S01E04 - The Man in the Bear (02/07)
Fandom: Bones
Pairing: Seeley Booth/Zack Addy, Angela Montenegro/Jack Hodgins, Vincent Nigel-Murray/Wendell Bray
Rating:T
Spoilers:Season 01
Series:Seventh story of Bones Revisited - Season 01
Summary:My version of the fourth episode. Zack and Booth travel to Washington State to investigate a man eaten by a bear, only things are never that simple. Angela and Hodgins deal with the aftermath of their date. And a surprise appearance by Vincent and Wendell. Contains slash.
Author Notes: I change the character highlighted on each scene. Words in italic are their thoughts. Words underlined are other character's thoughts.
Main characters in each scene are Zack Addy (The Arrival, The Road to Aurora and The Rapid Express), Seeley Booth (The Road to the Estate and The Fight) and Temperance Brennan (The Arm Analysis).
Chapter One
In which squints arrive at the Jeffersonian and field agents fight in Aurora.
Medical-Legal Lab
Jeffersonian Institute
Dr. Brennan was walking alongside her boss, Dr. Daniel Goodman.
"Why is Booth the one who decides whether we go to Washington State? He gets the gun and the authority. He's the one that people like."
"Firstly, he didn't decide that you and Mr. Addy would go to Washington State. He made a request along with Director Cullen. I was the one who authorized it."
"And secondly?"
"Secondly, it's time to live a little, Temperance. Connect with other people."
"Are you suggesting that I take this opportunity to sleep with someone?"
"Good God! Where's Dr. Freud when I need him?"
"I don't understand what you're saying."
"That is precisely why I'm sending you to the Great North Woods. Come on now, there's partially dismembered skeleton remains to be examined. That
should put a smile in your face. The mosquitoes out there are the size of dogs; pack insect repellent."
The head of the Jeffersonian walked up to the forensic platform where Zack was getting the last things ready for the squints' arrival.
"Out with it."
"I don't know what you are talking about."
"I am well aware that you were within listening range."
And that you show remarkable aptitude to psychology.
"You were right in getting her away from her comfort zone, but you know she won't open up to just anyone. Nevertheless, I agree with your and Director Cullen's assessment that sometime soon she will let her walls down."
Either she'll let them or they will just fall.
"What do you mean with 'your and Director Cullen's assessment'?" - Zack gave him Angela's patented Are-you-kidding-me? look. - "Fine. You were
correct. Now, if you excuse me."
"Just don't kill Hodgins while we're in Washington." - He called out as the other man left.
Soon enough his lover joined him on the platform.
"You ready to go?"
"Almost, I just have to wait for Wendell Bray and Vincent Nigel-Murray's arrival."
"Why were you smiling when you talked about them?"
"It's amazing how no one but me noticed that they've been seeing each other for six months now. But I do have to admit they hide it well."
"Do they know you know?"
"I had my suspicions but then I caught them in storage."
"Cleopatra's bed?"
"The one and only."
Booth was struck with memories from when he they'd used the famous bed:
"Remind me to bring you lunch more times."
"Will do."
The couple's kiss was interrupted by a throat clearing. Zack's muttered apologies were cut off by Wendell's question:
"He knows?"
"Yes."
"Why are we both here, Mr. Addy?"
"Because in some hours Dr. Brennan, Booth and me are going to be in Washington State."
"Did you know that Seattle gets less rainfall annually than Atlanta, Boston, New York, Houston, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Washington D.C. and Miami?"
Booth was left speechless. The blond squint patted the agent's shoulder and said:
"I had the exact same reaction when I first met him."
I didn't.
Zack asked the black-haired squint an out of the blue question:
"Did you know that the highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado?"
"No, I did not. Did you know that in Louisiana, biting someone with your natural teeth is considered a simple assault, but biting someone with your false teeth is considered an aggravated assault?"
They continued exchanging trivia while Wendell talked to Booth:
"Agent Booth?"
"Yes, Mister Bray?"
"First, call me Wendell. Second, you have to break them up or they'll just keep spurting out facts."
"Gotcha. Zack, we have to go!"
"Alright, Seeley." - He turned to the other squints. - "Dr. Brennan and I will beam you if needed. The remains will also be shipped here. And to finally answer your question, Vincent, you are both here because I thought you would like to keep each other company."
Booth dragged his boyfriend to the car and left for Zack (and Hodgins') home for packing.
"They're gone, Vince, and we have nothing to do…"
"Are you suggesting we use the bed? We do not have the key for the storage area, Wendell."
"You sure about that?" - He pointed to small silver key lying by the scalpel.
"Are you aware that pure silver will melt at 961 degrees Celsius, while sterling melts at 779 degrees?"
Wendell cut off his boyfriend with a kiss:
"Let's just go before anyone can miss us."
Special Agent Seeley Booth's car on route to Hodgins' Estate
Washington D.C.
"Zack, why are you smirking?"
"I know exactly what Vincent and Wendell are doing right now."
"So you can read my mind and know what other people are doing?"
My little psychic.
"I left them the key for the warehouse."
"Oh." - He changed the subject. - "So, since when you and Vincent are almost brothers?"
"Ever since I met him. We were of like minds and something just clicked. We had the same behavior, the same quirks, as Angela likes to call it. He asked me out for a coffee, as friends of course, and got to know the man behind the facts. We became very good friends after that."
You took him under your wing because he is just like you.
Special Agent Seeley Booth's car on route to Aurora
Pacific Northwest
Booth had helped Zack pack and taken advantage of the fact that Hodgins was at the lab and the house was empty ('Kitchen?' 'I do not wish to be sore while we are at the crime scene.' 'Bedroom?' 'Much better.').
Booth and Brennan were arguing once again; and just because she sat on the back and the agent couldn't see her didn't mean that they would stop
fighting.
"Being cooped up in crappy hotel in the middle of nowhere, with a fifty dollar per diem, is not my idea of a good time either, you know."
"You only get 50 dollars a day? How can you live on that?"
"What do you mean, what do you get?"
"I don't have a limit; I just give them the receipts."
"You have to have a limit; everyone has a limit. We work for the government."
"Yeah, I don't have a limit."
"Do you have a limit, Zack?"
"No, I am included in Dr. Brennan's deal because I am her assistant."
"It's not fair to the tax payers. You're like those thousand dollars toilet seats."
Zack looked at his headphones.
I could put this on and pretend they aren't fighting like Rick and Ems…
"I imagine I am treated differently than you because I have an indispensable skill."
My choice to ignore it just vanished into thin air.
"Indispensable. I do not need you."
"Oh, so you can determine the origin of the kerf marks as well as sex and age of the victim?"
Booth bit back a response when Zack's hand caught his and his squint's eyes said 'Don't!'.
"You are a smartass, you know that?"
"Objectively I'd say I'm very smart, although it has nothing to do with my ass."
Zack snickered at his boss's joke.
"You know what? I'll tell you what ... you two can take me out to dinner. Put me on your tab."
Zack rolled his eyes. Brennan just said:
"That doesn't seem ethical."
"Come on, Dr. Brennan; show some mercy to the poor starving agent."
"But if we feed it it'll just keep coming back for more."
"Please, it followed me home."
"We'll start with breakfast."
Booth chuckled at the unusual exchange between squints.
"You know it's beautiful here, it's feels good to be out of the city."
"Yeah, where murderers feed their victims to bears."
"Or worse, where bears know how to use saws."
The FBI agent groaned:
"That is the last time we watch horror movies before we go to bed."
Aurora
Washington
They arrived and got out of the car. Booth took a deep cleansing breath and said:
"Ah. Small town America. You gotta love it."
"Yeah, this is not a small town. Chiantla, Guatemala, 150 people, no running water. That's a small town."
"I said small town America, not small town Guatemala. And I've been there too by the way."
Don't ask. I don't like to talk about it.
"Where are you going?"
Zack let out a sigh of relief.
"See the sheriff."
"How you're going to do that?"
"It's an old FBI trick, I'm going to ask somebody who lives here."
"What took you to Guatemala? Eco-tourism?"
"I went down there to shoot someone through the heart from 1500 feet of distance."
The ex-sniper stormed off. Brennan looked at Zack and started:
"I didn't mean to-"
"I know. Just let him calm down. I'll go talk to him."
"You know how to get to the morgue?"
"I'll manage."
The anthropologist nodded and went on her way. The squint took a deep breath before setting off after his agent.
"Seeley."
"I don't want to talk, Zack."
"Then just listen to me." - His hand went to his lover's cheek. - "Seeley, she's been hurt too much in her life, she built walls all around her. She treats the world like she's been treated; cold and indifferent."
"I know."
"Now those walls are cracking because of you, who she treats like a brother, because of me, Ange and Hodgins, who she treats like family; and all she knows is turning to dust."
"She doesn't know where she stands."
"Exactly. She'll push you away if you let her, Seeley. She needs you, not that she'll admit it, and you're the link to the humanity she locked inside."
The younger man just leaned in and kissed his lover.
"When did you become so insightful?"
"Must be a side effect from spending time with you."
Morgue
Aurora, Washington
When Zack arrived at the autopsy room, Dr. Brennan was taking photos of the detached arm while the veterinary, the park ranger and the doctor watched.
"I was pretty sure it was human, but I'm a vet; so I called Andrew, Dr. Rigby, and he thought it was human too."
"Officially, I am the coroner here, but I'm just a country doctor. I have no training in forensics."
Then you shouldn't be the coroner.
"Zack, come take a look at this." - She motioned for the assistant to move closer. - "Tell me what you see."
"This is approximately 60% of the arm of a male: late teens, early twenties, well muscled."
"That's amazing!"
Zack noticed something and just pointed to the bones. Bones asked the other people in the room:
"You see these marks here? Below the radial tuberosity. You haven't by any chance performed any amputations lately, have you?"
"A few frost bit toes last winter and a thumb from a nasty Murphy bit accident, why?"
"These are saw marks."
The stern ranger finally offered a commentary:
"That's not good, people getting sawed up and eaten up by bears."
Brennan handed Zack the camera and he announced:
"I'm going to send this back to the lab, our people there can give a better estimate on how long ago the bear ingested the arm."
"You got pretty good equipment there, I guess? I'm still on dial-up."
The squint smiled while his boss inquired the townsfolk about the body part.
"What's the fastest way to ship a human arm?"
They all answered at once:
"Charlie."
The two bone-people looked at each other hoping for an answer to the question 'What?'.
Rapid Express
Aurora, Washington
They walked into the building holding a large box.
A man walked over to them:
"Need a hand?"
"Thanks, we're trying to get rid of this one."- When Charlie looked at him confused, Zack explained his joke. - "These are human remains."
"Oh."
"We have to ship them to the Jeffersonian Institute in Washington D.C."
She wrote down her information in the waybill while the perky guy behind the counter talked:
"Cool, they have Dizzy Gillespie's trumpet there; Muhammad Ali's boxing gloves, Abraham Lincoln's assassination top hat."
"I know, I work there."
"You ever sit in Archie Bunker's chair?"
"We work in a different part of the museum. We are forensic anthropologists."
"My name is Charlie."
Zack answered when it seemed Bones was too entranced by writing.
"Yeah, I know."
"Wow, what you can tell from like my skull structure?"
"It says it on your shirt, Charlie." - She handed him the waybill. - "Where can we find the sheriff?"
"He's out past the garage on the right." He looked at the name on the waybill. - "Hey, Temperance Brennan...I'm reading your book."
Zack grinned and slipped away unnoticed. He was outside the door waiting for his boss to leave, but still within hearing distance.
"It gave me a few ideas if I ever want to kill someone and get rid of the body."
That's your pickup line?
"Don't forget Charlie, the heroine always catches the bad guy."
He muttered 'Sounds good to me.' while watching her leave.
Men…
Forget about him. You have to go to Seeley.
Pairing: Seeley Booth/Zack Addy, Angela Montenegro/Jack Hodgins, Vincent Nigel-Murray/Wendell Bray
Rating:T
Spoilers:Season 01
Series:Seventh story of Bones Revisited - Season 01
Summary:My version of the fourth episode. Zack and Booth travel to Washington State to investigate a man eaten by a bear, only things are never that simple. Angela and Hodgins deal with the aftermath of their date. And a surprise appearance by Vincent and Wendell. Contains slash.
Author Notes: I change the character highlighted on each scene. Words in italic are their thoughts. Words underlined are other character's thoughts.
Main characters in each scene are Zack Addy (The Arrival, The Road to Aurora and The Rapid Express), Seeley Booth (The Road to the Estate and The Fight) and Temperance Brennan (The Arm Analysis).
Chapter One
In which squints arrive at the Jeffersonian and field agents fight in Aurora.
Medical-Legal Lab
Jeffersonian Institute
Dr. Brennan was walking alongside her boss, Dr. Daniel Goodman.
"Why is Booth the one who decides whether we go to Washington State? He gets the gun and the authority. He's the one that people like."
"Firstly, he didn't decide that you and Mr. Addy would go to Washington State. He made a request along with Director Cullen. I was the one who authorized it."
"And secondly?"
"Secondly, it's time to live a little, Temperance. Connect with other people."
"Are you suggesting that I take this opportunity to sleep with someone?"
"Good God! Where's Dr. Freud when I need him?"
"I don't understand what you're saying."
"That is precisely why I'm sending you to the Great North Woods. Come on now, there's partially dismembered skeleton remains to be examined. That
should put a smile in your face. The mosquitoes out there are the size of dogs; pack insect repellent."
The head of the Jeffersonian walked up to the forensic platform where Zack was getting the last things ready for the squints' arrival.
"Out with it."
"I don't know what you are talking about."
"I am well aware that you were within listening range."
And that you show remarkable aptitude to psychology.
"You were right in getting her away from her comfort zone, but you know she won't open up to just anyone. Nevertheless, I agree with your and Director Cullen's assessment that sometime soon she will let her walls down."
Either she'll let them or they will just fall.
"What do you mean with 'your and Director Cullen's assessment'?" - Zack gave him Angela's patented Are-you-kidding-me? look. - "Fine. You were
correct. Now, if you excuse me."
"Just don't kill Hodgins while we're in Washington." - He called out as the other man left.
Soon enough his lover joined him on the platform.
"You ready to go?"
"Almost, I just have to wait for Wendell Bray and Vincent Nigel-Murray's arrival."
"Why were you smiling when you talked about them?"
"It's amazing how no one but me noticed that they've been seeing each other for six months now. But I do have to admit they hide it well."
"Do they know you know?"
"I had my suspicions but then I caught them in storage."
"Cleopatra's bed?"
"The one and only."
Booth was struck with memories from when he they'd used the famous bed:
"Remind me to bring you lunch more times."
"Will do."
The couple's kiss was interrupted by a throat clearing. Zack's muttered apologies were cut off by Wendell's question:
"He knows?"
"Yes."
"Why are we both here, Mr. Addy?"
"Because in some hours Dr. Brennan, Booth and me are going to be in Washington State."
"Did you know that Seattle gets less rainfall annually than Atlanta, Boston, New York, Houston, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Washington D.C. and Miami?"
Booth was left speechless. The blond squint patted the agent's shoulder and said:
"I had the exact same reaction when I first met him."
I didn't.
Zack asked the black-haired squint an out of the blue question:
"Did you know that the highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado?"
"No, I did not. Did you know that in Louisiana, biting someone with your natural teeth is considered a simple assault, but biting someone with your false teeth is considered an aggravated assault?"
They continued exchanging trivia while Wendell talked to Booth:
"Agent Booth?"
"Yes, Mister Bray?"
"First, call me Wendell. Second, you have to break them up or they'll just keep spurting out facts."
"Gotcha. Zack, we have to go!"
"Alright, Seeley." - He turned to the other squints. - "Dr. Brennan and I will beam you if needed. The remains will also be shipped here. And to finally answer your question, Vincent, you are both here because I thought you would like to keep each other company."
Booth dragged his boyfriend to the car and left for Zack (and Hodgins') home for packing.
"They're gone, Vince, and we have nothing to do…"
"Are you suggesting we use the bed? We do not have the key for the storage area, Wendell."
"You sure about that?" - He pointed to small silver key lying by the scalpel.
"Are you aware that pure silver will melt at 961 degrees Celsius, while sterling melts at 779 degrees?"
Wendell cut off his boyfriend with a kiss:
"Let's just go before anyone can miss us."
Special Agent Seeley Booth's car on route to Hodgins' Estate
Washington D.C.
"Zack, why are you smirking?"
"I know exactly what Vincent and Wendell are doing right now."
"So you can read my mind and know what other people are doing?"
My little psychic.
"I left them the key for the warehouse."
"Oh." - He changed the subject. - "So, since when you and Vincent are almost brothers?"
"Ever since I met him. We were of like minds and something just clicked. We had the same behavior, the same quirks, as Angela likes to call it. He asked me out for a coffee, as friends of course, and got to know the man behind the facts. We became very good friends after that."
You took him under your wing because he is just like you.
Special Agent Seeley Booth's car on route to Aurora
Pacific Northwest
Booth had helped Zack pack and taken advantage of the fact that Hodgins was at the lab and the house was empty ('Kitchen?' 'I do not wish to be sore while we are at the crime scene.' 'Bedroom?' 'Much better.').
Booth and Brennan were arguing once again; and just because she sat on the back and the agent couldn't see her didn't mean that they would stop
fighting.
"Being cooped up in crappy hotel in the middle of nowhere, with a fifty dollar per diem, is not my idea of a good time either, you know."
"You only get 50 dollars a day? How can you live on that?"
"What do you mean, what do you get?"
"I don't have a limit; I just give them the receipts."
"You have to have a limit; everyone has a limit. We work for the government."
"Yeah, I don't have a limit."
"Do you have a limit, Zack?"
"No, I am included in Dr. Brennan's deal because I am her assistant."
"It's not fair to the tax payers. You're like those thousand dollars toilet seats."
Zack looked at his headphones.
I could put this on and pretend they aren't fighting like Rick and Ems…
"I imagine I am treated differently than you because I have an indispensable skill."
My choice to ignore it just vanished into thin air.
"Indispensable. I do not need you."
"Oh, so you can determine the origin of the kerf marks as well as sex and age of the victim?"
Booth bit back a response when Zack's hand caught his and his squint's eyes said 'Don't!'.
"You are a smartass, you know that?"
"Objectively I'd say I'm very smart, although it has nothing to do with my ass."
Zack snickered at his boss's joke.
"You know what? I'll tell you what ... you two can take me out to dinner. Put me on your tab."
Zack rolled his eyes. Brennan just said:
"That doesn't seem ethical."
"Come on, Dr. Brennan; show some mercy to the poor starving agent."
"But if we feed it it'll just keep coming back for more."
"Please, it followed me home."
"We'll start with breakfast."
Booth chuckled at the unusual exchange between squints.
"You know it's beautiful here, it's feels good to be out of the city."
"Yeah, where murderers feed their victims to bears."
"Or worse, where bears know how to use saws."
The FBI agent groaned:
"That is the last time we watch horror movies before we go to bed."
Aurora
Washington
They arrived and got out of the car. Booth took a deep cleansing breath and said:
"Ah. Small town America. You gotta love it."
"Yeah, this is not a small town. Chiantla, Guatemala, 150 people, no running water. That's a small town."
"I said small town America, not small town Guatemala. And I've been there too by the way."
Don't ask. I don't like to talk about it.
"Where are you going?"
Zack let out a sigh of relief.
"See the sheriff."
"How you're going to do that?"
"It's an old FBI trick, I'm going to ask somebody who lives here."
"What took you to Guatemala? Eco-tourism?"
"I went down there to shoot someone through the heart from 1500 feet of distance."
The ex-sniper stormed off. Brennan looked at Zack and started:
"I didn't mean to-"
"I know. Just let him calm down. I'll go talk to him."
"You know how to get to the morgue?"
"I'll manage."
The anthropologist nodded and went on her way. The squint took a deep breath before setting off after his agent.
"Seeley."
"I don't want to talk, Zack."
"Then just listen to me." - His hand went to his lover's cheek. - "Seeley, she's been hurt too much in her life, she built walls all around her. She treats the world like she's been treated; cold and indifferent."
"I know."
"Now those walls are cracking because of you, who she treats like a brother, because of me, Ange and Hodgins, who she treats like family; and all she knows is turning to dust."
"She doesn't know where she stands."
"Exactly. She'll push you away if you let her, Seeley. She needs you, not that she'll admit it, and you're the link to the humanity she locked inside."
The younger man just leaned in and kissed his lover.
"When did you become so insightful?"
"Must be a side effect from spending time with you."
Morgue
Aurora, Washington
When Zack arrived at the autopsy room, Dr. Brennan was taking photos of the detached arm while the veterinary, the park ranger and the doctor watched.
"I was pretty sure it was human, but I'm a vet; so I called Andrew, Dr. Rigby, and he thought it was human too."
"Officially, I am the coroner here, but I'm just a country doctor. I have no training in forensics."
Then you shouldn't be the coroner.
"Zack, come take a look at this." - She motioned for the assistant to move closer. - "Tell me what you see."
"This is approximately 60% of the arm of a male: late teens, early twenties, well muscled."
"That's amazing!"
Zack noticed something and just pointed to the bones. Bones asked the other people in the room:
"You see these marks here? Below the radial tuberosity. You haven't by any chance performed any amputations lately, have you?"
"A few frost bit toes last winter and a thumb from a nasty Murphy bit accident, why?"
"These are saw marks."
The stern ranger finally offered a commentary:
"That's not good, people getting sawed up and eaten up by bears."
Brennan handed Zack the camera and he announced:
"I'm going to send this back to the lab, our people there can give a better estimate on how long ago the bear ingested the arm."
"You got pretty good equipment there, I guess? I'm still on dial-up."
The squint smiled while his boss inquired the townsfolk about the body part.
"What's the fastest way to ship a human arm?"
They all answered at once:
"Charlie."
The two bone-people looked at each other hoping for an answer to the question 'What?'.
Rapid Express
Aurora, Washington
They walked into the building holding a large box.
A man walked over to them:
"Need a hand?"
"Thanks, we're trying to get rid of this one."- When Charlie looked at him confused, Zack explained his joke. - "These are human remains."
"Oh."
"We have to ship them to the Jeffersonian Institute in Washington D.C."
She wrote down her information in the waybill while the perky guy behind the counter talked:
"Cool, they have Dizzy Gillespie's trumpet there; Muhammad Ali's boxing gloves, Abraham Lincoln's assassination top hat."
"I know, I work there."
"You ever sit in Archie Bunker's chair?"
"We work in a different part of the museum. We are forensic anthropologists."
"My name is Charlie."
Zack answered when it seemed Bones was too entranced by writing.
"Yeah, I know."
"Wow, what you can tell from like my skull structure?"
"It says it on your shirt, Charlie." - She handed him the waybill. - "Where can we find the sheriff?"
"He's out past the garage on the right." He looked at the name on the waybill. - "Hey, Temperance Brennan...I'm reading your book."
Zack grinned and slipped away unnoticed. He was outside the door waiting for his boss to leave, but still within hearing distance.
"It gave me a few ideas if I ever want to kill someone and get rid of the body."
That's your pickup line?
"Don't forget Charlie, the heroine always catches the bad guy."
He muttered 'Sounds good to me.' while watching her leave.
Men…
Forget about him. You have to go to Seeley.