Chapter 12. Between two worlds...
Booth and Brennan's Suite, 9:00am the next morning.
Brennan sat looking over the stuff that Angela had emailed her earlier the previous day, while Booth sat at the table going over the files that headquaters had sent him by currier. Angela sat next to Brennan with her feet on the edge of the table and her drawing pad laying in her lap as she worked on a sketch trying to work out a idea in her head that she had.
Like a montage the scene fades into the emptyness of the patio area of the Sai Sai restuarant over looking Perching Square busy with the late morning travelers going into the Metro Redline Station underground and others visiting Perching Square as tourist or those going to their different destinations above ground.
SAI SAI Restaurant Patio, 10:45am.
The patio had become slightly more busy as the day became older, Starla and Jareth had told the Hostess they were waiting for someone before they were wanting to be seated, so the hostess left them to their own devices on the patio once they had selected the table they wanted to sit at. Jareth and Starla had then decided they wanted to stand at the balcony overlooking Perching Square. As they stood together Jareth reached up to the right side of her face his long fingers slipping some loose strands of her hair behind her ear. Starla turned her head looking at him, it was a soft moment between the two, his hand then rested on her shoulder. "You're doing such a good job Starla, I know it's difficult for you being here." Starla dropped her eyes nodding slightly, Jareth reached up curling his fingers under her chin and lifting her head up so she was looking at him.
"We've just got the rest of the week here, then we'll take a break. I promise we wont even take on a new case or anything for a while until you're ready." Starla sighed as his thumb brushed her cheek affectionately, if it were Little Joe she would have pulled away like a shy horse the moment he even reached for her like this,but Jareth she loved him with all her heart "Maybe we can even go on a holiday trip. Just you and me?" Starla blinked,he was so close. Starla leaned in the little bit more until their lips met in a soft sweet tender kiss, Jareth pulled back slightly breaking the kiss after a brief moment he pressed his lips to her forehead. "So,was that supposed to be a yes?" Jareth smiled softly as Starla laid her head on the front of his shoulder "Jareth,you know you don't have to ask me twice." Jareth smiled again as he wrapped his arms around her, his one hand rubbing her back in a soothing mannor.
Starla then pulled her head off Jareth's shoulder, looking towards the entrance area to the patio. Jareth turned his head to look and see what had got her attention, noticing it was Angela he waved her over. "Over here Angela!" Jareth said, Angela smiled then walked up to the two Starla not making any real effort to move out of Jareth's arms. "I hope I wasn't interrupting anything?" Angela said as she took in what Starla was wearing, she looked like one of those Gothic Club kids that got hit by someone with a helluva lot more fashion sense. "Starla,you look great..." Angela said shifting her bag more onto her back. Starla blinked slowly as she had put her head back on Jareth's shoulder, smiling then she reached out to Angela to shake her hand "Good to see you again." Angela shook her hand, then looked around to see if there was obvious signs of them having a table. Not seeing any she looked to Starla "Did we get a table already?" Starla nodded then moved to get out of Jareth's arms. "Right over there by the fountain. I thought it would be really peacefull to sit there for a while."
Angela looked around "I think this is a really nice place." They all then went over to their table sitting around it. Angela pulled out her sketch pad and a couple different pencils placing them on the table infront of her. "Bren wants me to do a sketch of the ghost you're seeing to help identify if it's the one that matches the bones or not. I already managed to pull up a photo of him from our missing persons data base, but it didn't really give us much to go on as I don't think there are any living relitives or direct decendants of Mr. Nichols." Starla nodded as Jareth slipped his hand into her's entwining their fingers "The murder was commited over 70 years ago, so I could see where it would be rather difficult to locate any relitives or decendants." Starla looked past Angela as though she were listening to someone speak that only she could see. "Larry says to look up the name Barnaby Nichols, he says it's his brother." Angela looked at her strangely for a moment, Jareth then put his hand up "Don't worry, she just was talking to Lawrence, he's standing right behind you I think,by the way she's looking." Jareth offered, Starla nodded. "Yeah, he wants to help best he can."
Angela quickly wrote down the name "I'll give the name to Booth and have him look it up, but if you're ready we can do the sketch before they bring our food?" Starla looked at Angela expectantly "Okay, what do I need to tell you?" "What his face looks like, distinglishable features what his energy feels like to you. That sort of thing." Starla looked once more past Angela to study the spirit's features. "Big bright green eyes, young english features,but he's older than he looks. Like he's 30 but looks like he is 20. That sort of thing. Cut glass features,but a more rounded jaw than square. Red ringlette style curls, very handsom and on the thinner side. Definately age hasn't caught up with him yet. He's wearing a bowler hat and a pinstripe suit,with shinny black shoes. And a walking cane...he is showing his walking cane, I think he means he lost it. It's there in that room." Angela nodded pulling out her cell phone and dialing Booth's number "Booth, it's Angela...I have a couple things for you...uh hunh. Okay, look up the name Barnaby Nichols and also if you and Brennan can get a moment. Go back to the secret room, and search for a long black walking stick with a dragon head on it, and rubies for eyes."
Angela nodded "Talk to you later Booth." she then clamed her phone shut and slipped it back into her bag. Just then a server came to their table, they put in their food orders and then just like magic the server dissapeared again. Starla liked that about this place, they weren't over egar when it came to being food servers. Angela then put her suplys away in her bag, wanting to have a more normal conversation. Jareth wrapped his arm around Starla's, running his fingers back and forth on the inside of her palm. Starla rested her head on Jareth's shoulder, "So why don't you tell me a little about your self and what you do." Angela encuraged, Starla's eyes slipped closed slightly "I've been psychic since birth, and have been using my abilties to solve crimes for quite a while,but it's only been with local athorities. Though I think Booth has offered if this one comes out right that I might be bumped up to doing federal crimes. Which would be nice, I could use the extra work." Jareth turned his head pressing a kiss to the top of her head "You so sure about that Starla? This documetry seems to be exhausting for you as it is." Starla nodded her head still on Jareth's shoulder. "Yeah, I wouldn't be doing double duty like I am now." She laughed slightly "I wasn't planning any crime solving while I was here."
"Aside from that, I'm a parapsychologist and my minor was metaphysics. So when I'm not out solving crimes for the local athorities, I'm working with Jareth and Joe on paranormal investigations like we're working on here. But this just cropped up as a documentry opertunity when we were approached by a development executive from The Discovery Channel." Angela nodded "That's really interesting, so are you just doing this hotel or?" Jareth shook his head "No, we're doing about ten different hotels. Though now considering this one included a criminal murder investigation, we're figuring that it will be the main focus of the documentry." Angela nodded "I'd love to see the final product once it's out and has been edited." Jareth smiled "Ofcourse, I think we'll likely send a copy of the finished documetry to Dr. Brennan and Agent Booth, would you be able to either watch it with them or snag a copy?" "Yeah, I should be able too."