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Chapter 37

Nunquam non paratus - Never unprepared

'I hope you're right about this Bones 'cos if you're not and I've just pulled three suspects in for no reason the Cullen is not going to be happy.'

'I am right. I'm sure of it. You have to admit, it makes sense.'

'Making sense doesn't amount to a conviction.'

'Just trust me on this one 'k'

'I do trust you I'm just a bit concerned that we don't have any real evidence, everything's circumstantial.'

'The Dragons Root isn't circumstantial.'

'We can't charge any of them with anything because of a root and you know it.'

'It doesn't matter anyway, they'll confess.'

'You don't know that.'

'Yes I do. It might have ended badly but they'll confess. They loved her Booth. They'll confess because at some point they all loved Tiffany Watson and one way or another she deserves the truth.'

The noise the chair made as Brennan dragged it across the hard floor seemed almost offensive in the silence of the interview room. Booth sat down next to her willing to let her take the lead on this one.

'Mr Watson?'

Andrew snapped his head up and looked at her.

'I just...I wanted to ask you why you only sent Tiffany to boarding school?'

Brennan reminded herself to breath. As cool and confident as she had been when explaining her theory to Booth she was suddenly beginning to see how weak her accusations were.

'Tiffany performed better at school; we didn't see the point of wasting money on Freya.'

'But you told us yourself that Freya was quiet bright when she applied herself.'

'Exactly, when she applied herself which wasn't very often.'

Brennan tried to collect her thoughts.

'When you were last questioned you mentioned that you can pin-point the night Freya first disappeared. She was seventeen at the time, is that right?'

'Yeah, we'd just come back from seeing Tiffany.'

'Tiffany was fifteen yes? Was there anything different about this trip?'

'Not that I can remember, we got there about lunch time, went for a walk around campus, went out to town for a while then we went back to Tiffany's dorm, got changed and went out for dinner. Then we came home.'

'When you went back to the dorm, were you all together.'

'Yeah mostly, from what I remember we got changed and then Lydia went to phone her mother to say we'd be back a little later than expected. Then we went for dinner.'

'And when Mrs Watson phone her mother, did Freya go with her?'

'Err I don't...yeah...yeah I think she did.'

'Right. So at dinner did things seem normal?'

'Yeah I think so. Look this was all a very long time ago, nearly three years. I fail to see what it has to do with...'

'Mr Watson I understand it was a long time ago but I need you to think very carefully and tell me this, at any point during that dinner were Tiffany and Freya alone together?'

The older man looked puzzled. He didn't see the relevance of any of this...of maybe he did.

'Yes, yes they went to the bathroom together. I remember because they were gone a while, their food had arrived and Lydia had to go get them.'

'And after that you went home and that was when Freya first started acting up and the next day when you talked to her she screamed at you, she told you you weren't her father and she hated you?'

'Yes.'

Brennan looked at the man, wanting more, knowing exactly what she wanted but knowing also that she needed more time, more evidence. Unable to pursue the one she was on she changed her line of questioning.

'Did you know Tiffany's friends Evelyn Lloyd and Hayley Peters?'

'No'

'Really, Hayley works in D.C now.'

'Maybe I met her then. Yes, I met Hayley but not Evie.'

'Evie?'

'Huh?'

'You called her Evie but I referred to her as Evelyn.'

The stuffy lawyer beside Andrew Watson jumped in with a hasty 'no comment' and Brennan moved on.

'Mr. Watson, why exactly don't you like Jason Howard?'

'You know why, I told you; he was no good for Tiffany.'

'But what made you come to that conclusion. Have you ever met him?'

His answer came out almost too quickly.

'No, no I haven't...I just...he sounded bad news and...'

'Who made him sound like bad news, Freya?'

'Well she didn't have a very high opinion of him either if that's what you're asking.'

'So you admit to seeing Freya in the weeks before her death?'

'What...no...I...'

'Correct me if I'm wrong Mr. Watson but you led us to believe that the last contact you had had with Freya was three weeks ago via her number being left on the answer machine. However we know this isn't true Mr Watson because your daughter has been dead for at least two months now.'

Andrew Watson had nothing to say.

'You also told us when first questioned on her disappearance that you'd spoken to Tiffany, also in that three week time frame, this is also impossible, Tiffany died a week after Freya which I'm pretty sure you knew so I have to ask myself, if you lied about something as important as that what else did you lie about and more importantly why did you lie in the first place?'

By now Mr Watson's lawyer was bouncing from the interview walls in an attempt to stop him client incriminating himself further but Temperance said nothing more, just stood up and coolly left the room leaving a confused Booth to follow her.

'Bones, what are you doing? He lied to us about having seen the girls, that's enough for us to hold him long enough to find more evidence and eventually charge him, why did you stop?'

'I don't want to charge him.'

'What? You've got to help me here Bones 'cos I'm a little confused. Don't we usually find the killer and then charge them with murder or have I missed something?'

'I don't want to charge him because he didn't kill anyone.'

'What? He... but if...then what he doing here? I don't get it.'

Temperance almost laughed at the utterly confounded expression on his face but didn't. There was still work to be done.'

'Come on Booth, I told you I'd solved the case and I have now are you coming or do you want to leave the killer sitting in there all day?'

He sighed and followed her into the second interview room, once again cursing the cases complicity. At least if she was right then it was over, they had their killer and they'd be going to prison for a very long time. Booth closed the door and turned to look at the person that had killed the girls in question and came face to face with...

Sorry I know that was evil but it should be too hard to work out now lol of course reviews will encourage me to divulge the truth quicker lol