STRONG ENOUGH
This is a song-fic (my first song-fic by the way, hope I get it right) that takes place after Judas on a Pole. The song is Strong Enough by Sheryl Crow.
Disclaimer: I own nothing. Okay I own my stuff, trust me Bones is not mine. :::pouts::: Sheryl Crow's song doesn't belong to me either, don't really want it, but her talent sure would be nice.
A/N: This is something I came up with a while back. I'm still working on my other fic, had this lying around and thought it might tide you over. Enjoy. (I hope)
Chapter 1: An Ending
Booth's SUV
As Booth pulled up in front of Cam's place, he felt anxious, he wasn't sure why. There was just a feeling of needing to be anywhere else. Well not anywhere else! There was only one place he needed…wanted to be and it wasn't here. Cam wasn't the one he wanted to be with.
"Seeley, do you want to come up?" she smiled suggestively as she reached out and touched his arm.
He jumped as if he had been burned, then looked at her guiltily. "No Cam, I can't."
"Why not? Tomorrow's not a work day, you don't have Parker." She looked at him curiously, something wasn't quite right. "Come on up, we can talk."
"I said I can't. I need to be somewhere else." Booth turned in his seat, took a deep breath and continued "Cam, I'm sorry but I can't do this."
"Well, call me later and we can arrange another time to get together."
"No, I mean I can't do THIS anymore, us. It isn't fair to you or me and I can't keep doing this. When we first started seeing each other again, it was meant to be just recreational. Just for fun. That's what we agreed to."
"So you're not having fun anymore?" Cam's voice took on an edge to it. She knew that this had been brewing for a while now and that it would come to a head soon. She figured it was only a matter of time, that was confirmed for her when she saw Seeley and Brennan outside the dinner earlier.
"Cam this has absolutely nothing to do with you. I shouldn't have started it in the first place. Please you have to understand that I had no intention of hurting you." He was hoping that she would understand and not make things more difficult than necessary. "It's not fair to you to be seeing someone who there for you all the way, I'm not, I'm sorry."
Cam gathered her things and turned to look at him, her eyes a little sad. She had hoped that his feelings would change, that he would grow to feel about her the way that she felt about him. She realized that he would never feel that about her. Thinking back to a time not long after she came to the Jeffersonian when he told her: 'I'm with Bones, Cam, all the way. Don't doubt it for a second." Cam came to the realization that she had fooled herself, she had doubted. Still she had pushed him into this, it wasn't his fault. She gave a sigh and told him "Don't worry Seeley, I knew it was coming. It was fun while it lasted and I promise no hard feelings." With that she closed the door to his SUV and went into her apartment.
Booth sat there for a while thinking that had gone a lot better that he had any right to hope for. As he pulled away from the curb, he turned on the radio as he headed off to run a couple of errands and then go to where he really wanted to be.