Disclaimer: I do not own Bones or any of its characters.

Chapter One

It was Monday morning at the Jeffersonian Medico-Legal lab, a frustrated Temperance Brennan was swiftly moving around the forensics platform identifying a soldier from World War One.

"Booonesssss oh Boonesssss where are you?" came a voice from her office, she sighed inwardly, it was Booth, she knew who it was just be the mentioning of the nickname he had given her almost two years ago and not to say the high sing song voice that was slightly altering her mood.

"Hey Booth, you look nice today, Bren's on the platform" said Angela as she flashed him a cheeky smile "Thanks Angela"

"So Bones, what are you working on" following Tempe as she moved off the platform at a fast pace towards her office, more than saying she was annoyed at something "another victim from World War One, he was killed with a single gunshot wound to the back of the skull but we haven't identified him just yet, how come your here? is it time for lunch already?"

Booth laughed "No Bones as much as we wished it was lunchtime, sadly its 10:45 in the morning, but if you are hungry I guess we could get something to eat"

"Then what on earth are you doing here Booth? And are you purposely trying to piss me off because its damn well working!" Bones said that a lot harsher than she intended and immediately felt a pang of guilt.

"Hey Bones are you alright? Since I've been here you have seemed to be a little off than your usual self, are you sure everything is alright, come on Bones you can tell me"

Her eyes were glued to the floor, her bottom lip taken in between her teeth showing she was thinking and eventually she sighed "Your ability of reading people always works, you always know when something is wrong with me" she gave him a weak smile.

"Yes I know Bones, please don't keep me worried, tell me whats making you so crappy today" he said flashing her his best charm smile.

damn booth and that charm smile, he could get ANYTHING out of me with that

"My father showed up this morning asking me to forgive him for everything and that he was leaving town for awhile and when he came back we were going to be a family and run away again, just me him and Russ, he sounded really sincere but after everything I just couldn't, he mumbled something and then left and I felt so bad for doing that to him but I really can't trust him anymore" her eyes slightly filled with tears but she blinked them back, not need in any display of emotion especially when Booth was there.

"Bones you did the right thing, he may have been a bad guy and saying he has changed from that and is a better person now but these days its really hard to trust someone, want to go get something to eat its just after eleven" he said glancing at the clock from his partners eyes and back again.

"Yeah sure just let me grab my coat and purse"

They walked through the lab side by side his hand on the small of her back as normal "Ange were going to go get something to eat and we shouldn't be any later than 11:45" she called over her shoulder to Angela as they were leaving
"Not to worry, we have it all under control take your time" Angela gave her a smile and went to see what Hodgins was looking at.

AT THE DINER

"You know Bones the reason why I was at the lab so called 'annoying' you this morning was because I was going to tell you we had a case but I put that aside since I could see something was really wrong with you and I think still is"

she laughed "Yeah I sorta figured that, im sorry for taking it out on you so badly I was just in a juicy mood after seeing my dad again and asked me to run off with him, why run away? There must be more than that, an ulterior motive for leaving town…" she trailed off and had her eyes firmly fixed out the window.

I hate it when somethings wrong with her, if only I could read her thoughts and not just know when something is wrong by body language and tone...

"its bitter mood Bones, not juicy"

she snapped back into reality "Anyway, whats this case about this time"

Booth was a little too immersed in his thoughts "hmm? Oh uh the case, er well Emily Elfonzo went to the park and never came back, her parents Ellie and Jack filed the missing persons report one week later, she turned up dead in her school's gym in the foam pit yesterday and they want us to find out which sick bastard did this to her" Booth said looking slightly distraught

she had better say yes otherwise im going to have to drag her out of here myself and I don't really want to, she could kick my ass anytime now, stupid overskilled Bones!!

"Oh alright I can do that, when is the body getting delivered to the Jeffersonian?"

"er well you see, that's the thing, its not getting delivered to the Jeffersonian, we are going to it and it is Michigan…"

"MICHIGAN? No Booth I can't just leave!! I have soldiers to identify and other such things, I cant just abandon everything else, what about Cam? She doesn't work with bones these things will never get identified and the families deserve to know what happened and the right to bury their relatives"

Booth sighed "Bones I know you don't like having to do this but they asked for you, they need you to find Emily's killer, you're the best anthropologist in the US please Bones please please please please!" He was almost on his knees pleading for her to go with him and he added the best charm smile he could give her.

Finally she gave in "Fine Booth, ill come with you and If I get in trouble for not identifying the soldiers its getting put on you…"

She was cut off " and that's not going to happen since I have cleared everything up with Cam and she has given it the thumbs up so were all good, I'll pick you up tomorrow 2am, our flight leaves at 4 and we need to be at the airport before 3:30" he said over his shoulder as he exited the diner to avoid her protesting.

Okay so im not sure how well that went, please review to give me some of your thoughts of what I could do next or let me know how it is, im not going to continue a bad fanfic so I need to know soon,

Kind Regards As Always;

Alexandra.