Ok, this is my first Unnatural story, and this will hopefully be the first story that I will actually compleate, if only because I don't have to think too much outside of the story itself. This does feature an OC, but hopefully she's not totally horrible/hated by everyone. While this story references Bones characters, it won't be classified as a crossover, and as you read the reason should be obvious. If not, then read the A/N at the end of the story. Anyway here's chapter 1:
Chapter 1: Pilot part 1
Henry walked through Smithson High on his first day, his cousin Jasper at his side. He thought he saw a familiar shock of red hair, a second glance told him that he was being ridiculous though. There was no way the girl kneeling in front of her locker was Cate Brennan. Besides, wasn't Cate bemoaning how her mom was at a dig for a year, her dad training troops in Afghanistan, and her newlywed aunt and uncle were spending the year in France rather than deal with training new scientists to take over for her mom and a young woman named Daisy whom Cate hated for some reason in her last letter. Henry shrugged and followed his cousin, if it was Cate then awesome, if not, oh well, he'd write her soon.
Caetlyn "Cate" Brennan-Booth watched as Jasper lead some poor hapless new student through the halls, as he would say "one of the irks and perks to being the dean's son". She was decently close to him, he at least let her rant about her parents every once and a while especially during the 'oblivious' phase from '05-'07. Well, whoever the new kid was, she had first period with him and Jasp, so hopefully she'd find out then. Imagine Cate's surprise when the new kid turned out to be her Best Pen Pal Friend, Henry Griffin, and while she bemoaned the fate of 15 chapters to read, her delight at having her best friend back outweighed the extra reading. She walked out after one of the particularly bothersome jocks, and smiled, "The Great Henry Griffin gets himself in trouble again, and once again drags those around him for the ride!"
"I didn't know he'd punish the whole class!" Henry exclaimed without looking at her.
"Just like you didn't know the sink hole was under the weak tree branch that you said would support our weight?" Cate asked, Henry whipped around to look at her with surprise, his surprise then turned to joy when he recognized Cate.
"Cate! I thought you were in Indonesia with your mom?" Henry asked after hugging her.
"Nah, I'm being shipped between Uncle Russ and Aunt Cam's houses, poor Parker has to stay with his mom though," Cate answered.
"Parker's your dad's son, right?" Henry asked
"Yeah, glad to know you remember, do you remember Trey?"
"You're youngest brother?"
"Yeah, Mom took him to Indonesia with her, he's still going through a lot of firsts and Mom refused to miss any of them," Cate said.
"Ok how do you two know eachother?" Jasper asked, cutting in.
"Cate's mom, Dr. Booth and my parents ran a joint expedition like 10 years ago; anyway, Cate's adoption had just been finalized, so Dr. Booth wasn't too fond of the idea of leaving her behind. Of course my parents had me, so they encouraged Dr. Booth to bring Cate with her. We got into a huge mess of trouble, bigger than anything I'd gotten into before, and I doubt Cate's gotten into anything that bad since." Henry answered.
"I don't know, I've gotten into tons of stuff I couldn't tell you in the letters for any number of reasons," Cate replied, she smiled knowingly at Henry. "What about you two? How does the famous Jazz Bartlett know the great Henry Griffin?"
"Cousins" the two boys replied, shrugging their shoulders.
"Cool Cool, so Henry" Cate said linking arms with her best friend as they continued to walk down the hallway, "What are you doing for your internship?"
"Internship?"
"Yeah, we've all gotta put time in at the museum in any of the departments, I luck out every year since Mom works here, I work in the Jeffersonian Medico-Legal lab." Cate replied
"Is there anything in the Tesla Building?" Henry asked
"You want to investigate your godfather's death, don't you?" it wasn't a question, Cate knew Henry well enough to know that's exactly what he wanted to do. "I agree, I've been trying to get Aunt Cam to request the body for a second autopsy, there's no way in the Nine Gates of Hell Dante just had a heart attack."
"Don't encourage him!" Jasper cried. Both Cate and Henry glared at Jasper, shocked that he could be so insensitive.
"Anyway, I've got a kick-ass American Lit class to get to so, babay Henry, TTYL Jazz," Cate said, with a little wave at both of them before walking off. She couldn't wait to vid chat her mom and tell her about Henry's appearance. She smiled lightly to herself, Henry had become quite good looking in the past 10 years; the pictures they exchanged on their birthdays didn't do him any justice.
Henry too was surprised by Cate, he was glad to have someone who believed him though. He and Jasper breezed through the rest of the day and he went to begin his internship in the DOUM Rooms, or really he began his investigation into Dante's death. His delight over finding a clue quickly turned to annoyance when not only was the clue lost, but he was caught as well. His uncle threatened to send him to military school, but Henry was sure he was right so hopefully when he broke his uncle's rules to solve the murder then he wouldn't be in as much trouble. He looked up when Jasper held a cell phone out to him.
"Cate" was Jasper's only response. Henry nodded and accepted the phone.
"Bonjou" Henry greeted,
"Bonjou Henry, kijan ou ye?" Cate answered
"Well enough," Henry said after a pause. "I'm a bit rusty though."
"For shame Henry, not practicing you're Creole!" Cate laughed in reply.
"Well I was kind of busy getting myself out of other scrapes," Henry replied defensively.
"I know, I'm just teasing you. So, something tells me you found something out while you were supposed to be interning in the DOUM Rooms," Henry inferred that Jasper had called Cate when he heard his father's threat. He made a mental note to thank his cousin later.
"Well, I'm not saying anything, but I might have found a poisoned blow dart, I lost it though when the guard caught me." Henry sighed before beginning to pace.
"Poisoned blow dart? And you LOST IT! Hen, dude, seriously, we need to have a talk about properly handling potential evidence, were you wearing gloves?"
"No"
"Well then I guess it's good that you lost it, because that's tampering with evidence. I'll mention it to Aunt Cam though; she'll be more likely to request a second look at the body with this information. Anything else?" Cate's voice implied that her face was twisted into its thinking face, she was adding the information he gave her together like her mom had taught her.
"Well, I recognized the poison as a rare bird toxin, remember, I told you about the time with the witch doctor Otis. Dante wrote me a letter before I came to America, in it he mentioned he had found something, something close to his heart, but he said 'very' three times," Henry said, his face was also twisted into his thinking face.
"Why say 'very' three times unless it's a clue?"
"That's what I said."
"Rankontre nan tonbo Dante an nan yon moman?"
"Wi,"
"Wè ou lè"
"Wè ou lè" Henry handed Jasper, who had entered the room sometime near the end of the conversation, his phone back and set about meditating, effectively unnerving his cousin and driving him from the room so he could sneak out.
"Èske ou ka jwenn yon bagay? Sa ou te jwenn ou?" Cate asked when she saw Henry basically feeling up his godfather.
"Mwen pa konnen" Henry answered as he pulled his hand back. "A keychain?"
"How did they miss that during the first autopsy, I'm sure someone would have mentioned it!" Cate answered frustrated at such a large slip up. "Hang on; can you take his shirt off?"
"Um…" Henry was entirely unsure of himself.
"It shouldn't be that hard, at the funeral home they'd have put a pre-sewn suit on him that you just have to pull slightly…" Cate pulled on the shoulder of Dante's suit, instead of pulling up like she had expected and had seen done on countless bodies it pulled as if it really was his jacket. "Don't tell me…" she growled threateningly, and began unbuttoning the shirt a bit. All she found was an unblemished chest. "What the hell! Cate was beyond annoyed. "Anyone who knew Dante would find his death suspicious but this just confirms it. I'm so talking to Aunt Cam about this."
"Alright, so we've got some weird keychain, a letter and a poisoned blow dart with a bird toxin I recognized." Henry said.
"Three related yet seemingly unrelated clues," Cate followed Henry out only to watch as he was slammed into the wall by his cousin.
"Are you trying to get yourself shipped off to military school?" Jasper asked.
"No, look what I found" Henry just barely rasped out holding up the keychain
Alright, I'm stopping here cause I'm tired and it's all cliffhangeryish, so the language that Cate and Henry communicate in is Haitian Creole, I'm using the Bing translator, so if it's wrong I apologize and if you could, please tell me the correction. I'll post translations at the end of every chapter. So, translations:
Babay – Good bye
Bonjou – Hello
Bonjou Henry, kijan ou ye? – Hello Henry, how are you? (Hello came out as Alo, but that seemed messed up since I was saying hello again, so I used the translation for when I was just saying hello, if this is wrong please please please tell me)
Rankontre nan tonbo Dante an nan yon moman? – Meet at Dante's tomb in an hour?
Wi - Yes
Wè ou lè – See you later
Èske ou ka jwenn yon bagay? Sa ou te jwenn ou? – Did you find something? What did you find?
Mwen pa konnen – I don't know
I'll post a time line and have a few q&a later, but the reason this isn't an official crossover is because the focus is on OC Cate Brennan-Booth.