This is a joint story between me (Jay Jay 'My Oppression for Attention') and Mandi (Goddess of Lame 2.0). We are both into Bones and upon seeing Titanic, I thought of something almost like that, but different and Mandi liked it. So, here it is. Hope you enjoy it!

Title: The Bones In the Water

Rating: T

Genre: Romance/Drama/Suspense/Mystery/Parody-Type

Summary: A case that sends Brennan, Booth and the team on a cruise over the Atlantic Ocean, they take it gratefully knowing that this will be the case of a lifetime...if only they knew how tied up this case really was.

Characters: Temperance "Bones" Brennan, Seeley Booth, Angela Montenegro, Jack Hodgins, Zach Addy, and OC Kiyana Mercades Kalebs/Kali

Pairings: Semperance, Hodgela and Zali

"Bones! Bones! Wait!"

Temperance Brennan turned around upon hearing Special Agent Seeley Booth calling her. She hadn't had a case since Friday and that was pretty unusual on her part. She'd become bored, which was a rarity for her.

"You're fast," Booth broke into stride with her.

Brennan smirked. "I figured that a Agent such as yourself would be able to catch up with somebody like me."

Booth shook his head. "I have a case for you," he handed her a folder. "First one in how long?"

"About a week since Friday," Brennan flipped it open. "It's about time that I got busy." Her eyes scanned the folder. "It says the body was found at sea in the middle of the Atlantic. How'd you get that?"

Booth shrugged. "Trust me, I have my ways. You needed a case and I found one."

Brennan walked into her office where Angela Montenegro was leisurely sketching in a nearby chair. It was clear she was bored and if anything at all, it was rare for her, too. Neither Booth nor Brennan could remember a time when they saw Angela be bored.

"We have a case."

Angela looked up. "Thank God, it's about time," she got up and stood next to Brennan, looking over her shoulder. "Body was found in the Atlantic? How did you get that?"

Booth rolled his eyes. "Could we move on? That's not what's important."

"Oh like my gun," Brennan smirked. "Bigger still is better, you know."

"Like I said before, doesn't matter the size, it's how you use it," Booth forced.

Brennan shook her head and hid a laugh as she headed into the direction of the lab. "I'm assuming Zach and Hodgins are in the lab being bored?"

Angela nodded. "Better believe it."

Brennan smiled. "Well luckily we have a case they can't turn down."

"Hey, Brennan?"

Booth walked into the lab after Brennan and Angela had met Zach Addy and Jack Hodgins with the file and case. He held a folder in his hands that was addressed to them.

"Yeah?" Brennan didn't turn around.

"Did you order something?"

Brennan shook her head and Booth looked at Angela.

"Don't look at me. I'm not ready for a vacation by far."

"Zach?"

The grad student looked up. "No. I didn't order anything. Not like I need to order anything."

"Right, because you're the smartest of the bunch," Booth retorted, tossing the package at him. "If you're so smart, tell me what's in there?"

"What, you're not going to drill Hodgins?" Brennan asked.

Booth shrugged. "No need. If Zach thinks he's so smart, he can tell us."

"Making a mockery of me?" Zach smirked.

"Hardly. Just tell us what's in there."

Zach felt the package all the way around, looked at the address and made a face. "There's no return address." He looked at the others.

"I'm aware of that," Booth stated.

"Feels like passports to me. There's five," Zach tossed the package to Brennan, who caught it with grace. "Open it up. See if I'm right."

Angela rolled her eyes. "Yeah, because Booth's always right."

Booth looked at her. "Are you imposing something?"

"Not unless Tempe's got something I don't know about you."

Brennan rolled her eyes. "Please," she tore the package open. "Anything you could possibly want to know about Booth, you would have already known by reading his files."

Booth shook his head and Brennan made an interesting face.

"Zach was right." She pulled out five passports. "Five for each of us. There's names on them." She looked at the first one. "'Special Agent Seeley Booth'," she tossed it to him. "'Zachary Uriah Addy'," she tossed Zach's passport to him from behind. "'Angela Pearly-Gates Montenegro'," she handed the artist her passport. "'Jack Stanley Hodgins'," she slid Hodgins' passport over to him on the table. "Aaaaaaaaand 'Temperance Bones Brennan"...wait, that's not my real middle name." She double-checked it.

"What is it?" Booth smirked.

"Nothing of your concern," Brennan retorted. She opened her passport and a letter fell out. "Huh." She picked it up and read aloud:

"'Dear Brennan and Team:

By now you will have gotten the case of the body that was found in the Atlantic Ocean. Rest assured you will get the body, but in order to go deeper into the case, the five of you have been provided with passports and tickets for the noon departure of the cruise ship Midnight on the date of May 30th. There, you will be provided with more information on the case as well as weekends for yourselves. The cruise is estimated to be three weeks at most.

Best of luck to Doctor Brennan and the team in this case.'"

Booth clicked his tongue. "Who's it from?"

"Doesn't say," Angela piped up.

Brennan thought. "That's tomorrow. But how could it possibly have been known that we were to get this case by now?"

Angela shrugged. "Lucky run, I guess. Either way..." She grinned. "We're going on a cruise!"

"To solve a case," Hodgins reminded her. "Not for a vacation."

"Besides, I thought you said you weren't ready to go on vacation yet, Ange," Booth smriked.

Angela shrugged. "Hey, I said 'vacation where I will be bored'. This is a vacation where I will still be working, so technically, it's not really a 'vacation'," Angela made air quotes with her fingers.

Silence erupted in the lab and Brennan shook her head. "Well guys, packs your bags. We're taking this case on the cruise."

Angela pumped her fist in the air. "Yessssssss!" She darted out to the door.

Hodgins rolled his head. "Everybody follow the crazy chick."

Zach shook his head and laughed, following him and Angela out.

Brennan grabbed her bag and Booth slapped his passport against his hand, thinking. "Bones, I don't think this is a good idea."

"Why not?" She looked at him funny.

Booth shrugged. "I don't know. Just something about this seems funny."

"Because there's no signature and no return address?"

Booth pointed. "Precisely why."

Brennan rolled her eyes. "Leave it up to you to be paranoid about something like this. Please just relax for this case, okay, Mr. FBI?" With that, she turned on her heels and walked out, Booth shaking his head, but following her anyway.

"Just think about this, Bones?"

"There's no thinking about it. It's a case, I'm interested, and I want to solve it."

Booth shrugged. "Okay, fine. But when something bad happens, I'm going to tell you that I told you so."

Brennan stopped and faced him. "Want to shake on that?" she smirked.

Booth shook his head, laughing. "You drive a hard bargain, Bones." He held out his hand and she took it. "I'll make your deal, but just so you know, I'll win." He smirked.

"You joke," Brennan dropped her hand. "And for once, just try to have a little fun, okay?"

Booth held his hands up. "Okay, okay. I'll try to have a little fun."

"Don't mock me."

"I didn't."

"Did too."

"No I didn't."

"Did--"

"Hey!"

Booth and Brennan glanced over at Angela, who waved to them. "Come on! We need to get going!"

"Ange, the cruise isn't until tomorrow afternoon," Booth reminded her.

Angela shrugged. "I know, but I have some shopping to do. There's swimsuits, shoes, tank tops, shorts..." She counted on her fingers.

"I get it, Ange. Thanks."

Brennan laughed. "Go ahead, Ange. I'll meet you after I stop home."

Angela shrugged. "Okay. Bye Sweetie!" She turned around and headed out of the Jeffersonian, Brennan shaking her head.

"I hope Hodgins can keep her on track during this cruise," Booth joked with a smirk.

Brennan laughed and swatted his arm. "You're terrible. I'll see you later."

Booth nodded. "Yeah. Talk to you later." He watched Brennan followed the path Angela had taken and stared at the passport in his hand again. Something didn't feel right to him. How was it that they got a letter that told them they needed to go ona cruise to solve this case? How was it that the anonymous person knew who they were, even their titles, nicknames, and middle names, and didn't say who he or she was? Nor left a return address.

This all seemed very fishy to Booth, but knowing Brennan, there was going to be no stopping her from going foreward in solving this case.

For as long as he'd known Brennan, she had never once been able to turn down a good case...no matter what dangers met her or them.

Ooooh...suspense. Ain't Jay just the best at that? Okay, to clear it up, she wrote that chapter. But I had to make some edits and I didn't have the original end note, so I'm making one up. Chapter Two is written, just waiting for Jay to get back online so I have her read it before uploading.

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