Invincible

Chapter 2: Princeton Plainsboro

(Recap)

On the TV a news report flashed across the screen. "A body has been found yesterday at a local university campus. The facility will be shut down to allow FBI to take the case form local police. Students are reminded to come forward if they know anything that could lead to the killer."

"Shut that off!" someone growled.

The TV flicked off. "You know, you should watch the news more."

"Sorry Jimmy, more important stuff to watch."

Just then a woman burst into the room. "What are you all sitting there for?"

"Because we can't stand. Gravity hates us."

The woman rolled her eyes. "If you don't get down to the clinic, gravity will be the least of your problems."

When she had left, the room was awfully silent.

"House just go."

"Wilson, oh fine." the doctor said as he stood up. "Cameron, Chase and Foreman, get going."

The three doctors decided it wasn't worth arguing with him and stood up and left for the clinic. Defeated without a fight.

House turned and limped after them.

"So where is this body?" Brennen asked flipping through the file. Angela was trying to read over her friend's shoulder, which wasn't working all that well for her.

"Pack your bags Bones, cause we're going to Princeton, New Jersey."

The trip to New Jersey was really long and really boring. To make matters worse, Booth was completely silent, which created an awkward silence between the two adults. Brennen kept glancing at Booth which in turn irritated him.

"Knock it off Bones!" he snapped.

"What? I'm not knocking anything off." she replied, not fully comprehending what her partner was trying to say to her.

Booth gripped the steering wheel even tighter. "Just stop looking at me, ok? I'm fine."

Bones decided to leave it at that, she didn't want to make him too angry. But she couldn't help but notice that Booth looked far from fine. He was tired, sweating, breathing hard, and angry. Though Brennen didn't think that was a symptom of anything.

She sighed, it was her responsibility to find out what was wrong with him. Besides, he would do the same for her.

Princeton, New Jersey

"What have we got here?" Booth asked the Chief of Police.

"One body," the man replied. "so far that we've found. We were told to call you guys."

"Bones." Booth whistled and pointed to the decaying body. "Chop chop."

Brennen kneeled down beside the body and started her work. "It's a female, about nineteen or twenty years old." she said and looked up at Booth. "We have to get this back to the lab."

Booth nodded. "Alright, you heard the lady." he said to the officer. "Bag it and send to back the Jerfersonian."

"Be extremely careful!"

"We will."

Brennen stood up. "It's getting late."

"Yeah," Booth said looking at the sky. The sun was beginning to set in the distance and most of the people who were watching had dispersed. The college was still taped off, but that would most likely stay like that for a week or two.

"Are we driving back tonight?" Brennen asked.

"No, we should probably go book a hotel or something." Booth said. "C'mon."

They walked back to the SUV and climbed in. Booth put the keys in the ignition and started the vehicle. Brennen strapped herself in and was silent. Something was on her mind.

"Booth." she turned to him and asked. "If that's all we had to do, they could have just easily sent the body to us. We didn't need to come all the way out here."

Booth put the car in reverse and began backing up. "I needed a case."

"If you say so."

They found a reasonable hotel to spend the night, Brennen didn't want to stay at an over priced place, even though they didn't have to pay for it. She said it wasn't fair to the tax payers. Booth grumbled something Brennen couldn't quite make out, but he dropped it.

The room was fairly large, it had two beds, a bathroom, it looked like an average hotel room. Brennen dropped her bag on the bed nearest to her. "I'm hungry, you?" she asked.

Booth just collapsed on the soft bed next to hers. "Dunno."

"Are you tired?" she asked eyeing him.

"I drove here, didn't I?"

"I suppose."

There was brief pause between the two.

"Well, I'm going to go see if there is Chinese take-out anywhere near here. Want to come?"

Booth shook his head. "No thanks."

"Then can I have the keys?"

Booth looked at her with distrust in his eyes. "Are you going to bring it back in one piece Bones?"

She rolled her eyes. "Yes, besides I drive very well."

"Whatever you say." he said and tossed her the keys. She caught them and smiled at him. "I'll be back in a half hour."

"God Cuddy!" House growled. "If one more patient walks in here and doesn't know they have the flu I will quit!"

"No you won't." Cuddy replied while going through a stack of folders. "Besides, it's flu season."

"Then they should know that and go home." House muttered darkly. Then he turned back to his patient. "You have the flu, go home."

"House! Do your job right!"

House swiveled in his chair. "Fine, since you asked oh so nicely."

Grabbing a folder Cuddy walked out of the exam room. She could not put up with him right now, not that any other time was any better.

The ducklings were swamped also. They were stationed in the other exam rooms, and almost every person who walked in had the flu. Chase and Foreman walked out and deposited a stack of exam folders.

"Geez, we've never been this busy." Chase groaned and grabbed more files from a near by pile.

"Well there was that epidemic." Foreman pointed out, also grabbing a stack.

"Oh yeah, that was fun." he said sarcastically.

Just as she said, Brennen was back within thirty minutes, she unlocked the door and entered the room. Then she deposited the food on the table and set the room key and the car keys next to it. She also noticed that Booth had changed out of his suit and into a white t-shirt and black pants. He was sleeping peacefully and Brennen made sure not to wake him, he probably needed the sleep.

She ate in silence.

It was about 10:30 pm when she looked up from the case notes she was so diligently studying. The food was gone and it was getting hard to stay awake. Deciding to was time to get some rest, Brennen set aside her notes and went to change.

After she came out of the bathroom, she cleared the table off and then climbed into bed. She reached up and turned the light off, and darkness fell on the room.

The next morning Brennen woke up around 8:30 am. Booth was still sleeping on the bed next to her, his face looked pale, but that's about it. This worried her a bit, but Brennen didn't want to disturb Booth because he looked a little funny. He might just get angry a bit. Sighing, Brennen went to take a shower before they had to leave.

Twenty minutes later Brennen came out and began to pack pack in bags what small amount of things they brought with them. Booth was still asleep and the anthropologist thought it was time to get up. Brennen walked over and shook him, his body was far too warm to be normal. She put her hand to his forehead and gasped. His temperature was through the roof!

"Booth! Booth, wake up!" she yelled.

He slowly opened his eyes. "Bones...?"

"You have a very high fever! Can't you feel that?"

"Don't yell." he mumbled. "Head's killing me."

"I'm calling an ambulance." Brennen said and grabbed her cellphone.

Booth tried to protest, but found it too hard. He just laid there and let her.

The ambulance arrived in ten minutes. They located and loaded Booth onto a stretcher and carefully placed him in the back of the vehicle. Brennen watched him the whole way to the hospital, he never woke up once.

The vehicle stopped and the double doors were swung wide open. Two men gripped the stretcher and slid it out the back. Stepping out of the ambulance, Brennen read the large glowing sign.

It said: Princeton Plainsboro Teaching Hospital

Ok, first off I want to appologize for not updating in a LONG time. School started, my computer crashed and I had to get a new one, sports happened, and I sorta lost interest a bit. So I'm soooooo sorry!!!

Anyways, chap 3 should be up in a week or two, promise. And for the record, this will be about 5 or 6 chapters long I think.