Chapter Two: Troubled Case
It was heading towards midday when Agent Booth and Dr Brennan arrived at the Jeffersonian Institute. Angela, Zack and Hodges were already at work examining another corpse when Brennan and Booth walk past and into Brennan's office.
"I knew it would work. I'm so smart" chimed Angela. Her and Hodges had made a bet, Angela betting for Booth convincing Brennan to come back to work, and Hodges against. Angela had clearly won. Jack Hodges was more pissed off that he had lost against a woman. Angela just wanted her cash.
"Hand it over" She demands.
"Ok, ok!" He reluctantly hands Angela $100 out of his wallet. While Jack and Angela were more focused on the bet, Jack on him getting beaten by Angela and Angela herself winning the bet over Jack.
Zach comes up behind them and says "So what do you think happened over there. I mean, convincing Dr Brennan to do anything is pretty tough, Agent Booth must have the magic touch"
"I agree" says Angela "He must have worked that FBI Special Agent charm he has"
"Wait, how do you know Agent Booth has 'Special Agent charm'?" asks Hodges.
"Oh, don't worry, I know" she says, and goes back to sketching the skeleton she was working on.
"Don't I have charm?" Asks Hodges.
Zach just glares at him and shakes his head.
"What?' Hodges asks, clearly confused.
Meanwhile in Tempe's office, Brennan is again sitting at her desk staring at the few random objects laid out in front of her, which included her Mother's dolphin belt buckle.
"Bones, we can take this thing slow if you want" Says Booth, sitting on Tempe's antique brown leather couch opposite her desk.
"No, I just wanna get this case over and done with, I want it closed and solved" she told him.
"I know" kinda disappointed, he really wanted to talk about them, but he respected Brennan's decisions, if she wanted to concentrate on finding her Mother's killer, that's what they would do, there would be plenty of time for them later.
"So are there any new leads, anything at all, that's come up in the bones?" He asked her
"None yet" She said, still sitting at her desk staring at and fiddling with her Mother's objects. They included her brother's green marble, her Mother's dolphin belt buckle and an antique wooden box that inside has a photo of her Mother, Father, her Brother Russ and herself, they were all much younger in the photo, Tempe herself being about six years old. Tempe held the small wallet sized photo and stroked the image of her Mother with her index finger.
"Alright then, do you want me to leave you here to go over the ev—" he was about to say evidence, but decided not to. "I'll talk to you later then. I've got a few things I have to do back up in my office"
Brennan doesn't respond
"Temperance, are you sure you're ok?" He asks her one more time just to make sure.
"Yeah Booth, I'm fine" she says.
"Ok. Well I'll see you later then" and he begins to walk out when Tempe speaks.
"Booth, wait"
Booth stops in his tracks and spins back around on his heel slowly
"Yeah"
Temperance gets up and runs over to him and kisses him.
"See you later" she tells him, then turns around and walks back to her desk with a stride in her step and a smile on her face.
Booth also has a smile on his face and a stride in his step as he walks towards the elevator up to his office, unbeknownst that Angela, Zach and Hodges had been watching all of this.
"Case solved" says Angela, holding her sketch pad.