I don't own it...wish I did but I don't

"Bones! We have a case," Seely Booth said as he strolled into Dr. Temperance Brennan's office. She looked up at him through her auburn hair.

"Just let me finish this sentence."

She saved her paper and stood up. He smiled and helped her into her jacket. He handed over the file.

"Young girl by the name of Alice Heart found a very decomposed body at a beat up abandoned house."

Brennan nodded once.

"Alright let's go."

They walked out of her office as normally as ever with his hand on her the small back. The drive to the crime scene was quiet…well as quiet as ever with them. When they arrived they got out of the car and headed straight for the body.

"Male, early 40s, rate of decomposition says he's been here for about a year, he probably worked in construction."

A new officer walked up behind her.

"You can't possibly know that."

One of the older officers smiled at him a very knowing smile.

"Oh but she can. Well get the evidence to the Jeffersonian ma'am."

She smiled her thanks and took off her gloves. Booth helped her up and they walked back to the SUV.

"I want to drive."

"No Bones, I drive. That's the way it'll always be."

"You're such an alpha-male!"

The older officer smiled as he watched the two drive off.

Any day now.

2 days later

Dr. Brennan walked into her partners office.

"Booth, we got an ID on the victim. General Thomas Hare. Also known as-"

"Moe. Yeah I know."

She looked at him and nodded in understanding.

"You knew him."

"Everyone knew Moe. He risked his life to save his buddies. Then he got hit with some chemicals in the Gulf and he got sent home. It nearly killed him."

"I'm sorry Booth. We'll find how did this to him."

She put her hand on his hand and he smiled at the simple contact.

"You're getting better at this whole comfort thing."

She smiled one of the smiles that made him go weak at the knees. They just stayed looking at each other for a while before she stood up.

"I've got the file on Hare. He lived in San Antonio Texas. His wife Kristine went missing 5 years ago. He married a woman named April Moss a year later. A month after that his daughter and son went missing. The daughter, Kelsey Hare was 10, and his son Jesse Hare was a few months old. He was reported missing by his wife last year."

She handed him pictures of Kristine Hare, April Hare, Kelsey Hare, and Jesse Hare.

He stopped at the picture of the daughter.

"She doesn't look like she's 10. In fact she looks like she's at least 16."

"Yes she does. She was an all A student, in every club there was at school, helped the teachers after school, and made the top scores of her class on the TAKS test."

"She was bright. I met her at her birthday party her mother through for her. She was 6 and could speak some language that I didn't even know existed. She wanted to know everything she told me. She would have been a squint."

"Booth, there's one more thing."

He looked up at her with tears in his eyes.

"What?"

Some of the teachers at Kelsey's school said that they thought she was being abused. And the person that murdered Hare was 5'2."

"So what, Bones? What are you telling me? That Moe would hurt her daughter. NO BONES! HE WOULDN'T!"

"Okay, Booth. I was saying that she could have killed him."

"So now we have a suspect. The only problem is…she's been missing four 4 years!"