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The Deception In The Line

Booth POV

I am annoyed. Irritated. This was not how I planned to spend my Saturday evening. Couples therapy? I've got tickets to the Capitals. And if we don't end our session soon, I'm gonna miss the game. Who's idea was it for a session on Saturday anyway? I had already voiced my dislike of having therapy on Saturdays to Bones. Apparently my opinion doesn't matter as much as I thought. Sweets is going on and on about something. I wish I was allowed to bring my gun.

"Agent Booth? Agent Booth?" The kid's calling me. "Did you hear what I said?"

"Huh?" I glance over to my partner, then back at Sweets.

"I was asking you two if there has been any changes in you relationship lately?"

"What? Changes? No." I shake me head. I turn to look at my very attractive partner.

She pouts a little, as if thinking. "Nnnnoooo." She replies as if thinking it through. Damn she's cute when she does that. I take in a deep breath to keep my feelings in check.

"Somehow I detect some unresolved tension between you two. Sexual tension maybe?"

"No. No way." I insist.

"Then Agent Booth, you wouldn't mind if Dr Brennan and I started seeing each other?"

I burst out laughing. The thought is incredulous.

"That, would be highly unlikely." Bones states. "While you do have striking features, they are nowhere near as symmetrical as those in men whom I find attractive."

Is she referring to me? I feel my ego swell.

Sweets looks annoyed now. "It was a hypothetical question. Agent Booth, what if Dr Brennan started seeing someone else, say another hunky FBI agent for example."

I banish bad flashbacks of Bones and Sully from my mind. Bad, bad memories.

"Booth would go to great lengths to find out about, investigate the man I'm dating, and try to interfere with our dates." Bones states matter-of-factly. "He may even threaten the man with bodily harm if he doesn't treat me well."

"The question was directed at Agent Booth, Dr Brennan."

"Bones answered correctly." I reply, proud that she has described my reaction so well.

"And those actions tell me that you're in fact jealous if Dr Brennan were to date."

"What? Me?" I scoff. "No. I'm just looking out for my partner, as most partners do. I just want to make sure she's well taken care of, that she doesn't end up with some scum who doesn't appreciate her."

I hope I didn't give to much away.

"Right." Sweets looks unconvinced. He directs his attention to Bones now.

"And what about you Dr Brennan, what would you do if Agent Booth started dating say a really good-looking woman."

"I would have no problems with that. Booth is a well-structured, healthy adult male in his prime, I can imagine he needs one if not many women to satisfy his biological urges."

How can she answer that question so nonchalantly?

"What? Bones!" Now she's making me nervous. "You make me sound as if I'm some sex-crazy guy who'd sleep with any woman who so much as smiles at me. I thought you knew me better than that."

"So there's no possibility of the two of you ever being in a relationship with each other?" Sweets asks.

"No!" We both answer in unison.

"From your answers, I would have to say that you two care deeply for each other and is evident that you would behave has a jealous lover would if you knew that the other were dating other people."

"Come on Sweets. No way. She's my partner."

"Yes Booth is correct. But I would have to admit, Booth and I are in a relationship."

My eyes grow large and I can't understand why Bones would say that. "Bones!"

"Like you said before Sweets, we are in a relationship, a surrogate relationship."

I let out a breath. Sweets looks annoyed.

"Booth has a line." She adds.

"Yeah I do."

"A line he would never cross." Bones sounds like she's a bigger believer of my line than me.

"Yeah. Bones is right. I'm a man of my word."

"So there's no possibility of us ever being in a relationship with each other."

"Look Sweets I'd love to stay and chat," I glance at my watch, "But I got tickets to tonight's game."

I stand, as does Bones. I grab her coat and help her into it as we make a hasty retreat from Sweets' office.

"Don't forget our next session on Tuesday!" I hear the kid call after us.

In the safety of my SUV, Bones speaks as I pull out onto the road.

"You think he knows?"

"What about us?" I smile. "No way. We were way too convincing. Especially when you mentioned my line. I bet that really got him convinced."

"Everyone would find out eventually."

"I know." I grin. "But this secret relationship thing is kinda fun, don't you think?"

"It is." She smiles back at me.

Ten minutes of driving in silence and I can't take it any more.

"Bones. Did you mean what you said, about me and biological urges? I mean you don't think I take my relationships lightly do you? You made it sound like I'm the kind of guy who would date many women at the same time."

I turn to glance at her and she has a mischievous grin on her lips.

"I had to convince Sweets. Besides I know about your biological urges. I have first-hand knowledge. We do have a lot of sex."

I laugh. "Only because you ask it of me."

"Truth is I'd probably break the arm of any other woman who tried to get her hands on you."

I laugh even louder. "That's my girl!"

I reach over and take her hand in mine, giving it a reassuring squeeze.

"You know....us, Bones, I'm serious about us. I'm in this for the long haul."

"I know Booth. So am I." She frees her hand from mine and runs it up the length of my thigh. She's turning me on.

"Bones, we have tickets to the Capitals remember?"

"If you weren't so insistent we get to therapy on time, we could have had time for sex, and Sweets would probably not have picked up on all that pent up tension between us."

"I didn't want to miss the game." I whine.

"The last time we had sex was on Monday." Bones states a fact that I'm painfully aware of. She cups me through my pants and I groan.

"I know Bones. Look I'm not the one who was so tired every night that she went straight to bed, the entire week."

"We just closed a really difficult case. I was working almost twenty-four hours a day!" She removes her hand from my erection which is straining against my all too tight pants, throwing her hands up in frustration.

"Ok, ok. Don't get your panties in a bunch. I promise Bones, once we get home from the game, Ill give you the best sex you ever had."

"Break the laws of physics?"

"Exactly Bones."

"My panties are not in a bunch."

"Figure of speech Bones."

I pull up at the parking lot.

"Are we at the hockey game?"

I give her my best charm smile and lean over and capture her lips in mine. After a long, passionate kiss we break, both out of breath.

"The last time I took you to a Capitals game you thought we were going to watch baseball."

"I'm a fast learner." Bones smiles and my heart flutters. She's so beautiful.

"Let's go Bones. And I promise you, when we get back to your apartment later, I'd make you scream so much you'd be begging me to stop."

"I hold you to your word Booth."

"I'm a man of my word Bones, a man of my word."