I do not own Bones. Or Lie to me. In Between the Finger in the Nest and The Perfect Pieces in the Purple Pond, Assume there was a week between them.

Mimi is played by Cindi Williams of Laverne & Shirley fame. I know she's about 10 years too young to play Mimi. Mimi just has really good genes and looks good for her age. My OC Penelope Ruth Bailey looks like a miniature Bones with a Pageboy cut, purple rectangle glasses, and always wearing purple suits, and Purple Converse High tops. And pretend Bones discovered during the Women and Limbo that her mother had given birth less than a year ago. And her father told her during their reunion that the baby was stillborn.

15 year old Penelope Ruth Bailey had been in foster system since she was ten. Her first year was pretty Horrible but then she was placed with Mimi, and Mimi was awesome. Mimi was just like having a loving Mom again, even if she did believed in spanking as loving discipline and the Mom who raised her for the first ten years of her life didn't believe in any spanking. She had degrees in computer forensics, forensic art, psychology, and a stint as an intern at the Lightman group. She was now going to be working at the Jeffersonian under Angela Montenegro. That's if she was hired.

"Here's my Resume Ms. Montenegro." She sat like a lady like Mimi taught her.

"Purple?" She asked the resume paper was a light lavender color, and a high rag count.

"Purple is my signature color." Angela looked at her outfit she was wearing a Purple pinstriped suit, purple converse High-tops, and a light purple linen blouse, her Dark brown hair was in a page boy cut, and her inquisitive sparkling familiar blue eyes were behind Purple rectangular glasses.

Angela smiled. "I can see that, I see you interned at the Lightman group? The Deception Detection people?'

"Yes, well all emotions really, I'm what Dr. Lightman calls a natural, I can tell emotions easily without training, highly educated naturals are rare enough that he wanted to study me, it helped me out because it allowed me to get my psych credits and lightened my class load, it also trained me in a skill, that is useful in real life."

"And went to school here at American University."

"Yes, they were two bachelors masters combined programs you get both in five years, in Computer Forensics and Forensics Art, and I also have a Bachelor's in Psychology."

"Are you going to get a master's in psychology?"

"Eventually yes, getting it sooner rather than later depends on whether I get this job. I have a standing offer from the Lightman group, it's not my chosen career, being a forensic artist is, but It is work, for which I have a degree, in this area, Because I'm in foster care I can't leave the area and My mother left me more than enough money to pursue more education in Psychology, Even I wanted two or three more degrees."

"I'm going to show you how to work my Angelator and then I'm going to give you a skull for bone storage, and you're going to reconstruct it for me."

"No Problem….Ms. Montenegro…."

"Angela please….."

"Bailey please, I got stuck with Penelope Ruth, which isn't as bad as Pookie Noodlin but its bad enough to go by my last name."

"Looks like you've done some digging…." After she schools her features away from shock.

"I did it almost everyone in the lab, your shrink, interns, and FBI Guy too."

"You have the files with you."

"Yeah." the girl hands digs into her light purple bag, and pulls out lavender colored manila file folders, she hands them over. After being taught how to use the machine Bailey passed her test with flying colors the truth was of five applicants she was the only one remotely qualified.

"Cam, of the five applicants she was the only one with the necessary qualifications and skills she's actually over qualified but because of her age, it's difficult for her to get jobs, She's a sweet kid, and she's is foster system I don't want to make it difficult for her to get a job. She's also an expert hacker, she assembled files on all our personnel."

"She actually tipped her hand?"

"I think she was trying to impress me, she knows the job entails research."

"You can hire her Angela, once the background check comes through, no need for a hard sell, we just need those documents filled out from her legal guardian and a copy of either her social security card or birth certificate."

"You think she even has her birth certificate?"

"Her Social Worker would have a copy." Cam said. "And if she doesn't have that she'll have her Social Security card because she intends to find employment which is what is really needed."

Meanwhile at Mimi's Bakery, Bailey entered and said hello to the counter help. Natalie Hall. A college sophomore, who was worked at the bakery for extra cash, because it was close to American University.

"Hey, Nat…Mimi around?" She asked of her Guardian Miranda "Mimi" Callahan, Mimi was tough she was a in the army as a Clerk/Typist until she got pregnant in early 1974, and discharged she still worked as a civilian in a VA hospital though. She was assigned to Saigon for most of that. She was married for 15 from 1971 to 1986, before he died in 1986 on a mission in Honduras. They had one Biological child, Danny who was serving in the army as a Staff sergeant.

"She's in the back…How'd it go?"

"They're going to do a background check."

Angela looked at the screen, this kid has had it pretty rough, first her mother was killed in front of her, then she was shot twice, she had to recover, testify, then she had a rough two separate foster homes, both were physically abusive, one was sexually abusive to another girl her age, but they could never prove if they were to her as well, the physical evidence was inconclusive and she denied it. But the abuser mysteriously died before he could be tried. He was practically gutted, and his member was well dismembered, while he was alive, he was stabbed in the same place, as the deputy director and burned alive. Wow, then she found Miranda Callahan and she's been with her since, her adoption by Elizabeth Bailey was both legal and illegal, there was a first dummy birth certificate with doctored papers that was illegal, and a second private adoption to Elizabeth Bailey with Ruth and Max Keenan that was 100% legal, and her birth parents are suspected criminals Max and Ruth Keenan. Oh My God. She really needs to show this evidence to Brennan, but she needs to Cam first or Booth. She call Booth.

"Alright, Angela, I'm here. Why am I here?" Booth came in followed minutes later by Cam. She handed them each an identical folder.

"I was backgrounding the candidate for my new assistant Booth and I found some things….' She handed him the print out and he read, and read, and read.

"She's still in foster care?"

"She's only 15, she was probably born just a few months before, Bren's mom died….Liz Bailey, probably treated her on the sly and then adopted her and doctored the paperwork."

"Probably, this is Low Level, it was never bumped up, or she would have been in danger when the deputy director was taking shots at Russ and Bones."

"And she never was. I don't think anyone besides the Major Crimes Unit of the DC Police Department knows anything about this the connection or the Liz Bailey's murder, and I don't think anybody but DC Sex Crimes knew about the Pedophile's Murder…..." Angela said.

"We need that evidence. I'm going to call this Detective, Detective Capp in Major Crimes for the Evidence and Detective Morris in Sex Crimes…." After calling he was even more convinced this was truth, but the evidence was being delivered to the lab, Capp had no use for it, Detective Morris was pretty helpful too. Now they just needed a blood draw on Bailey. The background check was mostly complete Angela called Bailey and had her come in with her guardian and her paperwork, that afternoon.

"Hello, Ms. Montenegro there is paperwork you want me to fill out."

"Well, yes and you have the job either way but I'd like you to submit to DNA test blood, hair or cheek swab."

"Why?"

"during the background check we discovered that your biological parents were Max and Ruth Keenan, it's little known but Dr. Brennan's parent's real names are Max and Ruth Keenan, She hasn't agreed to submit her DNA yet, but we'd like to compare your DNA to hers."

"I understand and I agree, any chance I have to find out about my past I'll take it."

Mimi was a little more cautious. "Wait a second, if this Brennan person comes up as her sister, will she take care of her. I'd rather her not know if this woman is just going to break her heart."

"Brennan's a very compassionate woman." Angela said. "She highly intelligent and sees things rationally, but she's very kind and has a very big heart, her experience in foster care was much colder than Bailey's, she never found a safe haven, and aged out of the system she would not want her sister or anyone to go through similar experience if she could help it. She's a registered foster parent, but as she's blood relative she would only have to claim that status."

"You'd think she'd do that."

"I think she'd want to, and she'd fight with herself over it, because she's scared of the parent she'd be ultimately yes she would."

'Then I consent to her getting the test." Mimi said.

Cam comes over "All right Ms. Bailey which method do you prefer?"

"Any is fine with me, I'm not afraid of needles, and I'm told my various Phlebotomists I have excellent veins, I'm very well hydrated to the cheek swab won't be a problem, and I don't dye my hair so hair follicle comparison won't either."

"You're very well informed." Cam said. "And while hair die does make it slightly difficult for anyone with any real skill it isn't much of a challenge."

"We have Dr. Brennan's DNA on file, I can do with analysis without taking a sample from her. I think I'll take all three from you, so it will be harder to refute the findings."

Bailey nodded, they took all three and she soon compared it to the reference sample of Dr. Brennan it would take a while to compare. Bailey was taken to get her security badge, and lab coat, and shown to her locker.

Booth got a Phone call they had a case. As usual it was rather strange case. A man, well a boy he was 14 at the time of death had been smoked like beef jerky.

"Smoking takes a long time, it's probably 2 to 3 years to sustain this type of desiccation maybe more." Bailey said. As she and Angela were taking pictures, Dr. Saroyan, Dr. Brennan is unhappy because she has no Intern this week.

"Who is this? Is this my new Intern?"

"She's my new assistant Sweetie, Penelope Bailey, Bailey this is Dr. Brennan."

"Pleased to meet you, Dr. Brennan."

"You as well, you are quite correct about the time it would take to arrive at this level of desiccation, I am also sorry to say that the deceased it not an adult, it is a child, approximately 14 years old age, a male, of three quarters Caucasian and one quarter Asian descent, he was approximately 167.67 Centimeters, and 52 Kilograms when he was alive."

"5'6 and just under 115 pound." Bailey said.

"Yes."

They continued to work. Bailey helped with the reconstruction. The boy was ID'd as Kwon Gareth, a 14 year old high school student of St. Anthony's in Alexandria, his parents were Dr. Michael Gareth and Dr. Lisa Richmond-Gareth, both professors at Georgetown. Dr. Richmond-Gareth's Mother was a first generation Korean American adopted by white parents after the war and her father was Caucasian, they grew up sweethearts, Kwon was the name of her Biological grandfather who died saving her mother's life and so she could get out of Korea. Kwon had been killed when he stumbled on the secrets of the boys' gym coach, but he knew too much and wasn't his type, racism both saved him from rape, and doomed him to an early death and entombment in the school's smokestack. After the case was over, Brennan and Bailey were sitting on the table on the second floor of the lab, Brennan drinking coffee, Bailey drinking hot chocolate out of a purple Snoopy Mug, with sayings like Be cool, be Loved, Be Unique, Be Silly, Be loyal. Brennan wondered where she got both. They had finished their early in the morning, so they everything paperwork was wrapped up by 11:30, so unless another case came in, or some ancient bones for her to examine there really was nothing to do. she could go to modular bone storage for a set of remains to identity but with no intern to help her she just didn't feel like it, and despite Ms. Bailey's advanced knowledge of the skeletal structure she would expect nothing less being raised by the east coast's most respected Orthopedic surgeon for the first ten years of her life, she was not a forensic anthropologist or a forensic anthropology intern, she was a forensic artist, and even though she and everyone else was impressed with her skills, and depth of knowledge didn't change that fact. She was very young and still in foster care but while She Brennan had floundered in foster care, Bailey had found a safe haven. But there was some reason why she has not been adopted, and it must terrify her that she can be taken away from the woman who has raised and taken care of her for the past four years. Four years was a really good stretch for a foster home, Brennan knew, but she also knew that the fear she would be taken away was still there, that even though she was comfortable and found a home it could and would be snatched away. She wished there could be something she could say to reassure this girl, but she knew there wasn't their experiences were completely different and anything she had to say would most likely scare her. She would know the statistics she would know the reality and facts, she wouldn't lie to herself. She'd know she couldn't afford to. Cam, Angela and Booth approached them.

"Dr. Brennan we need to discuss some findings with you." Cam said.

"I thought the case was closed.

"It's a different case, Bones it's related to your parents' case. Several months before she died she gave birth…."

"My father said the baby was stillborn."

"He arranged an illegal adoption on July 30th, 1993. She was adopted by Dr. Elizabeth Bailey, whose father Gordon "Gordo" Bailey was an old acquaintance of your father's in the 1960s.

"Bailey, Ms. Penelope Bailey."

"Bailey or Pen, whichever. They DNA tested us, Which I'm sure they'll tell us the results of right now."

"It was conclusive, 99.79% Penelope Ruth Bailey are either the Mother, sister or daughter of Temperance Brennan."

"Well as Dino once said 'Ain't that a kick in the head."

"A Kick in the head would most likely cause a Medium to severe Concussion." Brennan said.

"It's a song Dr. Brennan one of my favorites, I wasn't speaking literally. It was my way of saying what a surprising bit of news."

Dr. Brennan nodded. "Yes, it is."

"You Listen to Dean Martin?" Booth asked.

"I listen to pretty much everything but rap, and Chinese Opera, but there are certain genres I gravitate toward. Jazz, Blues, country, rock, the rat pack, big band are among my favorites, and some of them you get to mix and match."

"You consented to this test?"

"My guardian Miranda Callahan consented but I did as well, I wanted to know if I had any more family out there family that might be there for me if anything happened to Mimi or possibly get me out of the system altogether. I love Mimi so much she's been so good to me, so much better than I could hope after the hell that was my first year in the system, I haven't given Social Services a reason, and neither has Mimi, but a medical condition, an accident, an attack, it wouldn't take much prompting for social services to stick their collective noses into our lives you know that, they pay very little attention when you need it until the second you need them to mind their own business…and then they drown you in red tape and bureaucracy."

"As a whole I'd have to agree, but Social Workers are overworked and underpaid, and they do very good work, the rules are there to protect their charges, and more than once those rules saved me from a very bad situation."

"I suppose you're right, but My parents signed away their legal rights, My mother is dead, but because My father is a criminal on the run the state used that as a way to block my adoption from Mimi, I'm stuck in foster care for another three years."

"Or a Biological relative steps forward." Brennan said.

"I've been reading up on your….our parents. I don't want to live with Max and I don't think he's going to step forward anyway."

"No, and I think it's better for you that he doesn't. I was thinking of myself. Our brother has two small girls, and one has Cystic Fibrosis, he can't care for you, nor is moving to North Carolina optimal for your current career path, However I have a guest room, my taking custody is best you can still see Ms. Callahan I won't take her away from you I wouldn't do that but If I gain custody, social Services can't ever take you away from me. I am blood relative, and after they're sure we're settled somewhere between two and four months they'll be no more visits from social workers, you'll be free from Social Services forever."

"Are you going to do that? It might look like nepotism is I was employed by the lab?"

"You applied and were hired before we did the test." Dr. Saroyan

"And you were the only applicant who managed to come anywhere close to using the angelator to get the results we needed yours was almost identical to my reconstruction, allowances can be made for both experience and not knowing the equipment well, you also have the second degree in computer forensics which none of the other applicants have, and a better understanding of the basic architecture of the skull and skeletal structure of the human body none of the other applicants had that at all that's a very important part of what we do here."

"I agree." Brennan said.

"So how do we get the custody changed?" Bailey asked.

"We take this evidence to your caseworker." Mimi said.

"We have to call Jonah?" She didn't like Jonah. The feeling was mutual. She missed her old Social Worker Mrs. White, She hated that she got breast cancer, and then retired. Even if she did see the logic she was 67 when she was diagnosed. And it took two years to finally beat it. Jonah cared and was a good person and all but he was a self-righteous pain in the butt too, and he didn't like her, he made that very clear, either that or as Mimi pointed out he was just stiff unwelcoming, obnoxious, and awkward in general as part of his personality and had nothing to do with her which she granted was entirely possible. When she pointed it out she made her promise to be polite and then threated a 5,000 word essay on the subject, an early bedtime and no recreational use of electronics. If it wouldn't be so hard to explain a sore ass to her coworkers at the Jeffersonian she'd almost rather get a spanking, but she wasn't going to get punished at all if she could help it. And except for random swats, she hadn't been spanked since she was 13. She certainly wasn't going to tempt fate by wishing for one. She'd had her mouth washed out, and she knew if she was outright rude, and not just less than polite, that would be part of the punishment as well.

"And he'll call the family court judge and get a hearing. Dr. Brennan you should get a lawyer that specializes in family law. The law firm that handles your affairs probably doesn't have what you need, any of their lawyers that family law would be used to handling messy multi-million divorce cases not social services you need to go to a law firm that specifically handles family law." Mimi said. "Sarah Walsh, has a good firm, but if you want to win this case go to Aaron Gideon, He's the best family lawyer in the city, he doesn't really do messy divorce case crap unless there's abuse, but when it comes to social services and adoption he's who you want."

"Thank you." Brennan said.

Everyone got their respective balls rolling, and luckily there were no murders for the next few days. Miranda "Mimi" Callahan, Dr. Temperance Brennan, and Penelope Bailey met with Jonah Amsterdam.

"I see everything's in order for you to get custody Dr. Brennan now all we need is a judge to sign off on it, let me see if I can get us a hearing sooner rather than later." He picks up the phone. "Ray, It's Jonah, what is Judge Murphy's calendar like, well I have a kid who's 15, she'd found her blood family, she's been in foster care since she was 10, she's in a good place now, but she doesn't want the chance that Social Services will yank her out of there until her older sister can get custody, Bio dad was a wanted fugitive for most of her life, and has never claimed custody, he arranged an illegal adoption, basically abandoning her. Next Friday 10 am. Thanks man. I'll send you the paperwork so you can put on her docket" He hangs up. They look at him. "Old friend we were in the same Scout troop together."

"Service to others is the rent we pay for our room here on earth." Bailey said "Mohamad Ali."

"Well put. You never think of Mohamad Ali of much of a philosopher, but true we should serve our fellow man. We are here for more than just ourselves." Jonah said. "I know a week and half seems like a long time, but really it's quite remarkable he was able to find us a time slot so quickly. I knew he'd help me out but it was more likely to be three weeks or four, as opposed to the six weeks to eight weeks if we'd done it by the book."

"Thank you Jonah, I know I haven't always been the most polite to you." Bailey said.

"You're polite than most of my clients, I know I come off as awkward and a bit obnoxious, but it's not my intention, it's part of my social anxiety, I'm working on it."

Aw, hell. Bailey was thinking no I really have to be polite to him. Or Mimi will spank between the meeting with Jonah and the hearing they got a case. A real interesting case, involving a headless corpse hacked into several manageable pieces in an industrial pool with algae growing on the bottom of it. When the young man who found the body parts urinated in the pool, it caused the water to turn purple. The team which includes Bailey, Dr. Sweets, and Brennan's latest intern Wendell Bray, make great strides in the case but still can't solve it because of the missing head, Dr. Hodgins asks an Institutionalized Zack Addy for help with the case causing the man to escape to offer his insights and the one clue needed to put the killer away. Angela, Zack, Hodgins and Cam go out to the diner. Bailey sits with Wendell.

"You're not staying are you?"

"There's no place for me here."

"Maybe not his place, but there is a place, I saw the way she looked at him, and I saw the way she interacted with you, and me when I was assisting in the last case, Dr. Brennan isn't ever going to pick a single intern because none of them are him. So you'll be back."

"Really?"

"Definitely."

"What makes you so sure?"

"Interned for 13 months at the Lightman group, I'm well-schooled on Micro-expressions, body language, and hidden emotions."

"Good to know."

"See you around Wendell."

'How are you getting home?"

"Bus…."

"I'll give you a ride."

"Cool, I got gas money, Hey I get paid way more than you do and I have a second job at a bakery, I'm just not old enough to get a learner's permit."

"Fair enough."