Chapter 7

Brennan sat at the table looking at the bones before glancing at her phone then back to work. after seeing her do this five times Wendell set the bone he was looking at down.

"Waiting for a call, Dr. Brennan?" He asked.

"Yes. Booth had to go talk to a drug dealer in Anacostia today. Because of the area and how far along I am, it was decided I stay here while he went. He told me he was going to call as soon as he was done talking to the man."

"Did agent Sully go with him?" Wendell asked obviously not happy with sully.

"No. It seems that Cullen has taken him off the case and turned it back over to Booth and I to solve."

"When did that happen?" Angela asked as she walked into the bone room.

"We had to meet with Cullen yesterday and I started to get upset again so the baby started kicking. Cullen had Booth take me home and I woke up with them talking in the living room. All I know is that he was taken off the case, is being seen by Sweets, and has people keeping an eye out for him when I'm at the office and Booth isn't there and Cam told the security that he wasn't to be around here."

"Booth's boss came to your place?" Angela asked.

"Yes. He wanted to tell us about Sully."

"But his boss actually went to your house?"

"Yes, Angela. He's done it before." Angela looked at her shocked that the assistant deputy director of the FBI would make a house call, let alone random trips to one of the agents. "He and his wife were over a few months ago. Cullen helped Booth with some large things that needed to be moved while his wife helped me decorate the Nursery a bit."

"No wonder you and Booth can get away with practically anything." Angela smiled when Brennan's phone rang making her pull her gloves off quickly and answer.

"Brennan."

Booth pulled up to the corner where he had been told he would find Carl Anderson, a drug dealer who went by the name Billy Coolhand. Booth sighed as he looked at the time knowing that Brennan would be going crazy waiting to hear from him, since he told her he would call when he was finished an hour and a half ago. he climbed out of the car and went over to a man who was looking around in the other direction. Booth got to the man quickly before he could run.

"I just have a few questions, Carl." Booth said as he looked at booth over his shoulder with his gray eyes. Booth could see a scar under his left eye as he turned more to look at him. "You run, I'll shoot you." He warned as the man nodded.

"What do you want?"

"There was a woman doing a story around here about dirty cops." He said and saw the man start looking around. "You talked to her?"

"What about her?"

"She's dead." He stared at him shocked as he shook his head and started looking around.

"I don't know anything, man."

"Sure you don't. I'm working on solving the murder and putting this guy away for good, so start talking."

"Look, man. All I know is I told her that there were a few filthy cops. Samantha knew a couple, personally, if ya know what I mean. They would let her have her drugs if she would let them have fun." Booth nodded. "That's all I got for you, man."

"This Samantha have a last name?"

"We don't really use those here. Really ain't no reason. But she's probably around somewhere hiding from the pigs."

"Yeah." Booth looked around before he spoke again. "I have someone I want you to talk to. I want you to describe Samantha to her and she'll sketch her out. It will help us find Samantha and get her away from the cops." Carl thought and looked around.

"I get caught by the cops…." He trailed off as Booth nodded.

"Nothing's going to happen." Carl nodded before he followed Booth as he walked back to his car making sure there was no one around watching. Once in the car he started driving back towards the FBI as he called Brennan.

"Brennan." He heard a worried tone in her voice.

"Bones, you okay?" He asked as he heard shuffling.

"Yes, Booth. I am fine. Are you okay?" She asked making him smirk.

"Yeah, I'm on my way back. The guy didn't have much to give. He said that there are cops around there who are doing drugs and they let the drug addict, Samantha have her drugs as long as they have sex with her. He said she's probably hiding from the cops now."

"We need to talk to her then."

"Yeah, listen tell Angela to meet me at my office. I'm bringing him in to describe Samantha to her."

"I'll let her know." The two hung up and got to work.

Booth sat in a chair across a little table from a skinny woman who's cloudy gray eyes seemed to be sunken in with the dark bags under her eyes. Her long oily dark blond hair hung around her shoulders as she turned her head and looked at him. It had taken almost a week to find her in a Good Hop Institution where she was working on getting clean.

"Samantha, I need to ask a few questions about Hannah Burley." Booth said as the girl nodded slowly. "I need to know when the last time you saw her was."

"I… before I came here."

"When was that?"

"I don't know."

"Okay, what did you two do when you saw her last?" The woman closed her eyes and shook her head.

"No. no! No!" She repeated over and over again making an orderly come over to calm her down. Booth stood up as they took her off to get her to relax and left with a sigh. He had not gotten anything useful but knew she knew something about what happened. He would try again later. As he got back into his car, his phone rang.

"Booth."

"Booth, Hodgins was able to figure out what the substance was that he found on her bag." Brennan said before he heard Hodgins.

"Benzoyl methyl ecogine."

"English?" Booth asked.

"Cocaine, Booth. She had the same cocaine on her bag that was on her clothes."

"So we're back to the drug dealers?"

"It would appear that way. Perhaps we can talk to the police again. They may be able to tell us who is the most likely to have become violent."

"I'll call in the Narcotic police again and see if they can give us anything more." Booth hung up before he called Charlie and had him set it up to bring in Kevin Williams again.

He only needed to wait an hour before he had Kevin back in the interrogation room.

"So since I'm an officer in the area you think I can tell you about a dealer or user that would have turned pissed and killed her?"

"That's what we're hoping for." Booth nodded as he saw the man sit and think.

"There is one guy. Billy Coolhand, he calls himself. This girl was working on getting his clients into rehab and cleaned up. They got into a few arguments a few times and the cops were called in."

"Were the arguments about her taking his clients to rehab, or was there something else?" Officer Williams looked at Booth for a minute before shaking his head.

"Everything I've heard it was always about the clients going to rehab."

"Right, thanks for your time." Booth said as he stood up and led the officer out. He knew there was something off about the whole story but he could not tell what exactly. He walked back to his office to try to do more research on the dealer and the area before pushing any farther.

"Man, I was upset she was taking my clients to rehab, but I'm not like half the other dealers. She was a great woman. We argued once or twice at the beginning but after that, she started asking questions. In that neighborhood you don't go digging up things that will piss the cops off."

"What kind of questions?" Booth asked as he sat in the seat across from the dealer in the interrogation room. The dealer looked very nervous every time Booth started talking about the questions Hannah had been asking.

"Hannah was awesome, she really was but, man, I'm not gonna get myself killed. Unlike her, I know when to keep my mouth shut and my head down."

"We will put these guys away; we just need you to tell us what you know." Carl sat and looked at him before he sighed and shook his head.

"I don't want to have anything to do with this. They find out I told you anything…."

"No one will know anything." Booth assured him before he took a breath and sat forward.

"Some of the cops were getting pissed when she was asking about their work with us. I told her what I knew and I told her she would get hurt if she kept going but she wouldn't stop. The last time I saw her she said she found a lead and was going to start following it and she would tell me when she knew more about the lead. She never came back."

"Do you think the cops found out about her digging deeper?"

"Yeah, man. They were pissed. Showed up a few times to star pushing her around."

"Could you point out who they are?"

"Yeah, man, they're always in the neighborhood, making sure we don't say nothing and that they don't get found out. They make sure we know they're watchin'."

"I'll be right back." Booth said as he stood up and left meeting Brennan as she came from the observation room.

"You think he's telling the truth?" She asked as they walked back to his office.

"Yeah. He seems afraid to get into this but he is acting like he really wants to help." He said as he grabbed a file from his desk and opened it to see several pictures. The two walked back where Brennan went back into the observation room while Booth walked back in to the dealer. "I have a few pictures. I want you to tell me who you recognize."

"Yeah." Booth laid out four pictures for him to look over. First was a man with a receding hairline, salt and pepper hair, brown eyes, and close cut beard and mustache. Second was a woman with blond hair pulled back as he blue eyes looked straight ahead, next was a man with short red hair, dark blue eyes, slender build, and a scruffy beard. And the last picture was one of Kevin Williams with his short dark brown hair, graying, stone blue eyes, stocky build, and a mustache.

"What one?"

"This one." He pointed to the first one. Booth nodded but as he was about to tell Carl thanks he pointed to two others. "And these two guys. This one is the worst and his partners not much better. They like the drugs."

"What about this guy?" Booth asked pointing to the first one.

"Him, he's not around so much. He's mostly for the gangs with their guns and all. That's all I know."

"Thanks." He said as Carl nodded. Booth gathered the pictures and walked out letting Carl go before he and Brennan went to his office.

"Three cops?" Brennan asked as they sat in his office. "What are you going to do now?"

"We need to pull them in and get everything we can. I'll be right back." He said walking out and leaving her in his office. She was sitting in a side chair as she leaned her head back against the wall closing her eyes as she rubbed her belly gently.

"Tempe." She heard making her eyes snap open as she lofted her head and looked at Sully standing by the door. Brennan climbed to her feet and walked over behind Booth's desk. "Tempe, I just want to talk. I'm sorry."

"No, Sully you've done enough talking. You aren't even supposed to be around me."

"I know, but I need to talk to you. I'm so sorry about the other day. You have to believe me. I just…. Tempe I never stopped thinking about you. I couldn't wait to see you again and then I come back and see you with…. With Booth. And you're not just with him, you're having his kid. We had something really great and I know I screwed it up by leaving but-"

"No you did the best thing that you could have ever done for me. You leaving pushed me closer to Booth. I'm happy for that. Just let me be happy. Sully just leave right now." She said as she wrapped her arms around her belly protectively.

"Tempe. I'm not going to leave until you admit that we had something good. We were really good together and you threw it away. We could have been married and had kids. That should be our kid." He said as Brennan shook her head as she backed up into a corner behind the desk as Sully walked closer.

"Booth!" Brennan called out when suddenly Charlie ran in as pushed Sully back.

"What are you doing to her?" He asked as Sully stumbled back a few steps.

"This doesn't concern you."

"It concerns me when I see her backed into a corner and you harassing her after you were given orders to stay away from her."

"I was only talking to her." He said as Charlie glanced behind him at Brennan as she had her arms still wrapped around her belly as she slowly slide to the floor breathing shallowly. "Why would I hurt her? I love her." He said as he started to walk past Charlie, shoving him out of the way.

"Someone!" Charlie called as Sully pushed him into the desk and stalked over in front of Brenan. She looked at him and took a deep breath as he pulled her to her feet.

"Tempe, I know you still love me. Just, admit it. You still have feelings for me." He demanded as she twisted and turned to try to pull her arm from his grip only making him tighten it.

"I don't have any feelings for you once so ever. I never did, whatever we had between us was only a fling and that was it. I love Booth. Everything in me is deeply in love with Seeley Booth!" She said as her eyes began to tear and she tried to pull free as he grabbed her other arm tightly. She saw Sweets run in and grab a hold of her as Charlie pushed between them. Several agents ran in as Booth ran over to Brennan who was holding onto Sweets.

"Bones." He said as he pulled her to him and Sweets backed up to watch the scene. "Temperance, it's okay now. It's okay." He whispered as he held her tightly to him with a hand cradling the back of her head as he kissed her forehead several times.

"She's mine! She's meant to be with me!" Sully yelled as several agents pulled him from the room. Booth felt Brennan's arms tighten around him as he could be heard screaming from the hallway.

"It's okay, you're safe." Booth whispered again.

"Don't leave." She whispered back, barely audible but the three men in the room heard it.

"I'm not going anywhere. I'm right here." Booth looked up from her to see Sweets and Charlie looking worried. "Thanks, Charlie." Booth said as the man nodded.

"You told me what happened and I saw her in the corner. I don't care what happened, he's not going to come in here and go after her." Booth nodded as he continued to hold Brennan.

"Sweets, get my chair." He said softly as Sweets turned the office chair and pushed it over as Booth eased Brennan into it. "You okay?" He asked as he put his hand next to hers on her swollen belly and felt a hard kick. Brennan bent forward and gave a quick gasp.

"Dr. Brennan…." Sweets said as he took a step closer before Booth shook his head at him.

"Bones. Just breathe." He said as she nodded and tried to take several slow breaths before she gasped again. "You have to calm down. You know how the baby is when you get upset." He said with a smirk. "Just breathe nice and slow." He hushed before he saw her relax a bit. He looked at Charlie. "Go tell Cullen what happened." Charlie nodded and took off leaving Sweets to look worried still.

"Booth what's going on?"

"When she gets upset the baby starts kicking. It's already nearly sent her into labor, and it makes it really hard for her to breath. She'll be fine." He said looking back at Brennan as she nodded as opened her eyes to look at him kneeling in front of her. "You okay now?"

"I think so. How did he know I was here? How did he get in here?" She asked, as she looked at him scared. "He wasn't supposed to be on this floor or anywhere near me. If he could get to me in your office what's to stop him anywhere else?"

"Prison." They heard as Cullen walked in. "I have him locked up while we figure out what happened to him. Are you okay?" He asked as Brennan nodded and Booth stood up. "Take her home." Booth nodded.

"No." Brennan said as she pushed herself from the chair. "I can't just go home. I need to work." She said looking at Booth who stood looking into her eyes before he sighed and nodded.

"Fine but Sweets stays with you." He said looking at Sweets who nodded, half shocked that the agent wanted him to stay with her. "I'll finish up here and I'll get you at the lab later." She nodded not arguing about anything making Booth look at her another minute. "Take it easy at the lab."

"I will Booth." She said before he kissed her and she grabbed her back and started walking out of the door.

"Sweets." Booth said making him stop and look at him. "Keep an eye on her." Sweets nodded before leaving to catch up to Brennan and go back to the lab.

"I'll talk with Agent Sullivan later on and see what I can get from him." Sweets said on his way out of the office.

"Booth, she shouldn't be working like that. She's almost gone into labor once, been upset enough that the baby won't let her breath… she should be home resting." Cullen said looking back at Booth.

"I know that, but Bones never listens. She'll lay down at the lab or ask for a ride home if she feels she needs it. She is getting better."

"She better be. She's getting close to her due date, she needs to start relaxing."

"We're going to finish this case and she will relax if she wants to or not." Booth said with a smirk as he glanced at the picture on his desk.