Author Note: Hi guys, so I'm trying my hardest to keep updating, and I'm sorry it's taking so long, but my school play just ended so I will hopefully have more time to write. But What I wanted to say here was that if you haven't yet, could you please take a minute to look at the cover art for this story. If you are reading this on your phone and are unable I will try and find away to link the picture in as well because it is very important to me that you all see the picture. I drew it one day out of boredom as just a simple piece of fan art in which I was hugging Zack Addy. But the more I looked at it, the more I realized there could be a great story made out of what was going on in the image. The image is a picture of "Catherine" or myself hugging Zack, who is in his white pajama outfit and black gloves from when he breaks out of the hospital in season 4 episode 4. Although this scene will come later in the story it was the inspiration for the entire ordeal, so it is very important to me that people see it. To me at least, there is a lot of meaning and emotion to it and I would really love to share that with all of you. That's all, I love you all, and I hope you are enjoying the story so far. Sorry not sorry that it's basically a mini novel and I'm no where near done.
~a couple weeks later~
We all sat in Dr. Goodman's office as he informed us that our newest set of remains would be priority number one. Apparently the plane crash victims that had arrived at the lab earlier this morning were communist Chinese diplomats. There were 6 victims and only 5 registered people meant to be on the plane, so we were meant to figure out the extra person's identity as fast as was physically possible. Dr. Brennan disagreed saying we should worry about the seventh victim found at the crash site, that was not part of the crash, and actually a completely separate murder victim. Goodman denied her request with his scary boss voice which I still wasn't used to. Brennan stomped out of the office, angry that she didn't get her way.
The rest of us left shortly after. I went with Hodgins to work on the case, but there really wasn't much the worlds of entomology or botany could do for the crash victims so we played a very little part in the current investigation. My new mentor had me spend my time cataloging any and all noticeable fibers left on the victims or brought from the scene. Which usually would have made me angry to be given such a remedial task, but I actually enjoyed the simplistic busy work. I was in the middle of examining a piece of something, I hadn't figured it out yet, when Angela and Zack came over to the station Hodgins and I were sat at.
"We're going to go brief Brennan on our findings so far, come on" Angela said briefly before turning and walking toward the bone room. We all followed her, Zack and I walked close to each other a little behind Hodgins. We entered the room to see Dr. Brennan hunched over what looked like a vertebrae.
"We've made some progress on the mystery passenger" Angela stated with her usual playful tone.
"Fill me in" Brennan replied with an obvious lack of attention.
"Nasal ridges indicate she was a Caucasoid female approximately five feet ten inches. Epiphyseal fusion puts her age somewhere between 20-25" Zack presented plainly. I really did love it when he talked technical like that.
"So far we've only found particulates from the plane or their clothing. Nothing to indicate fowl play." I added our findings briefly.
"I've got a theory" Angela threw out.
"femme fatale assassin" Hodgins added and we all ignored his absurd theory.
"unregistered flight attendant" Zack stated innocently.
"Young beautiful girl, doesn't appear on the in flight manifest. Group of high powered politicos" the end of her sentenced carried a tone of mischief.
"ohhh" Hodgins chuckled getting the message Angela was trying to project.
"wait what, what?" Zack was obviously confused. I patted his shoulder and shook my head laughing quietly to myself.
"Someone on that flight might have been doing his daughter's or his girlfriend a favor" Brennan speculated still not paying much attention to anything outside of the bone fragment that sat on the table.
"You're so sweet honey, you really are" Angela laughed.
Zack's eye brows raised and I could see he finally understood what Angela was insinuating "Ohhhhh. You think she was the 'in flight entertainment'" he directed the statement at Angela with a look and we all rolled our eyes at the simple genius that was Zack Addy. I laughed and he looked back at me still confused.
"Anything you want to tell us about the bone bits you care about?" Angela asked Brennan finally pointing out the strange vertebrae which obviously did not belong to one of the crash victims.
"Supraorbital margins rounded, suggesting a male." Zack stated looking at pictures of a different fragment on one of the screens.
"Yes and there are signs of osteolytic liping or polish on this piece of vertebrae." Brennan said in her usual monotone.
"Arthritis" I stated simply to clarify to Angela who obviously was confused at the technical speak.
"So middle aged guy?" She added with a more serious tone then usual.
"Weathering and discoloration suggests these bones have been out there for approximately five years." She finally looked up at us all "I'm going to ask you all to help me on this"
"You mean after the Communist thing?" Angela asked even though she already knew the answer.
"No immediately"
"I'm in" Hodgins stated.
"You want us to defy Dr. Goodman?" I asked remembering his tone from before and how adamant he had been about the priority of this case.
"I'm in" Hodgins said again, slightly louder.
"Not defy per say, do both jobs but keep one a secret." she smiled as she talked. She was not very good at being 'mischievous'.
"I'm in!" Hodgins exclaimed louder this time.
"We get it, you're a rebel" Angela stated rolling her eyes.
"Zack, I need you to analyze the cuts on the bone."
Zack paused before turning back to his superior hesitantly, "I was kinda hoping to keep my job"
I made myself small trying to stay out of being assigned a task as well. I also didn't really feel like loosing my job this early in my carrier.
Angela pulled the tray of fragments in front of her "There's not enough skull here for me to do a reconstruction"
"If I gave you a picture, you could tell me if the skull piece doesn't match?"
"I could construct a schematic and see if the shard fit the general shape of the skull, if I had a picture"
"Has anyone noticed that I was the first to offer help and apparently I'm useless?" Hodgins added annoyed as Brennan passed a photo to Angela.
"Not true. You're the one who's going to keep Goodman from finding out." Brennan said with a smile.
"I'm in" Hodgins repeated proud to be part of the rule breaking.
"Catherine, you work the case as usual while other people deal with this." Brennan said to me as people began to file out of the room. I nodded and exited. Wait, what did that mean. There's nothing really in my department to do for this case. Unless she meant to do other people's work. But I don't know how to do other peoples work. Crap. I hate breaking the rules
Author Note: sorry if this chapter was a little boring. I really like this episode so I wanted to do a couple chapters on it, and this scene is kind of essential to the plot no matter how boring and just copying straight from the script it is. Also just going to throw in here just to be safe. I do not own Bones or most of the dialogue used in this chapter. I embellished bits and added Catherine in to the story but other then that if you just watch this scene in the episode you'll get the gist a whole lot fast. It's really not that different. Once again, sorry for the weird filler chapter but it was necessary to progress the plot. And I'm trying my hardest to write new chapters. I'm on a holiday break right now so hopefully I'll be able to post a couple more chapter before school starts again but after that it might be a little while before I can post again.