Brennan/Angela Fic Ch. 12-13 + Epilogue.
Ok kiddos, here's the FINAL CHAPTERS of my Brengela fic..which is officially titled "Guilty Pleasures". I hope you enjoy!! My next fic will most likely be the L word... however I love writing Brengela so I'm sure I'll do more stand alone stories. Cause I know you guys love the femslash! : D
Title: Ch. 12 - Farewell
Author: Kit Givens
Disclaimer: Fox owns all rights. I am merely a fan of Bones, composing a work of fiction.
Rating: PG13
Pairing: Brennan/Angela, Angela/Hodgins
Summary: Angela and Hodgins discuss where their relationship lies.
Warning: Angst, no spoilers, completely a/u
Angela Montenegro sat across from her future husband, twisting her hair. She was a good looking woman, even when she was stressed out. Her dark hair complimented her sparkling brown eyes. She had the world at her disposal. A great job, wonderful friends, and a handsome (not to mention filthy rich) fiancé. Yes Angela Montenegro could have had the perfect life. That is, if she hadn't have fallen in love with her best friend.
No one ever suspected that Dr. Temperance Brennan was gay. Not in the slightest. She had always been with men. She had even been through a few serious relationships. She was an intelligent forensic anthropologist, educated in the ways of science and a believer of fact over theory. However, when it came to the topic of love she had never quite figured it out. She understood the ideas behind love, people need to feel needed. They wanted someone else to depend on them, to care for them. Brennan didn't want to fall in love. She just wanted to make love. Simply put, she loved sex. As a matter of fact, it was just about her only way to let go. She knew that the body needed sex to release excess hormones and tension. And she knew the human race needed sex to continue the species. Sex was a necessity.
She had never imagined that sex would actually lead to love. Usually it was the other way around. She had first had sex with Angela as a drunken mistake. Surprisingly, the two women found the experience to be the best sex of their lives. They had continued as friends with benefits for sometime before something more powerful took hold. Brennan still remembered the first time Angela told her "I love you". She remembered how she had panicked, knowing she had in fact fallen for Angela as well.
Since then the two had been sneaking around behind their friends, colleagues, and (most importantly) Angela's fiancé's back.
Everything had come down to this disastrous moment in time. Hodgins had caught the two in a rather passionate lip-lock only hours before. And as if that hadn't been enough, when Hodgins arrived at Brennan's looking for Angela, Brennan answered the door with nothing but a bathrobe on. While Angela had to scramble for clothes in the bedroom. It was a nightmare.
Jack had demanded that he and Angela talk alone. He knew they had a lot to discuss, so he took Angela back to his place. The two now sat face to face in the large living room. Angela wasn't sure what to say to diffuse the situation. Luckily, it was Jack that broke the silence.
"Ange, I just don't understand. I thought we were happy together. I thought we were in love…"
"Jack, please know that I did -do- love you. I didn't mean for this to happen. I've been in love with Tempe for a few years… I just never considered that she'd ever feel the same…."
"You mean…?"
"Yes, I loved her before you and I got together. I had already become accustomed to ignoring my feelings for her, that I allowed myself to fall in love with you. "
"Great. So I've always been your second choice…"
"You shouldn't think of it like that. I never even saw her as "a choice". I mean as long as I've known her she's always been with men… I guess it just goes to show that you never really know someone. I mean I don't even think she's gay…"
It felt weird for her to use that term to describe Brennan. But that was the label society would place on them. Two women in love and sexually active equaled gay.
"How can she not be gay?! She's been fucking you for …how long?!" Jack was getting upset. He couldn't get the image of the two women kissing out of his head.
"I know it sounds strange, but as Brennan puts it, she is in love with me as a person not as a woman. She loves me for who I am…"
"AND I DON’T?!" He was really starting to get heated.
"Jack, I love you…but we're just not meant to be."
"Fuck Angela! First I find out you're already married… ON our wedding day! Then I have to wait forever for the private investigator to track down your illicit husband so you can get divorced. He declines and I have to wait even longer to try and figure out how I'm going to marry you if this guy never wants a divorce. Meanwhile, you've been having an affair with our boss/ your best friend…right under my nose! Any other secrets you want to rip my heart open with!!?"
Angela paused before answering. She ran everything over in her head….
"Nope. You've covered everything." She felt bad for being so smug, but now was the time to be honest.
"Angela I want you to know that I'm not angry. I'm upset. Disappointed. I just wish you could have told me sooner so I wouldn't have been made such a fool of."
He took her hand in his. He admired the way her engagement ring sparkled brilliantly in the light.
"I'm so sorry Jack. I really never thought it'd end like this." She began to remove the ring.
He stopped her, "So don’t let it…"
Angela couldn't believe after everything that had happened he still wanted her to stay.
"No, I mean I know we're done… romantically. But I would hate for our friendship to end here as well. Angela, would you do me the honor of being my best friend? I just…I want to be a part of your life. And if this is the only way to make that possible, then so be it."
She was touched. Jack Hodgins may have been the sweetest man she had ever met, or would ever meet. There he was accepting that his fiancé was leaving him for another woman and he was begging her to agree to still be friends. Angela knew someday he would make some woman extremely happy, she just wasn't that woman.
The two embraced. Angela let the tears run freely down her cheeks. Even though she was the one ending it, it didn't mean she had to be happy about it.
She knew that this wasn’t goodbye. It was merely the end of their fairy tale, even if it didn’t end with happily ever after.
Title: Ch. 13 - Assumptions
Author: Kit Givens
Disclaimer: Fox owns all rights. I am merely a fan of Bones, composing a work of fiction.
Rating: PG13
Pairing: Brennan/Angela, Angela/Hodgins
Summary: Brennan gives up on her relationship with Angela and plans her escape.
Warning: Angst, no spoilers, completely a/u
Three hours had passed since Jack Hodgins had almost beat her door down and whisked Angela away. Now Brennan sat alone in her apartment enjoying her sixth glass of wine that evening. She usually didn’t get drunk alone, but tonight all she wanted was to be able to let go and feel nothing but numbness. She just wanted to forget everything and enjoy a little drunken stupor.
Her mind kept vividly painting pictures of Angela and Hodgins together. What if Angela had realized that Jack was her one and only? They were probably having make-up sex and laughing at Brennan's naivety.
Brennan threw her wine glass at the wall. It shattered with a loud crash sending glass in every direction. She began to sob uncontrollably. Shit. This was why she didn't drink. She was such an emotional wreck when she drank. Maybe it was because she kept so much bottled up when she was sober, or maybe it was because the alcohol diminished her ability to control herself. Either way she was a mess.
She was so used to being let down that it had become impossible for her to be optimistic at a time like this.
She went to the closet to retrieve the vacuum and proceeded to clean up the broken glass. She didn't hear her phone ringing over the noise of the vacuum.
The answering machine picked up--
"Babe? Tempe, if you're there please pick up! …Look I'm on my way over. I talked to Jack…."
Brennan shut off the vacuum just in time to catch Angela's last words.
"…Hun, it's over." Click. The machine turned off and all was silent.
Brennan stared at the machine. That was it?!She broke it off over the phone? Were they back in 8th grade?! Brennan was beyond furious. She should have known Angela would choose Hodgins. He promised her the perfect future. Brennan promised nothing except love…on a day-to-day basis.
Love. Ha! She doubted Angela had ever loved her. She obviously didn't even care enough to end things in person. Bitch! How could Brennan have been so stupid? She had allowed herself to be so open with Angela, and this is how she was repaid. A two second break up call and a broken heart. Fuck this! Fuck Angela! This was the last time she was going to wear her heart on her sleeve. This was the last time she'd be so fucking vulnerable.
She decided, in that moment, that she needed to get away. Away from work, away from the drama, away from Angela. She would take a sabbatical and travel to some obscure place to be alone for a while. She would start planning first thing in the morning…
The doorknob jiggled and the front door swung open. Brennan whipped around to face the intruder. Angela stood in the doorway, key in hand.
She would change the locks, THEN she would start planning!
Brennan stood glaring Angela straight in the eyes. She felt so deceived. Why had she come here? Why had she come back?
"If you're here for your things… I wish you'd be quick. Just get them and leave…" Brennan was attempting to be civil.
"What? Did you get my message?" Angela glanced at the blinking light on the answering machine.
"Yeah… I heard…" Brennan did her best to hold back tears. She was tired of Angela having such an influence on her.
"Brennan it's over…"
Brennan didn't want to hear it. She interrupted before Angela could finish her sentence.
"For what it's worth, Ange, I could have made you so happy. I would have done anything for you. I put everything on the line for you… I think I at least deserve an explanation…."
Angela stared blankly at Brennan. She could tell Brennan was drunk, but she still wasn't making any sense. Angela walked over to the machine and pressed play.
"Babe? Tempe, if you're there please pick up! …Look I'm on my way over. I talked to Jack….Hun, it's over."
Brennan blinked. She had only heard the end of the message? Angela had ended things with Jack!? She laughed so hard she cried. All this time she had been convinced Angela had ended things with her. She had just assumed from the message…. She felt so foolish. Of course Angela would choose her. She knew it all along…
She rushed to Angela and kissed her like she had never been kissed before. Brennan didn't hold back, she put so much passion into that one kiss that everything else stopped, for that one moment in time it was just the two of them. Two woman, madly in love with each other, embarking on a great adventure.
In that one moment everything she had ever wanted came true and all was perfect.
Title: Epilogue - Ten Years Later
Author: Kit Givens
Disclaimer: Fox owns all rights. I am merely a fan of Bones, composing a work of fiction.
Rating: PG13
Warning: Completely a/u
Temperance Brennan sat on the sideline of the soccer field cheering on her favorite player. She couldn't believe that Parker was 14 now. She remembered the first time she had seen him when he was only a toddler. He was looking more like Booth everyday.
Brennan felt movement in her protruding stomach.
"Booth! He's kicking, come feel!"
Booth rushed over and put his hand on Brennan's belly. He smiled as his son kicked against his palm.
"He's going to be a handful, just like his daddy." Booth leaned down and kissed Brennan's cheek. She was so radiant, she always had been.
"Parker, be careful!" Brennan yelled towards the field as Parker took a dive.
"You know Bones, for a woman who never wanted kids…you sure are a good mother."
"Shut up Booth! I was a lot different back then… I think we all were. I'd like to think we've matured greatly in the last ten years. We went through a lot of phases to arrive where we are today."
"Oh you mean like that phase where you fell in love with Angela and broke my poor misguided heart?"
"Yeah Booth, you keep telling yourself that it's a phase," Angela joined the two on the sideline. "Sorry I'm late babe. Did I miss anything?"
"Well Max was kicking again…" Brennan smiled down at her stomach. Her father would have loved that she was naming her son after him. She wished her parents would have lived to meet their grandchild.
"Ugh, he's just like his dad…" Angela frowned as she poked Booth sarcastically.
Booth's phone rang, he stepped away to answer. Angela took a seat beside Brennan and placed a hand on her stomach to feel Max moving around. She smiled at their unborn son. She couldn't have imagined a better life.
"Cam sends her love… she's stuck in the lab finishing up a case for Zach. Seriously, ever since Zach took over for Goodman it's all work and no play," Booth whined. He knew Cam loved her job, but he missed seeing his wife. He was lucky if she came home for dinner.
Angela waved across the field at Hodgins and his girlfriend. Katherine's nephew played on the opposing team. Angela still couldn't believe he had finally gotten together with Agent Frost. She remembered what a stammering idiot he had been when Katherine had come in to help with a case ten years ago.
"Well, at least he's happy, " she thought as she kissed Brennan's cheek.
FIN! Comments ALWAYS welcome!
Previous Chapters:
Ch 1-4
Ch. 5-7
Ch. 8
Ch. 9
Ch. 10
Ch. 11
Title: Ch. 12 - Farewell
Author: Kit Givens
Disclaimer: Fox owns all rights. I am merely a fan of Bones, composing a work of fiction.
Rating: PG13
Pairing: Brennan/Angela, Angela/Hodgins
Summary: Angela and Hodgins discuss where their relationship lies.
Warning: Angst, no spoilers, completely a/u
Angela Montenegro sat across from her future husband, twisting her hair. She was a good looking woman, even when she was stressed out. Her dark hair complimented her sparkling brown eyes. She had the world at her disposal. A great job, wonderful friends, and a handsome (not to mention filthy rich) fiancé. Yes Angela Montenegro could have had the perfect life. That is, if she hadn't have fallen in love with her best friend.
No one ever suspected that Dr. Temperance Brennan was gay. Not in the slightest. She had always been with men. She had even been through a few serious relationships. She was an intelligent forensic anthropologist, educated in the ways of science and a believer of fact over theory. However, when it came to the topic of love she had never quite figured it out. She understood the ideas behind love, people need to feel needed. They wanted someone else to depend on them, to care for them. Brennan didn't want to fall in love. She just wanted to make love. Simply put, she loved sex. As a matter of fact, it was just about her only way to let go. She knew that the body needed sex to release excess hormones and tension. And she knew the human race needed sex to continue the species. Sex was a necessity.
She had never imagined that sex would actually lead to love. Usually it was the other way around. She had first had sex with Angela as a drunken mistake. Surprisingly, the two women found the experience to be the best sex of their lives. They had continued as friends with benefits for sometime before something more powerful took hold. Brennan still remembered the first time Angela told her "I love you". She remembered how she had panicked, knowing she had in fact fallen for Angela as well.
Since then the two had been sneaking around behind their friends, colleagues, and (most importantly) Angela's fiancé's back.
Everything had come down to this disastrous moment in time. Hodgins had caught the two in a rather passionate lip-lock only hours before. And as if that hadn't been enough, when Hodgins arrived at Brennan's looking for Angela, Brennan answered the door with nothing but a bathrobe on. While Angela had to scramble for clothes in the bedroom. It was a nightmare.
Jack had demanded that he and Angela talk alone. He knew they had a lot to discuss, so he took Angela back to his place. The two now sat face to face in the large living room. Angela wasn't sure what to say to diffuse the situation. Luckily, it was Jack that broke the silence.
"Ange, I just don't understand. I thought we were happy together. I thought we were in love…"
"Jack, please know that I did -do- love you. I didn't mean for this to happen. I've been in love with Tempe for a few years… I just never considered that she'd ever feel the same…."
"You mean…?"
"Yes, I loved her before you and I got together. I had already become accustomed to ignoring my feelings for her, that I allowed myself to fall in love with you. "
"Great. So I've always been your second choice…"
"You shouldn't think of it like that. I never even saw her as "a choice". I mean as long as I've known her she's always been with men… I guess it just goes to show that you never really know someone. I mean I don't even think she's gay…"
It felt weird for her to use that term to describe Brennan. But that was the label society would place on them. Two women in love and sexually active equaled gay.
"How can she not be gay?! She's been fucking you for …how long?!" Jack was getting upset. He couldn't get the image of the two women kissing out of his head.
"I know it sounds strange, but as Brennan puts it, she is in love with me as a person not as a woman. She loves me for who I am…"
"AND I DON’T?!" He was really starting to get heated.
"Jack, I love you…but we're just not meant to be."
"Fuck Angela! First I find out you're already married… ON our wedding day! Then I have to wait forever for the private investigator to track down your illicit husband so you can get divorced. He declines and I have to wait even longer to try and figure out how I'm going to marry you if this guy never wants a divorce. Meanwhile, you've been having an affair with our boss/ your best friend…right under my nose! Any other secrets you want to rip my heart open with!!?"
Angela paused before answering. She ran everything over in her head….
"Nope. You've covered everything." She felt bad for being so smug, but now was the time to be honest.
"Angela I want you to know that I'm not angry. I'm upset. Disappointed. I just wish you could have told me sooner so I wouldn't have been made such a fool of."
He took her hand in his. He admired the way her engagement ring sparkled brilliantly in the light.
"I'm so sorry Jack. I really never thought it'd end like this." She began to remove the ring.
He stopped her, "So don’t let it…"
Angela couldn't believe after everything that had happened he still wanted her to stay.
"No, I mean I know we're done… romantically. But I would hate for our friendship to end here as well. Angela, would you do me the honor of being my best friend? I just…I want to be a part of your life. And if this is the only way to make that possible, then so be it."
She was touched. Jack Hodgins may have been the sweetest man she had ever met, or would ever meet. There he was accepting that his fiancé was leaving him for another woman and he was begging her to agree to still be friends. Angela knew someday he would make some woman extremely happy, she just wasn't that woman.
The two embraced. Angela let the tears run freely down her cheeks. Even though she was the one ending it, it didn't mean she had to be happy about it.
She knew that this wasn’t goodbye. It was merely the end of their fairy tale, even if it didn’t end with happily ever after.
Title: Ch. 13 - Assumptions
Author: Kit Givens
Disclaimer: Fox owns all rights. I am merely a fan of Bones, composing a work of fiction.
Rating: PG13
Pairing: Brennan/Angela, Angela/Hodgins
Summary: Brennan gives up on her relationship with Angela and plans her escape.
Warning: Angst, no spoilers, completely a/u
Three hours had passed since Jack Hodgins had almost beat her door down and whisked Angela away. Now Brennan sat alone in her apartment enjoying her sixth glass of wine that evening. She usually didn’t get drunk alone, but tonight all she wanted was to be able to let go and feel nothing but numbness. She just wanted to forget everything and enjoy a little drunken stupor.
Her mind kept vividly painting pictures of Angela and Hodgins together. What if Angela had realized that Jack was her one and only? They were probably having make-up sex and laughing at Brennan's naivety.
Brennan threw her wine glass at the wall. It shattered with a loud crash sending glass in every direction. She began to sob uncontrollably. Shit. This was why she didn't drink. She was such an emotional wreck when she drank. Maybe it was because she kept so much bottled up when she was sober, or maybe it was because the alcohol diminished her ability to control herself. Either way she was a mess.
She was so used to being let down that it had become impossible for her to be optimistic at a time like this.
She went to the closet to retrieve the vacuum and proceeded to clean up the broken glass. She didn't hear her phone ringing over the noise of the vacuum.
The answering machine picked up--
"Babe? Tempe, if you're there please pick up! …Look I'm on my way over. I talked to Jack…."
Brennan shut off the vacuum just in time to catch Angela's last words.
"…Hun, it's over." Click. The machine turned off and all was silent.
Brennan stared at the machine. That was it?!She broke it off over the phone? Were they back in 8th grade?! Brennan was beyond furious. She should have known Angela would choose Hodgins. He promised her the perfect future. Brennan promised nothing except love…on a day-to-day basis.
Love. Ha! She doubted Angela had ever loved her. She obviously didn't even care enough to end things in person. Bitch! How could Brennan have been so stupid? She had allowed herself to be so open with Angela, and this is how she was repaid. A two second break up call and a broken heart. Fuck this! Fuck Angela! This was the last time she was going to wear her heart on her sleeve. This was the last time she'd be so fucking vulnerable.
She decided, in that moment, that she needed to get away. Away from work, away from the drama, away from Angela. She would take a sabbatical and travel to some obscure place to be alone for a while. She would start planning first thing in the morning…
The doorknob jiggled and the front door swung open. Brennan whipped around to face the intruder. Angela stood in the doorway, key in hand.
She would change the locks, THEN she would start planning!
Brennan stood glaring Angela straight in the eyes. She felt so deceived. Why had she come here? Why had she come back?
"If you're here for your things… I wish you'd be quick. Just get them and leave…" Brennan was attempting to be civil.
"What? Did you get my message?" Angela glanced at the blinking light on the answering machine.
"Yeah… I heard…" Brennan did her best to hold back tears. She was tired of Angela having such an influence on her.
"Brennan it's over…"
Brennan didn't want to hear it. She interrupted before Angela could finish her sentence.
"For what it's worth, Ange, I could have made you so happy. I would have done anything for you. I put everything on the line for you… I think I at least deserve an explanation…."
Angela stared blankly at Brennan. She could tell Brennan was drunk, but she still wasn't making any sense. Angela walked over to the machine and pressed play.
"Babe? Tempe, if you're there please pick up! …Look I'm on my way over. I talked to Jack….Hun, it's over."
Brennan blinked. She had only heard the end of the message? Angela had ended things with Jack!? She laughed so hard she cried. All this time she had been convinced Angela had ended things with her. She had just assumed from the message…. She felt so foolish. Of course Angela would choose her. She knew it all along…
She rushed to Angela and kissed her like she had never been kissed before. Brennan didn't hold back, she put so much passion into that one kiss that everything else stopped, for that one moment in time it was just the two of them. Two woman, madly in love with each other, embarking on a great adventure.
In that one moment everything she had ever wanted came true and all was perfect.
Title: Epilogue - Ten Years Later
Author: Kit Givens
Disclaimer: Fox owns all rights. I am merely a fan of Bones, composing a work of fiction.
Rating: PG13
Warning: Completely a/u
Temperance Brennan sat on the sideline of the soccer field cheering on her favorite player. She couldn't believe that Parker was 14 now. She remembered the first time she had seen him when he was only a toddler. He was looking more like Booth everyday.
Brennan felt movement in her protruding stomach.
"Booth! He's kicking, come feel!"
Booth rushed over and put his hand on Brennan's belly. He smiled as his son kicked against his palm.
"He's going to be a handful, just like his daddy." Booth leaned down and kissed Brennan's cheek. She was so radiant, she always had been.
"Parker, be careful!" Brennan yelled towards the field as Parker took a dive.
"You know Bones, for a woman who never wanted kids…you sure are a good mother."
"Shut up Booth! I was a lot different back then… I think we all were. I'd like to think we've matured greatly in the last ten years. We went through a lot of phases to arrive where we are today."
"Oh you mean like that phase where you fell in love with Angela and broke my poor misguided heart?"
"Yeah Booth, you keep telling yourself that it's a phase," Angela joined the two on the sideline. "Sorry I'm late babe. Did I miss anything?"
"Well Max was kicking again…" Brennan smiled down at her stomach. Her father would have loved that she was naming her son after him. She wished her parents would have lived to meet their grandchild.
"Ugh, he's just like his dad…" Angela frowned as she poked Booth sarcastically.
Booth's phone rang, he stepped away to answer. Angela took a seat beside Brennan and placed a hand on her stomach to feel Max moving around. She smiled at their unborn son. She couldn't have imagined a better life.
"Cam sends her love… she's stuck in the lab finishing up a case for Zach. Seriously, ever since Zach took over for Goodman it's all work and no play," Booth whined. He knew Cam loved her job, but he missed seeing his wife. He was lucky if she came home for dinner.
Angela waved across the field at Hodgins and his girlfriend. Katherine's nephew played on the opposing team. Angela still couldn't believe he had finally gotten together with Agent Frost. She remembered what a stammering idiot he had been when Katherine had come in to help with a case ten years ago.
"Well, at least he's happy, " she thought as she kissed Brennan's cheek.
FIN! Comments ALWAYS welcome!
Previous Chapters:
Ch 1-4
Ch. 5-7
Ch. 8
Ch. 9
Ch. 10
Ch. 11