1Chapter 8- Booth's story
AN: OMG!! This story has been on hold too long, so I'm going to just post a quick chapter and hope I will get on a semi-regular updating schedule. Hope you guys enjoy
I'm switching this to third person because it is easier to read and write. It will stay in third person unless people want me to switch it back to second. Let me know if you like it in third person or if I should switch back to second, or you could just review give me a pick me up from having to take my SATs
He was on the steps waiting for her by the time she got there after dropping Celia off at Angela's. She walked up the steps and sat down beside him not saying anything, just trying to get used to being around him again. This conversation is going to be hard and both of them know it. Deciding they waited long enough, Booth speaks up. "So where do you want to start?
Brennan's answer was immediate "At the beginning, when you left."
"Who goes first?"
"You."
Booth sighed and tried to organize his thoughts. After he was silent for a few minutes, Brennan decided to help him out. "Where were you these past few years?"
"Seattle. I have some cousins out there, at first it was just to visit. Figure out what to do in D.C., then my aunt got sick. So I hung around, got a job at the Seattle Field office after I was out there for 2 months. By the time everything was resolved with my aunt it had been a year. A year without contact with you or anyone else except Parker, by that time I thought it was too late. That you moved on and didn't want to see me."
"But the note, you made it sound like it was all planned. That you were asking for a transfer because of what we did."
" I didn't have it all planned out, I left thinking I would be gone for a few weeks maybe a month but it was always my intention to come back soon. But then things happened and here we are."
"You said, 'I also hope you can understand that it can never happen again. I'm going to put in a transfer, I'll be gone by next week. I can't stand the thought of you leaving so I'm going to save you the trouble.' How do you get I'll be gone a month, from that?"
"I can't believe you still remember what the note said after all this time. And- "
"Of course I would I read it I don't even know how many times, trying to understand why you left and where you went."
"I have regretted writing that note since the moment I left it behind."
"Then why did you?"
"By the time I started to really regret it you would have already read it, and then I thought maybe it would be better to just leave the note as it was, let you believe that I really was gone, incase something happened and I didn't return."
Brennan snorted. "Yeah that was a genius plan." You could almost see the sarcasm dripping from her voice. "Let me believe that I drove you away, that I ruined the best relationship I ever had. Leave me to raise a child all on my own."
"I never knew about Celia."
"You never even checked in on me, if you did you would have known. It's not like I kept her a secret. And how often did you talk or see Parker while you were gone?"
"Why does that matter?"
"Parker joined a science club at the Jeffersonian, I see him when he is there every Friday afternoon. He and Celia became friends. He knows she is mine but not yours. If you saw him or talked to him for any real length of time I'm sure he must of mentioned her at some time."
At this Booth looked a little ashamed, "I told that we were to never talk about the Jeffersonian or anyone who works there."
Brennan stood up and handed Booth a bag. "I'm going to leave, here are Celia's baby book and pictures, on the backs of the pictures there are captions. Drop them off at the Jeffersonian in a few days when you are done looking through them." With that she was heading down thestairs and towards her car.
Booth put his head in his hands realizing how his last comment must of seemed to her, this was not going well. Sighing he stood up and took the bag full of moments he missed and headed to his hotel room.