Jagged Pieces
By wired2damoon
Chapter 10: A Girl Can Dream
A/N: PLEASE DON'T HURT ME!!! I've decided that I will definitely continue the 'Booth being sick and Brennan looking after him' plot but it will be a bit later on. For now, I've decided to stick with my one-shots and see where the other 'Booth-sick' plot takes me…who knows, I might even turn it into a separate story!? Anyways, hope you like what's in store…some ANGELA POV!! ~wired2damoon~
Disclaimer: I don't own Bones, yada yada yada, if I did, Booth's ass would be mine and I'd have sank Sully's ship…
Time Line - Sometime after "Perfect Pieces In The Purple Pond" (when Brennan decides to delete her manuscript from her hard-drive and Booth tells her to ask Angela to scan her manuscript back into the computer.)
Word Count - 1120
POV - Angela Montenegro
I watched with silent confusion as Bren sauntered right out of my office, throwing me a small smile over her shoulder.
It was early Friday morning and out of nowhere she just appeared, like an awkward, yet endearing mirage, dropped her manuscript right on my desk and politely asked me (in that scientific, mysterious way that we've all grown accustomed) to scan every word of it back into her computer.
I had asked her what had happened to her original files but she was sketchy (pun is so intended) on the finer details, only something about how she 'accidentally' erased her hard-drive file. Accidentally my not-so-toned ass! I know Bren may be a little on the socially-inept side at times, but me?
I can read people like a book - not as well as the hot, sexy hunk of G-Man I might add, (my 'sixth sense' as I would call it focuses more on the sexual and romantics, something we all know a certain FBI Agent stays the hell away from) but still, I know when my best friend is lying.
And baby, she was lying through her teeth.
That didn't bother me however, why Bren had decided to delete her manuscript from her hard-drive was her own business, what did intrigue me though, was why she had a sudden change of heart? I knew she had more than enough money to be happily content, so was it for the writing? Did she realise she has another passion besides examining human remains and being in total denial of her intense love for her jump-worthy better than chocolate partner? Or was it for an entirely different reason? A reason I've been fantasying about since I read her very first novel…
The lives of Kathy Reichs and Andy Lister.
Or, as I like to secretly call them, Temperance Brennan and Seeley Booth.
Now, some may think it a little, well, majorly creepy to read something as steamy as the red, raw animal sex Kathy and Andy have from time to time and actually envision my best friend and her partner in their shoes, but thankfully I'm not like most people.
God, for the last four years I've been drowning in my own frustration at the sheer blindness, stubbornness, idiocy - whatever you wanna call it, of those two and frankly, I have to take that frustration out on something, you know, considering I'm now currently single.
So, if I'm not getting any action, someone else should right? Well, if it were left to those two, they'll probably end up bonking like bunnies on Meth when they're in their sixties, because there's no way that they'll succumb to their feelings before then.
That is, if Bren doesn't suddenly decide that love isn't all chemicals and hormones and sex isn't just another 'biological urge', and Booth decides to erase that stupid, symbolic line (yes, I have heard about the infamous line) and get his act together and at least try and show Bren just how perfect they could be together…
But, sigh, that's one hell of a big 'if.'
As the pages I feverishly scanned back into the computer flashed across the screen, my eyes darted, sneaking a few words here and there. I didn't feel guilty though, there has been many a time when Bren has asked me to read a couple of pages she may feel a little iffy about, so sneaking a peak ain't that bad, right?
Oh who am I kidding!? Bren has never asked me to read a steamy sex scene before, so how can you blame me when my eyes are suddenly caught by a particular raunchy description?
The hot, wet, gleaming tongue darted out of her partner's mouth and gently glossed over her already hardened nipple. A gasped escaped her, her eyes closing automatically as the familiar sensation of extreme arousal washed over her…
My heart sped wildly in my chest as my eyes envisioned all that was being described. I gotta hand it to Bren, she really can set a scene. And what a scene it was! Geez! She is definitely worthy of her genius status.
Kathy groaned with quiet anticipation as Andy's tongue began licking a tantalising trail up from her breasts to the nape of her neck…sucking and biting attentively. She could now feel his prominent erection digging into her thigh and she hastily spread her legs, allowing him to step even closer to her. She bit her lip as he did just that and lifted her up, leaning her back against the wall. Capturing his lips with hers, her tongue danced and fought for dominance as she wrapped her long, slender legs around his waist…
Holy Saint Elvis! She really is trying to kill her readers with suspense and tension isn't she? Hell, I'm sitting here, staring at the screen, biting profusely on my fingernails - trying to calm my wildly beating heart…she's already reduced me to my "teenage-fan-girl-squealing-like-a-barnyard-pig-not-caring-that-she-should-be-working" state. Wow. I think that's a new record for my wonderfully talented best friend.
There's only one thing that bothers me about what I just read, however. The names. Oh how I hoped, when I'd often read a few passages from her past books, that dear, genius, I-never-make-a-mistake Bren would somehow slip and instead of writing Kathy and Andy, wrote Temperance and Seeley.
But…sigh…it hasn't happened so far. No typos in award-winning books and no real-life action between my very favourite non-couple.
But then again, there are 304 pages to go! And hey, as far as the real-life thing goes…for now, I guess a girl can dream huh?
A/N: Please let me know what you think. I love writing Angela's POV so you can count on reading some more from her! Hoped you liked it! ~wired2damoon~ x