Chapter Four- Crimson Lagoon
After lunch, Tempe was enjoying basking in the sun while her food went down, Booth didn't wait; he wanted to dive in the bright blue ocean. Tempe sat up and looked around for Booth, then noticed him walking slowly out of the ocean in only his board shorts and he looked good, she thought. She sat up straight, and shielding her eyes from the bright sun she watched him approaching her, he noticed.
"Water's nice Bones, why don't you go in?" he tells her, grabbing his towel from the sand and wiping his face and body before sitting down beside her.
"Maybe later, I'm just enjoying the sunshine at the moment" she says, smiling at him and leaning back on her elbows on her towel, the sun was so warm on her skin, much warmer than DC this time of year. And she loved not having human remains to analyse, she was on vacation, and vacation meant no worries, but unbeknown to her and Booth, all that was about to change.
They arrived back at their hotel room and Booth was just about to hop in the shower when they both heard a blood curdling scream from out in the hallway. Without even thinking Booth, being half naked, ran out into the hall to see what had happened, after all helping people was like a reflex for him now. Booth soon discovered that the woman who had screamed had just found a headless body slumped on an arm chair in the centre of her hotel room, and the head was nowhere to be seen.
Booth ran back to his and Tempe's room and called her to come and see. Temperance followed him to the crime scene and grimaced as soon as she saw the horror. She had already seen her fair share of brutally dismembered corpses in her life and she still felt sick to the stomach every time she came across another, she felt so mad, who in their right mind would do this to another human being, who could be so demented? White hot fury rushed through her veins but she ignored it and began doing her job, she just had to switch off her thoughts and disconnect herself from the tragedy; that was how she managed to get on with her job.
Booth was out in the hallway on his cell phone to the FBI HQ while Brennan was in the room of the hell scene, a real life hell scene, not one Medical Examiners make up for their grad students. Temperence was examining the remains and scouring the room for evidence the killer might have left behind, but she would have to wait for a forensics team to arrive before touching anything. At that moment Booth came back into the room, trying not to look at the grisly scene in front of him.
"There's a Medical Examiner from the local morgue coming to collect the body, but not until we gather all the evidence" Booth told her.
"Excuse me?" she asked, staring at him oddly, "where's the forensics team I asked for?"
"There is no forensics team" he told her, "we are it, you and me kiddo"
Tempe was confused.
"You mean to tell me there's no police forensic team in Jamaica?"
"That is correct"
Bones bit her lip, now she let the white hot fury that she was holding back escape.
"Bloody hell!" she screams as she storms out of the room into the hallway. Booth ran after her.
"Bones, what's wrong? I've never seen you like this before"
She stopped pacing and turned to face him.
"This is my holiday Booth, our holiday, I didn't want to have to help identify any remains while on my holiday, with you, our first holiday together as a couple"
"It's ok Bones" he told her, holding her shoulders with his hands and squeezing gently.
"No it's not Booth, did you see the headless person in there; somebody murdered him!"
"I know Bones, I don't like this as much as you, but right now we have to disconnect and do our jobs, collect evidence for the M.E." he told her in a comforting voice. Temperance hugged him, she hugged him tight, she was glad she had Booth there to snap her out of her temporary insanity.