Once again, Bones and Booth were in the FBI car on a muderer's only thing that changed : they didn't know what they were going to find.
In the morning had a call from the big boss of the FBI, he had pick up Bones and ow they were heading for the Hoover building. On the road Bones asked Booth where they were going, why he had almost kidnapped her from the Jeffersonian without any explanation. She trusted him, that was not the problem, but she couldn't stand to be left aside.
"I don't Know" said Booth for th nth time. "I told you all I know. The boss was not very loquacious on this one."
"Not very what ?"
"Not very loquacious. I can't believe it, I know a word you do not know !!!"
"Of course I know it! Who do you think I am? I was just surprised to hear you empluy such a term, I'm not used to it!"
" Wow ! You're in a good mood today !! What happened?"
"The people above celebrated their anniversary … and I think their bedroom is just above mine …"
"I see" he said with a mischievous smile. "Here we are"
Once in the building, they went through a dark door in a remote corner.
"Why don't we go in your office?" asked Brennan.
"The boss told me to meet him in a certain place in the basement … and no, I don't know why" he answered before she even ask
"OK"
They went through the dark maze of the basement. Bones was not really at ease, she went closer to Booth and bushed against his hand. She felt herself blush. Maybe the darkness of this basement was not so bad after all.
"He's there" said Booth pointing at a short man in a lighter corner.
"He is the BIG boss?" she burst out laughing. "He's not so big !"
"Ah ah ah, that's very funny! Now you let me talk" he said in a tone she did not dare to discuss. "Good mornig Sir."
"Good morning Agent Booth. And you must be Doctor Brennan?"
"Yes sir"
"So, I think you want to know why I asked you to come here to talk rather than in my very lit office."
"Yes …" Bones began to anwer before feeling Booth hit her in the small of her back with his fist."
"All I want is for you to keep secret what I'm going to tell you. Can I trust you?"
" Of course sir" Booth said before Bones could ask embarrassing questions.
"OK. So, it's a top secret investigation. The US ambassador in France find a body in the basement of the ambassy while trying to clean it and for several years now, some interns have disappeared. All you would have to do will be to identify the victim and to solve the murder."
"How can you be sure it's a murder? And how do we get there? And for the work we are doing now?" she asked feeling Booth's fist on her back again.
"Find something, take days off, improvise!"
"Of course sir,there is no problem sir" Booth assured him putting himslef in front of Bones to avoid her to make other mistakes.
About fifteen minutes later, Booth was driving Bones back to the Jeffersoian.
"What will I tell them? I've nearly never taken days off since I gegan to work there!!"
"So they cannot say anything" Booth answered her. "The only real problem is that we have to leave in two days and it's a little sudden for you to want to go on holidays"
"You're not really helping you know?"
"Do you tryst me?" he suddenly asked
"Yes why?" she asked, beginning to worry.
"I have an idea and they cannot not let you go"
"What is it?"
"You'll see!"
Once they arrived at the Jeffersonian, Booth directly went to the director's office, leaving Bones going to her office alone, thinking about what twisted plan he could have come up with. At the same time, she had to admit that the mystery did not bother her at all.
"BONES, WE'RE GOING ON HOLIDAYS !!!" he yelled
His sentence had exactly the effect he had expected: Angela, Jack and Zack rushed into Brennan's office.
"What?" She asked. She didn't understand why he wanted the whole lab to know about a mission which was supposed to be secret.
"We're going on vacation!" he repeated more calmly. "In Paris!"
"Wow, these are holidays !!" said Angela.
"Why are you going now, it's winter!" asked Zack.
"I won a stay for two in Paris with the FBI lottery and and because it's Bones' birthday in … two days, I thought of her to comme with me" Booth explained.
Suddenly, she was ashamed: she did not remember Booth's birthday date; but she was happy: he knew hers!
"Well, I'm going to pack, see you later!" said Booth, leaving.
Jack and Zack follwed him out of the ofice, leaving Angela and Brennan alone.
"You're so lucky, Sweety !!!"
"Why?"
"You're going to Paris, that's great !! And above all, you're going with Booth !! Surely the hottest of all FBI agents. And, you know, Paris is the lovers' city"
"I thought it was Venice?"
"Don't worry, it's aso true of Paris" Angela said leaving with a broad smile on her face