Yay another Bones ficcie. And I still yet have one more I am issuing and two more oneshots headed your way.
I know this has probably been over-done, but this is MY STYLE, okay? If you don't like where this story is going to be heading, then please don't waste your time and my time and read it. I know it sounds harsh, but it's the truth.
Title: The Agent, the Anthropologist, and the Agent
Summary: What happens when you can't make a choice?
Rating: T
Genre: Drama/Romance/Some slight Tragedy
Characters: Temperance "Bones" Brennan, Seeley Booth, Angela Montenegro, Jack Hodgins, Zach Addy, Camille Saroyan, and Tim "Sully" Sullivan
Pairings: Brennan/Booth, Brennan/Sully, Sully/Cam, and Angela/Jack (Mostly BB)
Temperance Brennan felt satisfied. Almost perfectly complete. She couldn't really remember a better night.
It was six in the morning...Friday, to be exact. The sun had not yet risen over the horizon. It was a perfect start to a perfect day. So it seemed to be.
She groaned slightly when warm lips met her neck and gently nipped at her earlobe. She mumbled something incoherent and turned her head, meeting his lips and making the kiss deeper and more genuine. Brennan brushed her tongue against his and smiled, putting an arm around his neck.
He grinned boyishly in between the kisses. "Temperance..."
"Mn-mn," she put his face in her hands. "No talking. Just kiss me."
He smiled in reply and warmly kissed her, deepening it little by little.
Brennan laced her arms around his neck and smiled contentedly in between kisses. However, the fact of the matter was that she was trying to cover up the other feeling she had in her that moment.
Guilt. Strong guilt. But she couldn't help it. Couldn't force it down. The pleasure of that moment was overriding her system and she just couldn't focus on anything else.
Her cell phone vibrated in her bag in front of the nightstand by her side of the bed and she opened her eyes, still very much into the kiss.
"Mmm, mmnm, Booth," Brennan pulled away and gently pushed her partner an inch away.
Special Agent Seeley Booth looked at Temperance Brennan from his position over her, then listened upon hearing her cell. "Bones," he groaned and hung his head. "Come on. It's probably just Angela. Don't answer it."
"Or," Brennan flipped over, the bed sheet fitting her form. She reached over for her bag, "it could be Dani."
Booth made a face. "Your new publicist?"
Brennan nodded and rummaged through her bag, grabbing her phone. She didn't bother toook at the caller ID and opened it. "Hello?" She had one arm around the FBI agent's neck as she laid back down on her back and he gently nuzzled her neck.
"Hey Tempe," the voice on the other end greeted. "I called your house phone a hundred times last night. You didn't answer, so I decided to wait until morning to try your cell. What happened last night?"
Brennan's heart sank, but she smiled. Booth kissed her neck, then made his way over to her mouth and their lips met for a breif moment. She then covered his mouth with her free hand to keep him from talking. "I had to work late last night, Tim." Booth's eyes widened at the name.
"Eleven at night, Tempe?" Agent Tim Sullivan didn't sound very convinced.
Brennan flipped over in bed so she was over Booth by then, trying to silence him. "Yeah, Sully, I had paperwork from Dani and the Jeffersonian had tons of documents for me."
Booth managed to weasel his way from her hand. "Guy's gotta get a life. You're both ovmmm!"
Brennan shot him a look and tried not to laugh as she clasped a hand over his mouth again.
Sully nodded on the other end. "Okay. Understandable, Tempe. I'll see you in ten minutes?"
Back under Booth, Brennan nodded. "Yeah, okay..." her lips met Booth's then in a sultry kiss. "Mm! Mmmnmmn mhmn...yeah. Yeah I'm-I'm leaving right now!" She hit the 'End' button on her cell and shut it. She rolled away from Booth with a laugh and dropped the phone in her bag.
Booth smirked and grabbed her, pulling her over to him. "Do was have to snag a body today?" He half-whined jokingly and kissed her.
"Unfortunately for you, yes," Brennan sat up, pulling the sheet around her and grabbed her red spaghetti strap shirt.
"The Jeffersonian can wait five more minutes," Booth caressed her cheek and grinned.
"But the case can't."
"If there is one," Booth shot back smartly.
Brennan gave him her look. "Work is waiting for me, Seeley. I just can't--mmmmnmmm...maybe..."
Booth smiled warmly and pulled away from the kiss. "Won't kill ya, Bones."
Brennan shook her head. "Yeah. Five more minutes," she tossed her top on the floor and fell back in bed with a smile on her face and a kiss on her lips that said all for her.
Yes, this was the perfect start for the rest of her day.
Or so Temperance Brennan hoped.
"Sorry I'm late," Brennan walked into the doors of the Jeffersonian and swiped her card where Angela Montenegro, Jack Hodgins, and Zach Addy were already standing around. Probably waiting for her.
Angela cast a side look at Hodgins, then looked at Brennan. "Where were you? It's," she looked at her watch, "ten minutes past."
"Yeah, I know, traffic was horrible," Brennan set a folder with papers on a nearby table, then headed in the direction of her office. Angela followed.
"Come on, Sweetie, be serious."
"Serious, I am," Brennan flipped on her computer when she rounded her desk and set her bag in the chair. "Then I had to stop to grab something to eat. It was just crazy."
Angela crossed her arms. "Okay."
"Remind me why you were all standing around? You guys usually are so busy with something when I come in."
"We really didn't have anything to work on, so we decided to wait for you to show up. Played a few rounds of 'Truth or Dare'..." Brennan shot Angela a look and the artist laughed. "Kidding, Hon, relax.
Hodgins rounded the corner then and poked his head in her office. "Sully's looking for you, by the way. He's in his office."
Brennan shot the entomologist a look. "What did you tell him?"
Hodgins shrugged. "Nothing. Only that you would see him."
"You did what?" Brennan walked briskly past Angela.
"Sweetie, what's wrong? You act like you don't want to see him."
"I don, it's just--I have a lot on my plate right now, okay? I don't want to deal with his ramblings of how he can't stop thinking about me," Brennan tied her hair up in a ponytail.
Angela rolled her eyes and put her hands on her friend's shoulders. "Sweetie, calm down. Everybody has nerves about relationships." She cast a side look at Jack, who smirked. "You just need to learn how to slow down and have fun, okay?"
Brennan nodded. Like she didn't know that. "Right. Sorry. Look, I'll catch up with you guys later. If you see Booth, tell him I'll meet him in my office."
Angela gave Hodgins a confused look and her shrugged. "Okay. Sure, we'll do that."
"Thanks," Brennan tore away from the artist and headed off in the direction of Sully's office. Angela crossed her arms and stood next to Hodgins. "Smell something funny going on here?"
"Yeah...or maybe that's you." He sniffed. "What are you wearing, Angela?"
Angela turned pink. "Nothing."
Hodgins smirked. "Uh-huh, sure you aren't. What brand is it?"
"Chanel. Why?"
Hodgins grinned. "Oh, just curious," he held the grin as he walked in the opposite direction of Brennan and Angela could do nothing but to stand there for a moment and blush before running off in the opposite direction of both her colleagues.
Temperance Brennan rounded the corner to her right and stepped into Tim Sullivan's office with a smile on her face. "Hey."
Sully looked up and smiled wide when he saw her standing there. "Hi, Tempe. A little late than ten minutes, aren't you?" He got up and rounded his desk, leaning on the front of it.
Brennan went over to him and shrugged. "I got held up."
"Yeah?" Sully got closer to her and grinned. "That's the story of the century these days." He held her hands in his and kissed her passionately, Brennan getting into it.
"Mmmhn," she smiled. "Yeah, it is."
Sully put his nose to hers. "Doesn't matter. You have plans for tonight?"
Brennan shook her head. "Not on my agenda at the moment."
"Well keep that spot open for me. We can reschedule our little night for tonight." He kissed her briefly. "How does that sound?"
"Good," Brennan smiled and accepted another kiss before Sully dropped her hands and went back behind his desk.
"I think you'll like where we're going tonight," Sully grinned and Brennan absentmindedly itched her head and smiled with a nod. This Sully caught and looked at her. "Everything okay?"
"Yeah, yeah. Just was a long night. I hardly got any sleep, you know..." She shifted feet and Sully got back up and stood in front of her.
"Tempe, if there's something you want to tell me..."
"No, no, no," Brennan shook her head. "Really. I can't wait for tonight." She gave him a light kiss. "I gotta go work. Lunch?"
Sully smiled, feeling very much reassurred. "Lunch...I think I can do that," he gave a joking smile. "My agenda's open. If you have time for me, I have time for you."
Brennan backed up to the doorway. "Okay. I'll let you know if we get anything interesting."
"You better," Sully rocked on his heels.
Turning on her heels, Brennan headed back in the direction of her office. She walked with brisk and entered her office, surprised to see Booth leisurely leaning back in her desk chair, his feet on her desk. "Hiya, Bones."
Brennan's heart almost stopped. Did he see? "Hi. Where were you?"
"Angela told me to wait for you here, so..." he spread his arms open, "here I am."
Brennan breathed a mental sigh of relief. He didn't know that she'd been to see Sully. "Do you have a case for me?"
"Yeshhh!" Booth grabbed a folder from behind him and tossed it at Temperance, who caught it with ease.
"Thanks," she opened it and started skimming through it. "Where's the body?"
"At the old storage lot. I figured I'd find you, then we could head out."
Brennan looked at him. "Isn't that how it usually works?"
Booth nodded and got up. He made his way over to Brennan and snatched the folder from her hands. "Sure is, Bones," he gave a grin and kissed her cheek, walking out.
"Wait," Brennan grabbed his arm and spun him around, giving him a warm kiss. "Okay, we can go now."
"Woah, woah, Bones," Booth stopped her. "What was that for?"
Brennan shrugged. "Figure it out."
Booth raised an eyebrow. "You confuse me, Bones. You really do sometimes."
Brennan grabbed the folder back. "And so do cases."
"Yeah, you got that right," Booth nodded and followed her out of the office.
On the way out, Brennan looked behind her to see Sully, who gave her a pretty casual wave, but a melting smile that told her so much more. She returned the smile, but inside, she had a sinking feeling settling in her stomach. She was double crossing. Playing. And as Angela would say, "sleeping around." But she wasn't...she really wasn't. She just couldn't decide. And she had always said that when it came to the affairs of her own heart and love, she was clueless. Brennan loved Sully. She loved Booth. She was dividing her time between them behind their backs and lying about it.
And the worse thing of it was...she was enjoying it.
That was wrong.
And she knew it.
Thankfully, though, she had the affairs of a new case to keep her occupied. That, her books, Dani Serveilli, and whatever else she could grab her hands on. But that was just to make excuses. To lie to Booth; to lie to Sully. She wanted what Angela and Hodgins had. But it was hard. And the reason that she couldn't leave it to just one, was the fact that she was afraid. Afraid of breaking up with Sully...even though she knew she had it good with Booth. The worse part was that she couldn't figure out why she was scared to break up with him. She shouldn't be. But she was having an affair. With her partner. With Booth. Who she loved. But then there was Sully. Who she also loved.
Yes, psychology and love sucked. They had no meaning in life...but here she was, Dr. Temperance Brennan, caught in the rut of them both. Tonight, Sully, tomorrow night, Booth. And it would just keep going from there. Until something happened. Until she either fessed up, they found out, or Angela caught onto it and confronted her about it. In which the case usually would be that she would make her tell Booth and Sully. Which would then lead to bigger disasters.
But wasn't this a distaster all on its own? Brennan couldn't make up her mind. It was so hard when you loved two people and you couldn't choose. It was the thing that made her hate love for as long as she did. Why she fell into it now was beyond her. She couldn't even remember how she fell in love with Sully. Or Booth. Which was bad. Or maybe she didn't want to remember. Yeah, that was it. She didn't want to remember how she fell in love with both agents.
I'll figure things out later, she promised herself. But how many times had she already tried that? So close, she'd come to telling Sully it was over, only finding herself in bed with him and being unable to tell him that she wanted out. It never happened with Booth. Because she loved Booth and if she were to ditch Tim Sullivan, she was going all out for Seeley Booth.
Dear God, I'm turning into Booth. How many times had she thought that before? Many. She didn't want to become like Booth. Hurt so many times before. She didn't want to hurt Booth...or Sully. Maybe that's why she wouldn't dump Sully. She didn't want to hurt him.
Yes, that was it, too.
So many possibilities and reasons why that it often times confused Brennan. It didn't matter. But it did. This wasn't her. She lived and thrived on virtues and methods and facts. The problem she was now in was none of those.
"I'll figure out things later," Brennan mumbled as she got into the passenger seat of Booth's SUV.
"What'd you say?" Booth looked sideways at her.
Brennan shook her head. "Nothing. Just thinking."
"Okay. Ready to get us some body?"
Brennan made a face. "Please don't try to be funny."
"I wasn't," Booth smirked as he pulled out.
Neither was I... Brennan thought as she stared out her window.
Ehhh, I don't know. What do you guys think? If it was kind of all over, there's a reason for that. I didn't exactly want to put out there Brennan's whole situation with Booth and Sully just yet. Want to keep it rolling. Keep guessing a little bit.
And yesms, there will be a tragedy, but it's a tragedy that will definitely help Brennan.
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