Temperance Brennan heard her cell phone ringing at nearly 2:30 in the morning. Reluctantly, she reached over and answered it.
"Hello?" Brennan said, tiredly.
"Good morning, Bones," Temperance recognized this voice immediately.
"What do you want Booth? It's 2:30 in the morning," she said, groaning as she sat up and turned on the light, closing her eyes tightly as the bright light hit them. Temperance had been at the Jeffersonian until midnight and was looking forward to a good nights sleep.
"We found a body, what else do you think I'd be calling at this hour for?" Seeley Booth smiled on the other end of the phone. It was fun to wake Bones up.
"That's not funny, where are you?"
"On my way there," Booth said, holding his cell phone against his ear so he could change gears.
"How close to my apartment are you?" she rolled her eyes.
"I'm close, want me to pick you up?" Booth said as he turned the corner onto Bones street, knowing that she'd want him to pick her up.
"Yes, umm, I'll be ready in about 10 minutes…" Tempe jumped out of bed and looked out her window. "I see you."
"Yeah, wanna buzz me in?" Booth said once he parked his car and got out.
"Ok, see you in a minute," Temperance hung up without another word.
She grabbed a black pair of pants and a blue tank top, just before she heard her regular phone ring the buzzer ring. She pressed the button, not even bothering to answer it.
She pulled on the clothes, then went over to the mirror and brushed her hair out, pulling it back into a ponytail.
Temperance saw her favourite necklace and put it on. She smiled and then went over to the door to unlock it so that Booth could just come in. Then, she went into the bathroom and brushed her teeth. There was a knock at the door a few moments later.
"Booth! It's open!" she yelled as she put on her makeup. She had forgotten to take it off once she got home so it looked all right, but she still wanted to fix it.
"Bones? Where are you?" Booth asked once he was inside.
"Be right there," once Temperance was happy with her appearance she went out and grabbed her jacket and purse. "Let's go."
"It took me 5 minutes to get up here, how fast do you get ready in the morning?" Booth asked, shocked.
"Fast, but I was already half done. I came home late," she pulled her jacket on and rushed Booth out the door.
"How late?" he asked as he watched her lock the door. "Oh, now you lock the door," Booth shook his head. Tempe never really locked the door when she was at home.
"Midnight, thanks so much for waking me up by the way. Oh and have you called Zach, and Hodgins and Angela and told them that they have to get up and get to the Jeffersonian or did you want to leave that to me so that I get yelled at?" Temperance put her keys in her purse, ignoring Booth's second comment.
"I'll call them, what about Cam?" Booth asked.
"Is it an autopsy that you need?" she asked back. "Or an anthropologist?"
"Meaning?" Booth put his hands up in an 'I don't know what you're talking about' way.
"Meaning, is the body bones or does it still have flesh?" Temperance asked, she didn't really like Cam after all.
"I don't know Bones! I haven't even seen the body yet," Booth said while he pressed the down button for the elevator.
"Why don't you know? Wouldn't you know?" she asked, a little agitated, after all she had been woken up after 2 and a half hours sleep.
"No, I don't know, but I'm calling Cam anyways," Booth said, pulling out his cell phone.
"Fine," Temperance stepped into the elevator and pressed the one button, before crossing her arms.
"Bones just… Hey Cam! It's Booth," Booth said into the receiver and he saw Bones roll her eyes. "Nothing, I know it's late but there's a body and," he paused again. "Yeah, I have Bones with me. Ok, see you at the Jeffersonian then, bye bye," Booth hung up.
"Was Cam happy you her up at 2:30 in the morning? Oh I forgot! She went home at nine," Tempe usually was more professional than this, but she was tired.
"Bones, why are you so tired? You can usually stay up for about two days," Booth snapped as they walked out of the elevator.
Tempe sighed. "I'm sorry. I have been up for two days, that's all, the Jane Doe 222 case was bothering me."
Jane Doe 222 was a woman who they had found in an underground sky train station. There was only the top half of the skull left and even at that, it was smashed. Angela hadn't been able to get a very good picture, only the top half of the skull.
Temperance knew she was close to finding 222's killer, she could feel it. She wouldn't tell anybody else that, but she sure could think it if she wanted to, and she wanted to.
"Ah yes. Jane Doe 222…" Booth smiled at Tempe. "Well, I was going to wait until tomorrow, but…"
"What?" Tempe asked. It had bothered her that he had stopped half way through a sentence.
"Can you wait for two more hours?" Booth asked. "Or something like that. I'll tell you what I found out, after we get this case started."
Tempe sighed. "All right," she said, and she heard the known sound of Booth's car beeping to say it was unlocked.
They walked over to the SUV and climbed in, Booth in the drivers seat and Temperance in the passenger seat.
Tempe yawned as she checked the back seat to make sure that Booth hadn't taken her extra kit out of the car. "How long until we get there?" she asked as the car began to move and she turned back to face the front of the car.
"About an hour or so. They found the body in a cupboard," Booth said, but when he turned to look at Bones, she was already asleep.
Booth kept driving until they were there. He didn't want to wake her up, but he knew he had to. She looked so pretty asleep, her hair falling out of the ponytail.
Booth smiled and reached over, shaking her gently. "Bones, Bones, wake up."
Tempe began to stir. "Wha… Where are we?" she asked, blinking sleep out of her eyes and sitting up.
"Crime scene," Booth turned off the ignition and climbed out of the SUV before going into the back and getting Tempe's field kit.
Temperance blinked once more, closing her eyes tight before reopening them and climbing out of the car herself. She went around the vehicle and took her kit from Booth, swaying slightly from fatigue.
"Thanks Booth," she said, walking towards the house. She went inside and apparently Booth had already called Zach because he was there, looking rather tired.
Brennan walked over to where Zach was and smiled a little before attending to the body. "Female, Caucasian, mid thirties. It looks as though her right knee, right fibula, and left femur are shattered," Tempe looked at the woman's legs, before turning to her upper body, "Not to mention her fingers look like they've been broken, her right and left ulna have fractures, and the right humorous is snapped."
Tempe sighed. "She was most likely beaten to death," she looked at the woman's rib cage and flinched. Every bone there was broken. "And it was probably painful," Temperance looked at the woman's skull. It had one large fracture line across the frontal bone and over the supra-orbital foramen. She knew right away. "This was the killer blow."
"How do you know that Bones?" Booth asked her, he hated it when there were women that had been beaten to death.
"Well, you can break all the other bones through beating, but the head, if you get hit in the head hard enough to break the bone for that long," Tempe pointed at the bone that went across the top of the forehead and all the way down until it nearly touched the woman's eye socket, "then you know that she couldn't have lived for long. Zach," she called the student, "get her back to the lab and you can start the preliminary exam. I'll be there in the morning." Tempe said, walking back to Booth's car.
"You sure you don't want to be there right away?" Booth asked.
"I've been up for two days. All I want right now, is to go home and sleep," Temperance said as she climbed into the car.
A/N What do you think? Is it out of character? Please read and review and I'll have the next chapter up in a few days I hope!!!!!!
