Title: Six Bodies in the Pasture

Rating: K+

Disclaimer: I own nothing, but the plot. I did borrow part of 'Boy in the Bush'. Thank's to FOX for it. I hope you like it...Oh there are some "JAG" moments in the future... those aren't mine either...

A/N Sorry for my fans of Giant Leaps, I am at a road block... SOS If you have any ideas, let me know?

Chapter One: The Scene in the Rain

". . . .Is there any questions?" asked Dr. Temperance, she was giving a lecture as a favor for Dr. Goodman, on the connection between the Jeffersonian Institute and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

A young woman stood up. "How much money have you made from your books?" She asked in a confident voice.

"I actually don't know, I have an accountant who takes care of that." She said, but was cut off by another eager question.

"Did you have your agent before or after you wrote your books?" Asked a young man, he was implying something but she didn't catch onto.

She was about to respond when Dr. Goodman took the microphone from the doctor. "Dr. Brennan is a forensic anthropologist and a part time author, but we aren't here for a book signing." He said, authority in his voice.

She was about to comment when she saw the person, she had been waiting for. "I have a question." said the man with a smile on his face. "I have a reason to believe that Special Agent Andy Lister is based off of me. . ."

"What are you doing here, Booth?" She asked, covering the microphone. She had a smile on her face, and to compliment that, her cheeks flushed a deep red color.

"We have a case, come on." He said motioning her to follow, and without another word, she left the auditorium full of teenagers with her partner.

They were greeted by the cool evening air, with threatening clouds gathering in the west. As they neared the parking lot, Booth stopped causing Brennan to run into him. "Your publisher didn't give you a new car this time, right?" He asked slowly, looking for anything out of the ordinary.

Brennan laughed. "Nope, this won't be a deja vu moment." She said with a smile. "Because I would have to ask if I can drive, and you will say no."

"Like always." He said, his charm smile in full swing.

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They arrived at the scene, meeting her colleague at the gate of a huge pasture. Upon getting out of the vehicle, she took in her surroundings. Flashing lights from sirens along the fence line, random agents walking around, all waiting for the doctor.

"Zack, what are we looking for?" She asked, taking her bag from the back seat of the SUV, making her way to the young doctor, with Booth in tow.

"They don't know yet, the remains haven't been found yet." Said Zack as they walked through the gate, and Brennan shut it behind the three. "This pasture is huge, its going to take forever to find it."

"What kind of pasture is this?" She asked her partner.

"Horses." He responded.

"Zack, lets split up to cover more ground. Call me if you find anything." She said, heading in the direction opposite of Zack.

"Wait Bones, where are you going?" asked Booth, trotting to catch up with her.

"If I find the horses, I can find the body. Horses are curious creatures by nature and they want to know what it is. Figuratively speaking, of course." She said

"What?" asked Booth, as she shot her a look of confusion.

"Its one of those 'something is different and you can't tell what it is' kind of things." She elaborated, continuing to walk when she stopped suddenly, this time causing Booth to run into her.

"Bones!" He said, placing his hands on her waist, to keep himself from falling. Looking at his shoes, of course he had to have stepped into the muck. "Gross."

"Sh!" She whispered, not bothered by the position of his hands.

In the distance a horse whinnied that had caught her attention. She neared the herd of twenty horses, forty-two pairs of eyes fell on her. "Hold this." She shoved her bag at the pair of eyes who owned just two legs. "Watch out." She also warned, running at the horses and waving her arms to scare off the horses. The eighty pairs of legs took off, running right at Booth.

Booth's eyes grew wide as the horses ran towards him and out of nowhere, Temperance Brennan jumped in front of the herd, sending them in another direction. "Now that they are out of my way, you might want to warn your FBI buddies that they are on their way."She said taking the bag from him and walked into a small grove of trees.

Not long, a stunned Booth followed her in to the grove, when something caught Brennan's eye. The rain began to fall lightly. "Great, mud is all we need now."

"Oh stop complaining." Said Brennan, putting on a pair of latex gloves, crouching down and began brushing leaves out of her way.

"You would be complaining too if you were wearing a twelve hundred dollar suit and ninety dollar shoes too, Bones." He was taking in his surroundings, pulling out his flashlight.

"Booth, come take a look at this." She said, her voice sounding stressed. Moving the leaves and other debris revealed a skeleton.

He walked over to her, taking in her find. "That's a pretty small skeleton." He said.

"Female, between three and six months." She said, turning to look up at her partner.

"Oh God." Booth said, picking up his walkie talkie. "We found the body. Head west to a bunch of trees." Be put the walking back into his belt, his attention returning to the woman at his side. His flashlight adding to the dimming light. "Can you tell the cause of death?"

"Not yet, its getting to dark to be certain." She responded as the mass of FBI agents along with Zack joined the pair in the grove. She stood to full height to give instructions to the young doctor. "Zack, take pictures of the area. See if you can find anything else." The young man nodded and did as he was asked.

"Dr. Brennan." Said a voice from behind belonging to an agent. "You might want to look at this."

She walked over to the older agent, the smell of decay stood out from the smell of horse manure and the wet earth. Quickly she fell to her knees, removing the rotting leaves and again she found the remains of another infant. "Booth." She called.

He was talking to Deputy Director Cullen who had arrived not long after they did. He walked over to her placing his hand on her shoulder. "Another one?"

She turned to look at him again. "Yes infant, I can't tell gender yet. It was stepped on by the horses." She reported. The rain fell harder, and the wind had started to pick up causing Brennan, who only had her long sleeved shirt on, to shiver.

The shiver didn't go unnoticed by the agent, he took off his FBI-issued windbreaker and placed in on her shoulders. She gave him a smile and murmured her thanks before she returned to the second set of remains, her hair fanning from her shoulder into her face, which she brushed back annoyed.

Booth watched with a smile, she had forgotten to put her hair up before she put her gloves on, and without words he grabbed her left wrist, which had her hair tie, and pulled it off her wrist, careful not to touch her gloves. He skillfully braided her long hair and fastened the hair tie to the end. "There, now its out of your way." He said, surprising the doctor.

"How did you learn that? Surely Parker's hair has never been this long." She asked, he work momentarily forgotten, as she watched her partner give his explanation.

"A little trick I learned in the army." He said with a grin.

"How to braid?" She asked with a raised brow, she was truly surprised.

"I even know how to French braid, but I didn't think we'd have the time for that." He responded as Zack called her name.

"Doctor Brennan. There are two more over here." He said, breaking their moment, bringing their brains back to the case.

"Two?" She asked, walking towards Zack's voice. The sun had completely set in the distance and the sounds of the FBI's crime scene investigators scrambling to get light in the area, the falling rain didn't help.

Sure enough, two full skeletons sat underneath a tree, side by side, resting some twenty feet from the first body. "What the hell is this." Came Booths angry voice.

"I don't know." Came her soft reply. "Both under the age of two, and the one on the left is the oldest of all the four." Pointing to the left one. "Zack, work getting the fragments of the second body ready for transport." She said walking back to the first infant.

Booth walked over to the sheriff. "Can you tell me who found the first body?" he asked, pulling out his small note pad.

"Her name is Sarah MacKenzie, she runs the pasture for the summer, horses are run on a lease." He said, his accent thick.

"Leases?"

"This is a Girl Scout camp, Agent Booth." Said Cullen, joining the group. The rain started fall harder and the lightning became more and more frequent.

"Oh." said Booth as a stray lightning bolt struck a tree above the bodies. The three men turned, only to see Temperance Brennan diving towards Zack Addy, pushing him out of the way of the falling tree.

"Bones!" Booth whispered, as he started to run in the direction of his best friend.