Authors note: I'm sorry I forgot to mention in Chapter One, this is the 4th story in a series. They are enjoyed best in order: 1 The Memory in the Amnesia, 2 Booths R Us, 3 The Death in the Vow. Thanks for reading--Susan
Birthday Suits in a Suite
(AKA Booth in a Loincloth)
Chapter Two
Susan H.
"No, first I get to brush my teeth too."
Brennan entered the bathroom and freshened up the best she could considering the circumstances. Happily, the mirror had been removed, so she didn't need to stare the truth in the face. As she brushed, she inventoried. Two wash rags, and two face towels, motel soaps, shampoos, lotion, powder, toothpaste, flimsy combs, deodorant, and two extra toothbrushes. She gathered it all, and dropped the pile on the bed.
She looked around the room for something more. The room was void of everything but the bed.
"They leave us talcum powder, but we can't have a chair," she said, and sat on the bed.
"Yeah, it's weird. We are obviously in a motel room. The windows are high and small, so we are in a basement room. I can see the parking lot, but no cars."
"Well, let's break the window and scream for help."
"No. There are no cars in the parking lot. My guess is this motel is abandoned. If you break the window, no one will hear us scream, and you won't fit through it. The asphalt is wet, so I assume it's been raining. We don't want to have to deal with the elements, in our current condition."
"Yes, that's excellent thinking."
"Thank you Bones. We have six walls in an L-shaped room. That long wall has windows, the short bathroom wall has windows, and the short wall on our left has windows. We can't get out that way. But, the wall with the door, and the wall that completes the L in front of the bed lead into the hallway."
"Wow, I'm impressed."
"The first rule of captivity Bones, is escape."
A loud scraping noise filled the room, the door opened a crack, a gun slipped in, and a bag flew in. The door slammed shut, and more scraping.
Booth picked up the bag.
"Breakfast," he said. "The door must be barred. No use trying to break through the door. It's too expected, and probably guarded."
He brought the bag to the bed, opened a napkin, and began laying out the feast.
"What is this?" Brennan asked.
"Don't you recognize sausage and egg on an English Muffin?"
"I'm really not hungry, Booth."
"First rule of captivity Bones, keep up your strength. Take in protein."
"I thought you said the first rule was to escape."
"We need strength to escape Bones."
"Well, I'm just saying, if the rules are going to be numbered, then at least make it consistent. And that food is trash, it will kill you."
"You know Bones I was trying to think of a way to tell you that we were going to have to eat cockroaches to keep up our strength. I was devising a way to catch a rodent. I think you need to be very grateful for this unhealthy food, because I don't want to force you to eat a rat."
"Well, okay then. At least a rat would be leaner," she complained.
They ate in silence, and shoved the trash into the bag, and added the bag to their growing pile of inventory.
"I think this little wall in front of us is our best way out."
"So bust it open Booth."
"No, we can't just bust through, because we don't know what is waiting on the other side. It's drywall, so, if we cut through our side, the middle will be mostly hollow except for support beams. That will allowus to cut a peephole into the drywall on the other side of the support beams. Then we can gauge what we are up against."
"Okay, sounds like a great plan. What do we use to cut through?"
Booth searched every inch of the room, and Brennan watched appreciatively. He rubbed his hands along all edges and into corners. He crawled on the floor and searched the carpet. He lifted the leg of the bed, and found that a runner was screwed into the bottom.
He unscrewed it and held it up triumphantly. Years of unidentified particles sprinkled his arm. Brennan imagined the treasures Hodgins could find in the gunk.
"This will work!" he announced, and removed another screw from another leg. "And, we can both work on it. Heh, Heh."