shoulder.
Suddenly Brennan's phone rang. It made them all jump.
"I bet that will be him now" Hodgins said with a reassuring smile.
Brennan answered her cell. She listened and then quickly switched the speakerphone on so the others could hear the last of the call.
"You must pay the ransom of 20 million dollars, within 24 hours or Seeley Booth will be buried alive" the distorted voice said.
Brennan dropped her phone from the shock. She felt numb like she was going to throw up and she couldn't think straight.
Now she knew how Booth must have felt when she had been taken.
"What do we?" She said quietly.
"Looks like the party is off then" Hodgins joked but neither he nor anyone else laughed.
"Oh Sweetie! I don't know how this could have happened" Angela said comfortingly and pulled her in for a hug.
She glanced around at the others over Angela's shoulder. They all seemed to be rooted to the spot in shock. She hadn't seen them like this before. It was like they couldn't accept what had happened.
They couldn't all stand here. They needed to get Booth back!
Finally she seemed to be able to move again.
"Guys come on we can't just stand here! We have to find Booth!" She shouted and it finally snapped the others back to reality too.
"Yes of course right away Dr. Brennan" They all muttered and made their way to the platform.
"What should I do?" Angela asked who was still beside her.
"Call Jared and Rebecca tell them what's happened." Brennan replied.
Angela nodded and went to make the call.
Brennan took a deep breath before she joined the others on the platform.
They had to find Booth, They had to. They just had to!
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Booth felt like he had just woken up. He felt groggy and the back of his neck was throbbing. He was able to stand up just about and started to examine the place.
Where am I? What happened? Booth thought as he walked around the tiny room.
It looked like there was no way out. He knew there was something eerily familiar about the whole thing.
Then two words came his mind.
The Gravedigger..
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