The Baby in the Bond
A/N: Next chapter! Thanks to my awesome cousin for editing! Love ya! Thanks to all of you for reading and reviewing my story! It means a lot hearing your optimistic remarks considering it's my first fanfic. So enjoy and let me know what you think!
Disclaimer: Still don't own it :(
Chapter 17:
Booth and Hodgins had settled themselves comfortably at the diner awaiting the arrival of their women. They sat peacefully enjoying common small talk. Booth was obviously enjoying his burger by the way he was scarfing it down his throat in large bites. Hodgins however took his time enjoying his meal until he looked out the window and saw the man he feared most staring at him. He dropped his burger and immediately fixated his eyes on the man standing outside pointing at him. He looked as if he was petrified.
"Hodgins? You okay?" Booth asked snapping his fingers in front of the hypnotized man's face. "Hello? Hodgins? What are you staring at?" Booth turned his head to find that his friend was staring at a blank street corner. "Hodgins, there's nothing there."
"That's because he moves like a JUNGLE CAT!" the bug guy retorted. "Who are you talking about?"
"Angela's dad! I have to leave town, change my name, shave my head and run for my life!" Booth winced at the thought of a bald Hodgins. Not a pretty picture. He started to laugh just as the horrible snapshot of Hodgins faded out of his head, he started to laugh. "You're afraid of your father-in-law? Dude, why?" Booth asked between moments of laughter.
"Afraid? You think I'm afraid of him! Oh no! Afraid doesn't even cut it close. You try waking up in the middle of nowhere finding a strange tattoo on your arm that was given to you while you were unconscious! I'm freaking terrified! I now have two tattoos because of him! You try taking a shower and have THAT MAN staring at you! I'm already paranoid enough as it is!"
"Calm down Hodgins, he can't be that bad." Booth assured his panicked friend. "Oh yeah Booth? You come to me when you have two unwanted tattoos on your arms. Then we'll talk." They then sat there in silence until Brennan and Angela arrived.
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After lunch, each person located to their own working habitats. Hodgins, Brennan and Angela defected to the Jeffersonian and Booth was put on desk duty. When he arrived, he walked into his office hoping for peace and quiet when a rock-and-roll guitar god with a long orange beard was sitting in the desk chair. Booth let out a frightened yelp of surprise after seeing the man that many people feared sitting right in front of him. "Well hello Agent Booth. I guess you're wondering why I'm in your office here. Well I'll tell you. Angie ain't picking up her phone, her bone doctor friend ain't picking hers up either and I think Hodgins moved. That's sad because I came to see him."
"Um… hi. Well I'm not sure Hodgins moved per say but uh… he might've gone to uh… the place where uh… people go to do things." Booth stated fearfully trying to cover up his tracks.
"Well son, that's too bad because I was hoping he'd be working. You know, in his office where I can find him easily." Angela's dad replied mysteriously. "Well sir uh… I don't think he's there so you should maybe try the place where uh… things happen."
"I happen to know that you're lying to me son. You say he's not in his office and therefore he is in his office. Thank you Agent Booth." The guitar god stated matter of factly as he stood up to leave. "Just remember son, I got more than two eyes." Booth looked straight ahead standing tall like a soldier not making eye contact with the scary man. "Yes sir."… "I'm dead, I'm dead, I'm dead. Hodgins is going to murder me. The Jeffersonian will be solving the case of my murder pretty soon." Booth ran for his car to stop any more madness from happening.
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Booth arrived at the Jeffersonian not five minutes after leaving work. He drove as fast as he could ignoring red lights and stop signs. He put on the sirens of his car and he was free to break the driving laws as he pleased. As he ran through the lab, Angela's father was walking towards the bug guy's door. Suddenly, Brennan passed by and stopped Booth in his path.
"Hey Booth. What are you doing here? We don't have a case." Brennan said smiling anyway, happy to see her partner.
"Hodgins is screwed and I'm going to save his life, that's what I'm doing here. And if I'm too late, I'm screwed too. So if you would kindly move out of the way, I can proceed with what I need to do." Booth gently pushed his girlfriend to the side and made his way for the office. "Love you!" Booth yelled over his shoulder feeling bad for shunting his girlfriend aside.
He was too late. Booth ran up to him but the door to the office slammed in his face and he was unable to enter the locked doors. The blinds were pulled down which is when Booth started to panic. Hodgins is doomed.
"Hello Hodgins. Fancy meeting you here." Hodgins let out a girlish scream only to be silenced by turning his head away from the scary man. "Don't sneak up on me like that! What did I do this time?"
"I don't know, maybe I should ask my baby girl. You know I always come down here to check up on you."
"You mean spy on me!"
"That too, yes. But I spoke to your FBI guy Booth recently." Angela's father stated deviously. "You talked to Booth? What did he say to you?" Hodgins inquired curiously. "He said I should give you a real good ass whoopin'. His words exactly." Booth, still listening in on the conversation, was confused by the liar on the other side of the door. "That liar! I could arrest him for lying about a federal agent!"
"What? Booth said that? That's not like him. This must be some mistake. I mean, that's something Caroline would say, but not Booth." Hodgins replied, his facial expression rather dejected. "Well son, I was wondering how you're doing with my baby girl and my grand baby. Are you treating them well? I'm not gonna have to give you another tattoo again am I?"
"Over my dead body." But knowing Ange's father, he knew that could be arranged. "I'm treating them very well, yes. I love both of them more than anything. I am a good father and a good husband. Just ask Angela."
"Well, I could try. Then maybe if my little girl is unhappy with her life, then I could give you a good ass whoopin' just as the agent said. I'm watching you Hodgins. Anywhere you turn, I'll have needles and ink waiting with me. Have a good day now." He then disappeared through the door ignoring Booth on the other side. His silhouette disappeared through the doors of the lab and he was gone. Hodgins walked out of the office and saw Booth standing with his ear to the door. He gave him a stare with eyes full of ideas of retribution.
"Hey buddy!" Booth playfully punched Hodgins in the arm hoping the scary look in his eyes would subside. "How's it going good ol' buddy ol' pal of mine!" Booth said just a little too friendly. "Why hello traitor! How are you today you big jerk?"
"Ok Hodgins, this is not what it looks like. I did not say any of tha-"
"Oh sure, like I'm going to listen to that load of bull crap."
"Hodgins! I swear I didn't say anything! I mean, if anyone needed a reason to kick your ass, it would be because you're a big mouthed crabby know-it-all!" Booth retorted.
Hodgins didn't bother backing up the argument. He simply ignored the comment and scurried back to work passing Brennan as she walked by. "Hello Dr. Hodgins."
"You're boyfriend's a butt." She stood there in silence confused by the irrelevant comment pondering her thoughts on how to respond. "Thank you. I sure do know how to pick 'em."
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At the end of the long work day, Hodgins and Angela left work with their baby sleeping on his mother's chest. After a long day with Angela's father, they needed to go home and rest. She stopped abruptly as they reached the door to the parking garage.
"Oh, I think I forgot my coat in my office. I'm going to head on up and grab it. Here, you take Michael." She handed her beautiful baby off to his father and jogged back upstairs to retrieve her jacket. Hodgins and Michael made their way to the car and saw a familiar looking face in the dark leaning on the car. He was short and Hodgins noticed a beard. It was almost pitch black yet he didn't need light to recognize the figure.
"Don't sneak up on us like that dude! I can't see a thing and who knows what horrors you can perform in the dark!"
"Well lucky for you Hodgins, I can't touch you since you're holding my grandbaby. Let me hold him just a bit." Hodgins hesitated in giving his child to the man but did so eventually remembering that he was his grandfather. "What a fine head of hair he has for a five month old. In this family, we all grow fine hair. Just look at me!"
"Fascinating." Hodgins replied obviously not interested. "Look, why have you been following me all day? What have I done now?"
"Nothing… yet. I just wanted to take you out for a celebratory drink in honor of your newly created and growing family." Angela's father offered as kindly as he could.
"No tequila and no tattoos or I call Booth to arrest you for assault."
"Then what's the fun in it son?" Suddenly, Angela came crashing in through the heavy metal doors to find her dad and her husband talking aggressively. "Dad! What are you doing here?" Angela exclaimed happily running to hug her father. "Hello sweet girl. I was just talking to Hodgins over here asking him if he'd like to join me for a drink or two."
"No tequila and no tattoos!"
"Honest to god you two have become so alike it's like you molded into one being. Then I guess next time, I'll have to give you both a good whoopin'. Goodbye Sweet girl. And I promise no tattoos… this time."
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"Hodgins is going to kill me. His father-in-law is a liar and I'm going to die because of it." Booth said as he and Brennan slumped on the loveseat of their apartment after a long day of work. "I know what will make you feel better Booth." Brennan replied deviously.
"Oh yeah, what?" Brennan wrapped her arms around his neck and started kissing him repeatedly behind the ear going towards his jaw line."
"It's not working."
"How about this?" She moved her lips lower and started kissing him on the neck on the spot that she knew drove him crazy.
"Nope. Still upset. Not helping." She didn't even reply. She just grabbed his face and pulled him and kissed him hard on the mouth. When air became a necessity, they pulled apart. "Now are you satisfied?"
"Not even close Bones. I guess you'll have to go a little further."
"I can do further!" She defended as she stood up and pulled on his hand leading him towards the bedroom.
"I can't wait for you to prove it."
"Over and over and over again." She said with a devilish grin. This was going to be a long, and very good night.