I'm back, and I'm not going to lie this is quite an excerise in writing, but the good news is that I have managed to finish season one, and will be moving on to season two shortly. Thank you for being patient with me I hopefully will be able to update a little more regularly with the rest of them, but who knows I have to write them when my muse strikes.
This is from Samantha Pickerings point of view she was the annoying agent sent from the State department that no one but Hodgins wanted to talk to. Enjoy.
1.11 – The Woman in the Car – Samantha Pickering
I was sent on a security review to the Jeffersonian Medico-Legal lab to interview Dr. Brennan and her team with the exception of Dr. Hodgins. It was also requested that I interview Dr. Goodman the head of the institution. There is nothing complicated about the process and it should not have taken very long or been very difficult, all I needed to do was clarify a few quick questions that the State Department had concerning their pasts and their demeanors and then they would be free to continue about their business. They however made this the most difficult review I have ever performed.
None of them really wanted to talk to me with the exception of the artist who babbled on about anything she found relevant, it did make it clear that she was committed to working there no matter how "ambivalent" she tried to seem. The rest of them were confrontational and evasive on the subjects I was trying to question them on. When I finally got to Dr. Brennan she didn't even answer the first question, rather she asked what my security clearance was and when I wouldn't tell her she picked up the phone and called the Secretary of State herself, which resulted in the review being terminated. Meaning that I'd wasted a whole day in this lab questioning some of the least cooperative people that I had ever met.
The day did allow me to watch the teamwork on the case that they were working on with an FBI agent; my paper work told me that it was most likely Special Agent Seeley Booth. He and Dr. Brennan seemed to get along fairly well, for the most part at least, they were both so focused on the case because it meant finding a little boy that had been taken after his mother was murdered, and I almost felt bad for interrupting, almost.
They were an interesting pair to watch, they seemed to be at complete odds with each other at all times and yet they were working in perfect sync. At one point, I witnessed him classifying the kidnappers as professionals that don't care for the harm that they inflict. She was hurt by that, telling him calmly that she too was a professional and worked better if she didn't see the missing child while working, if she just focused on information in front of her. She insisted that it meant she didn't care any less; it was easier for her to work that way. He relented telling her he knows that and he knows that she cares he just hates these people for taking a child, she seemed to except that and went back to working.
I was sitting in her office waiting for someone to come and destroy my notes when he said that they had found the kid. She didn't even blink just jumped out of her chair and grabbed her coat so that she could follow him. Well they were a team when it came to their work, he was taking her into a highly dangerous situation despite the fact that she had no training for such situations; at least she didn't according to her resume.
I was finally leaving the building when they came walking back in hours later, they found the kid alive. I could tell from their demeanor they were calmer and more relaxed than they had been the entire time I had been there. The most bizarre crime-fighting unit I had come across in all my years, but they were effective and that is what is important.
