Angela Montenegro (
bringonthewonder) wrote2008-09-24 10:50 pm
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Jail Visit -- Booth
No one said taking a stand was going to be fun. But Angela expected it to be a little less . . . boring than this.
There's just not much to do in a jail cell.
Which is probably why she is, at the moment, doing something that very vaguely resembles the Charleston.
There's just not much to do in a jail cell.
Which is probably why she is, at the moment, doing something that very vaguely resembles the Charleston.
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She's seen all the evidence, after all.
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If he says anything, it will be, "God, I hope not." And that's not OK, under the circumstances.
It's also more of a prayer than he's really comfortable with. It's best that it stays in his head, all things considered.
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She's not entirely sure what she's apologizing for. Maybe all of it -- that he can't decline to testify, that she can, that her coworkers are good at their jobs, that the whole bitch of situation exists anyway.
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Booth sighs. "But there's always a chance, isn't there?"
It would be much easier to root for that chance if he weren't a hundred percent sure that Max Keenan had killed Kirby.
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"I mean, there'd have to be one hell of a curveball coming. Like . . . oh, I don't know, like a sweeps month stunt on a TV show sort of curveball."
And how likely is that?
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Regardless of what a group of experts thinks should happen, who wins, what the outcomes are.
It's the legal system, after all, not college football rankings.
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He shrugs. "I think we're just so used to winning. And being on the right side. If that makes sense."
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"We're good, Booth. We're good at what we do."
They don't go to court without pretty strong cases.
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She pauses, and then gives Booth a wry smile.
"Hey, I'm the incarcerated one, here. Aren't I supposed to be the glum one? Shouldn't you be cheering me up or something?"
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"I thought I was just supposed to keep you from being bored to death."
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"Death by boredom has got to count as cruel and unusual."
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And those would be bad.
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That is so not going to happen.