The reason the heart knows

"Zach, tell us. Why did he leave this note?" Booth asked, "The blood in the garage belongs to your girlfriend. Your boss took her because you told us. Zach, is there anything we should know? Why you did what you did? And no logical reason. He threatened to kill Melinda and Prue, didn't he? He blackmailed you, said if you didn't help him, they would pay the price. That she would be the next skeleton's remains. He has her Zach! Someone in this hospital works for him, he told him what you said to us. Then he took your girlfriend."

"Zach," Brennan sat down next to him. "I know you didn't want it to lead here, you were protecting the woman you loved. You killed that man because he threatened to kill her. You made that story up from the logic, you made it up, for Melinda, for us. You'd rather go to jail than tell the truth."

"It's true," Zach replied. He cried a little, "That day, Melinda was pregnant, 5 months, he came to me. Told me if I wouldn't help him, she would be the next one to die. He said he would spare her if I did what he asked. I did, I wanted my girlfriend and my family to be safe. I wanted you all to be safe. But he kept asking things. And I killed a guy, it feels terrible, but I did. It's my fault. But I did it to save Melinda. He got her? He got Melinda?"

"Yes," Brennan said, "She wanted to be alone, and she was kidnapped. I'm not sure if she's alive."

"She's not," Zach replied, "She's dead, together with my son and my daughter. How am I gonna tell Prue? How am I gonna deal with loosing Prue?"

"Loosing Prue?" Brennan said, "You'd get custody right?"

"A killer, in an institution." Zach said, "The little girl will probably go into foster care. Her grandparents from Evans' side, don't want to take care of her. And the ones in New York, let's just say they don't have enough money to take care of her."

"Then I'll get custody of Prue." Brennan said, "I can take care of a 3 year old."

"Let's not talk that way. We don't know if she's dead," Booth replied, "She could still be okay."

Melinda's hands were tied with a rope, she was thrown in some kind of aquarium, and Gormogan was standing in front of the glass, looking at her. Melinda stood up and started hitting the glass.

"Let me out of here!" She yelled at the glass, "Or I swear, Zach will come and kick your ass!"

"Really?" the cold voice said, "Who's he going to bring? Booth and Brennan, the ones I almost blew up? What do you guys take me for, a crazy guy? I knew you were trying to frame me, and now I have my silver skeleton back. And in a day or so, I'll be adding yours, and Booth's, and Brennan's."

"You can't kill me, I'll kick your ass." Melinda said while she kicked the glass.

"This glass can survive a bullet, a kick is not going to break it." Gormogan said. Melinda sat down on the chair that was standing in the room. The water started running, carefully she sat down under the chair, barely fitting there.

"Stop it!" She yelled. The water stopped running.

"Do you get it now?" Gormogan said "Sometimes the water will run, and soon you'll drown. And my tips will lead Booth and Brennan right to you, joining you in that aquarium, waiting to die. Who will save you?"

"You bastard, what are you going to do if they don't come here?" Melinda replied, "What if they figure your stupid plan out, and they just save me. Then it will be your ass on the line."

"Oh sweetie, don't worry, you'll be dead. And then I'll be going after your little girl, Prue is her name, isn't it? Oh little girl, you don't remember me, do you?" Gormogan said, tearing off his mask. Her face became white. "Oh you remember my son, don't you? What did you think, that this was all about Zach? No, it's all about you sweetie. That day I tried to shoot you, your damn husband prevented it, but no one is here to save you now. You sent my son to death row, you charged him with first degree murder for killing some kids. They killed my son. Just because of him killing some children, and the day my son died, I promised I would get back at them. So when I became the apprentice of the original Gormogan, I didn't stop dreaming I would get the chance to take revenge on you."

"If you touch my daughter, I will kill you. I swear I'll find a way, and don't think I won't. Your son was a killer, and there were more people on the team," Melinda said, "He killed people because he wanted it, he got what he deserved."

"And now you'll get what you deserve," the man said while he walked out of the room.

"Shit," She said while sitting down. Her clothes were wet, but she did not seem to care. She was thinking, how long could she make it in this tank? Could she stand up on the bank, and reach to the top so she could breathe longer, Or would she drown? She cried, her past was kicking her in the ass. It was all her fault, She wanted to call and check on Prue, but he smashed her cell phone. Her head hurt, and the babies were kicking all the time. It was like they felt in what kind of situation she was. She cried, and raised her knees to her head.

Scully and Mulder were sitting in the office with Booth and Brennan. Brennan was walking around the office like a mad woman, she felt like she was able to feel that Melinda was in big danger.

"What do we know?" Mulder asked.

"We know that Gormogan took her. Gormogan took Melinda," Brennan said, "Probably he beat her unconscious and took her in his car. Where we don't know. We know for sure she was not killed there. There was not enough blood to be a headshot, or anything."

"What about Zach? Does he know anything?" Scully asked, "Does he know the identity of the real Gormogan? Not the fake one you shot."

"Zach's not talking," Brennan replied, "He is not even changing his testimony, this could get him free, without charge. He was placed with no choice."

"So we don't know anything, basically," Mulder said while standing up, "We don't know who this Gormogan guy is, what he wants, and if Melinda is still alive. We have nothing to build a case on. We need something, anything to find her."

"Well, we have nothing that could lead to her. The police checked the villa, there was nothing that could lead to Gormogan or Melinda," Booth replied, "It's like he just disappeared off the face of the earth."

"That's it right there, it's scientifically impossible to disappear off the face of the earth. We should not talk like this. He took her somewhere. He's playing a game with us. If he just took her to kill her, why leave the note? And why not just kill her right there?" Scully said, "It doesn't make sense."

"Maybe he took her for lunch," Mulder laughed, "He put the rest in his fridge, so he has enough for the whole week."

"Mulder, that's gross," Scully said, "It's not the time for jokes. He's playing a game with us. And he'll send clues, leading us to Melinda."

"Could be," Brennan replied, "It could be that he will be sending us clues that lead us directly to Melinda, or they could directly lead us to a trap. It doesn't matter, we don't have any clues, not on the piece of paper. Only thing that they stood on was, 'You betrayed me, so now I'm taking your love'."

"Maybe, it's a double message." Mulder said, "Referring to both Melinda and another thing. Zach has more than one love, right?"

"He loves Prue and his family to death," Brennan replied, "And I know he loves everyone on the team dearly."

"Maybe, it referred to something he left in the lab." Scully said, "Some next message in the lab."

"The vault!" Booth said while standing up, "We took his love, the silver skeleton, somewhere in the vault, there has to be something that refers to it, when he took the skeleton, he left it. He knew that he was gonna take Melinda back then."

"Oh my god!" Brennan yelled, "We're going, Booth, are you joining me?"

"Yeah" Booth said, "You wanna go along?"

"No, Scully and I have to go interview a possible alien abduct-ee." Mulder said.

"Mulder!" Scully said yelling a little. "Ohhh!"

Brennan and Booth walked quickly through the lab, down the stairs, heading for the lab's basement where they kept the vault. Soon they were standing there.

"What could he have left?" Booth asked.

"I don't know, he could have left anything. Really anything. Leading us to Melinda, or to another clue. Oh, Booth, I hate this, and he knows it. Leaving tips. This is just like Howard Epps, 'the body knows what the head doesn't'. It proves that Gormogan is a psycho. And it proves that he did take advantage of Zach."

"We have to persuade him to change his testimony, this could free him from the institution. He didn't do this for the reason he told us, he did it to protect his family. If it were me in his situation, I would have done exactly the same." Booth replied, "He thought Gormogan was still alive, and he took the blame for him. That is exactly what happened. We got to kill Gormogan Bones, who know what he is doing to Melinda."

He stood up looking around in the vault, anything that could have been placed there since the skeleton had disappeared.

"Damn it, Booth! I can't see anything that wasn't here before! What if we got it wrong, what if it was not a tip?" Brennan started walking up and down the vault, "What if we're gonna loose her? I don't want to be responsible for one of my best friends dying. The damn vent is open, and I think it was always closed."

"What, Bones?" Booth yelled. He looked at her for a moment, realizing what was going on. "Bones, that is it! He put something in the vent."

Brennan stood up reaching for the vent. "It's time to take a swim in the pool near the obelisk. A president is watching it." Brennan read. "Booth, what does that mean?"

"The statue of Lincoln, there is a pool near, and the obelisk is close to it." Booth said while taking his keys, and running to the car. Putting the keys in the ignition, he turned them around. Starting the engines, he drove on. "Bones, you look under the stones. I climb on the statue."

"Booth, you're not supposed to climb on the statue!" Brennan said, "It's not allowed."

"Well, he's not gonna look at not allowed. It's pretty much not allowed to kidnap someone," Booth replied.

They arrived at the statue, it was big and watching down. Booth climbed on the statue. Brennan started touching the stones near it. A man walked up to them.

"I'm sorry, mister and miss, what are you doing? Sir, your not supose to climb on the statue." the man said "I've got ask you to leave."

"We're from the FBI, his name is Seeley Booth and I'm Doctor Temperance Brennan, and a killer named Gormogan abducted our co-worker. He hid some kind of tip in or around the statue, so that we will find our friend. Sir, here is my ID. Booth, show him yours. Booth!"

"Yeah," He threw his ID card at Brennan. She held it up, showing it to the guy.

"I'm sorry, I apologize. I didn't know you were here related to business. Just look as long as you want, I hope you two find her," The man said.

Booth once again threw something at her feet. Brennan took the little piece of paper.

"The secret you don't know, is known by someone you call mother." Brennan read.

"My mother, has the tip," Booth looked a little weird, "My mother lives in Mississippi."

"But my mother is right here in DC," Brennan said, "Buried at the cemetery. He put the next tip with my mothers grave. Come on Booth, Let's go!"

"Right, why couldn't I have thought of that?" She put the tip under the rocks once again, like she put the other tip back in the vent.

"We'll find her Bones," He said while he looked over to Bones walking next to him. Putting his arms around her waist he said, "We'll find her, and Gormogan will pay for what he has done to her or to the rest."

"Get him in jail Booth," Brennan said.

"What?" Booth asked.

"Don't shoot him." Brennan said, "He's not worth it for you to kill him. I know the way it makes you feel inside. And I can't watch you get hurt like that."

Booth stepped in the car and headed for the graveyard where Brennan's mother, Christine was buried. Brennan stepped out of the car, heading for the tombstone. On the tombstone there were letters, written in red paint.

"The neighbor knows where I am, he's visiting my place. And I am there." Brennan read.

"I don't get it." Booth answered.

Brennan got up. "The neighbor is where I am, he's visiting my place. He is at the place next to him, and the neighbor was at his. He's keeping Melinda in the house next to the house where the FBI was. Drive to the place Zach told you. She's there, I just know it."

They arrived at the room, it was abandoned house, they entered it very carefully, both had a gun in their hands. Looking around, they saw he tank with Melinda in it. She was yelling and slamming on the windows, but it didn't seem to have any effect. Booth came closer, and he felt like she was trying to warn them. He looked behind him, to see Brennan unconscious on the floor, directly he checked her. She had no head wound, but in her neck she had a wound that seemed to be made by a stun gun.

"Bones, wake up sweetie!" Booth yelled, "Wake up, and yell at me. I just sweetie-ed you."

He all of the sudden felt a pain that came from a stun gun. When he woke up, Melinda was watching him. All of the sudden he felt that his feet were wet. He looked at the other direction to reveal Brennan's worried face.

"His plan worked," Melinda said, "He got you here."

"So we'll get out of here!" Booth said, "Fair enough."

"Don't you see, if no one gets us out of here," Melinda said, "We'll drown. He wanted you to come here, and he did it. You guys are here. Who's gonna save us now?" Melinda yelled. "Just be prepared, we'll drown."

"We'll be okay. Scully and Mulder will come and find us." Brennan said, "Gormogan will send a message, even if it is : na-na-na-na-na-na."

"I'm surprised you know that," Booth said.

Zach was sitting in the hospital bed, looking around. His hands didn't hurt like hell, but that was because of the medicine he got. A man entered the room.

"How does it feel, guy? To have betrayed the master?" He looked at Zach, "Yeah, I know who the master is, and I know your girlfriend, Booth, and Brennan are about to die. Sorry, you can't do anything."