A/N: This was written by Bridget and Serenity, with a special thanks to our friends, Willow, who came up with the title, and Heidi, who gave us some ideas.

Chapter 1:

The Bet

At six AM the alarm went off in Booth's apartment. Of course he didn't hear it until 15 minutes later. When he realized the time, he shot out of bed. Today he had a bet with Brennan on who could get to the work first. They had agreed to wake up at six, take a shower, go get breakfast at a bakery next to the Jeffersonian, and meet in her office. Whoever lost would have to buy lunch and dinner. Booth didn't want to lose this one; he knew that she would pick the most expensive thing on the menu just to annoy him.

Dammit he thought. He was late, as usual.

Booth quickly took a shower, put on his outfit he laid out the night before, and ran out the door. He went speeding down the highway. Thankfully few cops were out at this time. Booth reached the bakery. He didn't see Brennan's car and thought that she was running late too. He went in grabbed a donut, paid for it and ran back to his car. Along his way he ate the donut.

Five minutes later, Booth was at the Jeffersonian. Once again, he didn't see Brennan's car.

Yes! I may actually beat her this time! He thought.

As he ran to her office, thoughts came into his mind about her. Thoughts he shouldn't be having about his work partner. Sexual thoughts.

As soon as he reached her office, he decided to get the thoughts out of his head. Work relationships do not work out, especially the work he and Brennan did.

Look at how Cam turned out, she almost ended up dead. DEAD!! He could not bear Brennan dying.

Booth opened the door and saw no one. He had won the bet! But the second the thought come into his mind, he saw Brennan coming out from under her desk.

"Man, Bones! Why did you have to get my hopes up?" Booth sounded annoyed.

"Sorry Booth, I had to pick-up my necklace, it fell," Brennan said.

"Sure Bones, sure. Your necklace dropped. Uh-huh," Booth replied sarcastically.

"Yeah it did." She paused and Booth gave her a knowing look. "Okay, it didn't. But it was too good of an opportunity to pass up. How'd you know?"

"Bones, don't question my intelligence", Booth said knowing very well that she had that twinkle in her eyes that makes his blood run cold and his heart melt.

"Fine, I won't today. But it looks like I won once again," She said, using the smile she saved only for him.

"Yeah Bones. No need to rub it in. Do we have anything to do yet?"

"You bring me the cases crazy one. Remember?"

"Point taken. So do you want to go out to breakfast? All I had was a donut. I'm starved."

"Sure. Wanna go to the bakery and get something more?" Brennan asked.

"Ok, but you're buying. I have to pay for lunch and dinner, you pay for breakfast. It's only fair."

"Fine, but remember that I won the bet Seely Booth."

"You won once, but who says you're going to win again tomorrow?" Booth smiled at Brennan as they walked out of her office.

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It may not be the best first chapter, but please bear with us. It gets better (and longer).

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