(Sorry for such a long wait. I was going to update this week but I couldn't submit any of my documents due to some fanfiction error, grrr. But anywho just letting you know that I having forgotten this story!)

Brenann looked over at Booth who's face had paled considerably in the last hour or so, and his breathing has worsened.

"He lookes worse then ever." She whispered to Tony as she helped him with Jimmy's wound. She couldn't believe that she was helping the person that shot Booth. Normally she wouldn't even consider doing something like that. She guessed some of Booth has been rubbing off on her. After all it was his request that she was helping Jimmy.

"I'm sorry about shooting Agent Booth..." Whispered Jimmy weakly as if reading her mind. "I...he was hurting my brother. It was instinct. I didn't mean to hurt him." Bones sighed.

"It's all right." She said, pushing her anger aside.

"Don't worry about your partner." Tony told her. "True he is getting weaker but he's tough, from what I've seen."

"He is a fighter." Bones admitted and Tony nodded.

"If anyone has a chance of making it out alive in that condition it's Agent Booth." He told her and she smiled back at him.

"Are you saying no one else but him will make it?!" Shriekd the women with the dog.

"What no! It's a figure of speech people!" Tony shouted as the people around him started to panick. "Figure of speech."

"What are you doing helping that kid anyways?" Growled one of the men. "It's because of him we're in here!"

"I'm sorry..." Jimmy said in a weak tone.

"Sorry doesn't cut it!" The man snapped.

"Hey take it easy! He's just a kid!" Bones then shot at the man. For some reason Jimmy was starting to reminde her a bit of Zach. Maybe he reminded Booth of Zach too.

"And that excuses his actions!" The man shouted at her.

"He's one of us now!" Brennan argued before Tony could say anything. "We can all play the blame game but it won't get us out of here! Besides if we start acting like barbarians we will become barbarians!"

"But that kid doesn't diserve our help!" Growled the man.

"What gives us the right to say what he does and doesn't diserve?" Booth interjected weakly.

"Booth..." Brennan said slowly. "You shouldn't be talking you don't have the energy."

"For this I do." Booth said sitting up slowly.

"What are you talking about man!" The man shouted angrily. "This kid shot you!"

"Yes I know." Booth said quietly.

"And you're just going to sit back and do nothing?"

"No, I'm going to try and help him. He'll get what he diserves when we're out of here. He'll be sent to jail or at least put on trial. But for now there's no reason to torture him. He's already been shot by his brother. That's enough torture. Besides, we're not animals!" Booth said angrily and the man glared at him and then glared at a very scared Jimmy.

"I still don't like it." He grumbled, but sounding less sure of himself.

"Well there's a lot of stuff." Tony said. "That we don't like that's happening right now." The man sighed and nodded.

"I'm sorry." He said slowly to Booth. "I'm not normally like this..."

"It's all right. This situation has everyone on edge, but the important thing is to control our anger." Booth said wisely. "That's how people get hurt." The man looked at him and then looked at Jimmy and nodded, and then surprising everyone he knelt down beside Jimmy and asked Tony if he could help with anything. Bones smiled at the man and then crawled back to Booth.

"How did you get to be so wise?" She asked smiling.

"Unfortunatily I'm becoming my father." Booth said with an eye roll. "He used to talk about controlling anger like that. I guess it's been molded in me enough." She laughed.

"If if your father sounds like that then maybe it might not be such a bad thing." She said and leaned her head against his shoulder for comfort not caring what it might look like to everyone else. She didn't want to admitt it but she was scared. Not so much for herself but for Booth. She couldn't loose him. She wouldn't.

Booth smiled as she leaned against him. How long has he ached for her touch? How long has he known he has had feeling towards her but didn't dare act on them? He had acted on instinct like Jimmy did when Trey had threatened Bones. He'd be damned if he'd let her be the 'first victim'. He'd take the bullet again himself before he'd let that happen. He'd kill Trey if he tried anything on her again. He's killed before, he could kill again. Couldn't he?

(Scene switches to the squade team outside.)

Zach and Hodgins hurried over to Matt and Emily, Cam, and Cheryl carrying the folded up blueprints

"We have an idea!" They both shouted at the same time but then the phone range. Matt put his hand up to them and picked up the phone. He had given Trey the phone number.

"Trey I heard a gunshot. What happened?"

"My brother's been shot."

"What? I thought you took the gun away from the agent. Who else would have a gun?"

"No one. I shot him." Matt stared at the windows of the Downfall bank, horrified.

"What?"

"He was going to turn us in. He turned against me. I couldn't let it happen."

"So you shot your own brother."

"Yes, I hope you realize how serious this is."

"Oh believe me Trey, if it's my attention you want you've got it." Matt told him.

"Good I just called to remind you that time is running out."

"Running out?"

"You have less then 12 hours to get the hundred mill before I shoot and kill Dr. Brennan. Good luck. You're going to need it." Trey said and then hung up.

"Wait Trey!" Begged Matt but it was to late. He sighed and turned to Hodgins and Zach. "What's your plan?