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As soon as Booth had their suspect in the interrogation room, the man confessed. He and his girlfriend had an argument and he struck her. He said it was an accident and he panicked and disposed the body.
Booth sat in his office staring into space. He remembered his argument with Brennan and thought how stupid it all was. Her dig had extended unexpectedly. Booth had moved apartments and wanted to surprise her. She had gotten through to him via video chat. He remembered she looked worried and she wanted to tell him something. She was supposed to be on a plane when they started their link and Booth wondered what was going on.
"Bones, why aren't you on the plane?" He had asked. Her face had been full of worry and she had leaned close to the screen.
"Booth, listen to me..." She had said.
"You're not coming back yet?" He had asked, hurt.
"I can't, but I need you to..."
"What? I can't believe this. You've been there six months. Every time there's an excuse and you don't come back. Are you bored? Huh, do you not want this?" He had cut her off.
"Damn it, Booth. Shut up and listen." She had said. The pounding in his chest was fast and he wondered if it was over. He wasn't being rational and hadn't listened to her. Before she could resume her speech, their connection was severed. At first he thought she had gotten pissed off at him and had decided not to talk to him. He sent her emails and tried the video chat, but he had no luck. He dialed the dig site, but he was told she 'couldn't' come to the phone. He had thought she was still mad at him.
While Booth sat in his office thinking about what had happened between them, Angela walked inside Brennan's office.
"Sweetie, the case is closed." Brennan looked at her friend with an 'I know' glance. "Well, I've given you time to settle in and now you're going to tell me what's going on."
Angela told Brennan she'd go with her to her apartment. Brennan knew the artist wasn't going to give up and she would eventually have to tell her friend about it.
"What about the baby?" Brennan asked, her last attempt to stall some more time.
"Sweetie, Hodgie sifts through bugs and slime at work. Dirty diapers are a piece of cake fore him." Angela grinned and Brennan couldn't help but smile.
B&B
"No wifey tonight?" Hodgins pouted.
"Nope. Sorry." Angela kissed Hodgins good night and walked with Brennan to one of the guestrooms. Angela placed the baby monitor on the nightstand and sat on the bed with her legs crossed. Brennan sat next to her friend, mimicking the same position.
Seeing that Brennan wasn't going to jump in and talk, Angela started off the conversation. She told her friend about little Jack and what he liked. The baby was nine months old and Brennan was filled in on all the important landmarks of the baby's life so far.
"The dig was supposed to last only one month." Brennan started and Angela listed carefully, knowing that what she was about to hear was not to leave the room. "When the month was up, I was asked to help out for another month. I wanted to come back…be with Booth." Brennan was quiet for a few minutes. "I had a talk with him and he understood, so I stayed another month." Angela took her friend's hand in reassurance. Brennan explained that more and more remains were surfacing and at first she felt like she needed their stories to be heard. By the time she figured out that the same soldiers that were guarding the dig site were responsible for the deaths of the people she had to identify, she had already been at the dig for six months. It was her day to leave and when she had gone to the front gates, she wasn't allowed to leave. She had quickly retreated to her tent and set up a video chat to ask Booth for help. "We had an argument and I couldn't tell him." Brennan told Angela that before she could inform Booth of the situation, her link with Booth was severed. She was bound and held captive. "Apparently the CIA, DEA among other agencies were working the operation and the FBI was kept out of the loop." Brennan stared at her friend.
"Were you hurt?" Angela couldn't vocalize the horrible thoughts that crossed her mind. Brennan knew what her friend meant and she shook her head 'no'. Angela hugged her friend, crying for the horrible things her friend must have gone through during her captivity.
B&B
It was late at night when Booth sat on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and looked ahead at the reflecting pool. He remembered how many times he'd been there with Brennan. He hated closing the case not celebrating with her at the diner or The Founding Fathers. She was back and if he hadn't been such an ass, then maybe they could be working things out instead of being distant with each other.
Booth sat there asking himself why her file would be protected by the State Department. He knew something was wrong and he wondered what had happened. He wondered if all the secrecy had to do with her time away. He wondered what it was she had been about to tell him when their link was severed. What if something had happened and it'd been his fault for not listening?
Brennan had slipped out of the Hodgins' mansion after her friend had fallen asleep. Brennan couldn't sleep and she wondered the streets until she found herself at the Lincoln Memorial. She saw a man sitting on the steps and she instantly knew it was Booth.
She sat next to him and didn't say anything. She wanted to hug him, but she also wanted to slap him for going out with other women. He turned his head to face her and she could see him staring at her. She turned to look at him.
"We've solved a case and you still haven't told me what happened to you." He wanted, no, he needed to know what had happened.
"Why do you care?" She asked. He stared at her and told her he cared. He'd waited for her and then she just disappeared. Brennan was furious; it was like he was blaming it all on her. Brennan lost her cool and blurted everything out to Booth, the shock evident on his features.
"You should have told me." His face softened and he tried to get closer to her, but she backed away. "I thought…I was so wrong." He tried to hug her, but she stood.
"It doesn't matter. You found comfort quickly." Brennan fought back the tears as she ran down the steps, leaving Booth staring after her.
Kinda short, but needed to get the story moving and get these two to work on their relationship:D
