I know that some are annoyed at the same chapters. But I have a seriously SHORT attention span, sorry about that. Second to last chapter… enjoy and happy reading :)
Booth was surprised when he was called into the conference room again, only a week after they had issued the determination of their intimate relationship. He was seething when he waltzed into the room. He blamed them for his actions, for his decision, FORCED decision more like it, thought he knew the choice in the end was HIS. Bones hadn't spoken to him since he ended it. He had called her, and she hadn't answered, he had spoken to her and she had ignored him. He had tried Angela, again and again, but she had retorted to only slapping him upside the head and ordering him to fix the problem, anyway he could.
He stood before the board.
"You gonna sit down?" James offered gesturing to the chair.
"No thanks!" Booth said evenly. "What am I here for?" he wanted to get straight to the point.
"Well…" Aaron began. "We had another board meeting and came to a unanimous vote and decided that you and Dr. Brennan may enter into a relationship as long as it has no direct affect on the case," he went on.
Booth wasn't buying it. They had been so intent on breaking them up before; it seemed uncanny that they would call him in to tell him the good news. No. He wasn't buying it.
"What's the catch?" he demanded. There had to be more, another ultimatum, another deal, another request from the FBI. Whatever it was, he wasn't interested.
"No catch," James said smugly.
"Yeah," Booth stood. "I'm not buying…"
"Okay," Aaron answered ignoring the groan from James, who clearly didn't want to the truth to come out. "Fine… the board considered the statistics and noticed a considerably drop since the two of you have ended the relationship. We concluded that it was better that you have the best of both worlds, and see the rise of criminals being burnt, than the escape of one too many killers…"
Now it was Booth's turn to be smug.
"When is Bon- Dr. Brennan," he corrected. "When does Dr. Brennan get told this?"
"She has already been informed. She requested that you NOT be here when we informed you," James explained. He looked rather pleased with himself. Booth wanted to smack him in the head, instantly concluding that his life was in obvious ruins and he needed to vent in other places in his life. Booth chose to let him win this one. It might be his only means of existence.
He shrugged it off and glared at him, just enough for him to withdraw his cocky attitude and then he made his exit. He had to find Bones. With all the advice from Angela and the desire to win back Bones had increased, he made his way out of the Hoover building.
ARGH! Don't you hate that? Lol.
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