Well, as many who follow my writing know, I love song fics. This is a three parter, each based on a different song. This is 'Everything you want' - Vertical Horizon. Great song.
He brought her a glass of red wine and she smiled warmly.
"Thank you." She took a long sip. Trying to ignore the empty feeling in her chest. Trying and desperately wishing she wanted to push thoughts of someone else out of her clouded mind.
"Hey," The man took his hand and ran it gently across her cheek. "You okay? You seem a little…distracted."
She sighed, looking in to his brown eyes, seeing how flooded with concern they were, and felt with guilt that she just didn't care.
"It's been a hard case."
"I know."
"I just can't wrap my mind around someone doing such horrendous things to another person." She shook her head and dropped it, exhaustion and sadness taking over.
He watched this change take place and felt an immense need to help her. Protect her. He took both their glasses of wine and set them on the table. Then he reached for her and pulled her to his chest, wrapping his arms around her.
"I'll always be here for you Tempe."
She nodded and looked up at him. Her blue eyes captivated his whole soul and he couldn't help but lean down and push his lips against hers.
Somewhere there's speaking
It's already coming in
Oh and it's rising at the back of your mind
You never could get it
Unless you were fed it
Now you're here and you don't know why
"David, stop." Brennan said, as she slowly pushed him away.
"I'm sorry, I don't really feel well tonight." She added quickly, noting the hurt in his face.
"Oh. Okay." He pulled his arms back from her and reached for the wine, downing it in one gulp.
She watched him. Why was this so hard all of a sudden? She liked David, didn't she? He was smart, funny and sweet. He wanted so badly for her to love him. There was just…something holding her back.
"Is it Agent Booth?"
But under skinned knees and the skid marks
Past the places where you used to learn
You howl and listen
Listen and wait for the
Echoes of angels who won't return
Temperance laid her eyes on him harshly.
"What do you mean 'is it Booth'? I'm just tired. That's all David. I'm not thinking about another man, especially not one that is my partner. I'm just…tired." She grabbed her glass and headed over to the CD player to look through her music.
Her eyes landed on Foreigner.
David watched her move away from him. She was upset. But how could he not ask? How could he not suspect that her mind was really with someone else?
He rose and walked up behind her.
"I'm sorry Tempe."
He's everything you want
He's everything you need
He's everything inside of you
That you wish you could be
He says all the right things
At exactly the right time
But he means nothing to you
And you don't know why
Brennan didn't hear David speaking to her. Her mind was somewhere else, with someone else.
She saw his face. His charm smile and his thick brown hair. She was feeling his strong arms around her in a time of need. His soothing words in her ears telling her everything would be 'okay'. She felt herself believing him.
"Tempe…"
You're waiting for someone
To put you together
You're waiting for someone to push you away
There's always another wound to discover
There's always something more you wish he'd say
"Sorry David, I just was off in my own world for a minute." She turned around and smiled, but David didn't return it.
"I'm right aren't I?" He crossed his arms and moved closer. Involuntarily Brennen moved back, she didn't realize how much she liked her personal space when David was around.
"Right about what?" Brennen put down her drink again and frowned with indignation.
"You're thinking about him again Tempe! I can see it in your eyes."
But you'll just sit tight
And watch it unwind
It's only what you're asking for
And you'll be just fine
With all of your time
It's only what you're waiting for
"You are unbelievable David!" Tempe marched passed him and paced around the room behind the couch while he paced in front of it. "I invited you over because I thought having drinks with you might calm my nerves after such a hard case but now I see I was wrong."
"Well, I thought we were together. I thought you were my girlfriend, but I can't be with someone who's heart is already with someone else!"
"We're just partners!"
"In what?!" David stood nose to nose with her now. They had met at one end of the room and their silhouettes shone clearly through the window on the curtains, allowing the outside world to be in on their private conversation.
"What do you mean?" Brennan was momentarily taken aback. Partners in law enforcement. What else?
"I mean, Temperance, that 'yes' he is you're partner in the FBI, and 'yes' he is you're friend, but I get the feeling there's more. I get the feeling that…" He took a deep breath, as they both stood down from their defensive postures, "that you are partners in more than just crime fighting. You're partners in life."
"That's ridiculous." Tempe started to turn away, but David caught her elbow.
"Is it really? Who do you hug when you're scared? Who do you call when you're lonely? Whose voice do you long to hear from you're doorway at the lab? Whose…" his voice faltered, "whose arms do you wish you were in at night?"
Finally he looked up at her and her blue eyes widened.
Oh my God, he's right. Booth. It's Booth. It's always been Booth.
Brennan uncrossed her arms and held them limply at her sides.
Then, dropping her head she said, "I…I'm sorry David. You're right. I'm... I'm not in love with you."
David reached out for her shoulders, this time she didn't shrink away.
"I know Temperance. But it's really okay." He pulled her into a stiff, plutonic hug, which she returned. "Booth's a good man. He'll take care of you."
"You think?" She asked softly, her head still resting on his shoulder.
"I know."
Out of the island
Into the highway
Past the places where you might have turned
You never did notice
But you still hide away
The anger of angels who won't return
Booth stood in front of Brennen's apartment on the sidewalk. He'd come by to talk to her, knowing how much the latest case had upset her.
She tried to hide it, but wasn't able to when it came to him. He hated the thought of her being alone at a time like this. That was why he'd decided to drop by.
He had a piping hot bag of take out in one hand and a six-pack in the other as he made his way to her apartment door. He glanced up at her window to see if the lights were still on and if she was awake.
It was then that he saw it.
Up in the window, two silhouettes stood inches from each other. One was quite obviously Brennen, her curvy shape outlined perfectly. The other, a man, made Booth want to hurl the pack beer in his hand across the street.
She was with him.
"David." Booth spat the word like it held a bad taste. He had only recently come to terms with his feelings for Brennen, though he'd been careful not to let anything change too much between them. Still, he hated that she was there with him.
He'd thought the time was coming, very soon, for him to make his move. Do or die, sink or swim he was going to tell her how he felt. But now…
The two shadowy figures had just melted together into one. Booth felt his heart sink to the ground.
I am everything you want
I am everything you need
I am everything inside of you
That you wish you could be
I say all the right things
At exactly the right time
He took one last look up at the apartment window, but the figures had left his view. Booth shut his eyes to the thought of what they were probably now doing. He pushed it away and found that he didn't even have the energy to be angry.
What was he going to do? Run up there and bang on her door? She'd be angry at him for being irrational and jealous. She would tell him to go away. They were only partners after all.
Booth let his gaze drop to the ground and his shoulders slumped.
Why do I let you do this to me Bones? Why do you make it so hard to love?
He shook his head, trying to regain some of the confidence she had unknowingly just zapped from him. He walked to her door and placed the beer and food in front of it, then ran back to his car as fast as he could fly. Turning the key in the ignition, he sped away toward his own apartment, and his own beer.
Unfortunately, the pain in his heart only got worse the further he drove.
But I mean nothing to you and I don't know why
I don't know why
"Bye David." Tempe pecked him on the cheek and opened the door. He nodded and moved out of it quickly, only to send himself crashing against the wall opposite her door.
"Oh my gosh David are you alright?" Brennan knelt beside him.
"Yea, yea I'm fine. I just tripped over…" he moved aside slightly and pulled a crushed take out bag from some place called Wong Fu's out from under him and a six-pack of beer from behind his back. "What the…?"
Brennan looked at the bag, then the beer then at David. Suddenly her eyes widened with understanding and she took off running down the hall.
She burst through the door that led outside and called out into the night.
"Booth?" She waited, but there was no answer.
"Booth!?" She tried again, and again, nothing.
She searched the dark street for any sign of his black SUV or his broad shouldered shadow. But there was none and she felt her heart shatter.
There was suddenly a warm hand on her shoulder.
"I'm sorry Tempe."
She nodded slowly and turned to move back into her apartment.
"Me too."
Is that it? Does she just let him leave??? TBC...