"I know." He stated with a shrug and adjusted the ice on the swelling wound. "I've been thinking about a few things that we need around here. " He stated but he didn't go into more detail and trailed off as a sudden shooting pain made him wince when he went to move his arm and lean against the counter. His eyes steadily watching Andrew with curiosity. "Yeah. This is the first time I've even been able to get inside since noon." He'd been out in the field all day. Dealing with a shiny new murder case that landed itself on his desk in the morning.
When he got back that wasn't even the end of it. There were conflictions with the witness' statements that he was silently running through in his mind as he stood there and tried to relax. That was one of the other downsides of the job. Until a case was closed or finished one way or the other, Booth found it difficult to focus on anything else inbetween. Like his mental health.
"Going to make some coffee. Want any?" He asked as he nodded. "Yeah. Can't always avoid getting hurt, but I'm not going to sit down and let it stay that way when it happens. "