Rated: T
Pairings: Booth/Cam (although I hate to do it) Brennan/other Angela/Hodgins
Dr. Sayoran forces Brennan to make a decision that has repercussions for everyone. Now, Booth has a choice to make. Will he be too late?
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Angela wanted to take Brennan to the airport and it took a two hour argument to convince her that it wouldn't be safe. If anyone was watching, which Brennan doubted but IF, she didn't want to put her friend in danger. Angela was finally forced to give up when Brennan mentioned that being with Angela could blow her own cover. The artist hated to concede the point but was unwilling to put her best friend in any further danger.
She waited until Brennan entered a cab and, waving constantly, left to make her contact. The doctor hadn't told her that although she would take the cab to Dulles Airport she would meet her FBI contact there and they would drive to Newport News to board their international flight.
It was hoped this would throw off anyone watching them.
She exited a cab to find a porter already placing her bags on a trolley. He proceeded her through the door and halted just inside. She looked at him oddly but realized he was giving her the prearranged signal. This was her contact. She followed him as he lead her to the far exit from the concourse and put her bags in the back of a non descript van. The vehicle's size hid her entrance from the front and a careful set up of luggage racks hid her from side view. The only worry was if someone was following them and she had seen no evidence of that.
She slid into the middle bench seat to find Kenton seated beside her. They exchanged strained smiles. She noticed he was handcuffed to the arm of the bench.
The man in the front passenger seat turned to her. "Dr. Brennan, I'm Agent Eric Stevens. I'll be travelling with you and Mr. Kenton." At her look he rushed to ask, "They did explain that someone would be with you, right?"
She shook herself out of her semi aware state to smile at the dark haired, blue eyed man to say "Yes. I knew that." She lowered her eyes and chuckled at her sudden school girl with a crush actions.
Stevens gave a slow sexy smile when he realized that the supposedly cold as ice Dr. Brennan was blushing. "It will be good to get away for awhile. My last assignment almost got me killed."
"Well, let's hope this one will be a bit easier."
Kenton sat watching the by play. He had no right to be jealous. He had tried to kill Tempe so any right he had to her he had blown, majorly. He was lucky she still spoke to him.
If his luck continued she may visit him on occasion in the cushy federal detention facility he'd reside in for the rest of his natural life. If he were lucky enough to live long enough to become a prisoner there.
Cam stood outside Booth's door. He knew she was the one knocking and he was refusing to open the door to her. She was kicking herself for her actions. She should have remembered what he told her about Brennan in the beginning. The junior members of the lab may have not had a problem with her but her actions against Brennan, whom they considered family, had turned them against her. She had gotten jealous when she realized Booth was in love with the other woman. She just couldn't handle it so she made the biggest mistake of her career. Now, she was going to be fired and she had hoped that Seeley felt something for her still and that he would accompany her to her execution.
She leaned against his door and spoke in a teary voice. "I'm sorry I screwed up. I know that getting fired will be my own fault. And, I'm more sorry than I can say about Dr. Brennan. I know how you feel about her. I was, I am, so jealous. You give her everything you have never given me. I'm going now, my meeting with the Board is at 9. I wish you would come and just let me know you're there. I wouldn't expect you to say anything. I'd just like to know someone was there who knew me." Silence. "Okay. Goodbye, Seeley."
She walked away not even knowing that Booth had left 30 minutes earlier. He wanted to talk to Dr. Goodman about getting Bones her job back. Then he would try to enlist his help as well as the squints' to get his place back working with the Jeffersonian. He had to.
He had found out some truths last night that had rocked his sense of being and he had to go about getting his self back. And, getting back into Dr. Temperance Brennan's life.
He had forgotten a file and needed to return to the FBI building to retrieve it. Sid refused to let him drive after everything he had drank so his friend was driving him home. Sid pulled into the Bureau's parking lot and after getting Booth's reassurance that he would only be gone a very short time Sid stayed in the car. It was nearly 40 minutes later when an extremely pissed Seeley Booth returned. He dove right in demanding to know what was wrong with his friend.
Booth put a hand on each side of his head and squeezed as though he were trying to break his own skull open.
"Seeley! Seeley, dammit, STOP!" Booth released his head and looked at his friend. Sid nodded then said in a gentler voice. "Tell me what's wrong, man."
"I over heard some of my coworkers talking about," he sighed deeply, "Bones and Cam and, and me.
They all think I'm insane for 'cheating' on Bones with Cam. And, a few of them seem to know that I'm not working with Bones any more. They were making jokes about volunteering for the job. Craig Thompson seems to think that sleeping with Bones is one of the perks of that assignment."
Sid closed his eyes and shook his head. "Is he alive?"
Booth looked over at him. "He'll be in pain for awhile. I asked them how they could think that way about her. He said it was a joke. They figured that either she was a whore or we actually weren't together."
"So, you hit him, why?"
"Isn't that enough? He said that Bones had been seeing Jamie Kenton. The bastard who tried to murder her. It was so ridiculous. She would have told me, wouldn't she? I mean, we were getting along great then. I hadn't screwed up too badly at that point."
"You didn't notice anything between them? I mean you all worked together on that one case, right?"
"I was kind of preoccupied being blown up and all of that! I don't know, I got a wierd feeling when they first encounter each other at the lab, but I thought..."
"That you were just overly protective of your woman." Sid laughed.
"She's not my woman."
"And, after choosing Dr. I'm tough cause I'm from New Yawk to protect instead of Brennan resulting in her getting shot, I don't think she ever will be. Hell, seeing the person you trust most in the world do that is bad enough but to actually die because of it, I'd never forgive you."
"Die?"
Sid looked at Booth. "Her heart stopped once in the ambulance and once on the operating table. You didn't know?"
"Nobody told me."
"Huh."
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