Smeraldi's Restaurant, 7:00pm that evening.
The atmosphear was light and airy, the group all entered and were promptly sat at a large booth on the far wall, the place decorated in mediterrainian decore gave the place a very relaxed and easy going feeling. Booth thought this would be the perfect place to enjoy a relaxed meal with the documetry team before they headed back to the Jeffersonian, there wasn't much investigating that could be done now that the body was on it's way back to the Medico-Legal lab. Starla though had agreed to maintain direct contact to aid in the investigation considering the murder was over 70 years old any help they could get from the psychic would be of great help.
While most of the group sat on the bench of the booth, both Brennan and Booth sat in chairs at the table as there wasn't quite enough room for the five of them to sit comfortably in the bench area. Booth had his little notebook on the table taking more notes as Starla told what she could devise so far from the spirit and her own feelings on the case. Brennan listend though kept noticing a strange dark shaddow hanging just on the edge of her perferial vision making it difficult for her to figure out who or what it could have possibly been. "This seems to me like one of those good deals gone bad, or someone pointed the finger at him and said he was a snitch when he wasn't." Starla said before picking up one of the mozzarella sticks from the basket that had been placed there appon their arrival. Booth looked up from his note pad "What gives you that impression?" slapping at Brennan's hand as she made to reach for another of his french fries. They were his after all, she had said she would happily share the large basket of mozzarella sticks with the documentry team.
"That's the feeling I got from being there in the room, that poor old Larry was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Some thugs came looking for someone that looked remotely similar to him, they then wanting to make it clean and quick shot him several times and then left in the mist of the panic of people running down that staircase." Booth nodded writing quickly to make sure he got everything written down correctly. "That atleast gives us a base to work from, now Bones just has to prove you right..." Booth grinned "Or wrong..." Brennan added logically, they all nodded "Think about it though Starla, Brennan proves you right and quite possibly if you can impress my boss Cullen enough, you could find your self working on more FBI cases or atleast ones Bones and I work on." Starla grinned then exchanged a look with Jareth who then slipped his hand onto her knee and gave her a affectionate squeeze unseen by the others. "I would be honored Booth, to be able to work more with you and Dr. Brennan. Though considering the experteese of Dr. Brennan, you and the rest of her team at the Jeffersonian I am unsure of how I would be of much help."
Booth flashed Starla a charm smile, which Jareth caught glaring at Booth "I'm sure we will have some more difficult cases like this one, where your abilities will be a lot of help specially when it comes to identifying suspects when there was no witness to the murder." Starla smiled "I'm sure I could certainly be of more use for you than Dr. Brennan." Brennan smiled faintly, she still wasn't entirely sure what to make of this girl that while being a scientist her self, did things that went against what Brennan knew to be actual science. Just then her thoughts were interrupted by the ringing of her cell phone. Brennan pulled it out and answered it after a breif glance at the caller Id as she stood up from her chair "Brennnan..." she put her hand up as though she were saying 'excuse me' and stepped away from the table. "Bren...sweetie. I need you to go to the lobby, there's a special surprise waiting for you there." "What is it?" Brennan asked as she made her way towards the entrance to Smaraldi's which lead to the main gallery of the hotel. "I can't tell you, just come to the Lobby and find out" Angela was starting to really get her "Okay, I'll be right there. I just need to tell Booth and the others." "Okay, sweetie but hurry up." Brennan then clicked off the cell phone closing it and slipping it back into her pocket.
Brennan then made her way back to the table, "I think our next documentry is going to be on haunted theaters, I don't think there's a theater out there that isn't haunted at this point." Starla said as Brennan approached the table, then they all stopped and looked at her expectantly "I need to go into the lobby, Angela said she had a surprise there for me." Brennan said, Booth then started to get up. Brennan put a hand on his shoulder effectively stopping him "I can handle this my self Booth stay and talk with the team. I'll be right back." Booth then sat back in his chair, he had resolved that he would try not to be so over protective of her. Starla looked and watched Brennan until she was sure the Anthropologist was out of ear shot then looked pointedly at the FBI Agent "So, Booth...when are you going to tell her?" Booth looked at her shocked almost choking on his soda he had just taken a drink of. "Tell her what?" Though he was sure he knew what Starla was hinting at he decided to play dumb.
"You're true feelings about her Booth, they're written all over you. Well they're written all over her too,but you're certainly more obvious than she is." Booth blinked, how could she possibly know what I feel for Brennan, I don't even know what I feel for her completly. Jareth and Little Joe laughed then. "You can't hide anything from her, she's that good." Jareth said, Starla blushed slightly. "She can be rather blunt about things too, she even knew I was going to ask my fiance Clair to marry me before I said anything." Little Joe said as he reached for another of the mozzarella sticks. Starla put her hands upto her face "I'm so sorry Joe, I thought you had already said something about it." Little Joe reached behind Jareth and patted his friend on the back open handed "It's okay Starla, it's not the first time you've managed to embarass Jareth or me with your abilities..." Little Joe teased. Booth started to say something when his eyes landed on Brennan, closely followed by Angela. The other three then turned to look and see what he was staring at.
Angela approached the table of people with her hand waving high in the air, and Brennan trailing closely behind her. "Hi! Guys!" Angela and Brennan made it to the table where Booth stood offering Angela his chair. "Aww thanks Booth!" she then reached out and gave him a friendly hug, he hugged her in return but Starla definately noticed the lack of warmth that he seemed to have for the Anthropologist. Brennan then sat next to Angela as Booth retrieved another chair for him to sit in. Brennan then introduced Angela to the documentry team. "Angela, this is Starla Mills. The youngest internationally famous psychic detective, and her documentry team Jareth and Joe." they all reached across the table to shake her hand as she introduced her self to them. Fomalities out of the way Angela spoke up "I'm Dr. Brennan's Forensic Artist, I help with facial reconstruction and also through the use of my Angelator help to recreate the most possible way the murder accured."
Starla sat back leaning more into Jareth, Jareth looked at her almost from the corner of his eyes warmly, obviously a very loving look. "That sounds really interesting, how does the Angelator work or well rather show things?" Little Joe asked inquistively, as Angela stood up making Booth switch seats with her once she realized she was sitting between Booth and Brennan. "It works with a input tablet and the display area is three dimential halographic imagery." "That's really facinating Ms Montinegro." Angela smiled putting her hand up "Please, call me Angela." Little Joe smiled warmly. Angela then turned to Starla catching her attention, though Starla had put her head on Jareth's shoulder, it was obvious the young psychic was very tired. "Which reminds me, Starla I need to find a time when we can sit and talk. Try to get some idea of a sketch for the face of Lawrence."
Starla dropped her eyes to think briefly for a moment, then looking back up at Angela "I think I'd like to wait until tomorrow possibly? I'm sure you're just as tired as I am from your traveling and such." Jareth slipped his arm around Starla rubbing her upper arm affectionately, Angela nodded. "So what time would you like to meet up then?" Starla thought " Eleven am? in the Patio area of the Sai Sai? maybe a early lunch?" Starla offered, Angela nodded "That sounds great, that'll give me the morning to work with Booth and Bren on some other aspects of the case." Starla nodded smiling,she made to move out of the booth away from Jareth's side. It hadn't got that late but she was very tired. "Now if you guys don't mind, I think my boys and I are going to turn in for the evening." Starla climbed to her feet, Jareth following suit, though Little Joe didn't make any effort to move "Go on ahead guys, I think if they don't mind I'd like to stay and chat a little longer." Booth and Brennan along with Angela nodded. Jareth then slipped his hand into Starla's leading her out of Smeraldi's.
