35. Change
Angela watches from her office doorway as Booth leads Brennan through the lab to her office. She's witnessed it before, but this time Booth's arm is wrapped around her best friends shoulders in lieu of his hand at the small of her back. She's leaning slightly into him and Angela can hear their laughs from across the already busy lab.
Brennan had told her that she and Booth had slept together, and Angela had assumed that the partners had decided to leave it at that. Only, after she and Michael Vincent had been settled at home her best friend had stopped by and the artist knew something more had happened. Brennan had sat with Michael asleep in her arms the entire visit, and Angela had noted that the anthropologist was excessively happy, if not unusually so.
Michael was now a month old and Angela hadn't really seen Brennan for anything longer than an hour and so hadn't been able to confront her. Hodgins had called Friday while at work, they were all going out for drinks and her father had already offered to babysit, it was there, not even minutes after everyone was seated that Brennan and Booth had announced they were together, and she was pregnant.
She watched as they reached her office door, Brennan unlocking it before she turned, gladly returning his kiss. She laughed again, watching as he made his way out the lab before disappearing into her office. Angela smiled, glancing around, catching Cam's eye, then finding her husband's from up on the platform, both of whom had known, the rest of the lab still stood gaping at one another.
She chuckled, finally glad that the two had taken the leap after being miserable for so long. Seeing them happy was a welcome, and wonderful, change.