I know it's been so long, I'm sorry. I'm having a lot of stress piled on me at the moment, but I'm trying.
For those who care, Forgetting is being written up and will be posted as soon as I can finish it without killing the story.
Booth strode, trying to look purposeful into Brennan's office and closed the door with a quiet click, leaning against it with a quiet sigh.
'Is there something you wanted Booth?' She looked up from her computer and watched him carefully, staring pointedly at the closed door.
'Not really… I just kind of found myself here…' He shrugged. 'Is that a problem?' She looked at him, her face breaking into a smile as he walked towards her, placing his palms flat on her desk.
'Of course not, I just have a little work to do.' She stood up, bringing the files with her and sat cautiously on her couch, kneeling up and resting her back against the fabric. Booth sat down next to her, gingerly placing an arm around her shoulder and pulling her against his chest. She smiled at him and scrawled her signature on the file, her other hand stroking Booth's scars gently.
'Don't Bones.' He reprimanded her and she sighed softly, still tracing the raised white lines. She shook her head slowly, her hair swishing slightly over her face.
'I can't not Booth.' She sighed again, one finger resting on his wrist, directly above his pulse. 'It would have been so easy for you just to not be here any more… for me to have never met you.' She kept her eyes down as she traced the lines. He took her hand away.
'Brennan, you could have died as well, it wasn't just me.' He whispered, his hand unconsciously resting on her back. She shook her head.
'With you it was self-inflicted. With me… I didn't know.' She rested against him. There was a sudden knock on her door and she stood up abruptly, dropping her folder and pen on the floor. Booth relaxed back on her sofa and she opened the door, letting in Cam and Angela. Cam placed her hands on her hips and stared.
'Seeley, I want to talk to you. Now.' Booth looked around, a little startled, and followed her, glancing back at Brennan wistfully on his way out.
'Ange… what?' Brennan asked her once the door was shut, sitting on the arm of her sofa and observing her friend.
'Are you and Booth…' Angela paused, trying to find the right word to describe it that Brennan would understand. 'More than friendly?'
'What? That's preposterous!' She glared at Angela, but Angela matched that glare right back, and Brennan felt her emotional will begin to flag. 'Angela.' Her voice came out pleading.
'Don't try to deny it Sweetie.' Brennan looked at her.
'I deny it.'
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Cam placed her hand almost wistfully on Booth's forearm, leaning in and staring into his eyes as if she were his lover.
'Seeley.' She carefully planned her strategy. 'What's going on between you and doctor Brennan?' She carefully emphasized each word and he looked down at his shoes, suddenly feeling uncomfortable in his skin.
'Nothing Camille.' She fixed him with a steely glare that cut through his firm resolve, although he was determined not to show it.
'I can tell by the way you used my full name that you're lying. How long have I known you now? High school? I know when you're lying.' He shrugged and looked back at the office where Angela was grilling Brennan the same way Cam was grilling him.
'I'm not lying Cam, nothing is going on.' He stared at her until she shook her head.
'Lie all you want, Seeley; but I know you, and believe me, I will find the truth.' She walked away just as Angela emerged from Brennan's office, her face stormy, a full embodiment of the flicker that had crossed Cam's face a few seconds earlier. Booth made sure they were both gone, before sidling back into her room with a grimace.
'What did Angela want?'
'"Are you and Booth having sex?" Only a little more tactfully. Cam?'
'The same.' Booth shrugged. 'I guess we need to be more careful.' Brennan looked him in the eye.
'Why though? We just bluffed our way out of confrontation, there's no way we can do it again. Why not just… Hodgins and Angela it? And if we break up… then hey, we can still work together right?'
'No Bones don't talk like that.'
'Like what?' She sat down in front of her computer again and watched him over the monitor.
'"If we break up." Bones, you don't get it do you? We're not going to break up, because I never want to let you go, I want you in my life forever.'
'Booth that is, once again, a complete impossibility.' She told him, returning her attention to the computer.
'I was being metaphorical.' He shrugged and leaned over the computer screen so that his face was level with hers. 'Is that allowed?'
'Maybe, but you have to pay me back with Thai food.' She whispered, a smile playing on her lips.
'I think that shouldn't be a problem.' He smiled and then kissed her gently on the lips. She shuddered as they touched, thrills of sheer desire running through her as his hands gently caressed the puckered and ruined flesh that traversed her back. There was the sound of slow clapping from the doorway, and they both looked up, a very "rabbit in the headlights" moment. Cam and Angela stood in the open doorway, clapping slowly as they observed the couple.
'Okay. So we lied.' Brennan supplied quickly.
'No biggie right?' Booth input, earning a puzzled glance from Brennan.
'No biggie? Sweetie, this is the biggest biggie ever.' Angela told them, trying to contain her giggles as Cam whispered, "that's what she said" into her ear.
'Well we're sorry we kept it from you guys… we just… didn't know who to… tell…'
'We were thinking my parents… and Brennan's… mom…' Booth whispered as Brennan dropped her gaze to her hands. 'It seemed… fitting, you know?' Angela walked slowly around the desk and put her arm around the two of them.
'It is fitting.' Cam followed suit, and for one brief, blissful moment, there was silence. And then…
BANG!
A cloud of smoke trailed wisps out of Hodgins' lab, bringing with it the smell of sulfur.
'What the… HODGINS?' Cam exclaimed.
I thought the Hodgins bit was a bit of light relief and funny stuff, because we haven't had much of that.
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