Outside Looking In
AN: This piece of fiction will have no dialogue in it. Although in coming chapters I may break down and throw in a line or two. This is merely an observational piece documenting Booth and Brennan’s developing relationship through the window of all the restaurants/diners/bars they find themselves in. Most of the first season was set at Wong Fu’s so that is where it shall start. This goes without a beta so all mistakes are mine. Enjoy!
Disclaimer: Not mine, wouldn’t know what to do if it was.
Outside Looking In
Season 1
For years it was always just him sitting on the stool in the restaurant. The weekly chats he had with the proprietor seemed to get longer every time he visited. He never brought anyone with him. This was his place. His sanctuary. The place he could come and not worry about the outside world, to forget death for a moment and just be himself, Seeley Booth.
All that changed one day. Booth found himself loaded with a partner; a scientist, albeit a woman, but a partner and scientist non-the-less. His visits increased from once a week to once a day. He needed to vent, Sid understood that, but he wanted to meet this woman who got the ever-calm Seeley Booth in a twist. It didn’t take much arm bending to get Booth to bring her in. He asked her very casually after a busy week at work. She agreed and she came.
At first they would both sit at the bar, enjoying the light conversation they carried, drinking whatever beverage that Sid deemed necessary for the day. They would never stay long, half an hour maximum, keeping a safe distance between them both. This is what they would call their ‘We caught another bad guy’ celebratory dinner. It continued on for a while, until he decided to invite ‘their’ team. So, ever so slowly did they move from the bar to a booth. The conversations they had together as a team got longer as did the ones they had together as a duo. Still, the distance between them stayed the same.
It was the same old dance for them, and oh how she did love to dance.
Never did it seem odd that every now and again one or both of them would come in looking battered and bruised. Only then would they allow their guard down a little to allow the other person in. The distance between them at those times closed quite significantly. When things got better though, those figurative walls were built back up again.
Christmas was supposed to be a time for family. Brennan had none, so Booth took it upon himself to introduce his family to her. She may have said she was no good with children, but little Parker Booth took to her like a magnet. She was drawn to the boy as much as he was to her. She knew it wasn’t rational to love a child that isn’t your own, but with Parker, it seemed that it was hard not to.
So once again the once a week visits to Wong Fu’s turned into almost daily occurrences. This time Booth was never alone. He was always joined by a one Doctor Temperance Brennan Ph.D., Forensic Anthropologist extraordinaire. Booth may have not liked the whole idea of that particular partnership in the beginning, but sitting with her, looking back over the past year and the experiences they shared, he knew that theirs would be a friendship that would stand the strains of every day life as well as whatever the bad guys would throw at them.
He knows who she is.
Disclaimer: Not mine, wouldn’t know what to do if it was.
Outside Looking In
Season 1
For years it was always just him sitting on the stool in the restaurant. The weekly chats he had with the proprietor seemed to get longer every time he visited. He never brought anyone with him. This was his place. His sanctuary. The place he could come and not worry about the outside world, to forget death for a moment and just be himself, Seeley Booth.
All that changed one day. Booth found himself loaded with a partner; a scientist, albeit a woman, but a partner and scientist non-the-less. His visits increased from once a week to once a day. He needed to vent, Sid understood that, but he wanted to meet this woman who got the ever-calm Seeley Booth in a twist. It didn’t take much arm bending to get Booth to bring her in. He asked her very casually after a busy week at work. She agreed and she came.
At first they would both sit at the bar, enjoying the light conversation they carried, drinking whatever beverage that Sid deemed necessary for the day. They would never stay long, half an hour maximum, keeping a safe distance between them both. This is what they would call their ‘We caught another bad guy’ celebratory dinner. It continued on for a while, until he decided to invite ‘their’ team. So, ever so slowly did they move from the bar to a booth. The conversations they had together as a team got longer as did the ones they had together as a duo. Still, the distance between them stayed the same.
It was the same old dance for them, and oh how she did love to dance.
Never did it seem odd that every now and again one or both of them would come in looking battered and bruised. Only then would they allow their guard down a little to allow the other person in. The distance between them at those times closed quite significantly. When things got better though, those figurative walls were built back up again.
Christmas was supposed to be a time for family. Brennan had none, so Booth took it upon himself to introduce his family to her. She may have said she was no good with children, but little Parker Booth took to her like a magnet. She was drawn to the boy as much as he was to her. She knew it wasn’t rational to love a child that isn’t your own, but with Parker, it seemed that it was hard not to.
So once again the once a week visits to Wong Fu’s turned into almost daily occurrences. This time Booth was never alone. He was always joined by a one Doctor Temperance Brennan Ph.D., Forensic Anthropologist extraordinaire. Booth may have not liked the whole idea of that particular partnership in the beginning, but sitting with her, looking back over the past year and the experiences they shared, he knew that theirs would be a friendship that would stand the strains of every day life as well as whatever the bad guys would throw at them.
He knows who she is.