Sooooo what did you all think about the last chapter? Did anybody figure out who it was??
Okies, R&R at the end!! BY THE WAY: One of the people who are buried is Lily Lebowski. Thought you'd wanna know.
"So, what do you think we should do?" Macy asked.
"I think that we should call the cell phone first, see if she answers. If she does, then we know that we can contact her." Tempe said, looking around as if to say is somebody going to do it? "Oh, and who got the phone call?"
"Jordan did," the Brit said.
"Jordan… Dr. Cavanaugh?" Tempe guessed.
"Yeah, I got it about an hour and a half ago," Jordan said.
"Can I hear it?" Temperance asked, and Jordan nodded.
I didn't answer it because I didn't hear my cell phone. I was at a scene and my cell was in my bag," Jordan's breath was a little shaky and nobody from the ME's office had heard her like that in a while.
"Dr. Cavanaugh could I please hear it?" Tempe asked again.
"Oh yeah," Jordan pulled her cell out of her pocket and put the message on speaker phone.
The Grave Diggers digital voice came from the small technology. "Lily Lebowski and Lu Simmons have been taken. You have 24 hours to get 2 million dollars for their co-ordinates. This will be my last communication."
The whole room remained silent for a moment.
"Who's Lu Simmons?" Temperance asked, looking at the people there.
"She's a detective that…" Woody began.
"That Woody had an affair with a few months ago," Jordan finished. "Before my ex was murdered."
"OK," Booth said quite loudly.
Tempe covered her ear and looked at him, more glared at him. "That was right in my ear," she hissed.
Booth ignored her and kept going. "Where should we start?"
"Have you been not listening this whole time?" Tempe asked, sounding a little angry. "I said call her cell phone!" she took a deep breath. Angela is going to pay…she thought. I can't believe she sent Booth!
"I'll call it," Jordan said quickly.
"Did you find blood at the crime scene?" Tempe asked.
"Yes," Nigel said, stepping forward.
"Have you tested it yet?" Brennan said, standing up to face him.
"Yes," Nigel said again.
"And who's was it?" Temperance really didn't want the play by play.
"Detective Simmons."
"Thanks," Tempe said, stepping past him to the door. "Come on, we have a lot of work to do. Dr. Cavanaugh, call that number and tell me if you get an answer, she might still be unconscious, I was out for two hours or so, but try anyways. We only have twelve hours."
"Wait but the Grave Digger or whatever the hell you called him said we have 24," Dr. Vijay said.
"Yes, he was probably expecting to get one woman, not both. And seeing that both are not scientists, we can guess maybe ten extra minutes," Temperance said. "So really, we have about 10 hours, 20 minutes."
Tempe set the timer on her watch.
"Booth, you stay with Dr. Cavanaugh and Detective Hoyt, the rest of you, come with me, I'll have my people send over the evidence from my case, and from this new case. Trace?" Tempe asked, looking at Nigel and Bug.
"Right this way," Nigel said, allowing Tempe to go first.
"Bones, I was sent to protect you. This is not protecting you," Booth said.
"Actually, it is, once we find the Grave Digger, we will have saved more lives then just mine and Hodgins," she said, turning and walking with Nigel, Dr. Vijay and Dr. Macy.
"Right," Booth said, sitting down again.
"Lily???" Jordan nearly screamed into the phone in disbelief.
"Yes? Jordan? Is that you?" Lily sounded like she was or had been crying.
"Yeah Lil, it's me, we're gonna find you, I promise," Jordan said. "I'm gonna go get Nige, and Dr. Brennan, and Bug, and Macy and we're gonna get you out of there."
"Who's Dr. Brennan?" Lily asked, sounding confused and scared.
"She's here to help us find you, Lily, where are you?" Jordan asked.
"I'm… I'm in a car and… Lu, oh my god, Lu's been hurt, she's here too, Jordan, please, find us?" Lily begged.
"We will, is your phone charged?" Jordan asked.
"Yes, I charged it at the office," Lily said. "But we have Lu's cell too."
"Ok, Ok Lily, we're gonna find you, turn on your tracer after you hang up, and look after Simmons," Jordan said. "I'll find you soon, and Bug'll never give up, ever."
"I know, see ya," Lily's line went dead.
"It's ok Jordan, it's ok, we'll find her," Woody pulled Jordan into a hug.
"I know we'll find her Woods, but will we find her in time?"
"Yep, let's go tell Nige that she turned on the tracer," Woody said, taking Jordan down the hall.
"That's great, I'll just stay here, you know, do nothing…" Booth called. Once he realized it was useless, he began playing with a pen.
"Dr. Brennan," Jordan said, bursting into the Trace evidence room.
Tempe jumped. "Yes? Did you get a hold of her?" Tempe asked, looking up from her laptop where all the pictures the Jeffersonian crew had sent were being projected from onto the big screen.
"We did. She's got her cell tracer on," Jordan told Temperance, but she was looking at Nigel.
"I'll get right on it," Nige said, rushing around and hooking the computer that had the radio signal tracer on it.
Buried for: 2 hours, 42 minutes"Got her," Nige said, pointing at the screen.
"She's where Nigel?" Jordan said, looking from the computer to her friend in disbelief.
"She's… in… DC…" Nigel said, he knew that it would take them about four to six hours to get there, if they were fast, and they were already half way.
"Why did this take so long?" Tempe wondered aloud.
"Well, since the tracer wasn't in Boston-" Nigel began.
"Where was it then?" Tempe asked.
"North Carolina, Durham," Nige said, solemnly.
"Ok, now it's Booths turn to be helpful," Tempe said, walking out of Trace and back to where Booth was. He was still sitting there, playing with the pen.
"How long have you been there?" Tempe asked as she walked into the office.
"Umm… about 45 minutes. Why?" Booth asked back.
Tempe smiled a little. "It's time for you, Mr. FBI agent, to go and get us 6 tickets to North Carolina, Durham, and 8 tickets back."
"Why 6 and 8?" Booth asked, and Tempe only dropped her smile.
"That's where they are Booth, if we make it fast, we can find them before the clock runs out," she said, urgently. "Booth, I know you want to find this guy as much as me, so please, hurry."
"I can get tickets, but I don't know when they'd be for," Booth admitted.
"As early as possible," Temperance said, sitting down in a chair beside him.
"Ok, I can get them off the computer…" Booth said, with a slightly disgusted face.
"You type too slow Booth, I'll type, you tell me what to say," Tempe went back to Trace and Booth followed.
"Ok," she said, unplugging her laptop from the screen.
"You just go to or something and then type in flights to North Carolina, Durham," Booth told her.
Brennan typed in and then clicked a link that looked resourceful. And it was.
"Ok, I've got a flight leaving in three hours, we can be there with about four or five hours to spare," she told them all.
"Use that one," Booth said quickly. "We can't get one any earlier I don't think."
"Ok, I've got the tickets waiting for us, we can get them at the airport, and the return date is tomorrow, we can worry about hotels or something later," Tempe said, quickly hooking up the printer to the laptop and printing off the page.
"Ok, let's go!" Jordan grabbed her purse and was so glad that she didn't have any autopsies scheduled for today.
A/N I really couldn't think of much to write for this chapter at first, I had sooo much trouble. But I don't think it's too bad, maybe Jordan's a little OOC I haven't written her in a while, same with Bug or Macy. Buuut I hope it's ok!! R&R!!--FFTS--