Chapter 15

Danny pulled his own cell phone out and called in the attempted hit on Dr. Brennan to FBI headquarters. His next call went to Booth, who was out in the field interrogating suspects.

"Booth." He answered his phone with the usual identification.

"Special Agent Booth, this is Danny, we were just returning to Dr. Brennan's apartment when we were shot at by some men in a car that drove by. Everyone is okay. I've notified Headquarters already."

"You did good Danny. Take everyone up to Dr. Brennan's apartment and I'll be there within 30 minutes."

Danny did as Booth said and escorted everyone upstairs.

As soon as they arrived upstairs Brennan sent the picture of the van to Booth and Special Agent Hopkins, of the Gang Division. When she was done she went into her bathroom. She could feel something warm going down her inner thigh. When she pulled her pants off she saw a small amount of blood going down the inside of her pants and leg. She put her clothes into the hamper and was thankful that she had chosen a black pair of pants to wear. She pulled on her robe and went to the door and called for the nurse.

"Mrs. Milner could you come here please?"

The nurse was at her door in a second along with Angela. Brennan let both of them in then quickly closed the door.

"Are you alright Dr. Brennan?" Mrs. Milner asked.

"No, I think I tore something inside when Danny pushed us down and next to the car. I felt something warm going down my inner thigh and when I was able to check myself I found blood."

"Are you experiencing any pain right now?"

"Just a dull pain. It feels like something tore open, just a little, again. When I hit the car we were leaning against I felt a sharp pain but now it's just a dull pain. I don't seem to be bleeding anymore."

"Okay I think it would be best if you lay down. I am going to call your OB-GYN and ask her if we should take you in. I don't think it will be necessary though. I think you might have just pulled at something that hasn't quite healed all the way yet."

Mrs. Milner went out to the living room where she had Brennan's record that included all of her Doctors phone numbers. She looked up her OB-GYN and called her. She was on the phone when Booth came running in. Booth had called Hodgins to let him know what had happened so he was right on Booth's heels as he came through the door. They both looked for Brennan and Angela. They looked at Mrs. Milner and she pointed to the bedroom. Booth knocked at the door. Angela let him in. Since she saw Jack right behind him she went out after Booth came in.

"Are you all right?" Jack asked after he hugged her.

"Yes we're fine. It was apparently just a drive by shooting, but I don't think they were trying to kill us because the bullets hit the building too high. I think they just wanted to scare us." Angela told Jack as they walked back into the living room where she saw Special Agent Hopkins from the gang division.

Mrs. Milner went back to Brennan's bedroom door again and knocked on the door.

"Come in." Booth opened the door and let her in.

"What did she say?" Brennan asked.

"She said the same thing I did. She thinks since you stopped bleeding and aren't in any real pain that you should just do as I said and lay down for the rest of the day. Let me check your bandage."

Booth had been sitting on the bed next to Brennan. He got up and made room for Brennan to lie down so the nurse could check her. She untied Brennan's robe and checked under the light bandage she had put on her in the morning. Everything was fine and the surgical site was healing nicely. She replaced the bandage and Brennan closed her robe again.

"What happened that you had to call her doctor?" Booth asked.

Brennan explained to him what had happened to her and told him that she was okay now. She could tell that Booth was angry but she knew he was mad at the shooters and especially Ortiz. She put her hands on his arm to try and make him calm down. She could see the vein in his neck pulsing with each beat of his heart.

"Calm down Booth. We're all okay. Why don't you go out and talk to the others. When you're done come back in here and lay down with me for awhile until I go to sleep. Okay?"

"Okay, I'll be back as soon as I can." He gave her a kiss on her forehead and walked out.

Booth walked over to Hopkins.

"How is she?" Hopkins asked.

"She's okay now. In fact she's taking it better than I am. Have you heard anything about the van and the shooters?"

"Yes, she gave us such a good picture of the van and the license plate that they've already been apprehended. I am going to go over and interrogate them now. Do you want to go with me?" Hopkins asked Booth.

"No, not right now. I am going to stay here the rest of the day. I think I'll get an agent to come over here and stay with them tomorrow while I'm gone. I would like to go and talk to the shooters tomorrow and if they don't talk I am going to arrange to have a friend of mine placed in his cell with him. His name is Tommy and he is 6'5" and weighs about 400. It took 3 agents to help me take him down. He is so big that we had to use two pair of handcuffs linked together to keep his hands behind him."

"Why do you say he's a friend of yours when you're the one that arrested him?" Hopkins asked.

"Tommy isn't a bad guy, he just got in with the wrong crowd. He's really very nice and I guess you could call him a gentle giant. He was always told that he was too dumb to do anything, by his father, because he couldn't read. I found out when I was interrogating him that he isn't dumb he's just dyslexic. I talked to him about it and talked a specialist into visiting him twice a week to teach him how to read and write. Since then we've been friends and sometimes I'll ask him to scare the shit out of someone." Booth was laughing as he was telling Hopkins about the last part.

"What's so funny?"

"The last time I put Tommy in with someone that we couldn't get to talk the guard said that the young guy turned white as a ghost and peed on himself when he saw Tommy. Tommy didn't even have to say anything. They said he just smiled at him and blocked out the sun as he walked into the cell. The two guards that took the kid to his cell were talking up a storm about how Tommy raped his last cell mate and he had to have surgery to repair a ruptured colon. The next day I went to talk to the kid again and I actually had to tell him to shut up. He gave me everything I needed and some things that I didn't care about. When I got up to leave the kid actually begged me not to let them put him back into the cell with Tommy. He said he woke up in the middle of the night and found Tommy standing over him and petting him."

Everyone looked at Booth and Hopkins laughing so hard they had to sit down. When he was able to Hopkins said "I don't think that will work with Ortiz's gang members."

"Yeah, I know but it won't hurt to talk to Tommy about it and see what he thinks. He's a Samoan and could pass for Mexican and he even knows how to speak Spanish."

"If he can speak two languages he couldn't be dumb so maybe he'll be successful and get us what we need. By the way Ortiz's trial is set for the last day of this month."

"That was fast. They usually take at least several months before the trial." Booth said as he got up also.

"Yeah, but it's like you said they don't like it when they do damage to one of us so they're pushing this. It also doesn't hurt that Dr. Brennan is a famous author. I'll see you tomorrow." Hopkins left to also check on his people at the front of the apartment building.

Booth went to the kitchen and made a sandwich for himself, grabbed a glass of iced tea and chips and took it into Brennan's bedroom. He hadn't had time for lunch and he was starving. He knocked on the door and heard Brennan say to come in.

"How are you doing?" Booth asked as he put his tea and sandwich on the nightstand. He took off his shoes, jacket and tie and lay down on the bed with his back up against the backboard.

"Okay, do you know if they caught the shooters?"

"Yes, Hopkins said that the picture you gave us was so good that they caught them almost as soon as they got the picture. He went to check on his crew and then he is going over to the jail and interrogate them. He also said that Ortiz's, and the rest of the men's trial is at the end of this month."

"That's awfully fast. Usually it takes months for them to come to trial." Brennan said as she grabbed one of Booth's chips.

"It's like I told you Bones, they don't like it when anyone messes with one of our own people. Do you think you'll be able to testify?"

Brennan hesitated at first. "Yes, I believe I will be fine. I am sure that I will be able to do okay after I've talked to Sweets a few times." Brennan sat up and leaned on one arm and looked right at Booth. "And don't tell him I said that. After all he is only 12 years old. But I think that their just might be something to psychology."

Booth smiled at her and put his arm around her. "Don't worry Bones, I don't want his head to swell up either. We'll keep our new perspective of him to ourselves."

"Yeah, I know you. You just don't want him to know so you can continue to tease him just because you know that it irritates him when we call him a 12 year old."

Booth finished his sandwich while Brennan helped him eat the rest of his chips. When the plate was cleared of all the food he put it on the nightstand and they both lay down for what they intended to be a short nap.

TBC…..