DJ was walking in downtown Washington D.C. when she began to sense something. She felt like someone was watching her. She had just left the diner to walk to the Jeffersonian Institute. Deciding that walking would be too long, DJ caught a cab.
"Where to, little lady?" the cab driver asked her.
"The Jeffersonian, please." She replied, beginning to stare out the window. She wondered to herself why anyone would be following her in D.C. She had lived here all her life, but before today, was never allowed to leave the house under her guardian's rules. Today was her sixteenth birthday, so she had snuck out of the house after her guardian left for work. Since when does a sixteen-year-old have to stay inside their house?
"Here we are, miss." The cab driver said, interrupting DJ's thoughts. "That'll be $9.63." he finished, waiting for his payment.
DJ handed him a ten dollar bill and three ones for a tip. He thanked her and drove off.
DJ looked at the building in front of her, surprised by how large and beautiful it was. She had heard many great things about this place, but this was the first time she had ever seen it for herself.
As she walked through the doors, the security guard—George was the name on his nametag—asked her to please remove her large jacket. DJ complied, for she knew that the security in this place was extremely high. After being cleared and receiving a visitor's badge, she headed out, looking for the Medico-Legal Lab.
After about a half an hour, she finally spotted the large, glass doors that had her destination written on them. She entered, and realized that there were not many people here. She noticed a large platform in the middle of the large room with a couple scientist-looking people on it. She decided to walk over to where the steps up to the platform were and just stood there, examining the people.
Only about a minute later, one of them noticed her. A young looking guy nudged a tall, beautiful Asian woman, and then the Asian women elbowed a man with big, curly hair and a burly beard. All of them then looked at another woman who was bent over a table. The Asian woman was the first to confront me, exiting the platform and beginning to speak.
"Hi, are you looking for someone—" She began, only to be cut off by DJ.
"You must be Angela." She said, smiling. Then DJ pointed to the young guy, "And you're Zack Addy," then pointing to the beard-guy, "And you're the bug guy, Hodgins." Then DJ smiled to herself as the other woman doctor had stood up and was staring at the young girl at the bottom of the platform.
Then DJ began walking up the platform, completely ignoring the alarm. Angela slid her card to stop the beeping as she followed the girl up the platform.
"And you," she said, pausing at the other woman scientist, "Must be Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan."
Temperance just stood there, examining the teenager as though she were a specimen on her lab table. The teenager had brown, curly hair that went down to about her elbows, and chocolate brown eyes.
Those eyes, Temperance thought to herself, Where have I seen them before?
"Like Angela said, are you looking for someone?" Temperance said, breaking the awful silence that was filling them all. Dr. Brennan had allowed this young girl onto her platform without a fight. That never happened.
"Actually, yes." The teenager said, "Do you know where I can find Special Agent Seeley Booth?"
"I'm afraid he's at the Hoover Building, sweetie." Angela told the girl.
"But-but I was told I could find him here…" DJ said, dropping her head.
"Well I'm sure he'll be here any second." Jack told the young lady, causing her to snap her head up with a excited yet nervous look on her face.
"What's your name?" Zack asked, completely oblivious to everyone else's words.
"Oh. My name is Danielle-Jade Bo—" but she was cut off by a man screaming into the Medico-Legal Lab.
"Danielle-Jade Booth!" he screamed, looking around the large room to see her on the platform with the squints. He slid his card as fast as he could and ran over to where Danielle-Jade was standing.
"Uh-oh." DJ said as she slowly turned around to face the man who was seven inches taller than she was. "Hey, Seeley." She said nervously.
"Don't you 'hey Seeley' me, young lady." He said, standing only about two inches from her. DJ had to look up to meet his eyes, because he was so much taller than she was. "What. Are. You. Doing. Here?" he said, his anger seething through his teeth.
"Seeley, I'm sixteen now…" she began, only to be interrupted by him.
"You just turned sixteen today, Dannie." Seeley said, still only inches from her face. "You were told to stay inside the house."
"Booth." Temperance said, only to be completely ignored.
"Seeley, I don't see why I'm not even allowed to leave the house. It's ridiculous." DJ said, standing on her tiptoes to try and be taller.
"Because, Deej." He said, starting to calm down but still only inches from her face. "There are things in this world that I don't want you to see."
"Booth." Temperance tried again, this time louder, only to be ignored.
"Seeley." DJ started, "It's normal for people to see this horrible world that we live in. Do you want me to get depressed because I never have any human contact except with you?"
"No, Dannie, but…" but this time he was cut off by Temperance.
"Seeley Booth!" she screamed at the top of her lungs, causing everyone to fall silent. "There. Now can you finish this conversation in my office, please?" she said.
Then Booth and DJ left the platform, Booth holding DJ by her upper arm and leading her to Brennan's office. They were followed by Angela, Hodgins and Zack.
"And just where do you think you're going?" Temperance asked, noticing that her team was following Booth and DJ.
"To eavesdrop, of course." Angela said with a huge smile on her face.
Booth stuck his head out of the office door and said, "Ange, I'll explain after I talk to Dannie." Then he shut the door in her face.
About an hour later, Booth and DJ exited Brennan's office to find Angela, Zack and Hodgins sitting on the steps of the platform looking extremely bored while Dr. Brennan was working on a skeleton. All three of them sat up and acted like they were dogs and Booth had a steak.
"So, who is this little hottie, and how do ya know her?" Zack asked. Since Zack had gone to Iraq a year ago, he had changed quite a bit. Some people thought it was for the better, but Booth, at the moment, wished he had remained the same.
"This 'little hottie.'" Booth said, using air quotes, "is Danielle-Jade Booth. You guys can call her DJ, but no one, and I mean no one else calls her Dannie but me, got it?" Angela, Zack and Hodgins quickly nodded.
"So how is she related to you?" Angela asked. "I mean, obviously you're related, you have the same last name…" but was quickly interrupted by Temperance, who had quietly come over to observe.
"She's his little sister."
Booth stared at his partner in awe.
"How-how did you know?" he asked, walking closer to Temperance.
"It's obvious," she began, "You both have the same physical features, which implies that you are not parent and offspring because the offspring would have at least one physical feature from her mother but in this case you both have the same so it is obvious that you both are offspring of the same parent."
DJ just stood there, completely in awe of what the doctor just said. "Is she always like this?" she whispered in Booth's ear.
"Yeah, but that's why I love her." He whispered back.
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