This is very short but I hope to have another one up by tonight….Hope you enjoy and don't worry, we will get them together again somehow… Please be patient!

As always Bones is not mine.

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He knew he deserved what was coming for him and he would gladly take the punishment if it meant that he could see her. Just to see her beautiful face, would be worth this horrid torment he was about to endure. It took him less than an hour to figure out the first part of the riddle and he suspected it would have taken his less time if his nerves were less shattered and Angela wasn't hanging over his head. The second part was a little bit harder but, he decided it would be easier to figure that part out after he dealt with the first agonizing detail of the riddle Bones had left him. Okay so maybe he was over exaggerating a little. Booth knew Zack wasn't that bad, but the kid had always drove Booth to the brink of wanting to commit man slaughter. Bones knew that. Booth smiled to himself as he thought of her teasing him about Zack on their first case together as partners.

"I told Zack never to put you through. He's a very good assistant." She was angry that he had put in a hold for questioning request to the airport security so that he could pick her up for a case. He knew then that she was brilliant and stubborn. He also knew that he had to do anything he could to get her on his side.

The same applied to today as he drove through the security gates and into the parking lot of the asylum that Zack had been committed to over a year ago.

"Zack…." Booth had his head in his hands as he spoke which distorted his words to some degree. "Please, just tell me where she is!" Zack just sat there writing something on a piece of paper that Booth lent him. When he was finished writing he slid the paper over to Booth and smiled. Booth scowled at him and took the paper. There was an equation on it and the groan that escaped him was an aggravated and wary sound.

"What is this Zack?"

"It's an equation. Dr. Brennan said that if you can solve it I can tell you what she told me."

Booth took a long look at the paper in front of him. The equation looked complicated and Booth did not like math at all. His heart began to thud and he knew he wouldn't be able to hold back his emotions. This was not productive and although he knew he deserved it, he couldn't stand the games anymore. He wanted Bones and he wanted her now! He had to see her and grovel at her feet so that she might someday forgive him. He wouldn't be able to make it if she didn't.

He couldn't believe his stupidity! How could he lie to her after all they've been through together? How could he be so stupid! He had to make it up to her and quickly. By the look of this equation that wouldn't be easy.

Zack knew that Dr. Brennan didn't want Booth to know where she was. He knew that she would be unhappy if Booth figured out this equation. That's why he made it virtually impossible for him to do so. He was the only one in this room that would be able to solve it. However when Agent Booth pulled out his gun and aimed it at Zack's head it was somewhat hard to think clearly and quickly.

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