BONES AU - PART THREE "The Cannibal in Question"

CHAPTER EIGHT

CHAPTER EIGHT

In the hospital, Amy, Koda's girlfriend, sat with her daughter, Hayley. Scott lightly tapped on the door.

Amy perked up. "Hi!"

Scott smiled. "Hi, how's Hayley doing?"

"Dr. Goetz is a God send. I don't know how to thank you." Hayley started to wake up and Amy smiled. "Hayley, sweetie, it's Dr. Hoying!"

Scott felt awkward having his niece call him doctor. "Uh, Scott is fine, really." He waved.

Hayley deflated. "Another doctor?"

Scott sat down. "Not that kind, kid. Don't worry."

"Scott is Koda's brother, Hayley." Amy explained.

"Couldn't you call him and tell him to come home?" Hayley asked.

Scott sighed. "It's complicated."

Amy handed her daughter the Jell-O and lead Scott just outside the door. "I tried to get into the jail to see your father, they wouldn't let me in. They said I'm not a relative."

"Amy, Koda is a fugitive. The minute he comes back to DC they'll toss him in jail."

"Well, how would anyone know?"

"Well, I work with the F. B. I. ..."

"You don't have to be in this. All you have to do is ask your father to get a message to Koda." There was an uncomfortable silence before Amy spoke again. "You look my baby in the face and tell her she can't see her father because you're mad at yours."

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In the lab, Kirstie was examining the skeleton found as Kevin approached her on the platform. "What've we got?"

"So far, I've identified 18 different victims and I'm not done. All bones show cannibalism indicators. This tibia appears to be over 50 years old." Kirstie replied as she held the bone up.

"You mean the victim is over 50?"

"What I mean is the victim was killed over 50 years ago."

"That would suggest that Gormogon's what? A minimum of 70 years old?"

"The teeth marks on this bone do not match Gormogon's teeth." Kirstie shook her head.

"My god. We have another cannibal out there? An old one?" Kevin asked as Max entered the platform.

"The gemthone you found in Father Cooper'th chest ith violet jade. The dirt containth sepiolite." Max held it up on a small tray.

"And we're happy about this because...?" Kevin asked as he looked up at him.

"Both violet jade and sepiolite are only found in a certain region of Turkey. The Anatolia region to be exacth. Legendary thite of the Garden of Eden. And thith," he held up a glass jar, "comes from the vault. Guess what? It's the same thtuff."

Kevin turned to Kirstie. "Run the new dentals against the NCIC database."

Kirstie ran off as Max looked at Kevin. "What do you wanth me to do?"