A/N: Heyyyyyyy! I hope this chapter is to your liking:] i tried to post it as soon as possible since i had been slacking off the last few chapters lol i didnt have edward in this chapter to occupy my mind:[ buttttttt Hodgins is pretty handsome....and Sweets is sooooo cute....and dont get me started on how sexy Booth is;] well anyway....enjoy:]

Disclaimer: I dont own anything:[ not Bones....not happy meals....not mcdonalds...not Twilight....nor the Yakima Agricultural Research Lab....face it im a failure....jk.

"Was your burger okay Hodgins?" Booth asked as he sipped on his coke and threw away his wrappers.

"Yeah, you wanna tip?" Hodgins replied with a chuckle. Booth forced out a sarcastic laugh.

"No jokes, just get back to your dirt there," he replied as he walked over to Brennan's table, ignoring the smirk on Hodgins' face. "Bones your milkshake is in that freezer, which is creepy because that was probably a morgue...and I think it's beside a dead hawk, which is illegal by the way. And there's no telling what kind of dead germs that are crawling and seeping into it...and you know what?!" He rushed to the freezer and jerked the milkshake out. He unwrapped the straw and placed it into the milkshake, before he set it on her table. "There, now it's safe." He said with a smug smile. "Make sure you drink it, you need your energy if we're going to be working all night." He put his hand on her shoulder as she looked over her notes. He noticed her warmth as she looked up and returned the smile.

He noticed Sweets observing them out of the corner of his eye and quickly jerked his hand into his pocket.

"How's that Happy Meal Sweets?"

"Very good actually. I got a transformers figure, betcha you don't have one," Sweets replied with a smirk. Booth smiled in surprise at the quick comeback.

"I bet I do, I have a seven year old," Booth replied as Sweets nodded. "Maybe we can set up a play-date sometime." They both chuckled as Booth sprawled beside Brennan with his paperwork and Sweets returned to his file.

After brief silence, Hodgins' laptop started to beep. He hurried over to check the test results, with everyone's eyes on him. After another moment of silence, he interpreted the results.

"The blood type matched the victim, although there are some strange particulates mixed with the blood that I'm having trouble identifying with the equipment I have here," he said as he searched through his results. Brennan walked over to his makeshift station carrying her laptop. She set the laptop beside his and studied Hodgins' screen for several moments. Booth quietly made his way to stand protectively behind her.

"That's odd, but it looks familiar," she murmured as she scrolled through her notes.

"Yeah it looks like the sample from bite wounds on the victim," Hodgins replied as he squinted at the screen. "You know? The government probably hides the failed genetic experiments that they were planning on using in covert operations in the military. Oh, it makes perfect sense! The heavily wooded area, low population, and not to mention how secluded the town is with a lack of heavy law enforcement present. And don't get me started on Canada!"

"Whoa Squinty, I never saw Wolverine during my covert operations," Booth chuckled.

"Failed, Booth, failed experiments!" Hodgins retorted with wide hand gestures.

"You know...in a twisted sort of way, it makes sense," Sweets added as he joined the group.

"It is all we can come up with right now," Booth said as he turned to Bones.

"There is another explanation, there is no rationality in the idea that two widely separated species as Homo sapians and Canis lupus can be combined with viable results," she replied with a distressed look surfacing her face. She watched the screen as the test results scrolled by, and then pointed to a tall spike in the graph. "Here. This is the same compound that was found in the bite wounds."

"It's a combination of silica and organic matter," Hodgins said leaning towards his computer. He pulled up a map of the area surrounding Forks and then hurriedly rolled over to a microscope in his chair. He slapped a Petri dish under the microscope and looked through the eyepiece. "This organic matter contains a certain species of algae that commonly grows in standing water or near bodies of water." He rolled back to the computer as Booth pulled Sweets out of the way before Hodgins ran him over.

"The bite wounds contained a sandy substance which seems uncommon in this area," Brennan said as she searched her notes.

"The only area within a ten mile radius that has the same composition of silica in the soil would be the local river," Hodgins said as he consulted his map. "Called Quillayute River."

"And how is this helping?" Booth asked in frustration.

"We're narrowing down the area in which his spends his time. We know it's along the river, but the test isn't completed yet so we will be able to narrow it down more in a few minutes." Hodgins continued to work, moving back and forth between different microscopes and pulling graphs up on his computer. Brennan took her laptop and moved it on an empty table as she proceeded to the remains, that were cleaned and arranged at the other side of the room.

After a few quiet hours of Brennan examining the bones to find the most detailed markings, Booth dozing in his chair, and Sweets alternating between studying the case files and playing World of Warcraft on the laptop he brought, Hodgins suddenly jumped up. Booth jumped out of his doze with a snort as both Sweets and Brennan jumped and stared.

"I got it!" Hodgins said waving his arms in the air, holding a tiny bug in his forceps. "Anthocoris confusus!"

"We are all confused, you don't have to make a joke of it," Booth grumbled as he stretched his arms.

"No, this is a huge find. There have only been two instances that this has been found west of the Rockies. I should have thought of this before! I read that article but I thought it would never apply since our work was mostly in the D.C. area. This bug is native to Europe and Asia, but there are very, very few recordings of it being sighted in North America. They were first found in European Beech Trees and European Linden Trees, but just this year researchers at the Yakima Agricultural Research Lab found this insect in the Olympic National Park, near the Quillayute River."

"We're in America. Why do we have European Trees?" Sweets with a smirk.

"Yeah this is our land. We should have our own trees," Booth said playing along. Brennan threw them an annoyed glare as Hodgins zoomed in on his map.

"So what does this mean?" She asked impatiently.

"I know where we can find him."

A/N: Soooooo i hope you liked the chapter....and detailed reviews are most welcome!!! i saw the promo for Bones and im like so so so excited!!!! dude Hodgins, Sweets, and Booth look amazing:] also i can't believe that kristen and robert are hooking up now!!!!!!! crazy i still cant believe the rumors are true but how can you resist an Edward??