A/N: Hey guys! So I've decided to skip ahead a little. We all know that after last chapter there should be a lengthy conversation between Booth and Lilly about what the hell they have gotten themselves into. Aftermath IV if you will. However, I wasn't in the mood for (the consequences of) that (Call me weak or a coward if you want to XD). So, basically, I have moved onto the next chapter I had cooked up. This chapter is more filling and hopefully happy than anything. It does include an experiment as F.H. Blake suggested. You'll know immediately where I got my inspiration for that part from :). I'd like to thank Kareneb for reviewing. As always I appreciate it :). So, dear readers, please enjoy this conversation-heavy-Dr.-Hodgins-and-Lilly-experiment-chapter!

In another 15 minutes, Lilly would be arriving. Today Hodgins and she would finally get to conduct there long awaited experiment. Truth be told, it wasn't going to be the most exciting experiment (that was only the case when Hodgins could blow up things, preferable with explosives), but Lilly had been really excited to be a part of the planning and now the execution of there set up.

Hodgins wondered if he would be able to pick anything up that was different about Lilly. He hadn't seen her in about a week. According to Cam, Caroline had needed all the help available to deal with a case, meaning Lilly had been on full justice department duty. Booth hadn't stopped by the lab either, not that Hodgins expected Booth to tell him how it all had worked out, but Hodgins was curious nonetheless. For now, he had been able not to tell Angela about his man to man conversation with Booth. It kind of felt bad to keep this a secret from his dear wife, but he didn't want to jump the gun if this was just a classic one night stand and Lilly and Booth weren't going to continue on down this road. Not that he really cared if they did. Whatever the choice they had made, he just hoped for their's sake that they had figured out their situation.

Hodgins knew that Hannah had hurt the federal agent. As amazing as that reporter looked, as awfull her personality apparently was. He hadn't seen Booth this unhappy and knocked down by any of the man's previous break-ups. Maybe a hot fling was exactly what Booth needed. It would be so out of character for the dude, but maybe he needed a change. A change that would get him together with dr. B in the end. It was unbelievable that the most genius woman he had ever met was so stubborn, even though the two were perfect for each other. It was also amazing and unbelievable that a man as brave as Booth wasn't willing to take the risk that would make him and Dr. Brennan the happiest people ever. Oh well, love couldn't be rushed. Ange and himself had had a bumpy ride themselves but now they were married and the proud brand new parents of the most perfect little boy they could have wished for. He had everything he had wanted in life and he just wished his friends, no his family, could have the same.

"Hey, Dr. Hodgins. Are we ready to get started with the shooting arrows experiment?"

"Not exactly, I thought you would enjoy helping with handcrafting the home made arrows. So I've set up shop to make the first pieces and set up the experiment further when we're ready for that."

Lilly whistled as she sanded down the point of her arrow. She really enjoyed working on this little experiment. To her, it was rather sciency. Of course, she knew that Hodgin's had asked her to help with a not all to psychics related experiment, but she was more than okay with that. Doing the math with complex formulas wasn't something she enjoyed very much. Though, every chance she got to enjoy practicing the hard science experimental rules, was a chance she would take on with both hands. "You really think the victim was killed by a homemade arrow?"

Hodgins hummed. "It is definitely a possibility. There is no weapon too crazy to exclude it beforehand. Just before you started, we've had a case where the most likely weapon was a potato gun."

Lilly looked at him. NO?! You're lying to me!" A quick chuckle told her Hodgins was enjoying telling her.

"Yeah, well, the 'bullet' so to speak was a bean bag instead of a potato."

Lilly snorted. "That is not much better. Do you know the song dumb ways to die? They should add a chorus about shooting people with household items."

Hodgins smiled. "It was an interesting great case though. Turned out it was a bounty hunter looking for her bounty, but accidentally killing the victim during her search. Not that the victim was very innocent, he was another criminal. We blasted through so many fake ribs to figure out the possible weapon. You know Bunsen Jude, the science dude, was Dr. B's intern for that case. He wanted her to be on his show, so they had worked out a deal."

"That is that kids show about science, right?"

Hodgins nodded. "Yeah, though, shouldn't you know that? I am sure as a nanny you would have seen it."

Lilly shook her head. "Nope, I have never seen it. The science dude is all American and I worked in Europe, remember?"

Hodgins nodded as that made sense. "Touche, because it is an amazing show."

"But aren't you a little too old to be the intended audience? Add Micheal Vincent a little too young?" Lilly teased the King of the Lab.

Hodgins gave Lilly a look of mock disgust. "Hey, you are never too old to learn and that show is on the TV in my gym when I turn it on. At 5.30."

"Hmm-hmm", Lilly hummed, very much like Caroline could have.

"Okay", Hodgins sighed. "I'll admit I am a fan of the show. Observe, analyze, deduce! I swear, it is a great show. You should look up the episode with Dr. Brennan, if you look carefully you can see all of us standing in the back of the audience."

Lilly shook her head laughing. "I'll do that. When I was little I watched Professor Proton. Then, when I grew out of it I got hooked on Brainiac before moving onto Mythbusters."

"Oehh, Mythbusters", Hodgins cooed. "The set up we have planned right now would be totally something they could get into."

Lilly nodded. "Well, maybe if we can figure out the type of arrow that was used on the victim and we wait like 10 years for someone to make a movie out of this case, it could be on a future Mythbusters episode."

"That would be awesome," Hodgins exclaimed.

Lilly moved another of her brand new points to the table with the others they had already perfected. "I can't wait until we start shooting with them."

"Patience my child, patience", Hodgins said with a mobster tone.

"I've been looking forward to our experiment for weeks now. Too bad we had to wait so long for the different types of wood, hard glass, and the manufactured bows."

"Yeah, I'll say. Dr. Brennan hates waiting for results and she hates not recognizing the weapons right off the bat even more. I am still surprised Cam agreed to these tests."

"Why? Because we are going to make the lab an active war zone? With flying objects everywhere?"

Hodgins smiled. "No, every experiment temporarily makes the lab a danger zone. Argh, I really love shouting fire in the hall. What I meant was, have you seen the prices of these bows? And then we had to make all those ballistic torso's with the facial bones. I think with this experiment alone, I've gone over the budget by the monthly allowance for unexpected costs, and that is only for this case."

Lilly grinned. "Well, if that is the case, then this test better give some good results and make it worthwhile for Dr. Saroyan."

"Definitely. But hey, we're both smart, I am sure with all these different materials we'll be able to find the right type and get a match."

Lilly smiled at Hodgins, appreciating his compliment. She moved over to the figure saw, sewing out the next arrow.

"You are pretty good at this", Hodgins complimented her.

"Thanks, I loved art projects as long as the objects had a real-life use."

Hodgins smiled. "Why am I not surprised?"

Staying focused on the humming saw, she redirected the question. "What do you mean by that?"

"Just that you have a strong need for things to be useful and productive, it is very practical."

Turning to the sanding machine Lilly moved past Hodgins. "I wish I was more artistic though. I am freaking jealous of Angela. I mean, I can draw a mean dolphin, but that is where it ends."

"A dolphin? I don't think I've ever heard you say anything as girly as that." Hodgins chuckled good-heartedly.

Lilly grinned. "Really? If I recall correctly, you were there when I talked about being a lightweight, weren't you?"

Hodgins snorted. "Oh yes, I was there, but that doesn't beat a girly drawing of a dolphin."

"Fine, make fun of me and my artistic inabilities." Lilly joked, before moving on. "Do your experiments ever go wrong?"

Hodgins let out a snort. "Oh yeah, all the time, once I came flying down from the ceiling, knocking over a bucket of blue paint, making Wendell into the angry and annoyed smurf. Then, there was a time when we had to figure out whether or not a wine bottle was strong enough to crush a skull. Instead of skulls, we used watermelons and Cam was ready to go out on a date when she walked into this room to check on me and Fisher. Naturally, she got covered in pieces of squashed watermelon. Oh and there was this case with a goop thrower that suddenly went of, right in Booth's face. It ruined his brand new suit." Hodgins laughed. "He was so mad, but it was so funny. The slime was everywhere."

Lilly laughed, seeing it in her mind. Perfectly able to imagine the look on Booth's face.

"Dr. Hodgins?"

Lilly and Hodgins stopped laughing, waiting for the voice to become a visible visitor.

Dr. Oliver Wells had seen the sweet set up that meant experiment time in the Ookey room. "What type of experiment are you planning and can I help?" Having expected to only see Hodgins. His eyes grew big as a happy smile crossed his face as he stared at Lilly, mesmerized. Hello-ha -hot, he blurted out.

Lilly raised an eyebrow, surprised at the unnormal greeting. Suppressing the need to pulling her labcoat closer around her and buttoning up higher, she responded with a soft but audible weird.

Being the cocky overly confident man he was, Oliver wasn't knocked down yet at all. "I am sorry, are you a new lab tech? I've never seen you here before."

Lilly glanced at Hodgins, her eyes asking him if Wells was being serious. Hodgins sniffled. God, he hoped he was around more people when Lilly was around because it was entertaining. "Dude, you've seen Lilly at least four times before around the forensic platform. Lilly and I are all set up here, maybe next time. Hodgins cut in, casting glances from intern to intern.

"Oh yeah, sorry about that, Wells forwent a handshake for a what should have been a confident wave, but made an Erlenmeyer flask almost fall off Hodgin's desk. "But you are still new here?" Oliver asked again as he carefully put the flask away from the desk edge.

"Not really", Lilly responded. "I've been around for a couple of months now."

Wells scratched his head as he tried to remember. "Ah, that makes sense if we have seen each other around a couple of times already. So - uh, what are you studying? Applied entomology?"

"No, I am actually not dr. Hodgins intern, I've finished and am finishing law school."

"Oh really? I have my masters degree in law too. It is so easy, I didn't even study for the subjects and I've combined that degree with my masters in Astrology, History and Wildlife Ecology. This of course after I got my Ph.D. in physics while teaching Greek and Latin to bachelor students."

Lilly looked at the rembling dr. Wells. Ah, this was the ego intern Wendell had told her about. "Did you also take the bar?"

Oliver shrugged. "No, I didn't. I figured I didn't need to pass the bar."

Wuss. "U-hu", Lilly said. "As opposed to you really needing a degree in Wildlife Ecosystems? If you think it would be so simple, since getting your law degree was too boring, why don't you take the bar this Wednesday? I am sure you can still register."

"Okay, what do I get when I pass?" Being very competitive, Oliver enjoyed a challenge, especially a challenge that most people would find extremely hard, but that would be a piece of cake for him.

Lilly smiled at his eagerness to prove his superiorness. "Isn't the infinite right to boast about passing the bar without studying enough?" Seeing the look on his face, she figured that was a no. "What would you want? As a little friendly wager between almost colleagues."

"How about a date?"

Lilly grinned. "Nope, that is a pass from me."

"That is fine", Oliver said. "I am sure you wouldn't be able to keep an intelligent conversation going." Playing with his beard he thought for an alternative. "How about you play my personal assistant for the day if I pass the bar without studying?" Wells smiled, he would so enjoy that, rubbing in how he was better than her by making her get his coffee and do the less favorable tasks that he always got stuck with.

Lilly smiled, Wendell had been spot on with his description of Dr. Arrogance. "Fine, I'll agree to that if you can pass the bar with a higher grade than I did. Oh, and I hope you have a base in federal law, right?"

Not even waiting to hear Lilly's score Wells agreed: "You have a deal."

Dr. Brennan walked in. "There you are, dr. Wells. I've been looking for you, why aren't the bones cleaned yet? It is very unproductive for me to have to go through the Jeffersonian to find you."

"I put the bones in the solution and the solution has to do his work. You could have called my cell." Wells pulled out his phone to underline his statement. He checked his watch. "But the 20 minutes are almost up so, you were right that I should return to the forensic platform with you now."

Hodgins turned back when Dr. Brennan and Well had left. "Wow, I was doubting for a second if I should have given the two of you the room, you do know that in his wonderfully awkward way, he was flirting with you?"

Lilly snorted. "Yeah, I noticed, although his arrogance almost made it unrecognizable. Remember like a month ago when I would have been too stunned by surprised to even be able to follow along with a conversation like that?"

Hodgins grinned. "Yeah, you've come a long way and that is the enigma that is dr. Oliver Wells. But I do have to say I think you've made a mistake making that bet. He might be an arrogant and an annoying douche every once in a while but he is rather well read and broadly educated. You know he is going to make you into his personal slave for the day, right?"

Lilly snorted. "We'll just have to wait and see about that."

Hodgins looked at her. "Fess up, what do you know what I am missing here?"

"Wendell told me that Wells is terrible at public speaking, which is a part of the bar exam. He's going to flunk it sooo bad. From the stories I have heard and this short conversation I kind of felt he deserved it."

Hodgins smiled. "You have such an evil streak."

Lilly gave him her one-shoulder shrug. "what can I say? Being a bitch every once in a while can be bitching."

"It is going to be a tough lesson for him; to not to excel in everything. Hey, you didn't agree to what you will win when he loses."

Lilly appeared indifferent. "I am fine with gloating rights for life. There is nothing else I would want from him."

Hodgins nodded before he clapped his hands. "Alright, you ready? We've got a couple of bow tips ready, so let's shoot stuff! I've set up the bow and our homemade Jeffersonian buster, while you were laying the groundwork for ruining Wells self-confidence." Holdings pointed her to the experiment set up. "Do you wanna go first?"

"Sure", Lilly said eagerly. "However, I've never shot a bow and arrow.

Hodgins explained to her what to do. "So when you can see the target just let the safety pin go."

Looking at their headless dummy to find the money shot. When she let go of the arrow it buried itself into the wall. "Oh no, that is not good," Lilly said softly.

"Oops." Hodgins laughed. Her shot wasn't just beside the target, but at least a foot left from where she could have hit the inanimate victim. "Cam is going to be so mad at you." He singsonged as he moved closer to the arrow.

"At me? I followed your instructions." Lilly said, moving closer to the wall as well. Seeing how the arrow had worked its way halfway into the wall Lilly left out a pained moan. "Okay, that definitely doesn't look good."

"If you would have followed my instructions you would have hit the bull's eye instead of the wall." Hodgins reloaded the bow and hit the target perfectly in the middle. "See? That is how you do it."

"Impressive, you were one of those nerds that like crossplay right?"

"Hey, nothing wrong with some real-life world of Warcraft."

"Yeah sure. Now how are we going to get that arrow out of the wall and fix the hole?" The question sounded like a whine.

Hodgins gently pulled on the arrow. "I don't know but it kind of looks neat and sturdy. I think I could use it as a peg for my lab coat." Hodgins said as he tried to pull harder, but nothing budged.

"That is not funny", Lilly said.

Hodgins laughed. "It wasn't meant to be funny, I meant that. Just relax, Cam isn't going to be mad at you. First of all she barely ever comes to my office with all the spiders against the wall and with all the times I practically blew these walls out of their foundation, a little arrow stuck inside the wall isn't going to be any problem. Especially not when I actually have a practical use for it. As a matter of fact, I think I am going to have it framed." Hodgins said.

Lilly looked at him, trying to figure out if he was insane or not. "Why would you do that?"

"Because it is going to be pretty and we have to commemorate your first official experiment and the first mistake here at the Jeffersonian."

Lilly snorted, finally relaxing a bit and seeing the humor in it. "It is your office, but this definitely wasn't my first mistake, I make plenty of them."

Glad to see she wasn't taking his teasing to personal, he decided to change the subject. Talking about previous mistakes. "How was your previous week? Cam told us you were really busy."

Lilly let out a deep sigh. "Oh yeah, it was quite the week. I feel like I had worked 8 days instead of 4,5. Caroline gave everyone involved in the case the Friday off. I went file shopping for my research project in the morning and then went home after lunch. How was your week?"

"Good, really good. Micheal slept fairly well and he is letting me give him his bottle so Ange isn't as exhausted."

"That is great", Lilly said. "So did the happy family do anything fun during the weekend?"

"No, not really. We were too exhausted to even bother going outside the gates."

Lilly grinned. "Very fancy mr. Gated community."

Hodgins smiled. "At least they aren't pearly. How about your extended weekend? What did you do during the weekend?"

"I went to New York, to catch up with my friends."

"State or city?" Hodgins interrupted.

"City. There's pretty much only family in New York state. I attended college and uni in NY city and my best friend really needed some fun this weekend so we went to our favorite club with the whole group."

Hodgins smiled. "Wow, Lightweight Lilly going out clubbing!"

Lilly snickered. "You bet ya we did."

"You had the energy to do this after a week like that?"

"Honestly? Not really. But Suzy can be very convincing and it actually was as energizing as it was enervating." Lilly laughed at a memory of the weekend. We were in the club for like 5 minutes before we had more drink offers than we could have drunk in a whole week."

Hodgins smiled. "And any love life potential for you?"

"Nope, but Suzy met a really nice guy. I wouldn't be surprised if they go out on a date this week."

"You shot them all down didn't you?" Hodgins looked amused at Lilly.

"What? Why would you think that? Lilly asked perplexed.

Hodgins shrugged apologetically. "Well from what I have seen you shut everyone down. Take our most recent example: Oliver."

Feeling a little more relaxed, Lilly shrugged. "I suppose I do." Though you don't know the half of it. " I've actually been thinking about that recently. Maybe I do shut down guys too easily. But the thing is, dating takes time, and I hardly have the time now and most men coming on to me aren't exactly looking for anything more than... Let's call it a fun couple of nights, some casual stuff on occasion. Which is fine, to each there own, but I don't consider that dating."

Hodgins nodded. "There is that, I guess, but at the same time, you will only find the one who wants more when you are open for a relationship."

"I agree. Though I still wouldn't start dating Dr. wells if I would be open for dating."

"Too much of an acquired taste, right?" Hodgins chuckled. "Or are you principally opposed to dating colleagues?" Hodgins was curious. If Lilly would say no he would be fairly certain about what the conclusion between her and Booth had been. Although... That still left open a whole world of casualness.

She started to feel a little flustered. He wouldn't know anything, would he? Booth was known as a very private man, so she must be imagining the interests of Hodgins in her private life as anything more than just considerate and not intended to be nosy. "Not principally no, but I have no desire to be known as that girl from the office and apart from that, it does give some extra possible complications."

He chuckled. "Yeah, that is one of the risks, but you could also meet the love of your life at work or have a really good time for the time being."

"That is how it went for you and Angela then?" Lilly asked. No one could have missed the sparkle in Hodgin's eyes when he referenced to his and Angela's relationship.

"God no, that would have been awesome, but it was a little more complicated than that. We went on our first date. Then we decided not to continue dating, because we weren't willing to risk our work relationship by a relationship gone bad. We managed to stay true to that promise for a little while, but then we started dating anyway. We tried to get married, but it turned out Angela was still married." Hodgins fell silent, trying to decide how much he wanted to elaborate on that.

"To that Fugi island man, right?" Lilly recognized that part of the Hodgins-Montenegro history.

Grateful he nodded. "Yeah, that is the one. It would be bad if that wasn't the one, but that is not the point." Hodgins rambled. "Than it kind of went south from there. We broke up, Angela went on a sex fast, prescribed to her by Dr. Shrinky, she started dating Wendell, broke up with Wendell and then we rekindled our relationship and eventually got married."

"You call that a little more complicated?"

Hodgins smiled. "I did, didn't I? The point is, it was worth all the struggles and heartache. All of that eventually lead us down the aisle and into a happy married life."

"Complicated or not, the two of you are great together, so I suppose you are right about that."

The rest of the day they tried out the different arrows. Lilly had decided to let Hodgins do the rest of the shooting and that she would be - as he so beautifully put it - his lovely assistant.

When Lilly was leaving, Hodgins called her back. "Lilly? Yeah? With how many points did you pass the bar?" Lilly smiled as she peeked her head back inside from the door post. "Four points short of perfect. See you tomorrow!"

Hodgins whistled. Oliver was screwed.

A/N: I considered naming this chapter Follow your Arrow XD. It is the name of a Kathy Musgraves song, for the people who know Country (I am still learning to love it XD). I could have gone on and on for much longer, but the word count on this chapter was already getting pretty high. Hodgins is a lot of fun to write and to think about haha. Let me know what you think :).