The relationship between Sully and Bones never set well with me for a few reasons. In this story I correct that and have Bones ask Angela whether she should accept a date with Sully. Angela tells her no. Hope you all enjoy. Let me know.
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Angela sighed. This was not what she wanted to have to do, but Brennan was about to make a serious mistake. It was time to make her best friend see a bit of reality.
"You really want my opinion, Sweetie?" she asked.
Dr. Temperance Brennan looked a bit confused. "I wouldn't have asked you if I didn't," she said perfunctorily. She'd come to ask Angie's advice on the offer of a date that Sully had invited her on. Ordinarily with a good looking guy, she wouldn't have hesitated. An evening out, and, in all likelihood, a fun night of sex and passion to take care of her biological urges, which, she had to admit, she hadn't dealt with in a couple of months and it was getting a bit frustrating. But something was making the prospect of going on a date with Sully a bit uncomfortable.
"Okay," Angela replied. "You'd be making a major mistake if you went out with Sully."
"Why?" Brennan asked.
Angela got up and closed the door to her office and locked it. Then she sat back down and faced her friend. "Booth," she said with a definite edge to her voice.
"What's Booth got to do with this?" Brennan asked quickly. Too quickly, in fact. A surge of emotion raced through her, but she tried to squelch it.
"Everything, Sweetie," Angela said sympathetically. "You're considering going out with Sully because you think you can't have Booth. Face it, though. While Sully may be a great guy, he's nowhere near Booth."
"What do you mean?" was the next question, but Angela also noticed a slight hesitation.
"Because this time, you're not simply going out with some guy because you want to get laid," Angela told her bluntly. "If that was the case you could call on any of a number of guys you've had before and they would jump at the chance for another round between the sheets. For the first time, you want to try something that may lead to something more. If you do that, you will be settling for something less than you deserve."
"And why do you think I deserve Booth?" Brennan shot back. She was beginning to have a serious panic attack in her mind.
"You flirt and joke with the man all the time, you get anxious when he's not around because of other cases that don't involve us, you are testy and angry when he dates other women, and you also know that no matter what happens, that man would never dream of leaving you," Angela logically argued.
Brennan's shoulders slumped. "But Booth drew a line between us since we're partners," she told her friend.
"If that line was so important to you then you wouldn't even think of dating Sully since the line would apply to him since he's the alternate liaison if Booth's not available for some reason," Angela pointed out. She was aware that that was a low blow in some respects. Brennan respected the hell out of anything that Booth said when it came to being partners and investigators, almost to the point of worship. It was amazing that such an independent woman who despised bowing to the views of others without at least testing the propositions almost always accepted what Booth had to say about their partnership with no hesitation.
"I was hoping to get laid tonight," Brennan said with a sigh of resignation. She loved sex and the release it gave her, along with a feeling of being alive, so the last couple of months without had not been fun.
"Then invite Booth to dinner, tell him you don't agree with him on that line nonsense and that you have strong feelings for him," Angela practically ordered. "Then when he walks you to your apartment, invite him in for a drink and then jump his bones, or rather the most important BONE."
Brennan smiled at that last thought. Always having been physically attracted to Booth, and also emotionally attached she was forced to admit, had led to some damn explicit dreams over the last year and a half. "You have a one track mind, Ange. So no Sully?" she asked rhetorically.
"Not unless you want to make a serious mistake that could damage any real chance with Booth being 'The One,'" was the reply.
Angela smiled as Brennan pulled out her cell phone and called Sully telling him thank you for the dinner invitation, but she didn't feel that it was a good idea. She smiled even wider when her friend called a certain FBI Agent named Seeley Booth.
"Booth?" Brennan said with a smile.
Angela noted that the smile was the one that only Booth ever got from her.
"I was wondering if we could have dinner tonight," Brennan said after a pause. "Really? That's great. How about picking me up at 7:00?...Okay, see you then. Bye."
"Now we have to go shopping for the perfect outfit and a really sexy set of lingerie to knock Booth's socks off," Angela enthused with a small squeal.
"I don't know what that means," Brennan said, as she usually did when a cliché was employed.
"You will tonight," Angela assured her. She got up and grabbed her purse. "Let's go Sweetie."
The next morning Angela was late coming into work so she stopped by Brennan's office to see how the date went. She was shocked to see Brennan in there at her desk staring blankly at the computer screen. Moving closer she saw that Brennan was in a daze.
"Boo!" Angela said loudly, causing Brennan to come to life.
"Angela!" Brennan exclaimed.
"How was the date with Booth?" Angela asked. She looked closely and noticed that Brennan had tried unsuccessfully to use makeup to cover what were obviously several well placed hickeys on her neck. In her mind she was doing cartwheels.
Brennan smiled without even thinking about hiding the truth. "Incredible," she said almost breathlessly.
"And did you jump him?" Angela asked excitedly.
"We didn't get to sleep until 4 this morning," Brennan said with a smile of almost smug satisfaction.
Angela squealed loudly. "Yes!" she shouted. "Next question. Will you be going out with him again?"
Brennan turned to face her friend with a cocky smile. "After a night like that?" she asked. "I'd have to be committed to an institution if I let this guy get away. This is for keeps, Ange." She paused and then smiled wickedly. "And I can safely say that his belt buckle definitely describes him to a T," she said with a wink.
Angela laughed. "You may be clueless on a lot of things, Sweetie, but when you get it right, you really get it right! Good for you!"
Brennan straightened up. "Now get out of here," she ordered. "Booth's going to be here any minute and I want to welcome him this morning in private." She called out to her friend when Angela was at the door. "Thanks for setting me straight, Ange."
"Anytime, Sweetie," Angela said with a smile. She walked back to her office and when she had closed the door and the shades she let out a massive squeal of delight that many would say could shatter glass. Sully was a really good guy, but the only one worthy of Brennan was Booth. Now that she had done her good deed for the decade, she set about thinking on her own personal life. Hodgins had been hinting at wanting to go out with her for a while. Maybe she should give it a go. She picked up the phone and dialed an extension. "Hey Hodgie? Can you come to my office? I have something to ask you," she said and then hung up the phone. If Brennan could get it right, then why couldn't she?