It was a three and a half hour drive from D.C. to cabins, and it was snowing heavily once they reached the foot hills. They had taken Booth's SUV and Daisy's tracker though, so snow wasn't an issue. The Hodges family was in the back seat with Brennan and Booth. Michael had been a very pleasant baby the entire way.
"I hope Katy is as calm in a car as Michael," Brennan sighed looking back lovingly at little Hodges in the car seat. Booth saw her out of the corner of his eye and smiled. Motherhood had really opened her up to feeling actual human emotion. Of course, she'd been subtly improving since Max had come back into her life, but pregnancy had made her truly human.
"Well, the movement of the car and the low wooshing is supposed to soothe them," Angela imparted. "It reminds them of the womb."
"That didn't help Parker when he was colicky," Booth shrugged from behind the wheel. "About the only thing you could do was ride around on the merry-go-round with him strapped to your chest. That would soothe him somehow. He still loves that thing, actually."
The tracker took the next exit and the little group followed. Suddenly they found themselves on some little state route and Booth kicked it into 4-wheel-drive. There was another hour on this little road to the middle of nowhere.
"Are you sure Cam did a thorough background check on Daisy and even Sweets?" Hodges asked, "Because this is starting to seem like we're heading somewhere to be killed."
Booth's phone rang and Brennan answered it. "Okay," she said and hung up.
"Sweet's says there's a town store about a half-a-mile away on our right where we're going to stop for supplies." She told Booth and their companions.
"Did you hear that Michael?" Angela said to her son, "We're going to go to a general store!"
"General store?" Hodges laughed, "It's not 1920, I'm sure it's more like a QuickyMart then a ma and pa joint."
Chapter 4: Famous Last Words