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Chapter Three: You look...
The doors whooshed open to admit Dr. Brennan into the Jeffersonian. She stalked through them, and the first thing she saw was Booth leaning against the railing of the lab, waiting for her. At the sound of her footsteps, his head turned.
"Wow, Bones you look…" he began, worry etched across his face.
"Leave me alone, Booth," she replied angrily, brushing past him and heading for her office.
"But Bones, we have a case!" he yelled uselessly at her retreating back. His lips parted in confusion, he looked up at the dias where her "squints" had stopped their work, looking up at him and Bones curiously.
Angela, who had been standing behind Jack, peering over his shoulder at something on the computer screen, winced and took off at a trot after her college.
"Well, that was weird," Hodgins commented, looking down at Booth.
Booth nodded, his eyes still trained on where Brennan had been moments before. "You're telling me," he said.
Temperance threw her bag down on the floor in her office and collapsed into her seat, her elbows on the desk, her head in her hands. Of all the people she didn't want to see…why did he have to be here so early?
"Sweetie?" Angela's voice wafted tentatively from the door. "Can I come in?"
Temperance picked her head up to look at her friend and nodded lightly.
"Are you okay?" her friend asked, concern seeping into her voice and flowing across her face.
"I'm fine, Ange."
Angela moved so that she was sitting across the desk from her friend. She stared into her face, searching for answers. "Where were you this morning?"
"I told you, I was at an appointment."
Angela tilted her head and let out a sigh of breath. "Sweetie, we both know that there's something more than that."
Brennan looked down at her desk, shuffling some of the papers that lay there. "I know," she said.
"You can tell me."
Temperance looked up at her friend. "I can't…" she said. "Not now…"
Angela got up, moving around to place her hand on Brennan's shoulder. "Whenever you're ready."
Placing her hand over her friends, Temperance looked up, unshed tears shimmering in her eyes. "I will tell you Ange," she said.
"I know, sweetie, I know."
The pair of them walked out of Brennan's office together, some minutes later. Booth, who been impatiently tapping his fingers on the railing as he leaned against it, looked up once more. "Ah, finally," he said. "Come on, Bones, we have a case." He waited for the smile to break out on her face at the thought. Instead, Angela shot him a deadly glare, and he involuntarily took a step back.
"I'm not going," Temperance responded, swiping her card through the card reader as she and Angela trotted up the steps.
"But Bones…"
"I have other things I have to work on around the lab," she responded, not looking at him as she instead glanced around, studying the skeleton that was spread out across the table. "Take Zach."
Zach's head snapped up, and he looked at her, eyes wide. "But Dr. Brennan…"
"Bones, come on…a squint? What if I said I'd let you drive?"
"I already told you, I have things to do. Dr. Addy is quite capable of completing the same amount of field work that I can."
Booth sighed, sliding his own card through the card reader and trotting up the steps to land in front of Bones, on the other side of the table she was leaning over. "Did I do something wrong?" he asked.
Temperance looked up. "Nothing," she said, but her eyes suggested otherwise. "I told you I have things I have to finish."
He held her gaze for a few moments before sighing, and looking over to Zach, who was staring intently at the both of them, his eyes wide. "You," he said, pointing a finger at him, and crooking it, "You're with me."
"Me? I…"
"Come on, lets go," Booth replied curtly, making his way back down the steps, taking off at a fast pace for the car and leaving Zach to run after him, babbling as he did so.
Brennan looked up to see both Hodgins and Angela staring at her. "What?" she asked, directing her question more towards the former rather than the latter.
Hodgins opened his mouth to say something, but then reconsidered, closing it and shaking his head before looking back at the computer screen. "You know, he was really worried about you this morning when you didn't show up," Angela said, looking at Brennan.
Temperance blinked, her eyebrows creasing. "Booth? Didn't you tell him…"
"That you were going to be late? Yeah, I did, but still…"
Temperance said nothing in response, but merely looked back to the body. How am I going to deal with this? She thought.
XXx
Another end to another chapter. I hope you didn't find Booth heartless or anything, because that's not what I was going for. Anyway, next chapter might be a little slow on the update, depending on what I'm doing. It's really short as of now, shorter than this (which is short, I didnt realize that at first x.x) but I'm probably going to go back and add more. Since none of this is written from experience...
Anyway, hope you enjoyed! Sorry it was short, I'll try and make up for it tomorrow! (I have a dentists appointment today, so depending on how that goes I may/may not edit the next chapter which may/may not effect tomorrow).
You know I just said the same thing like twenty different times!
Thanks for reading,
-Aria
