Chapter 1: The Unanswered Call

The buzz sounded like a pesky mosquito in his ear. But he was conditioned to respond, so his arm shot out to grab the cell phone on the nightstand. As he did so, he slowed in the movement of lowering his lips to the waiting mouth of the beautiful blond beneath him.

"Really, Seeley?" she mumbled, her arms tightening around his back.

He smiled an apology as he lifted his head, bringing his arm around to see the illuminated face of the cell phone.

"It's Bones."

"It's after midnight," Hannah responded in that sexy, raspy voice that Booth could never resist. "Let it go into voicemail. You can call her back in 10…" she ground her hips against his and smiled in invitation "….or maybe 20 minutes."

Unable to deny such a reasonable request, Booth tossed the phone on the bed and resumed the gratifying activity that had been in progress when the phone rang. A dead body wasn't going anywhere very quickly, was it?

So engrossed was he in making love to his beautiful girlfriend, that Seeley Booth didn't notice that it took more than five minutes for the cell phone to beep to indicate that a message had been left.

Five minutes was the automatic voicemail time limit.