Chapter 4:

Brennan walked over to Booth slowly, kneeling down at his side, and put his weapon back in his holster. She ignored the two boys as they walked back over to their car, keeping her eyes on Booth. Ignored the vicious slicing sounds as the vampires were decapitated. Held Booth's hand for a few minutes, checking his pulse once or twice, waiting until footsteps came over to her and a hand was on her shoulder.

"We should go."

Brennan looked up to him before glancing to the Impala. "It appears your car is a bit…disabled."

Dean looked over to the car with a painful grimace. "Yea. We'll have a tow truck come pick it up later I guess." He looked back to her. "Think we could catch a ride?"

Brennan nodded slowly. "If you can fix a tire."

"No problem," Dean replied, going over to the driver's seat and pressing the button to pop the trunk. He went over and opened it. "Oh you gotta be kidding me."

"What?" Sam asked.

"There's no spare."

"What? So…we're stranded here?" Brennan asked, eyes wide.

"Well, I just tried, and cell reception is crap. Your friend's FBI. You guys have a scanner in your car?" Dean asked.

"This isn't Booth's car. It's a rental."

"Perfect," Dean sighed. "Can nothing go our way tonight?"

"Are there more…more of the…" Brennan motioned to the blood to her left where the vampire had been before the boys had dumped the bodies in the forest.

"Yea, there probably are," Sam murmured. "Dean and I were following directions given to us by another hunter. We were going to find a motel to crash in for the night, then get to the nest tomorrow. It's nearby."

"Agh…son of a bitch…"

"Booth!" Brennan exclaimed, turning her full attention back to him.

"What happened?" he asked, struggling to sit up.



"You were rendered unconscious when we were attacked. These two boys, Sam and Dean, they…saved our lives," she said, glancing over to them.

"Nice to meet you," Booth muttered, testing the back of his head, his hand coming away with blood. He sighed, leaning forward on his knees, looking up at them. "Someone want to tell me why the hell the guy that attacked me looked like a piranha?"

Sam, Dean, and Brennan all looked to each other, then back to Booth. "Booth…this is going to be difficult to accept," Brennan said softly. "I had…a bit of a struggle with it myself."

Brennan paused and Booth looked up to the boys as he slowly rose to his feet. "What?" he asked quietly.

"Booth, they were vampires," Brennan said, standing as well.

Booth blinked. "You…they were…. What?"

"Vampires, Booth," Brennan said, staring at him. "I saw the teeth myself. They were not plastic or dental implants or caps. They were…real teeth. Fangs. The reason your bullets had no effect on them and Sam and Dean's did was because they coat theirs in dead man's blood. Apparently…it's like poison to vampires."

Booth stared for a few more seconds before he broke out into a grin. "Okay, Bones, ha ha, very funny, joke's on Booth. What's really going on?"

Brennan stared at him solemnly, for a few seconds. "Booth…I would really appreciate it if you would understand that, as a scientist, I'm not handling this fact very well either."

Booth narrowed his eyes, looking between Brennan and the boys. "I've got a couple thousand questions I'd like to ask, but let's start with this one. If those were really vampires, how the hell did you guys know what poisons them?"

"They call themselves hunters," Brennan told him. "They kill things like vampires."

"Things like vampires? Like what else do they kill?" Booth asked.

"I decided I did not want to ask that question," Brennan whispered. "Since I started to become hysterical when they told me about the vampires, I really did not want to be informed of anything else."

"Think of us as Mulder and Scully," Dean said simply.

"I don't…know what that means," Bones said, looking to Booth. She paused as Booth stared at the ground. "How does your head feel?"



"Ah…" Booth lightly touched the back of his head again, wincing. "It stings, but I'll live."

"We should take a look at it," Dean told him. "Come on, I got a first aid kit back in my car. After that, we have to get moving. We're sitting ducks here."