The Fear in the Mystery

by Shoebox12

Booth and Brennan should be happy. They just defeated Pelant and are about to get married! But when Brennan discovers Booth was working a case without her she doesn't know if she can trust him in a relationship and if she can let herself depend so much on him. Will the engagement be broken off again? Or will the the pair be able to work through their problems?

1. Chapter 1

Bones Fanfic
The Fear in the Mystery - Chapter 1

Clink! Brennan raised her glass and took a sip. Nine years ago if you had told her she would be in a bar with a group of people that were like family to her, celebrating her engagement, with a child, her child, at home, she wouldn't have believed them. Mostly she wouldn't have believed them because it's illogical to believe in seeing into the future but also because she would never have opened herself up like this. Usually she was glad that she had her friends there for her. She knew should could count on them and they would help her out if she needed. On the other hand she worried she had become to dependant on them. What of they left her? That worry was always there. Sweets would say that it stemmed from her abandonment as a child but wasn't it logical to be to feel that way? "I can only control my own actions, not others, therefore I cannot know weather someone will certainly do something. That's why I can't depend fully on others" she rationalized

"Pelant is finally gone for good Cherie, you can relax! Or do you always look that worried?" Caroline asked.

"I'm sorry, I'm just thinking..."

"Are you worried about that other killer Pelant talked about? Because you shouldn't. He only said that to give you the code and get your attention Sweetie. He doesn't know anything about those murders, I'm sure of it"

"Ange, I think you are trying to help but there is no way you could know that. I might have over looked something. Pelant was terrible but he was also smart, it wouldn't make sense if I didn't at least look into it a bit. I should be working on it now even. "

"Actually," Booth said "I called around to some of the squinterns, Arastoo and Fisher were free tonight and they are working on the cases as we speak. You don't need to worry tonight at least, somebody is taking care of it."

He may have been trying to help but Booth only made Brennan freak out more. Muttering something about contaminating evidence, she grabbed her coat and drove off.

"Dr. Brennan what are you doing here?" Arastoo said looking up from the computer

"You can go home now, I can take this over."

"Well first let us tell you what despairing truth we have untangled from these sad bones."

"We noticed that one case had not been stamped showing it had been recorded into the jeffersonians new online database so we input it and it matched with four other cases. The murderer has been convicted and we contacted the detectives in charge of the case and they say he had confessed to five cases yet they had not found the fifth until now."

"Without a dark deep shadow of a doubt this poor soul was not killed by the same person who killed any of these."

"But ..." She began. Then she realized, that it was true. The cases had no relevance to each other what so ever, except that they were part of the code that lead her to the factory. That was their only purpose. She felt embarrassed at having been tricked, yet she also felt relieved that they didn't have another serial killer on their hands.