HEY THERE HERE'S ANOTHER CHAPTER

SEE I'M WORKING ON IT

DISCLAIMER: YOU ALREADY KNOW

Monday morning had arrived and Zack was grateful he had spent the entire weekend with April. She'd let him in on how things worked in their school. Apparently since he was new he was going to be fair game. Meaning every click was going to try and get him to join them.

"You excited for your first day?" Brennan asked the emerging teenager from his bedroom downstairs. Booth and Tony had gone in earlier to meet with the principal to meet the other staff and go over the lecture's for the semester. "You want some food?"

"That would be nice." Ziva couldn't help but chuckle at the groggy fake teen who stumbled into the kitchen only to drop onto the chair with a heavy thud. "I'd forgotten how early kids had to wake up for school."

"Well lucky for you it's only temporary here you are nephew." She placed a small stack of pancakes in front of the groggy teen who wolfed them down in an instant. "I thought Tony was the only one that inhaled his food.

"Sorry but I promised April I'd pick her up on my way to school."

"You guys seemed to have become friends pretty quickly." Brennan said in a teasing tone. Shook his head not bothering to comment on his 'mom' statement. "She tell you anything useful?"

"Nothing much, both Cody and Mark we're loved by everyone in the school. No grudges or hard feelings we're given by anybody."

"What about April?" Ziva asked

"What about her?" Zack countered. Ziva turned to look at Brennan who began to stir her coffee. "She's not a suspect."

"Because you like her?" Ziva stated looking straight at Zack. The young man dropped his fork and got up from the table.

"No because she doesn't have the capacity to end human life."

"How can you be so sure? You've only known the girl for two days."

"Sweets does actually know what he's talking about." At the mention of their young therapist Brennan decided to cut in.

"Psychology is a soft science Zack. We're scientist we depend on facts."

"With all due respect Doctor Brennan soft science or not it's still a science you of all people should understand that better than anyone." The three family members sat in uncomfortable silence. "I have to go I still need to pick April up." The two women watched as the young man grabbed his bag pack and stalked out of the house.

"He's playing his role extremely well." The NCIS agent said with a smile.

"Perhaps a little to well." Brennan said with a frown. "He talked back to me…. I don't like that."

Zack made the short trip to April's house and waited like she'd told him to the night before.

"Good morning A.J." April's cheerful voice rang in his ear. He turned and smiled at the Indian girl who was buckling up. "You've got the coolest car ever I'm like so jealous you don't even know."

"You've mentioned it before. You ready to go?" April gave him a thumbs up and they took off twenty minutes later they arrived at Marengo High. "Thanks for the ride A.J. I swear I'll get you on some gas money later."

"Don't worry about it." The two made their way inside the crowded school "Just point me to the office and we'll call it even."

"I'll do you one better I'll walk you to the office." they reached the office and walked inside. Zack took in the sight and couldn't help but chuckle at how similar this school's office looked like the office from his old high school. Grey carpet, white walls with various motivational pictures and of course the American flag with the portrait of the school's mascot a Native American chief standing with his arms crossed over his chest and a serious expression on his face.

"You must be Alexander." A slim red head with glasses sitting behind a large desk placed a sheet on the top and smiled at the student. "Welcome to Marengo High. Here is your class schedule, locker number and combination and of course." She patted a small book. "Your trusty handbook."

"Thank you…. Ms. Myers." Zack answered with a smile as he read the name plate on the woman's desk. He felt a little uncomfortable with the way the woman was staring at him like he was a piece of meat. April noticed as well and placed her hand on his shoulder.

"Come on A.J. I'll help you find your locker." She didn't even let the young man say goodbye as she dragged him out of the office. Across the school Tony was staring out the window of his class room He and Booth had met with the various staff members and not a single one of them fit the type of murderer. The sound of the bell ringing made him walk back to his desk and wait patiently for the first students of the day. He couldn't help but raise an eyebrow when he saw eight girls enter his classroom.

"Alright everyone I'm Mr. Johnson and I'll be your teacher for the remainder of the year. Now I know that all of you must be shaken up from the news about Mr. Kilmer's deaths and like the last two classes I'm going to give you a free day." The class full of students started to murmur and talk. "That doesn't mean that you're going to spend the entire hour talking if you have work to do I suggest using this time to finish or get a head start." He spent the rest of the hour observing the students.

At lunch Zack looked around the giant cafeteria filled with students. He noticed several girls staring at him, some we're waiving at him flirtatiously while others just blushed and looked away when they would see him staring at him. He spotted April a couple of rows down with four other people, he took a step to move but was suddenly stopped when a girl with black hair walked up to him.

"You must be Mr. Johnson's son." The girl gave a smirk as she sized up the young anthropologist. "You're even cuter than your father and uncle." Zack didn't know how to respond to that so he just kept staring at the girl. She took that as an invitation to keep talking. "I'm Erin and if you'd like I can be your personal escort."

"Practicing already I see." Zack looked up and saw April standing in front of them with a glare on her face. "Come on A.J. I saved you a spot."

"How's your mom doing April? I heard she went back to the bottle." Zack grabbed April by the waist preventing her from attacking the laughing Erin. "Looks like I hit a nerve. Whenever your done with that loser come find me. I'll be waiting." Erin gave April one last wave which prompted another round of struggling against the deceptively strong grip of Zack.

"Can I let you go?" He asked looking over at April.

"She's gone so yeah." Zack loosened his grip and looked at the Indian girl who was fixing her shirt and hair. "Sorry you had to see that."

"Mind telling me what that's about?"

"Long story."

"We've got 45 minutes I think we could squeeze in some time."

Later that night the Johnson's gathered around the dinning room table. Brennan and Ziva had prepared a nice turkey dinner since they had nothing better to do a subject they we're both going to bring up.

"Anyone come across as suspects?" Ziva asked not being able to discuss the case was driving her insane if she had to listen to one more story from their neighbors about how unsatisfying their husbands we're she was going to hurt somebody.

"Got a couple of students I'm looking into possibly staff." Booth answered.

"I'll tell you one thing though." Tony chimed in holding up a biscuit "These guys we're eye candy. I counted at least 14 girls in almost all my classes." Booth nodded "None of them knew how to handle the tools and don't even get me started on how some of these girls we're dressed."

"I'm guessing we should look into these two guys." Booth said from the head of the table. "Something doesn't feel right."

"There's that famous gut feeling. I knew it was hereditary." Brennan rolled her eyes at Tony's childlike behavior. "What about you Kid? Find anything?"

"I got a couple of matches this guy Mike DeGrada was flunked by Cody making him ineligible to compete for his soccer's traveling team. Apparently it was the championship game."

"Anything else?" Brennan asked giving her former student a pointed look.

"There's also this girl named Erin Pritts she seemed like a very…. Promiscuous girl."

"That's a good song." The three other adults and Zack turned to look at the Italian agent who just held his hands up. "What it's a classic."

"As I was saying. There could be a probability that Erin was having sexual relations with one of the brothers."

"So what your saying is that we've gone from murder to something completely different?" Ziva asked looking at the FBI team.

"Oh no Murder is most definitely still on the table." Booth corrected. "We're just adding something else to the mix."

"It tends to happen with us." Brennan added. "What about April Sarin?"

"Seriously?" Zack said not bothering to hide his annoyance. "We've already ruled April out as a suspect."

"No you ruled her out as a suspect." Ziva corrected. "We're just looking at everyone."

"Why do you suspect her?"

"Maybe it's because she would often be seen entering Mark's house while his wife was away grocery shopping." The former Mossad agent answered. Zack seemed taken aback by that response. "For all we know she could've had a sexual relation with him."

"You're wrong. There's no way that information is accurate."

"What makes you say that Zack?" Booth asked. "You got any proof?"

"You call it a gut feeling agent Booth. I'm saying that now. I have a gut feeling that she's not the person we should be looking into."

"Then find me the right person Zack." The 'Teen' got up and left the table making the adults sigh.

"Maybe you we're right." Brennan said looking over at Booth. "Perhaps he wasn't ready to be out in the field."

"It's to late now Bones." Booth replied. "Keep trying to find more evidence and I'll look into April and her family." Down in his room Zack signed into his cover Facebook profile he had McGee set one up for him. He smiled when he saw he had one new comment from April

April Sarin

Nice to see you have one of these now I don't feel like a creeper for trying to find your ugly mug on this thing. By the way your cousin Jimmy is cute is he single? If so how about Lance? Is that really his name?

Posted about an hour ago

"Let's hope my gut is right about you April."