Disclaimer: No, I don't own Bones.

"You know, Dr. Brennan hates it when you get these cases where its my territory and not hers," Cam told Booth as she, him and Hodgins rode to the crime scene.

"Yeah, hence the reason she doesn't know about it."

"You didn't tell her?!" Hodgins asked.

"She'll kick my ass if I tell her. She'll think that I'm purposely picking these cases."

"Is that true?"

"No!"

"She'll kick your ass anyway, Seeley."

"Hey! You're supposed to be a friend here!"

"A good friend tells their friends the truth," Cam laughed.

They lapsed into silence until they arrived at the scene. Cam spouted out what facts she knew from her examination of the body of the young girl sprawled on the corner of the sidewalk. Mid teens, all fingers but thumbs and forefingers had been cut off, and deep cuts covered her hands, arms and legs. Her face was practically scraped off, possibly from it running down the 20 story building, or from the landing. Almost all of her bones were broken, if not shattered. She had been dead for only a few hours so far.

"Not much else I can tell you at this point."

"Get this body sent over to the Jeffersonian," Booth called to one of the techs.

"Booth! Cam!" A voice yelled from very high up above them. They couldn't even see the speck that was Hodgins's head on the roof. Without another word, they went inside the building, and after noticing the elevator was out of order, started climbing the stairs.

It wasn't until the eleventh floor that they realized the blood drops leading up the stairs. Cam knelt down.

"It's not smeared, so I'd assume she was walking up these stairs, not dragged."

"Is it a possibility she's suicidal?"

Cam shrugged, "I'd doubt she'd be able to cut off her fingers and then still be able to jump off this building. She'd have to be extremely depressed and probably doped up on pain medication."

When they reached the roof, they saw Hodgins taking samples over by the edge of the roof. In a small pile was the victim's missing six fingers. While there were traces of blood almost everywhere on the roof, most of it was concentrated by the fingers.

"Could the weapon still be up here?" Booth asked Hodgins.

He shook his head, "Unless the killer could start cutting her up with a square piece of wood and magically remove all traces of blood on it, then I'm sorry to disappoint."

Cam carefully placed the fingers in an evidence bag. "I'm pretty confident that these fingers belong to our victim, but I'll have to do a DNA test to be positive."

He nodded, "As much as I'd want to put serial killers away, I just hope that we aren't dealing with one. Doing this to just one victim is bad enough."

"I agree," both agreed simultaneously.

Booth clapped his hands. "So how much longer are you squints going to be. I'd prefer to get back to the lab before the body arrives so I can take Bones out to lunch and then surprise her with the body when we get back."

"Seeley," Cam interrupted, "you know, she's going to figure it out eventually. Then she'll get pissed at you for not telling her."

Booth grimaced. "Okay, okay. I'll tell her when we're on our way back from lunch!"

Cam's eyebrows raised and she laughed. "If you wanted to avoid her prolonged wrath, you should have told her before you took us here."

"So you never answered my original question. How much longer are you squints going to be?"

"We're done," once again said simultaneously.

Next up, who is the girl and how will Brennan react to Booth's not telling her about the case just yet?