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They had basically solved the case by now and Brennan and Booth had gone to get the killer. This meant that everyone else in the lab was basically free to do whatever they wanted. Dr. Hodgins had Spencer moving some flesh eating beetles into a different container while he was working on some research.

Hodgins barely had any time to start getting any research done because Zack came over and stared to hover over him.

"Is there something you wanted to talk to me about?" He said with a sigh.

"I'm not entirely sure." He said his brow knitted in confusion. "She keeps talking to me even though, every time she does she gets in trouble with Dr. Brennan." He said contemplating this information.

Hodgins assumed the "she" must mean Spencer his intern and he said "I'm going to assume you're talking about my new intern. Do you not like her talking to you?"

"No, I actually enjoy conversing with her however I can't understand why she keeps doing it. I have theories but I'm sure as to how to test them."

"Dude, it's not exactly rocket science." Scoffed Hodgins.

"I've never understood that statement, rocket science has never seemed confusing to me."

"For some strange reason she actually seems to find you interesting. If I were you I wouldn't question it and just go with it." Hodgins explained.

"Go with what?" Said Spencer who had just walked up to the conversation and only heard the tale end.

"I'm not sure." Said Zack who just looked confused. Hodgins just looked kind of irate and said "Nothing, don't worry about it."

"Okay…" Said Spencer who looked suspiciously at the two of them. "Well… I'm going to go on my lunch break."

"Does that mean you want someone to go with you or are you just announcing that you are going on your lunch break?" Said Zack knowing she had done something like this before with the first intent in mind.

"Um…either one?" Said Spencer who now looked just as confused as Zack did a moment ago. They stood there awkwardly for a moment before Spencer finally spoke again. "So does that mean you guys are coming with me?"

"I have research that I need to catch up on." Said Hodgins before turning his attention back to his work.

"I suppose that means I should take this time to work on my dissertation." Said Zack looked slightly pained for a moment before saying to Hodgins "Was there a reason you just kicked me?" At this statement Hodgins just rolled his eyes and shook his head.

"Okay well I'll just go then." Said Spencer still looking confused before leaving to go to lunch.

"You are going to be single for a long time." Said Hodgins turning to face Zack. Before Zack could inquire about what he meant by that he explained "She wants to go to lunch with you, because she likes you. But if you keep blowing her off she's going to think you're not interested. You are interested right?"

"She does seem to be able to keep up with me intellectually and understands my social awkwardness not to mention she is rather attractive. However we do work together and therefore it might not be a good idea to pursue anything since it would cut down on the efficiently of the workplace." Said Zack thinking about the statement but not giving a definitive answer, he hadn't really given it enough thought to do so just yet.

"A girl who understands you and is attractive wants to spend time with you and you're contemplating this?" said Hodgins. "She's probably at the diner, I'm sure you can catch up with her."

Zack seemed to think about it for a moment before heading off to the diner. He found Spencer in the booth most people from the Jeffersonian sat in only she was not alone as he suspected. She was sitting with a blonde man dressed in a suit. Judging by how comfortably she was talking with him it was evident she knew the man very well. Not wanting to intrude on their conversation he headed back to the Jeffersonian.

"That was fast." Said Hodgins when he returned.

"She was conversing with another man. They seemed very comfortable around one another." He said not entirely sure of what he thought of the matter or why it seemed to bother him slightly.

"Oo tough luck." Said Hodgins.

"Hey I was going to take my lunch break? Anyone seen Spencer, I thought she might like to come with?" Said Angela walking over to where they were working.

"She left a few minutes ago." Said Hodgins. "Het, if you're looking for someone to eat with thought I'm not doing anything, I'm sure I could be a suitable replacement."

"I thought you had some research to do?" Said Zack.

"Thanks, but I was in the mood for some girl talk." Said Angela with a smile before leaving for lunch as well.

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Angela decided to go to the diner near the Jeffersonian and noticed Spencer was already there and she wasn't alone. The guy she was with was very good looking and the two of them were laughing about something when she joined them at the table.

"Hey Angela." Said Spencer with a smile when she joined them at the table.

"Are you going to introduce me to your friend here?" She said with a smirk.

"Angela this is Logan, he's my best friend from home and he's rooming with me for a bit. Logan this is Angela she works with me at the Jeffersonian."

"So you're into all the gross stuff she is?" Said Logan in disbelief.

"Hardly. I'm an artist. I do facial reconstructions. Spencer's here is not completely a lost cause. Sometimes she almost seems normal." Said Angela with a smirk.

"It's like learning a foreign language I can understand more than I can speak." Said Spencer also with a laugh.

"So Angela if you work in the same place as Spencer than you knows this Zack guy right?" Said Logan.

"Yeah, has Spencer mentioned him?" Said Angela with interest.

"I thought we said we weren't going to talk about this anymore." Said Spencer with a sigh. "I don't think he's interesting in pursuing anything more than a work relationship."

"How do you know for sure?" Said Logan rolling his eyes.

"Um, I'm a genius it's not that hard to figure out. I've asked him twice now if you wants to come to lunch with me and both times he's basically said no and socially speaking lunch in the most casual type of outing besides asking if someone wants to get a cup of coffee."

"You were probably being too subtle. You need to be direct with guys and well Zack he may be a genius when it comes to some things but women would probably be the only class he ever failed."

They talked for a little while longer and then Logan had to leave to do some P.I work for his case. He was actually doing quite well on the case however he had discovered some more information about the senator than him just cheating on his wife. He told Spencer he would be back tomorrow morning because he was planning on pulling an all night stake out.

Spencer and Angela headed back to the lab. Once there Angela went into her own office but not before saying. "You know dinner can also be a pretty casual meal to get to know someone better over." She said with a smirk and looking over at the platform where Zack was working with some bones.

"Yes it can be, but if I were you I wouldn't get your hopes up." Said Spencer rolling her eyes before heading over to the platform to see what Zack was working with. "So what happened to him?"

"Her." Said Zack correcting Spencer's mistake. "And she most likely died of childbirth. It was common of women in ancient Mesopotamia."

"Do we ever stop working at this place?" She said with a laugh.

"That was a rhetorical question." He after pausing for a moment to look up from his work.

"Yes, it was." She said as an awkward silence fell between the two of them. During this time Zack continued to work with the bones of the Mesopotamian woman and Spencer began very interested in some dirt under her fingernails. While they stood in silence Booth and Brennan had just arrived back to the Jeffersonian.

Booth noticed his partner was about to once again reprimand the new intern for not being at her work station but before she could he said "You know Bones, we don't have a case you could try being a little nicer to her."

"I'm not being mean to her Booth. For having such a high intellect she should have a better understanding of how conversing cuts down on the sufficiently of the workplace."

"You know I still haven't actually met her yet."

"But you don't like conversing with people of superior intellects unless it's for a case. You have Zack believing it's some kind of male understanding to not talk to one another unless you have to."

"Well yeah but I don't want to be rude and she spends time with Angela so she can't be that bad." Said Booth with a shrug.

As they pair headed over to the platform they caught the tail end of the conversation.

"So I was just thinking…"

"People are always thinking." Said Zack

"Well yes but it's a phrase used when someone wants to bring a sudden change in topic during a conversation or when they wish to end a lapse in conversation. Anyways…" Spencer started to say before she noticed Dr. Brennan and Booth were heading this towards them. "Sorry, I'm going back to my station." She said to Dr. Brennan.

"That's not why I'm here, Booth wanted to be properly introduced to you. Apparently he feels I am being unnecessarily mean to you by reminding you that are at work and this appears to be an attempt to divert me from doing so" Said Brennan her expression unreadable to Spencer as usual.

"Oh, I'm Spencer McLaughlin, the new intern." She said putting out a hand for him to shake.

"Special Agent Seeley Booth." He said with a smile. Spencer liked the Agent so far, at least he seemed more friendly than Dr. Brennan and he had a comforting almost fatherly feel about him. This feeling however was quickly gone when Dr. Brennan spoke again.

"Well now that's over with the two of you can resume your subtly sexual social interaction." Said Dr. Brennan to Spencer and Zack.

"Or…I could just go back to my station…" Said Spencer looking slightly embarrassed and leaving in a hurry.

"Bones…" Said Booth in a scolding tone as the girl walked away looking apologetically towards her retreating form.

"What? The way she carried herself around him and her constant use of protean signals such as constantly touching her hair suggest that in the vernacular she was flirting with him, which is often used when someone finds another person sexually attractive." Bones explained.

"I thought I might have been observing that, but given the fact I am generally incorrect about such things I just assumes I was misinterpreting." Said Zack.

"Right, well good luck with that." Said Booth patting Zack on the shoulder and ushering Dr. Brennan towards her office and reminder her that there were some things you just don't bring up in a conversation.

"She seems nice."Said Booth in regards to Spencer.

"I can't really determine that yet, I haven't conversed with her much. Though Zack seems to like her."

"Ah now I get it." Said Booth something dawning on him. "It's not so much that you don't like her, it's that you don't think she's good enough for Zack. That's why you're always making her go back to her station. You know my mom does the same thing when I bring home a girlfriend."

"Are you saying I'm like your mother?" Said Brennan looking confused.

"No! I was saying your acting like my mother does sometimes. Look never mind, think of it this way. Zack's your intern and you want what is best for him and the reason you don't want her around is because you don't think she's good enough for him."

"Although I want the best for Zack I merely just want him to be fully focused on his work and his doctorate, I don't care what he does with his social life. In actually Spencer has very nice bone structure and would probably be helpful to his social development, not to mention, given the fact they both have superior intellects they would have a higher likelihood of producing viable offspring."

"Whoa their Bones! Maybe he should take her out to dinner first, before you start talking about…you know." Said Booth not liking where the conversation was headed. Luckily he was able to quickly change the conservation to talking about the case they had just closed because he really did not want to be thinking about what Bones had just mentioned.

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The rest of the day was rather uneventful; Spencer stayed over by her station and helped Dr. Hodgins with his research. She realized she almost preferred Dr. Brennan telling her to go back to her station rather than making commentary on the interaction between her and Zack, but she supposed that was the dangers of working with an anthropologist, to them people and their social interactions could be observed and studied at anytime.

Of course when they had dinner at the diner that night nothing between them was odd, well actually Spencer still felt a bit odd about the comment earlier but since Zack seemed completely unfazed by it she was just following his lead. That night Angela had not come to dinner with them, because apparently she had plans, which meant it was just Zack, Spencer and Hodgins that night.

"I wonder what Angela had to do tonight?" Said Hodgins during a lull in the conversation.

"I think she had a date." Said Spencer recalling an earlier conversation.

"I bet it won't go well." Said Hodgins with a shrug.

"How can you possibly know that?" said Zack looking confused.

"He doesn't, its wishful thinking." Said Spencer with a smirk. "Oh don't act all surprised, you stare at her constantly."

"You leave the house without shoes on, but you notice that." Said Hodgins rolling his eyes.

"Hey, that was on accident I'm absent minded at times. And just because I may not be a genius when it comes to that sort of thing that doesn't mean I'm completely ignorant of the subject. However if you want I can ask her how it went when she and I got shopping Saturday."

"Yeah but isn't there like some kind of girl code that says you can't tell me what she said."

"Probably, but I suppose I would have to tell you if you threatened to fire me." Said Spencer with a smirk.

"Oh, I like the way you think Intern." Said Hodgins with a smile.

Spencer stayed a little while longer before she decided to head home and get some sleep before work the next morning. Zack and Hodgins left soon after and on the drive back to Hodgins house he turned to Zack and said "So?"

"I'm not sure as to what you are inquiring about."

"Spencer, are you going to ask her out?" Said Hodgins looking over at Zack, who looked uncomfortable as always in the vehicle.

"I think you should probably keep your attention on the road." He said waiting until Hodgins did so before answering the question. "And to answer your earlier question, probably not."

"Why?"

"Because there was that other man in the diner and the rational thing for me to be doing at the moment is working on my dissertation so I can get my doctorate, part of the reason Dr. Brennan is so efficient at her work is because she makes distractions in her life minimal. It only makes sense I do the same."

"Personally, I won't mind a bit of a 'distraction' in my life."

"That's because you're not a very rational person, you actually believe you have a chance with Angela." Said Zack causing Hodgins to glare at him.

"Hey! Don't underestimate me, I can make it happen." Said Hodgins.

"Of course it could happen; it would be foolish to say otherwise. It's just statistically unlikely."

"Like running into a cute stranger from the grocery store at your workplace?" Said Hodgins causing Zack to now glare over him as well.

"That was an unforeseen anomaly."

"Whatever you what to call it." Said Dr. Hodgins with a laugh as they pulled up to the front gate of the house.

Yeah a bit of an odd place to end the chapter but it seemed fitting. Anyways don't forget to review.