BOAB Chapter 2
Once Booth and Brennan arrived at the Hoover/Jeffersonian daily briefing they were apprised of current cases and what was going to be happening that day in the both the Medico/Legal lab and the museum proper. Booth excused himself to go get some more coffee and that left Brennan to be bombarded with questions regarding their new assignment.
"You are so lucky! Around all of those big, hunky cowboys-Sweetie you will have to tell me aaaallll about it! Every day! I could go you know, I mean you'll need someone to hang out with, maybe some costume assistance?" Angela was the most enthusiastic and was practically vibrating with excitement.
"Excuse me?" Hodgins said at her cowboy comment.
She paused at the end and winked at him and said, "Yippee ki yay"
He smiled in understanding and filed it away for later, wondering briefly if he could get a cowboy hat on his way home.
"Shhh Ange-Booth doesn't know yet" Brennan said quietly. "He could come back any minute"
Cam piped in, "Oh-can I please be there when he finds out? Can we arrange that? Ange-a PC link up or something?" She was looking back and forth between Brennan and Angela.
"When he finds out what?" Booth asked coming up behind them at the door to her office where they had migrated. Cam had the good grace to blush before she said, "What? Oh I'm sorry-I think I hear my phone ringing" hurrying away she rushed to her office.
Angela and Hodgins also both tried to make themselves invisible as they scooted out of her office.
"Booth-maybe you should go to your office after all? Then maybe lunch at the diner?" Brennan had moved to her desk and was rifling through some files.
"Bones, what do you know about this assignment?"
"Nothing Booth" she answered eyes wide and her features struggling for control.
"Bones-you can't lie what's going on?"
"Booth- I really think you should go read your emails" she had just turned her back to try to hide the smile on her face.
Sipping his coffee, he raised his eyebrows and then said, "Okay Bones-I'll bite I guess, I'll see you at lunch" and he turned to leave the office.
Nodding okay and not looking up he left the Jeffersonian and went to his own office at the Hoover building.
"Brennan- he doesn't know what's going on does he?" Angela said coming back to her office after she saw Booth leave the room. Looking up and smiling slightly, "I think he knows it's in Wyoming." Brennan said sheepishly.
"Does he know you have experience with this?"
"Um no-I don't think that has ever come up before, I mean, we've talked about out pasts and our childhoods, but not really specific things like this."
"Can I please be here when he comes back? Please?" Cam joined that request, "Yes, I'd like that too please."
Brennan looked at her friends and felt both a sense of camaraderie but also a small sense of betrayal-Booth was her best friend aside from Angela and she felt sure she should have given him a heads up before he got to his office.
Suddenly her desk phone rang, she looked at the display and recognized his desk line-looking sheepishly at the girls she reached down and pressed the speakerphone, "Brennan."
"A CLOWN?? I'M GOING TO BE A CLOWN?"Booth's voice exploded out of the phone on her desk. Cam reacted the fastest by closing the outer door to Brennan's office. Angela had the forethought to cover her mouth to try to hide the laugh that barked out of her.
"Well, it's a rodeo clown Booth, not a traditional clown. So, really in all rationality your fear of clowns shouldn't be an issue…anthropologically speaking" Just then Cam and Angela both laughed out loud, no longer able to hold it back, they'd been writing notes back and forth while Brennan tried to explain the difference between clowns to Booth.
"Brennan, take me off of speakerphone" he said, the tone in voice was deadly calm.
"I'm sorry Booth…"and she clicked the phone to the earpiece and told the two girls to get out of her office.