Queen Of The Lab~Jack Hodgins Love Story~ Olivia Anne Brennan Series~ Book #3

~Trouble~

Jack left Olivia's late last night. They watched an entire season of Friends. When she woke up she got a call from her sister on her work phony. That was unusual. Temperance would always call on the personal phone.
"Hey what's up."
"Get in my office now!"
Temperance yelled loudly than hung up. Olivia looked down at the time. It was early. She quickly got dressed in her cloths like always and drove. She ran into her sisters office. Temperance looked at her with a disapproving look. Olivia already knew what she was going to say. In some of Olivia's observations about her sister and Lance's interactions, that Temperance feels a motherly instinct towards him.
   "I'm sorry for what I said to the shrink but he's a big boy he's going to have to learn without your help sis."
Olivia said slowing. She was nervous because Temperance could make her life a living hell.
Temperances lips pursed trying to say something when there was a knock on the door. Both of the sisters heads turned to face the person who knocked. Olivia's eyes widened and so did Temperances.
"What are you doing her Casey?"
Temperance asked with slight anger in her vocal cords. Olivia already knew what he was doing here. Olivia got out of her seat.
   "I'm here to see Liv."
He said pointing at Olivia I'm a confused manner. Temperance was also confuse and looking at Olivia.
   "Let's go to my office Casey."
Olivia sighed walking across the long lab, shutting the door behind Casey. She sat in her rolling chair.
Casey stood standing.
   "You just left."
He said sadly. He didn't want to fight with her, but where the conversation might lead would result in a fight.
   "Yeah I had to take care of something for the FBI."
Olivia replied meaning her psych evaluation. But she didn't want to say she saw a shrink, because in her mind people who see shrinks are weak.
   "Okay but you could've called."
He said shaking his head at Olivia.
   "Look Casey I love you and that night was amazing but I'm trying to get out of the past and set a new life for me."
   "Oh so you just came for a fix up? Now you're all good?"
Casey asked meanly and I'ma sharp tone.
   "Look Casey you know me better than my sister so you know I feel bad about this-"
       "Bullshit!"
He cut her off.
  "Don't pull that crop on me Olivia. I know you and this kind of shit is what made you pull away in the first place. Because you couldn't handle commitment."
He yelled at her. Olivia jumped at of her seat in anger.
  "I left because you were to busy fucking your best friend! That night was a moment of weakness for the both of us. You losing your sister fun alt caught up with you and myself included since she was like a sister to me."
A single clear tear slowly rolled down Olivia's cheek.
"I never want you in my life. It's to much drama. The on and off again drives me nut and you drive me nuts."
Casey spoke slowly. Olivia nodded. Not in total agreement but agreeing that she never wants to see him again. Casey walks to the door and opens it. He pauses and slightly turns his head like he was to say something.
   "Call me Liv when you're ready to actually love someone."
His words cut her heart like a dagger clicking into flesh. Olivia stood there long after Casey had possibly vanished from her life. She felt her phone start to ring.    
   "Brennan."
She said answering the work phone. She tried to hold back the tears from the fight Casey had broken out between them.
   "Agent Brennan come to my office."
A grumpy old man said on the other line of the phone. Grumpy since he was Olivia's boss.
    "Yes Sir."
The man hung up on the phone making Olivia's left foot step in front heading to the Head Quarters. She passed Jacks office and saw him working with something. She wanted to stop but she kept waking passed, but he was watching her smiling to himself. When Olivia knocked on the door she heard a gunshot. Her mind races woh information of the gun just based on the sound. She turned around quickly to see a man behind her bleeding. He looked at Olivia. He was coughing blood, and there was blood streaming out his nose and chest. He fell to the ground, and almost at the same time so did Olivia. She fell to her knees looking at him. She tried to get him to stay alive while everyone rushed around.
   "Stay with me."
She whispered looking at his mouth when it opened. He spoke softly so Olivia leaned in to hear what he was saying.
  "Tell her I loved her."
The strange man whispered to Olivia softly before his eyes closed permanently. She heard the office door creak open behind her. A man touched her shoulders.
  "It's okay Olivia."
Olivia didn't recognize the voice since she was to busy worrying about where the shot came from. Seely stepped infront of her to see if she was okay, nodding to himself as he saw no entry wound.
     "Get the team."
Olivia whispered half not knowing she was speaking what she was thinking but snapping back into reality when Seely walked away. She stood up off her knees covered in blood, but not caring since this was only one of many times blood was on her. She looked around the room, mainly the shuddered glass not be floor.
"No one step on any glass!!"
She yelled loudly needing the glass to remain in tact. She walked around the shuddered pieces on the floor and realized they made a shape. A bee. A actual bumble bee was made out of glass by a gunshot. Olivia scrunched her face tracing the pieces of glass back to the original spot before the shot came, to figure out the guns point of origin. She head a rush of people running up the stairs, probably afraid to use the elevator she thought. Seely was the first one pointing at Olivia so everyone could see her. Temperance came running knowing not to step on any of the glass. She hugged her sister in a deep embrace.
"Oh my god Liv are you okay?"
Temperance asked with a tear rolling down her cheek. She didn't know what to say, so Olivia nodded her head yes to signal she was fine. Angela hugged her from the side.
"Sweetie I'm so sorry."
She whispered helping Temperance and Cam transport the body to the morgue. Jack stared at her, his blue eyes burning Olivia's already melted heart of iron. She hugged her and sighed.
"Talk to me Olivia."
He pressed his forehead to hers looking deeply in her eyes.
"Jack I'm fine really just go see if you can help them. "
She sighed as the words she didn't want to say came out of her mouth. She meant to say anything but what she said. Trying to be nicer, and open up more like Lance told her and also everyone else in the world. She says down and looked at the glass more noticing a bumblebee once again thinking it strange.
"Tempe?"
Olivia croaked her sisters name to see if she was the only one that saw the insect shapes pattern in the gunshot-broken glass.
"What's up Liv?"
Temperance asked turning her body sideways to let Olivia she was paying attention to her words.
"The glass shape is a bumblebee."
She said with a shake in her voice making Temperance head turn quickly to verify.
"What does this mean?"
Mr.Abernathy asked, seeming like he came out of the shadows.
"It means we're in trouble."
Olivia whispered softly. She could only think of the first time she got stung by the bumble bee and died. The first time and almost the last.

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Normal is just an illusion
What's normal for the spider
Is chaos for the fly