review, was away on vaca got to write lots of stuff, read, enjoy and most of all review. tell me what you think of the new character. and she is the oc in the oc/sweets.
~gnomexmeg
Luke wasn't exactly psyched to be visiting Dr. Sweets, even though he was an agent he enjoyed chatting with the specialist at the Jeffersonian, but the young psychologist was different. But he needed the preliminary profile of the killer based on the crime scene; which had made him almost lose his lunch, breakfast and dinner from the previous night. Though he had manned it out and dealt with it as much as his co-worker had, the young doctor Evie Collins and only expressed his emotions with an 'Ew."
The Law and Order Dun Dun's filled his car he pulled the phone out of the cup holder and flipped it open to his ear.
"Walker."
"Agent Walker I'm not going to be at my office today, I'm meeting some friends who are with Cam at a restaurant and after I'll most likely head to the Jeffersonian to talk to Doctor's Collins and Williams."
"Sweets, I'm driving over to your office now." Why would God put him in this situation?
"Oh. Well I'm actually at the restaurant now, so I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to talk for long."
"Sweets, have you looked at the crime scene pictures?" he had emailed them, faxed them and sent a messenger with them.
"Yes." now Luke could hear the hum of people's conversations in the background.
"And?" why weren't any of his evidence people giving him something to go on?
"This guy has a lot of free time on his hands. I have to go. I'll talk to you later. Hi Angelea. Wow!"
"No." slamming his hands on the steering wheel Luke attracted the attention of his fellow drivers in the nearby cars and trucks. He gave a smile and wave to a nearby woman and then realized that the light had turned green. Sweets would show up at the lab and most likely hang around the lab, earning him glares and smacks from Evie; who was holding a strong grudge agaisnt him. There had been more than a few occasions that Luke led Evie back to her office and told her that beating the poor psychologist wouldn't make him go away. Though sometimes he just liked to watch the two tango. Sweets though was beyond fairly confused about Evie's behavior, which surprised Luke because the man being a psychologist should understand why she was angry at him. Even DEW had agreed that Evie's anger at him was justified.
Mr. Doctor Lance Sweets had gotten off on the very wrong foot of Evie. On one of the first cases they had worked Evie's younger sister Cora, had stayed and visited with Evie most of the times that Sweets was there and the times that Sweets accompanied Luke and Evie to a local Deli. Cora and Sweets had actually gotten along the first few times, Sweets later on after their second lunch revealed to Luke that he had a small crush on the twenty-something, or in his words "I kind of like her, she's really pretty, oh and she laughs at my jokes." Though he had started to pick up on the behavior, his first bad move wast that he had questioned Evie about Cora hanging around and the apparent lack of life in her , which Evie then had started for to gradually stop attending lunch with Luke, feeling insulted by Sweets. But the straw that broke the camels back was suggesting that the young woman was depressed, which earned him a smack while she walked away and her long held grudge. And now six months later like he had for the past four cases Lance Sweets would more than likely bug Luke about Evie's attitude.
"Sweets I think your voice has gotten deeper!" Angelea exclaimed as she pushed back from the hug but still held onto his shoulders, examining him. "Have you met anyone yet?"
"What?" Lance had of course meet people, wait oh, now he got it. "Well,"
"Well what?"
"Sweets are you seeing someone." Cam just needed a straight forward answer, for the most part she really didn't talk to Sweets about stuff like that. Usually he was asking why Evie would hit him.
"No. It's hard to explain."
"He has a crush. Man code for crush is either hard to explain or it's complicated." He looked over for Lance's facial response to see if he was right.
"How do you know?" Cam had to save him from the couple.
"I'm a guy." It was a human with a deep voice and a lack of a woman's chest saying something about Man code, right?
"Anyone I know?" Angelea jumped into her old role as a love life guru as she started to munch on some fries.
"You've been away for a year." Cam looked at her, she had been living in Paris for a year.
"Well, anyone that Cam knows."
"Umm.."
"Let me guess that means yes in man code?" Angelea looked at her husband, it seemed for the most part their relationship hadn't changed.
"Well aren't you an english-to-man code walking dictionary." Jack drawled.
"So how have you two been?" Lance changed the subject before his love life would be further dissected.
"Pregnant." Jack nodded to Lance.
"I hope you know its my role as the carrier of the child to say that I'm pregnant."
"Find any cool bugs in France?"
"No, but down the street from were we lived they had a cafe with probably the best coffee you will ever taste."
"Jaq's croissants were pretty good too."
"I lived off of those things, of course they would be good." Angelea rebutted
"Well you are pregnant." Sweets stated. Pregnant women did some odd things.
"And?" Angelea extended out.
"Being pregnant you sometimes crave funny things." Sweets explained.
"Well Jack said that they were good to."
"And Hodgins also said that he was pregnant." Lance loved getting revenge.
"I meant as a couple." Jack exclaimed.
"So have you talked to Brennan yet?" Cam asked, she really didn't want the Hodgins tag teaming on Sweets.
"Well she gets back a day before her and Booth are going to meet." Lance rolled his eyes at this.
"What Sweets?" Jack was the one to notice this.
"It's nothing. Have you heard from Booth?" Angelea stated a little tired of Sweets going on about the so should be relationship of the century.
"Yea. He gets home a week before but he's mostly going to spend time with Parker." Cam answered after she swallowed part of her drink.
"That's good, because I need both of them hear when this kid comes out."
"Why?" Temperance didn't seem like 'the hold your hand in labor' type of gal pal.
"For the moral support," Lance almost believed him, but the look in his eyes gave the answer before he spoke, "Godparents."
"Oh." he nodded
"So are we going to order?" Cam asked leaning over the table.
"Yea. Of course, we're pregnant."
"Oh gosh, he is not going to let up on this until the day I'm in labor." Angelea groaned as she finished picking what she wanted to eat.
"Who's the waitress?" Lance asked looking at a few familiar faces.
"Cora." Cam answered as she looked around the small diner for the bright haired girl
"Oh."
"I'll go find her, be right back." Angelea and Jack watched as she left the table and walked over to the counter.
"Oh, what?" Jack asked.
"Nothing." Gosh, why the hell would she leave him alone with these two.
"I think I got a grip on the guy lingo here that this 'oh', is that you like this Cora girl."
Lance was silent, he wasn't going to give anything away.
"And how do you know Ms. Cora?" Angelea leaned in on her elbows, putting her chin in her hands.
"Well, she's Dr. Collins little sister, she got a job here after we ate here once."
"We." Jack stressed.
"Not just us two, Dr. Collins, Cora and Agent Luke."
"Double date."
"Well if it was, I totally screwed it up."
"What did you do?"
"It's nothing."
"No, you admitted to screwing it up, now say what you did." the tone Angelea used was demanding.
"She's got alot of hormones swimming around in there, I would not tempt fate." Jack said.
"I told her sister that I thought that she was a little bit depressed."
"And you like her."
"Yes." After a moment of Jack's and Angelea's smiles growing, Lance realized what he had just said. "Shit."
"That's why Evie doesn't like you?" Cam had her arms crossed standing over Lance.
"Shit, again. And yes." he squeezed his eyes and waited for the storm to come.
"Gosh, you're almost as bad as Zach, you don't tell people that." Angelea leaned across the table and hit him on the arm, which actually kind of hurt.
"I was being a pyschologist."
"Maybe she's just really shy." Cam said, still in a percusating tone.
"It's what I noticed okay." To change the topic and get out from the beating he changed the topic. "So what's everyone getting?"
"I think I'm supposed to ask that question." that voice that he remembered hearing two months ago was still perfect in his ears.
The group turned to look at the said crush who was almost 5'8'' even though she was wearing a pair of sneakers. Her hair which Angelea noticed right away was what seemed to be her natural brunette and underneath a bright purple, which was a beautiful contrast to her pale freckle dotted skin. With the examining being done by the two new comers Cora felt a pang of anxiety float up inside of her, blue eyes expressing the emotion perfectly. To not seem anymore creepy Angelea stopped her study of Cora and smiled brightly at her.
"Umm, I'm Cora,"
"We know." Jack said, his face held a small smile, but his eyes showed that he could be the literal definition of ROTFL, as he glance back and forth between Cora and Lance.
"Okay. I'll start with drinks, umm Dr. S what can I get you?"
"The usual coffee would be great."
"Cool," Cora dragged out as she wrote done on her pad of paper, "Curly?"
After a moment Jack recognized who she was adressing, "Oh me, you and your sister like the nicknames."
"Guess you've been to the Jeffersonian with Dr. S. what do you want?" she smiled, looking down at the pad of paper.
"Rootbeer."
"Great and you..." she pointed her pen to Angelea.
"Angelea."
"Angelea you'll be having?"
"Seltzer, plain."
"Great. Dr. Sweets." she said, her eyes looking down.
"Lance." her eyes glanced up at him for probably less than a second, before her cheeks grew a light shade of pink.
"What would you like?"
"Coke."
"Great. I'll get these and then let you guys finish up your orders and I'll be right back."
After Cora had left for over a minute Angelea turned to look at Lance with an arched eyebrow. "Lance?"
"I... I don't know..." His voice cracked a bit.
"Guess he isn't growing up after all." Jack laughed as he leaned over to ruffle Lance's hair.
The interns had been dismissed, most of the ancient artifacts specialist had left for the night at five o'clock sharp and the security at the platform had been dropped for the night at the lack of potential thieves. Though a few souls diligently remained, or were more digentially lounging. Luke had been waiting for Sweets to show up for a good four hours and now he was so bored that he had just memorized the facts of the case in his head. A group of campers who were hiking in the woods had found the decomposed body of Louise Blunt, a secretary and her drivers license photo revealed a very pretty one at that. Though the way they found her was more of the disturbing part, she was tied to a large tree trunk, a rope at her hips and a rope at shoulders,though to the various creatures in the woods her neck had been eaten away and her head had dropped face forward to the forest floor. And without a psychologist's view on a suspect Luke was mostly stuck at the Jeffersonian waiting for a maricle clue.
A pair of heels could be heard on the metal stair case leading to the lounge, and Luke feeling that he needed to look as though he was doing something sat up and attempted to look awake.
"Do you know how sad my life is?" Evie stated blankly as she plopped down onto a couch across from Luke.
"No." he blinked.
"I'm actually happy that I'm here, working, that we have a case, that there's somebody dead enough to be on our table." She lifted her eyes from the coffee table.
"Aren't all dead people the same."
"Well then Mr. Technical pants, decomposed and gross enough to be on our table." Evie like always dramatically rolled her eyes.
"Thank you for the clarification."
"No probs Skywalker."
"Don't you have family to be going home to?"
"Yes, but she's never there anymore, Cor is always working."
"Trouble in paradise?"
"Why would living with my sister be paradise?"
"Six months ago when you were defending her from Sweets..."
"She's just tired from working all the time. But uggghhh, I think he is right."
"Sweets was right about your sister." he acted as if he was completely shocked by her saying Sweets was right.
"You've gone to the dark side Skywalker. And yes, the oh great sweets was right about my little sister!"
"When did we ever talk about him being great?"
"Grrrrrr. I'm going home." teetering herself up into a sitting position and then pushed her feet onto the floor.
"Dr. Collins I wouldn't be so urgent to leave right away." the oh so ever professional Dr. Wiliams called loudly from the platform area.
"Evie. And why?" she yelled back.
"I think I've made yours and Agent Walker's nights." Both her and Walker rushed to the railings and leant over to see Dr. Williams holding up a bone in his gloved hands.
"Yes!" Evie yelled and before Luke could turn to even start collecting his paperwork Evie was half way down the staircase jumping on both feet ready to work the case.
"I'll call Cam and Sweets." she stopped at the bottom step and turned to look up at Luke.
"If you're saying that to rub Sweets being right into my face I swear to god I will make your life hell."
"Do I seem really that stupid."
"Smidgen."
"Thanks."
"Sweets we got to go." Cam had avoided the call for as long as she could though after the third one, she gave an excuse me four minutes ago and then
"They've got something?"
"Yup. It was nice to see you guys, visit a lot. And we'll all get together when Booth and Brennan get back."
"Does this include me?"
"Of course Sweets."
"It was nice seeing you guys."
"Bye."
"Bye." Angelea called, after waiting for the two to leave, Cam in the lead, Angelea turned to Jack, "I want croissants now."