TITLE: Undoing
CHAPTER SEVEN: Don't Believe


"Booth?" Her voice shook and she blinked several times in succession, disbelieving he was there... that he had found her. "What are you doing here?"

"What are YOU doing here?" he shouted, pointing at her in an accusatory manner.

Temperance glanced surreptitiously at the stares garnered by Booth's outburst. "Lower your voice, Booth."

"No! I wanna know, first of all, why you didn't tell me about this! Then I wanna know why you decided that this would be the best way to handle it! And THEN--"

She grabbed his arm, hard. "Alright, let's go outside." She had to forcibly drag him toward the exit until his motor skills caught up with him and he yanked his arm out of her grip.

Once outside, he spun to face her, his hands landing on his hips and spreading his suit coat apart -- his patented confrontational stance. "Bones, what the hell do you think you're doing? You think you can just NOT tell me about this, get rid of it, and then pretend that nothing happened!"

"Booth--"

"And I know that you don't wanna have kids and all that crap that I don't even BELIEVE, but how could you do this? Okay, so maybe you're scared! Fine, that's understandable. Maybe you're upset that we weren't more careful! Fine, because you're right -- we should've been more careful. Maybe you were even afraid of how I'd react! That's fine... not understandable seeing how well you know me... but fine. But to KEEP this from me! To go behind my BACK and just erase this like a bad dream? How dare you, Temperance! I thought you had more integrity than that!"

A tear slipped down her cheek of its own volition, though her face bore no other signs of crying. "Booth, listen to me."

"No! I just - God, I am SO mad right now I can barely see straight! I cannot believe, that after everything we've been through, that you couldn't come to me and tell me about this when you found out. I can't believe that I had to hear about it from ANGELA, of all people!" He shook his head and stuffed his hands through his hair, pulling at it along the way. "And then I had to find out that you were getting RID of it! Like a piece of garbage! How could you? Maybe you don't believe in God, maybe you don't believe in Heaven or Hell, but to not believe that you're already carrying a live human being inside of you? I thought you were smarter than that!"

"Booth, dammit!" Her voice broke with tears, which were now streaming down her face. "Just LISTEN to me!"

"What?"

Her voice diminished when she caught the look in his eyes, and she dipped her head. "I didn't do it."

"What?" He took a step closer and forced her chin up, forced her to look him in the eye.

She slapped his hand away, her teary eyes narrowing in anger, and she took a step back as she raised her voice. "I said I DIDN'T do it! I didn't go through with it!"

Booth froze and just stared at her while she swiped angrily at her tears with the back of her hand. His voice lowered and the anger dissipated. "You didn't?"

"No, I didn't!"

"Bones..." He took a couple steps toward her, holding out his hand, and he winced when she slapped it away again.

"Don't 'Bones' me!" She took a few steps back and began digging through her purse, fishing out her keys. "I'm leaving."

"Bo - Temperance, wait! We need to talk about this!"

Tempe threw him a dirty look over her shoulder while she marched to her car. "I think you made yourself quite clear already, Seeley. We have nothing left to talk about."

And before he could apologize, she had sped off, leaving him to once more drop his chin to his chest.

"Shit."


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