Just a little something I came up with. I'll warn you in advance, it may get a little dark and angsty. I haven't posted anything in a while so I'm excited to be back!
Seeley Booth arrives for work in a jovial mood. Having spent the weekend with his son playing in the park and watching cartoon movies, his spirits are high. But it doesn't take long to bring those spirits crashing to the ground, and in the most unexpected way possible. As he walks down the hall to his office, he notices his colleagues gathered around one desk joking and laughing. One of them looks up and beams a grin at Booth.
"Hey guys, what's so interesting." Booth asks casually as he approaches.
"Man, you have been holding out on us." The grinning agent slaps Booth on the arm.
"What are you talking about?" Booth chuckles, wondering what on earth has these guys so excited.
"This, man." Another agent thrusts a local gossip magazine at Booth, opened to a page boldly titled 'The Sordid Secrets of a Forensic Anthropologist'. The smile on Booth's face slowly fades and his eyes narrow as he scans the article splayed across two full pages. Large quotes with phrases like 'I'll never look at an examination table the same way' and 'She loved the kinky things; handcuffs, leather and occasionally lace'. A look of sheer anger crosses Booth's face and he glares at the agents.
"What the hell is this?" Booth demands, clasping the magazine tight in his hands so the pages get scrunched up.
"You tell us, she's your partner." Another agent laughs. He soon regrets it when Booth squares up to him, using every inch of his height as intimidation.
"You'd better shut your mouth now Davidson." He warns angrily whilst keeping his voice low so as not to attract any more attention. The other agents sense Booth's anger and decide they'd better not say anything else so they slowly begin to disperse.
Booth strides to his office, the magazine clenched in his fist. He doesn't know what to think about the snippets he just read. It would appear that a former boyfriend of Brennan's has done a kiss and tell story detailing all the intimate details of their relationship, in sordid detail. When he reaches his desk he slumps down into the seat, wondering if Brennan knows anything about this article yet. She never reads these types of magazines so she probably doesn't and that means someone has to tell her. That someone is no doubt going to be him. With his hand hovering over the phone, he contemplates calling and telling her but he quickly decides this is not something he can do over the phone. Stuffing the magazine into the inside pocket of his jacket, he heads back out his office, an intense sense of dread filling his body.
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