Sorry its been so long! I've been REAL busy with ... well my life lately! Lol. But I finally got this chapter finished today, and started working a little on Chapter: 8. I know I said this was going to be called 'Not withtout you' but I wanted to wait so I that will be Chapter: 8. ;) Anyhow I hope you enjoy this chapter! Uhh, there is a tiny SPOILER in here just to make you all aware. ;D

Chapter: 7

Race against time;

It felt like someone had taken all the energy out of him. He felt weak, his body was numb. His legs hurt. Oh god did his legs hurt. Booth slowly opened his eyes, he was flat on his back, he couldn't see anything around him, there wasn't much light but not only that his vision was a little blurry. As he began to raise his head he felt a siring pain travel from his neck up through his skull. He grunted and closed his eyes again moving his hand to the back of his neck. He could feel two probing marks burnt into his flesh. Seeley's mind was racing; he didn't know what to think at this point? What happened?

"Where are you? You're a half hour late! Did you change your mind? Are you not coming over now?" Bones asked him.

"Of course not Bones. I'm still coming, I'm a block away from your apartment, I had a few things to take care of,"

"Is everything ok?"

"Yeah, everything is fine, just some last minute stuff –that's all, look I'll be there in less then two minutes,"

Booth searched his mind for answers, what happened to him? He was just talking to Bones not minutes ago. Wasn't he? He slowly opened his eyes and began to sit up, he was good at ignoring pain, especially when he was pissed off and right now Seeley Booth was beyond pissed. His eyes fluttered open and closed for a few moments before he picked something in dark to focus on. Was he alone? Was Bones in there with him? Booth finally felt around with his hands, the area he was in was small. He could feel panic start to rise in his chest, what the hell was going on?

X/X/X/

Bones paces back and forth in her office waiting for the others to arrive. How could this be happening? She spoke to him not moments before he said he was on his way up and in that time he disappeared. She tried to stray her mind away from the worst. Death. Sure when he faked his death before she compartmentalized very well with it. But that was only to show everyone else that there were no real emotional feelings there, that she and Booth at nothing but a strict partnership/friendship. In the silent's of her home when she was by herself she wept for hours.

She asked the god that Booth believed in why he did that to him? How could he take someone so special away from her… again! And now Bones found herself asking the same questions over in her mind. This just wasn't fair, why did everyone she cared about get taken away from her? Bones stopped in her tracks when she heard commotion outside of her door. She grabbed her lab jacket and slipped it on seeing everyone dressed nicely walking towards the platform.

"Sweetie, what's going on?" Angela asked her miffed. Temperance never explained to anyone what was going on, she just told them to be at the lab as soon as possible.

"It's Booth… he's been … he's been… the gravedigger has him!" she said without looking at any of them while she swiped her card to walk up onto the platform.

They all followed her stunned by her words. "How do you know that?" Cam asked her.

"I spoke with him not moments before I got a phone call saying that if I wanted to see him again not to get the FBI involved." Bones sighed and looked around the platform at everyone, "We have to find him," she said softly her eyes treating tears again but nothing falling on her cheeks.

X/X/X/

"Bones!?" Seeley called out in pain feeling around for any sign that he wasn't alone. So help who ever did this to him, if they laid a hand on Temperance they were going to be in a hell of a lot more pain then what he was feeling right now. Booth tried to sit up a little better to crawl to the other end of whatever the hell he was in. But when he put his hands to his knees he could feel something warm and wet, by the pain he felt he knew that it was his own blood. He just wished he could remember everything that had happened to him?

"Do you want me to meet you downstairs?"

"No that's alright."

Seeley rubbed his eyes remembering a little of his conversation with Bones. She never came downstairs though, not that he remembered anyhow. He was just walking up towards the elevators with her gift and wine, it was Christmas. Booth could feel the anger rise up in his chest as he thought about everything, what a good Christmas this was going to be. Thank god he didn't have Parker; he didn't know what he would do if something happened to his son. Booth finally leaned up on his hands and pushed against one of the walls that were caving him in. He could see a small window opening and peaked through it. That was where the small light was coming through, he saw nothing but water.

Water? Where the hell am I?

X/X/X/

Everyone gathered around the 20' inch monitor that kept replaying the video of what happened to Booth. Luckily the parking garage in Temperance's building had security cameras in every corner so they had three different angles of what happened. Bones stood back watching, after seeing it the first time she saw all she needed too. She watched his smile when he was on the phone talking to her. Why didn't I just go down there and meet him? This wouldn't have happened to him, this … this is all your fault Temperance! She thought to herself. Brennan caught herself frowning as the tears started to burn her eyes again, she turned away from the screen and dropped her hands to her sides trying to calm herself a little better.

"Do you think you can get a clearer view of the licenses plate?" Cam asked Angela.

"That's what I'm trying to do; the resolution isn't the best on these things."

Bones sighed and turned around once more seeing the video being very slowly played as Angela tried to get different angles of the number on the plates.

"How do we know for sure this is the gravedigger?" Hodgins asked Dr. Brennan.

Temperance looked at him and shrugged lightly, "I just know-,"

"I mean hitting Booth with the car is one inclination that it's the gravedigger and the phone call, but sweetie when he got you," Angela started to say before looking back at her best friend with sympathy on her face, "he used the cattle prod." Angela searched Bones' face for any sign that she knew she might be wrong, "It's a little out of character for him I guess -,"

"I just know it's him Ang! Ok, please can you just work on getting the license number so we can find who did this?" Bones snapped. Everyone looked at her a little surprised, Temperance had the instant look of regret on her face she opened her mouth to apologize but Angela cut her off.

"It's ok sweetie. We're all worried about Booth, we're gonna find him, I promise!" Angela then turned back to the computer to try and get a better resolution of the numbers.

Bones had no doubt in her mind that they would find him somehow, but it was a race against time. They had no idea where he was how much breathing time he was going to have in the space of wherever it was he was at. She and Hodgins luckily had ways to contact the others and it wasn't that she didn't thing Booth was smart, because he was, but she knew he wouldn't be able to figure things out like that. The way to text through the cell phone or use an airbag to blow the windshield off of the car to get to freedom.

In the video though the man… woman whoever it was picked him up with no problem and put him the back of the vehicle and drove off. Was he locked away in a car? Bones felt her hands trembling as she braced herself against one of the lab tables.

"I got it!" Angela shouted.

X/X/X/

Booth pushed hard against the walls of the box he was in. At least he thought it was a box? Not a paper box obliviously because it would have soaked in the water he was apparently in, but what else could it be? It was odd shaped with walls that hollowed out. Why the hell are you thinking about the shape of this damned thing… think of a way out Seeley. What would Bones do? He thought to himself pushing as hard as he could. Even if he did break the thing open, it was winter out and if he was in water where was he? How far down in the water was he? He would probably die trying to swim to the top.

Booth knew he couldn't think like that now, he had to try to think positive … as positive as he could in his situation. But whatever was going to happen to him he just hoped that Bones got her gift and she knew that he had it made especially for her. He also hoped that whatever she did she didn't tell Parker or his brother what was going on. Of course they were for different reasons, but still it would be safer this way.

X/X/X/

As Cam ran the license number from the car Bones called Jared to let him know what was going on with his brother. Although he and Booth were on small speaking terms right now, they were still family and if Booth taught her anything, it was that you did anything for family no matter how pissed you were at them. She thought about calling Rebecca to tell her what was going on, but she didn't want to risk her saying anything to Parker. He was just a little boy and wouldn't understand any of this.

Bones looked down at her hands, the small box that she found out in the parking garage with the With Love, Booth card on it, her gift, stayed unwrapped. She couldn't bring herself to open it, not now; she had to wait until they found him. This wasn't Christmas to her; it had been ruined by someone taking her partner away from her.

"We got a name!" Cam said out loud for everyone to hear.

Bones snapped out of her thoughts and directed her attention to Cam as she gave the paper to Temperance, "Carlos Velasco," Bones said reading the name on the paper. She looked at the mans picture and shook her head, "This man is too old; he's eighty-seven there is no way that was him in that video tape!" she said looking at everyone.

They all agreed with her that the man in the picture was way too old to do a crime like this. "Either the car was stolen or he had someone else do it," Hodgins said looking over Temperance's shoulder at the picture. "There's an address listed," he said pointing under the name.

Bones started to take off her lab jacket when Jared walked through the front doors. "What the hell is going on?" he asked slightly hysterical as he walked up towards the platform.

Bones pushed him back with her hand so the alarm wouldn't go off, "I'll explain on the way," she said to him as he looked at her confused.

"Sweetie you just can't go over there like that, you need to have -,"

"He said if I get the FBI involved I'll never see Booth again," Bones said slipping on her jacket with her back to the platform pulling Jared with her. "I cant let him down!"

X/X/X/

"So how do you know this gravedigger guy has Seeley?" Jared asked somewhat calmly now holding onto the dashboard bar as Temperance sped through the streets. He watched her intently; she didn't seem to breathe, not since they got into the car and she started to drive away from the Jeffersonian. He could only imagine what his brother looked like when he had to save her. He could remember speaking to Seeley on the phone when he sometimes talked about things that had happened to her. The conversations would be intense; he knew his brother and knew that Temperance Brennan was the center of his universe next to Parker.

"Because it happened to me before, me and Hodgins, it didn't happen this way, something is off this time, but I know it's him," she said with a crack in her voice as her eyes stayed glued to the road.

Jared didn't say anything else, he remembered his brother mentioning something about it before?

Bones stopped the car abruptly as they came to a small house in the nice Hispanic part of town in D.C. She didn't wait for Jared to get out, she just walked up towards the door stepping in piles of snow before she knocked loudly. "Hey, wait a minute, you don't have badge, what makes you think this guy is going to let you in?" Jared asked walking up beside her.

"I have a way of talking to people Jared," she said looking up at him as the door opened a little. Bones swallowed hard seeing a little old man with glasses pushed up on his nose and a cane in his hand, his breath hard in the winter air. "Mr. Velasco? Carlos Velasco?" she said without waiting for him to speak, "I'm Dr. Temperance Brennan -,"

"Ah, yes, I know you. What can I help you with?" he said politely opening the door a little more. "It's a little cold. If you don't mind I'd like to close the door," he said motioning with his hand for them to come in.

"Uh, Thanks," Bones said looking up wearily at Jared. Now a killer would never welcome someone into their home, would they? Not like that? This wasn't going the way Bones planned. She sighed and walked into the living room as Carlos closed the door and very slowly made his way towards his chair in the living room. When he sat down so did Jared, Bones didn't intent on staying long and besides she wasn't here to get chummy with the old man, she wanted answers. "I want to know where my partner is," she blurted out looking down at the old man in his chair.

"I'm sorry? I don't understand?" he said looking up at her confused.

"My partner, Seeley Booth, I want to know where he is," she said loudly. She could hear her heart pounding in her ears.

"Excuse me, but Miss. Brennan I have no idea who he is or where he would be at?" Mr. Velasco said to her calmly.

"Your car was used to run him down and kidnap him today." Her voice now angry as she looked down at the old man, "Now where is he?" she said once more not looking at him this time.

Jared sat up a little on the couch across from Carlos, "No offence here or anything, but its more then obvious that you don't drive so could you tell us who used your car today?" Jared asked calmly.

Bones was getting pissed, there was no time to be calm, Booth was on a thin line of time here. She glanced over at the wall seeing a picture, she walked over to it examining it closely. Her hand went over her mouth as took in a deep breath.

Jared got up from the couch and walked over to her, "What is it?" he asked looking at the picture wondering what she saw.

She turned around looking at Jared then at Carlos, "I know who did this, I know who did this too Booth!"

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