I'm going to skip ahead to the next episode ((the one that comes on January 24th)). I think that I can do a lot with that episode. Sadly, I don't know if Cam's going to make it through this story but you'll be happy to hear, that if I don't decide to let her live, Goodman will come back so a down and an up. Works for me
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Three months later:
Temperance was sitting in her bathtub, listening to the quiet music that flowed from her radio that she kept in there. Candles were lit for maximum relaxation.
She leaned her head back. This year was turning out to be hell. Things were happening everywhere. Her mother's body was found, the Grave Digger was still at large, she had had a relationship with a man who killed his own brother, and now, she had just found out that her father was a murderer.
She sighed with contentment for the first time in weeks.
There were good things happening too, though. Zach's dissertation had come through for him, and he was staying at the Jeffersonian, Booth was reinstated, and she had gotten to see her father once more, even if she had tried to arrest him.
She thought about two days ago, that had been the day that her father had handcuffed her to the bench and left her there. Temperance felt tears jump into her eyes; it wasn't Russ' fault, or her fault that her father had killed people. It was her father's fault. It was Max Keenan's fault and nobody else's.
She heard a knock on the door and climbed out of the bathtub, wrapping a towel around her. She went to the door and looked through the peephole.
Booth was standing on the other side and Temperance rolled her eyes. "Come in," she said, walking away from the door to go in search of her bathrobe.
"Hey Bones," Booth said, smiling. "How are you?"
"I'm fine Booth," Temperance called from down the hall. "I'm looking for my bathrobe."
"Is this it?" Booth asked, picking up a blue bathrobe that looked like it would be Temperance's.
Tempe came down the hall, still wrapped in her towel. "That's it."
Booth's eyes widened at the sight of her. Her hair was clipped back so that it was out of her eyes and it was perfectly dry. The towel sat around her, almost daring to slip off.
Booth shook thoughts like those from his head, and then handed his partner the bathrobe.
"There you go Bones," he said, looking away.
Temperance didn't say anything, she went to the bathroom and exchanged the towel for her bathrobe, then she walked back out to see Booth.
"Ok, what was it that you wanted?" Tempe asked, tying the robe's tie.
"We have another body," Booth said, nearly rolling his eyes. He hated to do this to Tempe two days after her father had left.
"All right, let me get dressed," Temperance sighed and went to her bedroom and pulled out some jeans and a t-shirt. She pulled them on and was glad that she hadn't gotten her hair wet in the bathtub.
She came back out and looked at Booth, nodding to the door. "Let's go."
They drove to the federal prison. "Why are we here Booth?" Tempe asked, climbing out of the SUV.
Booth sighed. "They found a dead body in our number one favourite people's cell."
"Favourite people?" Temperance looked confused. "Who?"
"Howard Epps."
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Zach and Saja were lying in Zach's bed, Saja's head was on Zach's shoulder.
"So Dr. Addy, what do you want to do today?" Saja asked, smiling at her boyfriend.
"I don't know, Dr. Kesuan, how about we go to a movie or something?" Zach suggested, they both had the day off.
"That sounds fun," Saja said, kissing Zach and then getting up, grabbing her bathrobe and wrapping it around her. "What movie do you want to see?"
"I hear that new one, Prestige, is good," Zach said, climbing up and grabbing his boxers and jeans and pulling them on.
"Sounds good. I have to go into the Jeffersonian for five minutes and grab some paperwork first though."
"And your apartment," Zach reminded her, she did, after all, need clean clothes.
"Yeah," Saja said, walking into the bathroom.
"Hey Saj?" Zach called, pulling on a nice shirt. "I was thinking, why don't you just move in with me?"
Saja popped her head out of the bathroom door. "Are you sure?"
"I'm sure."
"Then yeah," Saja rushed out and hugged Zach, placing a passionate kiss on his lips.
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Hodgins was sitting in his chair in the Jeffersonian. He heard Angela come up behind him and felt her fingers cover his eyes.
"Guess who?" she whispered.
"Who else would it be?"
"I don't know," Jack said, peeling her hands away from his eyes, he turned in the chair and looked at his pregnant fiancée.
The bump was a lot bigger now.
"How many days until the wedding?" he asked.
"About four months," Angela told him, smiling. "We decided we wanted it in May, remember?"
"What day's the baby's due date?" Jack knew all this, but he wanted Angela to tell him again.
"April 30th," Angela told him, stroking his beard.
Jack sighed, very dramatically. "I suppose I can wait that long."
"You're going to have to because I'm not planning the wedding for any earlier. I want it in May Hodgins."
"I know… Have you asked Brennan yet?" Hodgins asked, running a finger on his fiancée's stomach.
"Haven't gotten around to it. We've been so busy here," Angela told him, smiling at him.
"We should ask her soon."
"I know, I'll ask her today, promise," Angela said, and then she kissed Hodgins.
"You better. Now get back to work, I'll see you later baby."
"Ok," Angela began to turn, then she gave a little scream. "Jack!" she turned back to him, grabbing his hand and putting it on her stomach. "She's kicking!" Angela didn't really know the gender, but she had a feeling it was a girl.
Jack felt his baby's tiny kick touch his hand and he felt tears come to his eyes. "Our baby…"
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"This isn't Howard Epps!" Temperance looked at Booth with a look on her face that told him she wasn't joking, but he said it anyways.
"You're joking!"
Tempe shook her head. "It's not him! This man is a foot too tall!"
"Are you serious?" Booth's eyes were wide in shock.
"Dead serious," Tempe's eyes got as big as Booths.
"So that means…"
"That Howard Epps has escaped," Temperance said, nodding.
"Let's get this body back to the lab," Booth said, pulling out his cell.
Tempe nodded and then turned to leave the cell.
Her cell phone began to ring and she looked at the number. It said unknown. She answered it anyways. "Brennan."
"Everything that happens to them, will be your fault."
Tempe gave Booth a quick glance. "Who is this?"
The man just repeated what he said. "Everything that happens to them will be your fault."
"Is this Howard Epps?" Temperance looked at Booth, full on.
Booth saw her and then he heard her. He looked at her for a moment, shaking his head, telling her to hang up.
She didn't listen.
"You're good, Dr. Brennan. You what? I'm back and tell your friend Booth, that if I go down, somebody's coming with me," Epps hung up and left a gaping Temperance standing there.
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"What was that about?" Booth asked as they drove the Jeffersonian.
"It was Howard Epps…" Temperance said, still pondering what the man had said.
"How did he even get a hold of you?"
"He says that if you take him down, somebody's coming with him…"
"Bones, none of us are going to die," Booth said, pulling into the Jeffersonian parking lot.
"None of us know that Booth," Temperance looked at him with a look that he had never seen from her before.
"I won't let any of us die Bones," Booth said, locking the doors so that she had to stay with him for a moment. "I promise."
"That's a stupid thing to promise Booth. You don't know if you can keep it true or not."
"I already gave my word. I'll make sure that we make it out of this alive."
"There's nothing to make it out of right now," Tempe grumbled and she climbed out of the car.
Booth smiled, same old Bones.
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A/N Ok, I don't know if this story's going to end :P joking!! It's going to end eventually here. But I hadddddd to throw in the Howard Epps thing, I can't wait for it to air!!!
Thanks!!
--FFTS--