BONES AU - PART ONE "The Man In The Cell"

BONES AU Chapter Seven

CHAPTER SEVEN

"Kirstie dead and me in critical condition. That's just creepy, right?" Joe asked as they all sat, alive and well around the television.

"But why? Its not true, Dr. Hoying," Kirsite asked.

"We're just hoping Elliot buys it. Kirstie, I'm more concerned about your wellbeing, though. You okay?" asked Hoying.

"My doctor said most of my injuries didn't come from the explosion, but the whole being slammed into the floor." She explained. Scott frowned.

"Joe, did you really have to be so rough on her?" he asked.

"It was a bomb, Bones. I was being, yknow, heroic," Joe said as he fixed his belt buckle.

Kirsite chimed in. "I was heroic, too!"

Scott nodded and awkwardly placed a hand on her shoulder, That is how you comfort someone, isn't it? And tried his most soothing voice which only sounded fake. "Yes, you were a hero, in my opinion, Kirstie."

Joe was mumbling to himself on the couch, though. "Well, I mean, if you have to explain to yourself why youre a hero, you aren't reeeally a hero..."

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Max sat in his office with the baggie, trying to identify it by talking to himself.

"What the hell are you? You're not a bacterial protein or a non-opioid analgethic. You're not a neurotoxin or a heavy metal. You act like chloromethane, but Zack said that there was no thweet smell when the powder was releathed."

Mitch walked in just in time to see this, and looked thoroughly amused. "Are you talking to the evidence?"

"Only trying to work through this as thtematically as pothible."

"Right, well, , when this whole thing is over, I am moving to a doorman building I'm getting an unlisted number and I am hiring a full-time bodyguard named Knuckles." Mitch said defiantly, still amused though.

"Don't get paranoid, on me now!" Max chuckled.

"Funny, coming from a conspiracy theorist." Mitch retorted just before the computer beeped and Max went over to see the results.

"Of course! Methyl bromide! I'll call the hothpital." Max did so and sat back with Mitch to explain, he looked extremely confused.

"The treatment is racemic epinephrine. I told the hospital, theyre starting an I. V."

"Shouldn't Joe be ther-"

"Texted him, too. I told him that he needed his priorities straight."

"Well, that'll be difficult consider-"

"Ha ha very funny." Max laughed and pecked Mitch's lips with a smile.

Back in Scott's office, as it got late Joe stood up.

"Im gonna go see Kevin at the hospital and you," he pointed at Scott "Are gonna go home and get some sleep."