Hey, so this is my first Bones fanfic-It's based on the Nickelback song 'I'd come for you' hence the title :) This chapter's actually a bit longer than I meant it to be so sorry about that! Hope you enjoy it though :)
Disclaimer: I wish I did own it, but sadly I don't
Booth woke up happy. Today was going to be a good day-Bones was back from Guatemala. He'd been so annoyed when she'd been flown out there only 3 weeks after she returned from the Masuku Islands…or whatever they were called. So what if some important guys bones had turned up…he'd been away from her for too long, he didn't like it. She'd been down there a month. But today she was coming back, and he wasn't letting her go anywhere for at least another 10 years.
He got up and dressed quickly, he didn't want to get to the airport late but he'd promised to swing by the Jeffersonian to pick up Angela. He'd wanted to greet Bones on his own…but Angela had insisted…and she was her best friend. The journey seemed too slow, everyone on the road today seemed to have no idea what a hurry was. He fidgeted in his seats as he waited for the lights to change and when they finally changed he narrowly missed a pedestrian crossing the road
'What the bloody hell do you think you doing?' the man shouted, jumping out of the way of the big black SUV
'Sorry,' Booth mumbled not really concentrating…he was already 50 yards away anyway.
When he finally reached the Jeffersonian he ran in-straight to Angela's office. But to his annoyance she wasn't in there.
'You promised, Angela,' he muttered to himself 'I told you we weren't going to be late,'
'Booth?' the voice came from the doorway 'Booth what are you doing here?' Booth turned and looked at Angela angrily 'I'm here to pick you up-you know so we can go pick up Bones from the airport. So c'mon…grab your coat and let's go,'
'Wait…didn't you get the message?' Angela said looking confused
'What message,' Booth asked suspiciously
'Brennan can't come home yet…she's, well she got ill…some disease from the bones or something,' she's not allowed to come home yet-she's in isolation. No one can see her,' Angela said it sadly, but she looked totally pissed off
'What?' Booth asked, panicked 'She's ill? Is she gonna be alright? When can she come home? God…um…Angela tell me everything!' he pleaded
'Well, that's all I know really,' Angela smiled apologetically 'I just got a phone call,'
'A phone call? This is ridiculous…you know what I'm sick of his I'm going down there'
'What?' Angela asked looking at him like he was mad
'I,' he pronounced it carefully 'Am, going, to, Guatemala,' he said slowly, looking at her seriously
'Booth…I don't think that's the best idea…I mean you wouldn't be able to see her anyway. She's in isolation.'
I don't care,' Booth mumbled and stormed out of the office. Straight into Cam.
'Wow…slow down…what's the hurry?' she asked looking slightly dazed
'I'm going to Guatemala,' he replied shortly
'No your not,' Cam said firmly
'Yes I am,' Booth replied anger in his voice 'You have no reason to stop me,'
'What about murder?' she asked calmly
'Murder?' Booth said finally focusing on Cam
'We've got a case,' she said plainly 'And we need you here. Dr. Brennan will be fine…it's not that serious they just don't want a pandemic is all,'
'Fine,' Booth said moodily 'Three days…I'll stay three days and if she's not better by then I'm going down whether we've solved the case or not. Deal?'
'Deal,' Cam said, smiling to herself
'So what's the case?' Booth asked going business like again
'Not sure yet really,' Cam replied 'The body's just been flown in,'
'Flown in?' Booth asked suspiciously
'From El Salvador, they think it was an American citizen but they don't have many decent experts down there right now so they thought we could take it,' she explained. Booth relaxed a little-he had to admit that it made sense.
Booth headed up onto the platform where Daisy was peering intently over a set of semi-decomposed remains
'Hey, Booth' she grinned at him happily, then returned to humming cheerfully as she inspected bits of bone
'What's up with her?' Booth whispered to Cam
'She's happy,' Cam replied
'Yeah I got that thank you…I meant why. She's playing with a corpse,'
'She's happy because while Dr. Brennan's not here, she's the lead anthropologist on this case-she's bossing around all the other interns very happily…and Hodgins,' Cam added grinning
'Oooh,' Booth laughed 'I bet Hodgins just loves that!,' he joked
'You bet,' Cam replied and then nodded towards a slightly dishevelled looking Hodgins coming up onto the platform
'Ah, Hodgins,' Daisy said, authority ringing in her voice 'Found anything?'
'Well I might have…if you'd actually let me look at the bones,' he grumbled, and Booth noticed the old elastic band had returned to his wrist where he was pinging it agitatedly
'I'm not done with them yet,' Daisy said firmly
'Fine…then what have you found?' he asked, challenge in his voice
'I think I should…' Cam nodded towards the table and Booth smiled in agreement and followed closely behind as she walked over
'So guys,' Cam said pleasantly 'What've we got?'
'Well,' Daisy said proudly 'The victim is female, in her early thirties I'd say, and about 174 centimetres in height,' Booth coughed very deliberately '5 foot 8 or 9,' Daisy said
'Thank you,'
'We gotta cause of death yet?' Cam asked
'No…well. It's hard to tell exactly,'
'What…why?' Booth asked
'Because she was tortured,' Daisy said sadly
'What?' Cam and Booth asked together
'Sorry,' Daisy replied 'Her fingers and toes were broken pre-mortem, as were several of her ribs, her arms and her legs…and there's evidence on the bone of it being burnt…' she trailed of looking at them slightly disgustedly
'Oh God,' Booth said 'How would that even happen?'
'A hot piece of metal could burn through flesh to the bone if applied for long enough,' she replied looking a little sick. Booth believed her…remembering the pain of when he'd had a hot poker shoved on his leg…thank God Bones had got to him when she had. That sounded excruciatingly painful.
'Wow…someone really didn't like this woman did they?' Cam asked grimly
Daisy shook her head
'Whatever the cause of death was in the end…her death was slow and very painful,'
'So what about time of death? I mean she's still fairly…juicy,' Cam asked
'Well I haven't had a chance to look properly yet,' Hodgins replied looking pointedly at Daisy 'But we both agree that she can't have been dead more than 3 weeks,'
3 weeks
Booth felt a small shiver down his spine…but he couldn't work out why
'That's good guys, so what about facial reconstruction, we got anyth…' he was cut short by a piercingly distraught scream from Angela's office. Everyone looked in the direction of the scream…and then took off running.
When they reached the office Angela was curled up on the floor…tears streaming down her face, staring at the giant projection on her wall. Booth looked from Angela to the screen…and froze.
There on the screen was a face he knew too well. He knew every curve of every feature, he knew the mystical blue grey colour of the eyes…he knew it.
It was Bones.
Hey, so hope you liked it :) I know it was a bit mean but hang in there and it may all be alright. Reviews appreciated :)
Emz xxx