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The sun had begun to set behind the rolling bluegrass pastures of Kentucky as Booth, Brennan, and the rest of the crew made their way to the morgue on the outskirts of the city. The fiery ball casted a hazy orange glow over everything as it shed its last light for the day before slipping behind the hills. The countryside was mainly rolling pastures fenced with white and green fencing. Every couple miles a sprawling and elegant stable would be sitting on the top of the hill overlooking the pastures. The horses, gentle giants, looked minute as they stood with their beautiful heads buried in the lush spring grass. Their shiny long tails swished automatically at the pesky little flies that bit at their sides and legs. Their coats of all different colors: coal dappled grey, coppery chestnut, sorrel, and ebony black glowed in the last rays of sunlight. Suddenly, one raised its head and looked off into the distance at something in the deep shaded cluster of trees at the far end of one of the pasture. He took in a breath while his nose flared before letting out a high pitched whinny. The group was quiet as they marveled the magnificent animals and took in their surroundings. Jack took pictures on his smart phone to send to Angela. The only other sound was that of the sports channel Booth had chosen that softly read the latest game scores.
The drive ended quickly as the rolling hills became flat and buildings had begun to populate the area. Booth flipped his turn signal on before pulling into a small parking lot outside one of the city's police stations. Once he parked they all filed out as Booth led the way into the station. A heavy set man in uniform sat behind the front desk. He was reading and looked up from the book as Booth approached the desk.
"Hi I'm agent Booth." Booth introduced himself flashing his badge, "This is my partner Dr. Temperance Brennan of the Jeffersonian. And this is her team. We were assigned to the Redding case."
The guy smiled, "So you're the famous agent with his own crime solving team." He joked before looking at Brennan, "Dr. Brennan, your new book is by far your best." He said pointing to her book that he had been reading before they arrived.
"I'm a bestselling author all of my novels are my best work."
"Officer…" Booth began looking at his name plate, "Bryan can you show us to the body?" Booth broke in before Brennan could get another word in for a moment, "I'm also going to need the file that you have on the case."
Officer Bryan pulled open one of the file cabinets and pulled out a large file. He headed back over towards Booth and handed it to him, "Alright, this way to the body."
The tiled hallway to the morgue was dimly lit and eerie, "The lab is looking so much better right now…" Cam stated to the group but out of earshot from the officer.
Hodgins laughed, "You look at mutilated dead bodies all day but a dimly lit hallway gives you the creeps." Jack laughed as they finally made it to the morgue.
Officer Bryan allowed all of them to file in before he stopped at the door, "That's the victim on the table. If you guys need anything I'll be at the front desk."
Cam had already taken the sheet off the victim and started to look over the body. Hodgins had begun to take particulates from areas that Cam had pointed to.
"Booth, we are going to have to send the body back to the lab so we can further examine the body and clean the bones." Brennan explained, "There's too much flesh for me to do my part of the examination." Brennan explained, "One of my assistants could do my part back in DC. Cam, who is on rotation this week?"
Cam didn't look up from part of the abdomen she was looking at, "I believe Wendell is."
"I'll stay here with Booth and work on the case. Wendell is well qualified; he can look over the bones once you're done with them and fill me in with the details as they unfold." Brennan explained.
"I haven't found anything that stands out as murder here…" Cam sighed as she looked up from the body, "I'll have to take some tests back at the lab and see what I get from that. I can do a better diagnosis once we get back to DC." She said looking around, "What we have to work with here is very limited."
Booth sighed looking up from the file, "I can get that done." He said pulling out his phone to make arrangements to get the body back to DC. He walked out and Brennan followed. After Booth had made the call he looked at Brennan, "This case could be a little bit longer than our usual cases." Booth admitted slipping his cell phone back into his pocket.
Brennan looked at him, "What do you mean by that? Do you mean that cause of death will be difficult to find?" she questioned before answering it, "Because as you know we are very good at our jobs, we will find cause of death."
Booth shook his head, "No I already knew that. The people involved in this could be difficult to deal with."
"Could you elaborate?"
Booth sighed, "I had the FBI send over some files to my computer. I'll have to get more details once we get back in the car, but I remember some of the names from past cases. Some have been involved with fraud and money laundering to name a few offenses."
"So you're saying that if they know you're FBI and I'm associated with you they aren't going to be very cooperative." Brennan explained looking up at Booth, "So what do you suggest?"
Booth smiled, "I don't think you're going to like it."
Brennan laughed, "Go ahead."
"We need to go undercover…"
Brennan smiled, "Okay, who will I be?" she asked interested in the potential undercover case.
Booth looked at her astonished. He was speechless for a moment before he found his voice, "You're okay with going undercover?" he asked, "You're usually reluctant."
"I already knew that you were going to suggest it." She admitted crossing her arms.
Booth looked at her still astonished, "How could you possibly know that?"
Brennan sighed enjoying the moment that she was able to catch Booth of guard, "You presented me with the facts which were money laundering and fraud. You then made the statement of not wanting them to know who we were. I then came to the conclusion that you were going to suggest going under cover."
"So you allowed me to look like an idiot!" Booth yelled sarcastically.
Brennan looked at him seriously, "I know how much enjoyment you get out of coming up with the idea."
"Thanks…" Booth said pretending to be upset.
Brennan read his facial expression, "You're not really upset with me are you?" she asked softly.
Booth's face broke into a smile, "Gotcha!" he said slapping his hands together.
Brennan huffed obviously annoyed slightly, "That's not fair! You used the fact that I lack the ability to properly read facial expressions against me."
Booth smiled, "Now we're even."
"I didn't mean it to upset you. I was just allowing you to come up with the idea."
"I was just kidding Bones." Booth said with a sincere smiling leaning up against the cold wall of the hallway.
"Who will I be?" Brennan asked completely excited, "I've actually begun to like undercover work."
"I was thinking along the lines of being of old money from some inheritance." Booth started to explain taking the first thought that came to his mind, "How about my fiancé?" Booth asked gingerly, "We have to sell it if we're going to be working this case together. Just being a couple I don't think is going to cut it."
"Okay." Brennan stated with a smile, "Will the FBI find us a trainer or someone that could help us out with this case that isn't a criminal?" Brennan questioned mentioning to the last case.
"Already on it." Booth said with a cocky smile before he opened the door and allowed Brennan back into the examination room. Booth was completely surprised and impressed that Brennan was okay with the whole undercover situation.
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