Yo guys, Ted here with chapter 8. Yay! I'm really sleep deprived right now. I just wanted to point out that in the author's note in the last chapter I said Christine was born in season 3 and Hank in season 10 but I meant season 7 and 11 but it won't let me correct it on here.


Chapter 8


No One's P.O.V.

There was a knock on Brennan's office door, as she looked up Angela entered the room. "Hey sweetie," she started "I found something that I think you're gonna want to see." And with that, the two set off to Angela's office, where they met Cam, Hodgins, and Booth inside. Booth, who everyone in the room could tell was clearly still agitated with his encounter not too long ago, stood stoically with a crease in his brow. "Can we get on with it?" he grumbled.

Angela responded with a nod and proceeded to tell the team what she found before playing the video. "I found this posted on by a bystander who was part of the parade." She let the video do the rest of the explaining for her. The video wasn't the best quality, but it showed the event clearly enough, the person filming was also close to the action. There was a young woman in a motorized wheelchair, attached to which was a medium sized gay pride flag, she appeared to have cerebral palsy, Brennan noted. She was being harassed by 3 teenage boys, the sound quality wasn't that good so it was difficult to make out what was being said as Angela hadn't had the chance to enhance it at all yet. It appeared that whoever she was with was trying to defend her and get the boys to leave them alone, but they wouldn't.

It was quickly right after that that they were able to hear someone intervening in the situation. It was their victim, Leo. He had marched right up to the boys and separated them from the woman, and he calmly took hold of the situation, scolding them getting them to leave the people alone. The situation soon escalated and turned into a screaming match between the boys, Leo, and a few others when the boys ganged up on Leo and one of them suddenly landed a punch into his stomach, and a fight broke out. The fight quickly became exactly how Brennan said it would've, all the blows landing in the exact same place she pointed out earlier in the case.

The fight ended though, when cops who had been patrolling the area had pulled the boys off and took them away, leaving Leo curled on the ground, and that was where the video promptly ended.

The team stood in shock at what they had just witnessed, this person had actually caught what was their victim's death on film. They all silently wondered if anyone had realized it though. They all knew without question that this is officially considered a hate crime.

They were going to have to track this person down and also find those boys who had attacked him. They all stood in place though. No one had moved. There were plenty other people they were going to have to find as well. This was a big event at which many people attended. All those people were witnesses, and all those people were suspects, because

…...They still don't know who poisoned him.


Booth informed Aubrey and Caroline about this new information so that they could start meeting with witnesses to find out if they saw anything beforehand that could've led to the poisoning, and also so Caroline could get a warrant for the arrest of the boys who attacked Leo. In the meantime, Booth was on his way to the hotel that he was informed Leo's family was staying at for the time being.

He got their room number and took the hotel's elevator up to talk to them. When he reached the door and knocked on it, it was opened and he was greeted by young woman that looked to be about 22. She had clearly been crying, as she still had tear tracks on her cheeks and her eyes were rimmed red. 'This must be his sister' Booth thought. He introduced himself as the FBI agent investigating her brother's case and got her name in response, her name was Audrey. Unlike the rest of her family she had long, wavy dirty blonde hair and bright blue eyes. If it weren't for the freckles littering her face, and the few features that resembled her parents, Booth would've thought she wasn't related at all.

She invited him in and he realized it was just her that was in the hotel room. "Did you find out what happened to my brother?" Audrey asked as she tried to compose herself. Booth looked at the girl in front of him, her grief so fresh, so couldn't have known for long, not as long as her parents did. He let out a breath of air "We found a video posted online of a conflict that your brother was involved in. Were you aware that your brother had gone to the pride parade?" She nodded her head in response, not trusting her voice at the moment. "Were you there with him?" Booth asked, and this time she shook her head no.

Booth sighed yet again. "Well this conflict that Leo was in. It has been classified as a hate crime as there were 3 boys that had been previously harassing someone else, and when Leo had jumped in they began to harass him, attacking him to the point of his death." Booth hadn't wanted it to sound so formal. So emotionless. He wanted to sugarcoat it more but she had to know how it went down and it all just came out. There was a brief moment of silence between the two as Aubrey processed the information that was just given, before she began sobbing once again. Her knees locked and luckily Booth caught her before she fell to the floor. Together the sunk to the ground as Booth held the sobbing girl while trying to maintain as professional as possible.

They remained there for a good half hour before the crying finally stopped and Audrey tried to regain composure once again. And at that point, Booth had to continue doing his job and go back to asking her questions. "I hate that I have to ask this," he started "but is there anyone in particular that might have had something against Leo? Any reason at all that they might want to poison him?"

Audrey looked up from wiping her tears, shocked. "Poisoned?" she said, surprised. "But you just said that he was beat to death." Booth silently cursed himself for forgetting to tell her one of the most crucial pieces of information. "He was beat to death, yes," he tried to correct himself "but a team of forensic scientists that are examining your brother's body also found traces of an impromptu household poisonous chemical that he had ingested. Is there anyone that could have done that to him?" He asked softly.

Audrey began to shake her head. "No, I can't think of anyone off the top of my-." She was interrupted as the door was unlocked and began to open. Her eyes suddenly filled with rage as she stood up.

"You..."


Sorry for the cliffhanger guys. Also sorry for the delay in posting. I had to deal with chores and fleas and that kinda stuff. I've also been having writers block, which is why this chapter is the way it is and was left on a cliffhanger. When I'm writing on a writer's block I tend to get kinda dramatic. IDK if I'll be posting tomorrow but the next chapter will be up soon. We're slowly gearing up towards the end of this so yeah.

So, until next time, peace

-Ted