Thanks for still supporting me on this one:) fast update;) hope it's of your liking.
Oh, and you may find the Hodgins' baby's name like too obvious, but I liked it.
Disclaimer: Bones belongs to Fox.
"I knew it." Hodgins sat next to his wife, cooing over their little girl; Joy Temperance Hodgins. Angela had already decided that if they had a girl her middle name would be Temperance, but after all that her friend's done for them…they decided on the two names that would honor the favorite aunt.
"Knew what?" Angela asked, fixing her gaze on her husband.
"That there was something fishy going on with the absence of Booth's girlfriend Hannah." Hodgins threw a small get together with their friends and family to welcome his wife and daughter home. As they all got into conversation the subject of where Hannah was came up. It didn't pass unnoticed, especially to Sweets, the way the partners had snuck a glance at each other.
"Well, Brennan hadn't mentioned anything about the woman being gone." Angela knew her friend and the agent still had an obstacle in between even if the woman was gone.
"You think Dr. B and Booth will get together now?" He helped his wife rise from the couch and together they walked towards the nursery. Angela shook her head.
"Hannah may be gone, but if those two keep hiding their feelings then…" Angela sighed; those two were so hard headed. "They need to lay it all on the open and be honest. Their relationship as partners and friends depends on it."
Hodgins agreed.
B&B
"Wow, it still surprises me that this is where Angela gave birth." Sweets commented as Booth finally hit the road after leaving the Hodgins' place. He and Daisy where riding in the backseat of Booth's SUV. "It must be of great significance to the Dr. Hodgins that his wife gave birth in the back of a vehicle."
"What?" Booth asked, not really following where he was going with the comment since he wasn't really paying attention to the kid.
"Well, think about it. He was buried underground with Dr. Brennan in a car and Dr. Brennan helped his wife…Ouch!" Sweets looked at Daisy after she swatted his arm. She gave him a 'stop it' glare.
Booth shook his head slightly. The carpooling idea had seemed great at first. It was obvious everyone was able to note how he and Brennan were avoiding really talking about Hannah's leave and where that left them.
"Well, thanks guys." Sweets exited the SUV, still wondering what the heck he'd said wrong.
"Thank you." Daisy waved as she followed after Sweets. "Leave them alone. They will fix what they need to fix on their own." The young woman gritted her teeth at Sweets as they made their way towards his apartment. "You weren't very nice, Lance." Daisy made it clear that he had no business poking the partners. Sweets knew Daisy was very protective of her idol and he decided not to fuel her anger at the intrusion he was about to do.
"Ah, come one? You can't go home yet. It's still early." Booth gave Brennan a playful shove before he pulled from the curb.
"I'm giving a lecture tomorrow morning." Brennan told him she still had to organize her material.
"That's such a lie." He accused, stopping for a red light and sending her a sideways glance. "You never prepare you're material at the last minute."
"I was given last minute notification that I'll be the only speaker. I must reorganize…" She shut her mouth abruptly. Why was a simple conversation escalading into an argument?
We're friends and that's all we'll ever be. Brennan decided to stop with the childish situation.
"You know what? A drink would be nice." Booth shot her another quick glance, not knowing where her sudden change of mind came from and he wasn't going to question it.
"Where at?" Booth hooked a U-turn, heading towards the Founding Fathers.
"My place." Brennan suggested and Booth agreed.
B&B
"Booth, what are you doing here?" Brennan was surprised to find Booth waiting for her outside the lecture hall. They'd had drinks the previous night and chatted. She wasn't expecting to find him waiting for her.
"We have a case." He announced as he led the way towards his SUV. Brennan gave him an incredulous look. "What?" He asked when he caught her horrified expression.
"You waited until the lecture ended to tell me!"
"Relax. I just got here."
"I need to stop by the lab for my equipment."
"Cam's already on her way. She took Wendell and the equipment." Booth made a move to open the car door for her, but she was quicker.
On the drive to the crime scene he filled her in on the details.
"One body is there, female late thirties" Wendell pointed to where Cam was standing. "And the other is over there, just a few feet away. Male early forties." Brennan followed the intern and immediately they submerged into their work.
B&B
It took Cam two days to get a hit off dentals for one of their victims.
"No one's reported him missing." Booth told Brennan he'd gotten a hold of the wife of their male victim. The squints had calculated time of death to be two months ago. Cause of death was still unknown. The partners were on their way to the Hoover to question the wife.
Sweets stood on the other side of the glass, assisting the partners during the interrogation.
"Dead?" The woman asked. Sweets discerned her genuine surprise.
"Yes." Booth answered. "We'd like to know why you didn't report him missing." Booth asked, his eyes fixed on the woman.
"We had our differences and I left him." The woman tried to cover her hurt with indifference.
"What kind of differences?" Booth prodded.
"You said you also found a woman?"
"Yes. Female, late thirties. We still haven't positively identified her remains." Booth did a mental eye roll at the anthropologist's usual approach.
Booth asked the woman to elaborate on what her differences with her husband were. He was getting the vibe that there was someone else.
"He was having an affair." The woman confirmed Booth's suspicions. "Do you know how much it hurt that he gave up on me to be with her?" The woman's gaze was fixed on Brennan as she asked that question.
Sweets' mouth drop wide open. He could practically feel the tension oozing from the partners after that question.
Yeah, I went thereXD
I was listening to 'Revenge is sweeter (than you ever were)' by the veronicas as I was finishing up this chapter and the 'do you know how much it hurt..' line was perfect to have thrown at the partners;)
