BONES AU - PART TWO "The Stargazer In The Puddle"

BONES AU 2 Chapter Three

CHAPTER THREE

"Did Chelsea have any brain surgeries in her lifetime, Mrs. Cole?" Joe asked as he sat down in Cynthia's home.

"Y-Yes, when she was three. They drilled into her head to relieve pressure." Cynthia nodded and watched Scott as he looked at the star paintings of Chelsea's again, but in more detail this time.

"These are accurate." Scott observed, hands behind his back.

"I beg your pardon?" Cynthia asked.

"These are all constellations." Scott pointed to them as he named them. ""Centaurus. Aquarius. Gemini..."

"I- I knew Chelsea loved the stars but I didn't never thought her drawings were actually- They're real?"

"Mm-hm. This one is Delphinus, the dolphin. It was my favorite as a child. My mother and I both loved dolphins." Scott trailed off. Joe took over.

"Mrs. Cole, why exactly did your daughter need that brain surgery?" he inquired.

"Why do you ask it like that? You- You think I did something to Chelsea?!" She rebutted defensively.

Scott turned around to her. "Head injuries are extremely common with children who are physically abused."

Cynthia stood up and wrapped her arms around herself. "Im sorry, you'll have to excuse me but its very important I take my medication on time-" She started to walk but Joe grabbed her arm. Scott looked at the medication bottles on the table, noting the names to look up later when he got back to the lab.

"Mrs. Cole, please." He said calmly.

"My daughter, age three, fell out of bed. She didn't stop crying, and so I took her to the hospital. She had the surgery... It was because of that injury that they discovered that she had the aging disease... Did Joe Mellon tell you that I physically abused my daughter because I grabbed her arm once? Once?!"

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"Joe, will you thand up for me on Thaturday?" Max asked Joe at the lab.

Joe raised an eyebrow. "Against who?"

"No, I mean be my beth man!"

"Oh! Yea! S-Sure! Wow..."

"Yea... Big honor."

"Nonono, well, yea that but, yknow, you didn't give me much time to put a bachelor party together."

"No bathelor party, Joe."

Scott walked in. "Oh, sorry, I, uh, didn't mean to interrupt this, whatever this is." Joe looked over and smiled.

"Max wants me to be his best man, Bones! Wait, so, Max," he looked at Max again. "If theres no bachelor party, whatdya want me to do?"

"Well, thand there, make a toath, hand over the ring, and tongue kith who ether Mitch has standing with him at the reception when people clink glasses."

"Niiice. Wait, who's Mitch got?"

"I dunno, but, a lotta his friends are hot."