Disclaimer - I do not own Bones or any of the characters cuz if i did Brennan and Booth would be together already!

A/N: This is a Hodgins/Zack slash story so if you don't like this sort of thing turn away now!!

'Squints, what do you have for me?'

The squints all turned around to glare at Booth as he strutted in with his charm smile and an air of confidence that never seemed to leave him.

'What?' he said as he noticed everyone glaring at him.

They all turned away from him and continued looking at the remains.

'Ok then' he mouthed ' So what do you have for me?' he asked again

'Male. Caucasian, aged 25-30, stabbed 8 times' Brennan answered without looking up.

'It looks like the fatal stab wound was this one here, the one to the heart.' Zack put in.

'Ok good but any info which could lead me to the killer?' Booth asked trying to be patient with his squints. Wait, his squints? He wasn't sure when he started calling them his but surprisingly to him he didn't mind. They were like a family to him. Yes a very smart, sometimes annoying, always getting him into trouble family. But a family none the less. He would risk his life for anyone of them and on numerous occasions he had. Booth was pulled out of his thoughts by Brennan talking.

'Nothing yet but after Angela does the face reconstruction, she is going to work on the re-enactment of the murder. That should give us height. weight etc of the murderer.'

'Great what about location?'

'Nothing' Hodgins answered.

'Nothing? What do you mean nothing?'

'Well there was nothing which was enough to tell us where they were killed. All the particulates I found were too common.'

'You got to be kidding me!' Booth said trying to keep himself calm. This was the third victim found in the space of two weeks. If they didn't catch the guy soon there would be allot more deaths.

At that moment Brennan's phone went off. She took of her gloves and flipped it open. 'Brennan' she said ' Yup. OK. I'll be right there.' she closed her phone and started taking off her lab coat as she walked to the door.

'Uhhhhh Bones where are you going?' Booth said as she left.

'Publisher called, I got to go.' she said with out stopping.

'We are in the middle of a murder investigation and you want to leave now?

'Well I can't do much more until Angela's finished programming the re-enactment and that could take a while. So I'll see you guys in a few hours.'

'See ya!' Hodgins yelled.

'Bye Dr Brennan.' Zack called.

Booth just turned towards the remaining squints with a look of shock upon his face. ' What just happened?'

'Dr Brennan left.' Zack said in voice that screamed duh! Hodgins turned to Zack and they both smiled at each other. It was obvious the FBI agent was getting stressed, not that they could really blame him. If they didn't catch this serial killer soon, someone else was going to die.

The sound of Booth's phone echoed through the building.

'Booth. What? Yes. OK.' he flipped his phone shut. ' Great just great. There's another body. Where's Bones? I need her back here. Now!'

'That ain't gunna happen. We don't know where's she's meeting her publisher and she always switches off her phone when they meet. Sorry baby nothing we can do.' Hodgins said.

Booth rubbed his face in frustration.' Fine! Then you two will have to do.'

'Wait! What?' Zack looked up shocked.

'Quick grab what you need. Let's go!' Booth was obviously getting impatient.

'Oh yeah' Hodgins said excitedly ' field work!'

Zack looked slightly nervous but signed and followed an excited Hodgins and an annoyed Booth out of the Jefforsonian to Booth's car.