AN: AND SO IT BEGINS PEOPLE, THE SEQUEL TO THE LIFE AND TIMES OF A CHILD ON THE STREETS
Crimes of Passion
For the past number of months, Temperance Brennan had done her usual. Or the usual to her now. She went to work, solved murders, spent time with her partner, who was now her boyfriend, and spent a lot of time on her phone.
Brennan spent a lot of her time, talking to a teenager she met about a year ago. Her name was Alexis, and for a street kid, or any kid for that matter, she was amazing
She was intelligent, fast, strong, and amazing to get along with
Alexis had joined the Jeffersonian family quickly, becoming incredibly close to Brennan and Booth
They were her family. The orphaned Alexis finally got the family she wanted
She also got another of her dreams, to go to college
10 months ago Alexis had applied to go to West Virginia University, and got in. She left 2 weeks after that, but kept in touch with everyone at the Jeffersonian
Alexis was out of school for the summer, finally. She drove up to Washington, and knelt down next to her husky/wolf mix dog "Alright Rozy," she said "I want you to be quiet. No one knows I was coming back this early, much less today. You understand?"
Rozalyn shook out her long hair and panted, nodding her head to show she understood
Alexis smiled "Good," she said leaning forward to kiss the dog on her head "Let's go."
Alexis crept forward and slipped through the glass doors of the Jeffersonian. She ducked behind one of the walls and looked forward. She saw Brennan and Zack leaning over a skeleton, Angela was looking down at her sketch pad, explaining her drawing, and Hodgins was excited over finding gold and silver particulates on the bones.
Alexis smiled and snuck forward, ducking behind one of the bars. Angela looked over and noticed Alexis, she smiled wide, but Alexis brought her finger to her lip
Angela smiled and looked back to her drawing
Alexis snuck forward and ducked down below the platform, she snuck up onto the platform when an intern slid their card through the slot and walked onto the platform.
She snuck forward and pushed on Brennan's side
Brennan yelped and spun about to punch whoever was behind her but stopped
"Ya miss me?" Alexis asked
Brennan smiled and pulled Alexis into a hug "Of course I did," she said with a smile "How have you been?"
"Great," Alexis said pulling back and smacking her thigh "Come up Rozy!"
Rozalyn jumped up the steps and ran to each of the team excitedly, licking their hands in hello
"So you bring the pictures?" Brennan asked
Alexis laughed and pulled out her phone. She went to the pictures and pulled up pictures that held her and another man. The man was muscular, with gold and black hair, and deep blue eyes.
Angela whistled "He's hot," she said
"Who is he?" Booth asked as he snuck up behind the group of woman
"Nice to see you too, you look great. I'm fine thanks for asking," Alexis said sarcastically
Booth chuckled and hugged Alexis still looking at her phone "I love you and I'm glad that you are home, now tell me, who is he?"
"My boyfriend," Alexis said
"Hm," Booth said
Alexis laughed "Don't go all FBI stalker on me, he is a nice guy, I don't get to see him much, but I talk to him a lot."
"Why don't you get to see him?" Booth asked
"Because he is in the naval academy, they only let the students out for a little while on Saturdays, and I'm too far away," Alexis said
Booth scowled "Navy."
"Get over it," Alexis said
Brennan smiled and pulled his arms around her, leaning up to cover his mouth with hers "Hi," she said happily
"Hello," Booth said with a sly smile, resting his head against her's
"I find it incredibly adorable that when you guys are holding each other, the whole world fades away," Alexis said
"What?" Brennan asked
"Now that's kind of annoying," Alexis pointed out
Brennan smiled "It's called repayment for always interrupting us."
"It's my job!" Alexis said
Alexis phone started ringing and smiled
"Is that Jace?" Brennan asked
"Yes, excuse me," Alexis said flipping up her phone and walking out of the Jeffersonian
"So are you coming over tonight?" Brennan asked
Booth sighed "I can't, I have so much paperwork there is no way I will be able to finish it before you are asleep."
"Do you want me to help you?" Brennan asked
"I don't think there is anything you can help me with Bones," Booth said sadly
Brennan laughed "Don't worry Booth, it's ok."
"You sure?"
"Yes," Brennan said
Booth sighed "I'm sorry."
"You have nothing to be sorry about," Brennan said seductively leaning up to catch his lips again
Cam sighed and took a cup of cold water and threw it to their faces
Alexis started laughing as she walked inside "I'm taking that you have been warned?" she asked still laughing
Brennan strained the water out of her now wet hair, and gave Cam an evil glare "Yes, we have been."
"Well now I know she was serious," Booth said wiping off his face
"Yes, she was, Bren lets go," Alexis said
"Go? Go where? Show me this case you have been talking about duh!" Alexis said
Brennan laughed "Follow me," she said walking towards her office
"I gotta go," Booth said, pulling Brennan back to kiss her good bye "Love you."
"Love you too, talk to you later," Brennan said waving him off and walking into her office
Rozalyn ran through the doors and jumped onto the couch, stretching out and panting
"Lazy," Alexis said
Brennan chuckled and motioned for the portable white board behind her "Have fun." She said
"Wow!" Alexis said "These bodies were mutilated!"
"Yes, their eyes were gouged out, their lips sewn together, each with a pin shoved down their throat," Brennan said
"Can I see the pin?" Alexis asked
Brennan handed Alexis an evidence bag, with a pin inside it
"A heart?" she asked
"Yes with 'Love' engraved in it," Brennan pointed out
"Ok, I hate psychology, but this has to be a crime of passion," Alexis said
