Okay, I wrote this a little while back and I hope you like it cause I've never done a murder mystery or anything like that but, of course it has Booth and Bones romance in it as well.
Please review and let me know what you think! And thank you all for stopping by.
As always...Bones is not mine, neither is the Body Farms or anything related to either one of the underlined.
Brenan's sleep was interrupted by a loud knock on the door. She automatically looked at the clock sitting on her nightstand. Three am? She asked herself as she groaned. She stepped out of bed and stumbled to the door, with sleep still clouding her brain she forgot that she only had on a thin, button down, white shirt, that came down only to her mid-thigh. Her long brown hair was disheveled and her big blue eyes, that held knowledge beyond her years, still had not opened all the way as she rubbed them. She looked through the peep hole and opened the door as her eyes began to clear.
"Booth?" Brenan asked groggily.
Special agent Seeley Booth was at the door with two cups of coffee. His strong face and deep dark eyes began with a smile But, as soon as he saw Brenan his eyes widened and his jaw dropped. The coffee he was holding dropped to the floor with a splash as Brenan gasped and jumped back from the on coming coffee flow. Booth scrambled to the floor and grabbed the coffee cups.
"Booth! What is wrong with you!" Brenan asked as she walked to the kitchen to get a towel. Booth just crouched there at the door, empty coffee cups in hand, and stared. He couldn't take his eyes off of her. He only hoped that she wouldn't notice how red hot his face had gotten. He really wanted to keep watching her and forget about the stupid case. But, he had to get this case solved quickly. Oh, god why do people have to kill people! Booth thought.
As Brenan was coming back from the kitchen she saw booth still crouching in the doorway and wondered why he didn't just come in.
"Booth. Are you okay? You look like you're in shock."
Booth gulped hard as he stood up.
"Um, yeah I'm sorry I just, burnt my finger." He lied
Brenan lifted an eyebrow at Booth. "Why are you here? I thought you where going to be spending your vacation at the beach with Parker." Bones asked as she began to clean up the coffee.
"We um, have a case that can't wait." He looked at her one more time as she was bent down to clean up the coffee he had spilt.
Why don't you get dressed and I'll clean this up." He hated to send her away from him but, they had a long ride and needed to get it over with.
Brenan had forgotten about her bedtime attire but, she was unabashed.
"Oh, Yeah, I guess I should do that." She said as she strolled to her bedroom to get into some more appropriate clothing.
Booth smiled and watched her walk away, then he began to clean up the coffee.
"Oh, and Bones," he said with that charming smile of his as Brenan peeked her head out of her bedroom door to hear what he was going to say.
"Pack a bag, we have a long trip."
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In the car ride to the scene of the crime Booth filled Bones in on what was going on.
"There was a body found at the Body Farm located in Texas San Marcus. You know, were students study decomposing bodies and criminal investigation. Apparently one of the students realized that the bones weren't covered with wire cadges like the ones they study. That's all I know at this point."
"Umm." Brenan said dully. She stared out of the window with a dreary look on her face.
"Bones, what's wrong huh? You not getting burnt out are you? I mean, I know it's not always as exciting as discovering ancient bones in a cave, but we have exciting times. Don't we?"
Bones looked at Booth and asked "Do you really think that dealing with Murder every day is exciting?"
"Well, I think catching murder's and finding out what happened to these people is exciting, and you used to think so too." Booth looked at Bones with a sadness that he was un able to hide.
"What Booth? What do you expect? I'm dragged from home to go to Texas and look at some mangled dead body. I had plans you know. I'm not always working." She said, anger coming into her voice as she spoke.
"Plans? What plans? Did you have a date or something?" Booth asked angrily.
"Yes, Booth as a mater of fact I did. Sully was coming in on his boat and we were going to spend our vacation together." Bones said with the same anger that Booth had in his question.
"Sully?" Booth was shocked.
"You've been talking to Sully? The same Sully that asked you to go away with him two years ago? For how long?" Booth suddenly remembered how Agent Sully had asked her to go away with him on his boat, and how Brenan had thought hard about the idea. Brenan was never the type to have to think for too long about anything. After she watched him sail away, Booth was right there to comfort her.
"For a while Booth. What? Do I have to tell you about every thing I do now?" Bones was obviously annoyed with the conversation.
"No, but we're partners! I thought we shared things with each other, Bones!"
"Well apparently we don't share everything with each other. And don't call me Bones." Booth just stared out the window jaw locked in anger. She only asked him not to call her Bones when she was mad.
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The silence in the car was almost unbearable until Booth's cell phone broke it.
"Hello? Hey buddy!"
Bones knew then that it was Parker, Booth's six year old son. Booth had explained the situation to her once, after Rebecca, Parker's mom, became pregnant, Booth wanted to marry her, but Rebecca was too independent and didn't want to be the kind of girl that got married because she became pregnant. Rebecca had told her that once and said that when she realized that she would be the same person either way, it was too late, Booth was over her and she was over him. They 'missed their moment' as Rebecca had put it.
"Yeah, I'm going to Texas to solve a case and then when I'm done we'll go to the beach together. Yeah. Yeah, we'll go skiing, and fishing…..Yeah that to buddy."
Bones looked at Booth and saw through the excitement that he had put forward for his son, and into the sadness that he felt for not being with him now. It was odd how easily she could understand Booth's feeling considering the fact the most of the time she couldn't even understand her own.
"Yeah, but I gotta get this case solved first okay little man? Yeah I love you too. Bye."
Booth hung up the phone and rubbed his face as hard has he could like he was rubbing off a bad feeling.
"Booth, I'm sorry." Bones sighed
"About what Bones?" He said with exhaustion in his voice.
"I didn't think to realize that you had plans too. I mean, I knew you did but I hadn't thought about that, I was only thinking about myself. And I'm sorry for that." She looked straight in his eyes with apology.
"Yeah, well it goes both ways Bones." He said still looking straight at the road in front of him. "I didn't think that you would have plans. Usually you're working through your vacation. I guess it's good for you to get a little time away from all this. I'm glad that Sully is coming in to give you a break. We'll both try or best to get this case solved as quickly as possible so that we can both enjoy our vacations." He finished with a wide apologetic smile.
"Well, I'm glad you feel that way because Sully has asked me to go away with him again." A long pause that seemed like years passed and then she said simply, "I said yes." She wasn't sure if he had heard her.
Booth looked straight ahead and didn't even glance at Bones. He heard her plain and clear. He Just wished that he had heard wrong.
"Oh, I uh- I'm glad for you, um, how long are you going to be gone, like 2-3 weeks?" He hoped she meant for a vacation but he knew she meant much longer.
"No, I'm going to take a sabbatical, we'll be gone for a year at least." She said looking at Booth measuring his reaction. If he had a reaction, it didn't show on his stone cold face.
He had been frozen. He knew that he wouldn't speak. He couldn't speak. If he let himself speak he would say things that would make Bones very uncomfortable. He stared out the window and prayed for the strength not to break the steering wheel off in his hands.
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When they arrived at the scene Booth and Bones where greeted by the local police woman Carol Hines.
"One of the students here found the body while investigating another body that is part of the collection here. She said she realized right way that something was wrong with the scene because, all of the body's here are usually covered with wire cadges, to keep out coyote's. This one wasn't, She called the professor who did not recognize the body's position on there maps nor did the body have a identification number which all of the body's here have. So we called you." Carol filled them in as they walked to where the body was found.
"Did anyone touch the body or move any evidence from the scene?" Booth asked.
"Just the professor who looked for the identification number that should have been on the body's left foot, but that's all he touched."
"I'll need to speak with the students and the professors."
They got to the body and saw that it was badly decomposed and that maggots infested the body. Bones took soil and insect samples and asked an FBI agent to send it to Hodgins at the Jeffersonian. Then she took a look at the scull.
"There is blunt trauma to the Nasal frontal bone."
"What?" Carol Hines asked.
"The forehead" Booth and Bones said in harmony.
"So I guess that means we have a murder." Carol stated
"Cracks to the sternum, and rib cage consistent with a violent attack. I'll do a scull reconstruction and send it to Angela for a facial reconstruction." Bones said as she began to work.
"Great." Booth said with an irritated tone.
"I'll question the professor, and the students."
_________Later at a Hotel________
"Come on Bones this is the last Hotel in the city if they have two rooms then we can just put it on your tab…you don't have a limit remember!" Booth always teased her about how, even though they both work for the FBI, he was given a $50 a day limit on how much he could spend on site, while she had no limit at all.
At the counter the receptionist was checking for vacancy on the computer.
"Um, okay so we only have one room and it is a honeymoon suit. Shall I book you for this room." The fancy receptionist asked with a smile.
"Oh, No! Come on Booth we'll find another hotel."
"I assure you that you will not find more than one room anywhere in San Marcus tonight, there is a convention in town and everyone is booked." The receptionist said with the same polite smile.
"Oh, come on Bones. I'll sleep on the floor, you heard the woman we won't find another place in the city with more than one room. Unless you want to sleep in the car." Booth said with his charming smile popping up on his face.
"Fine!" Bones said with a growl.
"We'll have the honeymoon suit please." Booth said teasingly to the receptionist.