-Venus POV-
I had woken up from a well needed nap as I see Temp up at the platform about to examine something. So, I went over to her as Booth just got up with us as well. I bend over a bit to get a better angle on a charm of some kind as Booth speaks. "Apparently, there's a rivalry between Mount and this guy Rulz." I pip up, "We saw him perform at the club last night, before the accidently getting high part." Temp then asks, "Did you talk to him?" "Uh-uh. I don't have enough yet. I go in too soon, he could run." Angie then comes up from behind us "Wow. That's a beautiful piece. Zirconium or diamond?" Temp speaks "I'm more focused on the dried blood and flesh at the moment." Angie then asks Booth "You buy Tessa jewelry?" "I... I really don't want to talk about that right now." "Too much of a commitment? I just thought, because you two were going away..." "Do you have anything yet?"
Temp speaks "Given the rate of air convection, and the degree of dehydration of the flesh, I'd say they were there at the same time." Angie then adds in "Must hurt like hell to get that thing ripped out of your belly button." "I thought it was an earring." "Look at the size of the stud. I had one of these. Before they became totally Miami-divorcee." I looked at her a bit confused as Hodgins come up to us happy. "Good news. I was able to pull some particulates." We watch as he puts down a beckon with two eyeballs as Booth speaks. "Are those, uh...?" "Eyeballs? Yeah. Two types of foreign material in the eyes- low-density polyethylene residue and methamphetamine crystals." Polyethylene?" Came from the plastic bag holding the meth." I take Temps seat as she stands up speaking to us, "This can be cleaned now." Angie looks over my shoulder at the screen, "Yeah. That's a real diamond. Hey, why don't you get her a belly-button ring? That's not too much of a commitment." "Yeah, that's great." I was cleaning the belly button ring as Temp looks at the body. "The inside of the lips was damaged by the teeth. This was not an accidental inhalation. Then meth was pushed against his face with force. Someone was trying to smother him." I piped in "That would explain how the particulates got into the eye." Angie then added "So he didn't OD. He was murdered." Booth added, "So we just have to find out who owns this belly-button ring." I pitched in "Don't worry Ranger I already ahead of you. Look at this 'Luv Rulz. Now we know who to ask."
Booth, Temp, and I got to Rulz place hearing music coming from inside. We walk inside looking around as Booth speaks up first. "Hello!" Rulz answers "Yeah, it's open." "Yeah, it's open. FBI. Special Agent Booth." Rulz looks over at me "Is the FBI recruiting from America's Top Model now?" I blush, not because of him, but I am easily flustered as Temp speaks up for me. "We are forensic anthropologist at the Jeffersonian." Booth then speaks "Eyes of buddy, they work for the FBI." Rulz then says "Yeah, I can live with that." "Dr. Brennan and Dr. Venus also discovered that Roy Taylor was murdered." "So?" "So, murder is wacked. See? Cause those are the rules... Rulz." "Maybe he had it coming to him." "Oh, so you and Roy Talyor don't get along." "That sucker ran me down, man. Tried to slam me on one of his tracks, and ain't nobody do that." "And, uh... what happens when they do?" "I take a piece of them. I got his face one night at the Bassment. I told him to disappear, and I ain't seen him since. Cause he knew to follow the Rulz." Booth chuckled a bit, "And, uh, maybe your girlfriend made sure that your... your problem just went away." "That ain't my woman no more. I kicked her sorry ass out months ago." "What is her sorry ass name?" "Eve Warren."
I pip in "What was she doing with Mount?" "Take a guess. I guess it was just his turn." Booth then adds "She kept your ring?" "It's a diamond, man. Why she going to get rid of that?" "Any idea where she is now?" "Probably ripping somebody else off. That girl don't care about nobody but herself. Even though she got a kid, don't care about her neither. Let her brother shoulder that. Bitch." Temp comes next to me as I ask him "What happened to your hand?" "I got shot through the wrist a few years ago." Temp then adds "Shattered the lower radius and the pisiform." "Yeah. I got some nerve damage, too." "That's impressive." I piped in "Sis, if you want to see impressive, then I could show you one that I have on the right side under my chest." Rulz then speaks "I would like to see that too." Booth then speaks "Yeah no. Let us know if you hear from Eve." "That's all I got for y'all. I'm going to get back to work. Come on, let's hit it." "Let us know if you hear from her." Booth and I start walking out but turn back seeing Temps not following. Booth then calls her as she tells us how she like the music.
We are in the car as Booth talks to us. "Okay, how about this... DJ Mount trusted Eve because they were sleeping together. So, she meets him in the wall, takes the drugs, kills him for Rulz, then he takes off." Temp adds in "You should write fiction." "What? It's reasonable." "It's not based on evidence. It's conjecture." "Look, I'm positing a scenario. We've been through this before." "Yeah, and it always seems to be a waste of time. Now, finding a marker on a bone..." "No. You know, I think I need a vacation. I think you do, too." I add in "Ohhh... I would like to go on a vacation. That sounds fun, I never been on a vacation before." "Really, Blueberry? You never been on a vacation before." "No. Right when I got discharged, I came straight working here at the Jeffersonian." Temp then adds after finding a comeback, "I'm not the one who's snippy." "Snippy? What are you, like, 70?" "See what I mean? I think you should find a nice, relaxing place to go on that vacation. Somewhere where you can get a massage, maybe some yoga." "I don't do yoga. Okay, push-ups, sit-ups, pull-ups-that's what I do." I pip in "I do that as well, but I also do some yoga with Temp. It's pretty relaxing." "Why exactly are we talking about this?" Temp answers "Because your tense." "Because we're talking." Booth puts on his radio as hip-hop music plays. "You switched my music."
We are now in a dance studio as we watch people dance to the hip-hop music. The instructor looks at us. "What do you want?" "Special Agent Booth, FBI. These are my associates Dr. Brennan and Dr. Venus." Temp then asks, "What do you call this?" "Krump. The kids- they come here, they dance. They don't gangbang. So what do you want? You didn't come here for a dance lesson." We walk inside his office as he keeps talking "Hi, Maya. How you doing, baby? Come on, now. We're going to go outside and going to play with the rest of the kids, okay? There you go." Booth then speaks "We'd like to ask you a few questions about your sister Eve." He sighs, "What's she done now?" I then asked, "When was the last time you saw her?" About six weeks age when she dropped off Maya." Booth then asks. "Just dropped her off and left?" "Told me she needed me to watch her for a couple days. Left me some money." "Did you, um, happen to have a, I don't know, recent photo that we could take?" "Evie said she had cleaned herself up- she was turning her life around- and I believed her. She never came back. That little girl out there? That's her daughter. She's like a daughter to me, too." "Didn't it bother you Eve never came back? I mean, didn't you go look for her?" "I learned to let her go. And, Eve, she's had a lot of problems- drugs, hanging out with the wrong people. I mean, if I tracked her down and she takes Maya before she's ready... I'm not letting nothin' happen to that little girl."
I then asked him "Do you know Roy Taylor?" "Met him. DJ Mount. I like his stuff. He's pure. Play it for the kids." Booth then speaks, "We have reason to believe that she was with him the night he was murdered." "Murdered? You can't find Evie?" "No." "Oh, man... She told me she loved him. And that... she and Mount were going to take Maya away out of DC... give her a better life- one we never had." "You said she left you some cash." "Yeah. For Maya." "I'll buy what you have, two dollars to one." "Sure, man..."
We are back in the lab as Booth, and I were with Hodgins. Hodgins starts speaking "You may want the stooges at the FBI who are experts, due to your so-called "drug war" to run a comparison, but I'd say the methamphetamine on these bills match the meth found with DJ Mount behind the wall." Booth then speaks "And my guess is that Eve was with Mount at the time that he was murdered. How about this, huh? DJ Mount rejects Eve because of her questionable past. So, uh, hey, she gets mad, she wants to leave with some money, so, uh..." He stops as we just watch him come up with a scenario. "What?"
I speak first "I am just listening on your scenario, giving you all my attention. It's the polite thing to do." Hodgin then speaks "Yeah, I don't really think much about that kind of stuff. I'm more about bugs and minerals. Sorry." "Oh, come on you guys. Hey, you're both smart. Hodgins look up from your microscope, huh? These are real people we're trying to figure out here." We stare at him for a bit. "Okay." Hodgins sighs as he speaks up "Maybe she was just using Mount- setting him up to get his drugs and money." "Very nice, Hodgins." "Yeah?" "Yeah." I watch as they have a bro moment with this as Hodgin continues. "Real question is, where does she go next?" "You're on fire, man." "After she left her brother place, because that is where she met her untimely end."
"You know what? I'm going to turn you into an investigator yet." "No, no, no, no. Bugs and slime, dude. That is where I'm happy." Booth looks at him weird then turns to me. "What do you think Blueberry?" I nod "It was good, but I had a bit of a different idea of what might happen?" They both turned and looked at me as Booth speaks. "All right, what do you think?" "What if they had figured out something and they were running away from whatever they found. Which is why she left her belly button ring and DJ Mount got stuck between the wall and got killed." "That isn't a bad idea Blueberry, but it might be to much of a stretch." Hodgins then added "Yeah. I think we will stick with ours." I huffed a bit, then came up with an idea. "Alright how about we put a bet on this." They both then looked interested as Hodgins spoke up. "Alright, what are we going to bet with." I smile, "If I am right, then you both have to give me $200, plus help me out with my car that I've been fixing. But if you both are right, I will give you both $200 and I will do both of your paperwork for a month." They both look at each other and nodded as Booth speaks. "You got yourself there a deal Blueberry." I nod and shake both of their hands confirming the deal.
Booth and I left making our way to Angie's workspace as she and Temp were discussing about the case. Booth then cuts in "My bet is he was chasing her." Temp then asked, "And that's based on...?" "Money and meth. She left that corridor carrying money saturated in the same meth that killed Mount. She was moving fast." Angie then adds in "She didn't even stop when her belly ring got ripped out." Booth then pitches in "Hey, money's a pretty good reason to get chased, hmm? Only question is, why wasn't he facing her?" Angie then continues "It got tight back there. 15 centimeters. Eve ripped out her belly button ring here and left a smear of blood until the corridor widened. Here." We then hear a groan coming from Temp and we looked at her. "Sis, are you okay?" "That just... makes me a little sick." Angie then adds in "You pick dead bodies out of mass graves and yanking out a belly button ring makes you sick." Booth then cuts her off "Okay, okay, moving on. All right, I've shot a lot of people in my time, and I got to admit, that whole belly button thing makes me nauseous, too." I nod adding "I feel the same too sis, but I just hide it. That grosses me out just as much as live bugs and snakes." "Thank you."
Angie then just continues "At this point, Mount must have looked behind him but kept going. Then the passageway narrowed, so he couldn't turn his head back toward Eve." Temp then speaks "Then there's no way she could've shoved the meth into his face- Eve didn't kill him." I smiled then added "A third person surprised them- that's why he turned his head to look. In which Mount's body prevented this third person from getting to Eve, so she escaped. But he got to Mount and shoved the meth in his face and killed him. Ah." I look at Booth and put out my hand as he digs into his pocket taking out the $200 and handing it to me as the girls watched ND then he asked. "But the real question is, who the hell is this third person?" Temp then spoke up "I'm not so sure. But why did you hand her $200?" I answered for him "He lost a bet and now he has to help me out with my car, and I must get Hodgins." Before the girls could ask why, I made my way out the door screaming out to Hodgins. "Hodgins! You owe me $200 and make sure you bring clothes you don't care for. We will start when this case is over." All you could hear is Hodgins screaming out, "Come on! Yours was so farfetched." "Yet, it was what actually happened!" I turned back to the girls smiling "I just made $400 thanks to the both of you. So here you both go since you both made it possible." I hand both of them $100 as Angie speaks up. "Glad to help out."
Booth, Temp, and I are back in the club talking to Mr. Hall. "I've been investigated for years. Why do you think they never got me on anything?" Booth answers him "Cause you're so smart?" "Because Terence Baskin is my past. I am 100% clean now. This is my life now. This and my record label. Not crystal meth. Not gangbanging." Temp then speaks, "Yet much of the iconic quality of urban music lies in the perceived of actual rivalry between the principal artists." "Where did you find her?" Booth answers "Museum." as I answered, "Didn't, was born into the family. But was the rivalry between Mount and Mr. Rulz strong enough to... lead to murder?" "Sure. They were both capable. And in the fact that Mount was sleeping with Rulz' girlfriend Eve. Yeah, in fact..." Booth then asks "Yeah?" "Rulz built himself a studio around that time. Poured cement for the pad a day after they disappeared." I asked "So...?" "I'm saying, Mount's dead, Eve's gone missing. You might want to consider that. Let's go." "What do you think Ranger?" "Oh, I think, uh, I think we need to find a way to find a body buried under a slab of cement." Temp then asks, "Well, can't you get a warrant?" "To look around the premises, maybe, but no way to tear it up." Temp then gets an idea, "Well, let me make a phone call." "Ohhh, what do you have in mind sis? Is it a suprise?" "Yeah, let's say that."
We are at Rulz place when a car shows up and the most adorable dog come out. "AWWWWW! It's a dog and a adorable one at that. Temp then speaks as she pets him. "Tuttis traveled the world finding dead bodies." Booth then asks "Does Tutti always drool like that? What, I'm going to hurt her.. his feelings?" "Why does that matter Ranger. Tutti himself is an amazing gift. I mean look how adorable you are. Yes, you are." I am petting the dog with all the love I have as the owner speaks to Booth. "Tutti is the best cadaver dog in the world, Agent Booth." Temp then adds in "It's true. If you were a dead body, you'd want Tutti looking for you." I then speak up "Not only you take the best cadaver dog in the world, but I would also say you are the cutest dog in the world. Yes, you are. You can find my dead body any time." I pause for a second as the other's looked at me weirdly when I said that as I coughed and blushed. "I... I was having a moment... and I really wasn't thinking what I was saying. I really don't plan on dying any time soon..."
I looked down and focused back on the dog giving him lots of love as Booth asked. "How can it smell anything buried under a building?" Temp then argues "He can. Once... I saw Tutti find a dead body wrapped in plastic, under concrete after four years." The owner adds "Tutti can smell decaying blood on a tooth six feet underground. I mean, so what? He drools a little. What's up with that? You know, your eyes are kind of close together, but I don't comment." I snicker and nudge Booth as he speaks. "I apologize." She then asks, "Is he sincere?" Temp nods "Yeah." "All right, then. We accept." We then see Tutti lay down on the ground. I gush at Tutti as the owner speaks. "Good boy, Tutti. Tutti found something." Booth then speaks "Oh, maybe he's just lazy." Temp then speaks "Lying down is his indicator. Tutti found it. There's a body under here. You should get a warrant to bring in a jackhammer for the floor. I'd start digging here." I then speak, "And Tutti here gets a kings treatment for being so amazing." I am rubbing his belly as the owner and Temp smiles at me, while Booth gives me a weird look.
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