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Sugar. No that doesn't sound right. Something….Sweets. Yes! Sweets was relieved, he knew his name. A wave a nausea crossed him but he held it down. He was not going to throw up and be forced to smell it he decided. Not while he was pinned in place. Lance Sweets. Dr. Lance Sweets. He sighed a moment. Why was that so hard to remember? Sweets looked at his hand on the metal door which was pulled tightly. He was trying to remember what he was doing. Was he tapping? Why was he here?
He hadn't felt this strange before. He pulled his hand up to his head which was pounding and something felt almost, crunchy. He pulled his one free hand back and saw dried blood. He started to remember an explosion, being trapped, another explosion, tapping.
He was filled with a feeling of being worried that he couldn't remember anything and the realization shot out to him - head injury. Uh oh. He thought to himself. This is not helping the situation any. He turned his hand to go back to tapping but he wasn't sure how long he had done it already. Had he been tapping for seconds or hours before he stopped? If he had been tapping for hours why had no one come for him? Didn't they tell him to stay put? That was terrible advice. If I had climbed out the first time….you might have caved thru the roof….and now you're almost buried alive. Oh stop talking Lance, you're not helping yourself any.
"Agent Booth." A man stopped Booth and the rest of the team as they were assembling a number of items. Booth stopped and turned to the man. "I'm Agent Allen Carson. We've gone thru the information provided you gave us on this guy. His name is Wilson Thompson. He's been on our watch list for a while but he has really upped his game."
Booth nodded but he really wanted to get back to his work.
"I understand a rescue is being put in place." The man continued and Booth nodded, he wanted to get back to that place. "I'd like for you to take charge of this investigation Agent Booth. Track this guy down ASAP before he takes down someone else. Your whole team is invaluable."
Booth stopped. Being the lead on a homeland security case was a huge feather in Booth's cap. The team stopped and listened, they knew what an honor it was, for all of them really.
"We'll get another team on Dr. Sweets very quickly, I understand you heard some tapping." Agent Carson added encouragingly. Booth had the feeling that the rescue team would not be making Sweets their priority as much as the terrorist threat.
"Yes, but it's since stopped." Breannan said and went back to her equipment.
The man began to talk again but Booth held out his hand to shake Agent Carson's.
"Sir it's an honor that you thought of me for this. But I'd like to stay on this. One of my people is in there. And while I'm sure another team would try very hard, I'm sorry I can't leave it to anyone else. Our team here can get back on that and help you as need but right now, we have to do this." Booth looked to the team who nodded in agreement.
"Well, I…uh…." The agent fell over his words in shock that someone would turn down such an opportunity. After a moment he got it. "I understand. I have people too. I'll reassign it." He nodded and turned to leave but stopped. "How can I help?
"What's our plan?" Booth asked seeing what everyone had assembled.
"Perhaps Agent Carson could help us in issuing a statement to the news." Cam suggested.
"Yes, that would beneficial." Brennan began. "We want the killer to think that Agent Sweets has indeed been found dead. That way we can work to rescue him with reduced risk of further explosions."
"Do you think there are more in there?" Carson asked.
"Anything is possible with this guy." Booth said.
"We would also like for the news helicopters above to not be taping while we go in for this. Or at least to be notified and broadcast that it is a body recovery." Brennan added.
"What about this man's family, don't they need to be notified before they see this on the news?" Carson asked.
"I think we're all here." Booth added and the man understood that Sweets had no family that would be learning of the fabled death.
"I'll take care of it. Let me know if you need more." Carson said leaving.
The team turned back to the screen.
"Angela, were you able to put everything together, can you guestimate where Sweets and the elevator car are?" Booth asked turning back to the screen.
"Okay based on the images I've gotten between the photos and the live coverage before and after both blasts, combined with the blue prints I've got this. It's a bit crude but I'm in a hurry." She explained as she brought a computer rendering up on the screen.
"Okay here is the building before the blast. And here is Sweets running into the elevator as the first explosion went off and Sweets description to you after." She said as a non-descript figure that represented Sweets jumped in to the car and after the building collapsed some was still free in the car though it had dropped some.
"And based on the images and the blueprints, here is what Finn and I came up with after the second explosion." Angela said as the simulation began showing Sweets car being rocked then crashed in with the beam and the debris filling in like a flipped hourglass.
Booth swallowed hard, the visualization was worse than he had imagined. The undescriptive figure was still Sweets to him and he was trapped.
"Since Sweets is tapping I'm assuming his head is still above this debris." Angela added though in a near whisper as they all held back a cringe at the sight.
"All of that weight on Sweets is definitely restricting his breathing." Brennan added examining the footage.
"Change of plan." Booth said.
"What do you mean?" Hodgins asked.
"We're not sending the robot down, I'm going down there." Booth said looking for the repelling equipment in the rescue gear.
"No, Booth, we can't if the killer sees you going down there he will suspect something." Brennan said interjecting.
"Not he wears this." She said holding out a jacket that read "Coroner" on the back. "If he sees the footage, hears the news release it's just a body recovery."
"What about more explosions?" Brennan asked torn between wanting Booth to go and not wanting him to go.
A tapping sound came over the rescue monitor again. The team froze as they heard it. Again filled with relief that Sweets was alive, again overwhelmed with the fact they may not be the only ones to hear it.
"Let's go." Booth said leaving with the gear.