This chapter didn't turn out like I planned. . .or at least the second part didn't. I thought I'd gotten past the stage of B&B vicious arguments, but apparently not.
She gives him a knowing smile that is really starting to annoy him.
"Oh I think I know who's agitated." He scoffs at her (even though she's kind of right).
"Someone's annoying me. It's different." "Your ex." She says suddenly and leaves him totally confused. "Huh?"
"That's who's annoying you. She's got a new man in her life." She has a teasing tone in her voice but he certainly doesn't find it funny. "I'm concerned about my son, I wanna know what kind of guy this new boyfriend is. And you what? If she won't tell me I'll find out on my own!" She looks at him, slightly surprised.
"You're going to run a background check on him? Isn't that a bit hypocritical?" She's thrown another wrench into the conversation, "what do you mean?" "You don't run background checks on any of the people we date. Arn't you worried that they'll be a bad influence on Helen?" He glares at her for a few moments before replying. "It's not the same Temperance and you know it. You and I don't even mention Helen to our respective partners." She gives a sigh of annoyed defeat, realizing he's not going to budge on the subject.
So would you do it again?" He looks up, surprised by her sudden question.
"What?" sometimes she hates that he can be so dense. "You'd have Parker even with everything you're going through?" He looks at her incredulously. "What kind of question is that? And shouldn't I be asking you the same thing?" She sighs, he can't really be serious? "You and I don't argue and snipe at each other like that. Anyways I'm just saying wouldn't it be easier if Parker wasn't caught in the middle of this drama of your with Rebecca and the new boyfriend?"
"God no!" Bones, he's my son. What ever we're going through it's not about him. He knows that." She thinks she's trying to prove a point but she's not sure what that point is. "That's what parents say when they want to justify themselves." He groans and thunks his head on the steering wheel a few times, she's about to scold him for not paying attention to the road but he speaks first.
"You know what? I haven't walked out on Parker yet." She winces at the accusation in his voice, she knows they need to talk about why she left, but she can never seem to work up the courage. "And anyways," he continues. "For someone who thinks that mothers give up years of their lives, you seem pretty eager to give up a few days." She resists the urge to slap him by telling herself that she'll do it later. "You know what. Tomorrow when you come with Helen, you can leave once you drop her off." She sees the hurt look on his face but doesn't care.
Since I don't have anything for 'The boy in the Shroud' or 'The Blond in the Game' you get a Bones Helen interlude (with a side of Booth trying to apologize for being an ass.)