Spoilers: This takes place after the Christmas episode. So there are spoilers from that episode and it's fair game for any other episodes before that too.

Disclaimer: Chances are, if I owned Bones, I wouldn't be posting on here, I'd be writing for the episodes.

Chapter Two:

Driving to talk to Richard Garner, Booth and Brennan sat in comfortable silence exchanging glances every so often. They arrive at a dark brick house twenty minutes later. Richard Garner opens the door with an infant in his arms. He was a handsome man – around 5'11, dark brown hair, brown eyes, and tan skin.

"Are you Richard Garner?" Booth asked.

"Yes, who are you?"

"I'm Special Agent Seeley Booth and this is my partner Dr. Temperance Brennan from the Jeffersonian. We're here about your wife."

"You found Allison?"

"Yes, we're sorry for your loss."

Richard tells them to come in and places the infant into the playpen and leads them into the living room. They sit down on the couch but before Booth or Brennan could get a question out, Richard covered his face with his hands and began to sob. Brennan and Booth exchanged glances and waited a few moments before proceeding with the questioning.

"We're sorry Mr. Garner but we're going to have to ask you a few questions."

Richard just barely got out an "okay."

"When was the last time you saw your wife?"

"14 days ago, that night when we went to bed. When I woke up Friday morning to go to work she was already gone. She was going to take Colby to her parent's house for the day and then go shopping. When I got home, I saw Colby in the playpen. I figured she was home since he was here but I looked everywhere and couldn't find her," Richard told them as he started to tear up again.

"Can you think of anyone who would want to hurt your wife?" Booth inquired.

"Well... she has arrested tons of angry, dangerous people who could probably do her harm."

"Do you know any of their names?"

"Umm, yeah- there's uh Andres Johnson, Josh Black, Calvin Tricket, Alex Keyes… and I think that's all- I'm sorry, my memory isn't very good right now."

"Thank You Mr. Garner, you've been a great help. We're sorry for your loss."

As they were leaving, Booth began thinking that something didn't feel quite right.

"Hey Bones."

"Yeah Booth?"

"Does something not feel right to you about this?"

"What do you mean?"

"Well the baby was left in the house so it's not like she left to go shopping or went for a walk."

"Yeah! Anddd… there was no evidence of a break in."

"Didn't you say she was killed on a road?

"Yes."

"Sooo... we should probably find out exactly what road she was murdered on and figure how she got there."

"I completely agree Booth."

Back at the lab, Hodgins determined she had been dead approximately eight days.

"See Bones – I told you – something fishy."

"I don't know what that means."

"Weird, off, not right."

"Oh, okay! Why couldn't you have just said that to begin with?"

Booth groaned and then said. "Okay squints why don't you go see if the road near the Garner's home was the crime scene and I'm going to bring in these people Mr. Garner gave us the names of. Bones, you coming?"

"Yeah, I'm coming."

As she turned to walk away, Booth's hand found the familiar spot on her lower back. It is so second nature to the two of them, they hardly realize it's not something that goes unnoticed by everyone else.