Watching Reruns on Netflix
Chapter 2- A man in an SUV
AN: Kay so ya, this story is kinda weird. Basically it's these 3 girls—Dulcye Sweets, Jordin Whittaker-Addy, and Allycin Montenegro—watching reruns of Bones, the show their parents used to be on. Takes place 13 years after the Season 4 Finale. This is chapter 2. Enjoy!!
Allycin Montenegro and her friend Dulcye Sweets sauntered up the walkway to their friend Jordin's house. Allycin raced ahead and rang the bell. The two girls waited anxiously. Jordin answered the door.
"Hey guys! Come on in!" she exclaimed, ushering them inside the house. Both girls threw their coats on the rack and took off their shoes, then followed Jordin to the bottom of her stairs. "MOM!" she yelled. "ALLIE AND DULCYE ARE HERE!"
Morgan came to the top of the stairs. "Oh, hi guys! Are you hungry?"
Allycin nodded, and Dulcye replied, "Could we have some snacks please?"
Morgan smiled. "Okay. I'll make popcorn, and I think we have the brownie-ice cream stuff left?"
"Yeah, it's there," confirmed Jordin. "Guys, this stuff is great. It's ice cream that tastes like brownies!"
Allycin smiled. "Yummy! Let's go get some!"
In the kitchen, Morgan was popping kettle corn-flavored popcorn. Jordin grabbed the brownie ice cream from the freezer, 3 bowls, and a scooper-thingy. Allycin headed over to Morgan.
"Thanks for letting us sleep over, Mrs. Whittaker-Addy!"
"Oh sure, anytime! Except for Thursdays of course, I work late."
"Right," said Allycin. "Well, good thing tomorrow's Saturday."
"Morgen ist Samstag," agreed Dulcye.
"What?" asked Morgan, confused.
"It's German," said all three girls at once.
"Ah," she replied, nodding. "Well, you better get down there. You want to watch Bones, right?" They nodded. "Well, as long as your parents are okay with it." Morgan headed back to her room. The girls traipsed down the stairs and Jordin grabbed the Netflix case. She popped in the DVD and hit Play.
An SUV driven by a Middle Eastern man explodes in front of a busy Washington DC café. Dr. Temperance Brennan, a forensic anthropologist, Angela Montenegro, her reconstruction artist, and her assistant Zack Addy arrive at the scene. The Middle Eastern man is identified by Homeland Security as Hamid Masruk. Brennan is asked to confirm the identity.
Evidence shows that Masruk suffered from an unknown medical condition that produced lesions on his face. His brother Farid shares the condition, and tells Booth and Brennan that it is genetic.
"Again, how does she do that??" asked Dulcye, mesmerized. Allycin just shrugged. Jordin pressed a finger to her lips and they turned back to the TV.
Back at the lab the squints reassemble the body. Zack debrides the flesh from the skeleton using dermestes maculates.
Jack Hodgins, an entomologist who is also an expert in particulates, finds perchlorate in Hamid's clothes.
Examining the debrided skeleton, Dr. Brennan looks for points of identification, comparing what she finds to Hamid's medical records. She finds the skeleton's texture of pubic symphysis is consistent with Masruk. Uneven growth patterns in the bone indicate malnourishment as a child. Evidence of multiple past fractures on the bottoms of the feet are consistent with methods of torture used in Afghanistan and with Masruk's history. Dr. Brennan tells Zack to do a cranial reconstruction, but she is convinced this is Hamid Masruk.
"Wait, what? I thought she knew who he was! Why's he doing the reconstruction?" demanded Jordin.
Allycin sighed. "I don't know. Just watch the TV."
Zack runs into trouble reconstructing the skull. The ethmoid and sphenoid fragments won't piece together. The integrity of the bone seems compromised. Brennan examines the skull and finds unusually soft bone tissue. She finds a disorganized trabecular pattern in the bone. She thinks Masruk may have suffered from a degenerative disease. She tells Hodgins to check for Paget's disease and Lupus. He is negative for both. Brennan has them check for environmental contaminants.
Hodgins and Zack find gypsum in the bones. It is non-toxic and wouldn't damage the bones. It was probably used to insulate the explosives. They start to reconstruct the bomb, looking to identify what it was made from.
Brennan finds microscopic fissures in the trabecular pattern of Hamid's skull. This proves Hamid was exposed to a toxin before he died. She has Hodgins check the marrow but it's degraded. Hodgins dissects the beetles that ate Hamid's flesh and find traces of dioxin.
He and Zack also tie the gypsum they found to a type of plaster used in pyrobar, a kind of fire-proof tile developed in 1903 by the United States Gypsum Company. By researching where in DC this tile was used, they are able to identify where the bomb was built, and thus the bomber, Hamid's brother, Farid Masruk.
"Okay guys, another episode done!" announced Jordin excitedly during the credits.
"And a very good one, too," Allycin pointed out.
"Yeah, I liked it. And the ice cream was amazing, thanks so much!" added Allycin.
"Shall we watch the next one?" asked Jordin, smiling.
"We shall," replied Dulcye.
AN: And there's the second chapter!! Tell me what you think!! Next update will be…MIND GAMES!!!!!