Two Booths in the Room
What happens when Booth's half sister (the one he has never mentioned to anyone) shows up to work at the Jeffersonian. Takes place during the hiatus of season 6 and season 7.
Brennan stepped into the shower letting the hot water beat down on her tired body. She and Booth had just finished up a tough case and Bones being 3 months pregnant was starting to make even easy cases tiring. Bones had gone home to get some rest while Booth stayed back in his office filling out paper for the case they had just finished. It was still early in the day, barely 2:00 PM. Brennan had figured that after her shower she could sneak back over to work and get some of her own work done while she could.
After getting ready she got in her car and drove the short distance to The Jeffersonian. When she walked in she went straight to her office and never noticed that Cam was talking to a woman who shared the same warm familiar brown eyes as someone that was very close to Brennan. Brennan went into her office and left the door open as she turned on her computer.
"Did you see her yet?" Angela asked as she hurriedly walked into Bones' office.
"Angie, I told you already Booth and I have decided to not know the baby's sex until the day it is born and the fact that you are calling the baby a girl shows me that you would prefer that I have a girl." Bones said.
"OK… I'll take that to mean no. Cam hired a new assistant for you. She would be full time that way you wouldn't have to worry about going through a list of students and not finding the right fit for you."
"How do you know that the woman Cam hired won't be a good fit… I have yet to meet her and I would prefer if we met so that I could check her credentials." Bones said standing up and walking past Angela.
"Oh… this should be good." Angela mumbled as she followed Bones out into the main forensics floor in search of Cam.
"Cam! Why didn't you tell me you were hiring a full time assistant? I would have liked to properly check her credentials. I highly doubt that you could pick someone that I would find helpful." Brennan said when she found Cam talking to the same woman that she had not noticed earlier. The woman turned around and was listening to Bones. "She does not look as though she is a competent anthropologist nor does she look as though she would make a good assistant. However… have we met before because your zygomatic bones look very familiar along with your brow. Maybe you have been to one of my seminars."
"No Dr. Brennan… I can't say I have but I would really love to sometime." The new assistant said.
"BONES! There you are! I thought I told you to go… home… and… SARAH? Is that you?" Booth boomed from the direction of Bones' office.
"SEELEY? I didn't think you worked at the Jeffersonian. Jared told me you worked in the FBI!" The new assistant said taking a few steps toward Booth and embracing him in a hug.
"I do work for the FBI but I also work with these squints. What are you even doing here? Last I heard you had taken off to Florida to go to college." Booth said staring at the woman.
"I did… but I got in touch with Jared a few weeks ago finally. He said you were in DC and I told him I was headed this way in search of a job. He offered to help me out and here I am."
"Wait… you got a job here? At the Jeffersonian? Doing what?"
"I hired her as Dr. Brennan's new assistant." Cam piped in. "Her credentials are amazing and I couldn't pass her up. Dr. Brennan… this is why I knew you didn't need to interview Sarah. She is an amazing doctor of anthropology and she is Booth's kid sister and I knew that would be enough for you." Cam said knowing that Brennan would do anything for Booth and the people he loved.
"OK well Cam… I will trust your judgment." Brennan said. She then turned on her heal and walked back to her office.
"I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say you didn't tell her you had a younger sister." Angela said. Booth turned and went off after Bones.
"I probably should have called Seeley, but I kinda figured that Jared would let him know."
Booth walked into Bones' office to find her glaring at her computer.
"Bones… I'm sorry."
"Booth what are you sorry for? You felt you didn't have to let me know about your sister… ok." Bones said never looking up.
"No but I should have told you. And I don't really know why I didn't. I'm not ashamed of her or anything… I mean I guess I used to be but I grew up and I guess I never really thought about her." Booth said. Bones looked up at him.
"What do you mean you USED to be ashamed of her? I don't know what that means." Bones said.
"Sarah isn't my full sister. She is my half sister. On one of my father's drinking binges he went down to a bar just down from us and had a one night stand with Sarah's mom. He never knew that she was pregnant until she showed up one day when Sarah was 4 and said she was in some trouble and had to bring her somewhere. A week later my dad left and my mom was stuck raising the three of us. I always hated Sarah because in my eyes I felt she was the reason my dad left. Ya know… I was just about a teenager and it was an odd age. I never brought her up because according to my mom the minute Sarah graduated she was gone and I figured that she would stay gone. I tracked her down to the University of Florida and made Jarred look in on her every now and then." Booth said. Bones was looking at him with a look of thoughtfulness.
"Booth you know it can't be a child's fault who their parents are and how they came to be." Bones said.
"I know that now Bones but when I was younger I never looked at it that way." Booth said.
"I must be honest with you Booth. I am very angry that you never told me about your sister even if you did dislike her and her mother." Bones said. "I understand that there are mixed feelings about her but that doesn't mean that you couldn't have told me at least."
Both Bones and Booth looked up when they heard a knock at Bones' office door.
It was Sarah.
"I'm sorry for interrupting… Seeley, can I speak with Dr. Brennan alone?" Sarah asked.
"Uh… yeah of course. Bones I'll check in on you in a bit." Booth said before eyeing his sister and walking out of the office.
"Dr. Brennan, I never meant to cause any trouble… I had no idea that you and Seeley were partners. Jared failed to mention that taking the forensic anthropologist assistant job would mean that I'd be working with people that Seeley comes in contact with everyday." Sarah said sitting down across form Bones.
"Dr. Booth, you don't have to apologize even though you coming here has caused some stress between Booth and I but you were not aware that he was here so that cannot be your fault." Bones said.
"I guess we are on the same boat…" Sarah said.
"We are not on a boat;" Brennan interrupted "we are in the Jeffersonian lab. But you didn't mean literally did you?" Brennan smiled at the younger woman.
"No, Dr. Brennan I didn't mean literal. I just meant that he didn't tell you he had a sister just like when Jared mentioned the job here he never mentioned that Seeley worked side by side with you." Sarah said.
"Well, it's too late to worry about it now so let's get to work. I'll give you the tour of the lab. I have some time before I need to get started on some work I came back to do. You can help with that." Brennan stood up and walked out of her office. Sarah followed.
Outside of the office Booth was standing waiting on the two women.
"How'd it go?" He asked.
"It went well but I find that I am still slightly angry with you therefore I don't want to see you at this moment so will you please go and I will call you when I'm done here and we can go eat." Bones said.
"Ok… ok." Booth said leaning into kiss Brennan but she pulled away.
"Booth, I'm angry with you which means you can not kiss me."
"Who made that a rule… Bones that's not a rule."
"It is a rule. I just made it. Goodbye." Bones said as she turned on her heal and walked away.
Sarah stood glancing between her brother and her new boss. She then turned apprehensively and followed Bones.
Bones took Sarah around the entire Jeffersonian forensic lab. She introduced her to the "Bone room", they went by Hodgins' lab, they even went by to see Cam's lab. After that Bones went up onto the platform to begin looking at a few bones that had been sent in earlier in the day while she and Booth were working on the case. There were 3 bones; 2 ribs and a vertabrae.
"Sarah, look at these bones and tell me what you see." Bones said.
"Well there is a great amount of bruising on the two ribs which shows that the person had some sort of blount force trama to the left side of their body that only managed to bruise these two ribs but not break them. However it looks like these two ribs did not take the full force of the hit. Notice how this one is darker than the other one which more than likely means that the two ribs directly under these two are both broken." Sarah was talking herself through the process.
"Really great work Sarah. Do you believe that the hit could have been fatal?"
"Not likely… the bruising is dark but not too dark which means that even though this was an extrmely hard hit there is no way that it killed anyone." Sarah said.
"Welcome to the staff Dr. Booth." Bones said. The words felt very foreign to her as she said them.
"Thank you Dr. Brennan." Sarah said as she took her glove off and shook Bones' hand.
"Would you like to come have dinner with Booth and I? I'd greatly appreciate it if you did."
"I would love to."
REVIEWS GREATLY APPRECIATED! First Bones story.