Author's Note- Here is the next chapter. I am dying to get this finished but please be patient. R&R!!
Disclaimer-I do not own Bones. Alexandria is my character.
Chapter-My Sacrifice-Week 3
Brennan awoke with a start. She had dreamt she was back in her own bed,safe and sound. Much to her dismay,Brennan realized she was still in a concrete hole. Rays of sunlight shown through the holes in the celing,put there so air could circulate. Then Brennan noticed Zack sitting limp in a cornor.
"Zack??" Brennan said,crawling over to him. He was pale,his lips were as rough as tree bark.
"Zack!"Brennan cried. She grabbed a jug of water and forced him to drink. "Zack. C'mon wake up." Brennan pleaded.
Suddenly Zack started coughing up water. Brennan gently rubbed his back as he took a deep breath.
"Zack? When is the last time you drank water?."Brennan asked.
Zack shook his head "Night before last."
"You have drank anything in almost two days!"Brennan said in disbelief "Zack the body can't survive without being hydrated."
"I know that. But my 25 year old body can survive longer then that of an unborn baby."Zack said,getting to his feet.
"Zack."Brennan sighed "You cannot sacrifice your life for my babys. Thats what I am supposed to do. Promise me you won't go without drinking again."
Zack looked Brennan in the eyes "I promise I won't go without drinking."
"Thank you." Brennan said. She sat back down on the bed and held her head in her hands. "Amanda,Briana,Celeste,Delia,Esmerelda..." she whispered.
"What are you saying?" Zack asked.
"Francesa...baby names...Gina,Isabella,Jamie-"
"Why?"
"Calms my nerves."Brennan said. "What letter was I at?"
"K" Zack said.
"Kathleen,Lucy,Michelle."Brennan stopped suddenly.
"Why did you stop?"Zack asked.
"I feel better. Are you ok?"
"I'm alright. I feel better then I did.I wish we weren't in a pit anymore." Zack said looking around the room.
"Well you have eight more weeks."Howard said,appearing suddenly on the rope ladder. "Unless baby Caroline decides to arrive early."
"Caroline?"Zack and Brennan said in unison.
"What makes you think I am naming my baby Caroline?"Brennan spat,knowing full well that Caroline was the name of the real Howard Epps' wife.
"No no. This is my baby. I don't think you realize the situation you are in. You are not leaving this pit alive."Howard said.
"You can't win,Howard. Booth will find us. You are noting but a decrepit,worthless,despicable man. You are nothing compared to Booth. Nothing!"Brennan cried.
Howard glared at Brennan,stepping towards her he growled "Never speak to me that way again!.". Then Howard hit Brennan so hard she crumbled to the dirt floor.
Zack grabbed Brennan in his arms "What do you want?" He asked.
"Oh yes. Smile!"Howard said suddenly snapping a picture of Brennan and Zack with his cellphone camera. "I'm sure Agent Booth will find this sweet. His love in the arms of another."
"Animal."Zack said getting to his feet stepping toward Howard. Brennan wanted to stop him but she felt to dizzy to stand.
"Oh look at you. Being a hero. What are you going to do?"Howard teased. The pleasure Howard was getting watching Brennan and Zack suffer was disgusting. Brennan watched Zack's rage overspill as Zack tackled Howard.
"You son of a bitch!"Zack screamed as he slammed Howard's head onto the ground. Then with one mighty thrust Howard sent Zack flying into the wall. Then Howard picked up an unconcious Zack by the throat and threw him against the far left wall.
"I wanted to avoid this. I really did. But you left me no choice,Runt."Howard growled as he chained Zack to the wall.
"You can't do that to him!"Brennan cried. Howard stepped back and took a photo of Zack on the wall.
"How do you think the Squints and Booth will react to this?"Howard asked,ignoring Brennan's statement.
"I think it will give them more motive to kill you."Brennan said as she watched Howard disappear up the rope ladder.
"Howard Epps!"Booth shouted into his cell phone.
"Agent Booth there is no Howard Epps in our database. Now you can tr--"Booth snapped his phone shut. He had spent ten minutes arguing with a receptionist at Hall Of Records in Cumberland County. Arguing was getting him no where.
"What are we going to do now?"Alexandria asked. They were sitting in their hotel room going over ideas. So far they hadn't any.
"We tried Social Security in DC. We tried local and state police. We tried Hall of Records. We tried local employment offices. No one has heard of Howard Epps. At least not the Howard Epps we're looking for."Booth said,flopping onto his bed. He hadn't slept in 36 hours and he knew time was running out. "I'm just about ready to knock down every door in Cumberland. We'd probabily find them sooner."
"We've been here for a week and turned up nothing. What if I went on the news or something."Alexandria suggested.
"He could panic and kill Bones and Zack. I'm going to call Cam and see if anything turned up." Booth said,opening his cell.
"Cam Saroyan?"Cam said.
"Cam! Cam it's Booth. Anything new happening?"Booth asked.
"I've been trying to call you!. We went through the warehouse where Alexandria was held with a fine tooth comb. Burried under the cement were two bodys."
"And why didn't we find this before?"Booth demanded.
"Because we,as in the Squints,were not premitted into the warehouse to investigate it."Cam said with her normal Cam attitude.
"Why?"
"Agent Cullen said not to let us in because there was nothing for us to look for. When I finally demanded to be let in Hodgins realized that a huge patch of the cement was fresher then all the rest." Cam said.
Booth smacked himself in the forehead "Alright. So now we have these bodys. Who are they?"Booth asked.
"Heather Appleton 18 from Georgia and Belinda Moore 17 from South Carolina."Cam said.
"I reconize those names. Heather went missing a year ago and Belinda went missing six months ago. The case went cold due to no evidence."
"Yep. Howard definately killed them. Actucally there is something else."
"Something else?"
"Booth we found DNA."Cam said,joy in her voice.
"DNA?"Booth asked "What kind of DNA?"
"Howard Epps' or should I said Edward Montoya. He is 32 born and raised in Albany New York until he went missing six years ago. He was estranged from his family so no one pressed to find him. He must had re-created himself as Howard Epps when the real Epps died." Cam said.
"Cam I could kiss you."Booth said,over joyed by the news.
"Brennan would beat me to a pulp. Find her Booth. Bring her home."Cam laughed.
"You know I will."Booth flipped his phone shut,then snapped it back open.
"Whats going on?"Alexandria asked.
"We have a major lead...Hello Operater,I need the number for the Hall of Records in Albany New York."
Author's Note-I know it's been a while since I updated but I hope you liked this chapter. R&R be nice! I'm sure you have realized that it says Week 3 in the title. I changed the last chapter to Week 2. It just fit. Anyway R&R! AND REMEMBER I AM CHANGING MY USERNAME TO SERAPHINAMOON!
Oh and my spell checker is still down. I depend on it to help me out because I am dyslexic and my spelling is terrible. If someone would like to volunteer to be my Beta that would be amazing!!!
xoxoxox
Seraphina
