After exiting Brennan's apartment, Booth leaned his back against the wall and let out a deep breath. *Well, that could have gone worse. But the question is, what do I want her to decide?* Just as confused as his partner, Booth exited the building, said "Good night" to Max and Russ, and went to home to have a beer or four.
Sully sat across from Brennan's apartment building, wondering why Booth was at her place so late at night. *What the HE11 does he think he's doing going to MY GIRLFRIEND'S house late at night?! I KNEW he wanted her! I'm gonna KILL HIM!!* With that last thought, Sully stalked off to his car, a plan all ready for action the next day.
Brennan sat down on her couch, completely confused. She grabbed the phone and called Angela. "Hello?" came a groggy voice. "Hey Ange, what's up?'' Brennan answered, in a pseudo-cheery voice. ''Sweetie, it's like, 2 a.m. Did something happen?" she asked, suddenly concerned and VERY awake. Brennan took a deep breath, and decided to just plunge in. "Sully's back. And Booth is being called to go on a mission and Cullen wants me to continue to work with the FBI while he's gone and he decided Sully would be assigned to work with me, but Booth says that if I don't want to work with Sully he could continue to work with me and Sully would be given the mission, but I know that Booth really wants to go because if it goes wrong and he wasn't there he would blame himself and always wonder if he could have made it work. Also, I don't want to make him stay and then have him blame me if something goes wrong, I really don't want him to resent me." "Whoa, sweetie, slow down! One, Sully's back? How do you feel about that?" Brennan was confused about Angela's question. "What? I'm fine. He gave me a choice, I said no. We're over. I'm fine. I'm just confused over what I should do. Should I let Booth go, or should I keep him here?" Angela considered the situation before speaking. "I think you should let him go. I know he wants to, and if you're ok with Sully and really done with him, make sure Booth knows that before he goes." "Why?" "Because he obviously thinks that you are going to give Sully another chance." Brennan was stunned and more than a little confused now. "No……Why would he think that? And why would that upset him?" Ange laughed. "Sweetie, you may be a genius, but sometimes you are just completely clueless. He's upset because, one, Sully left you once, and Booth would kill anyone he thinks would hurt you, and two, he's in love with you." Brennan interrupted. "But-" Ange cut her off. "No, sweetie, I'm right. He had enough problems seeing you two together the first time, and you two have just gotten closer since then." Brennan mulled over that for a second, then, deciding arguing was useless, and said, "So I should let him go?" Angela smiled at the lack of argument, and said, "Make sure he knows you and Sully have no chance of getting together, but yeah, let him go." "Ok. Thanks Ange. I don't know what I would do without you." "No problem sweetie. Good night." "Good night, Ange." Angela hung up the phone, a pleased smile on her face. "Who was that?" inquired a mostly asleep Hodgins. "Oh, just someone who's leaving the state of denial. Finally," Angela said, a smirk on her face. "Oh, ok baby." With that, Hodgins rolled over and went back to sleep.