Dog With The Skull Chapter 4

A/N This is the last chapter. There aren't a lot of chapters I know, and it leaves you wondering "what the hell??" but I'm going to try to patch this up while I'm writing here. It's gonna have all three people's POV's on here. ((Brennan's, Booth's and mine))

Thanks for reading and don't forget to review!

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My POV:

((Two Weeks after Ashley found first bone))


I sat on the edge of my trampoline, breathing hard. Bouncing around was not an easy thing to do, especially when you're a kinda out of shape girl like me.

I saw a black SUV coming up the driveway. I don't know how many times I'd seen that SAME SUV in the last two weeks.

I hopped off the trampoline and walked barefoot over to the gate and leaned against it. "What can I do for you guys?" I asked with a smile.

"Thanks to you calling in that bone when you saw it, we're one step closer to catching the serial killer who murdered this woman."

"Really?" I smiled. "That's great! When you catch him at least there won't be any more people who die," I REALLY hated serial killers.

"Yes, it is," Dr. Brennan told me. "We're going home today too," she told me.

"Oh," I was a little disappointed, it had been so great, having a real anthropologist there, somebody who actually worked in the career of my dreams.

"Yeah," Booth told me. "Look, you've been a real help these last couple of weeks."

"Thank you," I replied and I smiled once more.

"We just really wanted to come say goodbye and thank you," Dr. Brennan said to me.

"I have one question, but I don't know if you can answer or anything but.."

"We can try," Booth said with a smile.

"Well... I actually have two," I said with a small chuckle.

"Go ahead and ask," Dr. Brennan replied.

"Who's the serial killer?" I asked.

"We call him the Grave Digger," Agent Booth told me, and even though I could see how hard she was trying to mask it, Dr. Brennan was afraid. I didn't want to seem rude so I didn't ask why.

"Oh..." I said quietly. "Does he bury people after their dead?"

"Actually, he buries them alive," Dr. Brennan said simply.

"That's horrible!" I cringed a little at the thought.

"It is," Agent Booth glanced over at his partner. "What was the other question?"

I thought about the question for a moment, but then decided to drop it. "It's nothing."

"No, really, what is the question?" Booth asked with a smile.

"I was just wondering... I know you two are partners and everything, but are you dating?" I asked and the look they gave me made me blush. It was a little bit of confusion and some understanding and something else.

"No, why would you think that?" Dr. Brennan asked me.

"The way... you look at each other, I just assumed," I stopped myself in the middle of the sentence.

"We aren't dating," I could hear a little bit of sorrow in the Agent's voice.

"Oh... I didn't mean to offend either one of you," I said.

"That's ok, you didn't offend us," Agent Booth said to me.

"Alright," I said. "I should go inside. It's almost dinner."

"Yeah and our flight is soon Bones, we'd better go too," Booth said to Dr. Brennan.

"Alright," Dr. Brennan smiled a little at me and then got into the car.

I walked into the house and joined my grandparents for dinner.

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Brennan's POV:

That was a very different question that the girl had asked. Why would she think that Booth and I were dating?

We drove to the airport in silence and then boarded the plane in silence. As we were sitting on the airplane and it took off, I looked over at my partner.

"Do you think that we'll ever catch the Grave Digger?" I asked him.

Booth thought for a moment. "Yeah, Bones. I think that one day we'll catch him. It won't be easy, though. But I will never, ever let him hurt you or any of us again," Booth touched my cheek.

"Thank you," I said quietly.

"For what?"

"Everything. You're always there when I need somebody to talk to," I smiled and took his hand off my cheek and held it in my hand. I looked at our hands for a moment and then stared up at his eyes. He had the most beautiful eyes I had ever seen.

"Bones..."

"Booth..."

We both froze after we said each others names. I really don't understand why. I think that that girl... Shayden... I think that she somehow flicked on a switch that told us something. I don't really understand what that means but I believe it's a metaphor.

I held Booth's hand gently. We were both frozen as we stared at each other.

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Booth's POV:

The whole time she was staring at me, I couldn't decide if I should kiss her or not.

I finally decided against it, just incase she rejected it.

Something that Bones did next surprised me. She rested her head on my shoulder and closed her eyes. I leaned down and kissed her head softly.

She slept the rest of the way to DC. It would be nice to get home and get things back to normal.

When we got back to DC, I saw the company car waiting in the Park And Pay for me. We walked over to it and she got into the passengers seat and I got into the drivers seat.

I drove her back to her apartment.

"Do you want to come in for a beer?" she asked as she climbed out.

"I would, but I have Parker tonight," I said with a small smile. "Sorry."

"No it's fine, I'll see you soon then," she turned and walked into her apartment building and I went to pick up Parker. All together, it had been a pretty good couple of weeks. And Shayden had given me an idea too.

It would take a while, but eventually I would ask my partner out on a date, maybe I wouldn't SAY it was a date, though.

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A/N What do you think? Did that patch some stuff up? Hope it did!! Review please!!