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December 2nd

The Bodies in the Barn

The car pulls to a halt and the husband and wife partnership reluctantly get out of the vehicle. Booth had the car's heating switched on high as the early morning temperatures had them both feeling pretty cold. The contrast between the warmth of the car and the icy temperature outside is not pleasant; not even Brennan's jumpsuit can keep out the cold.

She shivers as they walk side-by-side to an abandoned barn, where a farmer found a pair of highly decomposed remains amongst the machinery required to harvest his crops.

"Wow," Booth says, spying the bodies in the middle of the drafty agricultural building. Cam and Hodgins are already there and, by the looks of it, they're feeling the temperature just as much as he and Brennan are. "That's just gross."

"On the contrary, Booth, it's actually very interesting how these remains became so decomposed."

"Interesting? Really, Bones?"

"Yes," she rolls her eyes at her husband and kneels down beside the remains, beginning her examination of the bones. "The size of the first victim's femoral head indicates male… The small mastoid process and the left pronounced orbital ridge indicates that the second victim is female."

Booth jots down the genders on his cards then asks, "age?"

"There's not much tissue to go by, but the elasticity of the epidermis tells us that she couldn't have been over thirty," Cam says.

"The male is around the same age," Brennan adds.

"From blowfly and flesh fly larvae, I can pinpoint time of death to about five days ago."

"Thanks bug-boy! I'm guessing COD is not natural causes," Booth jokes.

Brennan's head snaps up, looking at her husband incredulously. "No, of course not, Booth, that would be ridiculous. See how both victims have suffered extreme blunt force trauma-."

"He was kidding, Dr. B," Hodgins says, chuckling softly.

"Oh. There's nothing more I can do here and it's freezing, so we should just bring the remains back to the Jeffersonian."

"Ok, let's bring the bodies back to the lab," Booth tells the FBI techs bagging and tagging evidence. His wife's cheeks and nose are red, he notices, as she makes her way back to the car, so he stops en route to the Jeffersonian, buying her a hot cup of tea.

"Mmm, thank you, Booth," she murmurs as she sips the tea, the hot liquid warming her up as it slips down her throat. "This is wonderful."

"You're welcome, Bones," he says, grinning at her.

I am in no way a scientist so all the science-y dialogue has been taken from various Bones episodes, if it's inaccurate, you can blame the Bones writers, not me! ;)

I really love scenes with these four, so I wanted to try to write my own. What do you think?