So, just a quick note. I will be completing this chapter tonight and tomorrow when I have a spare/lunch at school; I'll try and finish the last part to 'Hello, my love. Honestly, real life got in the way of completing that episode and I'm still just over half-way through the chapter. 'I'm up to 8000+ words so far! This is why it's taking so long, I tend to only write about 3000-5000 words a day and expand the date of when it's finished. I'm sorry for the people who are into that story, I'm not exactly one of those people who can continue to write a 15,000 word episode in one day, I'd mostly get writers block and lose interest Farley quickly if I tried.
Character actor/Actress look-alike:
Leah Laura Marano
Alice Lily Collins
Daniel Josh Hutchinson
Bones Fanfic |Ghost in the Moonlight | Your here?
"Daniel?" Leah choked out, she couldn't believe who was standing in front of her, and he looked exactly like he did days before he died in her arms.
He smiled at her, almost shyly as his hands were in his jean pockets, "Hey,"
Leah finally shook herself from shock and jumped into his arms, he instantly wrapped his muscled arms around her body. His face was buried in her neck and both of them cried in relief of finding each other. Each of them has been on the other side all alone and they didn't know why they were able to see each other now but they didn't care at the moment, they were both too busy relishing in the enjoyment of finally not being all alone where no one could hear your screams.
When they finally pulled back they both wore beaming smiles of relief.
"I missed you so much." Leah told him with a watery smile. For the first time in a couple of days she's happy for the moment, she knew it wouldn't last though. Mostly because of the fact that they were dead.
Daniel nodded, feeling just as emotional. He had felt a tug a couple of days back, feeling something familiar and it wasn't until now he knew what it was, he had followed Alice and Rebecca the whole time. He hadn't found out Leah was truly missing until he noticed Alice had tried to call her almost a hundred times a day. He didn't even know where to look, he had gone to see how his older brother was doing for a couple of days and the last time he had seen Leah was when she was planning to go see her Cousin Seeley about everything they had seen, give him everything they had found out on the person who had killed both himself and her family. But now, it seems like she was never lost at all but stuck just like him.
An hour later they hand walked in silence holding hands to sit by a river; they sat on one of the barriers that separate the water from the pavement which was the small brick wall that stopped little kids from trying to jump in.
They sat there facing each other, each of them played with their partners hand wondering what to speak about. For both of them it's been over a year since they had truly seen each other, Daniel had died just months before Leah did.
"How long have you been here?" Daniel asked, finally breaking the silence. He silently hoped that it wasn't long that she's had to endure the torment like he had; maybe they would be able to stay with each other now. Fulfil their unfinished business together and with luck they could move on to heaven, if there was such a thing.
Leah sniffed, finally controlling her emotions. "A couple weeks, I think." She told him, "It looks like I woke up when my body was being examined." She looked up, remembering everything she had found out within the first few days about her own murder and how she felt when she found out that the bones in the lab were hers. She looked away to the side so she couldn't look him in the face while she explained, "I didn't even know I was dead until everyone at the Jeffersonian that was in charge of finding out what happened to me mentioned all the wounds." A tear fell down her face and he used his thumb to rub it away, "I started to get flashes and all the pain came running back."
Daniel nodded, understanding. It was the same thing that happened to him, except the people finding his body part. He knew that Leah had given him a nice burial, he had no official family left and he probably would have been disposed of if his body was found by the person they were running from. There was his older brother, but he doesn't even come around anymore and ever since he got out of high school he'd only come about once a year if begged. Daniel had wanted to keep him out of it, even though they had never really got along most of the time when they got older. "I came back a couple of weeks before you went missing." He admitted, he shook his head, "I didn't even find hear about you going missing until your sister tried calling your phone hundreds of time. I tried to find you but I had no idea where you were." He looked up at her, "He got you didn't he?"
Leah nodded, "Yeah," She choked in another sob, "He came the night me and Alice were supposed to slip up for a couple of days, I gave her a head start and said I would keep him away from her long enough for her to get away with Rebecca. She would travel west to the next town on our list and I would have gone to see Seeley the next day," She let out a sarcastic laugh, "That went well, huh? I had to die just to get Seeley interested in him."
For hours they just talked and talked, it was just them and nothing would have interrupted them because no one even could. Each of them had shared their stories; Daniel's were mostly of what it was like on the other side and seeing his older brother again. For Leah it was telling him stories about Alice and Rebecca when he wasn't there but she also mentioned everything that had happened since she had woken up in the lab. During that time they had sat just holding each other on the wall, watching at the sun had set and risen above the city. They felt like they were the only people in the world and everything just fell away.
3rd Person (No Leah + Daniel)
Booth walked into the lab the next morning, determined to find out about this secret boyfriend of Leah's that he knew nothing about.
He went into Angela's office and saw she was on the computer; he had no idea what she was doing though and he still had no clue about what 'The Ladybird' meant. He had stayed up most of the night, tossing and turning trying to figure it out but nothing was coming up in his mind.
"Angela?" He called out, gaining her full attention. "I need you to run a facial recognition, for this guy." He gave her the photo he had taken from Leah's room the other day. It was the picture that had 'Daniel' wrapping his arms around Leah and smiling down at the baby girl with her.
"Awww," Angela couldn't help but comment, "They are so cute." She whispered to herself, knowing that if none of this had happened to Leah's family and possibly this Daniel then they would have been the perfect family in a couple of years down the road, even despite being teenagers at the time.
Booth nodded, she was right through but it would never be like that again. Rebecca would probably be an orphan even with Alice taking care of her; she would have lost both her mom and dad if what Alice was saying about Daniel was true. That her suspicion that he was also dead was true, he needed to make sure. Part of him was hoping that this Daniel had just skipped away from them and left them to deal with it, but the picture told him different. The picture told him that this kid loved Leah and would have been a great father to Rebecca, it told him that this boy would have jumped in front of a bullet for them, that was true love and it was unbreakable. "I think his name is Daniel, at least that's was I got from Alice if we're talking about the right boy here."
Angela nodded and scanned the picture; it only took a couple of minute for the computer to ping telling her that something had been found. She looked it over and sighed in sadness, "Oh," Her shoulders were slumped.
"What is it?" Booth asked, not liking the expression that Angela wore. She only wore it when something was truly bad.
Angela glanced up at him, "There's a Daniel Morrison, age 19. The same year as Leah was, graduated the same year too and he lives just houses away from Leah did." Her face then turned to sadness once again, "He's missing, Booth." She stated.
"Someone filed a missing report?" He questioned, wondering if this person had noticed anything about Daniel and Leah the days before the disappearance.
Angela nodded, reading from the screen, "It was his older brother. He had called home several times and never got an answer, which he found strange because they always answered their phones. Apparently he found his parents bodies lying on the floor with two bullet holes in their chests. Daniel disappeared the same time as Leah." She looked at the date of deaths, "Both Leah's parents and Daniel's were killed in the same hour by the looks of it, and it was like someone was trying to send a message to them."
"So he's another victim." Booth summarized, remembering how Leah's parents were killed. They too, had been shot in the heart twice with what seemed to be the same calibre.
"Booth," Angela said, getting his attention, "I don't exactly want to jump to conclusions, especially this one but if Alice said that Leah had told her that Daniel wasn't coming back then maybe-"
"Maybe he never made it either and Leah hid his body or buried it herself." Booth muttered, if that had happened he had no idea how they were going to find his body, it could be anywhere. He ran a tired hand over his face.
Angela looked at him in concern, his years were starting to show, "You okay?" She asked.
He shook his head, "No," He admitted, "I have no idea what Leah had gotten herself into and I feel like the girl I knew a couple of years ago is just a stranger now."
"Maybe you could ask Leah's ghost," Angela suggested with a shrug of her shoulder. He looked at her slightly confused, "You said it yourself Booth, you have no idea what the next clue is and we have no idea where Daniel's body is. Maybe her ghost could tell us."
Booth sighed, it was a good idea. If it would actually work again, "Maybe," He told her, "But I need to interrogate the brother as well before that happens." With that he left the office to go collect Daniel's brother.
FBI
Booth sat across the table from Matthew Morrison, the older brother of Daniel Morrison. He leant forwards on his elbows, "Can you explain to me, everything that happened the days leading up to your parents being found dead and your little brother being posted as missing."
Matthew nodded, even though he wasn't close to his family he still needed to know what had happened. He had even gone to extreme lengths to look for his little brother, he hadn't even stopped, "I don't talk to my family much," He admitted, they would find out eventually anyway, "I would hardly ever come home unless they begged me but I got a phone call the day I left to go see them, I just knew something had happened."
"What do you mean?" Booth narrowed his eyes; he hadn't said anything to the police. Matthew took out his mobile phone, he had kept his brothers message the whole time so he slid it over to Booth. Booth picked it up, "Why are you giving me this?"
Matthew pointed at it in sadness, "My little brother, he left a message on it the day before I reported him missing. It was the first time he had called me since I was told that he had a daughter." He smiled slightly, "He sent me a picture of her and she was beautiful, I went down there a couple of days after to see my niece before I came back." He nodded toward the phone silently telling him to play it.
Booth pressed the play button on the phone and Daniel's voice came out of the speaker, "Matt, it's me Daniel. I know we haven't spoken in a while, since Rebecca's birth actually but I just needed to hear your voice. I can't tell you anything but I just wanted to let you know that I love you, even if we've never been close since we were little I just needed you to know that." There was a moment of silence before he spoke again. "Me and Leah saw something Matt, something bad and now we have a target on our back and we needed to get out of dodge. He's already done something to us that we saw for ourselves, something I'm sure you'll see if you come down to the house. Listen, he won't come after you and I don't think he ever will, I told him you were dead and Leah falsified your records. I'm sorry but it was the only way to keep you safe, just keep your head down and don't bring any attention to yourself." Booth and Matthew heard a sniff on the other side, "This will probably be the last time you hear my voice so I'm sorry, bye." The call ended there.
"Do you know who was after them?" Booth asked, looking over at Matthew who was still looking at the phone hoping for his little brothers voice to be real.
"No." Matthew shook his head, he never could have figured it out, "I tried to find out but there was nothing. My brother was a quarterback and Leah was a school nerd, they didn't get into bad business," He still found it hard to believe, he shrugged honestly not having an answer to give, "Whatever it was, they must have stumbled upon it, the never would have been stupid to risk their loved one's lives especially with baby Rebecca just being born."
Booth looked him over, as if trying to sense if he was lying or not but he could see that Daniel's brother honestly knew nothing. With a sighed he nodded, "Thank you for your time, you're free to go," He held up the phone, "I'll have to keep the phone though and give it to the lab and see if they can find anything."
Matthew nodded, "If there's anything I can do-"
"-I'll let you know." Booth finished off his sentence. Mathew nodded and walked out leaving a stumped Booth wondering what to do next.
BOOTH APARTMENT
Booth had grabbed the spirit board from Hodgins on his way home from the FBI; he had spent all day trying to find something that was useful and something that would help him to find actual help to catch the killer.
After grabbing a glass of milk and chugging it down he set up the board on his small table, after taking a deep breath he placed his hands on the board, "Leah?" He called out, feeling a little more stupid than before. "Daniel?" He even tried
Across town Leah felt a pull on her body while she was still wrapped in Daniel's arms. Suddenly, Daniel felt the same thing which caused both of them to look at each other in question. "What is that?" Daniel asked.
Leah remembered when Seeley had tried to contact her before about the location of where her little sister and daughter were, "I think someone's calling us." She told him, she seemed to look as shocked as he did, "Seeley called me a couple of days ago asking about Alice and Rebeca, he needed to talk to her and I was the only one to know where she was."
"Should we go?" Daniel questioned, not really wanting to go just yet.
Leah sighed and rested her head on his chest, "Yeah, it might be Seeley again. He must know about you now as he's trying to call you too." Daniel nodded and they both closed their eyes, directing them towards the pull.
They landed hand in hand in Seeley's apartment; they saw him sitting by a small table where a spirit board was. "Leah?" He called out again, feeling it was hopeless, "Please tell me you're here, I need to ask something."
Leah looked back at Daniel who nodded at her encouragingly; she walked forwards and moved the dial to, 'Yes'. She saw Seeley smile at that.
Seeley nodded and started to explain, "Okay, so I looked up Daniel. He supposed to be missing but when I went to see you sister she said that he wasn't coming back. Is he dead too?" He dreaded to ask.
Leah sighed and rubbed Daniel's hand in comfort, she moved the dial again towards the 'Yes'.
Booth let the sadness fill his face, knowing that he had to now ask where his body was so he could let Daniel's brother know what had happened. "I need to know where you buried him, Leah." He confessed, "If the same guy, who killed you, killed Daniel too. There might be something on his body that we could use to find the killer."
Leah looked back at Daniel as if wanting confirmation on whether to tell her cousin or not, but he nodded telling her it was ok. Leah moved the dial around the keyboard and Seeley spelled it out, while figuring out what it was saying, "38°56'06.9"N 77°07'09.8"W"
Seeley nodded, "I'll find out who did this to you both, Leah." He promised, writing down the coordinates as she had told him. Leah and Daniel disappeared hand in hand leaving Booth to run toward the phone to call the Jeffersonian.
Note: So, I am going to stop it there. I hope you guys like the new update and I am literally dead tired right now finishing this note. Hopefully I'll be able to finish 'Hello, my love's new chapter tomorrow, if not it'll be Tuesday night. I'm not going to promise anything anymore because I can never seem to keep it when it comes to writing new chapters. Review, Fav and follow ect. You know the drill…
