A/N Thank you Britxfluva for reviewing, it made my day. So here's another chapter just for you! Thanks also to jamsters4567 for putting me on story alert and Kelanna for adding me to her favorites. Please review if you like it, thanks so much in advance.
Energetic A
This case was getting to Ange. It was a little girl only 7 and a victim of her foster father's anger. It was hurting her to think of Brennan's life is the foster care system. She knew Brennan was upset to but had turned to Booth instead, making her even more upset though she should be glad Bren was talking to anyone at all, she had a tendency to compartmentalize everything.
Angela sighed and laid down on the couch in her office. A blanket was wrapped around her tightly. She snuggled in and began to cry. A fist was pressed tight against her mouth to stop the cries from being heard, but tears ran down her face. Hodgins walked by and heard her sobs anyway. "Ange," he called out cautiously. He stepped in, "Ange, honey what's wrong". She gulped hard "Everything". Hodgins pulled her onto his lap and rubbed her back. "How can I help?" he asked sincerely. "Brennan" she whispered in a heartbreakingly tiny voice. Hodgins got up slowly and kissed her forehead walking out the door before breaking into a sprint the second Ange could no longer see him.
He brought back Brennan warning her, "I've never seen her so upset, Dr. B". "Sweetie" Angela said wiping her tears away with the back of her hand. "Ange" Brennan said shocked at how upset her friend was. "What's wrong?" "You'll be mad" Angela intoned. "You can tell me anything" Brennan encouraged her. Ange sighed "Sweetie, I'm glad you trust other people now, trust Booth, but I miss you coming to me, I miss our girl talk and I, I feel like I'm losing you and that's what scares me most of all" Ange whispers. "Never" Brennan promises squeezing her hand. "But this week," Ange says a catch in her voice, "before you would have come to me and we would have been sad and gotten through it together". "But Ange that's the point, we would be sad but you're so happy, so full of life… Booth has his father. He gets it. But I don't want to be the reason you're sad." Angela smiles a bit "Let's just trust each other some more sweetie ok?" "Ok" Brennan agrees eager to see Ange happy again. "And a girls night tomorrow no excuses" Angela makes her promise. Brennan agrees to that too, glad Angela is her crazy, happy artist friend again.
They hug for a while sitting side by side on the couch. Angela's head falls asleep on Brennan's shoulder; Brennan leans back and rests her head on top of Angela's. Booth and Hodgins find them there an hour later, tear tracks mar their faces but smiles grace them too. They hold hands tightly even while sleeping the energetic artist and the rational scientist. Two best friends, opposites yet connected, two sides of the same coin.