Chapter 11.

"Yes Dr. Sweets?" Emma said coming into the office. While she noticed he still looked tired and had to lean against the desk from falling over, he also looked reinvigorated in some ways.

"Emma, oh, by the way," Sweets said with a smile. "Lance is fine." Emma smiled and Booth wondered if they were both blushing for some reason.

"I need your help." Emma was glad that Sweets was now asking for her help. Booth grinned because he too was glad to see cynical Sweets start to fade away.

"I want to look at Pelant's patterns." Sweets started to gather up particular files and hand them to Emma. "The computer Pelant will be basing his decision off what he did before. I'd like to lay them out and group them together." Sweets said trying to kneel to the floor but the pain in his ribs were flaring.

"Do you have some pills I can get you, Dr. Sweets?"

"Yes he does but good luck." Booth said gritting his teeth.

"I'm fine." Sweets said.

"See." Booth said under his breath.

"Booth if I take them I'll be sleepy and I can't be sleepy right now." Sweets said in his own defense. Booth relented because he knew that they needed Sweets brain running as smoothly as he hoped it still could.

"Fine, but we're going to help." Booth said looking at Emma who nodded. "And after this case if over, you get some rest." The two of them sat on the floor and waited for Sweets to instruct them on how to lay out the files.

Sweets nodded in agreement and continued with instructions.

"Mrs. Montenegro?" One of the techs asked though seemingly nervous to talk to such a 'pretty lady' as she heard one of them call her when she came in.

"Angela is fine Sweetie." She said and he nearly fainted.

"I think I found something though it's not directly related to the current case…"

"Well then we're not concerned Sweetie, we need to track down where ever this computer is so we can shut it down. It's a techie way of killing the bad guy okay?"

"It's just that it has to do with yourself and Dr. Jack Hodgins."

Angela was stunned. "What do you mean?"

"I found in the files we've been going over and it's something that related to your last case, it appears this Mr. Pelant had ciphered some money away from Dr. Hodgins. I've located it."

"You what?!" Angela asked loud enough everyone stopped for a moment to turn their attention to her.

"Yes, I believe we could extract it if you so desire." Angela wasn't sure if he was always so monotone of if there was something more.

"Well, yeah, sure." Angela said still catching up to the shock and excited to tell Jack. "Wait, is there something wrong, you seem hesitant."

"There are two things. If I do take the money it will be removing it from a charity."

Angela sighed as she knew Pelant knew they may have eventually located the money. Pelant wasn't being charitable, he was being malicious again - just like with the girls school.

"Well, I am guessing Jack isn't going to want that." She said. "What is the other thing?"

"Well, I'm afraid by extracting the money we are going to need to prove it was yours, which won't be very hard, we can show the money thru the lineage."

"Okay, so what's wrong with that?"

"From what I have seen so far, the money, the original, old heritage money, was earned thru a slave trade."

"What?!" Angela said.

"Oh it certainly wasn't any of Dr. Hodgins doing."

Angela nodded, she had figured that out. "I'm sure you're wrong, Hodgins family didn't…"

"Well not in recent years no, this dates back to the founding of the country."

Angela wanted to leave a few choice words at finding that out and wondered whether or not she should tell Hodgins about any of this.

"Let's just get back to work on finding that hard drive."

Three hundred and fifty four files later, Booth and Emma were done placing the files in piles Sweets wanted. The time it took was longer since he kept wanting to help.

"Please tell me you just solved the case." Booth said tired of crawling around and was by now sure that field work was more his thing.

"I wish, trust me I wish." Sweets said looking the files and piles over.

Booth's phone rang and he got up from the floor so he could answer it at a distance so he could hear.

"Lance!" Sweets said again to Emma after she had again called him Dr. Sweets. Booth smiled at the banter between them.

Emma and Sweets continued to discuss the folders and remove certain piles as necessary. It looked like a huge mess to Booth but he knew Sweets had a plan. At least he hoped good Sweets did. He hoped moody Sweets was MIA.

"Booth." He answered. "Yeah, I'm on my way."

Emma and Sweets looked over to Booth.

"Bones just got another body."

Booth was about to get in the car when his cell rang again.

"Yeah Bones, I'm on my way."

"No, Booth, I'm calling you because I don't think you need to. We had an ID on our victim."

"Really? How so quick? I thought…"

"I think Pelant wanted us to be able to figure this out very quickly." Brennan said then her voice softened. "It was too easy."

"What do you mean?" Booth asked now nervous.

"The name doesn't matter," Brennan said and Booth knew she was stalling. "It's Sweets birth mother."

"Shit." Booth said shutting the car door and heading back into the Hoover building.