Chapter 7: Finding the Evidence
Dr. Brennan woke up in her bed; she was cold and missed the presence of Booth in her arms. Dr. Brennan decided instead of moping about Booth she would get ready and wait for his call. While she was blow drying her hair Booth called saying he would be there in five minutes. Dr. Brennan thought, should she greet Booth in her tiny robe or should she greet him fully clothed. Her thoughts were interrupted by her ringing doorbell. She thought bathrobe it is then. She walked to the door, checked that is was Booth, and answered the door. Booth couldn't resist when he saw her, before she even had time to say hi; Booth pulled her into a passionate kiss. She deepened the kiss as they clumsily walked over her couch. Booth undid her robe to reveal every beautiful part of her. Finally she had to pull away before they went too far; since Booth still wasn't cleared by his doctor. She put her robe back on and headed to her room to quickly get dressed. She returned to a disappointed Booth.
"Don't give me that look. You and I both know you're not cleared by your doctor for another six weeks. You're also not cleared to drive. So how did you get here so fast?"
"I know I'm not cleared by my doctor, but that doesn't mean I can't be disappointed that we can't. And I took a cab to get here; I called you from the cab, and that's why I got here so quickly."
"So I guess that mean I'm driving for a while. I think I'm going to enjoy that."
"I think I'm not going to enjoy you driving me around."
"Booth…why? I'm a good driver."
"Well you're an okay driver as a cop driver, as a civilian driver you're a great driver."
"So you don't like my driving when we have to chase someone."
"Well umm…Yes so we won't be doing any dangerous cases for a while. I also have some bad news."
"I have a feeling that I'm not going to like this."
"I've been limited to only do desk work and interrogations until I'm cleared from my doctor."
"Booth…You know I hate not working with you. Who is your replacement going to be?"
"It's going to be Agent Perotta. You have to be really careful not to reveal our relationship in front of her. I know that she likes me; so you can't be jealous when she flirts with me."
"Booth I wouldn't worry about Agent Perotta. If there is someone to worry about, I would worry about Sweets catching on about our feeling for each other."
"Well Sweets already thinks that we are in love, so if we act the same way we always have in our sessions he won't suspect a thing."
"That shouldn't be too hard."
"Bones we need to get to work."
"Ok Booth, now remember I met you at the reflecting pool right by the coffee cart."
Booth grabbed Brennan's jacket and helped her into it. She smiled, and turned around to face Booth to give him a tender kiss. They left her apartment as they always would have. They were walking side by side bickering about Booth's restrictive duty until he heals. Dr. Brennan was driving which really irritated Booth. He never realized how much of a backseat driver he was. Dr. Brennan dropped Booth off at his office with the FBI, and then headed over to the Jeffersonian to solve the murder of Hodgins' brother. Dr. Brennan walked into the Jeffersonian to see Special Agent Payton Perotta hovering over the remains of Hodgins' brother. She stealthily quickened her pace and began to holler.
"Agent Perotta, don't compromise the remains."
"Ah, Dr. Temperance Brennan; it's nice to see you again. I look forward to working with you the next six weeks."
"I'm looking forward to working with you too. Maybe this time it won't end in you following me, and almost getting me and one of my lab partners killed."
"Yeah, well…I was only doing my job. This should be an interesting six weeks working together without Agent Booth."
"Actually Booth agreed only agreed to you being my field agent with a few exceptions. He does all the interrogations and paperwork. All you have to do is be with me in the field and make sure I don't get myself killed. If there is one thing you need to know; Booth is my partner and always will be. Six weeks isn't going to change that."
"Well that's something the director didn't tell me yesterday. And by the way; did you and Booth ever hook up."
"The director didn't tell you because, Booth talked to the director this morning. And why does everybody think that Booth and I have hooked up or are going to make out. We're just partners and that's how we're going to stay."
"Hmm…That's nice to know. Well then, are you ready to go? I'll meet you out in the car."
Agent Perotta left the forensic platform and headed out to her car. Dr. Brennan turned back to face the remains to make sure Agent Perotta hadn't damaged anything. She noticed the remains were fine and just wanted an excuse to yell at Agent Perotta. If there was one thing Dr. Brennan wanted to do; she would have punched Agent Perotta then and there when she asked about Booth's availability. Angela came onto the platform when she noticed Dr. Brennan trying to hide a smirk.
"Sweetie what are you thinking about?"
"Hi Angela, I was thinking about punching Agent Perotta in the face."
"Sweetie, why do you want to do that?"
"Uhh…She's going to flirt with Booth and probably ask him out. It takes everything I have not to strike at her when she talks about Booth. And to make it worse I have to keep out relationship a secret from her of Booth and I can't work together anymore."
"So Agent Perotta makes your blood boil."
"What? Angela that's physically impossible for someone's blood to boil; well unless someone happened to be cooked."
"No, no Sweetie it's a figure of speech. It means Agent Perotta makes you jealous. And Sweetie you have no reason to be jealous, Booth only has eyes for you. The love he has for you is stronger than anything I've ever seen him show to anyone."
"Thanks Angela…Now I think I can tolerate six weeks of car rides and field work with her. Which means I should probably get going she's waiting for me outside, to go the Washington Monument."
"Okay Sweetie, Hodgins is already there waiting for you. He left five minutes before you got here."
"Thank you Angela. We'll be back soon, and Booth is going to be here for lunch. Will you please warn him about Agent Perotta's intentions and tell him just to play along as long as there is no kissing and no accepting of dates."
Dr. Brennan took off her lab coat and put her jacket back on. She walked quickly outside since she kept Agent Perotta waiting for ten minutes. Agent Perotta looked annoyed but didn't say anything as they both got into her car. The car ride was silent and thankfully short. They were greeted by FBI forensic agents and Dr. Hodgins when they arrived at the supposed scene of the crime.
"Dr. Brennan, Agent Perotta about time you got here. I was tempted to go up without you."
"All right Dr. Hodgins; let's go see which side of the monument the victim was killed on. Agent Perotta you stay down here. I don't want the evidence if there is any to be compromised. If there is evidence; there won't be much left, and we'll have to be careful when we extract the evidence."
"Dr. Brennan, shall we go up."
"Yes, Dr. Hodgins lets do what we do best."
They both got on the platform and were raised up to the point on The Washington Monuments scar. They started to set up their equipment, and Dr. Brennan held up the blue light to the monument.
"Dr. Hodgins I've found blood, a lot of blood. It's very possible that this is from your brother. Let's see if we can find any dried blood inside the crevices of the Limestone."
Dr. Hodgins stood up and began to carefully remove the piece of limestone where most of the blood was found. When they removed the piece and looked inside they found lots of dried blood that had been absorbed into the limestone. Dr. Brennan took a closer look with a magnifying glass and found a few shards of bone, as well as what she hoped would be bone dust. She motioned down to Agent Perotta to let her know they received all the evidence they needed and were ready to head back to the lab. Dr. Brennan speed dialed Booth before they were in earshot of Agent Perotta to tell him she'll be back in the lab in about ten minutes. She hung up with Booth as soon as they reached the bottom. Dr. Brennan decided to ride back with Hodgins so that Agent Perotta could go back to the Hoover building and wait for the lab results. Dr. Brennan was relieved when Agent Perotta didn't ask her about who she called. She would have been tempted for the second time that day to punch her in the face. When they got back to the lab Dr. Hodgins took the samples to examine them and confirm that they do belong to his brother. Dr. Brennan went straight to her office to meet Booth for their in secret lunch date.
"Booth, are you ready for lunch? I'm sorry I'm late, removing the samples was far more difficult than what I anticipated."
"Hey that's okay, that means I'll have to order more food. Which means that is more time I get to spend with you."
"Booth…Shh we need to be discreet we don't want anyone else finding out about us. Daisy knowing is bad enough, and it's only a matter of time before she tells Sweets."
"Don't worry I'm going to figure out a deal with Hacker, so that we can be together and still work as partners."
"And how do you plan on doing that? Hacker is really serious about that FBI rule. I don't think he'll make an exception in our case. After all he wants to be with me."
"Bones could we go and get some grub; I've been waiting for you for an hour."
"Umm…Okay, and I'm sorry I was so late. Where do you want to go?"
"Ah…great, and Bones the grub thing just means food. And let's go over to the Royal Diner, I feel like a good burger, fries, and whatever type of pie they have."