No POV- Third Person
15 Years Later
"Emily Rose Brennan. Hurry up or you are going to be late for your first day of school." Doctor Temperance Brennan yelled up the stairs to her fifteen year old daughter.
Just as she finished a beautiful fifteen year old girl raced down the stairs, her blue eyes sparkling and her auburn hair flowing around her face.
"Ok, I'm ready." Emily said.
Her mother smiled and shook her head. Tempe and Emily got into the car and drove out of the carpark of Tempe's building.
For 15 years, Brennan and her daughter traveled around America. After Tempe left Emily's dad, the pair first went to Frankfurt, West Virginia when Emmy was a baby. From then on they moved from place to place including: Atlanta, Georgia, Charlotte, North Carolina, Dayton, Ohio, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Knoxville, Tennessee and finally back to Washington DC.
The drive to school was quiet. Emmy was listening to her iPod and Brennan was looking occasionally at her daughter.
Tempe pulled up outside of the high school and looked at its doors. Emmy got out of the car and walked over to the driver's side window.
She kissed her mum and said "I love you mum."
Tempe smiled and replied "Love you too baby. Have fun. Make new friends. I'll pick you up at 2:30 ok?"
Emmy nodded and walked away. She waved to her mum and walked through the doors with the other students.
With Temperance
Temperance drove away and headed to her new job. All she could think about was how much she missed everyone at the Jeffersonian, hell she even missed Cam.
She pulled into the carpark of Washington General Hospital. She parked, put her bag over her shoulder and walked inside.
She walked to the main desk and asked for Doctor Hardgers.
Dr Hardgers walked up and shook her hand "Hello Temperance. How are you?"
"Fine Paul. You?" Tempe said as she put on a white coat. She picked up a clipboard and pen.
"I am fine," Paul replied "Now today we have four DOA's to autopsy. Let's get to it, oh I should be formal, welcome to Washington General Hospital Ms Brennan."
Temperance laughed and the two began their rounds.
With Emily
Emily walked through the doors of J. Edgar Hoover High School. She looked around and smiled. She walked ahead a few paces until she found a teacher.
"Hi. Umm where is the principal's office?" Emmy asked.
The teacher smiled and showed her to the door. Emmy said her thanks and walked in.
She knocked on the door and the principal allowed her in.
"Hi, I'm Emily Brennan." Emily said as she shook the principal's hand.
"Ahh yes Ms Brennan. I am Mr. Lundy. Now here is your timetable and you locker combination. Come on, I'll show you the way." The principal said.
Emily trailed after the principal. He asked her questions and she answered and talked about her life.
They reached locker 259 and the principal gave Emily a pat on the shoulder and said "I hope you have a great time here at JEH High School. If you need anything come and see me."
"Thanks." Emily said before the principal walked away. Emily used the combination she was given and opened her locker.
Emily looked at her timetable and noticed she had Double Biology first up. She pulled out her biology books and shut her locker.
"Hey." Came two voices from behind her.
Emily turned around and looked at two boys. One had browny-blonde hair and brown eyes. His hair was shaggy and reached just under his ears. He stood about 5'11. The other had the bluest eyes Emily had ever seen on a guy and black hair. His hair was cut short and it suited him. He stood about 6'0.
"Hi." Emily said.
"You new?" The boy with shaggy hair said, moving to the locker next to Emily's. He opened it and put his bag in.
The other boy slapped him upside the head and said "No shit Sherlock. Sorry about him. I'm Chris and this is Coop. What's your name?"
Emmy smiled and said "Names Emily. Yea I'm new."
Chris smiled, threw his bag in his locker (which was on the other side of Emmy's) and pulled out his books.
"Hey, what have you got first Emily?" Coop asked.
"Double biology. What about you?" Emily asked, sensing a great friendship was beginning.
"Same. We both do. Come on, we'll show you the way. In fact, we appoint ourselves your official tour guides." Coop said.
Chris nodded and the three walked away from their lockers chatting about everything.
By the end of all classes, Emmy, Chris and Coop had become good friends.
After school, the boys walked Emily to her mum's car. "We'll see you tomorrow." They said together before walking away.
Temperance looked at the two boys with tears in her eyes. She noticed that they had grown into exact replicas of their fathers.
"Mum, you ok?" Emmy asked as she hoped into the passenger side.
Tempe nodded her head and smiled at her daughter. She kissed her on the cheek and said "How was school."
"Great what about work?" Emmy said.
"Great as well." Tempe said before the pair drove off.
Chris POV
Coop and I said goodbye to Emily and walked away. We looked around and saw our mums.
"Hey mum." I said as Coop and I hugged our mums.
"Hey Chris." My mum, Angela Hodgins, said.
"Hey Aunt Noelle." I said as I hugged my 'aunt'.
We piled into the car and headed to the Jeffersonian museum.
"So boys, how was school?" Mum asked us.
"It was good. We made a new friend." Coop said.
"Oh yeah who?" Aunty Noelle said.
"Her name is Emily. She is heaps funny." I replied.
The two women shared a look but it confused both me and Coop. We looked at one another and shook our heads. The rest of the drive was passed in silence.
We pulled into the carpark and hoped out of the car. We walked into the medico-legal lab and found Uncle Seeley, Parker, Dad, Cam, Uncle Goodman and Uncle Zack surrounding a body.
Growing up around this made us quite used to this sight. We just walked around the platform and into mum's office.
Coop started doing things on the Angelator before everyone walked in and we cleared out.
We left the lab and went for a walk through the museum. We were shocked when we saw Emily walking through the American history section.
Emmy POV
I walked through the American history section of the Jeffersonian Institute. All I could think about was mum. Mum had started to cry when I introduced her to my friends today. I was really worried. Mum never cried.
I left the American history section and walked on to the history of arts section. I stopped when I heard two voices yell out "Emily."
I turned and saw Coop and Chris walking towards me. I stopped and waited until they caught up to me.
"Hello pretty lady. What would you be doing here?" Coop said. The boys started calling me pretty lady today because when we passed a group of boys they called out "Hey who's the pretty lady with Coop and Chris?"
"Well boys, I would be having a break from home. You?" I said.
"Oh our parents work here." Chris said.
"Cool." I replied.
"You know what, you should come meet them." Coop said.
"Oh no, they are probably busy. I need to head home soon anyway." I said.
"Nonsense," Chris replied as he and Coop grabbed my arms "Come on, you can meet them and then we'll drive you home."
I gave in and let myself be dragged to the medico-legal lab.
Booth POV
I stared at the body on the table in front of me. It was moments like this that made me miss Bones even more. Don't get me wrong, Zack and Noelle were great but Bones was amazing. We would joke over these bodies, we had a connection. I miss her heaps. 15 years ago I went to her house that she shared with her live-in boyfriend to pick her up because we had a case and he told me she had left in the middle of the night. The only thing she had left was a note addressed to Special Agent Seeley Booth, Russ, Dad and the 'Squint Squad'.
I remember opening it and nearly crying. It was only short but it hurt like hell. The letter read:
Dear Seeley and everyone;
I need to leave. I need to get away. My life here has gone to shit and I need to change it.
I will miss you all but don't look for me. You won't find me. I have spent long enough with an FBI agent to know how to cover my tracks.
I hope to see you all soon, if not, you are all in my hearts. It hurts me that I won't get to see Coop and Chris grow up or that I just found my family and I won't be able to reconnect with them but it's what has to be.
Lots of Love
Temperance Bones Brennan
Xoxo
We searched for years. Cullen had an entire FBI task force set up to find her. We searched all over but we never found her. We stopped searching about 4 years ago when Cullen said to me 'Booth, we are never going to find her. It has been 11 years. She probably isn't in America anymore. Either that or she is dead. I'm sorry." I still have that letter in a drawer in my apartment. I never got to tell her I loved her. That is something that has been eating me up inside for years. I never told her.
I was pulled out of my thoughts by Ang, Elle, Coop and Chris walking in. The two women walked up to us whilst the boys walked into Ang's office.
"Ok, here's what we know. This is a young woman, aged teens early 20's. Sexually assaulted and stabbed 3 times in the chest. Anything else?" Zack said.
"Yea," Ang said "I have a face for her."
We all walked into Ang's office and the boys left.
Angie pulled up the picture of the girl and said "Her name is Emma Brookes. She has been missing for a month. She was apparently abducted from school. She is fifteen years old."
I nodded and said "Alright, I'll get her missing persons file and then inform the parents."
Everyone nodded and I was about to continue when I heard Coop and Chris yell "Mum, dad, you have to come and meet Emily."
We all walked out and I was floored when I saw the girl. She looked exactly like Bones. But that wasn't possible. Bones never had children. But this girl was proof. She had beautiful auburn hair, crystal blue eyes and held herself like Bones did.
"Everyone, this is Emily Brennan." Coop said. Well that just proved it.
Normal POV
"Everyone, this is Emily Brennan." Coop said. Everyone gasped.
Angela cried out before falling to the ground. Jack bent down and hugged her.
Emily, Coop and Chris looked at the adults. Em turned to the boys and said "I'm gunna head home now. I'll see you both tomorrow."
As she turned to leave Angela shouted "NO!" Em turned and looked at the women in shock.
Ang stood up and slowly walked over to her. She looked her over before hugging the fifteen year old girl like she would disappear. Emily awkwardly patted the woman on the back whilst Angie cried into her shoulder.
When Angie pulled back, she brushed some hair that had fallen loose from Emily's ponytail away from her face. "You look exactly like your mum." Angela whispered.
"You know my mum?" Emily asked.
Angie could only nod. "We all knew your mum." Jack said.
Emily smiled and said "How?"
"Your mum used to work here before she… you know… she was a forensic anthropologist." Zack said.
"You mean you don't know why mum left?" Emmy asked.
"We didn't even know you existed." Booth said quietly.
"Oh. Well anyway I really gotta go. Mum has probably got dinner ready. I'll tell her you all say hi. What are your names?" Emily said.
They all told her their names and Emily left with a grin on her face. "Wait." Chris said.
Em turned and the boys raced over to her. "We said we'd give you a lift so lets go."
The three teens walked out of the lab.
"Oh god. Bren was pregnant and we didn't know." Angie said.
"That's probably why she went on that 6 month trip to Australia. She would have probably been about 4 months pregnant then." Zack said.
Booth suddenly pulled out his cell and dialed a number.
"Hello, Russ its Booth. I'm good what about you? No… no there's nothing wrong. I just have some news about your sister. You and your father might want to come to the lab. I need to tell you in person. Ok see you soon."
Booth hung up the phone and turned back to everyone.
"I wonder what Emily meant by the whole 'you mean you don't know why mum left' comment." Jack said.
Everyone shrugged but Noelle and Angie were formulating a plan.
With the Boys and Emmy
Emmy hoped into the backseat of the car and the two boys got into the front. Chris turned the car on and they left the carpark.
"Look, Emily, I want to apologise for mum's behaviour earlier. I don't know what happened." Chris said, deeply embarrassed.
"Hey two things. 1. its totally cool and 2. call me either Emmy or Em." Em said with a grin.
The boys nodded and Em continued "I guess I look so much like mum that she remembered all the times she spent with her. It's a logical thought process."
The two boys laughed and Em just shrugged her shoulders.
Em directed the boys to her and her mum's apartment. The boys parked in the carpark and hopped out of the car.
"Alright boys, I'll see you at school tomorrow." Emmy said.
She walked to the elevator, hopped into it when the doors opened, pushed the button to her floor and waved as the doors shut.
The boys got back into the car and drove to the museum. When they got back to the lab, Ang and Noelle grabbed them and dragged them into Ang's office.
"Okay boys, where does Bren live?" Angela said.
The boys looked at one another before Chris said "The apartment complex on the corner of 5th and Jones. Don't know what room. But it was on floor 5"
The two women nodded and Noelle said "You boys are going home with your fathers. We are going to see Bren. Now you can't tell anyone where we are going. Ok?"
The two boys nodded and the two women walked out of the office, grabbing their coats on the way.
"Hey where are you going?" Zack yelled at his wife and his friend. The women just waved their hands and kept walking.
The men all shrugged and continued to work.
With Angie and Noelle
The two women hoped into Angie's car and drove out of the museum carpark. They drove to the apartment complex the boys had told them. Angela parked the car and the two women walked into the lobby.
They walked to the elevator and pushed the up button. When they got inside, Noelle pushed the button to the fifth floor.
They reached the fifth floor and got out of the elevator. The two women knocked on room 5A. A man about 60 answered the door.
"Can I help you?" He asked.
"Yes, we are looking for a Temperance Brennan. We were told she lived on this floor." Noelle said.
"Yea I know Tempe. She moved in about 2 months ago. She lives just down the hall, room 5G. She lives there with her young daughter. Emily is such a nice girl, always gets my mail for me." The man said.
The two women thanked him and walked down to the room. Noelle knocked on the door. Emily opened the door and smiled. "Hey." Emily said.
"Hey Emily, is your mum home?" Angela asked, almost jumping out of her skin with excitement.
"Yea she's just setting the table. Do you want to come in?" Emmy asked even though she already knew the answer.
The two women nodded feverishly and Emily led them inside.
"Mum, you have visitors." Emmy yelled.
"Ok. Tell them to have a seat, I'll be out in a second." The voice of Temperance Brennan called. Neither woman had heard that in 15 years and they had missed it.
Emmy led them to the lounges and they sat down.
Tempe walked out wiping her hands on a towel and said "How can I—oh my god!"