3-The Dodecagon Coins

"Honey, can you play in Aunt Angela's office for a while?" Brennan asked her son, who was sitting on the couch in his mother's office swinging his legs.

He nodded. "Where's Elliott?" he asked.

"Here you go, baby," Brennan responded, taking the worn stuffed elephant out of a drawer and handing it to him. "Be careful."

"OK, Mommy," he agreed as he zoomed off to Angela's office.

"Have you found anything on the coins, Hodgins?" Brennan asked.

"Yeah. I wasn't expecting much, but look at this." He pointed to the results of a soil sample on the screen.

"High salinity," Brennan noticed. "But that could be from anywhere, Hodgins."

"Oh no, not these," he replied, getting the grin he did when he found something exciting that only he understood. "This is from the Arabian Sea."

"So India, Iran, Maldives, Oman, Pakistan, Somalia, or Yemen," Brennan provided.

Hodgins sighed. "Way to burst my bubble, Dr. B."

"I'm not sure what that means, but you seem disappointed. Maybe you could take the coins to Angela and see if she can enhance an image."

Hodgins nodded. "I'll get right on it." He quickly sent the file from his computer and went to Angela's office. "Hey, Ange, I just e-mailed you a picture of the coins, can you enhance it? We need to know what country they're from."

"Sure, just give me a minute." She brought them up on the large screen and began to enhance them.

"Little man, you wanna see something cool?" Hodgins asked.

The boy dropped the elephant and ran over to Hodgins. "What are you doing, Aunt Angela?" he asked.

"I'm making this picture easier to see, sweetheart." James gazed up in wonder. "Well, they're definitely foreign," Angela confirmed.

"Can you tell what country they're from?" Hodgins asked.

"Not yet. Give me a few more minutes."

"India!" James said happily.

"You think so, pal?" Hodgins asked.

James nodded enthusiastically and pointed. "Those have twelve sides. Mommy showed me some from when she went to India. I have them in my room." The image enhanced more and, sure enough, the right side read "INDIA RUPEES."

"He's right," Angela said. "I'll get this printed."

"Right on, little man," Hodgins said as they high-fived. "Let's go tell your mom."

"Mommy, Mommy!" James said as loud as he could without yelling and walking as fast as he could without running.

"What is it, baby?" she asked, smiling when she saw her son's smile, so much like Booth's.

"The coins are from India!"

"He figured it out, you know," Hodgins added.

"He did?"

Hodgins nodded. "Ange was enhancing the image and he said the coins had twelve sides. He was right."

Brennan beamed at her little boy. "I'm very proud of you, baby." She hugged him and kissed him on the head. "I'll call Booth," she said, looking at Hodgins.

"Tell him the sketch is finished!" Angela called from her office.

"Nice hat, Ange!" Hodgins called. Angela reached up and pulled Elliott off of her head, much to James' delight.

"Angela, Dr. Hodgins, could we not yell across the platform?"

"Sorry," they both mumbled.

"Booth, hi, Angela's done the sketch," Brennan said into the phone. "OK, see you soon."

"Is Daddy coming now?" James asked Angela.

"Yep, your Daddy and I are going to find out this girl's name."

James' eyes widened. "How you gonna do that?" he asked.

"Well, we try to match this picture to a list of people in a big file on the computer."

James nodded. "She's pretty."

"Yeah," Angela said sadly, "she is."