Who's that girl?
Chapter 2
"Yo, Kat. You home?" Booth called as he waltzed in the lounge room discarding his keys and wallet on the coffee table.
"Kitchen!" Came the reply.
He followed the voice and dropped to a stool to watch her cook. He was glad she came to town; he had missed her over the past couple of years.
Katie was his ex girlfriend of his from before Rebecca. They had broken up when he left for the army on good terms, staying in contact, relaying all the important information that had gone on in their lives.
When Katie had found out that Seeley had a crush on a work colleague she decided to help. She moved in 3 days later and ingratiated herself in his everyday life getting a job at Parker's school giving her a cover for how they met and why she knew Parker. It made Booth grateful to the Big Guy that he had some truly great friends. He felt a little guilty for playing games with Bones, but Katie kept telling him that it was a necessary deception.
He snapped out of his thoughts when water got flicked at him.
"Seels, you in there?"
"Yeah. Just thinking." He shook the thoughts out of his head.
Katie stuck her hands on her hips, agitated at being ignored. "I was saying, I think we should have an engagement party?" She smiled, if he wasn't so enamored with his forensic anthropologist he would have melted. "Yeah?"
He nodded. "When?"
"Saturday. At Sid's. I sent out the invitations today."
"What?"
"Just something small and intimate. A couple of your fellow agents, Cullen, the people at the Jeffersonian, Rebecca and Parker."
"Won't this muck with Parker's head?"
"He will think it's just a party. I spoke to Bec bout it tonight."
"You are a piece of work you know that?" he shook his head in amazement. "You have normal conversations with Rebecca and to this day we can't fight after 4 seconds. I never should have worried about how you would handle Bones and Angela."
"Cake. Bubbles, cake." She placed a plate in front of him, "Now eat."
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Temperance fingered the invitation absently, scenarios playing through her mind. Though she never thought she would ever want the white knight that was all that was playing through her mind.
"Booth looks good in armor…" she mumbled.
"Had that one too." Angela stated as she sauntered into her friends office. "How do you plan to handle this?" She asked holding up the invitation with a pair of tongs.
"Ideas?!?" Brennan shrugged. "I'm stumped."
Angela thought for a moment, "Well trying to get him jealous won't work, as you have Sully and that hasn't done anything and he actually told you to stay with him."
"Yeah, that kinda surprised me though."
"Why."
"Well Booth and Sully were best mates and now Booth hardly talks to him anymore."
"Oh, so Booth is jealous."
"Both their Alpha male tendencies dictate that they should fight for the female's attention, but they stopped when Katie came into the frame."
Angela shook her head, "Picture. Maybe she does have all his attention. We need to get you two alone and then he won't have her to take his attention."
Temperance looked confused but Angela looked downright devious. "I have the perfect plan."
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Temperance was now standing beside her mother's grave in the freezing cold waiting for the opportunity to put Angela's plan in action.
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The door buzzer went off for what felt like the thousandth time, and every time it was never the one person he wanted.
Katie leaned over and whispered in his ears. "Chill curly, she will come."
"I really don't like when you call me that."
"Love it. You mean." She smiled and sauntered off to greet Rebecca, Drew and Parker.
Angela walked over the second she saw an opening.
"I don't think she will make it."
"What? Who?"
"Bren. She went to see her mum's grave."
"Why? She doesn't go there unless I force her. Says that they are dead nothing more to do."
"She said that she was worried that she may not have another chance after she leaves."
"Huh?"
"Sully asked if she wanted to go away with him."
"What? When?"
Angela peered at him suspiciously, "You're asking a lot of questions. Shouldn't you be worried about your fiancé?"
"Kat can handle herself."
"So can Bren, probably better than Kat."
"Bones gets into more trouble when left alone than Parker does." Booth dismissed Angela's statement. Nobody knew Bones better than him.
"But Bren can get out of trouble just as easily. She is a big girl."
Booth ignored Angela's comment and stalked off to talk to Katie.
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"Chill. It is just a ploy to get you worked up and leave here."
"But she is alone at the cemetery."
"Seels. Take a deep breath, Sully is probably with her."
"But what if he's not."
"You leave here Seels and this will not work. She has jerked you around for the last time and it is time to get it your way. Just stay here and play nice with me."
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Angela watched as he argued with Katie. "All according to plan." She whispered into the phone.
"I don't understand the plan."
"Soon sweetie you will."
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Booth settled for about fifteen minutes before he started to get antsy again. Sully arrived alone and was quite adamant that she was fine and would be here soon. Booth watched the door relentlessly until Katie finally got so fed up she sent him out the door.
He arrived at the cemetery in five minutes and searched the area for the auburn hair squint leader. She was not visible and Booth started to panic but he fond her crouched beside her mother's tomb stone.
He watched her quietly.
"He is a good man mum, one of the best, I am glad I met him. It was a really bad time of my life. He has done a lot for me. Always trying to get me to be better…"
Booth listened to her his head growing with each complimentary thing she said about her male protector.
"… Sully will treat me well and I do need a holiday. I am really excited about this trip. I promise I will come back in a year. I will ask Angela to keep bringing you fresh flowers.
I am happy I found you and put you to rest here. I don't know why I am doing this but I feel like I have you close again."
"I thought that she is dead and can't hear you."
"She is, but my thoughts always seem more coherent if I say them out loud." She didn't even turn around.
"So are you really leaving?"
"Yes. I haven't told Sully yet but I do plan on leaving with him."
Booth nodded not sure if he could form words with out getting upset. "When?"
"2 weeks." She smiled. "Sorry I won't be around for the wedding."
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"She said what!!!!" Katie screeched as they walked in the front door. "Despicable, downright, low-down, dirty deceiver." She turned to face Booth, waving her finger in front of his face. "They are up to something."
"Why can't I just tell her the truth?"
"No! She can't win now. Do you want her to hold this over your head? Do you want her to have all of the power?" She turned her blonde hair whipping around and she stalked into the kitchen.
Booth sighed, "But she already does."
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