A/N: There is a premise here I am hoping my readers will accept. I don't think a pact would happen on the show, but hey, that is what fanfic is for...exploring those avenues that could happen...no deus ex machina for this girl though. Special thanks to bea.tricks for her input, beta and guidance. Also TemperTemper for ongoing encouragement!

Disclaimer: nothing has changed since the last time I checked...still not mine.

They think we don't know, haven't figured it out. They think we don't know that we're ass over teapot in love with each other.

Well of course we know. You've got two of the most intelligent people around and they think we haven't figured out that we are meant to be ...well, you know.

We've talked about it and argued about it. But what we decided to actually do about it was...nothing.

Not yet anyway. We can't. Too much at stake, blah de blah blah.

So, we're waiting.

We agreed, for once, that in the meantime we wouldn't date anyone else.

And that was pretty much the start of the end of our little pact.

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"Booth, that's completely ridiculous."

"I know, but what choice do we have?"

"We could have casual sex with any number of people and not let ourselves get attached..."

"Whoa there cowgirl, it isn't that I worry about getting attached, I just don't want to watch you riding your way across DC."

"Booth, you know I am not celibate. You know in the past three years I've had plenty of sex. There are even times you don't know about, times where I just needed release and I'd go to a bar and..."

"Enough! For crying out loud, Bones!"

"What's the problem? We have agreed, we can't be together...yet...and still you expect us both to go celibate 'til we are?"

"Yes, that's what I expect."

"Well, that will make matters incredibly difficult."

"Don't think you can go without sex, Bones?" He challenged, stepping forward and finally putting them nose to nose.

She lifted her chin and spoke slowly. "I can, and have gone without sex for significant periods of time. But when that period of time is indefinite, there is a strong likelihood that at some point, one or both of us will find the need for sexual gratification. It is a biological imperative Booth."

"Look." He sighed and took a step back. "All I know is that if I can't be having you, then I don't want to be having anyone. And it will kill me to see you with someone else Bones. It just will. Do you understand?"

"Yes. I do understand." She lifted her hand, and for moment considered touching him. She squashed the impulse. "I know it would be...difficult...for me to see you with someone else too. And we have discussed that it would be impossible to have someone in our lives and not have each other know about it."



"No secrets. That's part of the deal."

She nodded, and retreated behind her desk. "Yes. I agreed to that. But I am just trying to foresee problems so we can have developed strategies to overcome them."

"Well one way to overcome a problem is not to create it in the first place. If we agree not to have sex..."

"We've already agreed you and I can't..."

"Not you and me, but you and anyone else, me and anyone else. If we agree that doesn't happen then we won't need strategies to overcome any jealously issues."

"We're both highly sexual people Booth."

"Damn straight."

Brennan smiled as she watched him puff out his chest. He grinned back at her and for a long moment they regarded each other, locked in a gaze. "So what makes you think you can go without sex for an indefinite period of time?"

He stopped his dramatic posing and placed his fists on the table top and leaned his body towards hers, lowering his voice.

"Because you will be worth the wait Bones."

She gulped audibly, then deliberately and slowly rolled her chair back a few inches.

"Ok."

"Ok." He straightened and nodded and turned. His fist was just reaching up to push the glass door when she spoke.

"There are always other ways to release tension and seek gratification other than sexual intercourse. I am allowed to practise those?"

He stopped, not being able to turn and face her. "Sure Bones. That's no problem at all."

"Ok."

"Ok."

And he left.

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