Hey guys! I'm happy you guys enjoyed the first chapter! Here is chapter 2 UPDATE: I italicized the flashbacks, someone had pointed it out to me that it is easier to read the flashbacks with them.


Brennan sat their shocked,

"Your sister?" She asked. He jumped up and ran to bone storage. Earlier in the day she explained that she left the bones out to examine later on. She chased after him. He stopped short at the door and stared at the bones. He heard Brennan calling him but he ignored it. He slowly made his way over to the table. He couldn't believe his eyes. Brennan stopped at the door and watched her partner,

"Booth." He didn't look up

"April. I'm sorry." She heard him whisper

"Booth?" She said quietly. He kneeled in front of the table and broke down. Brennan was quickly on the floor beside him to comfort him.

"Booth, we.. we don't know for certain-" he shook his head,

"No Bones. I know it's her." Brennan didn't argue with him. She knew that this wasn't the time. They sat on the floor for a while before he spoke once more,

"I was 14. She was 17 and Jared was 10. My dad was still living with us..."

"WHICH ONE OF YOU UNGRATEFUL SHITS DIDNT DO THE DISHES!?" The siblings heard their dad yell. April ushered her younger brothers into their room,

"Guys. I'm going down there. Do not come down." Seeley shook his head,

"April no-" she cut him off,

"Seeley. You stay up here and look after Jared. I will be okay." She kissed both of their foreheads and made her way down to the kitchen to face her father.

Seeley sat on his bed holding Jared. He listened to his fathers cruel words and his sisters cries. After 15 min everything was quiet. All he heard was the door slam and the car start. He looked out the window and saw that the car was gone. She really left them behind, just like their mother. Seeley put Jared to bed and we went on to cry himself to sleep. When he woke he saw that the car was back. He jumped up and ran to her room but she wasn't there. She wasn't anywhere to be found. He grew worried. Where was she?

"After a few days I called pops. I told him what happened and that April was missing. He came immediately, had us get our stuff and we went to live with him. She's been missing for 20 years. Until now." Brennan tightened her hold on him,

"I'm so sorry Booth. Let me run the construction through and see if it's her."

"I'm telling you Bones. It's her. I'm sure of it." She nodded

"I want to confirm it. We will find out what happened to her." She hugged him and he thanked her. She offered to drive him home and surprisingly he didn't argue.

Brennan drove Booth back to his apartment. No words were said between the partners but that didnt bother them. When she pulled up to the front of his building she began to get out of the car to walk him up like he does for her. He stopped her though,

"I don't want you walking back down alone." She went to argue with him but saw the look in his eyes and decided against it. She nodded

"i'll be back in the morning." He shook his head,

"Bones…"

"Im coming back in the morning." He didnt argue with her. They said goodbye and went their separate ways. She watched him walk into his apartment. She made her way back to the jeffersonian, determined to get more information by morning. She worked all night. Finding cause of death, calling Angela while she was sleeping to ask for help to run the picture through the missing persons database. She didn't want to wait for Angela to get here in the morning. She cataloged every remodeled fracture, every broken and healed bones and every sign of abuse she found

It was nearly 8 am when a match came back from the missing persons database. It was definitely April Booth. Brennan sighed in sadness for her partner. She grabbed all the information she gathered and went back to her partners house it explain to him that his sister was dead.

Booth shuffled to the door when he heard the knock. He knew who it was and he was dreading what she had to say. He opened the door and found his partner still in the same clothes as last night. He stepped back and let her in. She turned to him and held out a file,

"I ran Angela's facial recognition through the national missing person's database. I-I'm sorry Booth. It matched to April." He opened up the file and saw her picture. He dropped to the couch as tears welled in his eyes. Brennan sat down next to him and put an arm around him in an effort to console him. He leaned slightly into her embrace and spoke,

"What did you find?" He said in a raspy voice,

"Booth, Maybe I can explain everything lat-" He cut her off,

"Please Bones. I need to know." She sighed and spoke,

"I found cause of death to be strangulation. There was signs of a struggle. She fought hard." He nodded as he continued to stare at his sisters picture

"Where was she found?" He asked with tears laced in his voice. Hesitantly she told him,

"The… remains were found roughly five years ago by a hiker and his dog deep in the woods of Allengheny National Forest." The name brought him back to a happier time,

"April! Seeley! I wanna climb the tree too!" 5 year old Jared whined as he watched his two older siblings climb the big pine tree,

"You can't Jared you're too small!" 9 year old Seeley yelled back down. The young boy ran to his mother who was sitting on a rock watching her kids have fun. She was glad to get them away from their father. She was trying to hide his drinking from the kids but it was slowly coming out. She was jarred from her thoughts when she heard her youngest crying and running to her,

"Mommy! Seeley said im too small to climb with him and April but im not!" She gathered her sad son and soothed him,

"I'm sorry baby, Seeley is right. You can get seriously hurt. I promise though, you'll grow big enough to climb with your older sister and brother very soon." She calmed down her son and had him go back to playing. It was peaceful in Allengheny Forest right now, it was a tuesday afternoon during the summer, She always brought her kids to this forest a lot over the summer, they loved nature and it was nice to get them fresh air

"We used to go there all the time. My mother would take us there over the summer, we would climb trees and hike far." Brennan tightened her hold on him,

"Im so sorry Booth. I promise you we will find out what happened to her and get her the justice she deserves." All Booth could do is nod.


Here you guys go! I hope you enjoy this chapter! I'll be posting more soon! See ya on the flipside guys -J.A.