Watching Bones

Don’t get me wrong, I’m excited about the potential Booth/Bones relationship that we’ve all been jonesing for, but I can’t help but wonder that when they finally DO get together that things will get weird. I have faith in the writers, so I’m hesitantly confident that whatever they come up with won’t suck. However, it IS a little odd, considering that for all the previous seasons we’ve been subtly reminded of workplace relationships gone wrong or the reason they’re a bad idea in the first place. Granted, the only “relationship gone wrong” that we’ve actually seen was Angela and Hodgins, and even they have managed to come to a working friendship (with dare I hope, a possibility of getting back together before it’s all said and done…) Then there’s Cam and Booth - a relationship that was pre-Bones and not technically work-related, but still…. Throughout the varying seasons it seems that the message comes across that Booth and Bones are destined to have an unrequited love relationship. I mentioned in an earlier post about how Booth told Bones that there are some people you just don’t sleep with.

I was watching another re-run just today and saw the same message again. In The Man in the Cell, after Booth pressured Cam to skip protocol and open a skull without doing the proper legwork, she ended up inhaling some toxin and almost died. Booth blamed himself for what happened (and almost happened) to Cam, and here’s the resulting conversation he had with Bones about it:

Booth: you know what happened to Cam happened because we had a personal relationship.
Bones: had?
Booth: yeah. People who work in high risk situations they can’t be involved romantically because it leads to things like what happened.
Bones: high risk situations?
Booth: every single day it’s with us. There’s this line, and we can’t cross it. You know what I’m saying?
Bones: yes. I understand.

I just can’t help but wonder how things would change if Booth and Bones truly get together. Remember how Bones reacted when Booth was kidnapped by the Gravedigger? When they figured out who the Gravedigger was and had them in custody, when they had figured out where Booth was and were about to rescue him, remember what Bones did? She picked up a briefcase and slammed it across the Gravedigger’s head. Not that I can say I’d have done it differently or that she shouldn’t have done it, but if THAT is the reaction she has for someone whom she ISN’T in a relationship with (technically), what would she do if/when they are?

Wasn’t that a great episode though - as good as the one where Bones was buried alive in the car with Hodgins and Booth’s reaction when he spotted the puff of dirt from the airbag explosion they created to signal their location… I may be skeptical about the fallout, but I’m excited. I can’t wait to see them together!