Lemons and Pie Chapter 1: Something IN The Way She Moves, a bones fanfic

It's been a month since the sniper case, a month since one of our own was taken. We sit at the diner together I with my pie and she with her salad and a water with two lemons. Earlier she was silently stealing fries from my plate, like old times. Everything changed with that one case, Hannah had moved out, I was depressed, the team was sad, I wasn't who I use to be after that case. I wasn't the man Hannah knew, but Bones knew all of me in my completeness.

"Booth?"

"Hhhmm?" I smile into her blue eyes.

"I have decided I would like to try some of the diner's cooked fruit." I chuckle lightly at her smiling. Who calls pie 'cooked fruit?' Only one person I know.

I take a fork full from my plate and hold it up to her as she opens her mouth and I feed her the pie. I watch her brow furrow as she contemplates the taste of "cooked fruit." She chews the pie swallowing then licks her lips looking up at me. Her eyes are so intensely blue so many shades of blue.

There's something in the way she moves,
Or looks my way, or calls my name,
That seems to leave this troubled world behind.
And if I'm feeling down and blue,
Or troubled by some foolish game,
She always seems to make me change my mind.

"I could have fed myself Booth." The 'th' of my last name is drawn out just a bit. I watch as she speaks. Staring at her she is unaware of my infatuation with her at the moment. I snap out of silent…Bones.

"Usually, this is where you tell me what you think of the pie Bones."

"Hhmm, in all actuality I'm surprised. I like it and I don't like my fruit cooked."

"Taste buds change Bones."

She stare at me a little girl smile grace her lips as she speaks. "Yes that's true people's taste change Booth, everything changes." I caught the metaphor immediately and wondered if she even knew she made it? Though, I don't think she even realized what she had said. Bones, she was so simple yet so smart all at once.

And I feel fine anytime she's around me now,
She's around me now
Just about all the time
And if I'm well you can tell she's been with me now,
She's been with me now quite a long, long time
And I feel fine.

I smile because it's the little things in life.

"Booth."

"Yeah Bones?"

"I know you tried to prevent what happened and it wasn't your fault Booth." Her voice lowers and she reaches her hand across the table placing it on mine. "You did what you had to do." We are both quiet I had missed my target our friend now gone. It was only later that everyone came together, well not really came together but it was later that the authorities caught the man.

We just stare at one another and speak with our eyes silently.

"Booth, I believe I may order a slice of cooked fruit next time." I squeeze her hand she return the gesture.

Every now and then the things I lean on lose their meaning
And I find myself careening
Into places where I should not let me go.
She has the power to go where no one else can find me
And to silently remind me
Of the happiness and the good times that I know, got to know.

I smile as I look into her eyes and she smile back for that's where hope lies. It's where blue skies meet the sunrise, those eyes take me as I am, and they don't know the word impossible. Those eyes are beautiful, they are my home.

She takes a lemon out of her drink and eats it making a face, I can't help smile as I look at her despite the past month.

"How can you eat that Bones?" she looks at me a bit odd.

"It's actually quite simple Booth. I use my hands to pick it up, bite into eat with my teeth and chew swallowing it. The food travels down my esophagus and into my stomach where I'm able to digest it."

It isn't what she's got to say
But how she thinks and where she's been
To me, the words are nice, the way they sound
I like to hear them best that way
It doesn't much matter what they mean
If she says them mostly just to calm me down

"I meant how can you eat it when it tastes so sour." She looks at me with those eyes and smiles a knowing lopsided grin.

"People's taste buds are different everything changes Booth, you said so yourself." She smiles as she grabs the second lemon and holds it out to me. "Try it I tried the cooked fruit." I smile and take the lemon.