Dead on Arrival
Chapter 1
Cam swipes her card and walks up to the podium where Sweets is standing with Booth looking at 2 bodies: a young girl and boy, the boy's is slightly charred.
"Sweets I wasn't excepting to see you I thought your niece was coming today"
"Not for like 3 hours." Sweets says
"Not really 3 hours" says a girl in jeans, Smile Victoria Secret shirt, a gray beanie, and red plaid sneakers standing at the bottom of the stairs. A yellow New York Loves Me sweatshirt is hanging over her arm. She has chest length molten brown hair and bright dancing brown eyes. She's Caucasian and looks about 15, her left eye is lightly bruised.
"Hayden" Sweets says running down the steps and hugging her "Uhh how you been Hazie."
"Holding up" Hayden says
"What happen to your eye?" Booth asks
"Dad got angry when a man named Jared came to get me" Hayden says "Um you must be Booth, pleasure Sweets told me a lot about you"
"Nice to finally meet you after only seeing you in Sweets' pictures" Booth says
Bones walks up with Angela and Hodgins
"This must be the famous Hayden Marie" Angela says walking up and hugging her
"Hayden please, Angela, right?" Hayden asks
"Yep" Angela said
"This is Doctor Temperance Breenan and Doctor Jack Hodgins." Sweets says putting his arm around her "Breenan, Hodgins this is my niece-"
"Hayden Marie or do you prefer Hayden?" Hodgins asks shaking her hand
"I prefer Hayden, Nice to meet you" Hayden says smiling revealing a perfect row of white never-needed-braces teeth
"Hayden Marie why does that sound familiar?" Bones asks
"I was in a branch of your graduate class in New York City. Top of my class" Hayden answers
"Very impressive" says Zack "Wait how old are you?"
"15 why?"
"How were you in Doctor Breenan grad class?"
"I have a grad school in New York City for excelled students" Bones says
"Sweets." Hayden says
"What?" He says
"My arm."
"Oh sorry" He says letting go of her arm there was a purple hand print where his hand had been.
Hayden cocked her head looking at the bodies on the podium
"Would you like to come up here and help?" Cam offers
"What?!" Zack exclaims
"Well as top of her class in my excelled, Wait A.P. or normal?" Breenan says
"A.P." Hayden says swiping her card and walking to the podium.
"Very impressive, she should help with the investigation." Breenan says
"I'm not gonna steal your job, Zack." Hayden says
Zack loved how silky his name sounded when she said it. He could feel heat creeping up his neck. He couldn't help it she was beautiful. She had a grace about her that made you want to protect her, but at the same time you knew she didn't need it. Hayden cocks her head again as she studied the bodies.
"Marks on the spine suggest that she was paralyzed before death but head trauma looks like cause of death. She was Caucasian about 6 or 7. A deformation on the shoulder might help identify her" She says
"Wow very impressive we better watch her she might take your King of the Lab." Hodgins says
Hayden looks at Sweets inquiringly
"I'll explain later" he says winking at her.
"Well Hayden, before Zack has a seizure" Booth says laughing at the look of terror on Zack's face "How 'bout you, Sweets and I go do some profiling at the school where she was found."
"If she was top of my grad school I doubt she'll have and I doubt she likes psychology" Breenan says
"Yea I do, I aced 3 years in a row. It was my elective at the F.B.I Academy"
"Triple-threat. You graduate yet?" Booth asks as they walk out
"Yea I have to do the damn internship and I'll be a full member finally"
"Why finally?"
"My fa- I mean I was hurt pretty badly before I could finish my internship" Hayden says to her feet.
"Hayden I meant to tell you I accidentally let it slip to Booth" Sweets says
"Oh well then my dad pushed e down a flight of stairs when I hitch-hiked to Sweets for I think the 3rd or 4th time"
"This was your abused niece?" Booth asks shocked
"I only have one niece Booth."
Hayden walks to the school fence and wraps her fingers in the chain link. Little girls are skipping singing Ring Around the Rosy. Hayden hated that song she didn't know why. It always made her feel sick. She turns and sees a group of boys that look around her age, untying the POLICE-CRIME SCENE- DO NOT ENTER tape.
"Hey" she yells climbing over the fence. One of the boys wolf-whistles. "Grow up" Hayden says slapping the boy.
"Sweets, I love your niece!" Booth says opening the fence "Hey you boys are on F.B.I. property so I'd move unless you want to be charged for tampering with evidence."
The boys run off. Hayden slides under the bush that has curved and attached to the fence.
"Booth, does Breenan know that there are blood and skin particles on this fence. And the grass looks like someone was dragged across." She slides out again "I think I might know cause of death."
TBC
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