an: Right so this is a mix of inspiration from Honey and Tractor Man. God, what can I say? I love the desperate situations. So yeah, I ripped the bomb idea from T.M, but it was either that or this other stupid idea i had that was too complicated and hard to explain. So...bomb it is. Sadly, I'm not very wise in the FBI department, so if I'm wrong in some parts there, just point them out to me and I'll see what i can do to make this story more believable. Hang in there with me, I just wanted to trap everyone in the building for a while ;)

Disclaimer: I don't own Lie to Me they belong to FOX. bless them.

Cal Lightman slowly sat down at his desk, taking much care to his aching head…and body in general. God almighty, how he couldn't wait to end this day and just go home. He had been fighting a particularly nasty bug for the last few days, but there was so much work to be done, he didn't have the time to take a rest. Case after bleedin' case…the Lightman Group had been an utter madhouse as of late. But that meant that business was booming, and he had to take advantage of that, especially since their finances were in the hole.

He looked up to the clock that was sitting on his desk and let out a long groan. It was only ten in the morning. "Bloody hell," he said quietly, resting his head on his arms folded on his desk.

On cue, half a second later, his door swung open, revealing Reynolds. "Lightman," he barked.

"What?" came a muffled reply.

"We uh…you ok?"

"Yeah, brilliant. What is it?" Lightman asked, raising his head and resting his chin on his arms.

"We got a situation," he said darkly as he closed the door behind him, looking anxious.

"What, so early?"

Reynolds ignored him and strolled to his desk, crossing his arms. "Yeah. Your building has been compromised."

Cal squinted his eyes in confusion. "Excuse me?"

"I just got a phone call from the FBI. They've got reason to believe that this building," he said fiercely, pointing his finger down at the ground, "is rigged with a bomb." Cal snapped up from his slouched position in alarm.

"Bloody hell," Cal said, getting out of his chair. He swayed for a fraction of a second, feeling oddly dizzy, but ignored it and walked around his desk in front of Reynolds. "We gotta evacuate-…"

Reynolds shook his head. "We got the threat saying that if anyone tries to leave, it goes off. No one comes in, no one goes out…or…"

Cal waved him off. "Yeah, yeah, yeah, I get it," he said quickly. He stood in silence for a second and licked his lips anxiously. "So what then?"

"FBI is trying to come up with the source of the call-…"

"Nah, not that, I mean what can we do about the bomb? We gotta find it so we can…I dunno, diffuse it or wha'ever it is you guys do."

Reynolds scoffed. "I'm an FBI agent, not James Bond. Bombs exactly aren't my specialty, Lightman."

"Well we've got to do something. How do we even know this threat is real? Could be a hoax or something to get our attention."

"Well they've got it, don't you think?"

Cal's lips tightened. "Did they say what they want?"

"No. Just a warning. We're not even sure if it's true or not." Cal started to open his mouth to say something, but Reynolds cut him off. "Foster and Loker are going over the phone call already to analyze it. But at the moment, we're not taking any chances. I've already got Torres gathering everyone else in the conference room to explain the situation to the rest of the staff."

"'Ow many people we got here today?"

"Just nine of us right now. Everyone else is out in the field or…whatever it is you have your people do. They've already been notified not to come near the building."

Cal nodded again, feeling slightly numb at the situation. "Right," he paused, waiting for Reynolds to say more. "So that's it? We just sit on our arses and wait?"

"Unless you guys can figure out that this is just a scare, then yeah. FBI is doing everything they can right now and is keeping in touch."

Cal sighed, "Great."

More to come soon, in fact i'm writing chapter 2 as we speak. I know this bit is short, but i just wanted to establish the situation asap to see what you all think. Review?