For all of you waiting breathlessly for another chapter, here you go!

Another minute and Booth would be free. He knew his time was running out. Almost there.. Just as the last strand of rope parted, the door burst open.

"It's time, Agent Booth!" Wesley stopped as he looked at Booth and realized he was free. A look of rage passed across his face. He raised the gun in his hand, just as Booth kicked free. His feet connected with Wesley's legs, and he lost his balance as he fired. Booth tried to roll off the bed, out of the way. He felt a flash of pain, and knew he had been shot.

BBB

The gunshot shattered the stillness of the mountains. Brennan froze. Her breath caught, and tears came to her eyes. "No!" she cried. She ran towards the cabin.

She burst in the door, and heard sounds to her left. She ran to the open doorway. Booth was on the ground, the blood, so much blood! Wesley was raising the gun again. She ran at him, knocking the gun out of his hand, and kicking him back against the wall. He fell, the gun flying out of his hand and across the floor. She ran for the gun, and saw Booth, through his pain, also reaching for it. "Bones, look out!" She turned and ducked out of the way as Wesley ran to tackle her. He grabbed his gun on the floor, and turned to her. She didn't remember raising the gun, she had forgotten she had it in her horror of seeing Booth shot. The shot echoed through the cabin. Wesley's mouth opened, as if to say something, then he fell to the ground.

Brennan dropped the gun, and ran to Booth, who had pulled hiself to a sitting position against the wall. "Oh my God! Booth!" The tears that she had held at bay for so long started to fall.

Booth grimaced as he looked at her. "It's okay, just my shoulder. I've had worse."
He looked at her, hair disheveled, dark circles under her eyes. And the tears falling down her cheeks. He reached up and wiped away a tear. "Hey, Temperance. Don't. I'm okay."

"I thought you were gone, thought I'd lost you..." Her voice broke.

He looked into her eyes, and shivered at the emotions reflected there. He thought of what she must have went through, worried, wondering, scared. He thought of how he had felt when she had been buried alive. The emotions; anger, fear, helplessness. Then her lips were on his, and he couldn't think of anything at all.

After a moment, which seemed like an eternity, she broke the kiss, and looked into his eyes. She wanted to say something, anything, but before she could, Federal agents were running into the cabin, guns drawn, Cullen leading the way.

"Booth, Dr. Brennan? Are you okay?"

Booth's eyes never left hers. His heart was still racing from the kiss. "I've been beaten, drugged and shot." He smiled. "But I've never felt better in my life."

Medical personnel arrived, and Brennan moved away. Cullen walked over to Wesley's body. "You don't take orders very well, do you Dr. Brennan?"

She was silent for a moment. She watched them take Booth out the door to the ambulance down the road, complaining all the way. She turned back to Cullen. "No, but that's why I'm not an FBI agent." She looked at Wesley. "I still don't know why."

An agent stepped over to them. They had been searching the cabin. "I think I do." he said, and handed Cullen a leather bound journal. Cullen took it and flipped through it. His face tightened.

"What is it?" She looked over his shoulder at the pages.

"It's a diary. It's all about you. He was following you, stalking you."

She didn't say anything, just looked at him. Cullen again looked down at the body, and at Booth's gun lying on the floor beside him. He looked back at her. "Maybe we should let you carry your own gun. After all, Booth has to file a report every time his weapon discharges. Which has happened, what twice so far with you?"

Brennan smiled, and turned to walk out the door, to follow Booth. "Three, if you count the rats."

I know, another short chapter, but at least he's okay! lol! As if I would ever really hurt Booth!

Only two more chapters to go, I'll post them tomorrow! Thanks for your great reviews, but I would love more! I know, I'm greedy!