The Woman in the Kitchen Chapter 9

A/N Ok, like I said I'm working on this while I'm in the car and I'm listening to Jem so this is just awesome. I'll try

to get chapter 10 done today, what the hell, hey? I have 6 hours of driving ahead of me. Hopefully for all of you who

don't like Saja, you'll realize that she's not going to die, and you'll deal with her eventually, even if you don't

like her tons. (Who really cares though? She's a figment of my imagination and I made her :) ) I've gotten a couple of

reviews that say I should just leave her the way she is, so I am.

Thanks

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At The Club (Guys are there):

"When do you think they're gonna get here?" Hodgins asked, he was holding his beer in his hands, then he took a long

swig.

"I don't know. Maybe they had to coax Brennan out the door or something," Booth said, taking a drink from his own beer.

"By estimated time of how long a female will take to get ready, they probably left about five minutes ago," Zach explained. He didn't have a beer, he said that the alcohol wasn't logical because it got in your system and you do irrational things when it's in your system.

Booth and Hodgins looked at him with wide eyes.

"I don't even want to know how you knew that," Hodgins said, shaking his head.

"Well it was a science project two years ago..." Zach began.

"Zach, I do not want to know," Hodgins said again. "Maybe I wasn't clear last time."

"Oh," Zach looked away for a second and stayed quiet.

Booth was still laughing a little. He took another swig from his bottle and finished it off. He put it on the counter. "How'd they con us into coming here tonight anyways?" Booth wasn't totally into clubs.

"Well, Angela asked me, I can't say no to her you know, and then she told me to get you to come, and then we dragged Zach here," Hodgins explained counting off on his fingers the events of earlier that week.

"I really did not want to come," Zach said for what felt like the billionth time.

"We know Zach," Hodgins and Booth said together.

Zach fell silent again.

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Angela, Temperance, Saja and Cam walked into the club. Angela saw the guys over by the bar and rolled her eyes.

She walked up to them and went behind Hodgins. She wrapped her arms around his neck, "Did you miss me?" she teased.

"Oh of course baby," Hodgins pulled her arms off his neck and took her hands, then pulled her out onto the dance floor.

Angela had told Tempe that she had to leave her jacket in the car and she wasn't too happy about that. She stood there with her arms crossed, looking away. Booth hadn't seen her, then he did see her.

His eyes got huge as he looked her up and down. "Wow, Bones, you look hot."

Tempe heard him and smiled. "Thank you, you look good too."

"Do you want to dance?" Booth asked, holding out his hand.

"Sure," Tempe said and she took his hands.

Silent Movie by Natasha Beddingfield was playing. Cam had gone off with some tall strong guy and was dancing with him.

Zach couldn't say a word and Saja didn't really see him. When she did she smiled. "Thank god you came. I thought I'd be stuck here alone all night. Somehow I knew that they'd all go."

"Oh, yes, I don't really dance though," Zach told her.

"That's ok I just need a drink right now," she looked for the bartender. Then she saw him and she waved him down. "Can

I get a corona please? Do you want anything Zach?"

"Err, I don't drink so no thanks."

"All right," Saja nodded at the bartender and he came back with a corona. Saja popped the top off and took a long drink from it.

"You look very nice tonight, Dr. Kesuan," Zach said.

"Zach, tonight we're not in the workplace. You can call me by my first name," Saja said, taking another drink from her corona.

"All right, Saja," in his head, Zach thought her name was the most beautiful he'd ever heard.

"S'cuse me," a tall buff guy said to Saja.

"Yes?" Saj asked him. "Is there something that you want?"

"Yeah, yer number," the guy said.

"No, I don't know you so I won't give it to you," Saja said to him, without one trace of fear in her voice.

"Fine, a dance then," the guy slurred his words a little and Saja understood what he wanted, and it wasn't a dance.

"I think you should go and get some water and go home," Saja turned around, not wanting to talk with him anymore.

He grabbed her arm, forcefully and didn't let go. "I said I want you to dance with me."

"Let me go, sir," there was a little quiver of fear in her voice this time, and she had all the reason to be scared, Zach thought.

Zach knew he needed to do something. He walked up beside them and gulped, praying she wouldn't slap him afterwards.

Zach wrapped his arm around her waist. "Is everything ok here?" he asked, trying to sound more daring then he thought.

"Is this your gurl?" the guy slurred again and Zach could smell the alcohol on his breath.

"I'm his girl all right," Saja said and she leaned her head on Zach's shoulder.

"Prove it," the guy said. "Otherwise, she's mine for the night."

"She just said that she's mine, didn't she?" Zach was having trouble staying calm. He wanted to hit this guy so much.

"You can say anythin', don't mean it's true," the guy was slurring his words again.

"How can I prove it?" Zach asked, gulping again.

"I dunno, I got a headache," the guy said, Saja suddenly realized that Zach would probably do anything to make sure this guy didn't take her or hurt her.

"See baby? I told you I'd be ok," Saja said, smiling.

"Yeah, once I came and helped you," Zach said, her hair was so close to him he could smell it and it smelt so good to him.

"I jus' got one question. How'd a guy like you get a gurl like her?" Saja looked at Zach after the drunk guy said it. She wanted to know what he was going to say too.

"We met at work," Zach said truthfully.

"Oh, so you're sayin' I should get a job instead of usin' my parents money if I want to get a chick like her?"

"Yes," Zach said and then he pulled Saja away from the guy carefully.

Angela and them came back just as Zach let Saja go, they hadn't seen any of that. Good thing they didn't see or they might come to the wrong conclusions. Zach thought.

Saja finished off her beer and Angela dragged her and Brennan onto the dance floor so the guys could catch their breaths. Cam was still off with the other guy.

The next song came on, it was Fergie's new song Fergalicious (It's stuck in my head right now).

They danced along to the song, and Brennan was having troubles getting some of it. She wasn't sure what all the words in the song meant.

When it was over, they went back to the guys and Cam finally came back, the guy she had been with all night still holding onto her waist.

Saja went over and stood with Zach, and they began talking about something that only them and Tempe would get.

After a few more beers, they were all talking at a little table off in the corner where the tables all were.

"So you know boxing, karate and kung fu?" Saja asked Tempe.

"Yes. One of my foster parents decided that I needed it, and she was right. I use it a lot, and once she couldn't look after me anymore I kept myself in it," Temperance explained.

"Wow, I can box a little. My grandfather taught me when I was 13. My family's really young and really big. Actually, I still have a few great grandparents left," Saja said.

"Zach has a big family too, Saja," Angela said, she still had no idea of what had happened earlier that evening.

"Really? Do they drive you insane, but you know that you always love them, no matter what?" Saja honestly thought that she was the only person who thought that.

"Yes, my family's very large," Zach said to her, only Angela and Hodgins had noticed how Zach looked at Saja, and he was looking at her like that right now.

"I was raised by my grandparents," Saja said.

"Are your parents, you know, dead?" Booth asked her.

"Oh, no, my parents are both very alive but they divorced when I was young and then I lived with my grandparents on a farm for the longest time. I decided that I wanted to be a medical examiner, or a lawyer or an anthropologist when I was younger too," Saj said. "I would never want to be a lawyer that helped the criminals get away though. I'd want to

be prosecution."

"Well that's a good thing," Booth said.

"Yes, I know this seems out front, but do any of you have children?" Saja asked, she sounded excited a little.

"Booth does, he has a son," Temperance told her.

"Bones!" Booth snapped.

"What?" Tempe asked, she was a little confused.

"Maybe I'd like to keep the fact that I have a son a secret?" Booth said and he rolled his eyes.

"Sorry," Bones said, she rolled her eyes right back.

"Oh, don't worry, I'm not a pedophile or anything," Saja said quickly in her defense.

"I know Saja, well I don't know that, it's not you that I distrust, but I am with the FBI and we have a few enemies. I just don't want Parker to be in trouble with anything like that," Booth told her quietly.

"Oh, I'm sorry Agent Booth, I shouldn't have asked about it here," Saja said, shaking her head.

"It's alright, and you don't have to call me Agent Booth here, it's like me calling you Dr. Kesuan. You can just call me Booth or Seeley."

"All right Seeley," Saja said and she yawned.

Hodgins and Angela were talking at a table away and Saja looked over for a second. She saw Hodgins kiss her and then whisper something in Angela's ear. Angela nodded, and then Hodgins stood up and took Angela's hand.

"We're just going to go for a walk," he told everybody.

"Where? To go make out or something?" Booth asked, sarcastically.

"Nope. We'll be back in a few," Hodgins said and he and Angela walked out of the club alone.

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"So where are we going Hodgie?" Angela asked as Hodgins walked with her down the street.

"Just down here baby," Hodgins was so glad that he had gotten Angela to finally date him. They'd been dating for the

last eight weeks, and living together, even though Angela kept her apartment for storage, since Brennan and Booth came back from Vegas six weeks ago. And Hodgins was ready for the next step.

They came to a bench just by the ocean. It was cold and Angela didn't have her jacket. She shivered and Hodgins handed her his jacket and then pulled her close to warm her using his own body heat.

The little box in Jack's pocket was driving him insane. He'd had it for a long time, and tonight was when he would use it. It was nearly midnight, about two minutes to go.

"Jack, why'd you bring me out here? It's really cold," during the night Angela's hair had come out of the ponytail, and Hodgins thought she looked gorgeous in the moonlight.

"Can you wait one more minute Angela, baby?" Hodgins asked.

"I suppose so," Angela said, she was shivering again.

Hodgins counted down the seconds. Once he finally got to one he stood up.

"Did we come out here so that you could watch me freeze to death?" Angela teased.

"No, Angela, we've been seeing each other for the last couple of months," Hodgins began.

"It's been months? It's only felt like days," Angela said, happily.

"Yes, well in exactly thirty seconds, it will be the same time as our first kiss," Hodgins smiled.

"Really?" Ange was shocked. She didn't even know the exact time of their first kiss.

"Really, and I though, the magnetic field, needs to never break apart. I think, the field needs to live forever together," Hodgins said, and Angela smiled. This was the way he had asked her out, but they were already dating, so what else could he want?

"I think the magnetic field should get married," Jack pulled out a ring box. "Angela Montenegro, will you marry me?"

A/N What do you think? I like the end myself!! I'm working on chapter 10 but my laptop might die!! EEK!! I'll have to save lots!! Oh well, I'll try to get it done. This chapter was mainly Hodgela and SZ wasn't it... huh... Oh well, BB coming SOON!! Guess what happens in Chapter 10?? Let me give you a hint, it's got a live burial, and it involves Brennan and Hodgins!! UH OH!!

Please R&R I'll only post Chapter 10 when I have 5 reviews for THIS chapter!

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