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Chapter Six

Buffy had finished reading the brief a few minute ago, and now was just sitting in Dr. Brennan's office thinking. What vampires do I know that are in D.C? she thought. Is there a clan of them somewhere? Why did one attack this girl; the doc said she died two weeks ago. Normally you find bodies like this right after they die. Why does that Booth man look so much like Angel? There's something he's not telling me. She looked up, and looked at the scene outside of Brennan's office; Booth was there talking to her, probably about the case, but what got Buffy's attention is how protectively his hand laid on her back. It was almost like it was unintentional.

She stood up, putting the folder down on Brennan's desk, and walked to the door and opened it. She walked quickly to the office next to Brennan's, knowing it was Angela's. Out of everyone, she was the one who would probably give her answers.

"Hi, I'm looking for Angela Montenegro, I was told this is her office." Buffy said.

"I'm Angela, how can I help?" Angela replied curiously.

"I would like to know more about Booth, that's part of why I was hired; to do a mini investigation on him." Buffy replied.

"Oh, um, is what I say going to hurt him? Like is he going to lose his job?" Angela asked.

"No, it's more that Cullen has taken an interest in him, and, rather than he have to get to know Booth, he's asked me to." She answered.

"Oh, well then, I suggest you get out your notepad and pencil, 'cause there's a lot of juicy stuff!"Angela said smiling devilishly.

Buffy smiled and did as Angela bid her to. Luckily, Angela didn't know she was smiling out of relief because Cullen didn't actually want her to do this, this was just her way of leaning about him for her project.

"Ok, so, he's not married, but he proposed about four years ago to Rebecca, who had his son, and he's named Parker..." Angela started off.

After and hour had passed, she thanked Angela, and left her office in search of Dr. Hodgins. She walked into his office, which was very creepy; there was bugs and spiders and things in cages, as well as very large, very...detailed diagrams of things.

" ?" Buffy asked, slightly apprehensively.

"Yes?" he answered.

"I'd like to ask you a few questions about Agent Booth, if you don't mind." she said.

"Oh, I'm on to you; who do you work for, the CIA? The ETB? The MTB? Oh, I know, the ATP, right?" he said.

"What do you mean Dr. Hodgins?" she asked. "I was just assigned to find out about Booth's past from the point of view of the people he works with."

"Yeah right!" he scoffed. "I bet you're here to asses all of us and see how we can 'help' the government! Well, you're not getting anything from!"

"Um, ok. I'm just gonna go now, I'm need at the office." she said, as she backed up.

"Yeah, you do that. But remember, not everyone is as easy to fool as some others!" he said.

"I'll keep that in mind." she said.

She walked quickly out of his office, as she went she heard Dr. Brennan say 'This is... I want to say anomalous, but I'm going to go with weird.'
She turned around and stood at the bottom of the platform.

"What is it, Dr. Brennan?" she asked.

"There is evidence of a burn so deep, it scarred the bone, which is almost impossible to do." she answered.

"What does it look like?" Buffy asked.

"I don't know yet, I'll send a picture of it over to Angela so she can find out." Brennan said.

"Oh, come on, Bones! Take a guess!" Booth cajoled.

"Booth! You know I do not like to make a hypothesis without all the facts!" Brennan told him exasperated.

"Okay, okay. But if you had to guess, what would you say it looked like?" he asked her.

Fine!" she sighed. "I would say it faintly, very faintly, resembled a bird of some sort, possibly a dove." she said.

Buffy gasped, but quickly smothered it before the others could hear. " Where is it located?" she asked.

"On the... right scapula, right in the middle of the shoulder if it was fleshed." Brennan responded.

"Ok, thank you. I have to go back to the office, but call me if anything else turns up." Buffy said, as she gave Brennan her number.

"Um, you're welcome." she replied.

As Buffy left, she heard Brennan ask Booth ' What did she thank me for?'. She smiled to herself at her obvious lack of people skills, and just continued on her way to her car.

Okay, so I was thinking about introducing the main storyline in the next one to two chapters. Review if you think this is a good idea, or if I should do something different. I can't promise I will, but I'll listen. Also, to clear up any confusion, This is set after 'The Secret in the Fallout Shelter' where Parker is four. Goodman is still here, and so is Zack, obviously. Also, ETB, MTB, and ATP are all made up, as far as I know of. (Although technically, ATP is a type of energy cells get through cellular respiration.)