Chapter 2

Booth read through the file again for about the tenth time. Something was nagging him about the body. It seemed that he'd seen this somewhere before. Getting up, he moved over to Brennan.

"Does the body have any evidence of broken bones?" He asked.

"Which ones? She has new breaks along the radius on her left side along with her fibula. On her right side, new breaks occur in two of the lower ribs." Brennan informed him.

"In English, Bones." Booth said.

"Her left arm and left leg were broken and if anyone should know about broken ribs, its you." Brennan rolled her eyes. At this comment, he moved closer to her and whispered,

"Are you ok? You seem a little touchy?" Booth's famous charm smile made its appearance.

"I'm sorry. I just had a rough night. Can I come over tonight so we can talk?" She kept her tone low. Booth only nodded.

"So what's going on?" Angela came up behind them.

"Bones was just showing me the broken bones. There is something about this case that is familiar. I'm going to run back to my office and see what I can dig up." Booth acted all calm as he turned and walked away. He wanted Brennan to come with him but he knew that she still had a lot of work to do.

"Zack, how is that skull coming? Angela needs something to do." The good doctor called.

"It's almost done Dr. Brennan. I'll have it to Angela in about ten minutes." The young student shouted back from the cleaning room just down toward Temperance's office.

"How about those dirt samples, Hodgins?" Brennan asked. The word "dirt" got the specialists nerves up.

"The soil samples are consistent with the area she was found in. No big shocker there." Jack answered.

"And the bugs?" She asked.

"I may be good but I'm not that good." He said. Brennan gave him a look.

"You'll have them soon." Hodgins said. Quickly, the doctor got back to work. Angela could see that something was bothering her friend.

"Bren, hon, are you ok? Is there something you'd like to talk about?"

"It's none of your business." Brennan snapped. As soon as the words left her mouth she regretted it.

"I'm sorry, Angela. I haven't been sleeping very well lately." The artist was about to make a crack about being with Booth but she decided that wasn't a good idea.

"So do you…" Angela didn't get a chance to finish.

"Here's the skull. It looks strange without the teeth." Zack had popped up next to them.

"I'll take that." Angela grabbed the skull from his hands. She turned back to Brennan and said,

"We'll talk later." The artist held the skull and walked down the platform towards the computer room. She would try to recreate the face of the victim. Hopefully someone somewhere was missing her and soon they would be able to bring her home.

Brennan stood over the examination table, staring down at the body. However that was the last thing she was thinking about. She couldn't get Booth out of her head. There was so much she wanted to tell him but she just didn't know how. Her mind and body had built invisible walls meant to keep people out but also to keep her from coming out or opening up. Breaking them from the outside was hard but from the inside wasn't any easier.

To Be Continued…