Chapter Six

Adalae

She hummed as she sketched Parker for Booth, when her phone rang. It was ringing Psycho by Puddle of Mudd indicating it was Sweets. Adalae smiled and accepted the call.

"Yes best friend?" she said; Sweets chucked before getting serious ans asking if she has talked to Nova "Not since everything went down with booth, why?"

Sweets began telling her about nova's family, about her mother, Leah Mizari. Adalae listened to her best friend as she continued to sketch little Parker. He has arrived home and hoped that Nova was there; she heard the door open and Sweets gasp; the phone clattered to the floor.

"Lance? What's wrong?" she yelled hoping that he could hear her calls. She heard the phone being picked up.

"she was taken. Adalae there is blood on the floor. Her mom took her."

Shit Adalae thought as she put her sketch book in her drawer. She booted her computer up and smiled.

"let me track her phone and we'll start there." she said as she put in Nova's information and pulled up her account. She glanced around the web page for the gps and smiled when she found it. She told Sweets that she would head home, change and meet him at his place

"there is not time." he said, "I'll pick you up at work."

He hung up before Adalae could complain. She groaned and wrote Angela a note.

Went with Lance to find his one true love, (he might not survive if my clothes get ruined)

She wrote the coordinates down underneath it and put it on Angela's desk. She rushed out of the building her see lance, in his car, checking his watch. She rolled her eyes and got into the car. He watched as she put the coordinates in the gps and began to drive. It was going to be a half hour before they got where Nova was. Adalae looked down at her boots before staring at Lance, who took noticed, sighed and ask what she wanted.

"i see you changed." she muttered. Lance rolled his eyes and informed her that he was wearing a suit. Adalae glared at him, "I'm wearing 400 dollar pair of boots!"

lance looked down at her feet and back at her, shocked, not believing that she had paid 400 dollars for a pair of boots.

"you paid 400 dollars for those?!" he asked shaking head, "we will talk about this in our next session."

"what's your conclusion Dr. Holmes do I shop because I fill that void that my ex left when he beat me beyond death?" she asked sarcastically.

"CAN WE NOT talk about this when the woman I love is in danger?"

"the woman you love?" she said with a grin. Lance groaned knowing that she had pushed his buttons on purpose. Just so he would admit his feeling.

"why am I friend with you?" He muttered. They neared the coordinates and Adalae looked around. They were near abandoned warehouses. She sighed and said a little prayer that they would get to Nova in time. Lance stopped the car, they go out and looked at each other?

"we're completely mad aren't we?" she asked him, he nodded and they began the trek to the warehouses. "this is the part where we have to be quiet."

They snuck into the building, hearing someone talking in the distance so they began in that direction. Adalae walked on the fronts of her boots so they wouldn't be as loud as they usually would. Lance looked at her and shook his head, causing her to flip him off. They continued to tip toe reminding Adalae a bit of scooby doo. Once they made their way to where the sound was coming from they stopped.

"what do we do now?" Adalae whispered to lance who looked a her and gasped. "what?"

suddenly she felt something poking her in the back.

"you can shut up and walk slowly into the room or I will shoot you." a voice said. Adalae sighed and did as directed. They entered a large room o see Nova tied to a chair. She gave them a confused look.

"we're here to rescue you." Adalae informed the blonde with a grin, Nova shook her head. "we got a bit caught."

Lance rolled his eyes at his best friend as an older woman walked in to the room.

"well well well if it isn't the good doctor and the artist." the female said. Adalae rolled her eyes and went to say something but the man pushed her onto the muddy floor getting mud on her dress.

Great she thought as she glared up at Nova's mother's, "your rescue is quite amazing my dear."

"what can I say it's all part of the plan." Adalae snapped, Lance glared at the red head, bu she ignored him and kept glaring at Leah Mizari.

"you know I've seen you before." she said with a sinister grin. "yes I remember now, you interviewed one of my clients about a missing child five years ago. Except you went by CSI Adalae McGrath."

"HOW DO YOU KNOW ABOUT SAM?" Adalae shouted standing up, one of Leah's Lackeys when to stop her but Leah stopped him. She turned to Adalae with a smirk on her face.

"Paul owed me, he was sampling the product instead of selling it. So I gave him a deadline, if he didn't pay me back he'd be dead. Well he didn't pay and the idiot thought that if he brought his family it wouldn't kill him."

"THEY HAD A BABY," Adalae screamed at the older woman. Leah actually looked ashamed.

"i didn't see her." she said, "when I shot the woman she was facing away from me and I didn't see the baby until she wen down. The bullet went straight through her and hit the baby."

"I KNOW WHAT THE FUCKING BULLET DID YOU SICK BITCH, I WAS THERE FOR THE AUTOPSY!" Adalae choked remembering the scene. Leah glared at her

"when I heard Sam cry out from the closet I had to take him. I pretended that I had heard the guns and found him. He thought I was his savior, so I took him under my wing. He bought it until he found out the truth. After all I had done for him for five years he tried to go to the police."

"so you killed him?" Lance asked when he noticed Adalae crying.

"i did what I had to do to protect my family." Leah snapped at him. Adalae began laughing causing everyone in the room to look at her confused."

"NO." she said as she laughed, "you did what you did to protect yourself you BITCH!"

Adalae lunged at Leah, getting one hit in before the butt of a gun came down on the back of her head.

Booth, a frown on his face, entered Angela and Adalae's office.

"where's Adalae?" he asked Angela. She handed him the note and he groaned. "dammit Adalae."

"what's wrong?" Angela asked

"she went after Nova." he said, when She replied 'so' he shook his head. "Nova's mother is Leah Mizari."

He glanced down at the number under Adalae's note and grinned.

"Addy I love you." he said before leaving, Angela grinned at Booth's declaration and followed him out of the office.

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