Chapter 12. I know it has been a while since I updated, but it has been under month so we should probably be counting our blessings for that…I will try to get it together and update more but I have school and other things. So I guess we will have to take what we can get. I hope you like this chapter…Enjoy.

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"In time of great anxiety we can draw power from our friends. We should at such times, however, avoid friends who sympathize too deeply, who give us pity rather than strength."

- D. Lupton

"Have you got a moment?" Camille asked poking her head into Sweets' office.

"What?" he said surprised by her sudden appearance and nearly dropping the framed picture of Daisy that he had been holding. "Of course," he told her regaining composure and gently setting the picture on his desk before coming to sit in the chair he usually occupied. Camille sat down on the couch opposite him.

"How can I help you?" he asked her in a completely professional tone.

"In your professional opinion," Camille said slowly, carefully considering how she phrased her question, "What is the likelihood of Daniel screening his calls and ignoring mine?"

"I'm not sure," Sweets replied thoughtfully, "He is very angry about having to go dig up his friend's lives. He made that quite clear before he left, but he also understands the importance of what he is doing."

"So there is a possibility he is blocking my calls?" she asked almost hopefully because to be honest it was the best of all the possible scenarios she could come up with.

"Possibly," he agreed with a shrug. Personally he thought it was unlikely, but he was not sure why Camille wanted to know.

"What about Katharine?" Camille asked after a moment of silence.

"No," Sweets said with a speed that surprised both of them, "I mean Katharine has respect for you specifically and authority in general. She also has trouble getting a job given her association with Zack and her sister so I would doubt that she would risk the one she has. Additionally, she had no reason to be mad at you."

Camille bit her lip in consideration of what Sweets had just told her. She knew that he was right. Even if she did not know Daniel particularly well, she did know Katharine, and she trusted Katharine almost as much as trusted the members of the A team. Mentally Camille shook herself. She really needed to stop thinking of Brennan, Booth, Hodgins, and Angela as the A team, and Katharine, Daniel, Elise, Angelene, and Dr. Crammer as the B team. It was not fair to the second group nor was it particularly productive.

"What's going on?" Sweets asked her after a moment of silence.

"We set up scheduled times to call in," Camille explained, "There were supposed to call me when they got on the plane, when they land in San Francisco, and when they reached their destination."

"Okay," he said nodding, not entirely sure where this story was going.

"They never made the final check in," she finished, "and neither one of them is picking up their phone."

"That isn't good," Sweets commented realizing after he said it that Camille did not need him to tell her that.

"No," she replied, "It's not good." She paused. "In your professional opinion, what should I do?"

Sweets considered what she said for a long moment. It was not really the question that interested him. It was that it was the second time in that conversation where she had used the phrase 'in your professional opinion.'

"This is bothering you more than it normally would," Sweets told her after a moment of thought, "They have only been out of touch for what twelve hours. Normal you would wait twenty four before starting to worry."

Camille sighed. "You have a point," she told him.

"Do you want to talk about it?" Sweets offered her.

"I don't know what to say," she admitted to him.

It was interesting. All the other members of the team wanted him to wave his magic wand and make everything better. They never wanted to share anything with him, which made his job very difficult. Camille was different though. She would come and talk to him voluntarily as well as offering up information about herself. He had often wondered if it was because, while everyone else on the team had someone to turn to for consolation, Camille did not.

"I would guess that it has something to do with everyone leaving," Sweets told her, watching her face for a reaction, but it remained impassive, "You had a four people to whom you were very close all disappear from your life at once. It would make a certain amount of sense if you were worried about people on your team disappearing on you."

"You make me sound controlling," Camille told him with a small laugh.

"No, not at all," he corrected hurriedly, "It is a perfectly normal reaction. In fact I would be much more worried if you were showing no signs of being affected by it."

"So what should I do about Katharine and Daniel?" she asked him finally bringing the conversation back to where it had started, though she was much calmer now then she had been when it began.

"Call them again," he told her, "then wait until they have been out of contact for twenty four hours. If nothing turns up then call in some favors in the Carmel Police Department, but I am sure you will know before then. Plus I am pretty sure you are one of Katherine's emergency contacts."

"Why do you know that?" Camille asked him because to be honest she had forgotten about it until that moment.

"It was a guess," he admitted, "but we both know that of the people she knows really well who are in DC at the moment are you, me and Zack. Zack has obvious problems. She doesn't like me. That leaves you. Plus she respects you." He added the last part almost as an afterthought, but the look on Camille's face made him glad that he had done so.

"Alright," Camille told him standing up, "I have to go back to work now, but thank you for your help."

"Any time," he told her with a smile. For the moment, things had returned to normal. He just prayed that Katharine and Daniel turned up within the next twelve hours both for their sake and that of the team members at home.

So what happened to Katharine and Daniel…Would you like to know? Well then you should review and then I will update quicker. :-)