Disclaimer: Nope, still not mine.
Booth almost drove off the road at what Sarah just announced. 61 dead and 14 possibly are? What kind of man could do that to all of those women?
"Booth, one of the places is close to where we are now. Think we should check it out?" Sarah asked.
As soon as he got the address, Booth turned on the siren and sped to the location. Once they arrived Brennan pulled out her big gun from her purse and Sarah laughed when she saw it.
"Wow, Bren. Loving the gun."
"Yeah, well, I'd prefer she didn't have a gun," Booth said before getting out the bullet proof vests and handing it to them.
"I shot someone who was about to set me on fire in the leg and then I killed the man that almost killed you and you still think I shouldn't have a gun?" Brennan defied him.
"Yup, and now you guys need to be careful. We don't know what's inside."
In front of them was an old warehouse. The door squeaked loudly as Booth pushed it open. While they couldn't see anything in the dark of the building, they could easily smell the smell of decomposing bodies. Turning on their flash lights, they quickly noticed two bodies, side by side. Brennan hurried over next to them.
"Both are female. One is an adolescent, around 5 through 7 years old. The other is in her late twenties. I'd guess they've been dead for a few months."
Sarah opened the journal to the page on these two. "Journal says its Laura and Megan Page. Laura is 28 and Megan is 6. The date is January 16th."
"Alright, so how about we get these bodies to the Jeffersonian and we get some more clues?" Booth asked, eager to get as many clues as possible to lead them to Tristan.
"Unless you can somehow manage to unlock these locks or get the pole out of the ground without damaging the bodies, you'll find that impossible," Brennan stated.
Sarah rushed over to the bodies and took a look at the locks, "Hey Bren, do you have a hairpin I could possibly use?"
"You can unlock the locks?" Booth asked, shocked.
Sarah smirked, "Well, when you wake up one morning to find you have been kidnapped by gang members and locked up, you better have a damn good way of getting yourself out fast before they come back and kill you."
Brennan took out a pin out of her hair and handed it over to Sarah. Immediately, she started working on the locks. Within seconds, both were off their victims and both Brennan and Booth were looking on in shock. Sarah was shocked by the fact that they were still surprised at all she knew.
"Ok, now we can get the bodies out of here," Sarah smiled, breaking the silence.
--One hour later—
"Everything so far is the same as Tristan wrote it in his book," Brennan sighed. "Why isn't there something else that tells us something we don't know?"
Brennan was so close to wanting to give up. There was absolutely no more evidence to help them with this case. Booth went to the other places Tristan murdered women, Hodgins, Cam, and Zach hadn't found anything surprising in the bodies, Sarah was looking to see if their family members were dead, and Angela was looking for the 14 other women that could possibly be alive. She hoped those women were alive, not just because they could give them potential evidence, but because she saw through Sarah, Leanne, Megan and Laura the torture they endured. Once Tristan was caught, those women could have a piece of mind that they won't be tortured by him ever again.
"Sarah, once we are done, I need to take you shopping," Angela said as she was pouring over the internet looking for any information on the women.
Sarah laughed, "Why?"
"Because, those clothes you are wearing are extremely worn and they probably fit a 5 year old better than you. Besides, I could use a shopping trip too."
"Well I don't think I could argue with that," she smiled. However she frowned when she clicked onto another internet page. "Angela, looks like Jared was right."
"What? Really?" Angela hurried over to Sarah and looked at what she had.
"All of Laura's family members are dead, including kids." She clicked on a few more links, and showed Angela pictures of their bodies before burial. She pointed at one of the bodies, "I think this one was given an injection that killed them instantly, or almost instantly. There's an indentation where the needle was inserted." She pointed at a second one. "This one was strangled to death. There is a light bruising around the neck, probably overlooked when the body was found."
"Oh my god," Angela gasped.
"I think I can also tell which ones were killed by Tristan and which ones were killed by Jared. Jared mentioned during the interrogation that he refused to kill the families with kids. The people who had kids all showed signs of strangulation, while the ones without kids show signs of a lethal injection."
"That is horrible! Who in their right minds could kill children?"
"Obviously my step-father," Sarah sighed. "What about you? Any of the other women alive?"
"So far four are dead, but seven are still alive. I'm going to give their addresses to Booth so he can talk to them as soon as I figure out what happened to the last three," she replied as she went back to her desk.
"Ok, I'll go tell Brennan what we got so far."
Sarah printed the information and then got up and walked to the door but before she could go through Angela quickly reminded her, "Remember, when we're done, shopping!"
"Don't worry, I won't forget."
Brennan was sitting at her desk in her office, going over a ton of files. Sarah knocked gently, and she looked up, "What do you two have?"
"So far, four of the women are dead, and seven of them are alive, and Angela is still looking for the last three. All of the family members of the victims are dead; Tristan strangled some of them, while Jared gave the rest lethal injections, probably the very same as the ones used for capital punishment."
"How did you know how the family members were killed and who killed them?" Brennan asked, confused. "Jared never said anything about that."
"That's the nice thing about the internet," Sarah smiled. "They got pictures of the bodies and with the other hints that Jared gave us, we got conformation. The family members of all Tristan's victims are all dead."
She handed the file to her and Brennan looked through it. "Wow, I guess it does make sense."
"Jared used a technique that killed the victims instantly, and probably used it while they were sleeping. He hated the fact he had to kill people just so his daughter would live, so he made his victims go through as little pain as possible." Brennan nodded at Sarah's thinking and Sarah continued. "Again as Jared said, Tristan loved to torture women. He also loved watching his victims in pain. I know that from personal experience. He probably strangled them in daylight and in front of their loved ones."
"This Tristan guy has to be some sick bastard," Angela stated as she walked in the room with another file which she handed to Bren. "The other three women are alive and well. I figured to let you call Booth with the news."
"Thanks Ange, I will."
Angela grabbed Sarah's arm as Bren reached for her phone to call Booth. The two started to talk about how many awesome outfits they thought they'd be able to find. They were just about out the door when they were stopped by Dr. Goodman.
"Miss Montenegro, where do you think you are going?"
She smiled, "Shopping." When he gave her a slight glare, she gave him an explanation, "Until Booth comes back with more bodies, we aren't needed. Besides, Sarah desperately needs new clothes."
He rolled his eyes and laughed, "Women always find their excuses to go shopping. Fine!"
They laughed and continued on their way. Once they were in the car, Angela immediately asked, "Anything happen with Booth and Brennan yet? I haven't been able to get anything from Bren yet, minus the fact she seems kinda happier."
"Well," Sarah tried to drag it out, just to torture Angela.
"Oh, come on! You're a girl, and you know how a girl has to have her juicy gossip."
"Ok, ok. Well, tonight I'm going to stay the night with Booth in Parker's room. Bren, I think, could be staying over too."
"How far away is Parker's room from Booth's room?"
"Well, I haven't been there yet, but from what I overheard them saying, Parker's room is on the other side of the apartment."
"Fantastic!"
"What?"
"It means they might sleep together," Angela said with an evil smile.
"Angela!" Sarah gasped.
"What? I've been trying to get them together for over two years! I need you to get me all the juicy details, because I know Bren won't!"
"ANGELA! ARE YOU TRYING TO TRAUMATIZE ME FOR LIFE?" Sarah almost screamed, but had a hard time because she was practically laughing. "I'm only ten and you're trying to get me to watch them? That's gross!"
"Dang it," Angela snapped her fingers in mock disappointment. "Well at least you gotta be able to tell me if they actually did it."
Sarah rolled her eyes and gave in. "Fine, but I might not be able to."
"Why not?"
"Because, they might wait a few hours to make sure I'm sleeping before they actually do it. I might be able to last about an hour before falling asleep but that's about it."
"Well, we might be able to figure out in the morning," Angela thought. She began telling Sarah all the signs that she should look for in the morning between the two.
--Five hours later--
Angela's phone rang as they were just walking out of the store, their arms almost completely covered in bags. Angela tried to reach for her phone but almost dropped half of her bags. Sarah managed to get it for her and handed it to her. It was Brennan. She put it on speaker phone.
"Hey sweetie, how's it going back at the lab?"
"Booth arrived with about 20 of the bodies; we need you to come back for facial reconstruction."
"Don't worry; we just walked out the door 20 seconds ago. We're on our way back."
Sarah glanced behind her and what she saw made her whisper, "Oh crap."
"What's wrong?"
"Bren, I need everyone on your end to be as quiet as possible. Angela, I need you not to freak out and not to look behind you. Tristan is following us," Sarah said loud enough for Brennan and the squints to hear, but quiet enough so Tristan didn't hear a word.
The car finally came into view and Sarah said again quietly, "When I get to three, I need you to run as fast as you possibly can to the car. If you can, go around other cars so if he has a gun, he might not hit you."
At the lab, everyone was standing still with looks of pure horror on their faces. They did as Sarah told them to and stayed quiet, and they listened to every word that was said.
"1…2…" Sarah couldn't even get to three before the sound of gun shots and screams filled the room.
