Okies, this is chapter 15 (duh) longest running story I've ever written and I hope that you, my readers, I hope you appreciate that.
Disclaimer: (I have to do this cause I have new characters who I didn't make coming in) I don't own Crossing Jordan or it's characters, they belong to NBC.
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Tempe walked into the Boston ME's office. She walked up to the front desk. "Hello, I got a call from my co-worker. She says that there is a matter to do with the Grave Digger?"
"Yes, first of all, who are you?" the girl asked, she looked Asian, Chinese maybe.
"Dr. Temperance Brennan, I'm from the Jeffersonian," Tempe said, handing over a piece of ID so the woman would know she wasn't lying.
"Of course, I'll just let Dr. Macy know you're here," the woman smiled, she didn't seem to be faking it though.
"Thank you," Tempe was trying to be, as Booth would say, normal.
Temperance didn't see a tall, brunette woman, and a tall man walk up behind her. She also didn't see the other man behind the two.
"Excuse me," the woman said, making Tempe jump a little.
"Yes," Tempe asked, and then she saw him. She ignored Booth who was walking up beside her and turned her attention to the man and woman.
"Are you Dr. Brennan?" the woman asked.
"Yes I am Dr. Brennan," she said, looking up at Booth and then shooting her glance back down to the woman.
"I'm Dr. Cavanaugh. I got the call, it's my friend who's been taken," Dr. Cavanaugh said.
"How much did the Grave Digger ask for your friend?" Tempe asked quickly.
"Two million dollars," the man said and Booth walked closer.
"When was this call sent?" Tempe asked. She wanted to catch this bastard.
"Umm… twenty minutes ago now Woody?" Dr. Cavanaugh asked her partner, that was all that Temperance could think of to call the man.
"Is she alone?" Tempe asked. "It's imperative that I know if she's alone or not."
"I think she's alone," Dr. Cavanaugh said.
"Yeah, Bug's here, Nige's here, Garret's here, you and me are here, I'm pretty sure she's alone," Woody said.
Booth cleared his throat and Temperance rolled her eyes. "So you are who they sent for protection?" she asked coldly.
"Bones, we have to work together, you could at least deal with me," Booth said, trying to be nice.
"Booth, my name is not Bones, and yes we have to work together, but that's work. At least I'm not going around kissing my partners boss in my partners boss' office," she said just as cold as before.
"Jordan," Woody said quietly, "does this remind you of anything?"
"I didn't kiss your boss in his office," Jordan hissed back. "And I sure as hell hope you didn't kiss Macy."
"No! I mean the arguing," Woody said, taking her hand. He hadn't seen Jordan this worried in a long time.
"I know," Jordan said leaning up against Woody.
Emmy came back and cleared her throat. "Dr. Macy will see you now, Dr. C, detective, you can come with us too."
They walked to Dr. Macy's office and went in. Booth was once again being paranoid protective.
"Angela's going to pay," Temperance whispered.
"No, she's not," Booth whispered back.
"Dr. Brennan? I'm Dr. Macy, chief ME here in Boston," said a man with little hair.
"Hello Dr. Macy," Temperance pulled her laptop out of her bag and opened it. She set up the web cam so that her friends would be able to see her in a moment. "One moment."
She pulled out her cell phone and dialed Zach's number.
"Dr. Brennan?" Zach answered.
"Hi Zach, go to Angela's office and get her and the others to set up the web cam. I've got mine going. Quickly, we're on the clock," Tempe said.
Five minutes later, five people came onto the screen. "Dr. Brennan? What do you know?" Saja asked.
"Everybody, I'm at the Boston Medical Examiner's office," she aimed the web cam at Jordan, Woody and Dr. Macy. "The woman is Dr. Jordan Cavanaugh, the tallest is Detective Woody…" Tempe looked to him for assistance.
"Woody Hoyt," Woods said.
"Yes, and that's Dr. Macy," Temperance said. Suddenly, a tall British man and a short East Indian man burst into the room.
Booth shot up out of his chair and made sure he was in front of Temperance, who just shook her head.
"Of course Booth, the grave digger is going to waltz in here and take me out in front of you," she said, angrily.
"You never know," Booth said over his shoulder, he had his gun out.
"Sit down Booth before you embarrass yourself," Tempe said, and she stood up and pushed his shoulder down.
The Jeffersonian crew was watching everything from the camera and Angela smiled at Hodgins when she saw what happened.
"I apologize for my partner's behavior," Tempe said, looking at the two men.
"That's all right," the Brit said, looking her up and down. "No worries at all."
"You wanna keep your eyes in your head?" Booth hissed at him.
"Hey! Nigel's just as good as anybody down there at the Jeffersonian!" Jordan yelled in Nigel's defense.
"Guys, guys, guuuuys?" came Angela's voice from the monitor.
"Go," Tempe said the word very loudly, "ahead Angela."
"Maybe you should get to work on finding the Grave Digger?" she said simply.
"Right, ok Angela, you try to get a facial reconstruction on our first victim," Tempe said.
"I started yesterday when Zach finished the tissue markers and Cam said it was ok," Angela said.
"Then finish it, Ange, this is important," Temperance said.
Angela nodded and left the monitor's view.
"Zach and Hodgins, I need anything and everything you can get from this body, we're getting this guy this time, I know it," Tempe knew how stupid that sounded as soon as she had said it.
"Dr. Kesuan? You help out however you can and the first thing you can do is tell Angela that we are going to talk about who to send for "protection" when I'm mad at him," Tempe said. "We've got 24 hours, Dr. Saroyan, keep them working and keep me in the loop!" Tempe shut off the computer. "Let's find your friend," she said, smiling.
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I HAD to bring the CJ characters in, I'm sorry!! Can anybody guess who's missing????? Huh, huh?? Can ya can ya?? If you can, I'll send you telepathic hugs.
Lol, great!! I finished this while I was listening to a taped version of a Bones story and you know what? The book is NOTHING like the show!!! AT ALL!! Ok, R&R thanks!!
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