(( Hey, Ary here! Do remember this is a Bones AU fanfiction- So to help you out with the cast, here's a helpful list-sorta-thing
Brennan- Natalya/Belarus
Booth- Alfred/America
Angela- Xia/Taiwan
Hodgins- Ji-hu/South Korea
Dr. Sweets- Tao/Nyo!Taiwan
Dr. Saroyan- Lien/Vietnam
Lei- Intern/Hong Kong ))

Two Years Without Ameline.

Something almost unthinkable, and yet, Ji-hu was surviving. There wasn't a day that went by where she didn't cross his mind, where he would occasionally read one of her letters, or where the ring he had meant to give her what felt so long ago was either in plain sight, or in his pocket. Maybe, just maybe Ammy would arrive any day at any time, and he didn't want it to wait longer than it had to. As for the letters, they arrived weekly for a year, as he would then send them back. But after a year and a month or so, they stopped coming. It worried him endlessly. But, whether the letters came or not, he still wrote one every week, if not two. Or more.
Eventually, it reached December. With Christmas three and a half weeks away, the people Ji-hu worked with were talking about Christmas plans, and things they would do with their families. Ji-hu's 'adoptive mother' was younger that him- in fact, Adeline was eighteen at the current point in time, since Ameline left for England when she was sixteen. But nonetheless. Even as an adult now, her and Ji-hu's relationship was never normal ever since Adeline decided to force him to be her 'son'- it was a desperate time for her, and quite frankly something nobody wants to remember /why/. Other than that, Ji-hu had two sisters, one of which had only recently moved to Los Angeles to go to some Drama College to be an actress- Sun-hi was a ball of sunshine and actress material, that was for sure.
But they never did anything big. Ji-hu would spend another Christmas alone, without Ameline there to burst in, dance around and laugh. The Christmases before Ameline came into his life, of course, he didn't mind them. But now it worried him a little, and quite frankly sucked.

While Ji-hu was sucked into his thoughts, he felt a sudden pat on his back, bringing him back down to earth where a crime scene surrounded him. The ground was covered
"Hang in there, buddy." Alfred, the Federal Agent, sighed.
"Alfred, don't rub anything in, you're no help." Natalya narrowed her eyes.
Ji-hu waved it off, smiling. "It's alright, I'm fine."
"Alright, we've got three bodies that were practically /torched/ in the house-fire here last night, nobody saw anyone on the perimeter when the fire started. I may just be an anthropologist, but this was definitely not an accident." Natalya informed everyone as they stepped into the house to explore and look around.
Alfred bent down a little to get a better look at the bodies. "Damn, might as well be one step from charcoal."
Lei shuddered, looking close along the edge of the walls. "Kinda reminds me of when my sister overcooks turkey at thanksgiving." He squinted, crouching down to look closely at a crack between the wall and floor, positioned under a window. Using his finger, he dug up a match, eyeing it. "Well, Natty's got one thing right, this certainly wasn't an accident."
Natalya rolled her eyes. "/Great/ speculation."
Lei raised his hand. "Hey, I'm just an intern."
Ji-hu scanned the ceiling to the floor. "You can hardly tell the living room was a living room. How long did it take for the fire department to get here?"
"Too long." Alfred sighed.

After looking around a little longer, the coroners were preparing to take the bodies to the lab. On his way out following the rest of the team, a glint caught Lei's eye. He bent down towards the edge of the house and picked up a gold chain. "Hey, guys, check this out." The other three stopped and then caught up to Lei and looked over his shoulder. "Think this belongs to one of the victims? Whatever it is."
"It's an anklet." Natalya answered. "Since it's outside of this house I'm going to say it most likely is."
Lei looked a little closer. "Huh... Looks like the one Amms used to wear."
To be clear, Lei had also known Ammy from when he moved to Los Angeles a few years ago, when he was seventeen at the time and working at an Olive Garden Italian Restaurant. The two got along and were pretty good friends. However, Lei enjoyed messing around with Ji-hu and saw him as competition over Ameline. But, ever since she left, that had far died down.
Lei slipped the anklet in an evidence bag. "Just in case."

Ji-hu paused before walking back with the rest of the team, the image of the anklet still in his head. 'Yeah, it looked exactly like it... But it can't be. Ammy's in England.' With a sigh, he hurried back to everyone else.

Once they were back at the lab, everyone suited up, prepared to examine the bodies. Alfred cleared his throat.
"The house was actually owned by two of the victims, as you may expect, but there's nothing about a third person living there."
Xia, the forensic artist of the group, stood in the doorway in the sidelines, frowning. "I guess they must've just... Gotten caught up in all of this."
Lien, everyone's favorite coroner, walked back into the lab with a clipboard and some papers. "We've got two females and a male. One female and the male were approximately in their late forties while the other female is in her early twenties."
"Early twenties..." Ji-hu repeated.
"What is it?"
"Huh? Oh, nothing, Lien. Carry on!" He smiled.
Lien nodded. "Okay. We're running the DNA results right now, we should know who the victims are soon."
Alfred shrugged. "Sooo, maybe we're looking at two parents and a daughter?"
"Could be, that would make the most sense." Ji-hu agreed.
"Someone must've had a grudge or something on the parents, otherwise if it was the daughter, they'd have just taken care of her." Natalya speculated as she glanced more over the bodies.
"Hey, family feuds can happen too. Trust me, I know." Lei held up his hands.
Alfred sighed, checking his watch. "Whatever the motif was, we're dealing with an arsine. I don't think they cared if there were twenty people in that house so long as they got the one person they did want burnt by flames."
"Yeah, that sounds about right." Ji-hu nodded. "Hey, uh, is that anklet official evidence?"
"I don't think it has any skin cells on it, or anything really, but we still might need to keep it. You can look closer if you want." Natalya offered.
Ji-hu laughed a little. "Nah, it's fine. I was just wondering."
Lien, who had slipped out of the room, walked back in and turned on the large monitor. "We've got forty-seven year old Henry Greyson, and forty-six year old Araceli Greyson."
"So a married couple after all." Alfred whistled. "Who's the third victim?"
Lien got quiet- quieter than normal. "Well, uh, I don't know if you'd want to hear it. The tests are usually never wrong, but..." She mumbled.
Lei nodded to her. "Go on, Lien."
Lien hit a button on a remote, projecting the third license and identity information on the screen. The room immediately seemed more silent than ever, more dead than the three bodies that were in it. Lien quietly and calmly managed to state the third victim after taking a deep breath.

"Twenty-four year old Ameline Jones, though DNA and tissue suggest the age of twenty-two."