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Chapter 7
Booth and Brennan had just closed the doors on the SUV when she turned to him and gave him a look.
"Fallen asleep at my laptop? You had a long night with a beautiful woman? Are you trying to make it obvious?" Temperance didn't realize she was almost shouting. Booth turned to her.
"Did anyone question what I said? And what about you? Spilling my criminal analysis to everyone?" His voice was raised as well. The FBI Agent jammed the keys into the ignition and fired the vehicle up. At this, Brennan hung her head and remained silent. The entire ride to the Hoover Building was silent.
Booth parked the black SUV, got out, and quickly strode toward the entrance. Brennan got out and ran to catch up. They entered the building and went up to Booth's office and closed the door. The FBI Agent sighed and sat down behind his desk. Brennan sat across from him. The silence was getting oppressive.
"I'm sor…" She didn't get the words out before Booth raised his hand to silence her.
"We both made mistakes and we both don't like to apologize so let's just forget and move on. There is a case to solve and we have to be able to keep work and our relationship separate." Booth got out of his chair and moved around the desk. Sitting next to her, he took her hands in his. Brennan shivered at his touch.
"Is that ok?" She nodded and he smiled. Then he got up and went back to his chair on the other side of his desk. Booth punched the keyboard and printed off some files. Brennan found herself missing his touch and sorry that they argued.
"Here is the list of the demolition crews that worked the seven sites where the bodies were found. There are three hundred people to have to research and interview. No way, we can sift through them today. In fact, I have to get home by four o'clock because Rebecca is dropping Parker off." Booth explained.
"It's going to take a long time to go through all these names. I thought Parker usually came over on Saturdays." Brennan wondered.
"He does but Rebecca is playing games again. Anyway, here's the strange thing about those crews. All seven buildings were demolished by different crews." Booth told her.
"I didn't think there were that many demolition crews in the D.C. area." She said.
"Some are from Virginia, hence FBI jurisdiction." He smiled.
"Well I guess we'd better get to work." Brennan answered.
WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
Angela and Hodgins pulled the building locations up on the three dimensional screen, or rather what they had looked like before demolition had gone ahead as scheduled. Only the last building remained until the scene had been cleared. Digging up, what the six other buildings had looked like was hard but they had done it.
"Do you really think this is going to help?" Hodgins asked as they stared at the screen.
"I hope so otherwise we just wasted three hours for nothing." Angela said. She didn't seem to notice that Jack was studying her features. The artist turned around and caught a face full of the scientist.
"Uh, sorry." He apologized and slowly backed up. She didn't say anything and moved over to her computer.
"Let's pull up each building individually and see what we can see." The artist suggested. After looking at each building something struck the two.
"All these buildings," Angela started.
"Were apartments." Hodgins finished.
To Be Continued…