The Truth in the Vision

by ecv

When Brennan leaves to escape Hannah and Booth, she makes a decision that puts her life in danger. How will Booth find out she needs help, and what does that mean for his relationships with the women in his life? My entry into the Bonesology Microfiction Challenge - 100 challenge words in chapters of no more than 300 words each. I don't own Bones.

20. Chapter 20 - Obvious

Booth smiled at Angela, relieved to find someone who would support him. "I still don't understand why she was in the mountains," he said.

Angela turned back to the screen. "Neither do I. But we know Brennan makes her own path. She must have thought this was important for some reason."

Booth moved closer to the screen, staring at the blinking dot. The last place he knew for sure Bones had been. Reaching out, he brushed his fingers across the screen. He couldn't fix this problem, yet, but there was something he could fix.

"Can you keep working on this?" he asked without turning around. "I need to go take care of something else."

Angela reached out and squeezed his shoulder. "We'll find her, Booth."

"I didn't mean to hurt her, Angela. But it's obvious I need to start fixing things around here."

He brushed off her hand and walked away.

Angela looked over in the corner of her office to see Hodgins sitting quietly in the shadows. "What do you think he's going to take care of?"

Hodgins came forward and also stared at the blinking dot on the screen. "Can you put up the towers her phone registered on before this one."

"Uh, sure," she answered, tapping several buttons on the pad in her hand. In a moment, the information appeared.

"Now can you overlay the roads?"

A few more clicks and the new information appeared as well. Angela stood next to him and her eyes widened. Reaching forward she traced the cell phone towers in order, looking at the nearby roads simultaneously. "You're brilliant, Hodgins," she said. Turning her head she kissed him soundly.