Disclaimer: I don't own Bones or House.
Pairing: BB (of course) HA and CC!
Author's Note: Thank you for all the reviews! Here is chapter three!
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Last Time:
Cuddy was going to introduce her then Brennan spoke up. "Ali?"
Not many people had called her that but that voice could only belong to one person. "Tempe?"
The girls squealed loudly as they laughed and hugged each other. The squeal shocked everyone in the room and a couple nurses outside. Brennan and Cameron weren't the type of girls that would squeal, but it had been a while since they last seen each other and their excitement got the better of them.
While Booth and the everyone else were shocked, Chase had seen this coming in a way. Chase and Cameron had dated for a while now and he knew a lot about her and her past with Dr. Brennan.
Temperance Brennan had been her best friend when she was little and they hadn't seen each other in a while. The last time they had been in touch was when Alison e-mailed about her job with House. And that was a couple years ago.
"Cameron." House interrupted after shaking off the shock. "If you're done squealing then would you introduce us to your friends here?"
The girls broke apart smiling. "Yeah. This is Dr. Temperance Brennan." Cameron then noticed Booth standing next to her friend. "And this is…"
"Special Agent Seeley Booth." Brennan finished for her. "He's my partner." Booth was still staring at her. "What?" she asked innocently.
"You squealed." Booth was still shocked.
"Yes I know Booth. I can act like a girl every so often." She explained.
Booth just ignored her response. "You squealed." He was now grinning madly.
"Booth, how many times are you gonna say that?" She was getting a little annoyed now.
"Did Angela ever hear you squeal like that?" he asked completely ignoring what she just said again.
Rolling her eyes she turned her attention back to Alison. "You work for Dr. House now?" She wanted to catch up with her friend since this was the first time they had seen each other in years.
"Yeah. So you two are partner, huh?" Cameron asked with a smile. The smile looked oddly like the one Angela would give her when talking about Booth. But before she could answer someone stepped in.
"Great. So while you two catch up, I've got a patient to save." House interrupted and was now walking back to his office.
"I'm so sorry. Please excuse me." Cuddy excused herself as she quickly ran after House.
"He's using the cane on the wrong side."
"I know. But he doesn't care." Cameron shrugged.
Booth, who was now out of his shocked expression, wanted to get back to work. "Bones we need to get to work." He was pulling her away from her friend and back to the remains.
"Booth. How come I always feel like you're abducting me." She slapped him playfully on the arm. "Ali, we can get together later. It was nice meeting you guys." She waved to Chase and Foreman who were still in the room.
"Come on guys." Cameron waved the guys out of the room. "We need to check on the patient."
"That an old friend." Foreman was now curious.
"Yeah, she used to be my next door neighbor and my best friend."
"What happen?" Chase asked.
"Tempe got sent to another family somewhere. Thank God."
Chase and Foreman frowned. "You're happy that she left."
"No. I was so sad that she left and we even tried to stay in touch, but it was kinda hard for us with our jobs. I wanted her to stay but it better that she left."
"Why?"
"She wouldn't get hurt anymore if she moved." That was all that she was going to say, this was Tempe's business and it was not hers to tell.
The guys looked at each other and knew that Cameron wasn't going to say anything else so they let the subject go.
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Back in the Room:
"So are you and Dr. Cameron old friends?" Booth asked after the Cameron, Chase, and Foreman were gone. Now it was only them and the remains.
"Yeah, she was my best friend when I lived here." Brennan was busy examining the remains while answering Booth's questions.
"Why did you move?"
"Because I was a foster child and my grandfather picked me up so I didn't have to live here anymore."
"You didn't like it here?" he continued to ask.
"I liked it here everyone was so nice to me, it was just my foster parents."
"Your foster parents were mean?"
Brennan carefully set down her bone and looked at Booth straight in the eye. "Yeah, you could say they were mean."
Booth could see fear and sadness in Tempe's eyes and didn't question her childhood anymore. He dropped the topic and went back to throwing his ball in the air, while Tempe went back to examining the bones.
There was a deadly silence that filled the room until Brennan broke it, stating what she had learned. "The victim was Caucasian and about four feet tall. There's bruising on the bone which suggest child abuse." She sighed softly then added, "Blunt force trauma was most likely fatal."
Tempe put the bone back on the table. "I'll send these remains back to the Jeffersonian. Angela can do a facial reconstruction, Hodgins can check the backpack for dirt particles and anything else that would help, and Zack can clean these bones to confirm child abuse."
"Good, then everyone has a job to do."
Brennan looked at him. "What are you gonna do?"
"I'm gonna see if I can talk to the patient and see what the hell he was doing with the remains." Booth got up and walked out the room leaving Tempe to bag the evidence.
After she was done bagging everything she decided to check in with Cameron. Dropping the bags off to be shipped to the Jeffersonian she made her way down the hall to find Alison. Seeing House and the team she quietly entered the room and sat down listening to them throw out ideas about what was wrong with the patient.
"We don't even know the patients name so we don't have his background information." Chase said in his Australian voice.
"We also don't know what's wrong with guy," Foreman added.
"Well then what do we know?" House said in an annoyed voice. Then he noticed Dr. Brennan sitting there. "How did you get in?"
"The door." Tempe thought that was an odd question to ask.
"You're so lucky you deal with dead people. They can't annoy you to death." He turned back to his team. "Any ideas about what's wrong with the guy." The team continued to throw out ideas when Brennan's phone rang.
"Sorry." She stood up and walked out the room to get the call.
"No cell phones in the hospital!" House yelled as the door closed behind her.
She just ignored him and flipped open her phone. "Brennan."
"Hey sweetie."
"Hey Angela."
"Are you okay?" Her friend sounded worried.
"Yeah. I'm fine. Why?"
"I heard you were going to New Jersey."
"I'm here and I'm fine."
"Okay, I was also worried when Booth took off with you. Actually I was really excited that you guys ran off with each other into the sunset." She could picture her friend smiling on the other side.
"No we didn't run off together Ange and we're just partners."
"You say that but I know you love your FBI agent."
"Ange."
"Yeah Bren."
"I just sent the remains of a young girl over to the Jeffersonian. It seems she was abused."
"Oh my God. Brennan are you okay sweetie?"
"Yeah. I'm fine just figure out who the little girl is."
"Okay sweetie," Angela seemed unconvinced, but said nothing more about it.
"Bye Angela."
"Bye and Brennan."
"Yeah."
"Be careful."
"I will." They hung up just as Booth came running up to her.
"What's wrong Booth?" He looked like he was exhausted, probably from running in the hospital.
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