(After 'The Secret in the Siege')

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Tired, Booth followed Brennan to the front door carrying a sleeping Christine in his arms. The street was quiet as it should be at two in the morning and that was fine with Booth. After his partner had opened the door and stepped inside, he entered the house and closed and locked the door behind him. Carrying the child through the living room, he followed Brennan down the hallway to their child's bedroom. Once Christine was in bed, Brennan stood staring at her baby and Booth wondered what was going through her mind.

"Are you okay, Bones?"

Leaving her child, Brennan moved across the room and placed her arms around her lover. After kissing him, she moved away. "I'm just tired. We need to get some sleep. I have to be back at the Lab at nine and you have that meeting with Fairburn at eight."

After he turned the baby monitor on, Booth followed Brennan across the hallway to their bedroom. "Pat Ross was picked up by Harris at five this afternoon. He was mirandized and Harris made sure he got dinner. Ross is in lock up and I plan to talk to him after my meeting with Fairburn. Harris said he was picked up at the airport. He must have found out about the activity at the house."

"Probably one of his former neighbors." Brennan removed a t-shirt and shorts from the dresser and carried them into the bathroom so she could take a quick shower. "I can't help you interview him. We have eleven bodies at the Lab that need to be examined. Six of them are mostly bones with some flesh attached. Dr. Edison and Mr. Bray will be helping process the bodies. Cam has approved the overtime."

"Good . . . Good." Booth stripped down to his boxers and laid down on their bed. "We can't make any mistakes. Ross has to answer for what he's done." Booth closed his eyes. "I called Mrs. Moore. She'll be here at seven to watch Christine for the day. That way we don't have to worry about taking her to or from Day Care. Mrs. Moore said she can babysit as long as we need her to."

Brennan appreciated having a neighbor they could rely upon. "Jared said he's available for baby sitting duties, but he and Padme do have jobs. Mrs. Moore is our best choice."

"Yeah, she is." Almost asleep, Booth shifted his body trying to relax and soon fell asleep.

After her shower was done, Brennan entered the room and smiled at her mate. "You really should have a blanket covering you." Retrieving one from the closet, she covered Booth then joined him in bed. Closing her eyes, she knew that work at the Lab was going to be arduous for the next few days but with eleven bodies to examine, she knew that what she was doing was important.

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Fairburn listened closely to Booth's report and jotted down a few notes he'd need later when he had his meeting with the Director. "Eleven bodies, seven in the woods across the street from Pat Ross' house and four bodies buried in the back yard. How in the world did he manage to bury bodies and his neighbors didn't notice? I mean the smell from the bodies should have been a clue."

Shrugging his shoulders, Booth wished he had a definitive answer. "I'm going to interview Ross in an hour. That's one of the questions I plan to ask . . . He hasn't said a word since he was arrested, so I don't think we're going to get a confession from him . . . I'm going to try, but it's better for him if he doesn't say anything. I have agents interviewing his neighbors right now. Harris is interviewing the man's ex-wife and plans to talk to his daughter afterward."

"Alright." Fairburn made a few more notes. "I want to observe the interview with Ross this afternoon. Call me and remind me before you start. I'll watch in the observation room."

"Okay, Caroline plans to be in the interview room with me." Caroline had called Booth as he was leaving his house that morning to let him know she was going to back him up during his interview with Ross. "She had her people researching Ross all night and she says she has some useful stuff we can use against Ross."

That information made Fairburn smile. "She really hates serial killers."

"Yeah, no kidding." Booth remembered how much Caroline hated Howard Epps. "She's professional though, so she'll be careful in the interview room."

"Oh, I know. Caroline will want all the i's dotted and the t's crossed." Fairburn admired Caroline's winning record. "She's the best prosecutor at the DOJ. It killed her that Max got away with killing Robert Kirby. I didn't mind since Kirby got what he deserved and Max is my wife's cousin, but Caroline still makes comments about it sometimes."

Since he'd heard her complaints before, Booth didn't comment about it. "I'm going to delay my vacation."

"Good, this case is big and I need you on top of it." He knew Booth was tired and needed the vacation, but Pat Ross may have killed eleven teenagers and that case needed to be airtight. "I promise to let you go as soon as we can."

Booth had already talked to Brennan about it and she had agreed that the case needed to come first. "Thanks. Parker might be disappointed, but maybe we can still go somewhere before he has to go back to England."

"How's the Pelant case coming?" Fairburn needed that case closed too.

"I have the autopsy report for Robert Hann and the police reports on my desk. Harris made copies and sent them over to Cam, Angela and Bones. I don't know when they're going to be able to look at them since they have eleven bodies to examine, but they'll get to it when they can. In the meantime, I have a couple of FBI techs looking at it. It has to be on the backburner until we get this Pat Ross case finished."

After checking his watch, Fairburn stood up. "Sounds good. I have a meeting to get to."

Booth knew that he needed to get back to work as well. "I'll call you when I'm ready to interview Pat Ross."

"Good."

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Caroline and Booth sat on one side of the table in the interview room while their suspect Pat Ross sat on the other side staring at them wordlessly. Ross' lawyer, Kimberly Wu sat next to him and flipped through some pages in a folder she had taken out of her brief case.

The silence was annoying. Caroline knew that Ross would probably choose to remain silent which was his right, but she didn't have to like it. "Mr. Ross you have your house for sale. A couple was interested in buying your home and hired a house inspector to examine your home for defects and pests. During his inspection, he found signs that a door had been disguised in the basement and since it was his job to make sure you weren't hiding anything from his clients, he opened it." Caroline paused to see if Ross would react.

Since their suspect didn't respond, she glanced down at her notebook, nodded her head and continued. "The home inspector entered the room and found this." She removed some pictures from the folder next to her notebook and placed them on the table so both Ross and his lawyer could see them.

Kimberly swallowed hard when she saw the photos, cleared her throat and asked a question. "Did you get a warrant before you entered the room, or did you wait and get one after you saw the room?"

A slight smirk on his face, Booth answered the question. "I got a warrant before any of my people entered the house. The house inspector took pictures of the room and gave them to the FBI. I showed them to the judge and he felt a blood caked room in the basement was grounds enough for the warrant. We didn't violate Mr. Ross' rights."

Slowly shaking her head, Kimberly knew that the warrant was probably legitimate. She'd try to have it overturned, but the house inspector had found the blood soaked room while doing his job. He had a right to examine the house for his clients and it was also his duty to report what he found to the police.

"Once our Lab experts studied the room, it was determined that more than one person was killed in the room and then we knew we had to find the bodies." Booth studied Ross' face and found the man's face lacking any signs of emotion. "I had a cadaver dog brought in and he found four bodies buried in the back yard and seven bodies in the woods across the street. So far, several of the bodies can be linked back to the room by their blood . . . You killed those kids, tortured them before killing them and then buried them."

Slowly shaking his head, Ross finally spoke. "I didn't kill anyone. It might be my house, but you can't prove I killed anyone."

Snorting, Caroline knew she was dealing with a psychopath. His lack of emotion told her everything she needed to know about the man. "Our scientists will prove you're the killer, Mr. Ross. Your house, your basement, your backyard . . . you owned the house and lived there during the time the victims were killed. You live alone. Your wife filed for divorce and was granted that divorce eight years ago. The bodies have been buried at the most for seven years. Your daughter lives with her mother and that leaves you as the sole resident of the house for the last seven years . . . You did it, Mr. Ross. You killed those children."

When Ross didn't react, Booth stood up. "Pat Ross, you're under arrest for the murder of eleven children. You've been read your rights." The door opened and two agents stepped into the room. Motioning towards the still seated suspect. Booth glared at Ross. "These men will escort you to a cell for now."

"They weren't children." Before Ross could continue, his lawyer grabbed his arm to silence him. Standing he walked over to the door and was escorted from the room.

Certain her client was in deep trouble Kimberly knew she didn't have the experience to represent Pat Ross in a murder trial. Following her client into the hallway, she called out to him. "Keep silent, Mr. Ross. Another lawyer will be contacting you this afternoon."

Sitting back down in the interview room, Booth collected the pictures of the crime scene and handed them to Caroline. "Bones and Cam are still examining the remains. Two DNA tests have come back and they match blood found in the basement. They still have more DNA testing to do with the rest of the victims, but it's enough to hold Ross for now. Bones thinks it will take them a week to do all of the autopsies and to examine the bones of the bodies that have decayed. They don't want to rush anything since this case is too important to get wrong."

Fairburn had entered the room and had heard what Booth had said. "We need to find out what the link is between the victims and Ross. Even if they were strangers, he had to have had a reason to choose them and kill them."

"I agree." Booth leaned back against his chair. "I'm going to use Harris for the rest of the week. He's due to transfer to Indianapolis, but I'm going to use his experience until he has to leave."

"Not a problem." The Deputy Director knew that Harris needed time to pack up his possessions and move them, but this case was critical. He thought it might be a good idea to arrange for the agent to get some professional help with the move so Harris could concentrate on this criminal investigation until he had to leave. He needed to talk to Harris about housing too, but he knew for a fact that the former Agent in Charge in Indianapolis had his house for sale. "If we have to, Harris can delay a week. I'll arrange some help with his move too."

That problem solved for Harris, Booth knew that his lieutenant could concentrate on his job. "I'll talk to Harris and let him know. His wife is pretty sharp and she probably has already found a house. Susan is a team player."

And Fairburn appreciated it.

"Susan Harris is a pretty good lawyer. She's valued by her law firm and I'm sure they'll hate to see her go." Caroline knew Susan and she knew the lawyer would thrive no matter where she lived. "If you let her know that Harris has to spend a lot of time on this case, she'll take charge of the move."

That settled, Booth stood up. "I'll work on Pat Ross' background and see if I can find a reason why he turned in to a mass killer. I need to find the connection between him and the teenagers he killed. The jury will want to know why."

"They will indeed." Caroline stood up. "I heard Harris picked up Ross at the airport."

"Yep, he didn't put up a fight." Booth picked up the folder and handed it to Caroline. "Harris showed him his ID and the man held his hands out expecting to be handcuffed. An innocent man doesn't do that. We have the killer we're looking for."

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