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Brennan received a call from Andrew Hacker at around 2 p.m. She had been trying to call Booth for the last three hours; but, his phone kept going to voice mail. She wasn't too concerned. Booth sometimes turned off his cell phone when he was interrogating someone and she knew he was still working the homicide that had happened at the Jefferson Memorial, five days ago. He had an APB out for their suspect, Gary Gracey and Brennan knew, as soon as Gracey was pulled in, Booth would want to interrogate him.

Brennan was eight months pregnant and was no longer actively helping Booth in the field. She was staying in the Lab and helping there. She and Booth had decided that it would be too dangerous for her to be out in the field right now. When Andrew Hacker called, she was stunned to hear him say that Jared was dead. Andrew had told Booth four hours ago about the death of his brother and no one had seen Booth since. Andrew wanted to make sure that Brennan knew what was going on.

After hanging up the phone, Brennan went to Cam's office and told her what was going on. When Cam heard the news, she cried. Cam had known Jared and Seeley Booth since she and Seeley were in college together. Cam didn't have any brothers and always considered Jared to be the little brat brother, she never had. Jared could be irresponsible; but, she liked him. She had liked him since the day Seeley had introduced him to her. Jared was almost as charming as Seeley was.

Making sure that Cam knew to tell Angela and Hodgins about Jared, Brennan left the Lab and went home. She had to take a taxi because Booth didn't want her driving at eight months. He worried about her getting into an accident. Since he had dropped her off at work this morning, she didn't have her car with her and since she didn't want to waste valuable time explaining what was going on to Hodgins, she thought she would get home faster if she took a taxi.

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When Brennan got to their apartment, she opened the door and called out Booth's name. There weren't any lights on so at first she thought he wasn't there. The only light in the living room was coming from the window. Once her eyes had adjusted, she saw Booth sitting on the couch.

"Booth?" Brennan said anxiously. "Booth."

Seeing that he wasn't going to respond, Brennan walked over to the couch and sat down next to him. "Booth, Andrew told me about Jared."

Seeing that Booth still wasn't going to respond, Brennan started to worry that Booth was in shock. Picking up his left hand she held it to her chest and said, "Booth, I'm here if you need me. I'm not going anywhere."

Booth and Brennan sat on the couch for quite along time before Booth finally started talking. "You know, Jared was always irresponsible. He would just take off and never tell anyone where he was going or how long he would be gone. He drove Pops nuts when we were kids. I spent half my childhood looking for Jared. I never could find him. He'd come home, smiling from having had fun all day. Pops would yell at him for making him worry and Jared would promise not to do it again. It didn't matter. The next day he would be gone again. After awhile, I quit looking. I would just tell Pops I looked for Jared and couldn't find him. By the time Jared was fifteen, Pops quit asking me to look for him. He knew it wasn't any use."

Moving the hand that Brennan was holding, Booth touched the side of Brennan's face and smiled. He then got up from the couch and went into the kitchen. Brennan wasn't sure what she should do, so she sat on the couch and waited to see what Booth was going to do.

After awhile, Booth came back into the living room with a bottle of beer in one hand and a bottle of water in the other. Sitting back down, Booth handed the water to Brennan. "Here Bones, you don't drink enough water."

Opening his beer, Booth drank some. He then started staring at the darkened TV across the room. Seeing it and yet not seeing it. Slowly tears started sliding down Booth's face. Taking the beer out of Booth's hand, Brennan placed it on the coffee table. Brennan was afraid. She had never seen Booth act like this before. Placing her hand on his knee, Brennan leaned against Booth. She wanted him to know that she was there. They sat there for a very long time. The room getting darker as the evening came. Finally, the sun had set and the only light in the room came from the street lights outside the window. Booth stirred.

"Bones, have you eaten dinner yet?"

Searching Booth's face, Brennan said, "No, Booth. Would you like something to eat?"

Shaking his head, Booth said, "Bones, you know you can't skip meals. Come on, lets go into the kitchen. We still have some of that left over Thai you like."

Getting up from the couch, Booth leaned over and took Brennan's hands in his and pulled her up from the couch. When she was standing, Booth put his arms around her and said softly, "Thanks, Bones. I don't know what I would do if you weren't in my life."

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