Chapter One

FBI junior agent Ashley walked into the FBI building in Washington DC. The moment she did, the familiar air surrounded her.

"I'm finally here, here to meet Seeley" She decided.

"Miss Ashley…" Some one called her. She turned around to see the FBI deputy, Collins.

"Yes sir…" "You're on time… Booth's cabin is this way," Collins said leading her to a cabin.

The cabin was spotlessly clean. Ashley giggled secretly; she didn't remember Seeley keeping his room clean! Booth was not in the cabin, though. "You will wait here Miss Ashley… Booth will be back any minute." Collins said before leaving her alone in the room.

Ashley walked to Booth's table and fingered his name plate. "Seeley Booth" She muttered running her fingers across the name. Then, she looked around the room. She saw a photograph of Booth and a small kid.

"My favorite person in the world- my kid, Parker Booth" It read. "He has a son… wow it's been such a long time since…" Then she stopped speaking to herself as she heard footsteps coming into the room. She quickly placed the photograph back but didn't turn around. She waited for someone to speak. She heard two voices coming nearer to her.

"I'm telling you Bones… the spouse is the first suspect in every case."

"You can not make serious assumptions like that!" It was a lady's voice.

"That's Dr. Brennan I'm sure… and with her is Seeley." Ashley thought to herself as she still faced her back to the two people.

"I'm sorry but there is no law saying that I can't… ok who're you?" Booth said, seeing a girl standing in front of his desk, with her back facing him. Bones dropped the argument and turned to this girl.

She turned and faced Booth. "Uh… sir I'm a junior agent and I'm working with you for a few cases…" She said handing him a file.

Booth took the file from Ashley and went through it.

"You're Dr. Brennan I assume?" Ashley asked Bones.

"Yes… now that is a correct assumption." "I'll be assisting Seeley only for a couple of cases; it's a sort of training program…" Ashley said.

"Ok then…" Booth said closing Ashley's file. "If you want to become an FBI agent there are certain rules that you should follow… firstly, never address your seniors by their first names… call them Sir or at least use the word 'Agent'. You will be calling me Agent Booth…" He said looking straight at this new comer. He hated it even when Bones called him Seeley, let alone a junior agent.

"Yes, I'm sorry Seeley…"

"Hmm…?" "I mean uh… I'm sorry Agent Booth…" She said the word 'Booth' slowly as though it was weird calling someone like that.

"That's better… this is my partner Dr. Temperance Brennan, you will call her Dr. Brennan. She's working at the Jeffersonian Institution and we will be visiting the lab quite many times."

"Yes Sir…" Bones was clearly amused at seeing her partner dealing with his new assistant.

"So… we don't have a case right now…" Bones began.

"Don't ever say that Bones because my cell phone is going to ring as soon as I complete this sentence." Before Bones could say a word on her theory about co-incidences, Booth's cell phone rang.

"Hah what'd I tell you…?" He said removing his phone from his pocket. He muttered something to the person at the other end and shut his phone.

"Ok Ashley, Bones chop, chop… time for a case…"

Bone and Booth headed out and Ashley closely followed Booth.

"The victim was male… age between late 20s and early 30s… cause of death is uncertain, there is a lot of dirt on the body… Zach I need an evidence bag…" Bones said.

They were in the Central Park. People stood at a distance from the crime scene area and watched as though there was a show going on. Booth was taking notes and turned to Ashley who was just watching Brennan and her assistant Zach working.

"There's a reason why we're here and all the other people beyond the yellow tape…" He said. Ashley turned to him. "It's because we're agents and agents take notes…"

"Huh…!" Ashley was suddenly dumb-founded. "I'm sorry Seeley…" She said making Booth sigh with frustration. "I mean Booth… I mean Agent Seeley Booth…"

"Just sir will do Ok Ashley…?" Booth said shaking his head. Bones smirked and Zach almost giggled.

"Yes sir…" She said quickly taking out a small writing pad and a pencil. She started scribbling down notes.

"Ok, we'll have this shifted to the Jeffersonian." Bones was instructing Zach. A police officer walked up to Booth and said, "Agent Booth there's a terrified young girl waiting there, she says she saw someone with your victim." "Yeah ok, thanks…" Booth walked out of the yellow tape area and Ashley followed close behind.

Sure enough, a terrified girl was standing just outside the yellow tape area and she looked relieved when Booth came by. "Ok miss… I need you to tell me exactly what you saw… my assistant Ashley here will be…" "Taking notes…" Ashley completed his sentence and waved the pencil and pad.

"I saw that man with his wife… they were on a picnic with their two children… and then there are these two gun men who came to them and said… 'Stick 'em up!' And then I got scared and I ran away and now I came back to see this man here…!"

"Calm down… and tell me how those two men looked…" Booth said obviously getting irritated with this girl.

"I didn't see them. I only saw their backs and their guns… and then they cried stick 'em up and then I got scared and I ran away and now I came back to see this man here."

Booth sighed. "Did you see anything else… a car or something…?"

"No well… oh yeah I did see one black Corolla… I don't know if it was the gun men's but I heard them cry stick 'em up…"

"And then you got scared and you ran away and you came here and saw this man… we get that but did you see anyone else here…?" Ashley asked frustrated herself. Booth gave Ashley an annoyed look and Ashley mouthed 'Sorry sir'

After a few more questions, Booth let the terrified girl go away and then drove everyone back to the Jeffersonian.