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"Hodgins, what the hell are Booth doing here?"

"I told you I invited everybody!" Hodgins replied.

Angela sighed. "You know, Christine is upstairs, and if someone reveal themselves and say anything, this dinner won't be as nice anymore" She bet her teeth furiously together while she spoke.

Hodgins shrugged. "Why?"

"Seriously? Christine doesn't know about him, and Booth doesn't know about her being here. He thinks she is dead or something. And Bren and I talked about him and suddenly out of the blue, Christine joins the conversation by ask who Booth is!"

"So she know about Booth then?" Hodgins asked.

"No! Or yes. We never told her who he was, just an old friend of us. But Chris could start talking about her mother or something, besides she just look exactly like Bren"

The door bell rang. Time to put the smile on.

Angela knew this was gonna be an interesting dinner. Especially if Christine began to talk about her mother. This wasn't Angela's task to commit. Brennan should have been there as well, so they could fix up things. But this wasn't the proper moment for Brennan to be there either. She tried to forget about it and act as normal as possible.

She opened the door. On the other side of the doorway she saw an almost unrecognizable Booth stand there looking down on the ground. His eyes was red of tears and he just seemed so unhappy. Angela knew why. Cam told her about her visit to Booth yesterday.

Angela invited him in and were just about to close the door when she spotted Sweets and Daisy come up the walkway. They smiled to each other. Then Daisy started giggling with her most annoying laughter. They seemed happy though. Unlike Booth, who looked like he was about to kill himself.

She got nervous. Anything could happen the next, if not minutes – then hours. Two lives could be turned upside down.

"Nice to see you all" Hodgins said trying to keep a pokerface and don't burst out: "Christine is here!".

They all went into the living room and sat down. They started talking, then Angela almost dragged Hodgins out in the kitchen and locked the door behind them.

"Why the hell did you invite Booth?" Angela asked, almost sounding angry.

"I...I...I, it just happened okay" Hodgins said.

Angela raised her eyebrows, curious.

"It just happened? You know I won't accept that answer"

"Friday night, when you'd already left to England, I was at the lab. Cam was there... everybody was there included Booth, and I asked if they would like to come sunday. And they all accepted the invitation"

"But you knew Chris would be here, right?"

"I didn't think that far"

"Well, if something happens – you are responsible"

Then Angela left the kitchen and Hodgins by himself. She went into the living room, finding everybody sitting quiet on their seat. She worried if they may have heard something of her conversation with Hodgins, but they didn't act weird, just bored.

"Where is Michael?" Sweets asked ans she entered the room.

Angela glanced at him. "Upstairs..." She now glanced at Booth. "...With a friend". It was

technically true. Maybe it wasn't the whole truth, but still the truth.

Everybody knew which friend Angela talked about. Everybody except Booth of course. They'd all secretly got a message from Angela that said not tell a word to Booth. Brennan could have that pleasure when she returned from Chicago.

They heard footsteps walking down the stairs with light steps. Angela took a deep breath. It's now or hopefully not now, or later.

It was just Michael coming.

"Where is your friend?" Angela asked her son.

"Oh, you mean..."

"Yes, I mean her!"

Michael didn't understand why his mother behaved so strange, but answered: "She's upstairs watching some lame boring documentary about forensics stuff. I didn't understand a shit so I came down here, meeting all you lovely people"

"Language Mike!" Hodgins said standing in the doorway drying a plate with a cloth. Mike glanced back at his father with his I-don't-care-look. "The dinner is ready" He continued.

They all sat down on a chair. Angela first and then Daisy and Sweets beside each other (of course) beside sweets on his left hand – Cam, then Hodgins, then Mike, Booth beside him and there was an empty seat.

"Chris' upstairs" Mike said.

"Chris?" Booth asked. "I thought your friend was a girl."

"It's her nickname, Booth" He replied.

"Oh" Booth sighed. "I can go get her, I have to, you know, go. It's like kill two birds with one stone" He gave a small laugh.

"That would really not be necessary" Angela interrupted and raised up from her chair. "I'll go and get her"

"Angela, I just said I could do it, like a favor. It looks like you've done a lot the past days, but if you insist"

"Ange, can you help me here in the kitchen" Hodgins hollered out in the dining room. Angela rolled her eyes and went to help her husband.

Booth went out of the room and up the stairs. He didn't know exactly where the tv was, but he went a little bit longer in the hallway like Michael had described. "Hallo?" He said. No answer.

Suddenly he saw a female with auburn brown hair and bright blue eyes staring at him just a few meters away from him. A second his heart stopped.

"Bones?"


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