AN: First Bones Fanfiction, though I have written quite a few for other fandoms, such as Harry Potter, Twilight and Criminal Minds. This is the beginning of a series that is going to start with Bones, become a crossover with CM and then come to a rest in Criminal Minds. The idea came to me in a dream, a girl who joins one team, brings both together, and then moves on to the other team. Again, this is just the beginning. The very beginning, well, as close to the beginning as I can get away with. Anyway, the main character is an OC, and while you know nothing of her now, you will learn along with the rest of the bunch. The first chapter is 1,078 words long and begins in episode 23 of season 6, "The Change in the Game".

To anyone who is a reader of mine already, I know I said I was going to write something else, but when an idea strikes, you write. I'll get that done as soon as I can.

And now, without any more adieux, I give you,

A Change in the Line Up

Chapter One

Willow Charlotte Payne holds two doctorates, one in forensic anthropology, and another in archeology. Standing in front of the Jeffersonian is just as awe-inspiring and intimidating as it is to anyone else who is going in to work under Doctor Temperance Brennan as it is to Willow. Despite her already having her doctorate in anthropology, she needed more real world experience before she could get a job in her field beyond being another anthropologist's assistant.

Now she could have chosen to go to any number of places and worked with bones from any number of races, places, or times, she chose to work under Dr. Brennan because she is the best, and Willow wanted to learn from the best. Well, that and at nineteen, there aren't that many places that are willing to take her on. Not that Dr. Brennan knew she was coming, just that she had a new assistant today. She also knew that it would be decidedly difficult for her to gain Dr. Brennan's acceptance, let alone her approval given that she was taking the spot, however short term it may be, of an intern whom Brennan had watched die.

Even the most reasonable person would be affected by that.

Shaking herself, Willow adjusted her simple red dress, and the thin tan leather belt around her waist before walking as confidently as she could up to the doors of the Medico-Legal Lab of the Jeffersonian Institute. As the doors to the building open, Willow spots Dr. Saroyan, the head of the Forensics Department, and her new boss, standing by a set of glass sliding doors through which Willow could see the Forensics Platform and a multitude of people wandering through the large room. With a deep breath, and a slightly shaky smile Willow held out her hand.

"Doctor Payne, yes?" Camille Saroyan asked as she shook Willow's hand.

"Just Willow, or Miss Payne, I'll get enough looks for my age without the title thrown in there." Willow grimaced slightly. "If you don't mind, of course."

Cam smiled wryly, "I understand, Miss Payne. If you will follow me, I'll show you around, and introduce you to who you will be working with most often. Dr. Brennan is out at a crime scene retrieving a set of remains." Cam turned and led the way into the spacious room, the slightly acrid smell of disinfectant hung in the air, not that it bothered Willow any, dorm rooms smelt a lot worse.

The pair walked a straight line to the Forensics Platform and Cam used her passkey to lead Willow onto it. She explained about the basics as she led the way straight across the room. On the other side of the platform was an office that contained more plant-life then Willow had ever seen in a lab, along with a curly haired man whom seemed to be very much wrapped up in whatever it was that he was looking at under his microscope. That is, until Dr. Saroyan cleared her throat and his head jerked up instinctively.

"Is Brennan back with the body? Is there trace?" The man said before taking notice of Willow. "Who's this?"

"Hodgins, this is Willow Payne, D-uh Miss Payne, this is Doctor Jack Hodgins. She's going to be working her for a few months." Cam said, gesturing between the two.

Hodgins stood and pulled off one latex glove and held out his newly freed hand. "Nice to meet you, Miss Payne, I take it you are a new Squintern?"

Willow shook the man's hand lightly while replying, "I don't know exactly what a Squintern is, but I don't think I'd be classified as an intern."

"And why is that?" Hodgins asked leaning across the desk.

"I think I'll leave that for you to find out." Willow ducked her head and looked to Cam.

"Alright," Cam said with a clap, "I think I should keep this going, Dr. Brennan will be back soon, and we still have more to go." Cam spun on her heel and led the way back out of the room and down the hall. Willow jumped slightly to follow, her low heels clacking heavily on the concrete floor. Cam pointed out the janitors closet, her office and the Autopsy room along the way to a large office which with a quick knock, she led Willow into. "Hi, Angela, how are you?"

"I'm alright, just booting up the Angelator. And you-who is this?" Angela asked as she turned from her large screen with a raised eyebrow and slightly indulgent smile. "Is it bring-your-kid-to-work day?"

Cam snorted slightly and began to gesture to Willow, who took a step forward and held out her own hand. "Willow Payne, I'm nineteen, and I'm not someone's kid, at least, not anyone around here."

"A Squintern then." Angela explained to herself as she shook Willow's hand and nodded.

"Not quite, but close enough." Willow corrected with a shrug.

"If you aren't a Squintern, then what are you?" Angela asked.

Willow tilted her head to the side slightly watching Angela closely for a moment before replying. "I want to have my impression first, and my explanation second. Otherwise, there are too many assumptions."

Angela seemed to mentally chew on that for a second before nodding. "I like her, how long are we keeping her?" She asked Cam who just shook her head.

"A few months at least, maybe a year." Cam answered. "Now, come Miss Payne, we do have a few more stops before we can get to work."

Cam then led Willow through the rest of the building, covering the cafeteria, the lounge on the upper catwalk, Dr. Brennan's office and her own, along with Bone Storage; aptly called 'Limbo' by many, and finally brought the tour to an end back where it started, in front of the Forensics Platform. A security guard stood by one corner holding a blue and a grey lab coat, one in each hand, and a passkey dangling from his right hand.

Cam, facing the guard, clipped the passkey to her dress beside her own and took hold of each lab coat. Turning to face Willow she held up the grey coat. "This is what our interns normally wear. Take this one and you will blend; no one will question you." Cam lowered the grey coat and held up the blue one. "Take this one, and everyone will question you. But it will be obvious that you aren't just and intern."