CHAPTER TEN! YAYYYYY! ALMOST TO THE END! ENJOY!
Chapter Ten: Three French Hens
"Dr. Brennan! Agent Booth!" Cam said, coming down the steps of the Lab. "Merry Christmas!"
"Actually, it's not quite Christmas yet." Brennan said, making Cam smile.
"I know, but all my relatives have been sending me and Michelle Christmas cards and I can't believe how big my baby cousins are getting! Look at this one!" She shoved a photo of three little girls dressed in fathered dresses, red bows, and berets on their heads. The caption on the card read 'Have a Wonderful Holiday! Love Thomas, Mary, Ashley, Carmen, and Susie. "Those are my cousin, Mary's little girls. Ashley is six and Carmen and Susie are both four! They're 'french hens'! Aren't they adorable?"
Booth and Brennan smiled at each other. "Cam...how much eggnog have you had?" Booth asked.
"None at all!" Cam said, looking appalled. "I run a working lab, Booth! I wouldn't be drinking during work hours!"
"Well, technically, it's not work hours. It's after hours but we're here late because of some remains that just came in. Where are they, by the way?" Brennan asked.
Cam pointed to the platform where a body lay, mutilated beyond recognition. "It's too decomposed for me, but from what I could see, there are striations around the neck, which fit since the victim was found hanging from a pipe in a basement, but everybody in the household was accounted for, as were everybody on the street, so nobody knows who this person is. That's why we need you."
"How could a body have decomposed so much without anybody noticing?" Brennan asked.
"The owners of the house said that they've been away for months and that they had their neighbors visit the house regularly to keep the temperature at a prime so that it would be warm when they came back in the Winter, so the decomposition was somewhat helped by that, especially since it was right next to the furnace."
Brennan nodded, looking over the body. "Victim is male. Approximately 30-40 years of age. Neck is broken in two places, suggesting suicide."
Booth wrote everything she said down. "How does that suggest suicide?"
"When somebody commits suicide, they tend to fall straight down and then bounce a bit, causing the neck to sometimes break in two places. He didn't die instantaneously, either. It took him about 35-60 seconds to stop breathing, and another 10 to lose consciousness. Then another 5 for his heart to stop."
"I know that but what I'm curious about is who is he and how bad his life was to have ended it so dramatically, in the home of somebody he probably didn't even know." Cam said, hands on her hips, her giddiness from before completely gone.
"That's what he's here to figure out." Brennan said motioning to Booth, and shooting him a small smile.
Booth grinned. "I'm on it, Bones." He winked and made his way out of the Jeffersonian to search the database for a match to the victim.
Aww! How cute! They're acting like their old selves again and Cam is drunk! XD FOUR MORE DAYS! So excited! PLEASE REVIEW!