(The Mystery in the Meat)

A/N: In the Tough Man in the Chicken Suit we found out that Booth dated twins in the past and it didn't work out too well for him.

I really don't own Bones.

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Booth had given Brennan her best friend back and she was grateful to him. She was well aware how badly Angela had treated her husband when he had originally turned down her wedding proposal and yet he had encouraged her to go to a bachelorette party sponsored by Angela and to have a good time. She didn't think Angela appreciated just how kind and considerate Booth was.

"Angela was very happy about the bachelorette party. She said since she didn't have one she wanted to live vicariously through me." Brennan had thought that odd and even odder that Booth had pushed her to agree to go to the party.

"You deserved the party." Booth wanted Brennan to experience things that she had never had a chance to experience before. She had so few friends that he was certain she had never been involved in a bachelorette party. When he had rescued her and the other drunken revelers from the police the previous evening at the bar he had been more amused than annoyed. His wife was so drunk she could barely stand, but she was happy and that was all he had wanted. "I'm glad Angela was willing to give you one."

She was puzzled. Booth had put his animosity with Angela aside and she wanted to know why. "Why did you push me to attend the party? You and Angela have not had kind words for each other for months."

As they walked down the sidewalk, Booth thought about how he should answer. "When I was in college I dated twins . . . they were identical twins and for some reason they both wanted to date me. It was kind of weird when I think about it now, but at the time it seemed like a lot of fun. We went on separate dates by the way. I'm not a pervert . . . anyway, everything was going fine until one day, Jose got into a fight with Cindy. I never did find out what the fight was about, but all of a sudden I was in the middle of a family feud. I was stupid and I should have broke up with both of them, but I thought I could handle it. After all, it wasn't my fight . . . I can't believe I couldn't see what was going to happen, but I didn't."

Brennan was intrigued. Booth rarely talked about his past girlfriends and she found this conversation to be fascinating. "What happened?"

"Well . . . Jose came to me one day crying and she told me that Cindy had got their brother on her side and that she didn't have anyone on her side. Like a dumb ass, I told her that I was on her side and not to cry about it anymore . . . Of course, Jose tells Cindy that I'm on her side and that made Cindy so mad she broke up with me. I was still dating Jose, so I didn't see any problem." Booth laughed. "I wasn't too bright back then."

Annoyed, Brennan hooked her arm around Booth's arm and corrected him. "You were simply inexperienced Booth. We all make mistakes when we're young. We just don't have enough experience that allows us to see the dangers our decisions can put us in."

He appreciated her defending him, but he still thought he'd been an idiot. "So anyway, they're sisters and of course they made up. I didn't see a problem because I was just dating Jose not Cindy and I thought it would keep on like that . . . I guess Cindy didn't want Jose dating me because I had taken sides and she thought Jose was being disloyal dating me, so Jose dumped my ass and then I didn't have any girlfriends. After that I vowed to never get in between sisters when they're fighting. I'll only lose." He remembered how Cam had become angry with him when they were fake dating and her sister Felicia had kissed him. It hadn't been his fault that Felicia was trying to make Cam jealous and what was worse he wasn't even dating Cam at the time and yet Cam had turned on him when he tried to set Felicia straight. Sisters were a pain in the ass as far as he was concerned.

"I don't understand what this has to do with Angela and myself." Brennan was trying to put the clues together, but so far they were eluding her.

"Yeah . . . you and Angela are like sisters. She's as close to a sister that you're ever going to get." Booth wanted to be as clear as possible. "When she was angry with me it was for you. Angela was trying to protect you as a sister and as a best friend. She didn't know what was going on and she assumed I was being a jerk or worse when I turned down your marriage proposal. I couldn't tell you what was going on let alone her, so I had to put up with her carping and her hate . . . of course, it pissed me off because I was trying to protect people from being murdered and Angela was getting in between you and me which was making our situation worse . . . when you said you'd trust me I was grateful that you were giving me a chance even if Angela wasn't, but what she did or didn't do wasn't that important to me. Personally, I didn't care if she ever stopped hating me because I was that mad at her . . . anyway, I'm getting away from the point of my story. Just because Angela and I were fighting didn't mean you had to give up your friendship with her. You love her and it wasn't fair to you if me being mad at her kept you two apart. I didn't want to get between you because she's your friend. I don't want you to lose that friendship because of me . . . Do you see? I didn't want to get between sisters and you two are sisters."

It seemed a complicated explanation, but Brennan appreciated the effort. Her husband had wanted her to be happy and that in turn made her want to make him happy. "Thank you. I can see why you wanted me to go to the party. It was a lot of fun . . . Perhaps Hodgins could host a bachelor party for you?"

He laughed. The idea of bug boy giving him a bachelor party was too macabre to be considered. "No thank you." He couldn't imagine what kind of party that would be and he didn't want to find out. "I don't need a party . . . I have everything I want. I have you and Christine and Parker. Life is sweet right now. I don't need a party to celebrate. Being with you is celebration enough."

"Aw." Her husband said such sweet things sometimes which proved to her just how lucky she was. Of course, she didn't believe in luck and she didn't know why that thought had actually crossed her mind. "You are so sweet, Booth."

"Thank you. I try."

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