*Authors Note*

Hey guys just wanted to write my own version of a Booth and Bones story. It's my first time writing a story on FanFiction, although I've read many stories, and I'm a little nervous!

Story Summary: When Booth comes returns from Afghanistan, he comes back with a girl who isn't Hannah. Booth and Bones still have feelings for each other, but will things get even more complicated when a man returns from Bones's past? Read to find out!

First Encounter

Chapter 1.

This is so irrational. Why am I so nervous? It's just Booth, right?

Dr. Temperance Brennan sat at their table at their diner. She knew she shouldn't be, but she was very anxious to meet her partner and best friend after a long year apart. She knew, of course, that the past year was exactly as long as every other year, except for leap years, but for illogical reasons, it dragged on and on. Could it have been the absence of her partner? Well, there were a great many things it could have been...But something told her that the reason she had been yearning to return home was because of how much she missed Special Agent Seeley Booth of the FBI.

She tried to distract herself from the extreme nervous anticipation of Booth's arrival by observing the human interactions and objects around her. But it didn't work for long, because almost immediately, she saw a young waitress serving a piece of cherry pie. Booth's favorite pie. She wasn't aware that her face had turned up into a nostalgic and adorable grin. He had always tried convince her how great pie was. She had acted annoyed by his perseverance in the matter, but she had always found it kind of endearing...

Lost in her thoughts, she didn't notice the tall and handsome man approach her table.

"Hey, Bones."

As she felt her face turning a bright red shade, she looked up at Booth. Her embarrassment wasn't born out of surprise, but instead from her appreciation of the handsome features that she hadn't seen in so long. Without thinking, Bones jumped up in an effort to wrap her arms around Booth's broad shoulders, as he wrapped his around her waist.

"God I've missed you, Bones," he said, embraced in the tight hug.

Without replying, Bones couldn't help but take in the moment. The smell of his rich cologne filling her nostrils and his toned muscles squeezing around her overwhelmed her senses and made her choke on her words.

"I...I've missed you too, Booth." More than I ever thought possible.

Pulling away from the embrace, Booth quickly sat down as Bones washed the look of loss off her face.

"So Bones, what's new?"

Softly grinning at the lightness of his conversation choice, she couldn't help but feel more at ease. She knew she could always find comfort with Booth. It's just Booth, relax.

Nudging her arm to get her attention, Booth woke her up from her reverie.

"Your head in up in the clouds or something, Bones?" he said.

"I don't know what that means," she replied, confused as usual by his common phrases. "If a human being's cranium were to ascend that high into the atmosphere, they would soon lose consciousness due to the shortage and thin quality of the oxy-"

"Same old Bones," he interrupted jokingly. God, I've missed her. What have I been doing without her genius of all things science and ignorance of all things normal? He was having trouble concentrating. He hadn't forgotten that she was beautiful; he had simply forgotten just how beautiful. Her hair was still as dark and illustrious as ever, framing her pale heart-shaped face perfectly. And her eyes, oh her eyes were even more enchanting than he remembered. Two bright pools of blue sucking him in like twin whirlpools. Damn it, Booth! Stop!

Time went by, hours or minutes, neither were sure, but both were too wrapped up in each others conversation to notice. It was both different, and the same from how it had been before. It was the same because of the familiarity and the closeness they had with each each other, but it was also different. Different because it seemed so much more intimate and couple-like than it had before. But neither of them minded. In fact, both of them enjoyed the new intimacy they found with each other.

After a while they simply stopped talking. Not out of awkwardness or embarrassment, but just out of closeness. They didn't need to fill the space with talking; they just needed to be with each other. That was enough.

Neither even turned when approaching footsteps were heard. So they were completely blindsided by the blond woman that all but tackled Booth. And to Booth's chagrin and Bones's pain, she kissed him full on the lips and said, "Oh, Seeley, baby, I missed you so much!"