7This is the story my friends, BellaRide28, and Lilaclila, have been waiting for; it will be about two chapters, so here it goes!
Toby was going to work, when he got a call from Oz, he said that he was thinking of getting engaged with Bashi, Toby said he would talk to him about it later, and he was going to be late, then said "So, Oz, are you at work right now, because I might be late."
"Yeah, I'm here, but you better hurry up, Ryder's going to get worried." Oz informed him.
"Okay, I'll hurry, I'm practically there." He said as he clicked off his cell, grabbed his clothes and hurried outside to his car.
He hurried to get there, remembering to keep his mental barriers up; he wouldn't know what to do without them. He was just about to open the door, when he got a hit, it was different than all the others, because he saw a lot more than ever; he saw these bones, but not who they belonged to, and how the person was killed, they'd drown and then their bones, well skeleton washed up, someone moved it to an alley, the same alley he, Bashi and that guy were in, that's when he came out of it.
"Dude, are you okay, you were saying something about Bashi and bones, then you almost passed out." described Oz.
"Oz, I think today the stuff I just saw is going to turn up and maybe while we're working." suggested Toby.
"Sure, whatever, you're the telepathic, come on, we're already late, because of you." Oz complained, which he rarely did, Toby knew something was bothering him.
They arrived just as Ryder was telling everyone to have a good day, he told everyone to get to work, and then talked to Toby and Oz alone.
"You were late Toby, and when Oz went to get you, it took a bit longer then I had planned it would, so what kept you, is there something I should know?" he looked at Toby ponderously.
Toby read his mind, as usual he knew that he was hiding something, but he never knew what.
That Toby, he's always here on time, what made him late, maybe I'll ask Oz, I'll let Toby go and wait for him at the ambulance.
"Toby, you're not in trouble, I'll let it slide just this once, so don't be late again, okay, am I clear?" he explained.
"You're clear, I'll just be out by the ambulance if you need me, come on Oz." Toby purposely expressed that because he knew Ryder was going to talk to Oz.
"You go Toby, I want to talk to Oz, and it'll only be a few moments." He assured him.
Toby left the room, and waited by the ambulance, a few minutes later, Oz came strolling by.
"What was that all for, wait, you knew this was going to happen didn't you, Toby!" Oz whined. Toby smiled and just said "Yes, Oz, I knew he was going to talk to you, I read his mind, he's getting suspicious, what did you tell him?" Toby asked his friend.
"I told him you wouldn't be late again, and that I am thinking of getting engaged." Oz confessed.
"Oh, well I really feel like we should get to work, that hit I got this morning was pretty strong, and I am almost one hundred percent sure it happened today." Toby confided.
"You always are, man." Oz walked up to the ambulance, climbed in the driver's seat, and revved up the engine, Toby climbed in, put on his seat-belt, then got ready for what was to come.
The ambulance zoomed through the streets of Toronto, Ontario like there was no tomorrow, and Toby was getting afraid that they might crash.
"Oz, please slow down, it happened down by the alley, where you meet Bashi, take us there." Toby was shaken up, but still tried to seem in control of his body, and most importantly, his mind.
"Bashi, why didn't you tell me in the first place, or if you wanted to, read my mind, I was thinking, "Where the heck is Toby taking me", but I know it's hard for you to do that thing, keeping every-ones thoughts away from your own, so I didn't bother asking, about the mind reading." He rambled on.
"It's alright Oz, I don't want to know what you thinking all the time." Toby assured him.
"Yeah, I don't know how you do it, if it was me I just know I'd have gone insane by now, must get pretty annoying…Toby, are you there?" Oz noticed that he'd zoned out, and skidded to a halt parking next to a curb.
"Toby, are you alright?" he said again, lightly shaking his friend.
Toby came out of his trance-like state and said that he had another flash, and it had a woman in it, he was pretty sure she wasn't from around here.
"Whoa, Toby, slow down, you're telling me you saw another beautiful woman, man I take back what I said about it being annoying, I envy you." Oz confessed, clearly getting jealous.
"Hey, it's not like I can just listen to what I what, and chose when and what I receive, I'm not a one-way radio, Oz." Toby spoke, bravely.
"So, how close are we?" Oz wondered.
"Not far, we can walk there from here, oh, by the way, that woman, she isn't the reason we're here, I think she's coming to us, to help with the bones we're about to find in, three minutes." He said this while they were walking slowly approaching their target destination, the alley.
When they got there sure enough, there was a full skeleton, just like Toby had seen.
"Well, here we are, now what do we do?" a bored and totally lost Oz expressed to a crouched Toby.
Toby was squatting near the bones, examining them thoroughly, and then thought about what he was going to tell Charlie, maybe she knew this mysterious woman.
"Oz, stay here, I'm going to get Charlie and Becker, maybe they'll know what to do." He ran back through the slightly crowded Toronto streets, he was panting and trying to keep his breath steady, so he could talk to Charlie properly, without gasping for breath.
He walked in and looked for her, he bumped into Olivia on the way, and she told him she was glad to see him, and then hurried off to attend to a patient.
"What are you doing here?" asked a voice, Toby spun around to see Detective Charlie Marks, staring at him, with her brown eyes searching his blue green ones.
"Charlie, I was looking for you, I need you to come with me, and I think I found something you might find interesting." He urged her, and held her hand.
"Toby, what's wrong, has something happened to Oz, let's go, I'm getting anxious." She said, hurrying after him to where the bones were.
When she saw Oz asleep in the ambulance, she rolled her eyes, the Toby showed her the skeleton, and she gasped" Where did that thing coming from?" she screamed, wondering what she had gotten into.
"Well, you know how I get hits off people, well, this time I saw a vision of these bones, and knew it was important." He explained, looking at her with that boyish smile.
"What? how?, oh Hi Charlie, so did Toby tell you about the things over there, most important to me, did you ask her about the woman?" Oz began, a bit groggily, since he just woke up.
"Toby, what's he talking about, there was a girl, you think it was a woman?" she questioned.
Toby and Oz burst out laughing after exchanging glances, the look on her face, priceless.
"Toby wants to know if you know a woman who can help us with the current situation at hand" Oz stated in a matter-of-fact way.
"Well, yes, I do know someone, Dr Temperance Brennan, she works with bones, and yeah, I guess you might call her attractive, we used to be friends you know, and she has a very strange way of explaining the simplest things." Charlie was looked like she was far away, as if recalling those times.
"That's great, Charlie, do you know how we can contact her?" Oz looked at her hopeful.
"As a matter of fact, I do, she lives in Washington, D.C." she stated.
"Washington, as in the states, isn't that pretty far, how are we going to reach her, do you have her phone number or something?" suggested Toby.
"Sure, but don't let Oz get a hold of my cell." She spat, dialing the home of Dr Brennan.
"Hello, to whom do I have the pleasure of talking to?" said the far away doctor.
"Temperance, it's Charlie, from Toronto, one of my paramedics, Toby Logan, has come across a skeleton, we think you and him can discover who they belonged to." Explained Detective Marks.
"Well, I don't have any current plans over the duration of the weekend, so I guess, where in Toronto, exactly?" she questioned.
"I'll e-mail you the directions; you should be getting them now." she chimed in.
"Perfect, I'll just tell Booth and the team I'll be gone for a while, and be off." She babbled.
"Great, I'll let them know." She clicked off her cell phone and turned to face the paramedics.
"Well boys, guess who will have the pleasure of being graced by the presence of the Bones expert?" she was having fun teasing them.
"Um, I'll take a wild guess, us maybe?" Oz babbled with delight when Charlie confirmed his"wild guess"
"How long will it take?" Toby questioned, trying not to look uninterested in the arrival of Oz's beautiful woman fantasy.
"About thirty hours, so we might as well camp out in the ambulance, but before we get ahead of ourselves, it's getting dark, so who wants to get a bite to eat?" Marks polled the EMT's.
It turned out to be an anonymous vote, so the went to a local pizza place, which was around the corner, people got a bit freaked out by the ambulance, so they ditched it, and walked back to the alley, but decided to stop by the nearby lake.
It seemed so peaceful, and looked like a date, if it wasn't for Oz's obnoxious comments about him ditching Olivia, the scene would have been perfect.
It had all the main ingredients of love, a full moon, a lovely woman, and the two of them sharing a pizza, the rocks they were sitting on, the way the moon gleamed off the surface of the lake, and made Toby almost want to let go of his barriers, and let it all go, forever, but the best part of the night, was when he looked at Charlie to ask her something, her eyes looked a nice, soft brown colour, so he leaned in and they kissed, softly, and that was it, then they both turned away and said they should get to bed, they were all sleeping in the ambulance, and they tried to keep as warm as possible.
The next morning:
"Toby, wake up, Oz went to get us some breakfast, I wanted to go as well, but didn't want you to think we'd abandoned you, so I stayed." She smiled sweetly when he looked up at her, probably thinking about what had happened last night, his mental barriers were pretty thick, and he decided to keep them that way, for now at least.
"Charlie, about last night, I don't know what came over me, please don't get offended, it was just the moon, the pizza, and the way it shone on your hair."
He told her not to say anything to Olivia, and she let him know that it was the same thing with her; that it just seemed the right thing to do, in the heat of the moment.
That moment Oz returned and brought them each an egg McMuffin, coffee, and an apple pie, and said he was glad Toby was awake.
"Thanks Oz, for the food and for being there." He looked like he truly meant it.
"Your welcome, you know, even if she doesn't come, hanging out with you guys has been fun." He confided to them, and took a bite of his breakfast sandwich, and a drink of coffee, when there was a loud, whirring noise, almost equivalent to what Toby hears when he let's down his barriers, he shouted, telling them that, and when from behind the rig to check it out.
It turned out to be Bones expert, Doctor Temperance Brennan; she came in a helicopter, and landed about four inches from where they were standing.
Out climbed a beautiful woman, with long, brown hair, and she was wearing a black, with a little pink rose shirt, jeans, and looked quite sure of herself.
Toby went out to greet her, and called to the others to check it out, she hadn't noticed them yet, and was turned around, her back to them, and was explaining in great detail what to do with the helicopter to fly it back to Washington. Oz looked like he had just seen a person with three heads, he was amazed at how lovely she looked, and walked right up and introduced himself to her, and she turned at the sound of his voice,
"You must be Oz, Charlie, where is she, oh there she is, told me how you like to tease a certain Toby Logan, is that right?" totally unaware that he was trying his hardest not to drool over her.
"Did I hear my name, hi, it's been so long since we've seen each other" Charlie shook hands with her, explaining why they'd called, and eventually saying
"Toby was the one who found the bones, see he gets these flashes, and they always turn out being right"
she almost had told a complete stranger his ability, how dare her!
"What she means to say is that I am very good at my job, now let me show you straight to them." He broke in, nervously trying to switch the subject from him; to the reason she was here in the first place.
"I'd love to" and she followed him into the alley, she went straight over, and he noticed her curiosity and fascination as she poured over them.
"We need to call the police, tell them that there's been a murder." She spoke, getting to her feet.
"You're wrong, they weren't murdered, they, he, drowned in a nearby pond, and then someone dragged the remains here, not murder." He stated.
"And how, is there something you're not telling me, is it about your flashes, is that how you knew?" she was getting more suspicious by the moment, and Toby could tell that she was the kind of person who could put the pieces together, just like that.
"Are you, I can't believe I'm going to say this, but are you telepathic?" she let the question hang in the air for a while.
The thing that Toby had feared, had just happened, someone found out about him, without his help.
"No, of course not, what, what would make you think that?" He was getting scared, what if she told everyone?
"Yes, I am sure of it, okay, um, tell me what I'm thinking!" she looked at him, wanting to check if she was right.
Toby sighed and gave it a shot.
I just know he's a mind reader, this goes beyond my comprehension, but I guess it could be possible, I'll think of a watermelon, he'll never guess that
"So, what did you get?" she said looking at him in a strange, almost teasing way.
"Um, you were saying how could this be possible, and then I saw a picture of a watermelon, why that?"
"Wow, that's amazing, I can't wait to tell Booth, he'll flip, he's into this sort of stuff, oh, he's not my boyfriend, just my partner, like Oz is to you." She said, clearing things up.
"Let's just get these bones to, wait, are we coming with you?" he got a bit scared about leaving his streets; they were so comforting, now that he wasn't living on them.
"Yeah, the team should be sending a plane soon, you go get your friends and I'll be there soon to confirm if you're going, it's a choice, you know."
He walked away, in awe that she was the first person who hasn't gone crazy and guessed without him knowing. She was a smart and beautiful woman.
"Guys, she knows" he simply told them.
"What, your gift, wow Toby, I never thought you would tell a..."
Toby cut him off with "She figured it out, Oz, I am supposed to tell you where we're going, Washington looks good, and maybe we'll meet some new friends" he tried to convince them.
"I'll tell Ryder and Becker where we're going, and to check us out for a few days"
It was official;
Charlie, Oz and Toby, along with Brennan, and not to mention a few bones, were going to Washington D.C.
Before Toby saw the ambulance being stored in the plane, he said he was going to say goodbye to Ray, and that he'd be back in a few minutes. He arrived in less than ten minutes, and was panting as he burst across the campus, and straight into Ray, he quickly explained about the alley, the weird feeling it brought him, and the trip, but most of all, that Brennan had discovered the truth about him, without the subtle hints.
"Well, maybe it won't turn out bad, it could be quite useful, well have fun." Then he turned and walked away, and shouted about talking when thing were back to normal. Toby almost missed them, and hopped on, just as they were going to send out a search party.
"Toby, what took you so long, I almost cried "No, wait just a bit longer" and now I can rest peacefully, that you're here" Charlie notified him.
"Yeah, I'm tired, just go to sleep, I will too, Oz, why don't you go bother Brennan, we're going to sleep, and in separate parts of the plane, got it?" Toby assured his friend.
"Nah, I'm tired as well, to tired to be graced by her brown eyes, and hair." He yawned then, curled up on the seat beside them.
As promised, they went to separate classes, Charlie was in the front of third, Toby was in first, and Oz was in the cargo hold, a flight attendant gave him a blanket and then walked away, also tired.
The last thing Toby remembered, and saw cross his semi-conscious mind, was the kiss and passing out on a plane owned by a woman who just somehow knew his secret.