Hey all you Fanfic readers. This story is sort of a continuation of Keep on trying, If you haven't read keep on trying, no biggie. It will still make sense. (Read the bottom 'just so you know')

If you have read keep on trying, well it's a continuation of the emotion and feelings that I started there.

Main cast: the squints.

B&B

Parker!

Rebecca

Jared Booth

Caroline Julian!

Max Keenan

JUST SO YOU KNOW

Right before this story in Keep on trying, Brennan and Parker were taken by the Gravedigger. Who turned out to be the Reporter Janie O'Connell who since then has been sent to prison awaiting a trial. Tomas Vega was also sent to jail as an accomplice. Right before the story ended there were a few important things that happened. The first being that Brennan chose to stay in D.C instead of moving to London and taking a job there. The other was that Brennan was prepared to die for Parker if Booth did not find them.

Basically that's all you really need to know if you are just starting this story from the here. But if you want to know more read Keep on Trying, ; )

Disclaimer: Do not own it, do not write for it, and don't even know anyone who does. It is not mine, its Fox's & Hart Hanson's.

Rating is for language cause in real life people swear! Not that I swear every two words but….it happens.

Possibly MAJOR SPOILERS WARNING TO ANYONE WHO WANTS TO KNOW NOTHING ABOUT JARED BOOTH

"So let me get this straight. You're living together."

Both heads nod trying to figure out where the Doc was going with this so that they could head him off before he started to say anything that would make things uncomfortable.

"So, you're dating?"

"NO." They both say it to fast, to loud and Sweets was a trained psychologist-not that you needed a degree to figure out what was going on between the two partners.

"But you're living together?"

"Not always." Temperance Brennan answers the Doc. trying not to look at her partner. Was it just a few minutes ago that before they came in Booth had warned her to not say anything to Sweets about their current situation. Nevertheless, as always Temperance filled the silence by what she had thought would be a benign piece of information that they could talk about lightly until their hour was up. She was usually right, but when she was wrong, she was very, very wrong.

"Define not always." Sweets could not believe what was happing less than a month after he had advised Agent Booth to go and tell his partner that she should stay here and still be his partner. He expected a kiss, maybe a date, but living together?! Lance Sweets thought that he was a genius.

"Well sometimes I do stay at my own apartment and Booth stays at his." She says crossing her arms.

"But…"Sweet's prods.

"But…what?" She mocks him not liking this line of questioning.

Booth speaks up trying to figure out if he could stop her from punching him without hurting her. "I told him about the nightmares Bones."

"WHAT?"

"Tempe, I'm sorry but when you stay at my place I wake up at one in the morning only to hear you screaming and when you do stay at your house then I get a phone call around the same time and you're crying on the other end. I had to ask him about it, Tempe, you don't want to talk about it…"

"Ya, I don't want to talk about it Booth, you shouldn't have told Sweets."

"Tempe,"

"No Booth I can handle it,"

"Agent Booth, Dr. Brennan I have to interrupt for a moment." Sweets interjects.

"I'm not talking about this Sweets." Brennan re crosses her arms and glares at her partner.

"That's fine I want to talk about something different…Agent Booth why do you call Dr. Brennan 'Tempe' now-instead of Bones?" Sweets momentarily grins at the look that goes between the two. Booth and 'Tempe' are-however-momentarily saved as Brennan's phone goes off.

"Brannan, Ya, wait what? Ohh, okay get Hodgins to guard the body before I get there, no I don't want anyone touching it Ange. Where's Cam. Seriously? Okay I'll be there in a few minutes." She shuts her phone off standing up and grabbing her and Booth's coat. "Booth let's go we've got a body."

"Great, so where is it?"

"The Jeffersonian apparently someone already brought it there."

"See ya Sweets." They both said as they up and left the poor doctor, wondering why he puts up with these two.

"Do I really scream that much?" temperance asks as Booth breaks the speeding limit trying to get to the Jeffersonian

"Ya Tempe you really do."

"Sorry."

"It's not your fault." He glances over at her trying to decide if he should push the issue or just let it drop.

"Ya it is, even Parker, a six year old, doesn't have nightmares every night but me, I should be over this, over all of these nightmares all of these fears." She slams her head against the backrest trying to clear it.

"Tempe it's okay, what's the big deal so you have a few nightmares, everyone deals with it in their own way."

"Ya except the Gravedigger has been in jail for nearly a month! I should feel safe knowing that the person who did that to me is locked away."

"You're thinking to much about it, it will go away on its own Temperance, don't worry." His hand finds its way to hers and he gently squeezes it. "So you and Parker got taken by the Gravedigger and you almost died. No big deal, I found you that's all that matters." Booth smiles a little as he says this.

Brennan just smiles a little in return as they pull up towards the Jeffersonian. AS they enter, the lab Booth admires how quickly his partner can compartmentalize and move past whatever it was the she was think about before hand. She grabs her lab coat from the newest grad student and throws it over top her jeans and tee shirt.

"What do we have?" She takes the stairs two at a time striding purposefully over to where Hodgins and Angela were standing.

"Were not quiet sure." Angela answers, looking over her best friends shoulder. "Sweetie it's eight PM what are you doing with Booth?"

"Male, approximately forty five to fifty five. About six foot four, Caucasian." She glanced at her grad student whose name escaped her, he immediately started writing down what she was saying.

"Sweetie, Booth here with you."

"We were at a session with Sweets." Booth says hopping up beside Hodgins. "Why?"

"Well why didn't you go home Booth? Cause Brennan does know how to drive."

"Can we concentrate because I do want to go home and so far there is nothing to indicate that this is a murder. In fact…"

"She didn't have her car Angela so I drove her here and I'll derive her home." Booth wondered how Temperance put up with it all the time. Angela, nitpicking at her personal life.

"Okay, whatever you say G-man."

"Holy Shit." Brennan dropped the little silver coin that she had just been holding on to.

"What?" three pairs of hands reached for her. Angela held her hand; Hodgins touched her shoulder-both comfortingly. Booth took the direct approach to stand in front of her and held her face with his hands so that she would have to look at him.

"Tempe what was it?"

There was no sound, no movement on any of their parts for at least two minutes as the partners just stared at each other.

"Dr. Brennen?" Her grad student picked up the coin that she dropped. "May I bag this as evidence?"

"Yes, yes and get Dr. Saroyan on the phone as well." Temperance took her hands and placed them Over Booths moving them away from her face and letting both their hands hang limply at their sides. Booth squeezed her hand a little tighter as she stared up at him with a sad look on her face.

"Oh my god." Hodgins had taken the coin from the grad student and was looking at it blue eyes wide. "A seventeenth century Christopher Columbus coin."

"Ya." Tempe mumbled before leaning her head against Booth's shoulder.

Hey! Well how was it? Just to let you know all the chapter titles are going to be songs that I was listening to while writing this.

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