AN: Hey everyone sorry it took me so long to update, I've had a rough couple of days recently and then my best friend came in from New Mexico and I haven't seen her in 2 years so I went to hang out with her all of yesterday when I was going to be working on updating this. Anyway enough of the an, I kinda rushed myself on this so sorry about the mixtakes in advance. Again my beta wasn't able to do this chapter... If anyone has beta ing experience and wants to beta this please please pelase let me know.
Chapter 10:
2 weeks later…
"Zach what do you have on the victim?" I asked, walking to the other side of the table. I was excited, nervous, and somewhat calm all at the same time. I was getting my new partner today, and didn't know what to expect. All I knew was that I no longer had to put up with Ryan O'Niel.
"The victim was male approximately 12-15 years of age. Cause of death was blunt force trauma to the spinal cord, stomach, and neck. There are cut marks on the clavical, radius, ulna, and 4th and 5th ribs. The weapon used was a swiss army knife, probably from a store such as Wal Mart or Target, the blade was sharp enough to cut through, but dull enough not to cut thorugh any bone. The name of the victim was Joel Greco. The case was closed in 2002 when the father was arrested for the murder but was just reopened in May of 2008 when a boy, 13 years old, confessed to murdering him. Our job is to verify whether or not the boy is telling the truth," Zach said, pointing to the different parts as he spoke.
"Thank you Zach, Angela have you ran the scenario through the Angelator yet?" I asked.
"Yes, if you'll come into my office I'll show you the different possible scnarios that I've come up with," Angela said, standing up from her current seat.
Down near the front door: (happening at the same time)
"Seeley Booth, I never would have thought it was you," Alan Thompson said, giving Booth a man hug.
"Alan it's so good to see you again," He laughed. Alan had been one of his friends as a kid and when Alan had moved to DC Booth thought he was never going to see him again.
"Cullen will be here shortly and Dr. Goodman is heading this way right now. Your partner is up there on the raised part in the middle of the Jeffersonian. That's where they do most of their work but they have offices as well," Alan said, pointing out Dr. Goodman and his partner.
"So what is this partner's name? They never told me," He said, curiously looking up. Her voice carried down to where we were standing and it sounded so familiar.
"Dr. Temprence Brennan, she's been here for five years and is the head of the forensics department here at the Jeffersonian. Her old partner and her were having some trouble and they decided it would be best if they quit their partnership," Alan said.
'Tempe…' He thought, 'I can't believe this…after five years of not being able to see her. After trying so hard to get over her, I'm finally going to be with her again…'
"Don't even try getting with her, many have tried and failed. It's obvious that someone once had her heart, and I think he still has it, lucky guy," Alan said, "Well I've got to go, so I'll see you later."
"Bye Alan, it was good seeing you again," Booth said.
"You too Booth," He replied.
"Special Agent Seeley Booth?" Dr. Goodman asked.
"Yeah, I responded. You must be Dr. Goodman," He said, shaking his hand.
Back up where Bones and her team is:
"I've got about four different scenarios set up where the kid is telling the truth and three where the kid is not. Some of the evidence just isn't right, and it's obvious too, I don't know how they missed it the first time around," Angela said.
"Come on then," I said, turning around. I looked straight ahead toward the door and my breath caught. It had been five years. Five years since I had seen that smile, that face. He had hardly changed, yet he was completely different.
"Booth!" I cried, running down the stairs. I threw myself at him, wrapping my arms around him tight and burying my face in his neck.
"Tempe!" He cried, wrapping his arms around me, "God I've missed you so much."
He pulled back and looked at me, "Still as beautiful as I remember."
"What are you doing here?" I asked, detaching myself from his arms.
"Well, long story short, I'm your new partner," Booth said, placing his hands on my shoulders.
"Dr. Brennan do you know Agent Booth?" Dr. Goodman asked seriously.
"Yes, I knew him before my residency here. We both lived in Palm Beach," I said, my eyes glowing and a bright grin on my face.
"I see," Dr. Goodman said, smilling before walking away.
Back up with her team:
"Is this really happening?" Zach asked Angela.
"I think so…" Angela said, confused at the scene in front of her. Brennen her best friend, don't take any chances, lets just stay here today, had just jumped into the arms of a random guy. What was up with that?
Back with Bones and Booth (Yes there's a lot of jumping around in this):
"I can't believe you're here," I whispered, wrapping my arms around his neck again, burying my face in his neck and inhaling his familiar scent.
"I can't believe I'm your partner, I don't have to start work till tomorrow let's go get lunch," Booth said.
"Uh, I can't…I'm going over a case with my team. How about dinner tonight?" I asked.
"Sure, and hey what was up with not keeping in touch with me after the first two years?" He asked.
"It got too hard…it was making me not concentrate on my work. I had to try and get over you…and keeping in contact wasn't helping any," I admitted, looking down.
"Did it work?" Booth whispered, a frightened look in his eyes.
"Not exactly," I murmured, unable to break eye contact with him.
He smiled at this, his eyes brightening a little.
"Did you ever get over me?" I asked.
"Never, I promised you I'd love you forever didn't I?" Booth asked.
"Yeah," I said, lost in the memories from Palm Beach.
"I'll see you tonight, okay?" Booth asked.
"Yeah, pick me up here at 5, okay? I'll leave a bit early today," I said, smiling up at him.
"Okay, see you then," Booth said, placing a light kiss on my cheek before walking away.
I stood there for a moment my hand on my cheek. How could I still feel like this? After five years without him, how could he still manage to make me tingle with a chaste kiss on the cheek? I turned around bracing myself for what Angela would do to me, and then walked over to my team.
"Come on, let's go see those possibilities I have to be out of here by 5," I said, walking in the direction of Angela's office. I walked a little bit ahead of them hoping to avoid their curious and astonished looks. Geez did they really think that I had no life?
"Who is that?" Angela asked, coming up next to me and leading me away from the boys.
"An old friend," I answered.
"Looked like more then that the way he was looking at you," She said, wiggling her eyebrows.
"We used to date back in California, but this was five years ago," I pointed out.
"Really? Didn't look like any time passed the way you jumped into his arms," Angela mused.
"We kept in contact for the first two years I was out here and then we stopped talking. I realized that I had to get over him, that we would probably never see each other again, I was wrong…" I said.
"Oh my god, that sounds almost exactly like a romance novel I read one time. The two main characters were high school sweethearts and then when they went off to college they lost touch. When they found each other again years later they realized that they were still in love, but then they had all this drama occur and then there was this one scene where…" Angela rambled.
"Ange stop, Booth and I are not like that, we agreed to just be friends," I said, stopping her mid sentence, "We're not going to end up like a romance novel, we're not going to end up back together, we've both moved on."
"Really because the way Booth was looking at you I'd say he was still very much in love with you. Besides Tempe I have never, ever seen you act that way in front of a person. Not even the first day of your internship here. Not when you were dating that Michael guy, never," Angela pointed out.
"Ange just drop it," I said seriously, walking into her office, the guys were close behind us.
"For now," She mumbled before turning on the Angelator.
"Scenario one, Joel is killed by Casey, the 13 year old boy, the weight and size differences between the two are so close that…" Angela started to explain.
I sat there, half paying attention to what she was saying and half thinking about what tonight was going to bring. Could Angela be right about Booth still loving me? And if she was, what about me? I had tried getting over him, I had started dating other people, what if it had all been in vain? This evening, what if it led to more, what if Booth confessed that he still loved her, what would I do? Did I still love him? I couldn't after everything I went through to get over him, I'd went out with other men and enjoyed myself, it's not like I stayed celibate during the five years apart.
"Brennan, come back to us," Angela said, snapping her fingers in front of my face.
"Huh, what are you talking about?" I asked, blushing.
"You know exactly when I'm talking about. You're sitting there staring off into space and not paying attention to anything I'm saying," Angela scholded teasingly.
"Yes I am," I lied, trying to prevent the blush that was sneaking up my cheeks.
"Then how many schenario's have I gone over?" She asked.
"Uh, 3?" I mumbled.
"Wrong, I've gone over all of them. The whole time you were staring at the floor with a worried expression on your face and you were playing with your fingers the whole time," She accused.
"Fine, I wasn't listening, but Zach and Hodgins are more then capable of handling this by themselves, they don't always need me, because I need to go get ready, I'm going out with Booth tonight to catch up," I said walking out of her office to go find Zach and Hodgins.
I found them exactly where I expected them to be…in the lab… I wasn't surprised after they heard the scenarios they usually went to go test them out. Whether it be burning spam or shooting a pig through a wood cutter. I walked in to find them just sitting there which was extremely unusual.
"Zach, Hodgins, I'm going to be leaving in about 5 minutes so I need Zach to continue examining the Bones and Hodgins, um, just continue going through the trash," I said, before walking out of the lab and into my office grabbing my coat and bag and signing off of my computer.
I walked out into the main part of the Jeffersonian and out the doors to wait for Booth to come and pick me up. He said he would be there at 5:00 and it was 5 now. Standing there my mind wandered. It wandered to what Angela had said earlier, it wandered to what I thought about while she was talking about the different scenarios and it wandered to memories. Memories that used to bring pain and pleasure that now just made me sad. I remembered how many nights I had laid at home in my bed just crying, wishing that I hadn't taken this internship. Wishing that I had stayed back home with Booth. Wondering what would have happened if I had.
AN2: Hey hope that wasn't too bad for you guys. The next chapter is the dinner with B&B. I think I'm actually going to shorten this just because I have so many ideas running through my head for other fanfics for Grey's Anatomy and One Tree Hill so if you watch either of those shows watch out for some new ones. I think I'll make this 15 or 16 chapters. Review please!!
