The trip over to Pennsylvania went by fast with the partners occasionally chatting about random things. Brennan found it interesting that they didn't argue as much as usual, their "debates" were inevitable but neither of the two got mad at the other once on the four-hour trip.
"hey bones its kinda nice out here… don't you think?" Booth asked bones as he gestured to the covered bridge and the golden brown leaves. "I would like to move out of the city some day, I don't know. It might be nice."
"bones?" booth said when Brennan didn't respond. He glanced over at her and realized she was asleep against the window. Booth reached over and jiggled her arm until her stirred.
"what? Are we there?" bones seemed confused as she looked around and didn't realize where she was.
Booth laughed a bit at the confused Brennan " yeah we entered the park like a few minutes ago bones… where did you fall asleep? I've been talking and talking. I didn't realize you were sleeping."
"I don't know I think when we passed that school a while back… its nice out here, really pretty, I would like to live out of the city some day in a place like this." Temperance said while she looked out the window and tried to remember where she had fallen asleep. "Yeah back by that school is where I fell asleep booth."
Booth was embarrassed now because he realized he had been speaking to himself for over fifteen minutes now.
"well, get out Bones." Booth said as he swung his door open when the car stopped in the lot at the bottom of a large hill. The hill was surrounded by picnic tables and large fields it was nice out here Brennan thought again as she too jumped out of the large SUV.
"Where's the body Booth? I don't see any crime scene tape." Bones said looking around. There was definitely no visible crime scene any where around here.
"calm down, just because you cant see it doesn't mean its not here, get your bag." Booth said as he started walking up the path that wound up the hill.
"Its up on the hill? How far up is it?"
Booth's cell buzzed and he flipped it open his cell phone and started talking.
"yea were here now. How far up the hill is it? … mhm …. Yeah…. Alright."
Booth hung up the phone, and pointed up the hill. "Onward Bones!" he shouted behind him, as he began to march up the hill.
Eventually Brennan caught up with Booth as he got slower and slower as the hill got steeper and steeper. The two of them had been walking for only a few minutes when booth stopped and pointed up.
"hey, look at that Bones."
Bones walked up to the tree he was pointing at and looked up, the tree was huge but the size wasn't the impressive part, it was the carvings. All over the tree there were names, most with years and most in hearts with other names. At the top there was one big carving "Steve & Carly" conjoined in a heart with the year 1954, this one must have the oldest.
"why would people do that? I doubt any of those people are even still together, there probably all teens that were just together for what? A few months? They have marked something that will be there forever. Its pointless." Bones seemed confused as to why two people would want to carve their names into a tree.
"Bones. Bones. Bones. All teenagers do it. And it wont be there forever Bones, trees get cut down."
"It's a state park Booth they cant just cut down trees. So yes. Forever. And still there is no point." Bones replied still looking up to the tree with all the names. But she sounded annoyed that he had tried to correct her.
"C'mon Bones" booth said as he started up the hill again "Also, The tree will not be there 'forever' because trees fall over eventually, its basically inevitable. And also I never said there was a point bones, I agree with you on that, there is no point its just kind of a thing you do."
Temperance had heard him but she chose not to answer him, more like she just didn't know what to say, for once. Booth was thinking about what he would carve in the tree. Maybe "Special Agent Seeley Booth" and the year, or just Booth, then he looked back at bones fighting her way through the bramble. Could he write their names together? Would that be weird? No he wasn't going to carve anything, he wouldn't have time anyway.
"jeez bones hurry up." He yelled over his shoulder.