Agent Samantha Pickering had been investigating Brennan and her colleagues for the State Department for possible security risks. But when she had questioned Brennan, there were some things that she should have not asked. Brennan had called much higher officers than Pickering, or even the head of State Department, and Pickering was forced to stop the investigation and destroy the file of Dr. Temperance Brennan. Pickering, however, had a copy of that file no one knew existed anymore, except the head of State Department. Pickering hadn't even remembered the existence of that copy herself but now she was once again flipping its pages in order of her bosses.
She knew that if she would be found with this file she could have been accused of deceiving her country. It was always a very serious matter if a file had to be destroyed. But Pickering was intrigued what was going on. She had asked some questions from Agent Seeley Booth who, after all, was often associating with this mysterious Dr. Brennan. The fact was: Pickering did not trust Dr. Brennan and didn't feel comfortable knowing that government gave her confidential entail without questioning. Pickering wondered why and she wanted to find out. So did the head of State Department but they didn't want anyone to know. Besides Pickering, only they knew about the existence of that file. And they wanted to keep it that way. Pickering concentrated on reading the file as she rolled a pluck of her light colored hair between her fingers.
Booth had seen a tiny flash of what looked like worry in Brennan's sharp eyes when he had mentioned agent Pickering. "What has she been asking?" Brennan asked after a long time of silence. "Just little stuff, like what kind of personality you have, or how long have you been working at the Jeffersonian's Institute…That kind of stuff." Booth answered shrugging and shoving his hands to his suit pockets. "Why are they asking about me?" Brennan asked with a neutral voice as they walked towards Booth's Dodge. "I was hoping you could tell me that." Booth said carefully as they now climbed to the car. He didn't want to tick Brennan with too personal questions. "I don't know." She answered but something told Booth that Brennan wasn't telling everything. It wasn't something new that Brennan left something untold, that made Booth sometimes feel so frustrated. Brennan was a closed book, locked behind a vault that was buried to a grave under the ocean that seemed so calm. That she was most of the time or seemed to be.
The ride to the Jeffersonian had been quiet as many of the car rides they made together were. But Booth was surprised that Brennan hadn't started to snap at him at all. That wasn't usual behavior from her and Booth was now little worried, but he also knew that if he would start asking if she was okay Brennan would take it like Booth would think that because she's a woman she'd be weaker. Then she would seriously snap at him and he didn't feel like fighting at the moment. And seemed like that Brennan wasn't in the mood either, so Booth kept it quiet.
Booth and Brennan stepped inside the Jeffersonian lab area where Angela, Hodgins and Zack were now talking about the test results of decomposed body. Brennan was happy to see the results were ready. "Thanks for the ride." Brennan said to Booth. "I need to go make a phone call." She said and strolled to her office.
Booth watched Brennan practically running to her office. He went to Angela, Zack and Hodgins. "So, Booth, you have any case for us to solve?" Hodgins asked smiling his squinty smile. "No, not actually." Booth answered. "Really? Then what are you doing in here?" Angela asked and cocked her eyebrow. This made Booth little uncomfortable because he could obviously see what she was thinking. "Are you here to ask Brennan finally on a date then?" She asked grinning with her hands folded on her chest. Yup, Booth had guessed what she had been thinking. "No! I just had to tell her that Pickering had been asking stuff about her." Booth said very defensively. This reaction of Booth made Angela grin even wider and she was now sure about Booth's feelings towards Brennan, more than ever. "So? Are you afraid that Pickering beats you to it? Im sure that Brennan isn't into that!" Ange said teasing still grinning widely. "Agent Pickering is homosexual?" Zack asked surprised rising his look from the test results. "No Zack, it was just a joke." Ange answered rolling her eyes and sighing.
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I apologise for all the possible typos...I might have missed something. Ah well, English isn't my native language, so some typos Im allowed to miss LOL :P
