Booth and Bones stood in shock

Booth and Bones stood in shock. Kelsey smiled and held out her arms.

"Isn't this were you put the hand cuffs on me, read me my rights and put me in jail?"

Booth visibly shook himself off and slapped the cuffs on her wrist. Bones saw that it was tight even for his lowest form of disgust. She also saw how Kelsey's eyes became blank and how she looked so….soiled. Like stone almost. Booth looked like he was about to lose it.

"Did you feel some kind of sick rush when you killed him?"

Correction, he had lost it. Kelsey kept her blank look. It was as if she couldn't hear him. She just kept her eyes focused on a patched on the wall.

"Did you not even care? What made you kill him, huh? Did he not pay enough attention to you? Too much of an emotional weight?"

Booth grasped her right wrist and yanked her down. Bones saw the pain flash in her eyes before becoming cold again. She never stopped watching that spot on the wall. That's when she saw the blood running down Kelsey's hand.

"Booth-"

"Why'd you do it?"

"Booth-" She tried again.

"Did you not understand the pain he carried?"

"BOOTH!"

He turned and looked her with a puzzled look.

"Her wrist. It's bleeding."

He looked down and saw it too. Kelsey looked at the wall like it was her safety net. If she looked at it long enough all of this would go away.

"Let her out of the cuffs, Booth."

Booth knew better then to argue when she used her doctor voice on him. He left one side of the cuffs on her.

Kelsey sprung to life.

"Dr. Brennan, would you be as kind as to give my bag?"

"Sure."

She quickly handed her the bag. Kelsey muttered her thanks and took five things out of her bad, a needle, string, duck tape, a small candle and a lighter. She put the candle on the counter and lit it with the lighter. Then she took the needle and tied the string through it.

"Is this some kind of ritual thing?" Booth asked heatedly.

"No, Agent Booth. It's not."

She pushed back her long sleeve and Bones held back the urge to scream. She had seen "bad" on rotting human flesh. But never to wear you couldn't tell it was skin in a living human. The sight even made Booth sick. Her arm was covered in purple and white scares. She even had a few red and a few grey here and there. The rest looked withered next to her silky white complexion that it had a haunting effect. It had a piece of silver duck tape around her wrist were the blood was leaking. She pulled it off rapidly. The partners could hear her sharp intake of breath. Then she pulled out the black string that had been holding the skin together. It pulled the skin and bled profoundly but Kelsey never flinched. She picked up the needle and held it to the flame. Bones understood first what she was about to do.

"Your not really going to….you know, are you?"

Kelsey smiled politely.

"Yes I am. You can go to the back if it makes you uncomfortable."

She shook her head and Kelsey turned her attention back to the needle. She took it off the flame and pushed it threw her skin. Up and down, threw the skin, almost as if she was stitching up a pillow and not her own arm.

"Will you cut that for me?"

Bones took a pain of scissors that were on the table and cut it off. Kelsey took one end in her mouth and tied a small knot. She pulled as hard as she could without breaking the string and tied a second knot. She took the tape and started to pull it up with her mouth. Then she placed the tape over her homemade stitches. Kelsey turned back to Booth and held out her hands.

"'Kay. You can put them back on."

Brennan mentally shook herself off.

"That wound is consistent with a stab wound. You wouldn't be able to do that yourself, not with your left hand. Who did that to you?"

Kelsey almost laughed at the irony of the question.

"You already know. You'd never tell anyone cuz how could someone as great as Moe Hare hurt his own daughter? Even Army boy over here said it. No one would think it, even if it was the truth."

Bones pulled up the back of her shirt. There was one scare on the small of her back where Booth put his hand. It was almost a circle.

"Foster parent got mad at me one day."

Kelsey nodded sadly.

"And did anyone believe you when you told them?"

Their eyes locked. They knew the answer.

"No."

She nodded thoughtfully.

"I believe you."

Booth stood in awe and watched these women talk like this. Bones never told me that. Why is she so special? I'll kill who ever did that to her. Bones deserves so much better then that.

Then there was Kelsey. Moe wouldn't hit his daughter. She's lying. I don't believe her.

"Time to go. Come on."

Booth pushed her toward the SUV. The ride to headquarters was silent. They made their way into the interrogation room where the real trouble began.