AN: I don't own Bones.

Okay so this is my forty-one thousand word fanfic that I wrote just recently. I haven't had a chance to upload it yet but here comes the first chapter. It's fluffy, the first chapter that is, but it does get dark. This is rated a 'very' strong 'T' but I don't think it can warrant an 'M' though. This is AU, season 10 and it is a case/serial killer fic that focuses on Angela and Sweets working together.

I'm super proud of this story and I hope you guys like reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.

CHAPTER 1

"Kid into the closet, unless you want another scar to add to that collection?" screams the cruel voice of one of my foster fathers. He holds up a belt and in a cloud of five year old fear I back away into the closet and lean against the wall.

* SLAM *

I hear the door close and know that he was going to barricade it, to block me from being able to get out and be free.

I just press my back against the wall in the closet and squeeze my eyes closed; I wasn't going to open them ever again, how can I when I knew who was out there?

X-X-X-X

"Baby I swear I heard you crying and screaming." I hear my girlfriend's voice and slowly open my eyes.

My girlfriend was looking down at me and I saw her long brown hair dangling over her face. Her big bright brown eyes peered out worriedly between the strands and she runs a hand over my cheek.

"Was it another one of those nightmares baby?" she whispers, "You almost woke Seeley"

I glance past Daisy's form and see the small infant still fast asleep in his basinet. I turn back to Daisy and see her still looking at me worriedly.

"It was just a nightmare baby." I whisper into her hair, "Just go to sleep and I'll be fine."

"No you won't." She announces as she runs her hand over my sweaty forehead "You have to admit the truth baby, I know about all of this."

I watch as she gestures towards the scars all over my back.

I nod "He was back, he was telling me to get into closet or he'd add more scars to the collection." Tears stream from my eyelids and I feel Daisy's arm make it's way around my shoulders.

"He's gone Lancelot, he was arrested when you were only a little one and I bettcha he's dead right now." she replies as she runs her hands over my pectoral, or lack of pectoral, muscles.

I nod "I know that but the sudden appearances he has in my dreams makes him feel like he's still there, still watching me. You know what I mean?"

Daisy shrugs "I'm not sure but then again I'm not a psychologist like you, I don't tick in the same way you do."

I press my face into her hair "I suppose you're right I think I'm just over reacting and reliving the supressed childhood memories."

She nods "Lancelot you have to try and forget, look at this you have me, you have Seeley and you have the whole group of Jeffersonian Squints. You are one of the luckiest guys that I know."

I lay back against the pillows in the bed "I suppose you're right, I have just got to try and forget him."

"Mmmh," my girlfriend mutters "Night baby."

I smile at her "Goodnight."

Daisy's steady breathing takes over the room and she was soon out cold. I hold her as close to my chest as I possibly could without crushing her and try to fall to sleep but I just couldn't. Whatever position I rolled into didn't make a difference. He was always there locking me in the closet, holding a belt and adding to the collection.

* Bleep * * Bleep *

I hear the alarm clock and sit up in bed. I feel Daisy bash me with her pillow and watch as she stands up in bed wearing nothing more then her underpants. She gives me a suggestive look and pulls a dressing gown on over her shoulders.

"Finally sleepyhead, I though I was going to have to resort to cold water…" she giggles.

I roll my eyes "You wouldn't."

"I would!"

Daisy was right. I wasn't really a morning's person I liked to sleep for a long time before eventually rolling out of bed and stepping into the shower to wake up. Shower, oh God.

I watch as Daisy walks towards the ensuite door and I bounce up from the bed in record speed. I chase behind her and tightly grab her.

"Oh no you don't, you know it's my morning." I laugh.

She just looks at me "Finders keepers, losers weepers."

"You didn't find the bathroom, it was always there."

Daisy just smiles "Well I suppose that there is room for two," she laughs "Come on, Let's get undressed." I listen as she begins belting out the past Kim Cesarion hit and watch as the dressing gown falls to the floor.

"Okay so that was fun right?" Daisy laughs as she blow-dries her long hair "It got your mind off all of that stuff you were thinking of didn't it?"

I nod as I pull on my Calvin Klein underwear and suit pants. "Well I suppose it did but what steamy shower scene with Daisy Wick wouldn't?"

My girlfriend giggles as she pulls her soft blue blouse on over a lacy black bra that had been my suggestion. "Well I know that but I just don't want my baby worrying his beautiful little face off, okay?"

I knew that she was adding a Fault into the Stars reference into the mix so I play along. "Okay."

Daisy just giggles and embraces me "I think that you are the most beautiful man that I know in the whole wide world."

I roll my eyes "So what's on the agenda for you today miss most beautiful woman in the world?"

Daisy shrugs "Well since I'm still on maternity leave I think I'm going to take Seeley to Baby's R Us before looking around the mall. And you?"

I shake my head "Well I have work." I begin as I notion towards the FBI ID card that was clipped onto the collar of my white suit shirt. "But ever since Aubrey came along Booth has been taking him to most of the cases instead of me so I'm practically stuck in the office."

Daisy runs her hands over my suit clad back "Well maybe that's a bit better for you in some aspects? You know a bit safer since you have me and Seeley to protect?"

I shrug, she did have a point but I wasn't eager to tell her that considering that sometimes I didn't like giving my loudmouth girlfriend the win.

Daisy plants a kiss on my lips "I'll miss you today baby." she giggles.

I nod and pat Seeley on the head. He was sleeping in his baby pouch that was strapped onto Daisy's front.

"Bye buddy, daddy will miss you but he promises that he will brag about you in the FBI building."

Daisy gives me a stern motherly look "Don't go teaching him such bad habits when he is still so young."

I smile "No mom, I won't."

Daisy exits through the door and I quickly check that all of the light switches were off.

"AAAAAHHHHHHH!" Daisy screams in the most paranoid, traumatised scream that I had ever heard and I hurry towards the door eager to see what had occurred.

As I exit my apartment I smell the most putrid, but familiar, of smells. I look down at the floor in the apartment corridor and can't help but let a small scream escape from my own mouth.

There on the ground before me lay a body, but it wasn't like any other body, it was cut and left in the shape of an 'L'.

I don't know if it was just paranoia but L was a letter I wrote everyday, it was L for Lance and that was me...

AN: Okay so a cliffhanger...

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