“I’m sick of lying.” Brennan sinabi as she closed her apartment’s door, looking twice. Angela’s unannounced visits had become madami frequent lately.
“Me too, Bones, but we really can’t tell anyone. They wouldn’t let us work together anymore.”
“You could get clearance.” Brennan sinabi as she took off her dyaket and grabbed two beers from the fridge.
“But then I would have to talk to Hacker who… has a thing for you. Thanks.” he accepted the drink. “He’s not going to give me it easily. Heck, he might not even give it to me.” he sat on her sofa and turned on the TV.
“Well, don’t you think you should at least try?” She got some spaghetti and turned on a pot of boiling water.
“Whoa, you are not cooking hapunan for me.” he jumped back off of the sofa.
“But you’re a terrible cook.”
“Thanks for the compliment. I’ll help then.”
“Ok, just do what I tell you.” Booth raised his eyebrows but she didn’t see.
“Chop these.”
“Sure.”
They both started cooking, their backs turned to one another.
“As I was saying, if this is going somewhere we’re going to need to tell people.” Brennan sinabi as she opened the pack of spaghetti. “What if I do get pregnant or you do ask me to marry you?”
He ignored the last comment on purpose. “You think this is going somewhere?” Booth asked, ignoring the irony. So much for a different outcome.
“Well… yes.” Brennan admitted. “I feel like this relationship is worth madami than my job.”
Booth smiled to himself.
“Do you pag-ibig me yet?”
“Not sure.” Brennan and Booth both smiled to themselves. It had become a joke between them, even though Booth hated to admit that deep inside, he wished that one araw she would answer properly.
“So I think you should ask for clearance, or I’ll do it for you.”
“You wouldn’t.”
“I would.”
Booth sighed. “It looks like you’re going to have to anyway. I am not telling Hacker that I estola his girlfriend.”
“Well, if you told him that we already have a relationship, you might get fired.”
“You want me to lie to the deputy director of the FBI?”
“Yes. You’re already doing so well.” She mocked.
“What do I do with these?” Booth referred to the cooking.
“Put them in here. I think it should be me first.” Brennan asked, looking into his face. Booth sighed.
“Yeah, it should. It’ll be madami like a break up than a request, no matter who says it.”
“Oh, I guess that means I’m cheating on him.” Brennan smiled.
“Yes, you are.” Booth smiled back and drew her towards him. She kissed him and became fiercer and fiercer. Booth had to draw her away from the counter and lay her on the sofa. She started undoing his tie, and then his shirt, her lips not leaving his.
“Hi, Bren!” Angela’s voice came from the corridor.
“Damn it.” Brennan muttered. “Do you think we could pretend that we’re not here?”
“I know that you’re here, I saw the lights from the road.” Angela’s voice sounded again.
“Hey, that’s mine!” Booth whispered.
“We should let her in.” Brennan sinabi reluctantly.
“Yeah, we should. Though it doesn’t mean we will.”
“Booth, I know you’re there. I saw you’re car parked outside. If you don’t let me in I’ll tell the whole lab you’re sleeping together, whether it’s true or not.”
Booth groaned and let Brennan up. He buttoned his sando and put on his tie.
“This won’t go on much longer.” Brennan promised as she went to the door. “I’ll tell Hacker tomorrow.” She opened the door.
“Hi! Hi Booth! What a surprise to see you here! What are you telling Hacker tomorrow?”
“I’ll tell you tomorrow. Maybe.”
Angela sulked. “Ok, whatever.” She rubbed her hands together. “So, what are we having for dinner?” she asked, walking towards the stove. “It smells yum.”
“Booth!” Brennan whispered urgently. She ran up to him and wiped her lipstick of his face before Angela could turn around.
“This’ll be fun, right? The three of us…” Angela turned to look at them again.
“Yeah, as fun as the last three nights.” Booth said, faking enthusiasm.
“Yup.” Angela agreed.
“Ok, then.” Booth smiled. Brennan mirrored him. Angela frowned at both of them but forgot it quickly.
*
“You’re going to do this?” Booth asked. They were in his office and Brennan was getting up to see Hacker.
“Yes, I am.” Brennan frowned. “Do I need to find him?”
“Doesn’t look like it…” Booth saw Hacker approaching. He knocked on the door. “He’s going to be crushed…” Booth said, though he could not hide the hint of glee in his voice. “Well, good luck.” Booth got up to let him in.
“You’re not staying?”
“What? Of course not. I’m not getting fired just for sitting in the background and looking smug.”
“Hello Agent Booth, Temperance. I saw you come in.” Hacker came in.
Brennan breathed in. “Andrew, we need to talk.”
“It’s seems like you two need your privacy… I’ll be leaving right about... now.” Booth near enough ran out of his own office.
“I would very much like to petsa Booth, not you.” was what he heard as he left and he immediately regretted letting her do it. He didn’t look back to see if Hacker was watching him because he knew that he was. But he didn’t feel bad for him. Heck, the way he had sinabi ‘Temperance’ had made him want to manuntok him in his smug little face.
Where should he go? He looked both ways before jumping into the lift. He just started tapping on walang tiyak na layunin buttons, riding up and down, avoiding his own floor unless he met Hacker on his way out. He realized that he had better get out of there as soon as he caught a glimpse of Sweets on one of his elevator trips. He walked out of the building, wondering what was going on. He walked around the block a couple of times and then stopped sa pamamagitan ng a kariton with free pretzels.
*
“I beg your pardon?” Hacker asked, watching Booth leave in disbelief.
“I said-“
“I heard what you said. Do he know? No wonder he was looking so smug…”
“No, Booth has no idea.” Brennan was quick to add. She hadn’t told Booth about this part of the plan, and she realized that it might allow him to keep his job, if Hacker declined.
“Are you sure?” Hacker asked, watching Booth look both ways before embarking the lift.
“Positive.” She realized that it was much easier to lie to Hacker than to Angela or Hodgins or Cam.
“So, let me get this clear… you’re dumping me while asking me to give Booth, my inferior, clearance to petsa you instead?”
“Yes, that’s exactly what I am asking. He might not even say yes, though.”
“Are you kidding me? Booth would of sinabi yes with clearance or without it.”
Brennan shifted uncomfortably as she tried to keep him from getting too close to the truth.
“So will you give it to him or not?”
“I don’t know, I’ll have to think about it.”
“Is that a fancy way of saying no?”
“No, it’s a fancy way of saying absolutely not.”
Brennan raised her eyebrows. “Why not?”
“Temperance, you just dumped me.”
“Don’t you want me to be happy?”
“Not if it involves someone else. Hey, I can be extremely selfish.”
“Or just plain mean.”
“Really? You’re calling me mean? That’s harsh.”
“I hope so.”
“It won’t get Booth clearance though.”
“What about me?”
“I have no control over that. You can do whatever you please. Just not with Booth.” Hacker seemed extremely smug.
“You know that even if you say no, I’ll tell him anyway.”
“He’ll be fired.”
“Not if we keep it a secret. And I am very good a keeping a secret.” Hey, she had proof now.
Hacker paused. “Tell him what?”
Brennan sighed. “That my affection for him has been growing over the past few years and I would very much like to sleep with him.” She sinabi it as if it were a fact.
“And that’s going to make this easier for me?”
“Stop being a baby.”
“I am one. And a sore looser. Except the problem is that I’m the baby in charge of Booth’s social life. That sounded wrong…”
Brennan frowned. “You won’t win.”
“Oh, I think I will.”
Brennan bit her lip, glared at him, and left.