S01E01 - The Pilot in the Series (06/07)
Fandom: Bones
Pairing: Seeley Booth/Zack Addy
Rating:T
Spoilers:Pilot
Series:First story of Bones Revisited - Season 01
Summary:My version of the pilot; what if Brennan wasn't the one Booth was interested in? What if Zack loved him back? The first of a series. Pre-slash, mostly. Slash at the epilogue.
Author Notes: I change the character highlighted on each scene. Words in italic are their thoughts.
Main characters in each scene are Temperance Brennan (The Killer) and Seeley Booth (The Funeral).
Chapter Five
In which the killer is caught and two lovers share three kisses
Ken Thompson's House
Washington D.C.
Doctor Brennan parked her car outside the killer's house and approached his window, only to see him pouring gasoline on the floor of his house.
"Stop! You can't destroy evidence!"
She used a garden vase to break the glass above his door and opened it.
"This is a private residence. I don't suppose you have a warrant?"
"I'm working with the FBI. If I have reasonable suspicion of a crime being committed I don't need a warrant."
I was breaking in even if I needed one.
She walked through the house and found the source of the voice.
"What crime?"
"How about arson? Insurance fraud? Or destruction of evidence pertinent to a federal investigation?"
"I'm just cleaning up. Is that alcohol I smell in your breath?"
I didn't drink the lab martinis. I don't like the taste of them. Angela, on the other hand, has the ingredients under her desk.
"No, it's gasoline upon your hardwood floor. What's underneath? Cement? The same cement that was imbedded in Cleo's skull when you bashed her head in?"
"You might wanna get out of here."
"I can't let you destroy evidence."
"How are you going to do that, pray tell."
Don't test me, you prick.
"I'll stop you."
"Not before I burn this place down with you in it."
He started playing with a silver lighter.
"Add attempted murder to the charges I mentioned earlier."
He lighted his lighter. The doctor just pulled her hand and shot him in the leg.
"I don't get it. It wasn't jealousy or passion. She wouldn't get rid of your boss's baby so you got rid of her. What kind of psychology is that? What kind of person are you?"
"Temperance." - She turned to the door, where Oliver Laurier was standing. - "Are you all right?"
"Oliver, I understand you are here out of misguided concern for my safety, but apparently I don't read people very well and you could be in some kind of psychotic collusion with Ken. So I'm gonna ask you to go over there and apply pressure to his wound until the police gets here."- She started to talk faster as she finished her speech. Booth appeared behind Laurier moments after.
"Okay, okay. Did he kill Cleo?"
"Yes, he did." - Booth answered the stalker.
"Okay. Then I'm down with him bleeding to death."
"That guy bleeds to death, Bones will go on trial for attempted murder. You don't want that, do you?"
"I wouldn't want that."
"Besides, you know, applying pressure can be very painful."- The FBI agent smirked a little.
Oliver finally got down on the floor and started doing as he was instructed.
"The evidence said he did it, but I don't know why."
Zack does. The little squint figured out that the scandal would've destroyed Bethlehem's career and Thompson's with it.
How did he figured it out is still a mystery. At some times he acts so detached to humanity and at other times he knows everything about the human psyche. It kind of makes me love him even more.
Just like when he says my name…
He was startled when Temperance said louder than she was speaking earlier:
"It doesn't matter. Motive does not matter."
"He did it to save his job."
"His job?"
What a stupid motive. But then again, he is a stupid man.
Dumbass!
"Yeah, it's a tough town."
"It really is." - She gave him her gun.
"Maybe in the future, I should do the shooting."
"Why? I'm a good shot!"
Cleo Louise Eller's Funeral
Washington D.C.
They were all dressed in black. The complete Squint Squad plus Daniel Goodman and Seeley Booth.
"Lord, make me an instrument of your peace."- The priest said.
Ted Eller was in uniform holding his sobbing wife and fighting back tears of his own. Zack approached him whispered a few words then went back to
his friends. The major broke into tears after that.
"What did you say to him, Zack?" - Hodgins asked his best friend
"I merely stated that no one would hold against him crying at his daughter funeral. I also said that he wouldn't feel better after he cried, but it would make it easier for him in the long run. "
He's one of a kind, that's for sure.
All of them were speechless after that. Until Hodgins joked:
"Who would've thought you were human?"
Later, every one of the squints went and placed roses over Cleo's casket. During Brennan's turn, Angela asked Booth if the FBI was laying charges
against her best friend.
"She didn't give him any warning. She just shot him."
"How much warning did you give people when you were a sniper?" - Zack was brutally sincere.
Wow. He stood up to me.
He didn't squirm while he was being the object of four staring eyes. He just looked Booth in the eye and questioned:
"Seeley, will you walk with me?" - The assistant motioned to a patch of trees behind them. The agent nodded and followed. He could hear Dr. Goodmanasking Jack and Angela: "Seeley?"
"Agent Booth?"
"Yes, Zack?"
"I need to tell you a secret."
"Okay, shoot."
"I'm a four in the Kinsey scale." - He inhaled deeply before starting to babble - "Please don't hate me! If by any chance you won't work with me, we can find a way to work without..."
A loud 'Zack!' brought the squint back to his senses.
"I think don't understand what you just said, Zack."
I really don't.
"IsaidImightbegay." - He said all in one breath.
Oh. Oh.
"That's okay." - Booth's hand held Zack's chin, then he leaned over and kissed the man he loved. The kiss was chaste and short - "I think I might be
too."
"But only for you, Zack."
The squint was surprised and for a moment didn't make any movement at all; later he grabbed Booth's tie and yanked, pulling the agent for a longer, more passionate kiss.
That was a surprise. I really didn't think he would do something like that.
But I like it.
"As much as I hate to interrupt this precious moment; we have to get back, Seeley."
"I love the way you say my name. We can continue doing this later, right?"
"Oh yes." - They pulled each other for one last kiss before joining the group.
"Why did you want to speak with Booth alone?" - Angela asked the question that was in the minds of Daniel, Jack and Temperance.
"I wanted to tell him my secret."
"What secret, mister Addy?"
"About my sexual orientation, Doctor Goodman."
Angela pulled (soon-to-be) Doctor Addy aside and inquired:
"How did he take the news?"
Zack kept thinking about the three kisses he shared with the man in question.
"To tell you the truth Ange, better than I expected. Way better."
The End