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Disclaimer: I do not own Bones, but if I did…..there would be three couples Zack and Althy, DUH, Angela and Hodgins and of course BONES AND BOOTH.
Chapter 2
The Jeffersonian Institute of Job Offers
It has been two days since Jack handed Dr. Brennan my resume and today was my interview. I dressed in the most official clothing I could find: a black skirt with a white blouse under a black jacket, with black heels. My hair remained the same down with a braid in the front. Jack drove me to the Jeffersonian and showed me to Dr. Brennan's office.
It was a nice office lightly decorated and showed class. Dr. Saroyan and Dr. Brennan waited for me.
"Dr. Saroyan, Dr. Brennan, it's a pleasure." I said and shook their hands.
"Please sit down Dr. Calloway." instructed Dr. Brennan and I sat down in the indicated seat on the couch. "I looked over your resume and it looked very impressive…what was it you did in Egypt?"
"Thank you, in Egypt I was trying to help Dr. Zahi Hawass find the remains of Kya, the supposed mother of King Tut, that didn't work out to well."
"How did you know we had a position open? Did Dr. Hodgins tell you?" asked Dr. Saroyan.
"Actually no, Zach Addy told me." I replied and a silence covered us.
"Z…Zach, you know Zach?" asked Dr. Brennan
"Of course I know Zach, I've been friends with him…since our junior year of high school…I saw him the day before yesterday and he suggested I apply for the job, he said something about you having trouble finding a competent assistant who could measure up to Zach's intellect."
"And you believe you can?"
"Zach and I share the size of our IQ and I do have…slightly more degrees then your average grad student."
"Well…." said Dr. Saroyan as a guy in a suit walked in.
"Bones," he said, "we got remains in a bunker."
"Thank you Booth." replied Dr. Brennan. I now assumed that the nickname was for her. "Dr. Calloway I do not care for your resume because it doesn't give me the full range of your abilities. We'll give you a trial run. Let's go, we have remains that need to be studied."
I nodded and followed Dr. Brennan and the guy named Booth to his car. He drove to the crime scene, which was in a very nice suburban neighborhood lots of old homes and lots of children running around.
He led us to the bunker where the remains lay. "Dr. Calloway what can you tell me about this victim?"
I put on my gloves and looked at the body.
"Female, late teens…I'd estimate around sixteen to eighteen years old. Cause of death could be a result of the wound to her abdomen. The marks on her ankles and wrists suggest long term confinement….there's also marks on her abdomen, along with something that resembles fetal material…I may be able to identify them in the lab, along with the fracture to her nose." I said "The bugs here will tell us how long the body's been here."
"Very good." said Dr. Brennan. "Who discovered the body?"
"The new tenants moved in early this week. The Husband goes down stairs to put something away and BAMF finds her."
"Bamf?" asked Dr. Brennan
"It's a slang expression Dr. Brennan." I explained "Used to demonstrate a climatic moment or event
Then everything was taken to the Jeffersonian and I got the pleasure of meeting Jack's ex-what ever it is she was. The body was laid down on the examination table and I started examining as she came in with a scrawny schmuck guy.
"Hi, you must be Althea, I'm Angela I do the facial reconstructions here and this is Dr. Sweets." she introduced.
"Nice to meet you," I said not taking my eyes off the remains. "Wait," I looked up as I adjusted my glasses. "This is Dr. Sweets, this schmuck is Zach's shrink…no wonder he's still in the loony bin."
"Excuse me…." tried Sweets.
"I can tell that you are fully aware that Zach is not a killer and by Miss. Montenegro's reaction I take it you didn't tell ANYONE." I said annoyed
"How do you…."
"Know your last name, Miss. Montenegro? Hard not to considering you almost married my cousin… and I know you Dr. Schmuck….Sweets as the man who ruined his and Zach's lives…but also…." I stopped myself I was having way to much fun ragging on them I had to focus on the remains and…getting Zach back.
"Dr. Calloway…" started Dr. Brennan
"Please, call me Althea." I replied and Brennan nodded. "May I ask who the man was that informed you of these remains?"
"That's FBI Special Agent Seely Booth" she said her eyes glowing slightly at the mention of the name. "What have you discovered?"
"Age can be confirmed as Seventeen, Caucasion She had been in that bunker for an estimated four to eight years. I have written everything down." I said holding up the two pieces of paper that were covered in my hand writing. I found an extremely small bone fragment and ran it's DNA, the results were….shocking.
"Great. Are you familiar with the cleaning of the remains?" asked Brennan and I nodded. I cleaned the remains and Miss. Montenegro made a sketch of what the victim looked like and she ran it through a mass recognition program. While I was studying the anomalies in the remains Jack came up to talk to me.
"So…you met Sweets and Angela…" said Jack.
"The so called Dr. Sweets was indeed a schmuck; however I have yet to comment on Miss. Montenegro until I've gotten to know her…but only for you." I replied and magnified the front image of the skull. "No, ways, Jack get Dr. Brennan and Agent Booth in here quick." He nodded and asked the two to come in.
"So is this the newest squint?" asked Booth.
"I prefer the term geek." I replied. "Dr. Brennan please takes a look here." I moved the magnifier over the nose.
"It appears that something was thruster into her nose and pulled out rapidly. Any idea what it was?"
"Actually yes," I said and pulled up an image of a hook like thing, but it was very old. "This beauty was used in Ancient Egypt during the preparation for the after life. It was used to remove the brain. A priest would thrust it into the nose like so." I said demonstrating. "Twist it around a bit and pull it out along with the brain, which is why the fractures occurred and why I did not find any brain tissue."
"But early mummified remains do not show such fractures often." replied Dr. Brennan
"Of course not, the priests were experts this guy….not so much. I'd say he was an armature, or a fanatic."
"Is Bones letting you guess?" asked Agent Booth
"On the contrary as someone with a degree in Psychology I am fully capable of making assumptions based on scientific evidence." I replied watching Agent Booth understand what I said.
Angela came back in and said she got a match on the victim.
"Her name was Jessie Gordon. She disappeared five years ago on her way home from school. She was seventeen. I pulled up the original case file and the suspect at the time was her boyfriend Derek Vanier, whom she dumped shortly to going missing, but since there was no body the case went cold. The police also suspected the Step-father; however there was no evidence anywhere. She has such pretty blonde hair."
"Ms. Montenegro what was her Step-fathers place of occupation?"
"He was a museum tour guide, he was also an armature Egyptologist." replied Angela
"I knew it!" I said smiling brightly.
"How about motive?" asked Booth?
"How do you like these?" I asked and held up some tiny bone fragments. "This bone fragment has genetic traits linked to the victim, but it does not belong to her. I'd estimate she was at least two months along in her pregnancy."
"Booth would this be enough for a DNA warrant on Derek Vanier?" asked Dr. Brennan
"I should think. But first I think you and I need to tell the parents the news." said Booth.
"I can't imagine to know what they must have though would happen…to loose a child…" I said starring at that small bone fragment.
"On second thought," said Booth, "Dr. Calloway would you accompany me to the family?"
"Why?" I asked
"I need someone whose a bit more intone with their emotions." said Booth.
"Is it alright with you Dr. Brennan?"
"OF course, while you tell the family I can read your report and call for a warrant."
"Well alright then." I said and followed Booth to his car.
We sat in silence as he put the key into the ignition and turned towards out of the Jeffersonian parking lot.
"SO…Dr. Calloway…"
"Althea." I replied.
"Althea, really?" he said trying not to laugh.
"Oh yeah like yours is much better Seely." I said glaring and he stopped. "so how long have you and Dr. Brennan been involved?"
"W…what we're not involved." he said almost chocking.
"Oh…my mistake then," I said grinning. The house was a simple white painted, picket fence dream of a perfect family home. We pulled into the driveway and got out of the car. After we nocked on the door a pudgy woman opened it. She had red hair and a really pretty smile.
The women let us into her home and let us sit on her fancy couch.
"Ms. Gordon I'm FBI Special Agent Seely Booth and this is Dr. Althea Calloway, there's no easy way to tell you this, but we found your daughter…." started Agent Booth.
"Oh sweet…Rick!" she called and her husband came in "Rick, they found her, they found Jessie." She burst out crying, unlike her husband who looked shocked and angry.
"Where was she found?" was his first question.
"In a bunker of a home….some three blocks from here." I said.
"How bad was her body?" asked the father again? What made him so sure that the body had been scared in anyway?
"What makes you so sure that her body is in bad form?" asked Booth
"Its instinct." said Mrs. Gordon quickly, "It's been so long…I knew that boy was gonna get to her…I told her."
"I see." I said "Mrs. Gordon, did you know that your daughter was pregnant when she died?"
End of chapter I know it's not exactly authentic, but I did my best. Thank you and please REVIEW!
