hints of past Spangelus as Booth tells his story

Booth slumped in relief. He didn't know what he would have do if she had said yes. He stiffened a second later. She didn't even know the whole story yet....."You might change your mind when I'm done." He sighed.

"There's more?" She asked, surprised.

"Yeah. You could probably find most of it on the internet but I'd rather tell you myself....even if it makes you disgust me."

She didn't comment on that last part. Just sat beside him and waited.

"After I dug out of my grave, I saw Darla. She had been waiting for me. Beside her was a gravedigger, he was my first meal. She told me that I could do whatever I wanted, kill whoever I wanted. And I did. I hated my father, so I went to my home and got my little sister to invite me in. She called me an angel...then I killed her. My mother was next, she had come to see what all the noise was about. My father was in his study. He was terrified when I broke down the door. I taunted him and reminded him of all the timed he had called me weak..after all I had a vampires strength now. I drained him and left to slaughter the entire town." All of this was said flatly, with no emotions coloring Booth's voice. Brennan sat trying to comperhend what Booth was telling her. A side of him that was ten times worse than any killer they had put away.

"I sired four childer as a vampire. Three as Angelus. Penn was the first. I shaped him to be exactly like me. Drusilla was next. She had the ability to see the future. I followed her and taunted her. Made her believe her visions were from the devil. She was about to go into a convent when I struck. I killed her family in front of her. Then I broke her mind. When I finally turned her she was insane. Then in 1880 I met Spike. Or William as he was then. Vampires don't really care whether someones male or female when looking for a companion. And for some reason I was drawn to William. I cornered him in a alley on night, after he had had hid heart broken. I asked him if he would like to join me. He said yes and I turned him."

"Spike doesn't seem like he's evil." Brennan commented.

"He's not now. He was always different, driven to impress me. He got the name Spike for driving railroad spikes into the heads of the men who had tormented him as a human. The four of us spent twenty years together, they called us the Scourge of Europe. One night when we were in Romania Darla brought me a girl for my...well guess you could call it my deathday present. She was a gypsy. I of course tortured her then drained her. Her people were so furious when they found out what happened that they cursed me. They gave me back my soul."

"And this is when you stopped being Angelus?"

"I wasn't anybody. I wasn't Liam the drunken human or Angelus the Master Vampire." Booth hated reliving his past, but he knew Brennan needed to hear it. "I left the group, well Darla kicked me out really. I lived in sewers wracked with guilt over what I had done in a hundered years of being a vampire. A few years later I met them in China. Only Darla knew what had happened and Spike and Drusilla were overjoyed to see me. Spike especially. He had just killed a slayer. A girl that hunts vampires. He was only twenty years old and it should have been impossible but Spike had always been different. He wanted the appoval of his sire and I couldn't stand to be around him. Darla kicked me out again when I couldn't kill a innocent."

Brennan watched Booth withdarw into himself, scared that what he was telling her would cause her to leave him. She scooted over closer to him and laid a hand on his back, he looked at her in surprise, a little shocked that she would want to touch him after what he had just told her. "Booth...I'm not going to leave you, this is your past, it can't be changed. I stand by what I said earlier. Your not a monster."

He smile tentively at her. What did he do to deserve such a woman in his life? She smiled back then said "I'd really like to know how you became human."

He nodded and started again. "After about a hundred years of living in the sewers I was approached by a messenger of The Powers that Be. They're...well kinda like God I guess. He told me I could work toward my redemption. So I left the sewres, cleaned my self up and started going by the name Angel. I went to unnydale and started working with Buffy. I lost the soul after about a year because of a moment of perfect happiness. That was the loophole in the curse. A moment of perfect happiness. I did some horrible things then. When one of Buffy's friends recursed me I left Sunnydale and moved to LA. I met a girl that I had know from Sunnydale named Cordelia Chase. Over the years I gathered a group of friends. They're the ones Spike mentioned. Wes, Gunn, Fred, and Cordy."

"Who was Conner? Spike mentioned him too." Brennan couldn't believe what she was hearing. It sounded unbelievable, vampires and demons. But she had seen the fangs and ridges on Spike's face. And while a big part of her wanted to call the nearest insane asylum for Booth another part of her said that Booth would never lie to her like that, wouldn't make up such a ridiculous story.

"Conner....Conner was my son. He wasn't suppose to be born, he was part of a prophecy that we found. I didn't get to raise him. He was kidnapped and raised in a hell demension. When we got him back he was sixteen and full of hate for me. Tried to kill me several times. He snapped eventually, was ready to kill himself and several others. I made a deal with Wolfram and Hart to wipe his memories of me and give him a new life and family. I just had to take over the LA branch. I did and it was the worse mistake of my life. We were there a year before it all went to hell. Literally. I decided I wanted to them down. And my friends followed me. It got all of them killed. By the time the dust settled Spike and I were all that was left. The Powers made me human and Spike and I split ways. He went to Rome to be with Buffy and I was planted in a family. They gave me memories and a son. Parker genetically is mine but at the same time he isn't. They implanted me in the FBI and a few months later I met you." Booth watched her as she digested all he had told her. He hoped she didn't change her mind after hearing all his story.

Brennan sighed and looked at Booth "You know how crazy this sounds, but you showed me and you've never lied to me before. It'll take me some time to sort through everything but I believe you."

"And you still don't think I'm a monster?"

"Of course not Booth! It doesn't matter what you've done in the past, its the past. To me you're not Angel or Angelus, you're Seeley Booth, Special Agent and my partner."

Booth slumped in his seat, letting loose the breath he hadn't known he was holding. "Thank you Bones, you have no idea what that means to me."

Brennan smiled at him. "And this case? Its connected to your past?"

"Yeah, the woman was drained by a vamp. But we don't know why she was skinned or her organs are missing. Spike and I have never seen anything like it before. We're hoping Buffy might."

They were interruped from discussing anything more when Spike poked his head in the door. "The body's here."