Chapter Two

Back at the Jeffersonian-

"I fed his dentals and looks like we can ID the victim…" Angela Montenegro said.

"Name- Roger Burn, age- 28, has a wife, Samantha, a small girl, Susan and also an eleven year old son, Richard. He was a school teacher in Washington Elementary school."

"Ok good…" Booth said observing Ashley who seemed to be distracted by everything going on inside the lab. "Ashley, how old was the victim…?" He tested her.

"28, name Roger Burn…" She answered seriously. Booth was taken aback and just nodded his head. He then turned to Bones and waited for her to come up with some facts.

"There's a fracture in the skull… could have come from a sharp pointed weapon…"

"You called me Dr. Brennan…?" A girl in a Jeffersonian blue lab coat asked entering their work area. She was a girl with long brown hair and deep blue eyes. "Yes Rachel, I called you in to examine this body." Bones said.

Rachel had been a new intern last month and had quickly made friends with Brennan's team, especially Zack, it seemed. Zack was caught staring at Rachel when Dr. Brennan was talking to her.

"Mm hmm…!" Ashley smiled noticing Zack. Just about a second later she heard her boss. "Ahem…" "I'm sorry sir…" Ashley said and went back to taking notes. Booth himself looked at Zack and controlled a giggle. It was fun seeing a squint falling in love with a girl this way.

"The victim was stabbed with a pointed object. Angela I need you to pull up a list of instruments that could have been used to murder this man."

Booth hung up on his cell phone and turned to his team. "OK Bones, the kids and the wife are not located so they've been reported missing. I say they were kidnapped…"

"Booth you know very well that I do not say things just out of the black…" Bones said continuing her examination.

"It's out of the blue, Bones not out of the black…" Booth corrected her. "Anyway, there's a Burn relative here… coming to pay a visit to the Burns?" Bones grabbed her coat. Ashley lingered around and was finally called by Booth. Bones giggled.

"What…?" "Nothing, it's just that I never imagined that you'd be so strict with an assistant."

"Yeah well, people who don't try to do their work can irritate me at times…" He said before Ashley finally joined them.

"Sir… can I talk to the victim's family?" Ashley asked Booth. Booth thought for a while. "Ok, I will see how you talk to victim's families… sort of like a test." Booth said as though he was consoling himself.

"Uh sir one more thing…" Ashley said looking sharply at her notes. "Yes…?"

"Um… that girl at the crime scene told us that she saw two gun men. Meaning, they had guns with them. If they had guns then how come there are sharp, pointed marks on the victim's skull and no bullet lodged marks?"

Brennan seemed to be impressed with Ashley. "It is possible that the guns were only used to scare the family. He could have later been killed by something sharp. Unless of course, that girl was lying…" Booth concluded shaking his head.

"So… now what…?" Bones asked. "Now Bones, we try to find out what the victim's family knows."

Booth, Bones and Ashley were outside a house called Burns. Booth knocked at the door and showed Ashley the way. Ashley stepped forward with a serious face. A lady in red hair opened the door.

"Miss Donna Burn…?" Ashley questioned the lady. "Yes, I am Donna, can I help you people?"

"Miss Burn we are from the FBI, we would like to ask you a few questions." The lady asked them to come in.

"We're very sorry for your loss Miss Burn." Booth told Donna after they had taken turns to tell the entire story.

"Oh my god… who would do that…?" The lady cried. Either she really was shocked or she was a very good actress. "I mean, Roger, he's my husband's brother… who, who would do that to him…?"

"That's our intention Miss Burns… to find out who exactly did this to him" Booth said. "Miss Burn did Roger have any enemies…?"

Donna shook her head. "None that I can think of… where's Susan… and, and where's Richard?"

"Susan, Samantha and Richard are yet to be located." Bones said. "Oh god… you don't think that Susan and Samantha are…" "We hope not Miss Burn." Ashley said.

Booth asked a few more questions and then they went back in the car.

"Dr. Brennan…?" "Yes Ashley…" "Did Angela…" "Ahem…" "Sorry sir, I mean did Miss Montenegro get the list of possible weapons?"

"Well, I'm hoping that she will tell us by the time we reach the lab. Why do you ask…?" Bones asked her.

"Oh nothing it's just that… Donna Burn's husband was not in the house and I saw a revolver in that house… you know the kind that is used to shoot not bullets but other things like… injections, etc…" Ashley said looking at her notes.

"That would fit the girl's description about the gun men... but we need to find out the type of guns that the men were carrying." Booth replied amazed at his assistant's concentration. "So…" Bones waited to hear further.

"Let's pay the terrified girl another visit." Booth said turning his car. "Um what's that girl's name again, sir?" "Sara… Sara Brown I think. I took her address in case we needed her again."

They soon came up to a small white colored house in a remote area of the city. It was a well kept house and looked as though it was just recently bought. Booth knocked on the door. There was no reply. He knocked again and still there was no reply. "I'll check the back sir…" Ashley said going towards the backdoor. "Your assistant's pretty sharp…!" Bones told Booth.

"Yeah, but she'd better know how to call her elders. Miss Sara…?" Booth called.

They heard Ashley calling them. They went to see what was happening. Sara Brown was lying on the grass, dead. Murdered