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Chapter 1: The Pile of Bodies
Temperance Brennan walked into her office at the Jeffersonian. She dropped her papers, startled at the sight of Booth spinning in her chair.
"What are you doing here, I thought you had a case in Montana?" Brennan said.
"Well, I was pulled from the case." He replied smiling.
"That doesn't sound like something to be happy about." She said reaching for her papers.
"Well, I got bumped because we have a new case, and Bones I am telling you this one is weird." He said extending his hand that clutched a file.
She reaches out and grabs it. Immediately she begins to fumble through it. Until her eyes freeze at the sight of the X-rays.
"Do we have these bodies here?" she asks.
"Yeah, we probably just got them." He said confused at what the big deal was.
She walks to the observation center and marches up to Zach, hoping he would have retrieved them by now. She vigorously taps his shoulder.
"Did we get the bones from case #345?" she demands.
"Yes Dr. Brennan they are on the observation table." He says, also with concern of the great significance.
He follows her to the table. Hodgins joins them as well.
"What's going on here a new case?" he says getting excited.
"What's the matter Dr. Brennan?" Zach asks.
"Take a look at these X-rays and you tell me." She says plopping the files right down in front of him.
"I have never seen anything like this." Zach replied after taking one look at the file.
Booth catches up to the group.
"Bones, what's going on? Did we get a positive ID or cause of death?" he asks.
"No, these bones don't even look human, they could have been, but they are drastically weakened and… well deformed." She replies, studying the skull more closely.
"What?" Booth replied.
"Oh I am going to love this case!" Hodgins says enthusiastically.
Cam enters the room, she had just gotten back from a sample tox-screen. She had a bone fragment from the arm. A look of frustration was on her face.
"Well, I got back from the toxin test, and it came back positive, but it couldn't determine what kind of sickness this person had, but they were definitely diseased with something." She says walking up to the others.
"Well, Bones thinks it not human." Booth blurts out.
"What, that's impossible, it has to be, look at the pelvic structures and torso. It has to be human." Cam says concerned.
"Well then they were seriously deformed." Bones adds.
"Aliens." Hodgins mutters.
They all shake their heads. It was a mystery.
"Maybe Osteoporosis?" Zach suggests.
"No, the waning isn't fully covering over 80 of the body, it can't be that." Brennan says.
"Osteogenesis imperfecta?" Hodgins adds.
"No, I wouldn't think it's a natural disease, the weakening looked as though it grown from the spine, but hasn't spread, I haven't heard of a disease, when it launches form the back and spreads though." Brennan ponders.
"Zach, put this magnification on the monitor." Cam says looking through a scope.
He does so and what appears, seems to be odd swarms of something in the cracks of the ribcage. It was something alive.
"What is that?" Booth says.
"I wish I could tell you." Brennan says taking a closer look at it.
"Don't diseases usually die, when the host, or the person dies?" Zach says.
"You think that's the disease that killed this person?" Hodgins says fixing his gaze towards Zach.
"It seems to be eating away at the fragments." Cam says in an agreeing voice.
They conceal the corpse, it was a precaution, just in case Zach was right, they all too were checked an hour later for the same toxins, it came out clean. I was now getting late and Brennan thought this case just be examined tomorrow, after she gets some sleep, she spent the past two days at the lab, it was time to go home.
She drove to her house. After a nice warm bath, she slipped into a robe and flipped on the news. She was shocked at what it said.
Anchorman: Now, the government is assuring us that the threat of the new disease, called Carnation DM, has been contained, but some bodies of the carriers were transferred to unknown location. This disease was leaked to deform the human skeletal system and make the mind mentally unaware, also act out with violent aggression, almost zombie like. Anybody who comes in contact with the living carriers, be warned, even a scrape with infect you, you are advised to stay in your homes, until the last of the remains are captured and brought back for testing and hopefully a cure.
It couldn't be the same thing she saw at the lab, or could it, Brennan thought to herself. Some are still on the loose and they haven't activated mass evacuation, maybe there are to many roaming downtown.
Suddenly a chill went up he spine and she had a rush of paranoia, of being unsafe, she wanted to be with Booth, maybe she could catch him at the Jeffersonian. She leapt to her feet and went to get dressed. After that she crept her door open and walked out.
She crash from the stairwell, and ran to her elevator. She rapidly clicked the button, nothing was after her, but the fright of it was real. The door slowly opened and she practically threw herself inside. It went down, floor by floor, the lights flickered.
Finally she ran into the street, not a person was out. It was fading from day to night, the streetlights zapped on as she strode past them. She got in her car and soon enough she was in the parking garage at the Jeffersonian, she felt relieved.
She carelessly walked past the shadows, she saw many odd shapes and sizes, but only picked up her speed. She tripped on her heel because of her speed. It had broken, and she now had a gash, it didn't hurt but blood trickled down the pavement.
She saw something lurking near a car, it shrieked and roared. It was a man, tattered clothes and pale, milky skin. He ran toward her, slobber and drool was literally leaking from his mouth, waving his hands in the air, he leapt at Brennan.