A/N: I'm gonna try and cover all of the senses. Most likely OOC. Brennan's POV, only short chapters, something I was doing whilst bored...please let me know what you think! Read and review =)
To know someone fully is to know someone with all of your senses.
Seeley Booth, for the most part, wears his heart on his sleeve. I can hear it in his voice. The human brain is a complex instrument, capable of hearing and processing the various nuances of speech immediately, allowing us to understand the full meaning of the words just spoken and so respond accordingly. Regardless of my brain's ability in certain bone-related areas, I am markedly slower at responding to these nuances effectively.
Seeley Booth is not. I learn from a master, the trade of speech and lies being second nature to him from his pre-Bones days in the FBI. I think that in the interrogation room, a lot of what he says or implies is not what he truly thinks. When he speaks to me, I know there is no such barrier. I feel the immense and raw pain in his voice when he admits facts from his past to me. I feel the love for his child when he speaks of him. I hear the respect he feels when he speaks of me. I feel anger, courage, fear, irony and other countless emotions when he speaks. It is as if each feeling has its own distinctive note, simultaneously threading through his voice when he speaks. I could identify his voice immediately. I can identify his footsteps and his breathing out of a million others. Since being with Booth I have learnt to better identify those speech nuances I was so unsure of.
Yes, Seeley Booth wears his heart on his sleeve. God help me if he tucks his heart into his chest, for I doubt I will be able to hear him as effectively as I do now.
This is what my ears tell me.