A/N: This time we have Wendell, Hodgins, the inside of a storage unit and a concert ticket stub…
Wendell rolled up the door to Hodgins's storage unit. "Can you make it over the little bump or do you need me to tip you back?"
"It'd be easier if you tipped me back." Wendell nodded and tipped Hodgins' wheelchair back and easily pushed it over the low threshold. "Thanks. Thanks for helping me do this. Angie has been after me for years to go through this thing and get rid of stuff I don't need or want anymore. Since Katie was born she's really been after me to do it."
"No problem. How do you want to do it?"
"There should be a folding table behind the huge planter thing in the corner. Get that and you can set a few boxes on it for me to look through. You can look though stuff too you see stuff you know I should keep set it aside for me to look at later. If you see something you want set it aside too."
"Okay." Wendell went and got the folding table and set it up. "Where did all this stuff come from?"
"Before Michael Vincent was born we got that case that had that socialite's body was found in a running shower-"
"The one where you showered Booth and Doctor B. with people bits, Clark told me…"
"Yes, that wasn't all my fault, Booth turned off the Walkie talkie…Anyway Angie fell in love with the house and decided she wanted Michael Vincent to grow up in a normal house. After the case was over I bought the house we gutted that bathroom and remodeled it and got everything else cleaned up. When I moved in I just boxed up the important stuff and cleaned out the mansion and put everything but some of the furnishings in storage. Most of the boxes are from the basement, some of this stuff could be really old. Most of them were packed up already. I noticed some were labeled in my mom's handwriting."
"Cool. Let's get started…"
"Yeah…". Wendell grabbed three boxes off the nearest stack and set them on the table. A few hours into their sorting Wendell was looking through boxes on the opposite end of storge unit. "Oh my God! This is so cool!"
"What did you find a rare insect spices?"
"No! Better…" Wendell walked to Hodgins and laid a ticket stub, tour program and t-shirt from ZZ Top's 1994 tour on the table.
"Oh my God. I forgot I went to see them back then. I thought Angie's dad was so cool! I still think he's cool, but he scares me now. August 19 1994. My friend Denny and I got tickets; they weren't the best seats but we didn't care. Seeing them was our last hang out night before we went off to college. I left for U Mass and Denny for MIT the following Monday. The concert was the best I'd ever been to… put it in the trash pile…"
"No, this has to go in the keep pile, you have to show Angela. She'll get a kick out of it…"
Hodgins picked up the ticket stub, "yeah. Plus, back then I never could have imagined that Billy Gibbons would be my father-in-law sixteen years later…" Hodgins folded the t-shirt up and stuck the program and ticket stub between the folds then he laid it aside to take home later.
A while later Wendell walked over to Hodgins. "Hodgins, I found at least a dozen boxes labeled 'Jeffery.' I didn't open them.."
"I wanna keep them…Angie and I will go through them together. Leave them where she can get to them easily."
"Okay."
"Let's get out of here…"
"Okay."
"Thanks for helping me."
"No problem. I enjoyed it. We can do more tomorrow if you want.'
'Might as well."
"Thanks for the baseball cards."
"You're welcome. Michael Vincent isn't into baseball. He's into robots and video games."
H&A
Thirty minutes later Hodgins wheeled into the house, "Hey Angie…"
"Hey Hodgins, did you get a lot done?"
"We got through about half of the unit. I'm getting rid of maybe a third of what we went through. I found all my toys; I'm keeping them there. I brought part of my train set home. I want to get them all working and keep them here."
"Okay.'
"Theirs's a bunch of boxes of Jeffery's thongs, I want to keep them, but I want us to go through them together…"
"Of course."
Wendell found something you might enjoy." Hodgins handed Angela a paper bag, she sat down and puled out the t-shirt and unfolded it. "Hodgins you were ZZ Top groupie! I don't believe it! This is the best thing I've seen in a while…' Hodgins laughed.
"I Thought your dad was so cool! I still think he's cool, but he scares me now. August 19 1994. At the Capital Centre in Landover. My friend Denny and I got tickets; they weren't the best seats but we didn't care. Seeing them was our last hang out night before we went off to college. I left for U Mass and Denny for MIT the following Monday. The concert was the best I'd ever been to…"
"I designed the t-shirt and program, I designed most of their merch from the time I was 11 until I started working with Bren. I still do some things."
"I never knew that…"
"Yeah, it started when they didn't like what the marketing people came up with. I just started drawing their logo different ways because I was bored and dad saw it and like it. They still use the one I drew. Then I got to design all their other stuff. I got paid too."
"Cool."
"I'm going to frame all of this and hang it in the media room."
"No, Ange your dad will see it…"
"So? Dad likes when fans bring stuff like this to shows…"
"Yeah, fans, not his son-in-law…"
"You were a fan way before you were his son-in-law…"
H&A
Two months later Billy came to visit and walked into the media room to watch a movie with Michael Vincent, Angela, Hodgins. He looked up and saw the large frame with the t-shirt, program, and ticket stub. "Would you look at that?"
Angela came in then with popcorn, "Hodgins had them in his storage unit. I decided to frame them and hang them in here."
"Cool. The Capital Centre was always fun to play, it's a shame they closed it and demoed it for a condo complex. So, what did you think of the show, son?"
"it was cool. It's the best show I've been to."
"Good. Angie was probably with us that night, she'd spend the summers with us. You two were in the same place at the same time and didn't know it…"
A/N2: Apparently ZZ Top DID play The Capital Centre in Landover Maryland on Aug 19 1994. The venue was closed in 1998 and demolished in 2002 for the development of a condo/apartment complex(s)
