Agent Perrotta walked into the he FBI conference room with assistant US attorney Caroline Julian and saw the woman sitting, who she knew to be Dr Temperance Brennan, and the tall man standing behind her, slightly to the side, who she knew was Agent Seeley Booth. Everyone in the DC field office had heard of the partners; they had solved some of the biggest cases with the help of Dr Brennan's team at the Jeffersonian. This case however was different as Agent Booth was the main suspect this time round. Ms Julian introduced her to the two, talking about her degrees in forensic science and Perrotta could tell it was in order to get the Doctor to like her. She had heard that the woman was stubborn and a know it all (though most people admitted she did know pretty much everything) and her attitude was revealed when she said,

'Well, anything short of a doctorate is virtually useless at my level.'

In her head, Perrotta thought okaaay then, and out of the corner of her eye saw Agent Booth smirk at his partner's statement. He seemed almost proud at her being against working with anyone other than him.

When they finally got the introductions out of the way and Ms Julian asked her how she wanted to proceed, Agent Booth spoke up while scratching his arm in the cast with a pen,

'Well, it's pretty obvious. We definitely want to interrogate the primary suspect, right?'

He finished his sentence with a grin towards her. Perrotta had heard the quiet rumours that the partners were more than that, even though they constantly denied it. She wouldn't blame the good doctor if she had fallen for him; if she saw a smile like that every day, she would've too.

Perrotta was interrogating Agent Booth in the interrogation room. She had asked about what happened after the game he said that Dr Brennan, who he called "bones," took Wendell and himself to the hospital. She wrote that down and asked another question,

'So, alibi that night or the next?'

Booth gave her a look.

'Bones and I are just partners.'

She chuckled inside. She was not trying to imply that in any way, though did it mean something if he was trying to make it obvious to her that there was nothing going on between him and the good doctor?

'Okay. Now you're answering questions I had no intention of asking.'

He gave her a cute smile and she changed the topic by asking other questions about the game. She heard Sweets' voice in her ear, telling her to ask about his abuse as a child and she relayed to question to Agent Booth. She saw him slowly come to a halt, look at her and then towards the mirror. She knew he had held a lot of interrogations so he knew how it worked and she suspected he knew exactly why she had asked that question. As he walked out of the room, she glanced at the mirror and shrugged her shoulders, indicating there was nothing she could've done. Perrotta waited patiently until Agent Booth came back in and firmly sat back down. He looked towards her with a slightly impatient glance,

'Do YOU have anymore questions.'

She smiled. She knew exactly what he meant and took the earpiece out with an apologetic smile. Perrotta knew that he had lost a bit of trust in her after that act and she knew for this case to work out well, he had to trust her. So, to try get him back on her side, and the fact that he was an extremely good looking man, her next question just popped out.

'Yeah. You work out much?'

She saw the smirk on his face as he answered.

'Yeah I'm pretty consistent.'

'You look like you take excellent care of yourself.'

Agent Booth had told her of his plan on how to get a blood sample to compare the evidence to, and she and Dr Brennan were sitting on the sideline watching as the team got ready to play, though her thoughts were not on the game. Instead, they were on Agent Booth. She realised that when he talked to her, his eyes twinkled as he grinned while looking at her and he seemed to flirt with her. She wondered if he did that to everyone and figured that Dr Brennan knew the answer to that considering how much time the two of them spent together so she asked her about him.

'Is he the kind of guy that, uh, you know, I... Is he flirty?'

She looked confused at her question.

'Flirty?'

'Would you say he twinkles his eyes at all women?'

Of course the good doctor gave a scientific response.

'Twinkly eyes actually result when the pupils dilate very wide which is an unconscious result of intense interest or sexual attraction.'

'So, no, he doesn't twinkle at everyone?

'No.'

The answer made Perrotta happy.

'Alright.'

That was good to know.

The aim of Agent Booth playing this game was to get blood out of the suspect which resulted in a very violent game. The two of them quickly stood up when they saw Booth get pushed and his head hit the ground without his helmet, and Dr Brennan went running, not caring about anyone else, when she realised he wasn't getting up.

Perrotta watched from the sideline as the good doctor and Wendell walked him off the ice. Dr Brennan looked extremely worried at Agent Booth who looked dazed and out of it.

Ms Julian was telling Dr Hodgins and Wendell off for going to the victim's apartment but Perrotta defended them because she was amazed that a picture of dead fish lead them to finding the jewels. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw the two men looking at her with a newfound respect. Ms Julian however gave her a look and shook her head.

'You've been taken hostage by the squints Agent Perrotta.'

Dr Hodgins and Wendell started theorising about the stolen jewels and this time Dr Saroyan said that now they were straying out of their territory but Ms Julian grudgingly said that they were right.

Perrotta was constantly amazed by the skill that these people had.

'My people were right.'

Four sets of eyes sharply looked at her and gave her incredulous looks. They spoke in unison,

'Your people?!'

Wendall and and Hodgins continued from opposite her.

'We're Booth's people.'

Ms Julian gave a grunt of approval.

Ooookay then. These people were fiercely loyal to Agent Booth.

Perrotta was with Agent Booth and Dr Brennan in the conference room, and they were talking to the three men, one of which was the suspect. Perrotta saw why the Agent and the Doctor were a good team. Dr Brennan gave the facts, then Agent Booth interpreted them for the suspects, the two of them effortlessly finishing each other's sentences. After the guy confessed, she saw the two of them give each other a look. They seemed to know each other inside making them a very good team.