The Lives We Take For Granted
Chapter Four
By Mistreated and Forgotten
Summary: Booth is undercover on a very dangerous assignment and Brennan is worried. But Booth's safety isn't the only thing that she's worrying about. BxB, AxH
A/N: Thank you once again to my beta dr. tempe bones and to those who reviewed. :)
"Who are you?" queried Agent Perotta.
"I'm Joey, the owner, and you are?"
"I'm Agent Perotta from the FBI," she showed the man her badge, "and this is Doctor Brennan from the Jeffersonian. We are investigating the deaths of Dean and Jessie Pearson, we believe this to be their last known location before they died."
"Their names don't sound familiar, they're probably not a regular."
"Is Aaron Griffith a regular?"
"Yeah he is, he's one of the nicest people I know."
"So he's not the kind of person to go around hitting people with baseball bats?"
"No I've never even seen him raise his voice before. Why do you ask?"
"Aaron Griffith is now our prime suspect for the murder of Mr and Mrs Pearson."
After they had finished at the restaurant Agent Perotta had Aaron Griffith brought in for questioning. Brennan followed Agent Perotta into the interrogation room. Brennan and the agent took their seats across from the suspect.
"Why am I here?"
"Care to tell us why you ran?"
"Not really," he replied abruptly.
"You see we know why you ran. You killed Jessie Pearson and then you killed Dean with his own weapon, you ran because we found out."
"I didn't shoot Dean, he did that himself!" Aaron was starting to get edgy.
"The markings left by the bullet that killed Dean, which turned out to be from his own weapon, do not match the striations on the bullet found in Jessie. You took Deans weapon and shot him, making it look like a suicide. Is that what happened?" Brennan pulled out two photos to support what Agent Perotta had just said. The photos showed the markings left on Dean and the comparison of the bullet found and the one on file.
"Alright! Alright! The plan was for Dean to kill his wife but he got all mushy and couldn't do it so I shot her then he shot himself."
"If you saw the two victims four days ago why did you report both of them missing five days ago?"
"It was a part of the plan, we were originally supposed to report Jessie missing but the day before he started to chicken out and I figured he wouldn't be able to do it so I reported them both missing and changed the plan."
"I don't know what that means."
"He was having second thoughts," Agent Perotta answered Brennan's statement.
"Thank you."
"You know, she was kind of like you, socially awkward," said Aaron as he stared at Brennan, there was a sinister tone to his voice.
Agent Perotta stood near the wall opposite the door when Brennan stood up from the chair and turned to exit the interrogation room. Within seconds Aaron's demeanour had completely changed. He launched himself across the table and had Brennan pinned to the wall.
"I would have liked killing you" He took a small pause, an evil smirk playing on his lips "right after I fucked you," he harshly whispered into Brennan's ear.
Aaron was pulled off Brennan. She didn't move until the man was being escorted out of the interrogation room by another agent. Brennan turned around and leant against the wall so she could see all of her surroundings.
Agent Perotta turned back to Brennan, she noticed that the other woman's breathing was laboured and her eyes showed panic. Brennan had frozen up during an attack, it was not like her.
"Are you alright Dr. Brennan?" asked Agent Perotta as the door closed.
Brennan pushed off from the wall, "I'm fine Agent Perotta."
"You are usually quite good at defending yourself when a suspect attempts to attack you. From what I've heard, you have never frozen during an attack."
"He just surprised me, that's all."
Brennan left the interrogation room and headed towards Booth's office. Her hands shook as she pulled her keys out of her pocket and unlocked Booth's office door. Once she had the door unlocked she walked in, closed the door behind her and sat down at Booth's desk. She sat so she was facing the back of his office where he kept all his photos.
Outside Booth's office, Charlie, one of the other agents who worked in the homicide department, noticed that someone was sitting in the chair at Booth's desk.
The door opened, Charlie stood in the doorway, he still had not realised who it was sitting in the chair, "I'm sorry but you can be in here."
Brennan turned around in Booth's chair. A look of realisation dawned on Charlie's face.
"I did not realise it was you Doctor Brennan, you are aw..."
"This is Booth's office and I am aware that I should not be in here but after the interrogation with Agent Perotta I just need to be in here for a few minutes." Why Brennan felt she needed to be in Booth's office she didn't know but for some reason she felt close to him while she was in there.
"Ok Doctor Brennan," Charlie turned and left the room.
The door shut behind Charlie. Brennan did nothing to stop the silent tears from slipping from her closed eyes as she turned back around. Not once since she and Booth had become partners had Brennan let any suspect attack her. She was rattled, shaken to the core. She felt helpless.
Brennan walked through the doors that led into the medico-legal lab at the Jeffersonian and headed straight to Angela's office. She stopped a couple of feet inside the door when she noticed Hodgins was talking to Angela. She looked over Hodgins shoulder her eyes met Brennan's red rimmed and bloodshot ones and a concerned look appeared on her face.
"What's wrong Sweetie?" asked Angela as she walked over to Brennan.
"I'll leave you two to talk," Hodgins exited Angela's office shutting the door behind him.
"Sweetie?"
"The suspect attacked me."
"Oh my god! Are you okay?"
"Yes I am fine, I am a little shaken up though."
"Sweetie you were attacked you surely can't be fine. What happened?"
"As I was leaving the interrogation room he leapt over the table and pinned me against the wall. He said he would have liked to kill me."
"You've had suspects threaten you before Bren, what made this time different?"
"He said that he would also have liked to have non-consensual sexual intercourse with me before he killed me."
Angela pulled Brennan into a comforting hug, "Its okay Sweetie," Angela pulled back slightly, "He is in custody isn't he?" Brennan nodded and pulled away from Angela. "That's good."
"I have never frozen up during an attack and I don't know how to explain how I felt."
"It's okay to be scared Sweetie."
"Thanks Ange," a weak unsure smile formed on Brennan's lips.
Brennan spent Friday night at her place before she met up with Angela at the diner. The pair spent Saturday shopping and getting pampered at the spa. The weekend seemed to have past by with a blink of an eye. Brennan was kept busy by Angela so that she did not dwell on what had happened and the fact that Booth was still not home.
Monday morning came around and by the time that Brennan had walked through the doors of the Jeffersonian Medico-Legal Lab she had already thrown up several times. Brennan made her way into her office. She booted up her laptop then rushed out of her office as a wave of nausea washed over her once again. This side effect of the pregnancy was going to make working hard and hiding it from her boss even harder.
As Brennan threw up the contents of her stomach into the toilet ,she did not hear the restroom door open. Brennan flushed the toilet and opened the stall door. Cam was standing at the end of the bench.
"Doctor Saroyan," Brennan acknowledged the other woman.
"You're pregnant aren't you?"
"No, what has led you to believe that?"
"I've noticed that over the last week, you've stopped whatever it is you were doing and rushed off to the toilet and when I came in here just now I heard you puking your guts out."
Brennan couldn't deny Cam's observations, "I was not puking my guts out, as you stated. That is impossible to do but, yes I am almost six weeks along."
"When were you going to tell me?" Cam enquired.
"I only found out myself a week and a half ago."
Brennan stepped in front of the sink and turned on the tap to rinse out her mouth. She then dried her hands and walked out the door, Cam followed not far behind her.
Brennan walked into her office and sat down at her desk. Cam walked in and closed the door behind her.
"Does Seeley know?"
"Yes, but only because Agent Perotta was able obtain a contact number for me despite the FBI telling me no because it was too risky."
"Okay, I bet he's happy," Brennan nodded her head. "You are aware that you're not going to be able to go with Agent Perotta when she apprehends suspects," stated Cam.
"I'm pregnant not incapacitated and I am perfectly capable of defending myself against an aggressive suspect."
"We all know you can Doctor Brennan but it's not just yourself you have to think about now and I don't think the FBI will let you."
A/N: So I managed to get Chapter 4 done while I was procrastinating before my maths exam. Chapter 5 might not be completed until after my exams are over. Enjoy and let me know what you think :)