The Future Isn't Brighter Than The Bones

Chapter 10: The Beginning In The End

No One's POV: At the Diner

Booth sat down at the table, next to Brennan and across from Sweets and Angela Booth. Though Booth knew her as either Angel or Angela Mason.

"So Mrs. Fenris confessed," Booth started.

"Who's going to be the legal guardian of Edward, now that his mom is gone?" Angel asked.

"What I'm wondering is if you are going to call the boy…" Brennan trailed off, forgetting the boys name.

"Adam," Angel told her, "And I don't know. Maybe."

"Who's Adam?" Sweets asked.

"This boy Angela met on the case, who likes Angela," Brennan smiled as she said this.

"I might not call him," Angela said, trying to sound uninterested.

"You should," Brennan told her.

"I don't know…" Angel began considering.

"I disagree," Sweets said. "I mean he was friends with the killer, it was a bad influence on him."

"I agree with bones on this one, sorry Sweets," Booth said.

"Hello, Welcome to Royal Diner, what would you like today?" The waitress asked, pulling out a pad of paper.

"I'll have some pie…" Angela started.

"Me too," Booth added.

"For dessert, right?"

"Right."

"For dinner I'll have a tuna sub and some hot chocolate," Angela said.

"I'll have coffee," Booth said.

"Me too," Brennan added.

"Same here," Sweets said.

"I'll have a salad," Brennan said.

"I'll have a cheeseburger," Booth said.

"Me too," Sweets said.

"Okay, anything else?" The waitress asked.

"Not until dessert," Brennan said.

"Okay. It will be out soon."

"Thank you," Booth said.

The waitress walked off quickly.

"Back to talking about the kid who likes Angel," Booth smiled cockily.

"The future killer boy," Sweets mumbled. I hit his arm playfully. "What? That's my evaluation."

"Have you even met the poor kid?" Booth asked.

"I've met his type before. Trust me," Sweets said.

"Okay…" Booth said.

The waitress came back with their coffees, hot chocolate and some waters.

"I don't think this kid," Booth took a sip of his coffee, "Could be that bad. I mean he told us almost what happened."

"How do you know he wasn't part of it?" Sweets asked.

"Because the mom didn't mention him at all. Other than lying about his health issues. Saying he had diabetes when he didn't," Booth said taking another sip of his coffee.

"I think he's kind of cute, but my opinion doesn't seem to matter…" Angela said, sipping her hot chocolate.

"They do that a lot. Discuss others even when the other person is right near them."

"I think Angel deserves more than him, that's all I'm saying."

"Do you like her?" Booth asked.

"I'm like six years older than her. Us being together would be somewhat wrong," Sweets told Booth.

"I can't help but agree. I mean she's only fourteen."

"FIFTEEN!" Angel told Booth.

"Actually, it wouldn't be that wrong all together, its only six years. You'd just have to wait to… you know."

"I feel like I'm invisible." Angel mumbled. "This is so awkward." Angel told Brennan.

"Booth makes everything awkward," Brennan told her.

"Oh?" Angel replied.

"He does it to suspects in the interrogation room, he can make the lab awkward…" Brennan trailed off a bit. "It's a talent of his."

"Oh. I understand."

"Yeah."

The waitress came back with our food, and refilled the coffees, though the others hadn't drank much.

"Yum…" Booth said looking at his burger.

"I don't understand how you can really eat that. I'm a vegetarian," Angel said.

"It tastes good-" Booth told her.

"Yeah, but I always picture an animal when I eat it… One time I dreamed a mother cow was in the restraunt I had went that night, and she was asking me to help her find her kid, who I was probably eating," Angel laughed a bit, "I have weird dreams sometimes."

"You're telling me," Booth said laughing. Angel replied with a grimace.

Back at the lab, Angela, Cam, Hodgins and Zack were having drinks.

"So what do you guys think of Angel?" Angela asked.

"She's a good kid," Cam said, "She acts kind of like Booth when he was a kid. Stubborn."

"She's so rational like Brennan." Hodgins added. "She could seriously be Brennan when she was a kid."

"Her eyes are like exactly Brennan's," Angela told them, "I think she's like Brennan's daughter or something."

"Brennan never had a kid Ange, we would know that," Hodgins reminded his girlfriend.

"I know, but maybe she's Brennan's niece or something."

"Russ's kids are the Hollisters, and they aren't even really his children," Cam said.

"What if he by mistake impregnated someone," Ange suggested.

"And she somehow got here? I highly doubt it," Cam countered Ange.

"What do you think Zack?" Ange asked him. "She's very intelligent and beautiful," Zack said.

Cam and Ange looked at each other and smiled.

"You falling for the new girl Zack?" Cam asked smiling.

"I never took a fall for Angel?" Zack questioned.

"She means, do you have a crush on her?" Ange told Zack.

"Ange did inform me earlier that I do have a slight crush on Angel, but I still do not fully understand what a crush is," Zack told them.

"It's okay Zack. We can work on it," Ange smiled.

"What about Sweets?" Hodgins asked. "He also seems to have an interest in the new girl."

"I'm going to get back to work on the limbo case, Dr. Brennan had been working on." Zack rushed off not liking the conversations turn.

"I think we should try and get Zack and Angela together? What about you two?" Angela asked.

"I agree," Cam said.

"Totally," Hodgins replied, "Zack needs a smart girl on his shoulder. Like I have you."

Cam rolled her eyes.

"Thanks Hodgepodge," she smiled. "I think first, we should try and get Booth and Brennan together?"

"I agree on that," Hodgins said.

"So what are we a team of people getting others together…?" Cam asked.

"I guess so," Ange said.

"Do we get code names?" Hodgins asked.

"I call Cat Woman," Cam said. "I'll be Bug Man," Hodgins said.

"I'm going to be… Lady Fate," Angela smiled.

"Are we ever going to use these names again?" Cam asked laughing.

"Probably not," Ange giggled too.

Hodgins began to laugh too. "We better get going Lady Fate," he said laughing. "Yeah, we'd better Bug Man," she said, "See you tomorrow Cat Woman."

"See you Lady Fate and Bug Man," she replied as they left.

"Lady Fate and Bug Man?" Zack asked as he came behind Cam.

"It was nothing Zack," she said smiling.

"Okay…" Zack replied walking off again.

"You want to head out?" She asked.

"Sure Cat Woman," he said smiling.

"You heard that?" she asked.

"I did," he replied. She and Zack walked out of the Jeffersonian.

"Night Zackeroni," Cam said, as she went to her car.

"Night Cat Woman," he replied walking the other way.

At the diner, the four we're now talking about sports. Booth and Angel both agreed Hockey was the best, Sweets and Brennan disagreed, Sweets liked basketball, and Brennan liked volleyball (which Booth questioned).

Then Booth's phone rang.

"Hello?" he answered, laughing at something him and Sweets were talking about, but as he listened to the person on the other line, his face became a frown. "Okay, thanks."

"What?" Brennan asked Booth.

"There's been a murder, or well a chain of murders," Booth told us.

The End

The superhero names were from a story I read by Anne Nonymous. I thought they were an awesome idea so I used a little snip it of them in the end. I don't think Hodgins's was bugman though, and Zacks was from the early episodes of season 2, Cam calls him Zackeroni. Go read her story 'Can't Fight Fate', I'm addicted to it!

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