Written like a real episode, chapters are scenes. I do not own Bones or any of the characters, except the ones I made up for this story.

Title: Man in the Manure

Extended summary: Brennan and Booth investigate a body found on a farm. Angela tries out the interrogation room, Booth pays consequences for what he said to the girls in the lab.

I apologize in advance about this chapter and parts of the next one considering I know absolutely nothing about farms.

Set in season 5, I guess, except Zach is still there

Setting: Hot sunny day on a farm:

A tall, skinny boy, no older than his late teens, wearing a red and white baseball cap and dirty, worn jean overalls, pushes a wheelbarrow up to a barn door. He grunts and slides the door open, wincing at the putrid odor that greets him.

He is not surprised though, this is the manure house, where all the manure from the cows is stored to be used as fertilizer for the crops. He pushes the wheelbarrow into the dark barn, where the sunlight from outside makes thousands of particles of dust visible floating through the air; and flies.

He grabs a pitchfork leaning against the inside wall. The manure is not randomly thrown in there, it is organized in some form. He maneuvers his way to a certain pile and thrusts the pitchfork deep into the pile.

"Ughh!" he mutters as a different smell is introduced to the air when he pulls the pitchfork out, full of manure. He ignores it, and dumps the dark brown mush into the wheelbarrow.

Wiping sweat off his head with the back of his hand, and he thrusts the pitchfork in once more. He hears a thump and feels a jolt in the pitchfork that goes all the way up to his shoulders. He frowns and pulls the pitchfork out, then scoops away the manure above where he felt the thump.

A skull, mouth wide open, fragments of flesh still intact, screams silently back at him.

He jumps back and just stares for a moment, his whole body shaking, feeling like his eyes are about to pop out of his head.

He felt the pitchfork fall from his hand and he stumbles backwards, tripping over the wheelbarrow and lands on his butt on the other side of it. He scurries to his feet and runs out of the building. The mangled skull stares blankly into the air.