Author's Note: Well, I'm back! Sort of, but since finals are over, I can focus more on my writing. =] This is actually a collaboration with Zabrina or more known asForensic Fan '93 on here. Another crossover for me, but this time around it's Bones/NCIS. Chapters will be split into halves and for this chapter and the next chapter, Zabrina will be taking over for the first half while I take over the second half. I will see you guys the second half.

Disclaimer: I do not own Bones or NCIS no matter what anyways says.... and if someone does accuse me... it was all Zabrina's idea. :D

(Zabrina's Part)

Gibbs' POV

We got a call about a body with a Gunnery Sergeant's clothes on, but no ID. Strange for us. I rounded the corner and saw my team sitting at their desk. "Grab your gear. We have a case."

"Case, Boss?" DiNozzo asked, grabbing his bag. I saw David roll her eyes at DiNozzo.

"No, DiNozzo, you think? We're going out to grab coffee." I glared at my senior field agent. By then, we were in the elevator. "Sorry, Boss. Where are we going, by the way."

"Apartment building in DC. Someone got suspicious that, even though the apartment was rented out, no one ever came or went," I said.

"Sounds like a nosy old neighbor. Reminds me of mine," added DiNozzo.

I said, "DiNozzo, David, McGee, truck. I'll meet you there." When we got down to the parking lot, Ziva was the one driving. And here I thought DiNozzo and McGee wanted to live.

Once there at the crime scene, I had a gut feeling something was wrong. I took one look at the body and sighed. No way were we going to get an ID without some anthropologist. Ducky knew one, thankfully. Dr. T. Brenay…? No. I shook my head. Something similar. Oh, well.

Ducky and Palmer showed up. Duck came and stood beside me. He said, "Jethro, there is no way I can—"

"Make and ID, I could guess that, Duck."

"I'm going to have to call Dr. Brennan."

Brennan! That was his name. "How good is the man?"

"Temperance will not take lightly to being called male. She's even more fierce than Ziva. Temperance and I were at an anthropology conference when some lecturer grabbed her buttocks. He had a broken ulna and humorous. I would have felt sorry the young man, but he was rather crass," Ducky said, kneeling beside the body.

I said, "Yeah. I think I would have kicked his ass too."

"Just to warn you, Jethro…She's been working with the FBI, and if Fornell has anything to say about it, if this man is a civilian, Deputy Director Cullen will want it transferred to Dr. Brennan and Agent Booth."

I said, "Call her. Get Tony to take the bones over."

Ducky nodded. "Mr. Palmer. Give me your cell phone I know you are constantly texting on."

Palmer blushed and threw him the phone. Ducky dialed a number. "Yes, this is Dr. Donald Mallard, asking for Dr. Temperance Brennan…Yes, I hold… Oh, she's out? Is her assistant, Mr. Addy, there?…He's in a mental institute? Whatever for?… The Gormagon case?… May I speak to Dr. Goodman?…He isn't in? Well, may I speak to whomever is in charge in the Medico-Legal lab at this time?… Yes, I will speak to Dr. Saroyan." Ducky placed a hand over the speaker. "Channels… I despise them."

When Dr. Saroyan came on the phone, he said, "Yes, are you Dr. Saroyan? I'm Dr. Donald Mallard. I have a message for Dr. Brennan… No hurry, ma'am. I'm a forensic pathologist… Ah really? I didn't know they had a pathologist at the Jeffersonian… Ah, yes. Tell Dr. Brennan, Ducky has a full skeleton for her…Yes, she will know who Ducky is, Doctor…We will be sending an agent over with the bones… Yes, good bye."

He hung up. "I'm surprised." The phone rang. "Yes, Jimmy Palmer's phone, Dr. Mallard speaking…That was fast, Temperance."

Brennan's POV

"Ducky, this is Temperance Brennan. Cam said you called a minute ago."

"That was fast, Temperance."

"I just walked in from lunch. Sorry I missed your call."

"It's fine, my dear. I have some bones for you. We'll be sending an agent over soon. We found it in a Gunnery Sergeant's uniform."

"Good. Thanks Ducky. I appreciate people piling more onto my workload." I glowered at the room in general.

"Well, sounds like someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning," Ducky said, laughing slightly.

"Oh, thanks Ducky," I muttered.

"Temperance, my dear, what's wrong?" he asked, a note of concern creeping into his voice.

I shrugged before I remembered he couldn't see me. "Oh, nothing big, Ducky. I had an argument with a friend. When are the bones coming, so I can have Wendell lay them out for me."

"They are heading out right now with a chain of evidence form. He should be there shortly. He's been told to ask for you of Dr. Saroyan."

"Good. I'll call you when I get an ID for you."

"Thank you, my dear."

"Talk to you soon, Ducky."

I hung up and about after about a half an hour later, Cam stuck her head in. "Dr. Brennan. Agent DiNozzo is here for you. He has a body in the van for you."

"Thanks Cam. Tell him I'll be right out. I have a few—" My phone rang, cutting me off. "I'm guessing the papers are going to have to wait." I opened the phone. "Hi, Booth. What do you want?"

"Bones, a case from NCIS got bumped to us for ID. Gunnery—"

"Sergeant uniform found on a body. I know."

"How'd you find out?"

"Got a call from their ME who happens to be a friend of mine," I said. "Booth, I have to go, the body is here."

"Be right over. Let me know who delivers the body."

"Will do, Booth. See you soon." I hung up before Booth could say anything. I walked out and a man about my age stood there, attempting to flirt with Angela. I interrupted, "Angela, Agent…?" I hadn't really been paying attention when Cam had said his name.

"DiNozzo. Tony DiNozzo. And you are Dr. Brennan? I was expecting a male."

"I'm Temperance Brennan."

"Nice to meet…you… Tempe? Is that you?"

I blinked and thought back to my foster family. The DiNozzo's. "Tony? Oh my god! It's you!" I leaped forward to hug him as he opened his arms to me.

Angela's POV

I must say, I was shocked and slightly annoyed. That means she tapped that and didn't tell me! I decided to interrupt the little love fest. "Well, Bren, I'll see you after work today. You and I are still going out for drinks, right?"

She nodded and said, "Right, Ange."

Author's POV

There was a clearing of the throat from the entrance. "Bones. Thought you said you didn't know who was delivering the body."

"I didn't, Booth! Tony, this is Booth, my partner. Booth, this is Tony, my—"

"Your boyfriend, I get it." And Booth stalked off.

Brennan pulled away from Tony. "Tony, I have to go. I'm sure you know how partners can get. I mean, you do put your life in their hands after all and I really didn't introduce you properly. I mean, you're my foster brother, for God's sake!"

Tony nodded. "You should meet my partner."

She smiled weakly at him. "Give your number to Wendell. I have to go to the diner and calm Booth down. " She ran out of the room.

(My part: Bella1992)

Author's POV

Brennan managed to get to the Diner just a couple minutes after Booth had entered and ordered his classic Cherry Pie. He sat on the stool with a glum face while he started to move it around with his fork. Walking up and taking the stool next to him, Brennan sat there and tried to find some words to say what she wanted to say.

Booth however talked first. "So, who's your boyfriend?" he asked nonchalantly as if it was nothing.

"If you would have let me introduce you to him correctly, you would've heard that he was my foster brother from a while back when I was still in the system."

Booth lifted his head from staring at his pie and stopped playing with his food. "Wait, your foster brother?" he asked shocked. Out of all the things that he had thought the guy was, it never crossed his mind that he would be Bones' brother.

Brennan nodded with a small smile. "The best family to take me in was his. We got along really well and although there was the usual brother/sister fighting, I still really care about him." She paused with a sigh. "But why did you run off when I was about to introduce him to you. You seemed a little jealous."

"Jealous?" He chuckled nervously. "What do you mean jealous? I mean, we're just partners right?" It came out more like a question than a statement and it was a question that he wanted her to answer.

Slowly nodding, she cleared her throat a little. "Yeah, we're just partners, but you know, we're friends as well." Something about just saying they were partners didn't seem like... them in general. They were more like friends at the very least and not just partners.

Booth grinned at the fact that she thought they were more than partners. "Aw, Bones. Of course we're friends. It's nice to know that you think of us like that."

Brennan returned his smile while motioning for the waiter. "I do and as friends and partners, I would like to formally introduce you to Tony when we get back to the lab. First though, I think I'll get order of fries."

"Wouldn't have it any other way." Booth picked up his fork, feeling a lot better than when he came in. He wasn't sure what he was suppose to be feeling, but knowing that he was good with Bones was something that made him feel light, for a lack of better words. "You know what else friends do?" he asked.

Bones shook her head. "No, what?"

"They share their foods," he replied with a big grin. "And I know you don't like any pie, but I do like the occasional fries so we'll share it."

"Hey, that's not what friends do. You just made that up," she accused, pointing at him.

Booth grinned, but shrugged nonchalantly. "It's in the rule book."

Brennan frowned and shook her head. "There's no such thing as a rule book for friends."

"No, but if there was, that would be in it." Booth nodded before taking a bite of his pie. "And if you liked pie, I would let you have some of this delicious Cherry Pie."

She narrowed her eyes. "You don't know that it'd be in the rule book. And I don't like Cherry Pie so you can have that all to yourself while I enjoy my fries," Brennan replied with a smile. Feeling her phone vibrate in her pocket, she pulled it out to see that it was Cam calling her. "Brennan." The waiter came by with the try of fries and placed it down. She said a soft thanks before returning back to Cam.

"Dr. Brennan, we need you back in the lab when you're done. I looked over the remains for tissue and sent the rest over to Wendell so he'll take a look at it. There was some abnormalities with the tissue that I wanted to go over with you later."

"Okay, thanks Cam. I'll be back in a little bit."

Brennan hung up. "That was Cam. We have to get back to the lab as soon as we're done since she found some abnormalities with the remaining tissue from our John Doe."

"What abnormalities?"

"She didn't get a change to tell me, but since Ducky called me up to help with the case, there's probably not a lot of tissue left for Cam to look at," she explained while eating her fries.

Booth made a noise that sounded like a hmm, but Brennan couldn't tell since he was eating. "Ducky is an odd name."

"Ducky's real name is Dr. Donald Mallard, but we just call him Ducky." She explained it casually like it wasn't her first time answering that question and it really wasn't. With a nickname like Ducky, there was bound to be some questions.

After Booth and Brennan finished eating, they headed back to the lab where Cam, Wendell, and Tony were standing on the platform. Brennan quickly slid her card to deactivate the alarm and walked up with Booth hot at her heels. Proper introductions between Booth and Tony could wait until a little later. "Hey Cam. What were the abnormalities that you called Bones about?"

"Well, there wasn't much tissue to work with in the first place, but it seems like the tissue absorbed some Sodium Chloride," Cam answered. "Well, more like a lot of it."

Wendell stepped in to add more information. "And there was also a high amount of it in his blood stream, which could have happened from the amount in his tissue."

"Bones?" Tony whispered to Brennan. "Who's that?"

"Me," she answered quickly before returning back to the case. "How could Sodium Chloride be absorbed into his tissues? Unless he was rolled in a big tub of salt, which is highly improbable." A slight frown graced her face as she tried to figure out what happened.

Wendell and Cam shared a look that Booth caught. "What?"

"Uh, that's kinda what we're thinking," Wendell answered with an uncertain face. "Well, after he was killed which we are still trying to figure out, but it looks like he was mauled by some sort of animal after he was killed."

"And it was not a dog. We've ruled that out." Cam sighed and looked down at the victim. "We've sent some samples of the bite marks and other marks on the bone to Hodgins so he's looking at that now."

"Wait, so you're saying that someone killed him, fed him to some animals, then rolled in a big tub of salt before throwing him in an apartment room?" Booth asked to clarify.

DiNozzo decided to take his jump in. "No way. Who would take the time to do all that? I mean, you kill a guy for a reason. Why take all the time to do all that? Especially the rolling the body in salt. What's next pepper?" he chuckled.

Brennan frowned as Booth started to laugh as well. "Nice one."

Seeing that, he paused for a moment. "You know, salt and pepper, Bones?"

"I know what it means, Booth. I just don't see how it's funny."

"Aw, lighten up Tempe. You have to admit it's a little funny," DiNozzo said with a grin.

Cam looked from DiNozzo to Brennan and then to Booth. "Tempe? Is there something I'm missing here people, because we need to get to work."

"Cam, you've met Agent DiNozzo. He's my foster brother from when I was in the system," she introduced. "Tony, you've met Cam, my boss."

Tony laughed. "Boss? I didn't think you'd listen to a boss. You're more like a do it your own way sort of person, Tempe. Not that having a boss isn't good, because you know Gibbs, is a great boss. Best boss I've had." He paused. "You're not gonna tell him, right?"

Brennan gave him a confused look. "Tell him what? That's he's a good boss?"

"Nevermind." He smiled gently at her. "I missed have you around after you left, Tempe. Why didn't we keep in touch after you left?"

Before she could answer however, Cam cleared her throat. "Not be interrupting, but we have a case that's as odd as it's gonna get so how about we get to work and you two can catch up afterwards?" It was less of a question and more of a statement.

"Cam's right. Work first and then later we can catch up. Angela and I are going out for drinks later tonight, how about you and Booth join us?" she suggested. Something about the thought of her foster brother and Booth getting along was important to her, but she didn't know why. "You and Booth can do some manly talk." Brennan looked over at Booth. "Manly talk, right?"

Booth smiled. "Guy talk, but that works with me. Drinks tonight then." He held up a yellow folder. "I have to check some things out so I'll see you squints later."

Tony gave a small nod as Booth left. "I should probably get going too. I have to check in with my boss with what we have so far."

"I'll examine the bones some more so I will see you later tonight, Tony." Brennan smiled at her brother before turning her attention to the remains.

"Good. Now you and see if you can find out what animal we're looking for," Cam said to Wendell. "Angela is working on the facial reconstruction and Hodgins is looking at the bite marks." She clapped her hands together. "Everyone has something to do so let's get on it people."

Author's Note: So what do you guys think? Can you tell the difference between my writing and Zabrina's? :] Give us some input on what you guys think and hopefully this will be as good as my Bones/House crossover.