Ch. 7: The Mercenary at the Matinee (part 1)

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2 Weeks Later

A young couple had settled into their seats for the newest horror film. The young man was thrilled to see the gore-filled awesomeness. His girlfriend on the other hand would have rather been anywhere else. As the movie progressed, she spent the better portion of it tucked up against her boyfriend's chest squealing. Just as he managed to get her to watch some of the movie, she felt something tickle her face. She brushed her cheek off, assuming it was just some dust from the old theatre.

About five minutes later she saw the dust fall from the ceiling as the score of the movie hit a particularly low base note. She was curious but she was too engrossed in the thrilling suspense of the movie to really think about it. Just as the film's killer burst into the house, there was a loud crash from above the young couple as a half decayed body fell through the ceiling and into the laps of the frightened couple. The young lady didn't stop screaming until the movie theatre employees had called the police.

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Lizzie nearly jumped out of her skin when she got the call that a body had been found. She had been bursting at the seams just to have any sense of normalcy back after her accident. She was sick and tired of jumping at the shadows on the wall. She had been having nightmares and she was more than ready to work her way through it. Booth had been very comforting and caring through Lizzie's time at home, bringing her news of the bureau but Lizzie was still itching to get back to work.

As she and Booth walked into the lab, she felt herself smiling, even though the situation was way more than grim. "Bones! What have you got for me?" Lizzie called out to the team already working on analyzing the mass of bones and particulates that had been laid out on two medical tables. "The victim was a young man, in his mid-twenties according to his vertebrae. Scoring on the bones provide evidence of strangulation, likely with a garrote, or a piece of wire. But from the angle of the scoring, his attacker was smaller than him. Best guess, we are looking for a female assailant." Lizzie looked up at the other woman with surprise. " A woman did this?"
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