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ASC: So I had a little catching up to do on other projects but now we're back on track…

"Booth!" Brennan shouted between coughs. She waved her hands upon seeing the cloud of dust in front of her. "Booth!" She called again more concerned this time at the lack of response.

As the dust settled Brennan saw a figure in a dusty white over black suit come towards her.

"Booth!" She shouted relieved. Until she saw he was pulling his leg behind him along with a trail of blood.

"Bones, you okay?" He asked while coughing among the chalky air.

"Yeah Booth I'm fine." She said catching him as he came towards her. "But you are obviously not, you're bleeding."

She assisted Booth in getting farther from the dust so they could breathe more easily. Cam, Hodgins and several agents were running towards them.

"Sir, we need to get you out of here right away." One of the agents instructed but Booth was waving his hands.

"Sweets, he's back there somewhere." Booth said now gritting his teeth at the stinging pain in his leg.

They looked back at the pile of rubble with one thought causing an empty thud in their stomachs, if Sweets was in that mess, he was gone. Booth looked back to see what they all saw and denied the same thought that ran thru his own mind.

"Sir, this place is unstable, we need to go, now." The agent reiterated.

"Just one second." Booth said pulling out his phone, he wasn't giving up on Sweets. He brought Sweets with him today, he wasn't going to be at fault for this – at least not in his own mind.

Booth knew they were looking at him like he was crazy but they seemed to think he needed to see for himself how this was going to end.

"Hello?" Sweets said with a slightly strained voice.

"Sweets!" Booth shouted and they were all surprised and relieved as the thought of grief hadn't fully set in yet. "Where are you?"

Sweets coughed a couple of times clearing the dust from his lungs.

"Are you okay? Where are you, can you hear me?" Booth asked rapidly firing his concerned questions at him.

"Yeah, yeah I'm fine. What about you guys?"

"Yeah we're all here, we're good." Booth said breathing more evenly now.

Brennan interjected, "technically you are not okay Booth, your leg…"

"What's Dr. Brennan saying?" Sweets asked straining to hear what was going on on the other end of the phone.

"Nothing, she's, it's nothing. Now, where are you?" Booth asked again.

"Oh, I'm in an elevator shaft. I got in just as the floor collapsed. The car snapped but I guess it got lodged on something, I don't know. I felt it drop some but it stopped. I must be between floors, I think I'm cradled between cement walls so I should be pretty safe. Right?" Sweets asked now that he was thinking it over.

The team looked at each other and nodded though they didn't really know. They wanted to believe so.

"Okay Sweets, we're going to get some blue prints and some diggers and…" Booth began.

"Well I can see sunlight." Sweets said.

"What?"

"Yeah above me, maybe a vent or something. Part of the elevator ceiling popped off and I can see past the top of the elevator cab. It actually looks like one line might be attached. I could try and climb it." Sweets offered looking around at a way to climb out of the unit.

"No, Sweets, stay right where you are okay?" Booth insisted.

"The shaft would go up thru the ceiling. If we can get on the roof we should easily be able to drop in and get him!" Hodgins said, amazed at the simplicity of this rescue.

"Okay Sweets, we're getting some stuff together and we're coming for you okay?" Booth said and Sweets agreed. "Just keep your phone close okay?"

"Yeah sure." Sweets said and sat back on the elevator floor. He didn't care that he was sitting in a pile of dust, his suit was already ruined. Now he just had to wait for then to pop thru the ceiling and get him. So why did he have a bad feeling he wondered.

"Okay Hodgins, let's get some blueprints or something for this place. Angela can do that right?" Booth asked seething at the pain in his leg.

"Yes, we will get right to that, but first we are taking you down to the ambulance." Cam said assisting Brennan in getting Booth up to his feet. Booth was going to protest but Brennan stopped him.

"You will be of help to no one, including Dr. Sweets if you do not get this fixed Booth. We will get the blue prints and you will be fixed up by the time we are ready to go in." Brennan urged and Booth agreed.

Sweets sat on the floor in the center of the sun's ray. It felt more comforting to sit in the light than the dark corners. He watched the lines of the cables dangle in the air, enticing him to take them. Something inside him urged him to get up and pull himself out of the car and go. He looked back at his phone. No, Booth told him to stay put. He rationalized that the only reason he wanted out of the car unit was purely psychological, right?

"Okay, I'm pulling up the blueprints now." Angela said as she and Finn stood in her office looking at them on the screen. "You're sure Sweets is okay?"

"Yeah, it's actually pretty amazing, he's just stranded in a sea of destruction." Hodgins said waiting for the images to appear on his screen as well.

"What caused the explosion?" Angela asked.

"Could be the residue we found came in contact with something. I don't know, we're pretty focused on getting Sweets out Ange."

"Well shouldn't we be looking at that as well, I mean what if…"

"Ange, the blueprints?" Hodgins asked as an annoyed Booth was impatiently waiting.

"Okay, here they are now. It looks like there's a few elevator shafts." She explained.

"We were near the area marked as 5E and Sweets headed in that direction." Hodgins explained.

"Headed in that direction, why wasn't he with you guys?" Finn asked.

Hodgins tried to remember.

"He thought the hand was pointing to something." Booth remembered.

"The hand? Oh the remains?" Angela asked.

"Yeah, but let's get to that later." Booth said. "If he's in this elevator then we can go across the roof here."

"If it's stable." Hodgins added.

"We'll find out now won't we?" Booth said turning to leave.

He was stopped however by another rumbling sound. He stopped in his tracks as he was filled with a feeling of dread. Moments later the building not far from them was rocked with a second explosion toppling more of the structure.

Once it stopped Booth took out his phone and called Sweets, but this time it only rang.