Queen Of The Lab~Jack Hodgins Love Story~ Olivia Anne Brennan Series~ Book #3

~Death in the eyes of a teenager~

It was dark in DC. Almost 10 o'clock, but Maddie wanted to visit her mothers grave. She walked close to the head stone where she read her mommas name. Jillian Baxter. She started to talk to her mom when she heard someone, or something.
"Who's there?"
She asked not wanting to turn around.
"Your worst nightmare."
A deep raspy male voice spoke behind Maddie. The unknown man grabbed her wrist and tied them behind her back; and then her feet. Maddie was screaming but they were in the middle of nowhere so who would here?
"I swear-"
She started to say before the man put his hand over the girls mouth.
"Shhhh. Baby don't make a sound. You'll be with your mother once and for all."
Maddie started to cry but wouldn't say anything. The man suffocated her till her heart stopped beating. He placed her in the tree near by and walked away from the grave never to be seen. A few months later there was a funeral going on. No one had found the teenage, almost adult, girl in the tree. But when the pasted was speaking in the middle of the prayer the branch fell. Right on top of the open casket. The dead teenage girl was decomposed so she stayed the white velvet I the old woman's casket. Everyone screamed and eventually called 911.
Olivia woke up to her work cell ringing. She rolled over looking desperate for it not to be her work cell but it was.
"This is Brennan?"
She answered her work phone sitting upright in her bed. The dog,Christine, watching her every move from the foot of the bed.
"Same here."
Temperance said gigleing a little bit. Olivia smiled.
"Dead body at the grave site. Be here in less than an hour."
Her sister commanded and hung up. Olivia sighed getting in the shower quickly washing off her body. She got dressed in her regular cloths. A black crop-top,leather ripped jeans,leather combat boots,her leather jacket,and a few weapons where no one can see them. She grabbed her purse and phone to head out the door. When Olivia arrived at the scene she saw a small corpse.   
     "She was only 17."
Olivia whispered to herself slowly.
Only Jack heard, since he was standing right beside her even though she didn't notice.
    "Yeah it's a shame."
He said slowly.
          "No, it's sickening."
She walked up to the body next to her sister and Angela, who was taking pictures.
      "She was 17."
Temperance says confirming what Olivia already knew.
     "Get her back to the lab, these people don't need to see the body."
Angela said.  It was like Angela was the only one that had a heart. Sure Booth did,obviously, but he could still deal with murders and hide his true emotions. Angela was the rock of their team.
   At the lab Olivia stood on the platform next to the body no one knew the identity of.  It was about and hour after they found the body when Angela could even start working on the facial reconstruction. They had to take a while to clean the bones. Olivia left the platform as soon as Angela retrieved the skull. She went to her office where the painters had just finished. It was amazing. Bright sky blue walls filled her with joy.
     "Bright Sky blue."
A male voice said behind her. Olivia didn't turn around trying to guess based off the voice who it was.  It wasn't a very low voice, nor a high voice. But it had some pitch to it.
      "Why is that so interesting Dr.Sweets."
She said while slowly turning on her heels.
   "How did you-"
        "That doesn't matter, what matters is what you are doing in my office making notes in that notepad of yours in your left pocket?"
She accused him of taking notes. His left hand fell to feel in his pocket,already knowing it was there but just double checking out of shock that she knew what was happening.
     "I was just wondering why you painted your office this color."
He spoke in his defense.
She rolled her eyes at the not so young, but young looking man.
Angela walked in to save Olivia from having to either give an answer or make up some lame excuse why she did choose that color.
"I got the identity."
Angela spook felling the tension between the two of them. Olivia walked out leaving Lance there by himself to gather his thoughts in a notebook that was most precious to him. Olivia and Angela walked across the huge lab and met with everybody else. We saw a picture of a girl with long blonde hair and blue eyes.
"This is Maddie Baxter. Her mother passed six years ago no one knows why I tried getting in the files but it was locked with some sort of super code."
Olivia's eyes wandered around the room to the FBI agent.
"That either means CIA or FBI because the NSA is really easy to hack. So maybe Agent Booth could get the file open and I go talk to the dad and her brother."
Olivia spoke then started to walk away. Temperance ran after her.
"Olivia."
She yelled but Olivia did not turn around fore she knew what her sister was going to say.
"Olivia Christine Brennan!"
Temperance yelled her full name cussing Olivia to turn around in her heels in a sigh.
"We do not work like the army. You are not even a Sargent anymore."
"Once you marry the United States Government there's no such thing as a divorce."
Olivia replied back.
"That doesn't mean you can boss people around, we work as a team. As a family."
Olivia grew tired with her sister.
"Just get your butt in the car and let's go."
Temperance did as she was command. Along the way there Temperance kept looking at her younger sister.
"What?"
Olivia asked feeling her eyes on her like some wired starker person.
"Do you have some feelings for Dr.Hodgins?"
She asked in an obvious way to get to the point. Olivia's eyes widened. She may be a good lied but her sister would be able to see right through them like a window on a sunny day.
"I wouldn't say feelings but I find him attractive."
She said nervously, but also grateful because they pulled into the driveway of the Baxters family.
Olivia got out quickly hoping to avoid any more questions from her sister. Temperance walked up to the door just as Olivia knocked on it. A tall man opened the door quickly.
"Can I help you?"
He asked in a deep voice.
"Are you Dave Baxter?
Temperance asked getting out her badge. The tall man looked at the two women and started to cry loudly. Olivia didn't know what to do so she put her hand on his shoulder.
"Yes, yes I am Dave. Is this about Mattie?"
He asked with his dark brown eyes looking at Olivia's soft green ones.
"May we come in?"
Temperance asked wanting to get out of sight from strangers.
Dave nodded and led them all to a cozy living room with nice chairs to sit in. Olivia sat on a couch and watched as someone came down that stairs. Mattie's older brother can into the living room and saw Olivia sitting in his chair.
"Olivia?"
Olivia's eyes widened.
"Casey?"
Her voice squeaked with shock of seeing Casey Baxter again.

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Normal is just an illusion
What's normal for the spider
Is chaos for the fly