Seeley Booth would have preferred to be woken up by the sexy scientist sharing his bed, but the chirp of his phone coming from the pocket of his jeans on the floor beat her to it. He let out a grunt as he fished around for it before it stopped chirping and he barked into the phone. "Booth." He was not happy about being woken up and he hoped that whoever was on the other end of the line knew it.
"Good morning, Agent Studly." The please little smirk on Angela Montenegro-Hodgins' face was evident in her tone as her imagination filled in the blanks with considerable embellishment. "Did you sleep well?" Perhaps if his defenses were down he'd volunteer information that had been sadly lacking when she'd last talked to Brennan.
"Angela, this had better be good." He was in no mood to be interrogated, that was his specialty and he didn't enjoy being on the receiving end of it, especially when it had nothing at all to do with a case. He knew that Angela was fishing, but he wasn't biting.
"Well someone got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning." Angela's quip landed into silence so she went fishing. "Or maybe you haven't gotten up yet." Still meeting silence, she let out a resigned sigh that no one wanted to play twenty questions. "Fine, look we got results back on Eric Woods' phone records, and you were right, he made a few calls from the next town over near the timeframe that Emma disappeared. Given the distance between the two towns, he could have easily gone back and gotten Emma."
"The question is then what the hell did he do with her?" As a father himself, he could never imagine hurting a child, let alone his own child, even if he'd just found out that that child wasn't biologically his after eight years.
"Well we've also cross referenced his incoming and outgoing calls with numbers that might have also been in the area around the same time frame and we found a match." Angela hoped that the information would be significant to the case.
"So he may have had help then." Booth hoped that this mystery person didn't belong to some disposable phone. While those had become easier to trace, they weren't foolproof. His mind immediately went to Katie Woods and her Yard Share friends who had been under suspicion from the beginning. "Was it Katie Woods?"
"Who is on the phone?" Brennan mumbled sleepily remembering that Booth had intended to get up early to call Parker, but from the tone of his voice he didn't think that was who was on the other end of the line.
"No, but it is a freakishly weird twist though." Angela's ears were on hypersonic alert and she was sure that she'd heard Brennan in the background and she was ready to pounce on the revelation of the century.
"What sort of twist?" He was intrigued but running out of patience and he attempted to cover the phone as he whispered a bit too loudly to Bones. "Angela."
"Put Brennan on the phone, Booth." The tone in her voice was victorious, she knew that despite all of the hazy details that Bren had given her earlier that something big was going on between these two and she didn't want to wait until they got back to DC to find out exactly what it was. If she was a betting woman, she would guess that her wildest dreams for the two of them had finally come true.
"What is the twist, Angela?" His patience was wearing thin. She had woken him up and now he was sure she wanted to try her interrogation skills on Bones. He nearly jumped out of his skin as he felt a hand sliding down his chest and a pair of lips pressing against his neck. Apparently Bones was trying to kill him too.
"Put Brennan on the phone." She had the upper hand in the situation and she knew that he knew it. Of course, not telling him was probably some sort of obstruction of justice, but there wasn't much he was going to do about it several thousand miles away.
"The twist, Angela, and then maybe I'll let you talk to Bones." He was tempted to just hang up the phone, especially since Bones was making it abundantly clear that she had no intention of going back to sleep. However, he knew that if he just hung up on her it was going to take a Herculean effort to get the information about the case out of her until either he or Bones spilled about what they were up to.
"Fine." Angela huffed out a breath. "The cell phone number belongs to a Sam Kensington." Was it so hard for one of them to just tell her that they had finally woken up to the reality that everyone else knew they had been their destiny for years.
"And how is that a twist?" He knew it was important, but his mind was a little foggy at the moment, what with the hand of a certain sexy scientist dipping south of his waistband. His mind was most definitely having difficulty focusing on the details of the case that he needed Angela to tell him.
"Sam and Sarah Kensington are Mallory Woods parents." Now that Angela had delivered the information, she wanted some of her own. Her toe tapped impatiently of its own accord.
"Emma's grandparents." This was definitely a plot that was getting thicker and thicker and he knew that this little tidbit of information was a glimmer of hope that had been sadly missing during the entire investigation. He bit his lip and shot a glare at Bones who really didn't seem to care that he was on the phone and what she was doing was very, very distracting.
"Yes." Now that Angela had gotten to the professional reason for her call, she was onto her personal reason for calling. "Now put Bren on the phone."
Booth didn't say a word he just glanced over at Bones who had finally decided to keep her hands to herself for the moment and handed her the phone.
"Hi, Angela." She let out a yawn and smiled at Booth, intent on getting right back to what she had been doing as soon as she got Angela off the phone. It was only five o'clock in the morning on the west coast and so she reasoned that she and Booth had at least an hour or two until they could do much with whatever Angela had told them anyway.
"So, how are things going with Agent Studly?" Angela wanted details and she wanted them now. Enough of this smoke and mirrors routine that these two were tag teaming her with. She knew enough details to know that something had changed, but Bren couldn't evade her forever.
Without missing a beat, Brennan smirked at Booth. "Ang, as much as I'd like to talk to you right now, Booth and I have previously scheduled mind blowing sex that we need to get to so I'll talk to you later." She clicked off the call and handed the phone back to Booth who gaped at her like a fish before he tossed the phone onto the floor and then pinned her to the mattress before he devoured her mouth with a searing kiss.
