Chapter 4

Brennan really felt the need to punch someone. She had already spent the last hours punching the doors and the walls but nothing worked. Now she had finally given up and dropped herself on the floor with her back against the white wall. This was so frustrating! And she was sure someone was in there, they just didn't hear her, or didn't want to open the door. And that made her very angry.

And an angry Brennan was never good. For no one. People should know better.

Unfortunately this train of thought brought her nowhere. Where otherwise she would get a situation under control again she now felt like a little child who was whining and causing trouble with it's arms crossed in front of it's chest, and it's lowerlip poking out far and it's small feet stamping hard on the floor. Brennan sighed again as she let her head rest in her hands.

She rubbed her eyes hard. Maybe if she could just try to put her logic away, just a bit, and listen to that very fake Angela who probably thought that she was some sort of shrink. That Angela had to be the key, given the fact she was the only one that came along and the only one that actually saw her and talked to her.

Brennan would get out of here. Maybe the only choice for her was to cooperate, however much she hated that.

'Isn't this sad?' Fake Angela said as she suddenly stood next to Brennan.

Brennan looked up, and directed all her anger at the woman next to her. She immediately stood up from her sitting position.

'Look, I do want to cooperate okay? Just tell me how I can get through that door!' Brennan took a deep breath as she looked from the unmoving door to Angela. Frustration was painted all over her features and visible in her tired and angry eyes.

'That is what I am supposed to do right? Get in there? Otherwise I wouldn't be sitting here with nowhere else to go?'

Angela looked from Brennan at the closed door and the walls around it.

' It has come so far that you can't open the door to yourself anymore.' She said as she began to dissapear again.

' Wha..! No! Wait ! 'Brennan said as she tried to move towards Angela to grab her arm but it was too late, she had already dissapeared fully now. Brennan frowned in confusion as she looked from the now empty spot in front of her to the door behind her. What was the woman talking about? Was this supposed to be some sort of clue?! Well then she wasn't doing her job very good!

Brennan dropped herself on the ground again.

A few moments later Brennan heard something and she looked up from her sitting position on the floor. She was glad to see it was Booth. She quickly stood up, a smile lighting up her face, but her face fell quickly, and she froze momentarily when she saw the blond woman that followed him, and the three children. She narrowed her eyes to recognize the children.

One of them was already older, he had to be a teenager. He had curls in his hair everywhere, the other two boys were about.. Eight or seven? But then again, she never was that good with children, or guessing their ages.

' Just wait a moment here okay?' Booth said to the beautiful woman as he smiled at her very warmly and then smiled at the three children. He looked very happy.

'Can't we go with you?' The blond woman asked. Her voice sounded very sweet.' I'd love to meet the doctor.'

Booth shook his head quickly and began to frown. ' No you don't, believe me.'

Brennan frowned too at that. Which doctor were they talking about? Was Booth working with someone else? Another doctor?

It was possible because Zack had her office now too and probably did other work. She pondered about who this could be that Booth didn't want to introduce to the blond w--. Brennan's thought's became angry as she eyed the beautiful very sweet and warm looking woman who now had her arm around Booth. Who was that? And what was she doing with Booth? And why was her arm touching him !

'But daddy?' The teenager said as he stopped Booth by grabbing his wrist.

' Parker...' Booth said

Parker?! Brennan's eyes grew wide once again. That was Parker? She studied his face and yes, she did recognize him now. He must be...Ten years older or something?

' That's doctor Bones you are going to visit, I want to come.' He whined.

Bones? Dr Bones? There was another that Booth called Bones? Brennan felt that she was getting angry.

So Booth also had another partner and called his next partner also Bones? How shallow could you be? She didn't want to admit it, but it made her feel offended. She had thought...Well, that he only called her that.

She glared angrily at Booth who was now squatting in front of Parker.

'Parker, dr Bones isn't what she used to be. She doesn't see much people anymore because she doesn't want to be around people. Frankly, sometimes I think she hates people. She has grown very cold. This isn't the Bones you used to know. This is just a cold, old, cranky shell I am going to visit. Dr. Bones rather lives with the dead then with the living, and we-, you know-, we just let her now. We gave up on her because it was no use anymore. There's only so much energy you have to put in someone, or can put in someone.' Booth patted his sons head.

'And I don't like visiting her, it's just that I have to for work because we need her help. She is still very smart, but that is all. And since no one wanted to go from the office and I lost the tossing I had to go. But I promise you, it will only take a few minutes. 'Booth stopped talking momentarily to check his son's reaction. ' 'Kay?' He asked.

Parker nodded as he let his father go.

Booth passed Brennan without looking at her, or probably without seeing her. But Brennan couldn't move. She didn't understand. She followed him with her eyes and wondered what he would do about the closed door.

Brennan inhaled sharply as he opened the door easily like any other door and walked in. He left the door open a bit behind him.

Brennan quickly entered the office too, short behind Booth. And when she looked from Booth's broad back to the other person that had been in here for who knows how long, - probably very long given the fact Brennan had been in front of this room all the time -, her heart seemed to skip several beats and her face fell once again. She could honoustly feel all the colour, which she already didn't have much, drain from her face and body. Once again she froze to the ground, unable to move, unable to understand.

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