Disclaimer-I do not own Bones. Kaitlin and Edward are mine.
A/N-Please R&R and be kind. Nasty comments will be ignored. Thank you :-)
Disclaimer-I do not own Bones. Kaitlin and Edward are mine.
A/N-Please R&R and be kind. Nasty comments will be ignored. Thank you :-)
Chapter 35-
##Last Time##
"No!" Brennan cried, "Hold fire! Booth tell them!"
"Hold your fire." Booth growled. The officers raised their guns at the ceiling. Brennan, Booth and Sully remained aimed at Edward.
Edward pulled the trigger slightly "You think I'm kidding?! I have no problem spending eternity in heaven with Caroline."
Booth and Sully raised their guns at the ceiling. Brennan did not. "What are you doing?!" she spat.
"Bones, do it." Booth mumbled. Brennan watched in horror as Edward neared the door. The door, the only thing keeping a killer from her baby. Brennan's whole body shook as Edward wrapped his thin hand around the door knob, turning it slightly. She couldn't let it happen. She couldn't allow him to put one finger on Kaitlin. She watched the door swing open.
"NO!" Brennan screamed. She charged forward and threw herself on top Edward. The two crashed to the floor.
BANG!
"Bones!" Booth cried.
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Booth fell to the heap that was Brennan and Edward. He rolled Brennan onto his knees. Her blue eyes were open and staring at him.
"Bones?" Booth said looking Brennan up and down.
Brennan blinked a few times before she lifted her hand. The gun was nestled in her tight grip. She scrambled off of Booth's lap and looked at Edward. "Did I kill him?" she asked. Edward was obviously still breathing, choking on his own blood. A hole was torn through his shirt into his chest. Brennan knew the bullet had hit Edward's lung.
"No, he's alive but barely." Sully said. Brennan closed her eyes and straddled Edward applying pressure to his wound.
"Bones!" Booth exclaimed "What are you doing."
"She . . . wants . . . me." Edward said, a sick look a pleasure on his face. Brennan took one hand off the wound and punched Edward's face.
"Shut the hell up!" She shouted "Death would be letting you off easy." Brennan pushed harder on the wound causing Edward to scream in agony.
"Does it hurt? Good." Brennan said.
"When you tackled me," Edward said "You had the same look of fear as you did that day." He said coughing blood all over Brennan's robe.
Brennan punched him again "I said shut up."
"You . . . begged me to stop . . . The whole . . . time you begged for your life . . . Please stop, please." Edward taunted. Brennan punched him and this time she didn't stop. She hit him over and over until Booth pulled her off.
"Bones, stop. That's what he wants." Booth said pulling Brennan to her feet.
"He shouldn't get off that easy. I want him to feel the pain he caused." Brennan screamed. She looked down at Edward. His was unconscious and his breathing was slowing.
Booth followed Brennan's gaze. Edward was now wheezing, struggling for every breath. Blood flowed freely from the hole in his chest. "He feels the pain."
Brennan tuned out the sound of Edward's gasps for life and heard crying. Kaitlin crying. Brennan wiggled out of Booth's grasp and ran into the nursery. She quickly found Kaitlin's bassinet and scooped her baby into her arms.
"It's okay, shhh Mommy's here." Brennan whispered. Booth walked up behind her, wrapping his arms around them both. "She's okay." Brennan whispered.
"Thank God."
"What if he dies?" Brennan asked.
"We all sleep better at night." Booth said.
"No, what if they charge me with murder?" Brennan whispered, burying her face in Kaitlin's blanket. "I can't leave her."
Booth gently turned Brennan around to face him. "Bones, look at me." Brennan looked up at him. He wiped her tear streaked face. "I don't know what you think happened out there just now but not only was it self defense, it was a mother protecting her baby. You acted not only out of fear for your life, out of fear for Kaitlin's. And I also know that I wouldn't let anything happen to you. And I know that every officer out there will say that it was self defense."
"Self defense." Brennan repeated.
"Yes, you're not going anywhere accept home."
"Home sounds amazing." Brennan said.
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Booth and Brennan walked out of the nursery to see a bunch of nurses and a doctor lifting Edward onto a gurney.
"BP is low and heart rate is dropping. Lets get him to the ER stat!." The doctor said. The doctor and nurses pushed Edward down the hall and out of sight. Kaitlin wiggled in Brennan's arms placing a tiny hand on Brennan's neck.
"Yes, beautiful?" Brennan said "What do you want?" Kaitlin wiggled again and let out a tiny whimper.
"We should get back to your room, Bones." Booth said.
"Yes, I think I need to lie down." Brennan said. She turned to Sully and gave him a peck on the cheek.
"Thank you Sully." She whispered.
"Hey, that's what friends are for." Sully said.
Brennan looked into Sully's eyes "No, that's what family is for."
Sully smiled "Yes it is."
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Booth helped Brennan into bed and tucked her in "Comfortable?" he asked brushing a few stray hairs from Brennan's sweat soaked face.
Brennan wasn't listening, she was too busy staring at Kaitlin "Seeley, how did I get so lucky?" she asked.
"Lucky? What do you mean?" Booth asked, gently sitting on the bed. Brennan looked at him. His eyes were kind and warm. He was smiling sweetly and looking deep into her eyes.
"I don't know, never mind." Brennan said suddenly feeling sheepish.
"No, c'mon Bones. Tell me." Booth urged.
"I just feel lucky to have what I have that's all."
Booth smiled "Well, I am glad you're finally happy Bones. You deserve it more then anyone I know." He playfully ruffled her hair
Brennan chuckled and moved her head out of his grip "Can we go home yet. I am so sick of this hospital."
"As soon as the discharge papers are filed we can go. Not long now." Booth said. Booth and Brennan gazed at each other caught in each other's eyes. Their trance was then broken by a small knock on the door.
"Maybe that's the doctor." Brennan said "Come in!" She called. But it wasn't the doctor, it was Sully. His face was emotionless yet bright.
"What happened?" Brennan demanded immediately.
Sully huffed and shook his head "Time of death 11:54 am."
Brennan's jaw dropped "He's dead?" she asked. Sully nodded. Could this be real? Could the man who tortured her and Zack and Alexandria, The man who raped her and left her for dead. The man who threatened to kill her newborn. Could that evil man really be dead? Suddenly Booth burst out laughing. His face turned red and he was beaming.
"You're laughing?" Brennan said.
"Of course, you're not?"
"One should not laugh at the death of another human being. Anthropologically speaking-"Brennan was cut off by Booth's hand covering her mouth.
"Forget anthropologically speaking. Forget science. The man who has tormented us for months is dead. D-E-A-D dead. Never to come back. Never to bother us again. Never to haunt us and harm us. That is a good thing. That man was not human. His death is a good thing." Booth said.
Tears fell from Brennan's eyes, splashing Booth's fingers. Tears of joy. She was now smiling and crying wrapped in the safety of Booth's arms.
"Umm excuse me?" An unfamiliar voice said. Booth, Brennan and Sully looked at the doorway. A nurse was standing there with a folder in her hands. "Your discharge papers are filed. You can go home now."
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