Chapter 4 Temperance's Metamorphosis
When Booth and Cam were done at the crime scene, Booth collected Angela, and they knocked on Pam's apartment door. Brennan was right there waiting for them. "Booth, Ange!" she cried. I've been sitting here is this apartment feeling like a Kafkaesque cockroach!". "Huh?" asked Booth.
"Franz Kafka wrote a story called "Metamorphosis" about a man who turns into a cockroach. It's an allegory about the demonization of Jews by the Nazis."
Booth and Angela looked at each other and said "that's Brennan".
Brennan said "I was afraid to tell you about this, because it is so illogical that I don't even believe it." It feels like the time period when I had amnesia in New Orleans. There's no rational explanation."
Angela informed her that her doppelganger was in the lab.
"Booth, Pam has a stalker wall for you. You need to be careful," said Bones, pointing at the wall. And for some reason, at the moment, she looks exactly like me, and I look exactly like her. She has my body, my ID, my cell phone. It's so strange to hear her voice come out of my mouth. I was lucky I was able to email you today and call Harmonia from Pam's land line. There is no way that I can prove that I am myself or that she is Pam Noonan. Booth , she shouldn't be in the lab."
"Furthermore", Bones continued, I'm afraid that if I stay in this body that I will start to become her. The brain/body divide is not as rigid as popularly assumed."
"Well, first things first" said Booth. "Obviously, you can't go out into the field like that. Maybe you could stay at my place". I believe you are Bones, but unfortunately, we can't give you any access to the evidence until we prove it.
"I would expect nothing else" said Brennan. "I can spend some useful time here collecting information on Pam's obsession with you. However, being away from the lab, not to mention being in a body less healthy than my own, is making me quite frustrated.
"We love you however you look Sweetie" said Angela, recognizing that Brennan was also mourning the loss of her good looks. "It ought to be easy to get Pam out of the lab. Pam looks exactly the way you normally do, Sweetie, but she doesn't act like you at all. If Sweets talks to her for 5 minutes, he'll realize that she is insane. We somehow have to keep him from thinking that you are insane."
Booth took Brennan over to his apartment. At least he hoped it was Brennan; the thought of giving Pam free rein of his apartment was just too chilling to be contemplated. To be sure, even having someone who looked like Pam Noonan in his quarters was a bit creepy. At Brennan's request, Booth went to her apartment to bring some anthropology journals to his apartment. He couldn't bring the laptop to her just in case she wasn't really Bones, but he did put it in his safe. He hoped that the fake Bones (Pam) had not been messing with Brennan's computer that morning.