"So how long have you been together?"
That would be the fifth (and still counting) time someone has asked us that, hell her own father asked the same question twice to both Bones and me.
"Why do people always assume we're together? It's like the whole Jake Gyllenhaal and Reese Witherspoon thing, well, before they actually got together. God, I'm watching way too much TMZ."
Beside our unknown mistake of acting like a couple (which and for the last time is UNKNOWN to either of us) I had to say something embarrassing like that in front of a family friend, well, at lest it's better then saying in front of a suspect or my boss.
(I highly doubt I would have a job if I emitted any of that, or my manhood in tact)
That friend being the one and only Chloe Sullivan, I say that not because I have the hots for the cute little blond (age is the only thing holding us back at this point) but because she's the one that saved me from the vast numbers of computer crashes and even more computer crashes. And for that I owe her everything (or at lest a tour of where the squints do their magic)
"Booth, I had no idea you watched that show, me too, along with twenty present of the women population, good for you!" (dripped in so much sarcasm she's up to her eyeballs in it)
(I take that back about her being the 'one and only')
"I don't know what that means?"
"It's okay, Bones, you really don't need to."
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"Thanks for the tour, Booth, but I think I could have went on living without seeing any corpses (I've been one myself too many times) but thanks anyway."
She got the number one tour (and the only one, Connor does not need to see where I work) and was in the front row to the show that is Bones and Booth, bickering like an old married couple and then making up, which we always have to and need to do each and every day.
(sadly both Brennan and Chloe told me this over and over again until my gun 'accidentally' came out of my holder)
"Hey Booth? I bet that one day they won't think your together anymore."
"And how would that happen, Chlo? ('little' as always burned on my tongue to get out but if it had I might not have one anymore)"
This was something I thought would never happen (or when hell froze over) because everyone saw each thing we did not as friends but as flirting (I can see why, I once thought the same way) or only when we aren't partners anymore, which was a thought that neither one of us ever came to, because what is Booth without his Brennan?
"When your really together. (which looks like that might happen sooner then you think)"
(and know what? I agree with every single word)