Brotherly Love?
By wired2damoon
Chapter 4: Naked, Wet, Coffee?
A/N: Okay, thankies to everyone who has reviewed so far, love-r-of-Jam, GorgeousGummyBear, HawkAngel XD, iversusme, piratesmiley, Sarah9488, tvholic68, beverleymitchellrocks47, ddamato, Bambuskaru, beagle, lol.idk, colonelheather, and kairbear1980! Sorry if I missed anyone! Anywayz thankies to everyone who has read and reviewed it means so much to me! And now…chapter 4!!
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"So jump-worthy…" Angela muttered as her eyes flickering devilishly as Jared Booth bent over the railing as he waited for his brother to show up.
"Sorry Miss Montenegro?" he asked politely, not hearing her properly.
"Oh…nothing Jared, and please, call me Angela", she grinned, batting her eyelashes.
Did she just bat her eyelashes? Jack Hodgins wondered angrily.
"Uh hi, we haven't been introduced, I'm Dr. Hodgins…" Jack stated matter-of-factly, striding in between his fiancé and this so-called jump-worthy cheap imitation of Booth.
Uh oh. Jack only ever referred himself as 'Doctor' when he A, has the hots for someone, or B is threatened by them. Angela severely hoped it was for the latter, although if not that would be so hot!
Angela watched the interaction between the love of her life and the sexy piece of ass quietly. Oh god seeing Jack jealous made her so hot for him. So what if she has a little fun?
Striding over to were Jack was now squared up to Jared (his head only reaching Jared's chin) she slipped her arm gently around his shoulders and kissed his cheek tenderly.
Jack, who obviously was taking this as a sign not to be threatened by Angela's behaviour, instantly relaxed and excused himself from the two, muttering something to do with bugs and particles.
"You'll have to excuse the Bug Man, he gets a little jittery around tall men," Angela explained jokingly.
Jared smirked, understanding her hidden meaning and lightly nodded his head.
"Ok, so what we got Angela?" came the voice of Seeley Booth from below the platform.
His brother's voice wasn't the only one that could be heard floating up towards them. The quite irritated tone of Temperance Brennan could be identified also, obviously directed at her partner.
"I can't believe you sometimes!"
"Just leave it Bones!"
"No I won't leave it, I mean you come barging into my apartment-"
"-You told me to come in".
"Not into the bathroom I didn't!"
"Well how was I supposed to know you were in the shower?"
"Don' t you have that heightened sense of hearing from the Army?"
"Only when I'm on guard Bones…"
"I thought you were on guard all the time?"
"Consider it as payback for last time when you barged in on me in the bath! And I am always on guard!"
"I did not barge in on you. I needed to talk to you, its not my fault that you were otherwise occupied. And obviously you're not always 'on-guard' if you just decide to stride into my bathroom while I was getting out of the shower which you could of heard from the living room and was clearly still turned on!"
Booth tried to forget she even mentioned the words turned on as her very wet body entered his mind, covered by nothing except a skimpy little towel…
"Ah jeez Bones! How many times do I have to say I'm sorry?"
"Well you've said it twenty-four times since we left my apartment so, I'm thinking a hundred…"
"Bones! It was a rhetorical question! You never apologised for storming into my bathroom so I'm not saying sorry a hundred-"
"OKAY!! Doctor Brennan, Agent Booth when you're quite ready", Angela intervened trying to hide an amused smirk that was threatening to grace her face (and making a mental note to question her best friend later on their bathroom antics) as the two furious partners approached them, red-faced and breathing heavily.
The two stopped arguing abruptly, as if they suddenly noticed their audience.
Jared couldn't help but frown at their behaviour, but he tried to block it from his mind.
"Now…as I've said, our victim is Mike Johnson's little brother Nick. Twenty-four years old, lives in uptown D.C in that new apartment block just at the corner beside Luigi's. No one reported him missing, probably because he lives alone and is unemployed, but according to Hodgins, the maggots/flies that were found at the scene were at least thirty-six to forty-two hours old, which gives us a time-frame of at least a disappearance of a day and a half", Angela informed them, looking grimly in Jared's direction, trying to explain things as gently as possible.
"I've ran the injuries through the Angelator if you wanna come take a look", she continued gently, clearly addressing Booth and Brennan but it was Jared who answered.
"Yeah I'd like to take a look at this Angelator…" he mumbled.
Angela looked quite skittishly at Booth for a moment, waiting for his approval. At the tiny nod of his head that went unnoticed by both his brother and his partner Angela proceeded to lead them into her office.
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"Blunt force trauma to the back of the cranium is the cause of death", Brennan explained as the image Angela created hovered in mid-air.
If it wasn't such a horrible image of what happened to his best friend's brother Jared would find the representation of the human skeleton fascinating. He had to admit however, Angela truly was an amazing artist.
"Fractured clavicle, scapula and humerus suggests signs of struggle, twisting and turning, also the widening of the rib cage and sternum suggests that the arms were bound, as do the abrasions Cam found of the wrists", Dr. Brennan continued, and for once she was aware of the affect this was having on another human being, Jared Booth.
Seeley patted his brother on the shoulder gently as he nodded to his partner to continue.
"Broken metacarpal and carpel suggests that the victim had his fists bared and connected with something extremely coarse, like a wall or another hard surface, and the position of both ulnas suggest that the victim had his arms raised on front of his face to protect himself", Brennan finished, her eyes focused on a spot behind Angela's head, willing herself not to cast a glance at the older Booth brother.
As Brennan explained, Angela switched from image to image of what happened to the young Nick Johnson. She could clearly see what effect this was having on Jared and sighed slightly, this was going to be a difficult case.
"He…he was such, such a good k-kid", Jared muttered, his eyes cast downwards as Seeley gripped his shoulder.
"He, d-didn't deserve this…" he sighed, turning away from them and proceeding to walk around Angela's office.
Angela took this as a sign to switch the machine off.
"Well we're going to catch the bastard that did this to Mike's brother, and in the mean time try and find Mike, hopefully alive and safe, so c'mon Bones, let's get going", Booth said, the level of determination in his voice clearly adamant.
Brennan seemed to be ignoring him however as she just strided silently over to Jared and placed her right hand on his shoulder. Open-palmed Booth noticed.
"I'm so sorry Jared…" was all she muttered, but it seemed to sooth him considerately.
"Thanks…Bones…" he smiled slightly. "You wanna go get some coffee?" he asked, staring her straight in the eye.
Brennan almost gasped as she saw the intensity behind those ocean-coloured orbs, and before she knew it she was nodded her head vigorously.
"Good…I'll meet ya out front in a minute…" he mumbled, taking her hand and holding it for a second before departing.
Angela watched in awe at this occurrence, her jaw almost touching the floor.
As Brennan stood stock still for a moment, something suddenly caught the artist's attention. Booth.
A low growl could be heard coming from her left, not loud enough for Brennan to hear, but just loud enough for her.
Angela smirked slightly as she saw the flash of jealousy wave across Seeley Booth's handsome face.
Oh…things around here just got a whole lot more interesting…
Angela decided to break the ice and start up a conversation as Brennan continued to stare after Jared and Booth continued to glare at Brennan. In typical Angela-style she said the first thing that came to her wonderful mind.
"So Bren, what's this I hear about you and Booth seeing each other wet and naked?"
A/N: Lol! God I love Angela! She reminds me so much of someone, can't think who though. Oh yeah…I remember, me! Haha! Nah not in the looks-department (Michaela is just too beautiful and slim) but in the personality-department I've been told she's me all over ha! I suppose that's a good thing! Huh? Anywayz let me know what you thought of the chappy if you wish! All reviews come with a complementary cyber cookie!! -wired2damoon- Xx