Author's note: This is a six chapter story. I don't want to give to much away but things are about to get weird. Do not be alarmed. I'm here to make it all ok!

As Sledger Hammer would put it before he destroyed half a city, "Trust me, I know what I'm doing"

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Part One- Dinner Date

Brennan had been leaning over a ripe corpse for at least two hours. The stench made the air thick. Her gloved fingers touched the soft gooey internal organs. They yielded softly to her careful touch not without a squishing sound. What had once been blood was now no more than a paste clinging to the latex on her gloves. Hair that had been brown and soft was a mated mess crawling with parasites that feasted on the dead. Her eyes concentrated on the details of the mess stretched on her autopsy table. Her brain calculated age and gender indicators, approximate time of death. Cause of death: what besides the gunshot wound to the head, you mean?...

Slightly above breath volume, Brennan was singing.

Zack approached her to offer assistance. Angela trailed not far behind, followed closely by a dishevelled- but clearly very happy Hodgins.

"Sweetie! Are you ready for us?" Then, sparing a careful look at the corpse "woa!" I'll be right in my office… " But Brennan had not yet spared them a look and then there was that humming sound. Is she singing? Girls just wanna have fun… "Sweetie, are you singing? You are, You are actually singing ."

Brennan snapped out of her trance

"What?... no!... I'm not singing… really, why would I be singing ?"

Angela gave her a Who're you kidding look.

"I wasn't singing, Angela! I would know if I were singing…"

"Ok, ok, say no more! Hot date tonight!"

"I didn't say anything about a date, hot or otherwise, Angela"

"Uh, uh! Just say it, Brenn: I have a hot date tonight and I'm excited about it!"

"I have a hot date tonight and I am excited about it! There! Happy?"

"Yes! Freak! Takes a Brennan to look at this mess" and she pointed at the table "and sing!" and she walked away shaking her head in disbelief, her black curls swaying gently with the movement as if they, too, were disapproving of Brennan's antics.

"Hey Doctor B! Is it safe to assume that Booth is back in town and that your bout of bad temper is about to expire?"

Brennan turned to glare at him. Hodgins made himself scarce really quick taking a clueless Zack with him. I am not leaving Curious George here to be murdered, he thought. I wouldn't be able to live with myself…