While I am working on the next few chapters of Quarantine, I thought of this little one after watching a snippet of Celebrity Family Feud and decided to try and see how Booth and Hodgins would react to one particular answer given by the actress Sherri Shepherd. Here is the result. I hope you enjoy it. Gregg.

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Booth and Hodgins didn't have much in common, but over the years they had developed a real friendship along the lines of a couple of common interests. One of those interests was standup comedy. Neither of them had the guts to try and do it themselves, but they loved to listen to good stand up. Their all-time favorite was the Kings of Comedy headlined by the late Bernie Mac. Also, in that famous comedy foursome was Steve Harvey. While all four were comedy geniuses in their opinion, Harvey was their favorite. Thus, every time they had a chance, they watched Harvey on the game show Family Feud. That was what they were doing tonight. It was a new episode of Celebrity Family Feud, and the two main celebrities were Ian Ziering and Sherri Shepherd.

Tonight, they were in Booth's luxury Man Cave that Bones had made sure he had in the new house once they had cleared him of the charges and found the real traitor who had been responsible for the death of Sweets. It was a class act, and Booth made damn good use of it during the weekends when major sporting events were on. He had a mini-hot dog stand and bun warmer, too, so the snacks were top notch.

"Hot dog?" he asked Hodgins.

Hodgins was in his wheelchair and rolled over to the hot dog stand.

"Definitely," he said, practically salivating at the sight. Booth had every condiment and topping imaginable! "I want onions, 'kraut, jalapeno peppers, and nacho cheese on mine."

"I think Angela might have a few choice words for you when your stomach reacts to all that," Booth said as he layered on the goodies that Hodgins had requested.

"That's the beauty of it," Hodgins replied as he wheeled back over to his spot with his fully loaded hot dog. "Angie is in Texas for a few days visiting that sadistic freak of a father, and I can let it all hang out!" He took a large bite and sighed in gastronomic pleasure and delight.

Booth chuckled as he loaded up his dog and took a seat on his leather Flyers couch. Turning on the mammoth flat panel screen, he punched in the channel for their show and sat back. It was about fifteen minutes until it started, but some old reruns of the classic show Joker's Wild were running all week, and Booth had loved that show as a kid. He was really looking forward to when Bones would get home tonight. She had taken the kids to the movies, which had allowed he and Hodgins to have a Family Feud fest in the Man Cave. Bones had let him know that she was interested in having a little Interrogation Room role playing in bed that night since the kids would be wiped out after the movies. While he loved the idea, he had had to be convinced to let Bones take on the role of the "interrogator". For some reason the idea of Bones interrogating him was a bit unnerving, but Bones was a veritable Siren when it came to getting her way on the subject of sex, so he had caved rather rapidly and told her that she was the interrogator.

After a few minutes of enjoying the old show, it ended and their favorite one came on. It was a new episode, and they both loved the Celebrity version. Harvey was in fine form and introduced the two celebrity groups headed by Ian Ziering and Sherri Shepherd. Ian and Sherri were called up, and then it happened. It was absolutely hideous! The pure horror of it was absolutely too massive to overstate it! It was one, small fun question. What would a female police officer do to her husband in the bedroom? There were questions like this all the time that allowed for some good-natured laughs and not a small bit of fantasy development. All that came crashing down when Sherri won the buzzer and shouted out her answer.

"CUT HIS PENIS OFF!"

Hodgins started choking on the mouthful of his loaded hot dog, while Booth sprayed the mouthful of soda that he had been in the process of drinking all over the screen of his beautiful wall sized flat screen television. Both could feel their best buddies tucking in, shriveling up, and going into hiding! Hodgins was reviewing the state of affairs with Angie and praying that there was nothing that was pissing her off. He quickly got rid of the loaded up hot dog, not daring to take a chance that his stomach would create some rather disgusting sounds and odors in the Hodgins happy home. Neither were feeling very hungry anymore, and both were beginning to seriously rethink the whole issue of roleplaying. Booth had always felt that it was a pretty pathetic way to get it going in the bedroom, but a few scenarios over the years with Bones had been fun. Now, though, he was putting his foot down! He just knew that whenever Bones brought up the idea of a little roleplaying fun he would remember good old Sherri's answer and have visions of Bones taking one of the wickedly sharp knives she had on display in their bedroom from her archaeological digs, and go to town on poor Junior down there!

"I think this pretty much kills Family Feud fests," Hodgins squeaked.

"I am in serious trouble," Booth said, a hint of fear and dread in his voice. "Bones was talking about playing a little Interrogation Room tonight after the kids hit the sack, and she convinced me to let her be the Interrogator!"

Logically, of course, the guys knew that their significant others would never hack off the crown jewels and the royal scepter, but just the image that the answer had conjured was enough to make them cringe, cross their legs, and whimper in abject terror. There was only two things to do in the face of this horrific nightmare. First, swear off anymore watching of that show of total psychotic terror: Family Feud! Second, was to totally swear off of any kind of sexual roleplaying from now till the end of time given the images that they would be seeing in their minds during said activities!

Hodgins left a short bit after that, leaving Booth to do some thinking about this horrid state of affairs. "Cut his penis off!" kept ringing through his mind as he wondered how to deal with this nightmare. He picked up his phone and sent a short text message to Bones.

Not feeling well. Night of fun cancelled. BTW roleplaying is no longer an acceptable activity.

It may only be just some bad dreams and images his mind conjures up, but that didn't mean that he wouldn't be a bit gun shy in the sex department for a while. He was well aware that Junior was going to be a definite no show tonight, and perhaps for a few nights. Now he had to figure out how to convince her that he hadn't taken leave of his senses before she got home with the kids and demanded some answers. He mentally surveyed all the possible arguments he could give, and unfortunately they all boiled down to some psychological gobbledygook which would only send Bones on a tear about the utter uselessness of soft sciences and then a lengthy lecture on why the hard sciences were the only way to go. Hard being the principle point in such a lecture.

After spending a few minutes cleaning off the soda sprayed flat screen TV in the Man Cave, he went to the bedroom to check and see just how sharp all those artifacts really were. If need be, he would spend some time making them dull as butter knives. No point in taking any chances, was there? All the while he began considering what other shows to watch to take the place of Family Feud. There was no way he was going to watch that horror show ever again!

A/N: There will be one more chapter to this one. I decided to extend it one more chapter to see his confrontation with Bones. I hope you all enjoyed this one. Stay safe. Gregg.