Disclaimer: I don't own anything to do with "Bones" nor am I making any sort of profit from this little fic.

Summery: A missing bit from "Aliens in a Space Ship". B/B An add on to the scene between Cam and Booth on the balcony after discussing the situation with the ransom. A twist I think the episode really needed.

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"Booth, I don't think it's a coincidence that he took Brennan when he did."

"Yeah, I was kinda thinking the same thing." he replied, turning to leave, only to stop in his tracks seconds later. "Cam?"

"Yeah?"

"What you said earlier...about us not cheating, not hurting anyone...that's not..." he stumbled over his words, roughly running his fingers through his hair. "Just because she doesn't know that I lo... that I have feelings for her... I know how I feel, my heart knows. It feels like cheating... to me, and I can't keep... I guess that's why I didn't push more for our relationship to be public. If she knows..."

"Seeley, wha... 'she' who? I wasn't aware you were seeing seeing someone else." Cam said responding to his jumbled ramblings, looking annoyed.

Booth made no signs of answering her for several long seconds, but stood staring out over the lab below. He spotted Angela sitting solemnly at Hodgins desk running her fingers over his work area, as if trying to unlock a mystery that could help them find the two dearly missed squints. He saw Angela, thinking she was unobserved, use the back of her hand to wipe a wayward tear from her eye. He knew he wasn't the only one regretting his unuttered feelings for someone. He glanced back at Cam, weighing the consequences of his next words.

"I'm not actually seeing her, per se, but... I was waiting, for what, I don't know... but now, I realize, none of us have that much time. We've gotta use what time we've got and make it... make it the best we can."

"I don't believe this." Cam smirked. "Are you talking about who I think you're talking about? Because the two of you..."

"Bones." he said cutting her off. "Temperance... I have to tell her how much I... care about her. When I find her, I'm gonna tell her."

"I see." Cam said, looking stunned. "So this thing with us?"

"I can't anymore." he explained. "And I know I can't keep you from saying anything to her about what we've been..."

"No." she cut him off. "What we had doesn't mean anything in the big scheme of things. She won't hear anything from me."

Instead of offering any sort of verbal response, Booth simply nodded his head once in acknowledgement of her statement, as his thanks.

"Just make sure you tell her how you feel. Everybody deserves to know that they're... cared for." she smiled, having caught his almost slip up with the 'L' word moments earlier.

"I promise. It's the first thing I'm gonna tell her when I find her." he smiled, thinking about just how to tell his forensic anthropologist that he couldn't live another day without her knowing what she ment to him. He would tell her when he found her. And he knew he would find her, he had to, he wouldn't accept anything else.

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