Ok first off thanks so much for all the reviews, special thanks to iamwriter I could not for the life of me remember Rebecca's name. I even looked it up. After many tries I discovered that I'm no good at writing about the science of the case so if it feels like it 's being put on the back burner then your right cause it is. And I must say there have been a few good guess's about upcoming chapters but no one has figured out the ending yet and that makes me want to say mwhahahaha (evil laugh)
The Return of the Ex's
Brennan was the first to say something "Booth, what happened? Is everything all right?" He sighed "Um no Rebecca needs help she sounded really scared." Brennan didn't want him to go, hell that was the last thing she wanted, but she knew he had to. She held to his arm a little tighter before letting him go.
"Go help her I'll stay here and see if anything changes." Booth nodded and leaned down gently, kissing her one last time. He ran out of the door and to his car.
As soon as he left Angela came in. "What's wrong with Booth?" she asked as she took in her friends appearance. Brennan had a glow to her and look slightly flustered which could only have one reason to it, she and Booth had resolved their issues.
"Sweetie are you okay?" Brennan who had slightly forgotten Angela was there, while being lost in thought, answered a little too quickly.
"Yes I'm fine and Booth is on his way to Rebecca's she's in trouble." Ange looked doubtful but continued "You kissed him again didn't you" Angela had the biggest smile on her face. "Well technically he kissed me first…" "aww I', so happy for you two." Angela stopped "Booth went over to Rebecca's?" "Yeah she needed help; I'm not really sure what that meant. Booth just took off running."
Before Angela could respond Brennan's phone rang. Thinking it was Booth with news she picked it up and right before she answered she saw Sully's name on the screen. She looked at Angela for help and turned the phone around for her to see why she hadn't picked it up.
"Sully, why is he calling you?" Brennan snapped the phone shut "he wants me to go to dinner with him tonight, he just got back from his trip."
"Tell me you're not going" Angela said with determination in her voice "I don't know I'd like to see him but I don't know everything's so complicated now." Angela looked at her like she was crazy "It's not complicated your with Booth" she sighed before answering "I don't even know what's going on between us."
Next thing they knew there was a tap at her door.
Both girls looked up in surprise.
"Sully what are you doing here?" Angela said as she got up from the couch to look at him. "I tried calling, I was going to surprise her but she didn't answer her phone." "Oh I didn't hear it ring" even in her head it was a dumb excuse.
"Can I talk to Temperance alone?" Angela responded by walking towards the door and after one last look at her friend she walked out, leaving the two alone.
"So, how have you been?" Brennan found that oddly amusing considering her current situation. "I've been better, um you" "me too I suppose" they still stood on opposite sides of the room.
Sully walked forward towards her gesturing that she sat on the couch. They sat their quite for a minute, Sully thinking how he could get her talking, Brennan thinking of how she could get out of this conversation.
"How was your trip" Brennan asked figuring that he'd come here to tell her all about it, and the quicker he did that then the quicker she could get rid of him.
"Oh it was so fun, I did a lot of things I've always wanted to do. Like snorkeling, and diving, I even jumped out of a plane." "Wow sounds like you had a good time."
"Yeah, I still wish you could have come with me though." At this she didn't reply but continued to stare at the floor.
"So how's Booth?" she looked up and for a second wondered if he had heard her and Angela's conversation. "He's good, maybe a little stressed but he's holding up." "I heard he was back with his ex Rebecca or something"
Suddenly the happiness that she had felt just moments ago began to drain, as her mind worked on the complications of what he had said. Booth wasn't back with Rebecca, he would have told her. Though now that she thought about it he hadn't told her last time he was with her.
Brennan suddenly felt jealous, even though her and Booth weren't a couple, and a little mad. She had kissed Booth first.
Maybe he hadn't wanted to; no that's not right if he hadn't wanted me too he wouldn't have kissed me tonight. Her head ached and she tried thinking of what all this meant but realized she wasn't any good at these situations.
She had to know for sure considering he was over there right now helping her. "How do you know that? You just got back." "I emailed him a while ago saying when I'd be home so I could surprise you and I asked him what was new here and he told me, I still have the email from him if you want to see it"
"I… no that's ok I believe you" all her hopes of him being wrong where shattered. In the back of her mind she knew Booth would never do that to her. But she still wanted to hear it from him. Why was she so attached to him already acting like the jealous girlfriend? Maybe he didn't love her the way that she had thought.
Sully had moved closer to her in the time she was thinking of all this and had put his hand on her knee. She noticed it, but she also noticed that there was no spark. Nothing at all. She slightly pulled away from him and his hand dropped to the couch.
"Ok so do you want to go and eat, you look starved." "Umm no thanks Sully not tonight, I have to work on my book. Maybe another time?" "Yeah sure", was his reply as she grabbed her jacket putting it on as she out the door.
The team watched her leave, until Cam said to Angela "I have a feeling Sully's return didn't exactly spark an old flame" Angela watched Sully walk past them now "You have no idea."
Booth had arrived at Rebecca's and was now loading his gun just in case. He knew that Parker had slept over her mother's house tonight so he wasn't in any trouble, but he still couldn't help but want to go and get him too.
As he walked up to the door he noticed everything looked as it should. The outdoor light was on and there seemed to be lights on in the house.
He couldn't see any signs of a forced entry, and without knocking or ringing the doorbell he opened the door, walked in gun raised, ready to shoot any intruder.
The house was quiet as he walked towards the light coming from the living room. He was afraid of what he was going to find and instantly wished he had brought Bones.
As he turned the corner to the room he felt something hard slam against his head causing him to lose his balance and fall to the floor.
"Seeley what the fuck are you doing here sneaking into my house. You have no right to come barging in here!"
Booth recognized the voice as Rebecca's and tried to look at her but the whack to the head he had received had caused his focus to be slightly off.
"What the hell! I get a message from you saying that you're in trouble, so I come rushing here and I get hit in the head with?" "Parkers baseball bat and I'm really sorry about that. But I'm not in trouble, and I have a hard time believing that that is why you came over. Especially when you knew Parker wasn't here."
"Look I was only trying to help and you did call me; it was your voice on the message." She looked at him like he was crazy "Well I'm sorry but that wasn't me."
Booth got up from the floor still holding his head as he pulled out his cell phone. Looking through his calls he saw the one that had left the message and looked at the number. It wasn't one that he had recognized and it certainly wasn't Rebecca's. How could that be it was defiantly her voice asking for help?
All the sudden he felt her hand on his shoulder.
"Look Seeley it's been a long time since we were together and I'm not saying that we should become a couple, but if you need to relieve a little stress I'm here"
Booth ignored her as He hit his speed dial and called Bones. He needed to figure out how this was possible and what was going on, and he needed her help. It rang for what seemed like forever before it went to voice mail. "Seeley are you listening to me?" Rebecca asked getting irritated. "Yeah look I got to go" he said as he pulled away from her. Figuring something was going on at the lab he walked out of the house without even saying 'goodbye' to Rebecca.
On his way to the lab he tried her cell phone 3 more times and her house phone a few times, thinking she may have gave up waiting for him and went home. He was starting to get frustrated and couldn't figure out why she wasn't answering. He decided to go to the lab first, seeing as though they were still working on this case.
Sully had gone back to the Jeffersonian after he realized he left his coat in Brennan's office. He had caught up to her in the parking lot but she had ignored him and left. He was hurt that she left like that and had been scanning his head thinking of what he had said to make her so upset. He couldn't find anything.
Booth walked back into the Jeffersonian looking for his partner, figuring she'd be working on something. He looked to the platform and saw the squint squad minus Bones. 'Where the hell is she?' he thought. He saw Angela walking and stopped her "Hey where's Bones?" "She left a while ago" Booth instantly panicked "What do you mean left, she's not supposed to go anywhere alone!" The whole team stopped what they were doing and Booth instantly felt that something wasn't right.
"Hey Booth, it's all right I walked her to her car and she said she was going home." Sully had emerged from her office coat in hand.
Booth was mad, mad that he had left Bones all alone while he got hit in the head with a bat. Mad that Sully came to talk to her, and mad that he hadn't checked the number on his phone and called Rebecca first before taking off.
So for no apparent reason he looked back at Sully and punched him hard in the face. "What was that for?" Sully asked now on the ground. Angela and Cam had grins on their faces that they both tried desperately to hide. Zach continued working, un-fazed by the exchange and Hodgins yelled "Booth nice shot!"
All of the squints had watched Brennan leave, probably because of Sully. So none were unhappy when Booth hit him, in fact a few of them would have probably done it if he hadn't. They had been through enough these past weeks and Brennan especially didn't need him giving her more to worry about.
Booth didn't answer but took off running phone in hand.
He looked for her car in the parking lot and it wasn't there. He then decided to go to her house, hoping that'd she'd be there.
When he got to her door he knocked a few times and got no answer. He hoped that she had been taking a shower or something so he took out the spare key and opened the door.
Her place was as it always was but there was no sound of running water. He searched the whole house and couldn't find her.
Thinking that maybe she had gone to his house for the night he dialed his house number and still no answer. He was starting to panic. When all of the sudden his phone rang.
This time he looked at the number and saw that it was the same number that had called him before.
He hesitantly picked it up dreading what he'd hear now.
"Seeley Booth, let the game begin."
Ok I have no comment except I hope everyone's enjoying the summer.
