Not Fair

22.5 hours after the events of "From the Other Side"

"You know you're being a big baby right? The silent treatment is very childish."

"You broke my damn nose Temperance, what you think I'm going to kiss your feet and make you pancakes or something"

"It's your own fault. My breasts are apparently not good enough. Have to stare at Angela's. You should just go be with her. Heaven knows she thinks you're 'hot stuff!'"

"Give me a break Bones. You know exactly how highly I regard your twins. It was surprise more than anything that had me looking and when you add to that the fact that I am a hot blooded, alpha-male, when a woman flashes her boobs at me biology tends to take over and I cant really not look. Doesn't mean you get to hit me, I would never do that to you and you know it."

"Like you could hurt me. I'd kick your ass!"

"Army Ranger here, I'm not exactly a push over, but whatever Bones. The point is that you hurt me. I didn't even try to stop you because I was afraid that I could accidentally hurt you in the process. Apparently, you don't care about me in the same way. Here I am walking around with this ungodly thing strapped across my face sounding like Darth Vader when I breathe!"

"Who is Dar…?"

"Just forget it Bones. It doesn't matter. I'm going to go for a run. I'll be back in a couple of hours."

"Don't go…your right. I'm sorry." She returned in nearly a whisper.

"What did you say?"

She sighed and said a little louder "I said that you are right and that I'm sorry. I should never have hit you and I won't do it again."

"I'm, I'm right? I never get to be right. Who are you and what did you do with my Bones?"

"If you stay I promise I'll make it up to you."

"Um, what did you have in mind?"

"Something you like a lot, something that would most likely get us kicked out of this hospital if we got caught doing it."

"Spell it out for me Bones."

"Um, ok, F-E-L-L-A-T-I-O" she said clinically.

"Bones, way to ruin it, I didn't mean actually spell it out."

"Then why did you say that then?"

"You know, dirty talk, sexual innuendo, or better yet body language; like licking some of that pudding off a finger."

"Like this?"

Cough, cough, sputter, "Um, yea… yea… that's not bad"

"So, are you going to stay?"

"I'm leaning that way, yea"

"Do you think you can forgive me?" She says as she sucks a little more pudding off another finger

"Yea, sure, of course, forgive you for what now?"

"and I could kick your ass, right?" she asks just before cleaning another finger.

"Um, yea, you could kick my ass. Wait, no. Stop that Bones, that's not fair"