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When Nick and Brennan reached Nick's house, Brennan put her bags in the guest room. She sits at the table where there is a cup of black coffee awaiting her.

"I always loved your coffee." Brennan says to Nick admiring his coffee making skills.

"You tell me that every time you visit." he adds laughing

"And every time the coffee is very good." She replies as she looks over the rim of the cup at Nick sitting across from her.

"What were you talking about at the lab earlier?" Nick asked wanting to know what has been going on in her life sense they last met.

"Well….my mother's remains were found in the storage unit of the institution. Booth and I questioned Russ. As you know, the family members are always the prime suspects. I was in the foster car system so I couldn't have killed my mother or anyone else for that matter. Anyway, I found out my parents were Max and Ruth Kennan, the bank robbers." Brennan said with a heavy sign.

"After we solved the case, Russ, Booth, and I when back to my apartment. I had a message on my answering machine. It was my father telling me to give up. Just stop looking! I didn't listen. I kept looking.

A couple of months later we had a case where the killer would pick his victims and bury them under the ground with a 24 hour air supply.

One of the people I work with in the lab, Hodgins, well we……we were some of his victims! It all started when Hodgins car we were driving in got hit by another car.

The car we were in was then buried WITH us in it.

The 24 hours air supply was cut down to 12 hours because there were two of us.

The damage was bad.

Hodgins had me cut his leg to relieve the pressure under the skin.

The pain of his injury was so bad he passed out for a few hours. Honestly it was a good thing he passed out. It left us with more oxygen in the car.

When Booth and the rest of the FBI found us, we took a big risk. We exploded this little contraption.

It could have killed us, but in this case, it saved us.

A few weeks later, Booth and I had a case where a body was set on fire at the top of the federal building.

My father was still missing.

I was so enraged with anger. I wanted a gun, but Booth wouldn't let me.

To keep me safe, gave me hand-cuffs!!!

Later I was told that my father was a suspect.

When we finally caught my father, he had plastic surgery so no one would know it was him.

I gave him a hug, said I was sorry, and went to put the hand-cuffs on him, but he grabbed them from me and cuffed me to the bench.

At that point Russ pulls up in his truck and yells to my father to get in so he can get away. As Booth pulls up, my father runs to Russ' truck, and jumps in. He turns to Booth and tells him to take care of me.

As I watched them pull away, I stood there once again realizing that I have no family."

Brennan concluded her long speech like description of the past year of her life. She and Nick sat in silence for what seemed like forever.

"Wow….Tempe, I'm sorry." Nick finally said with a low sympatric voice.

"Don't be. It's not your fault. Anyway, can we talk about something else please?"

"Yeah, that's a great idea."

Just then he got up. "Stay here. I want you to meet someone."

Brennan watched Nick walk to his bedroom and opens the door. As the door opened, a beautiful, gigantic Golden Retriever came running out of the room and straight to her, sat down at her feet and put his head in Brennan lap.

"Who's this big sweet heart?" she asked excitedly while petting the dog's head.

"This is Max. He is a cadaver dog." Nick proudly informed Brennan.

"Want to see something really cool?" Nick asked.

Not saying a word or taking her eyes off the beautiful dog she had just met, her nodded her head yes.

Nick turned to the dog and said "Time for me to relax."

The dog ran to the couch, grabbed the remote and gave it to Nick. The dog then when to the fridge, opened it, took out a beer, and brought it to Nick.

Brennan is watching this in amazement. Nick tells her to wait, there is even more!!

The dog then goes to the lower cabinet in the kitchen and brings Nick a bag of pretzels. When the dog is finished retrieving everything, he lay down at Brennan feet and looked up waiting for approval.

"That is REALLY cool!" Brennan said in total amazement.

"Would you like something to drink?" Nick asked.

"Yeah, water please." Brennan replied

"Hey Max, would you mind getting our guest some water?"

The dog went to the kitchen and returned a few moments later with a bottle of water.

"Max is the coolest dog I have ever met!!" Brennan says while petting Max along his back.

"Yeah, he is. My mom gave him to me so I wouldn't get to lonely." Nick said chuckling at the memory.

"How did you teach him to do all this and to sniff out bodies?" She asked in a wondering tone.

"After I was buried alive I had a lot of time off. I took Max to some cadaver dog classes what worked out wonderfully. I taught him myself to do all the other cool stuff. You know, I can't think of anything worse then having to much free time on your hands." He added laughing.

Brennan sat quietly for a few minutes drinking her dog fetched water while petting Max and admiring his beautiful coat of fur.

Nick was sitting on the coach drinking his dog fetched beer and munching on some of the pretzels Max had also fetched for him while deep in thought over the memories of his own experience of being buried alive.

Nick interrupted the silence in the room.

"So, who where the people you where chatting with earlier on your laptop?"

"Oh that was my team back in D.C." Brennan replied as she sat back in her chair, leaving Max looking up at her and begging with his eyes for more attention.

"I know they are your team in D.C., I meant what are their names and what do they do for you." he snaps back at her.

"Well, there is Angela Montenegro, she is my best friend. She performs forensic facial reconstruction. Then there is Jack Hodgins. He's our bug and slime guy. I also have an assistant, Zack Addy. He is on his way through two doctorates." Brennan answers in a matter of fact tone of voice.

"I think I am going to go to bed now…we have a long day ahead of us" Brennan said finally getting tired.

"Okay…Good Night Tempe"

"Night Nicky" And with that they both went to bed.

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