I was so excited to see more reviews this time around! Thank you! I have a special thanks to VENZwife for an idea I came up with do to a review. I am making it the last line of the chapter. Anyways, on with some much needed awkwardness.
Chapter Three
"Bones..." Booth pokes his head into Brennan's office the following week. He knocks lightly on her door frame, and continues on in.
Brennan appears to be ignoring him. He sees her fingers typing furiously at her keyboard, and that look she gets on her face only when she is onto something in her book. He grins to himself at her contentment, and watches her for a moment. After a good five minutes, she's still at it, without even a slight pause.
"You know Bones, I'd leave, and ya know, let you finish, but we sort of have a case that begs for our attention." He finally says when he notices her pause.
"You mean, that as the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas." Brennan replies in her "writing" voice, while she saves her document.
"Ah..ya..sure, Bones." Booth rubs the back of his neck, and looks at her sheepishly.
"I am a best selling Author, Booth. I have that knowledge when it comes to such matters." She swirls around in her chair and stares at him.
"I know Bones..I wasn't..You know what forget it. here's the file." He walks over and gives her a folder, trying to keep a far enough distance from her.
She smiles at him. The smile she uses when she thinks his actions are irrational or oddly uncalled for. "Let's go then." She stands up and takes her coat from the hanger without even bothering to look.
"What your not going to read the file?"
"No, I'm sure you'll brief me on the up and down of it."
"You mean the up and up. Bones."
She looks over her shoulder at him and laughs a little. Excepting that little taste of normal. She follows him out to the SUV, and climbs in. He gets into the drivers side and buckles up without speaking. It's then she notices his tie.
"Wow Booth!" She's kind of excited.
"What?" He looks over at her confused, as he pulls out onto the main road.
She points to his shirt. "Your flashy ties are back." She smiles broadly. Cheering on the inside for another Booth come back.
"What? Oh yea.." He says, as if it's no big deal.
She keeps smiling, and then looks out the window. Thinking sometime he'll remember to brief her on the case. She waits, and waits, and then looks over at him concerned. She sees his face furrowed in concentration, and he's obviously not concentrating on the unsaid case.
"Booth?"
"Huh? yea, Bones?"
"The case." She reminds him.
"Oh...Sorry, Bones..There are some remains found in an abandoned Home on the south side...so far no leads."
Brennan nods her head at how vague he is, but knows that she'll get all the necessary information at the crime scene. So again the SUV grows silent, and not in the comfortable way Brennan has gotten used to over the years. Obviously things are even more unsettled and awkward since she was told he loves her, and then shown the PET scans telling her that his confession may indeed be false.
~Bones~
"Lets get this all shipped back to the Jeffersonian." Booth orders, before turning to Brennan.
Brennan stands up, and removes her gloves, her eyes still squinting at the remains as she thinks about the possibilities of the crime. Once her gloves are off, she continues to look, when she's actually waiting for the usual response from Booth after things like this. But it never comes.
"So...hungry?" Brennan asks instead.
"Yea I could go for some pie." Booth grins charmingly, and follows Brennan out of the smelly room and out into some fresh air.
Booth, at the moment, is glad she hasn't brought up any of the events from the last few days, or weeks for that matter. He feels bad enough as it is, telling her something as huge a "I love you," and then pretty much saying he's a lier with the scans. He's not even entirely sure she cares. She's not showing any signs of distress over it. But then again, this is Bones. She probably compartmentalized the entire thing, and has moved on. Maybe he should take her lead and follow suit. But he's to much of a heart guy.
"Booth?"
Booth shakes his head, like he's coming back from an alternate reality, and Gives Brennan his full attention. He can't help but notice how beautiful she looks, now that her hair is down, and blowing freely in the breeze. Not that she's not always beautiful to him.
"To the Diner, yes." He says, trying to make it seem like he wasn't at all out of it and not paying the least bit attention. He sure feels guilty.
At the diner. Brennan and Booth sit at their usual Table. Booth orders his Pie and coffee, and Brennan gets a salad and some fries. Brennan is pretty sick of the silence by now. All hopes of that normalcy she craves so much, pretty much flew out the window this morning.
"Hey guys." the young Dr. Sweets walks up to them. "Mind if I sit?"
Booth rolls his eyes in dismay, knowing what will come of this with Sweets around.
"Of course." Brennan answers, and Sweets takes a seat next to her.
"Hows the second case coming?" He asks, cocking his head to the side, and looking at the partners in turn.
"Well we just got it this morning." Booth points out.
"Right." Sweets replies, feeling foolish.
"I have a question." Brennan asks, French fry poised in one hand as she looks to Sweets.
Booth panics.
"Shoot, Dr. Brennan."
She looks at him curiously first, and then continues on with the question, "Booth showed me his PET Scans the other day and I-"
"Wait you showed her?" Sweets stares across the table at Booth surprised, and a bit annoyed.
"Hey! I wasn't finished, Sweets, that was very rude." Brennan leans back in her chair and looks put off.
"Sorry Dr. Brennan, go on." He responds, still looking at Booth, who avoids eye contact.
"What is going to happen? I mean, will this ware off like everything else?"
"Well of course, Like all his other side affects, this to, will eventually fade away."
"Whoa there Sweets. Booth stands up the chair shrieking in protest as he shoves it back forcefully.
Brennan looks up at him alarmed.
"Love is not a side effect." He practically yells, and storms out of the diner.
Thank you so much VENZwife for that idea!! I hope you all liked this chapter. I loved writing it. I've been thinking about it all day. and again, reviews are loved!