A/N Thanks again for the great reviews!! I think that Booth and them should find Brennan soon beeecause I have a total family kinda idea going on in my head thanks to xSweetSerenityx and her story: The Meaning Of Roses, I won't copy cause that's just stupid but it got my little mind working!! By the way, I made a litttttle typo in the last sentence, it was supposed to say IS it Dr. Brennan, but I put It is Dr. Brennan. I fixed it on the Last Time thing.
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Last Time in: The Woman in the Kitchen
"Yeah, we got the bullet from Dr. Brennan's gun shot wound, it looks like the person hollowed out a hole, then put the poison in, then filled it with, get this, pork meat mixed with insulin and potassium."
"So she is," somebody she recognized walked into the room, and her jaw dropped. No wonder this was déjà vu!
Nobody saw Cam come rushing up. "They've found another body, this one's not skeletal yet." Everybody looked horrified, mainly Booth.
Zach asked the award-winning question. "Is it Dr. Brennan?"
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Booth, Hodgins, Cam and Zach arrived at the scene. Nobody said a word; they were all too worried about their friend, mentor, employee and partner.
Cam spoke first. "There's the body," she walked over to where the police were and pulled the body bag back.
Zach, Hodgins and Booth held their breaths.
"It's not her! It's not her!" Cam yelled.
The three guys cheered, "Yes!"
Hodgins pulled out his cell phone and pressed 'one' on speed dial.
"Hello?" came a worried voice. "Hodgie is that you?"
"Angela, it's not her, we're going to bring the body in soon," Hodgins heard crying on the other end. "Baby, what's the matter?"
"We got a note from them, they want Booth to go," Angela cried.
"Why would they want that?" Hodgins was shocked, all signs of joy left his face.
"I don't know, in the note, they said that if Booth wasn't there in two hours, they'd rape and kill her. Why Brennan?" Angela sobbed into the speaker.
"I don't know sweetie, I'll be there soon. We'll figure this out."
"Bye Jack," Angela hung up.
Hodgins ran his hands through his hair. How do you tell an FBI that the girl who he obviously loves, will get killed unless you go to her rescue and maybe get killed yourself?
"Booth! Buddy!" Hodgins yelled.
"Yeah?" Booth began walking back up to where Hodgins was, in obvious pain, and looking like he wasn't wanting to talk much.
"I need to get you back to the lab," Hodgins said.
"Is that doctor around here? Tell her I had to come, that there was nobody else," Booth was glancing around nervously. He hated hospitals and didn't want to go back, even though he was really in pain. "Besides, I really, really need to find Bones," Booth wouldn't say it, but he felt guilty about her disappearing.
"Naw, man it's just that Angela says that… she just needs to talk to you, come on."
"All right," Booth said, following Hodgins.
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"How dare you!" Temperance hissed. "I thought you were in jail!"
Her captor laughed, a horrible laugh. The man looked human, but he was heartless, even more so now that he'd been in jail all this time. "Got out early, very early, since I didn't kill anybody. Now, I'm on parole."
"You won't have to worry about parole if you kill me."
He laughed. "You won't have to worry about anything if I kill you."
Tempe gulped.
"Don't worry, I won't kill you, yet," he laughed again then Nurse Smith piped up.
"What should I do with her Jaime?" he asked.
Ex special agent Jaime Kenton was the one who was holding her captive.
"Let her think about the past, oh yeah, bring Buster and Levi out here," he smiled, almost evilly.
Temperance just couldn't figure how a man, who used to work with her friend could end up like this, he used to be nice, and now he was killing red headed doctors like herself? This didn't make sense.
Smith brought two big Rottweiler dogs. Temperance thought she would surely have a heart attack because of how fast her heart was racing.
"Does this bring back memories?"
"You kill the women different," she stated simply.
"What?" Temperance felt a little leap come from her heart, she had confused the man who wanted to kill her.
"You kill the women differently, now, you don't copy anybody, you snap their bones and make sure all the flesh is gone. How do you do that? How do you make sure there isn't any evidence left?" she had to keep him talking, maybe he wouldn't harm her that way.
"Well, I guess since you're going to be gone soon, there's no reason to hide it," Kenton smiled, a horrible smile. "Battery acid, I dip all the bones in it, and the flesh magically melts away."
"Why battery acid? There are so many other things you could use," her heart was beating faster again.
"Like what?"
"Like…" she looked over at the dogs. "The dogs, you could do the same thing as before and kill them with the dogs."
"Too easily recognized," Kenton said simply. "Oh right, I forgot to mention that we have one more guest coming soon."
"What do you mean?" Temperance asked, Think Temperance, he's going to kill you soon, keep him talking, She thought
"I phoned Seeley Booth," Kenton smiled again. "He should come if he wants his precious Bones back."
"You phoned Booth? Why?" Brennan now wasn't worried about her life, she was worried about Booth's.
"I have a little revenge that needs to be taken care of," Kenton said, with a quick smile, he walked out of the room. "Let's allow her to ponder that, shall we?" he said to Smith.
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Hodgins got a not very happy Booth back to the Jeffersonian.
"How do you even drive that thing?" Booth wined, he didn't want to be here, he wanted to be out finding Bones.
"I get into the drivers seat, start the ignition and then go," Hodgins said, very sarcastically.
Booth clenched his jaw and began walking towards the elevator that would take them up to the Jeffersonian's main floor.
Once they got up to the top, Angela came running over, a tissue still clenched in her hand. "They said they want you to come, Booth!"
"What? What did they do to her?" Booth demanded.
"Nothing yet, but they said that they would hurt her if you didn't come by five o'clock."
Hodgins checked his watch. "It's four thirty," he said grimly.
"Did they give you an address?"
"Yes, they said come alone or they'd kill her," Angela sobbed and blew her nose into the tissue. Her usually bright eyes were dull and red with worry and from all the crying.
Hodgins went over to her and gave her a hug, not wanting to let go, but then Angela pulled away and handed Booth a piece of paper. "They want somebody to drive you, then leave and they'll be watching."
"All righty. Hodgins, you drive," Booth said with a grim look on his face, the first reason, he was getting into a car with Hodgins driving again, the second reason, was Bones, his Bones, could be killed if he didn't make it in time.
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Half and Hour Later:
Temperance was scared, she had seen a crow bar, and a few other things around that could easily snap all her bones, and not to mention the dogs.
Suddenly, the door opened and three people walked in. "Kenton you bastard! How could you do this to her?!" yelled the first voice. Temperance knew that voice. She looked up, her arms her tired and she was sore from kneeling like this and having her arms tied up all day.
"Simple, I have to finish what I began," Kenton stated.
"Booth, get out of here, it's a trap, I can handle myself," Temperance wanted Booth to be all right.
"Shut up you!" Kenton slapped her across the face, hard. She felt a warm liquid slide down her chin and she knew her lip was bleeding.
Kenton pulled out a gun. "Now Booth, I'm going to kill her quickly so I can keep a promise I made a while ago," he aimed it at Bones, "I promised I would never be as much of a monster as anybody else, so I'll just shoot her in the head and it'll be over," he said out loud, he pointed the gun at Temperance's head.
Suddenly, because Smith wasn't very good at checking for guns, Booth pulled out his own 38' that he kept around for protection. "Put the gun down," he said slowly and clearly.
Kenton was surprised, very surprised, then he snapped back to reality. "Look Booth, I have a gun to her head and you have a gun to mine. I could kill her first," Kenton gave an evil smile.
"Could, won't," Booth shot at Kenton, hitting him in the arm, which sent him flying back.
Booth turned on Smith. "Don't move," he said clearly, then he grabbed Temperance's cell phone from her back pocket. It was off so he turned it on and then he dialed the number of the FBI and told them to send some cops.
Booth knew that he couldn't help Tempe until the cops were here so he stood beside her.
Once the cops were there:
Kenton was arrested again, and charged with murder, as was Smith. Booth went over to Tempe and pulled her off the hook where she was tied.
"Thank you," she whispered, pressing her face into Booth's shoulder, she began crying.
"Hey, hey I wouldn't have let them kill you Bones," he whispered, stroking her hair.
"I wasn't worried about me," she cried. "I was worried about you, I thought he'd kill you."
"I wouldn't have let him do that either," Booth smiled. "We're a team, and everybody, including me, needs you around."
"Yeah," Temperance smiled and then pulled away. She touched her lip where Kenton had hit her and saw blood on her fingers, then she looked at Booth's shirt. "Sorry about that."
"What… Oh," Booth laughed. "That's ok, I thought this shirt needed to have a new touch to it anyways."
Temperance didn't find anything funny about that so she just smiled.
"Let's get you back to the Jeffersonian, Bones, unless you need that fixed up, then let's go and see the paramedics," Booth said, pushing some of Temperance's hair out of her eyes.
"Paramedics, I want to know if I need stitches," Tempe said.
"All right, up we go," Booth helped Tempe up and then walked her over to the paramedics.
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Two Weeks Later:
Zach, Brennan, Angela, Cam, Hodgins and Booth all stood on the examining platform.
"It looks as though she died from a cerebral hemorrhage," Zach said.
Cam began to talk and then her cell phone rang. She picked it up. "She's here? All right, where? Oh, I see her, I'll be right there," she flicked the cell phone shut. "I have to go everybody."
"Where are you going?" Temperance asked, then she looked to Booth, she had only known they had slept together for about three days and she had to admit she was a little jealous. Booth looked as though he didn't know where Cam was going either, that made her happier.
"Just to my office, if you need anything, I'll be there," Cam walked off the examining platform and over to a woman who was about Angela's height. The woman had a hat on that must have held all her hair in it.
Cam shook her hand and showed the woman to her office.
"Who's that?" Hodgins asked.
"Maybe she's the mother or family member of a case that Cam's working on," Brennan suggested.
"Not likely," Zach spoke up.
"Why is that Mr. I'm so smart that I know everything?" Hodgins said sarcastically.
"Because, most of the time when you see a relative come in here, they are crying and have a tissue in hand always," Zach said.
"Uh huh, we'll see, won't we?" Hodgins said, then he went back to work.
A/N This is NOT the last chapter, even though it might seem like it is. It goes all fluffy and romancy from now on. Okies? Okies. Now, please R&R and guess what? I've already started chapter 7!! YAY!! Lol. Ok, next chapter!!
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