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As a Special Agent for the FBI and a former sniper, Booth is not a man who gets nervous easily, but he's definitely nervous now. He sensed something different in Bones, maybe it was a mistake to immediately introduce her to Amanda, after all they haven't seen each other in a year and they were not able to communicate that effectively apart from a few phone calls, maybe Bones was expecting this to be just their time.
But he just thought that she would be relieved. Booth glanced at Bones and then to Amanda remembering that fateful night more than a year ago in front of the Hoover Building.
"I am not a gambler, I'm a scientist, I can't change, I don't know how."
Like always, Booth's stomach felt heavy whenever he remembered it. Her words, her tears. At that moment he somehow knew that he has to move on. In a way, its what pushed him to go to Afghanistan in the first place. It was why he was unable to do anything more than hold Bones' hand in the airport a year ago, looking at her, he knows that he just want her to be in his life, even if its not in the way he wants. It took all of Booth's self control in the past year to push himself to the other direction.
Which is why Amanda was here, to show Bones that he was if not totally over her (which of course he wasn't) he was trying, heading towards the direction she wants. It was difficult but that's why he gravitated towards Amanda in the first place, she was so… Easy. Not Easy to bed easy, Easy in a sense that she was outgoing, she was game, she was happy all the time, she was easy.
Booth shook out of his reverie when they got to his car, he opened both the passenger seat in the front and the back at the same time and he had to swallow, hard.
From habit, Brennan automatically walked towards the front seat, which is where Amanda headed for simultaneously. She paused and so did she. Amanda smiled good-naturedly.
"I think we both can't fit in here Dr. Brennan" but there was a slight edge to her voice as if she was somehow readying herself to a stand off in case Brennan pushed through.
Brennan stepped back, "My apologies, it is out of habit that I went straight for the front seat, I of course, will sit at the back."
Booth just looked at the two women, feeling more uncomfortable than ever. But he looked at Bones and made a decision, he will just explain it to Amanda later.
"Hey Honey, if its ok with you, maybe Bones should sit in the front, I mean.." he faltered a bit when he saw a slightly incredulous look in her eye but he already started so he continued "'Coz we haven't spent time together in a long while you know, is that ok?"
Booth was sweating, hard. But Amanda graciously backed off, looked at Brennan and kissed Booth in the cheek, "Of course sweetie, you're right its fine"
She looked at Brennan "All yours Dr. Brennan." The tone was friendly but it seemed to Brennan that it lost some of the original friendliness when they were introduced earlier. But Brennan didn't want to seem out of control.
"That is unnecessary, I don't want you to feel uncomfortable, as I am more used to Booth's car than you, it is logical for me to be the one to sit in the back rather than it be you as again, you're still unfamiliar to it."
She deftly slid in to the back seat and smiled at Booth before shutting the door. Amanda got in too feeling a bit unsettled.
Booth walked to the other side, to the driver's seat. It was going to be a long night.
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