CHAPTER TWELVE: The Answers in the Artist

"Sweetie are you alright?" asks Angela as she hurries into my office clutching a foam coffee cup. "I brought you a coffee because I find caffeine makes me think"

I take the coffee cup from between Angela's perfectly manicured nails and let out a sigh. "I just can't seem to work out who murdered Miss Stinson," I say before taking a long sip of coffee.

Angela places her hand on my shoulder "Oh Bren you know that you are the best Forensic Anthropologist in the country no wait the world, if you can solve the murder of a family of cavemen, Sweetie, you can solve a homicide in downtown DC" she encourages.

I just sigh, "Well all the suspects seem to have valuable alibis," I tell her.

Angela shakes her head "Maybe it's someone that you may not have interrogated yet" she replies.

I suddenly think of something, Maggie, the receptionist that reduced Booth to tears.

"Thanks Angela you're a genius" I cry as I get up from my office chair and glance around the room.

I had to go meet up with Booth, we had to bring Maggie Thompson in for questioning and we had to do it now.

I hurry out of my office and down the hall at the perfect time to run into my boss, Dr Camille Saroyan.

"Oh Dr Brennan what's with all the running?" asks Cam, a confused look on her face.

I shake my head "I, well Angela, just had an idea about the case and I have to go talk to Booth" I reply.

Cam just smiles "I want Miss Stinson's murderer caught as soon as possible" she replies and waves as I hurry out and get into my Prius.

"Okay Ms Thompson, we need to speak with you" Booth announces as we charge into the office building FBI badge out in front of Booth.

Maggie looks up from the screen of the Mac computer. "Oh you government FBI people again" she sighs, "Can't you see that I'm busy here?"

The sweet attitude from last time was gone.

Booth groans, "We think that you may have been involved in the murder of Ms Rebecca Stinson" he announces.

Maggie shrugs "Why would I get that Blonde Bimbo's blood on my hands?" she asks.

I shrug "I don't know yet" I reply "But I do know that you are coming with us"

Maggie sighs and Booth gives me a subtle thumbs up.

MEANWHILE AT THE JEFFERSONIAN

ANGELA'S POV-

"Cam, Hodgins I think I did something a little bit dim" I announce as I hurry into Cam's autopsy room.

I glance disgustedly over at the autopsy table that I had to scrub earlier that week. Cam made this rule that the next person who mentioned their sex life during work hours would have to scrub the dirty, bloody autopsy table. I sorta slipped and mentioned an intense Hodgins kissing scene while I was doing a reconstruction. I payed dearly for that slip up and haven't done it again (well at least not in front of Cam that is).

Hodgins looks up from a bug, which he was dissecting to try and find a sample of the killers DNA and Cam glances up at me from the little piece of bloody skin tissue she was gazing at with all the concentration that she seemed to possess.

"Angie babe what's up?" asks my husband.

I shrug "Oh Hodgins I told Brennan who I thought the murderer was and she seemed to believe me" I begin.

Cam sighs "Yes Angela and what is so 'dim' about that?" she asks.

I groan "Well I don't want Brennan and Booth arresting anyone with no evidence"

Hodgins and Cam both shake their heads in a disapproving manner. "Angela they are smart people they won't just go arresting on a hunch" Cam reassures me. "But we'll go looking for evidence against the suspect anyway just in case"

I nod. I just hoped that nothing bad would happen to them because of me.

BRENNAN'S POV-

"Why would I kill Rebecca?" cries Maggie Thompson "I barely knew the woman"

Booth just sighs and glances over at me. "Where were you between the hours of five and six last Friday night?" Booth asks Maggie.

She sighs "At home, in bed" she replies. "So you have no alibis then?" I ask.

She gives me a look "Well missy how many people see you when you are asleep?" she asks me sarcastically.

I shrug "Well my husband…" I say pointing at Booth "…my two children and sometimes our colleague Dr Lance Sweets" I tell her.

"Well you're not a single fifty-six year old are you?"

I shrug, confused "Well of course I'm not, it's not logical"

Maggie shakes her head.

I glance over at Booth "Well then Maggie I suppose with no alibi you are the most suitable suspect" he tells her.

"Well there is no proof that I did anything right?" Maggie replies.

I glance over at her "We have the most brilliant Forensic Scientists in the country looking for something, even a little bit of DNA, to tie you to this murder" I tell her "So if I were you I'd be a little bit worried"

Booth smiles at me, he was proud of my sudden confrontation.

Maggie just sighs "Your people won't prove a thing" she laughs.

I just ignore her and follow Booth out of the little room.

"Whoa God!" cries Sweets in an overly excited and slightly cheesy tone.

I glance over at him "What's wrong Sweets, is everything okay?" I ask the young psychologist.

He just shrugs "Well I was watching that entire interrogation through the wall and if anyone admits to a murder they don't usually do it so obviously" he cries "She was practically like 'I murdered her and hid the body…so what'" he says in a real snobby accent.

Booth nods "She thinks that we won't prove her guilty, she thinks the Squints are idiots" he replies.

I look over at Booth and Sweets "My team at the Jeffersonian would have proved her guilty sooner or later" I tell them.

They both smile "I've never seen a murder the can't be solved by Bones before" Booth announces "And it isn't going to start now"

BACK AT THE JEFFERSONIAN:

"Dr Saroyan, Dr Hodgins, Angela have you found anything to tie Ms Thompson to the murder of Ms Stinson yet?" I announce as I hurry into the lab and swipe my card on the sensor.

Cam hurries over to me wearing her blue lab coat and holding something in an evidence bag. "Dr Hodgins found this inside one of the beetles that were feasting on the remains"

I nod and take the evidence bag. Inside was a hair. It was hard to tell if it was blonde or grey because it was in the bug's digestive system but I could tell it was long and it appeared to be very feminine.

"Do you have any idea who this hair belongs to Dr Saroyan?" I ask her.

Cam just shakes her head. "Sorry Dr Brennan but I'm just in the process of trying to extract a sample of DNA from it so then we can run the DNA through the Database" she replies.

I nod "Great Dr Saroyan I'll just go and see what Dr Hodgins and Angela are doing" I tell my boss.

She nods "Great Dr Brennan, I'll tell you if I find anything" Cam responds before hurrying off.

I sigh and begin to walk over to where Hodgins seemed to be examining something under a microscope.

"Hey Dr B" announces Jack Hodgins as he looks up from the microscope.

"Hello Dr Hodgins" I begin "Cam told me that you found a single hair within a beetle"

Hodgins just smiles and points to a glass container full of beetles. "I found the hair in one of these little guys" Hodgins replies.

I nod and glance into the container to see a vast variety of beetles. "Are you going to examine any other beetles for anything that they may have digested?" I ask.

Hodgins nods slightly and strokes his beard. "Well…yeah if any of these guys start to act strange I'll check 'em out but I'm not killing a beetle for nothing" he replies.

I nod "Well Dr Hodgins just tell me if that happens okay?" I reply.

Hodgins nods "Will do Dr B" he replies.

"Angela have you found out anything else about the case?" I ask the forensic artist.

Angela just shrugs "Well Bren not really…" she begins "I was wondering if the receptionist did it?"

I sigh "Well I suppose, we were talking to her and she seemed to admit everything but then she laughed and said that we'd never prove her guilty" I reply "She thinks she committed the perfect murder"

Angela laughs "But believe me you can't commit a perfect murder at all"

I nod "Murder isn't perfect"

"Christine, Parker great to see you two" I cry as I embrace both my children.

"Hi mommy, I really missed you today" Christine laughs "Uncle Sweets picked me up from kindergarten and he took me to a cafe place for lunch"

Sweets looks over at us from the sofa and smiles "Christine was doing a family tree at kindergarten today" he tells me as he walks over "Right Christine?"

Sweets elbows my little daughter lightly. Christine nods "Yeah we had to draw all of our family" she laughs, "Mommy, is uncle Sweets family?"

I sigh "Well Christine I suppose he is family friend" I reply.

Christine smiles gleefully "Well that's good because I put him on my family tree"

I open my mouth to congratulate Christine on this family tree task but I stop when I notice that Parker hadn't said a thing the whole time that I'd been talking with Christine and Sweets.

I glance around the room to find that Parker was just standing all by himself looking upset.

"Parker are you alright?" I ask concerned.

He just shrugs "Well Bones yeah I s'pose"

I wasn't very good with people but I could tell when something was wrong.

"Parker you don't appear alright at all"

Parker looks away from me showing no eye contact. "Bones I don't want to talk about it" he replies as he walks into the other room.

I look over at Christine "What's wrong with Parker mommy?" she asks.

I shrug "I think he is still a little bit upset about what happened to his mommy" I reply in the nicest way possible for a young girl to comprehend.

Sweets sighs "Dr Brennan he'll be fine" he tells me "He's just going through a lot of changes at the moment"

I just nod and glance over at Parker. I really had to discuss this issue with Booth.

AN: Hope you liked Chapter 12. Chapter 13 will be up soon and it will be called "What is yours is mine". The Cam autopsy table thing was a tag to Season 9 Episode 23 "The drama in the queen".

Anyway has anyone read the Season 10 spoiler which is a description for the first episode. It says and I quote "Daisy and Sweets have a surprise for the rest of the Jeffersonian team". EEEEEHHH! (Excited Fangirl squeal). When I read that images of a Swaisy baby began running through my head. The only issue is they aren't a couple but Brennan and Booth weren't a couple when she got pregnant so anything is possible. What do you guys think? Is a Swaisy baby coming? I was determined that it would be Cam and Arastoo's but anything is possible. Tell me what you think in your review.

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Have a Bonestastic day!