A/N here is chapter two. This is mainly Booth facing the squints and trying to resolve the tensions created when he left. This story is looking to be pretty long so i will be writing shorter chapters but updating most nights.
Seeley Booth stood outside the Jefforsonian for the first time in two years. He had caught the plane to Washington DC earlier that morning figuring he would have a better chance of convincing the squints if he talked to them face to face. That's if they want to talk to me Booth thought grimly.
"Well its now or never" he said to himself walking through the doors of the museum.
"Hey Hodgins can you pass me the report from the case?" asked Cam walking past him.
"Here you go" he said looking up from his microscope. "Oh my god" he said looking past Cam at the man who had just walked in.
"Booth" said Cam more to herself than anyone else.
"Hi" he said quietly, shuffling his feet. With longer hair and a slightly unshaven face and wearing only a pair of old jeans and a white T-shirt Booth looked like he belonged at the back of an old bar, nothing like the clean shaven, suit wearing agent the squints had last seen.
"Can I talk to you guys?" he asked still not making eye contact with anyone.
"Um, yeah" said Cam shocked at Booth's sudden reappearance.
A few minutes later Booth found himself standing in Cam's office in front of his old squints.
"What are you doing here?" asked Angela, the hurt in her voice unmistakable.
"I need your help. My sister, Maura, lives in a small town about 10 hours from here. She kind off heads up the FBI down there and they have a new case that they need some help on. I don't know the details yet but she said that she could really use your help" Booth said looking up at the squints.
"Why would we want to help you Booth?" said Angela coldly.
"What?" he said shocked at Angela's cold words. "Sorry. I was under the assumption that we where still friends, but if that's how you feel" a shaken Booth said.
"Booth, we stopped being friends the day you up and left us here. We'd just lost one friend, how do you think it felt losing you as well" Angela yelled getting out of her chair. "You where her best friend Booth and you just gave up. How could you do that to her"
Booth looked up at Angela visibly shaken by her words. "Do you think I wanted to leave?" he yelled "It almost killed me not being able to…" he stopped mid sentence staring past Angela at the picture hanging on the wall. It was of the office Christmas party and was taken a few months before Temperance went missing. Booth had finally convinced her to come and Angela had taken the shot just as Booth wrapped his arm and Temperance's waist to give her a kiss under the mistletoe.
"She almost killed me after I kissed her that night" he whispered to himself feeling the tears that he had fought back for the last two years rising again.
"What?" asked Angela confusedly turning around "Oh god" she said realising what Booth had been looking at.
"Seeley" she said turning towards the man in front of her and pulling him in for a hug.
Suddenly the tears he had been holding in for two years came out. He grabbed onto Angela as he sobbed into her shoulder. The others stood back as Booth cried. After a few minutes he stepped back, "I'm sorry" he said suddenly realising that in his moment of weakness he had cried in front of the them. Something he had sworn never to do again.
"Its okay sweetie" said Angela smiling weakly at him.
"We'll help you solve the case, I promise" she said looking into his eyes. "That's what friends are for."
A/N that was kind off a happy ending, in some ways but i promise you that the next chapter will have more of the case, I might even bring in Temperance. You'll just have to keep reading.