Disclaimer: I don't own Bones nor any characters from that awesome universe, just love having fun with them


Brennan was stunning, and right there, reacting to the smallest of touches like that. She was perfect. She turned to him, her eyes were looking for something and apparently she found what she was looking for, while holding his eyes as not to scare him, she closed the space between them.

For Brennan, kissing Booth was like home. For Booth, it was heaven.

Their lips moved together for a while, getting to know each other and when she felt his tongue Brennan automatically opened her lips. Her hands went straight to his hair; his hand was on hers too, while the other was on her hips, bringing her closer to him. She's not pushing me away.

Booth's thoughts were giving him more courage. For the first time they appeared to be on the same page. For the first time their timing was right.

The familiar ring of Booth's phone interrupted the partners, without them actually pulling away.

"Ignore that" he said, his lips still on hers.

The ringing came to a stop, only for Brennan's phone to start. She pulled away slowly just when Booth's started ringing again. They knew that, every time this happened, it was about a case.

"We have to answer Booth, it might be important" Said Brennan. They both very reluctantly took their phones out.

"Booth"

"Brennan"

While listening to the callers, the partners could feel the change in their relationship. Their eyes never left each other's, not during the call nor when they hung up.

"I have to go to the lab. Apparently the particulates Hodgins found on the crime scene belong to some kind of ancient sword. I need to examine the bones for correlating marks"

"Yeah. Cam asked me to send agents to the Boyfriend's home to look for any indications of another woman in his life."

The partners had pulled away from each other to answer the phones, but the tension was still palpable. With shy smiles on their faces, they kept standing close, staring. Both trying to figure out their situation.

"This is not stopping here, ok? – Booth said almost whispering, grabbing Brennan by the wrist and pulling her towards him again."I don't want you going into that lab, overthinking stuff, regretting.." Brennan's lips were on his preventing him to finish the sentence. She pulled away slightly still, her foreheads touching.

"You know me Booth, I don't do anything without considering all the variables carefully. I know it may have seem irrational for me to kiss you all of the sudden, but that does not mean I have not given it a lot of thought over the last couple of weeks." Months. Years she added on her head.

"Ok Bones, let's go then. I want this case closed so we can discuss this, huh?" They pull apart to gather their things and went towards the door.

Before exiting the apartment, Booth stopped Brennan and kissed her softly on the lips. "We will discuss this later, us… we will discuss us later" she nodded, and with matching grins they were out the door.

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Angela was on the platform when the partners entered the lab. Brennan went straight for her office to grab her lab coat and start working. Booth just stood there looking at his partner, a small smile on his face.

"Excuse me" said a man with black hair, green eyes "Do you work here? I'm looking for Dr. Temperance Brennan"

Booth sized the guy, trying to remember if he knew him from somewhere. "Uhm, she is in her office, may I help you?"

"Yes, I'm Jake. We were supposed to meet at a restaurant but she never showed. Angela told me I could find her here"

"Jake. Hi sweetie. Yes Ill grab Brennan, just give me a second" Angela came down towards the men "This here is Booth, Brennan's partner"

"Oh, nice to meet you" said the guy offering his hand. Booth shook it, with a firm grip. "Yeah, nice to meet you"

Angela left to grab Brennan and when she entered, she saw her friend standing in the middle of the room staring at her lab coat still on the hanger.

"Sweetie is everything ok? Jake's here. He called me when you didn't show up to the restaurant and since I knew you had to come here I told him to meet you him so you guys could reschedule face to face… Bren are you listening to me?"

"Yeah.. Yeah Ange.. I'm listening… were you able to find more details about the sword that may have killed our victim?" Brennan said, clearing he throat for a second, reaching for her coat.

"Brennan, no. Jake's here"

"Jake?"

"Yes, your date tonight sweetie, remember?" Brennan's eyes opened slightly. "I totally forgot to cancel, oh my god Angela. I feel so bad"

With everything that happened with Booth and the call, Brennan forgot about the date with Angela's friend. She left her office quickly to go and apologize to the man.

The man who was currently speaking to her partner. Oh no. "Jake, hello, I am so sorry I did not call earlier to cancel" Brennan's eyes went from Jake to Booth while she was talking, suddenly very anxious to take this man far away as possible from the agent standing next to him.

"Its ok Temperance, maybe we could reschedule? I can see you are pretty busy here" he said pointing to the platform where Wendell was standing with a skull on his hands.

Brennan's eyes went straight to Booth that was standing next to them pretending no to be paying attention to the conversation. She was not good at reading people, but she was good at reading Booth. He was anxious. His jaw was clenched and his hand was fidgeting with the phone on his waist. Was he jealous? She entertained this thought for a second.

"Maybe we could go over there and talk" Brennan said, pointing to the lounge. "I'll be right back Booth. Meanwhile, you can check with Wendell to see if he found something of use for us" She smiled at him and with those last words, she guided Jake up the stairs.