Baby in the Bough: Chain of Custody
Jul. 20th, 2008 09:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dr_temperanceBrennan is not a baby person.
Children? Provided they have reached an age at which their cognitive processes have developed to the extent that they are receptive to at least basic reason, Brennan is comfortable enough with children. Teenagers seem to be the age group with which she has the best rapport.
But preverbal infants? She has no experience at all with this age group. And regardless of popular public opinion, her gender does not automatically make her an expert.
Still, part of being a successful member of your species is the ability to adapt to situations. In this case the situation involves a Caucasian male, approximately six months old, identity currently unknown, found in the vicinity of an incinerated body (female in her early 20s, most likely the mother) who has swallowed what may very well be a key (quite literally) piece of evidence.
Brennan is still unsure how he managed to swallow the key in the amount of time she looked away from him. But the key’s location has been confirmed by both metal detector and x-ray.
And until it makes a reappearance, the baby is in her legal custody.
According to gossip she has overheard, there are employees of both the Jeffersonian and the FBI who are willing to pay for the amusement factor of observing her in the role of caretaker.
Brennan fails to see the humor.
Children? Provided they have reached an age at which their cognitive processes have developed to the extent that they are receptive to at least basic reason, Brennan is comfortable enough with children. Teenagers seem to be the age group with which she has the best rapport.
But preverbal infants? She has no experience at all with this age group. And regardless of popular public opinion, her gender does not automatically make her an expert.
Still, part of being a successful member of your species is the ability to adapt to situations. In this case the situation involves a Caucasian male, approximately six months old, identity currently unknown, found in the vicinity of an incinerated body (female in her early 20s, most likely the mother) who has swallowed what may very well be a key (quite literally) piece of evidence.
Brennan is still unsure how he managed to swallow the key in the amount of time she looked away from him. But the key’s location has been confirmed by both metal detector and x-ray.
And until it makes a reappearance, the baby is in her legal custody.
According to gossip she has overheard, there are employees of both the Jeffersonian and the FBI who are willing to pay for the amusement factor of observing her in the role of caretaker.
Brennan fails to see the humor.
