Dog With the Skull Chapter 3

A/N Thanks for the reviews! Once again, if anybody is insterested in helping, I really, really need a beta reader!

Thanks!!

Oh and New username: Sunset Division

One final note: Prince is NOT my last name just so you know, so if there is somebody out there named Shayden Prince, I didn't mean to use that name it was just the first one that came into my head.

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Booth's POV:

I watched as she slept. She was so delicate, so gentle... well, while she was asleep anyways. And I guess while she wasn't... sometimes.

After a while I began to fall asleep myself.

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The next morning, I was lying in bed and I heard the shower in the hotel room running. I knew it was her, so I lay in bed for a few more minutes. When I heard her turn off the water, I finally decided to get up.

I grabbed a pair of jeans and a t-shirt that said: What are you looking at? across the front.

Bones walked out of the shower humming softly to herself. "Good morning sunshine," I said to her with a smile.

She turned quickly. "Oh, I didn't know you were awake."

"I've been up for a couple of minutes. We start the search for the rest of the skeleton today," I told her with a smile.

"I know that Booth," she replied as she dried her hair off with the towel.

"Do you think that the girl will know anything else?" I asked.

"Wouldn't she have called you?"

"I don't know... maybe," I shrugged and went into the bathroom, taking my turn showering.

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I knocked on Shayden Prince's door at around 10:00 am. Her grandmother answered. "Agent Booth, how can I help you?" she asked.

"We need to speak with your granddaughter, is she around right now?" I asked.

"Oh, yeah, I'm surprised you didn't see her when you came in. She's right in there," she pointed to a bunch of trees. "She's riding right now, but you can watch her until she's done."

"Thank you," Bones said to the woman and she walked over to where the girl was riding her horse.

Apparently she had been riding for a while because she was pretty good. She had one small jump in the middle of the pen and I watched as she jumped over it.

She trotted around the pen with her horse until finally they stopped and she hopped off.

"Agent Booth," she said, unclipping and pulling off her helmet. "What can I do for you?" she led the horse over to around us and tied him up before she started brushing him.

"We were just wondering if any more bones turned up," I said with a small shrug.

"Umm... I don't think so... I don't know where Ashley is though," the girl told me.

"Where do you think she is?" Bones asked her, rather snappily.

"I'm not sure... she should be back though... soon," Shayden told us. "I can call her if you want."

Bones looked at me and then nodded. "Yes, please do that."

"Alright," she touched her horse's back and then whistled sharply. To my amazement, the horse stood absolutely still and just flicked his ears towards her so he could listen. "Ashley!" she yelled and the big white dog came running up from the back.

"That's where we start looking," I told Bones, rather forcefully.

"I agree," Bones nodded.

"If you need any help looking around I can help..." she watched Ashley run off to her dog house. "Shit!" Shayden ran over to Ashley and forced the dog to open her jaw. Another bone fell out of the dog's jaw and Shayden brought it back and handed it to Bones.

"This is the left fibula of most likely the same female," Bones told me.

"You can tell from that one little bone?" Shayden asked.

"Yes," Bones replied as she bagged the bone. "Which way did your dog come up from?"

"It looked like the meadow. You can go down there, I just have to brush him up quickly," she pointed to her horse.

"Alright," Bones started under the fence to go towards the other fence that Shayden had pointed to.

Shayden finished brushing her horse and she put away the brushes before putting some rope on him and walking him into the pen that she had been riding him in. She took the rope thing off him and let him go.

He took off running and then stopped at the fence and put his head down and began to eat. I couldn't believe that she walked right past him still even though he had just run past her.

"She's going the wrong way," she told me as she walked quickly towards where Bones was walking. "Dr. Brennan!" she called. "You're going the wrong way!"

"This is the way you pointed though."

"Is it?" she looked in the direction that Bones was walking. "I don't think so," she walked down towards a gate that was at the bottom of the fence. "This is the way that you need to go."

Bones followed her but I just stood where I was, I wouldn't admit it, but that horse was kinda intimidating. I've never liked horses much.

"It's alright Agent Booth! He's harmless!" Shayden called as she opened the gate for Bones to walk through.

I slowly walked past the horse and went with them.

There it was, not even two feet in. It was a large metal box of some kind and there was a bone sticking out of the top where the glass had been broken.

"Wow... ok Bones, what can you tell me?"

"It's him..." Bones said quietly, staring over at me with wide eyes. "It's the Grave Digger."

"How can you tell?" I asked.

"Because it's in a steel box that's under the ground, but not very deep. How else do you think I can tell?" Bones sounded pretty emotional. "I need to get back to the Jeffersonian."

Shayden seemed to have enough sense to stay off to the side so there was a perimeter.

"Let's collect these bones and I need to get back to the Jeffersonian," Bones repeated. I could tell she was scared, even though she wouldn't admit it.

"Ok Bones, we'll get you back there as soon as possible, I promise," I looked at her. Damn she was beautiful!

Bones nodded. I knew she felt more comfortable at the lab, but I wanted her to be here with me for a while, I know, selfish right?

"Well how much longer will we be here?" It was so out of character for her to be afraid, but I understood.

"Not much longer," I promised.

"I'm going to go back up to the house," Shayden said quietly and she walked back up towards her house.

I wanted to hug her, (Bones, not Shayden) so much. I wanted to tell her that everything would be ok, and I wanted to hold her.

But I couldn't.

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This story is getting hard to write! I don't know why though... I think there'll be only one more chapter to this though... thanks for reading!!

-S-D-