Thanks for all the great reviews despite it being such a short chapter! And I do take in all your suggestions into considerations so keep them coming! This chapter is really just a little Bones and Booth interaction for you Bones/Booth fans out there :)

Bones after talking some more to Pickens crawled over to the corner where Booth lay as comfortably as he could. The other hostages had given Bones their jackets and sweaters, whatever they could to keep him warm and give him some sort of pillow to rest his head against. After what he was willing to do for them that seemed the least they could do for him.

"Hey." She said as she checked on the wound. She sighed.

"Still no improvment?' Booth managed to ask in a raspy voice. She shook her head.

"No, and your loosing a lot of blood."

"Oh gee, you know how to make a person feel better." She looked at him quickly.

"I'm sorry! I'm just trying to tell it like it is but..."

"Bones, Bones, relaxe. I'm kidding." Booth said shaking his head and laughing a bit. She relaxed a little.

"Oh."

"You gotta start recoginzing jokes when you hear them." Booth told her.

"Yeah I know." She sighed. Booth tried to sit up a bit.

"Don't try and..."

"Move to much I know." Muttered Booth. He grimiced as the pain sharpened.

"You all right?" Brennan looked at him sharply when she saw him grimicing.

"Yeah I'm fine." He lied.

"Liar, you're in pain." Bones was about to get up and he pulled her down.

"What are you doing?"

"I uh I well I have to do something. You're in pain!" She snapped in defense.

"And that something is getting us both killed? That's what's going to happen if you hassle with Trey again."

"I well what do you want me to do?" She said helplessly.

"Just shut up and listen for change will you?" He asked harshly and then sighed. "I'm sorry for snapping like that." He apoligzed quickly.

"It's all right, you've been shot. Your allowed to act like a jerk."

"Jerk? Did you just call me a jerk?" He laughed weakly. "I don' t think I've been called a jerk since I was in the third grade." She rolled her eyes.

"Yeah and you've been never known to exagerate either." She teased back.

"Me never." He joked. She smiled slightly. He always knew how to make her more at ease and relaxed. That's one of the things she loved, no wait-liked-about him. Liked... That's right. Not love.

She looked at him.

"What did you want to tell me?" She asked softly. He sighed.

"Look Bones, this wound is pretty bad." He said.

"Yeah so? I've seen worse." She said and he snorted.

"Yeah you have. I guess." He smiled a bit at her. "God you are such a character." He said. "That's one of the things I've always loved about you." She instently sat up.

"Wait, what are you doing?" She said sharply. "This is the whole goodbye part isn't it?"

"Bones, my will is in a safe in here. I have a key in my pocket. Make sure Trey doesn't get a hold of it."

" Damn it Booth don't be so damned sentimental." She growled, refusing to even acknowledge the idea of losing Booth.

"I want to make sure that Parker gets the money I've saved up for him. I built him a nest egg. I just want your word that he'll get it." He told her. She was shaking her head stubboringly.

"This is really stupid Booth." She said. "He won't need that nest egg till he's 18. Then YOU can give it to him."

"Bones please, well you just promise me that he'll get it?" Booth begged. "I just need to know that my son well be taken care of if anything happens to me. Not that Rebbecca won't take good care of him, she's a great mom. And his new stepdad's pretty good to, I just need your word..."

"If I promise I'll do it will that make you shut up?" She said. He smiled.

"Yes." He said.

"Good. Then I'll do it." She said. Then a thought passed her and she laughed.

"What's so funny?" He asked surprised.

"I don't think you'll be dying anytime soon."

"Why not?"

She grinned.

"You're to stubborn to die." She said and he started to laugh to, until it hurt to much. It felt good to laugh again, no matter how short of a laugh it was.

(Again sorry for another short chapter, I promise I will try to make the next ones longer! I swear!)