Missing pieces chapter 7

It was only thanks to Booth's quick reflexes that Gillian didn't fall and hit her head.. He picked her up and carried her to Bones' office which was the closest. Everyone gathered to wait for Gillian to regain consciousness and give them some kind of explanation.

They were talking about the case quietly when Gillian came to. She started to stir and her eyes fluttered open and she realized that she was lying on Dr. Brennan's couch. "What happened? How did I end up in here?" she asked

Everyone stopped talking and all eyes turned to Gillian. Brennan decided to get straight to the point "You collapsed after you saw this," she said and gave to Gillian the golden necklace.

The realization hit her for a second time as she held the necklace. "No," she whispered, her eyes full of pain. Gillian struggled to get up, but Booth pushed her back down.

"You'd better sit for a while until the dizziness goes away, we don't want you to collapse again, alright?" he said.

He had questions, they all did, but none of them got a chance. Gillian's mind was already working out what she should do next and before anybody had a chance to ask anything she was demanding a phone.

"Where is my phone? Please can somebody give me my phone?" she demanded, almost yelling the last words.

Everyone in the room was staring at her now. This wasn't the quiet, somewhat shy girl they had come to know over these past months. Now everyone could see panic in her eyes alongside the pain. After a moment she continued. "I need to call to my mom. She needs to know that we found her."

Silence filled the office now--no one knew what to say. They still didn't understand, all they knew was she had known one of the girls whose bones were in the lab now. It brought back memories of the day they had found Bones' mom and maybe that was why everyone hesitated to do anything. Booth looked at Bones and he could see that she was reliving the pain of that day too.

Nobody moved to give Gillian her phone and she started to feel stronger, so she went and picked up Brennan's office phone and started to dial home. Booth made a move to stop her but Angela grabbed his arm.

"Let her call, we can ask what we need to know later. I think this is more important now," she said.

Gillian's mother answered the phone on the second ring. "Hi Mom, it's me," she said, "they...we...they..." she lost the words for a while and then she gathered herself, "Mom, they found her," she finally got it out. "Mom" she continued, "can you come?" She paused to listen to her mom's answer.

"Please Mom, I need you to come. I don't think I can handle this alone and I believe they need to question you too." At that she lost the tenuous hold she had on her emotions and tears began to pour down her face. "Thanks Mom . I'll see you soon," she mumbled and then hung up. She turned to face the others in the room.

Ange was first to react and she took Gillian into a tight hug. She was still very upset and crying. She leaned into Angela, who held her even tighter, letting her know that she wasn't alone. They stood like that a long time and finally Gillian started to calm down. Angela made her sit beside her on the couch. She kept her arm around Gillian's shoulder, knowing that it would comfort her.

"I know you may not feel like it now, but would you please tell us who that little girl was and how you knew her," Booth said to Gillian. He had a gut feeling, as Bones called it, what the answer was going to be but he still needed to hear it from Gillian.

"Yes," she whispered, "she...she...she was..."

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