disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter or Bones

"The Finger in the Nest "

Agent Seeley Booth was out at the park with his son Parker when they found a human finger in a bird's nest.


Harry is back for another day at work. He still feels the comfortable weight of his pistol against his hip like he does every other day. Today he has his silver hoop hearing in, black slacks, and dark purple dress shirt on. He is in the Medico-Legal Lab with Cam talking to Dr. Brennan as she is driving in her car.

Brennan is finishing Booth and Parker's story, " He pulled the finger out if a bird's nest."

Cam looks surprised, " Did he completely freak out?" she says worried.

" Booth said Parker wanted to put it into his pocket and take it home, " Brennan replies.

Harry laughs at that and when Cam turns to him a little surprised he says, " What? I was just like that as a kid. Most kids are. Kids, especially younger ones, are extremely curious and without an 'ick' factor so to speak."

Cam looks at him intriguingly, " That's good to know."

Brennan is then heard again questioning, " Can you get a fingerprint? "

Cam answers back, " Not enough flesh. "

Harry looks over the finger, " There are scrapes on the bone and a jagged appearance here where it was severed. " He finishes pointing at the end of the finger.

Brennan replies again with, " Well it was probably chewed off by a wild animal. "

Dr. Jack Hodgins then joins Harry and Cam telling Brennan, " The sticky stuff on the finger turns out to be sap from a flowering Japanese Cherry." Hodgins then turns to the computer and types something. " The nest it was found in was made by a corvus brachyrhynchos. The American crow. " A picture of a crow shows up on the screen. " A crow will seldom stray more than twelve miles from its nest. "

Harry thinks for a second and replies, " There is a copse of Japanese flowering Cherry at the Jefferson Memorial. "

Cam and Hodgins both turn to him extremely surprised, " And how do you know that? " Hodgins asked.

" I make it a priority to visit memorials as often as possible to pay respect and one of my oldest friends was a fan of Japanese Cherry so I learned to recognize it on sight. " Harry replies solidly not the least bit ashamed of his actions.

They both look a little sheepish, Cam then turns to the speaker to talk to Brennan, " The Jefferson Memorial is eight miles from where Parker found the finger. "

" Good work, guys." Brennan compliments and hangs up.

Hodgins looks around a little sadly, " I'd say 'King of the Lab' but . . . that just depresses me. " And walks away.

Harry looks confusedly towards Cam, but Cam just shakes her head. Harry just adds that to the 'let's not discuss it it makes for awkward/ depressing moments' category mentally and continues to work.


Booth visits Dr. Sweets with Parker to see if he is going to suffer any traumatic systems from seeing the human finger. Dr. Sweets determines that parker is fine and just to look for any symptoms of distress. Booth and Brennan then go to the Jefferson Memorial for a crime scene and found a body. Brennan takes an initial look at the body and determines that there are a number of body parts missing, including a partial skull. Brennan also makes Booth chase after a opossum for evidence.


Harry is with Cam examining the remains found at the Jefferson Memorial back at the Medico-Legal Lab. Harry starts, " The sternal end rib end indicates the victim was between 35 and 40 years old. The length of the long bones suggests he was between five-foot-eight and five-ten. "

Cam turns to Harry, " He? "

Harry looks back at her and explains, " Bone density and skull indicators suggest male. "

Cam nods and takes another look, " Time of death . . . approximately four days ago. Lividity indicates that he died somewhere else and was then dumped. Deep puncture wounds to the trachea pierced the jugular. He bled to death.

Harry looks at the wound, " We should see if we can pull some particulates and then I will make an impression of the wound and see if we can't specify a murder weapon. "

Cam looks at him and nods slowly.


Sweets and Hodgins determine that the fanny pack found on the body has dandruff-sized flakes of bull penis on it.


Angela is showing Cam and Harry her partial reconstruction of the skull of the victim, " The skull was badly mangled, so I was only able to construct a partial. " She was about to continue but Harry interrupted.

" That is so cool. You are going to have to show me how you do that some time." He says barely containing his enthusiasm about this new kind of technology.

" Ya sure I'll show you some time. " Angela answers extremely amused. " Anyways I cross-checked physiological markers against the missing persons database and it yielded three possibilities. Okay. " Angela pulls an ID up on the screen. " Robert Sanchez, 24 . . . "

Harry hears the age and immediately disregards it, " Too young. "

Angela pulls up another, " Michael Minden, former basketball coach, thirty-nine. "

Harry looks at the stats, " Too tall. "

Angela looks frustrated and a little amused, " That leaves Dr. Seth Elliot, veterinarian, thirty-seven. "

Cam looks towards him and says, " Any objections to Dr. Elliot? "

Harry answers cheekily, " No, not this time. He falls into the parameters, plus vets use freeze dried bull penises as rewards. "

Angela looks at him disconcerted, " H-how do you know about the bull penis stuff? "

" I went to the vet with a pet once and asked, always remembered for some reason, probably because it just sounds so disconcerting. " Harry shivers imagining eating bull penis ugh.

" Yeah, I guess I would remember something like that. " Angela responds.


Booth and Brennan question the victim's wife, apparently ex-wife. They have a joint custody over a dog. The victim had a gambling problem.

Booth and Brennan then go and question the victim's assistant. Apparently he gambled on online poker. He also caught someone stealing drugs and the guy went to prison.

Brennan and Booth find a one Tucker Payne that was arrested and paroled one month ago.


Cam rings Brennan to give her an update.

" Brennan. " Harry hears over the speaker.

Cam speaks, " Dr. Brennan, Hodgins found saliva. "

" Where? " Comes over the speakerphone.

Cam answers, " On the victim. "

" But why was Hodgins looking for saliva? " Brennan questions.

Hodgins replied solidly, " I wasn't looking for saliva. I found it. Giant difference. "

Booth bites back, " Whoa, easy pal, watch your tone. "

Brennan looks to Booth, " I don't care about the tone, I just care about results. "

Hodgins looks like he wants to respond, but Cam signals for him to be quiet. She starts, " Dr. Hodgins was looking for particulates on the mandible and vertebrae that might lead to a murder weapon when he found saliva. "

Hodgins continues, " There was enough saliva in the wounds to run a DNA profile. "

Booth responds, " Well, it had to be the possum, right? "

Harry cuts in softly, " Well the puncture wound indicates something larger than that. " He realizes that this will be the first time that Agent Booth has heard him speak or seen him, anything like that at all.

Booth starts slightly at the soft accented voice that corrects him and questions, " Hey, who's that? "

Cam replies, " Booth, meet Dr. Brennan's new assistant Dr. Harry Potter. "

Hodgins cuts into this oh so emotional introduction, " I ran the standard eight nuclear markers for canids . . . "

" Canids? What's that, like some kind of bug? " Booth questions.

Harry looks amused and sounds it too, " No, not a bug, Agent Booth. "

Hodgins cuts in superiorly, " Canis lupus familiaris. "

Booth stutters, " I'm sorry, w-what is a can-ass familiar-ass . . . "

" Domestic dog. " Brennan answers.

Cam continues, " Seth Elliot was killed by a dog with filed teeth. "


Booth interrogates Tucker Payne and his dog. Booth has a warrant for his dog.


Harry and Cam are going over the results. Harry is showing Cam something on the bite mark, " As to your instructions I microsiled the lethal bite mark. See here? " He says pointing. " It's an irregularity in the wound track so I took an impression of Shatzi's bite. Hope you don't mind or should I ask for permission in the future, I am still unsure of how everything works here. " Harry finishes up gesturing around.

" Oh, it's fine. Personally I would prefer if you would at least tell me when you are going to do something unorthodox but most of the time if its within limits creativity or enthusiasm for your work is not punished. (pause) Who's Schatzi? " Cam says a little bewildered at someone asking for something before just doing it.

The dog barks from the cage behind them, " Drug dealer's dog. " Harry turns and points at the dog and sternly commands, " Sejet sch n brav! He responds to German commands. " He finishes as explanation.

"Very intimidating. "

Harry turns back to business, " Anyways the dog that killed Dr. Elliot has a pronounced crack in its canine tooth. And the neighboring bicuspid shows a slab fracture. Very distinctive."

Cam finishes the line of thinking looking at the impression, " So Schatzi's not our killer. "

" Nope, our new canine friend is innocent. " Harry finishes with a kind of high five look towards the dog, the dog barks.


Harry and Cam are talking with Hodgins over what's been found in the vet's car. Hodgins is giving his report so far, " City police found the vet's car. A forensics crew is going through it now. Booth wanted me to make sure they didn't screw things up. " A distant, " Hey, deal with it. " is heard.

Cam pushes Hodgins for more since she has nothing, " Well, I hope you find something, 'cause this puppy's innocent. "

Hodgins responds, " Yeah, well we're finding gobs of dried blood. "

Cam thinks over the possibilities, " It's a vet's vehicle -- could be from one of his patients. "

Harry interrupts, " Probably not. "

" What makes you think that? " Hodgins questions harshly.

" Well do you think that we, here at the Jeffersonian, are the only ones that like to keep our lab areas clean and steril? It's far more likely that the car was used to transport the victim's body and then dumped. " Harry responds after thinking it over.

Cam looks over at him once again surprised, " That does make more sense. " She silently raises an eyebrow in question.

Harry shrugs. " I know people. " was his simple answer.

Hodgins comes back on with a new finding. " I found . . . ( a clearing of a throat ) Excuse me. The crack FBI team found a prescription bottle of arithromyacin. " He finishes sarcastically.

Cam looks curious, " That's not an animal drug. Thats a macrolide antibiotic used for a number of conditions, including acne and STD's. Maybe we got lucky and the bad guy dropped his prescriptions. " She said adding the last part to Hodgins.

" Bottle reads ' Donald Timmons ' "

Harry looks around, " We might want to see about tracking him down. "

" Wow, what an absolutely ' smashing ' idea. " Hodgins says in a terrible and overly cheerful british accent.

The FBI agent thats been taking crap from Hodgins all morning looks at him and says derisively, " I feel better. You treat everyone like crap. "


Booth and Brennan go and find Don Timmons along with Robbie Timmons. They question them find out that Robbie worked part time for the victim and that on the night of the murder he was studying with a tutor. Don Timmons also trains dogs.

Hodgins and Sweets get in an argument over his recent behavior and how they are indicators of distress.

Hodgins shows Cam some extra particulates found from the victim's car, crushed exoskeletons of copeopods and other crustaceans.

Booth and Brennan interview Andrew Hopp, Robbie's tutor. Find out he's third year med student that thinks the victim was a meth addict and not a good role model for Robbie.

Booth and Brennan get what has been pulled from the victim's PDA and it was videos of dogfighting, the victim's gambling addiction.

Booth hands Parker over to Sweets because he's worried Parker's having problems after finding the human finger.

Cam, Angela, and Hodgins discuss the lack of warrent and figure out that the crustaceous material was an antifungal treatment used for Astroturf. Astroturf was used for the fighting ring in the dogfighting.

Booth and Brennan head to the Timmons again and search for evidence of astroturf with an FBI team. They find the dogfighting ring, the remains of a dozen dead dogs. Don gives his alibi for the situation.

Brennan and the dog whisperer find the killer dog by matching the mold.


Harry and Hodgins are sifting through evidence when Harry wonders what he's looking for. " Should I be looking out for anything particular? " He asks softly still well aware how much Dr. Hodgins seems to dislike him.

" Sure, maybe a new job."

Harry looks up surprised and little angry. He couldn't believe Hodgins actually said something like that. " I really don't know what I've done to upset you, but if you truly dislike me that much I will hand in my resignation and leave. I know you have all been going through a tough time, believe me I can feel all the unnamed tension around here. I don't know what happened but if you think that having someone else as Dr. Brennan's assistant, and she will be required to get a new one if I leave, would be better, then I will depart. I have no wish to make things harder on you. You think about it and get back to me by the end of the day. Oh, and here is computer chip I found, I'm sure you know what it is used for. " Harry stands up and leaves. Hodgins is left speechless and in the need of some very deep thinking.


Booth and Sweets discuss Parker's non existent trauma from the finger, but rather his new ' girl ' problems.


Cam, Hodgins, and Harry are all examining the dog with the matching tooth and evidence. Cam finds the wound, " This is exactly where the microchip would be imbedded. "

Harry takes the serial number off of the microchip and it loads into the computer.

Hodgins replies, " The FBI can use it to track down Ripley's owner. "

" If it's his microchip. " Cam adds.


Booth and Brennan find out that the dog, Ripley, ended up at the victim's clinic and question his assistant once more. She didn't know anything, but Brennan notices while examining the dog that the sutures on the wound are distinctive.

Booth, Brennan, and the dog whisperer question Robbie, Don, and Andrew with the help of the ' killer ' dog. Robbie and Don are cleared, but Andrew is proven to be the master of the dog.

Hodgins and Sweets have a therapy session and discover Hodgins is using hating everyone as a coping technique for his distress.

Booth and Brennan lay the ' killer ' dog, Ripley, to rest.


Hodgins catches Harry on his way out and makes his decision, " I don't want you to leave, at least not yet. I realize that no matter who we get it will be uncomfortable and obviously you were chosen for a reason so I don't want to put you out of a job. I realize I have been extremely rude to you and I'm sorry, but I don't think thats going to change anytime soon. Apparently hating everyone is my coping technique. " He says this by way of an apology.

Harry looks at him, " It's okay. I've certainly gone through my own hating phases. I'm just glad you decided to let me stay, because I really would have left if you had wanted me to. Well, good-bye. See you tomorrow. "


The rest of the team goes out for their usual ' end of the case ' celebratory drink and once again Harry is the topic of discussion.

Booth starts with, " So you guys know I have still yet to meet this ' Dr. Harry Potter ' so any new info for me? "

Cam answers, " Well he seemed more comfortable today, at least for most of the day. He cracked of few jokes, but nothing that personal. "

Angela agrees, " Yeah he even asked if I would show him how some of my programs worked. He seemed really excited about that. "

" He also added more of his ' I know people ' stuff. He said something about Parker's reaction to want to keep the finger was completely normal, that young kids are really curious and without a gross factor. " Cam adds before she was interrupted.

" Whoa, whoa you talked about Parker with him. " says Booth.

" Yes he was there when Brennan relayed the story to me, he was examining the finger. "

Brennan whispers to Booth, " He was the one that pointed us to the Jefferson Memorial, something about visiting memorials to pay respect and that Japanese Cherry was once a friend favorite so he recognized it. This implies the friend is now dead. "

" He also knew the bull penis as treats thing, he asked a vet once and never forgot 'cause it was just one of those things." Angela adds.

" He is good with dogs, and might know German, " Cam says. At their questioning looks, " I saw him in action with the drug dealer's dog. "

Angela turns to Hodgins, " You've been awfully quiet Jack, some thing on your mind. Usually you'd be ripping into this guy like its nobody business. "

Hodgins looks awkward, " He seems a little self-sacrificing, and too prone to forgiveness. "

Booth catches the tone of an underlying story and calls him on it, " What happened? "

Hodgins looks uncomfortable, " I may have made a very sharp, and very witty I might add, remark about getting a new job. "

" What? I cannot believe you did that!! " Angela starts ripping in on him, " Its his first week on the job -- "

" Whoa, whoa Angela hey there he already ripped me a good one although there wasn't as much yelling. Actually he was calm, almost eerily calm. He told me that if I really and truly wanted him to leave that he would."

" Wait! "

" What? "

" He said that? "

" Wow, now he is even more of a mystery. " ( that was Angela )

They all started at once.

" Yeah, only he said it a lot better and in more words. He told me to get back to him at the end of the day. I talked with Sweets and did some thinking about what was going on and realized that with anyone new it would be difficult and that he was obviously well above qualified for the job and maybe I should give him a chance. I told him as such, but not to expect any kindness yet. After all hating everyone is my coping technique. He said that was okay he had done his fair share of hating. "

Booth looks intrigued at that, " Well he gets more and more interesting. I really need to meet this guy don't I. he doesn't seem like just another squint. I should really check this guy out, see if I can get his story. "

" Yes, that would be helpful to us all. " Brennan says.