(The Suit on the Set)
This is for GalaxieGurl who is feeling a little down. I hope you like it.
This story is rated T for language.
I don't own Bones.
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They arrived back home from Los Angeles and found that things were not quite like they had left them. Driving up into the driveway, Booth was stunned to find that all the lights were on in their house and the front door was wide open. After he parked the SUV he stared at the front door. "Bones, stay here and let me check it out."
"No Booth, you need backup." Brennan wasn't about to let Booth enter their house without someone to watch his back. "I'll follow you in."
Worried, Booth shook his head and shifted on his seat so he could look straight at Brennan. "Bones, you have to stay here. If something were happen to both of us, Christine would be an orphan. Is that what you want? She's just a baby. She needs her mother."
Exasperated, Brennan glared at her lover and partner. "Booth, there is no way you are walking into that house alone. Christine needs her father too."
A slight smile on his lips, Booth reached out and cupped her face with his hand. "Okay, I'll call the police and wait for someone to come. When the officer gets here, you stay here and me and the officer will check out what's going on. Okay? It's a good thing Christine is still at Max's place."
"Alright." Brennan was relieved that Booth wasn't so alpha that he didn't know he needed backup. "That's an excellent compromise."
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Once the patrol car arrived and was parked in front of the house, Booth patted Brennan's knee and exited the SUV. Moving over to the patrol car, he waited for the officer to leave her car. After he flashed his FBI badge and credentials, Booth explained the situation. "We just got back from LA and found this when we arrived." Booth waved his hand at the lighted house. "The front door is open and all the lights are on. I haven't been inside. I thought it might be a good idea if I had some backup before I went in."
Officer Diehl shook her head. "I'm sorry sir. It would be better if you stayed out here while I looked around."
Booth quickly shook his head. "Without backup? I don't think so. I'm a Federal Agent. When you go in I'll go in as your backup. We have no idea what's going on and I don't think it's safe for you to go in there alone. That's why I called the police in the first place."
His words made sense and Officer Diehl was a sensible soul. "I'll lead, you follow." After she drew her gun, she held it down at her side and moved towards the front door. "Have you noticed any activity since you drove up?"
Following the officer to the front steps, Booth drew his gun and walked up the steps behind her. "No. It's been quiet."
Silently the officer entered the house and scanned the living room. Besides the lights being on, she didn't see anything out of place. As her gaze moved around the room, she saw something that did give her pause. Pointing, she glanced back at Booth. "Do you have any enemies?"
Stepping around her, Booth looked up and noticed an ax stuck in the ceiling. "What the hell?"
The sight rather bizarre, Officer Diehl decided that this break in might be dangerous after all. Cautiously, she entered the kitchen and saw a pristine room. Moving across the kitchen, she opened the pantry door and found a neat room filled with food and cleaning supplies.
While the officer checked out the kitchen, Booth checked the downstairs guest bedroom and the bathroom and found them both undisturbed. As he stepped back into the living room he met office Diehl who was glaring at him.
"Sir, I told you to follow me." The police woman was very annoyed at Booth.
A slight frown on his face, Booth shrugged his shoulders. "I'm a field agent, I know what I'm doing."
Unable to force Booth to comply, she pointed at the stairs that led to the man cave below. "Have you gone down there yet?"
Booth shook his head. "After you."
Officer Diehl walked over to the staircase and moved slowly down the steps with Booth following behind her. Once they were at the foot of the stairs, both of them couldn't fail but notice that someone had moved the furniture over to one of the walls and had used something to tear up the cement floor in the center of the room.
"Fuck!" Booth was furious. "I just finished remodeling this house three months ago. I can't believe this shit."
Curious, the officer moved closer to the hole and look down. "It's about four feet deep and three feet wide."
His anger unabated, Booth looked in the hole and shook his head. "My girlfriend and I bought this house through the U.S. Marshall's Auction. This house belonged to a convicted drug dealer."
"Oh, I see." Officer Diehl shook her head. "Looks like someone was hiding something in the house and they wanted it back."
"Great, just great." Booth shook his head. "Come on, let's look upstairs and see what else these assholes did to my house." Marching across the room, Booth stomped up the stairs and once he was in the living room he noticed Brennan standing in the front doorway. "Bones we're still looking. We need to check upstairs."
Brennan nodded her head. "Alright." Patiently she stepped out onto the porch and watched Booth and Officer Diehl move across the room and then upstairs to the second floor. After a while they came back down. "It's okay, Bones. No one is here . . . uh, they did make a mess downstairs in the man cave though."
Curious, Brennan walked under the ax stuck in the ceiling and pointed up at it as she walked towards the stairs to get a quick look downstairs. "This is noteworthy."
Unable to stop herself, the police officer laughed.
Rolling his eyes, Booth walked into the kitchen, grabbed a beer from the fridge and opened it. After he took a couple of swallows of the cold liquid, he placed the can on the counter, turned on the deck light outside and opened the back door. Once he was outside standing on the deck he scanned the yard and started to swear.
His loud cursing drew Officer Diehl outside to check on him. Stopping abruptly, she shook her head in wonder. "I wonder what they were looking for."
Booth counted six large holes in his back yard. "When I get my hands on the mother fuckers who did this I'm going to squeeze their necks until their heads pop off."
Drawn to the backyard by Booth's cursing, Brennan stepped outside. "It would appear that whoever dug the holes didn't know where to look for whatever they were looking for."
"No kidding." Booth trembled with anger. "I just finished working on this house for God's sake and now I have to fix a hole in our basement and get someone in here to help with the yard. I . . . damn it!"
Brennan walked over and placed her hand on her boyfriend's arm. "Booth, this is all fixable. Look what you did to make our house livable. They could have done a lot more damage than they did and it appears that they didn't take anything from the house as far as I can tell, which is kind of odd behavior for criminals."
Her hand on his arm and her soothing voice helped him to calm down. "Well at least they did it when we weren't around. This could have been a whole lot worse I guess."
Officer Diehl agreed with him. "You mentioned that you just got back from LA. They probably waited until they knew that you weren't going to be home and took their time searching for whatever it was they were looking for."
Calmer, Booth nodded his head. "Yeah. I guess, I better hire a contractor to come out and fix my basement and the back yard."
"Not to mention the ceiling." Brennan stepped over to the back door. "I want to send the ax to the Jeffersonian for fingerprints and possibly for DNA. Perhaps the criminals were stupid and left us a clue as to who they were."
Officer Diehl spoke up. "This is a Metro case, Ma'am. We'll probaby need the ax for evidence."
Brennan shrugged her shoulders. "I work for the Jeffersonian Medico-Legal Lab. It would be better if we have our techs handle this."
"Good idea, Bones." Booth followed Brennan back into the house, the officer following them. "If we find out who did this, I'm going to . . ."
"I hope you will contact the Metro police and let us handle it, Sir." Officer Diehl interrupted Booth.
Cautiously, Booth nodded his head. "Of course. That's exactly what I'll do."
Surprised, Brennan turned to face her boyfriend. "Really?"
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