And you think Angela is worse? Meet Apple!
Bones isn't mine, blabdielbadiebla but you all know that already!
This story is suitable for EVERYONE!
Hi there! I was writing something and got this idea. I am still thinking about my other story but don't have inspiration at the moment! Hope it'll come soon and then I will update quickly ofcourse!
Hope you like this short story!
To explain something; Brennan is sitting upstairs on the couches, and I think downstairs is the big lab but I am not sure though...But it is in my story.
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Brennan was peacefully eating a piece of meat from her plate as a little girl came to sit next to her. Brennan looked up shortly from the file she had in her hands and smiled at the little girl. It was Angela's niece who had come to visit her for the week. But now they had a case again and they needed Angela just for a few hours, the girl was probably bored. She remembered meeting Apple a year ago, the girl was very sweet and even had some similarities with Angela. Physically and probably mentally too.
'Does it taste good?' Apple asked before Brennan could even come up with something to talk about.
Brennan looked in Apple's dark eyes and nodded.
'I have a crush on someone.' Apple said and received a surprised glare from Brennan.
'You do?' Brennan asked nicely. 'Wow.'
'It's nice to be together with someone don't you think?' Apple asked Brennan.
Brennan looked at Apple, wasn't she a bit too young for this? How old was the girl again? Six, or Eight? Brennan wasn't that good in guessing ages, especially not children's ages.
'Uh, well...Hmm...Maybe...Sometimes...Yes..' Brennan reluctantly agreed.
'Why are you alone?' Apple asked, unaware of the fact that her question could be seen as insulting, or rude or even painful.
'Well, I am not alone.' Brennan defended. 'I have friends and a brother.'
'But you can't kiss your friends and family. It's just not the same.' Apple said as she shook her head.
So much like Angela, Brennan thought as she smiled somewhat uncomfortable at Apple.
'Have you already kissed a boy?'
'No, but I would want that. Who do you want to kiss?' Apple asked as her big brown eyes looked curiously in Brennan's and Brennan wondered why the girl was asking her so many questions.
Brennan put down her file, she wouldn't get a lot of reading done now anyway, and because she had pulled Angela and Apple from her home, she felt that she had to at least try to have a conversation with the little girl.
'No one at the moment.' Brennan answered as she took another bite of her flesh and instantly pushed away thoughts of David, Pete and all other relationships that hadn't gone well in her life. Her eyes flashed downstairs where she saw Booth pacing around the medical table where Angela was standing at, sketching the victim. Pacing doesn't help Booth, Brennan thought annoyed. They had all worked non-stop for days now.
'Do you want to know who it is that I like? How he looks?' Apple interrupted her thoughts enthusiastic.
Brennan smiled and nodded.
'He is tall, and his face is quite nice. He has beautiful eyes, they are brown, but not boring brown, no very sweet brown, almost mysterious brown with these dark eyebrows above them, making the eyes look even more sensual. I don't really know what they mean exactly with sensual but I think it is something as beautiful.' Apple said as she looked up at Brennan.
'Yes, something like that.' Brennan answered as she fantasized about what the boy Apple liked would look like.
'His jawline is so strong, he looks very manly. But when he smiles, his face lights up and he shows his beautifully white teeth. Don't you like white teeth?' Apple asked.
Brennan nodded in agreement.
'And do you like brown eyes too?' Apple asked enthusiastic again.
Brennan nodded again. 'Yes, brown eyes can be beautiful.' Brennan agreed.
'He is very tall and very muscular.'
'Aha.' Brennan said urging the girl to go on. She really had to focus to their conversation now because she noticed that her mind was going back to the case file again.
'Do you like that? When a man is muscular?'
'A man?' Brennan asked suprised. 'I thought we were talking about a boy? You aren't in love with an old man are you?' Brennan asked worriedly.
'Do you like it when a man is muscular?' Apple urged, seemingly annoyed by Brennan's interruption..
'What does it matter if I like it or not, it's about what you like.'
'I just like to have your opinion.' Apple answered impatiently.
'It's not about my opinion, if you like this boy, you are the one who has to be with him, not me.'
The girl sighed heavily at that. And Brennan felt insecure instantly, it wasn't her meaning to lecture the girl. Did she lecture the girl? She sighed inwardly. It was even more difficult to associate with children then with adults.
'Yes, I like muscular men.' Brennan answered quickly, hoping that she hadn't scared the girl away. She loved muscular men, she couldn't keep her eye of muscular men. There was so much to touch! But she wouldn't tell Apple that ofcourse. The girl was too young. And it was none of her business.
'And he has a nice character too. He is very friendly, strong, funny, caring, sweet, he listens to you when you have to tell something, he listens when you are in trouble, he is really interested in you.'
'Well, that sounds like a really great man.' Brennan answered in a very friendly tone as she saw an even clearer picture of the boy that had stolen Apple's heart in front of her mind's eye.
'Wouldn't you want to have a man like that?' Apple asked innocently, pleased with the way her interrogation was going.
Brennan nodded. 'Yes, I guess I would..If he would be that nice as you describe...' She answered lightly.
'Mister Booth? MISTER BOOTH!' Apple suddenly yelled at Booth as she stood up from the couch and bended over the railing to see Booth.
Booth, who was standing in the lab in the middle of the big building looked up at the first floor, at the yelling girl on the couch.
'Tempe thinks that you are a really great man and-' Apple shouted enthusiastic as she ran towards the stairs now, making her way over to him, yelling very loud on her way down.
'- And she wants you! She told me so!'
Brennan turned red instantly and froze to her spot. She looked with big eyes from Apple to Booth. It helped that there was so much space between them. She just hoped that he wouldn't see how embarrassed she felt!
Booth looked suprised from Apple to Brennan.
'Apple, what are you doing?' Booth asked as the little girl had reached him and Angela. Angela looked up from her sketchbook at Apple now too.
'But she likes you! Don't you like her?' Apple asked out loud. Loud enough for Brennan to hear, who at this point would rather dissapear in the ground instantly.
'Yes she is nice but...' Booth began to shut Apple up.
Apple turned towards Brennan. 'Mister Booth wants you too! He likes you too!' Apple shouted at Brennan making her turn even redder then she thought possible.
If a higher being really exists, please make me invisible now, right now! Brennan begged.
Angela turned towards the first floor now too and almost wished that she wasn't there when she saw the redhead Brennan had become and automatically knew the repercussions for herself in the near future. The very near future.
She turned towards Apple quickly.
'Apple, stop it. This is rude.' Angela said sternly as she looked at the young girl in front of her. She knew that Booth and Brennan had been working non-stop and Booth was already grumpy and she didn't feel like getting Brennan's wrath over her, she just wanted to go home soon, together with Apple, to still make something decent of their evening, if possible.
'But auntie Angela..' She began as she put up big eyes at her. 'I like mister Booth so much, and I like Tempe too, I want them to be happy. And you said that people are truly happy when they are together with someone; when they have a mate. And mister Booth doesn't have a mate, and Tempe doesn't have a mate, and she told me that she likes men who are muscular and tall and sweet and have brown eyes.' Apple rambled on. She turned towards Booth again. 'She thinks that all about you. She told me so herself.'
'Apple, don't disturb mister Booth like that.' Angela tried again.
Brennan quickly grabbed another bite of the meat on her plate, trying to at least look normal, or busy.
'But I wasn't disturbing them aunt. Look how lonesome Tempe looks, she is sitting all alone at the table upstairs.' Apple said as she pointed at Brennan who was now almost choking in that same piece of meat. When she was finally able to swallow the piece of meat and could breath again she stood up immediately and made her way towards the stairs, she at least had to try to save her dignity. If there was any dignity left that is, Brennan thought reluctantly.
'Apple...' Angela began again as she heard strong steps coming down the stairs. Brennan-alert ! Angela thought quickly.
'Apple, I am not lonesome.' Brennan said, saying the last word as if it was poisened. She walked towards them. Plastering a smile on her face.
Angela saw Brennan's attempts to look as normal as possible. O Brennan, it is so clear that you are as red as a tomatoe! And actually, that is quite funny.
'It's sweet of you to worry about that, and it's sweet that you want to – help - mister Booth and me as you call it. But this is not the way it goes.' Brennan explained as she squatted in front of the child. Smiling softly at her.
'Look Tempe, I know that children aren't brought by a stork, I am big enough to know that by now.' Apple said insulted.
'I didn't mean that.' Brennan replied, wondering if she could get more redder then she already was. And hoping Booth or Angela wouldn't notice it.
'I mean that not all people can be mates with each other. It's more difficult then that.' Brennan explained, feeling the heat leave her cheeks slowly. She felt more at ease by explaining this to Apple and by shutting the girl up at the same time by doing so.
'But why is that? You and mister Booth—'
'—Come on Apple, it's time to go and rest some.' Angela said as she took Apple by her arm. 'I am sorry.' She apologised quickly to Brennan and Booth.
'But you said that people need to be together.' Apple argued as she was lead away from the two now uncomfortable adults.
Brennan's eyes met Booth's shortly.
Why did she feel so shy and insecure all of a sudden? She hated this feeling! It made her feel angry.
'So the case, I was...Upstairs..' Brennan stammered, pointing at the case file that was still lying on the table upstairs.
'Yes, upstairs, uhu, upstairs.' Booth stammered back as he noticed how interesting the ground beneath his feet actually was.
'So did you find out anything yet?' Brennan asked quickly, crossing her arms in front of her chest.
Booth shook his head and put his hands in his trousers. 'No, not yet.'
'Okay, then I'll be upstairs again.' Brennan said quickly as she made her way back up. Quickly.
Very quickly.
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