I don't own nothing; it all belongs to Hart Hanson and FOX.

It was the third weekend of February when Russ finally made it to Washington DC. Max was grateful to see his son and made sure to spend plenty of time with him; Tempe however was busy with work… like always. It at least made it easier to escape to the restaurant he and Jared had agreed on a month before.

He entered Wong Fu's and saw his friend sitting at the counter. He quickly went up and joined his friend. He apparently caught Jared off guard, considering the naval officer quickly turned to face Russ.

"Long time, no see," Jared said. It was clear to Russ that he was plastering a smile on his face by choice and it wasn't a natural response.

"I'll say. You don't look as much like a kid since I saw you last."

"Last time you saw me was during your trial," he pointed out.

"Man, that was like a lifetime ago."

"Yep. Hey, Sid! Drink for my friend?" A man quickly came from the back and stared at Jared.

"Hey, you here with him?" the man, Sid, asked Russ who nodded affirmative. "Okay, you can have a beer. Just wanted to make sure he wasn't going to drink it himself." He quickly brought one out and placed it in front of Russ. "And you're guys food will be out in a minute."

"But I didn't order," Russ tried to remind Sid.

"It's Sid; he knows what you want better than you do."

"Last person who tried ordering on their own got indigestion and came back for a remedy," Sid reminisced. Russ shrugged, trusting the bar tender and his friend's word. Sid went on back to start preparing food, leaving the buddies to silence.

"So, how's work been? Pentagon everything you thought it would be?" Russ tried to start a conversation.

"Yeah, Pentagon was nice."

"Was?"

"I got fired last week," Jared said, then taking a drink of his club soda.

"You've only been there for like three months, haven't you?"

"Yeah, well, I kinda used my job to help save my brother's life."

"Okay, I missed the part where that's enough to get you fired."

"I lied to get the materials needed to save him."

"What happened to him?" Russ asked.

"Kidnapped." It was a short answer, but all that was needed. Russ knew what it was like to suddenly hear your sibling was kidnapped. He had been shocked to return from a camping trip two years before to get a message saying Tempe had been abducted and they had no idea who had taken her. Luckily, the next message was from Tempe herself saying she was okay and that she and her colleague had been rescued. It still bothered Russ that he hadn't been there when his sister needed him, again.

"At least you could do something, Jared."

"Yeah and finally caught the Gravedigger," he added.

"The Gravedigger?" Russ knew the nickname. It was what Tempe had called the son of a bitch who had taken her. "Please tell me that son of bitch is going suffer."

"Between the beating that we gave her and being stuck in prison hopefully for life, she better suffer."

"She? She was a girl?"

"Yep. You sound surprised."

"I just assumed that it was a guy." Russ let a small smile grace his lips as he said, "My sister would probably give me a lecture about being sexist or something for that comment. Though she called the Gravedigger a guy, too."

"Yeah. My brother's partner is the same way."

"The one who slugged you?"

"Tempe's memorable like that. Actually, she and another one of the squints are the reason Seeley was kidnapped. Gravedigger wanted the evidence they had collected against her after she and the bug guy were taken, and got them to trade it for Seeley's life." Russ' head snapped towards Jared. Tempe was an uncommon name already, so how many of them could have been kidnapped by this Gravedigger and lived? And Seeley was Agent Booth's first name, wasn't it? The odds of them still talking about two different groups of people suddenly became about zero. But that would mean that Jared was Booth's brother… How could they have both missed that?

"Tempe as in Temperance Brennan?" Russ tried to confirm the thoughts running through his head.

"Yeah. You a fan of her books?" Apparently Jared hadn't made a connection yet.

"A little more than that," Russ admitted, not quite sure how to tell his friends of their six degrees of separation.

"You use to date her?" Jared guessed as Russ took another sip of beer. The beer almost came right back out; instead Russ just began to choke a little on the liquid.

"What? No! God, no! That's disgusting- no!" Russ finally managed to spit out.

"Hey, no shame if you did. Tempe's great; she's got the brains, look, and personality. Good kisser, too-"

"Are you trying to get me to slug you?" Russ asked, seriously wondering just that. This was his baby sister Jared was talking about. The one he would find during school just to make sure the other kids weren't picking on her. The one who he cheered up when she had nightmares and didn't want to tell their parents. He knew she had grown up a lot since then, but that didn't mean he wanted to hear about good of a kisser she was or anything like that.

"What? No. Why are going to slug me?"

"Because I don't like anyone talking about my little sister like that!" Russ said rather loudly, causing the other customers in the restaurant to look their way.

"Tempe's your little sister? Like the author/ forensic anthropologist who works with the FBI?"

"Yeah. And by the sound of it, Booth's your big brother."

"Talk about a small world," Jared muttered.

"You can say that, again," replied Russ taking another swig from his bottle. "You kissed my sister?"

"I didn't know she was your sister! Why would I have made the connection between my North Carolina drinking buddy and brother's partner? When do you figure out I was Seeley's brother?"

"When you said his partner, Tempe, had been taken by the Gravedigger."

A slight look of relief washed over Jared's face. "So, we're both idiots for not realizing it." Russ simply nodded in agreement.

Sid came out then, carrying to plates and sat them down in front of them. Jared decided to inform the man of their discovery. "Sid, you'll never guess who Russ is."

"Bone- Lady's brother," Sid answered immediately. Jared's face dropped a little.

"How'd you know?"

Sid gave Russ a look that clearly said 'duh' while verbally stating, "I'm Sid."

So, I have the rest of the chapters basically done. I can either upload them one at a time or all at once. But I'd like to do which ever way you guys want me to, so which ever way has more people tell me yes to will be what I do. So, I actually kind of need some input on this one... Plus any reviews on the story would be nice too. :)