Chapter Two

Just as Booth had predicted Brennan felt hugely better the next morning and arrived at the Jeffersonian the next morning at 8 o'clock as usual. Walking into her office she was surprised to find her door ajar and a somewhat familiar figure sitting on her couch. Smiling she slammed the door behind her making Booth jump out of his skin.

"Jeez Bones! Back to your usual self I see!"

"You'd better believe it! Why are you here?" Booth smiled and rolled his eyes inwardly, that's Temperance for you!

"Well good morning to you too, No…..I had a very good morning, yeh the traffic was O.K yeh I saw that too…."

"Ha-ha booth very funny, Ok Ok sorry you know I'm not a people person, well at least you don't fail to point it out often enough, So good morning to what do I owe the pleasure of your visit?"

"I suppose that will do," Booth smirked, "I have a case for you so come on lets go!" He got up, clapping his hands.

"Where are we going?"

"Well we got about a two hour drive so I'll fill you in on the way"

"Two hours?!" Temperance exclaimed shocked

"Yep so that means there is no time to waste!" He ushered her out of the room with his hand in the small of her back, when suddenly she stopped, causing him to bump into her quite hard, almost knocking her over, were it not for his lightening reflexes causing him to reach out and suddenly grab her hips with his large hands. He stood still for a moment watching the colour mount in her face.

"Oh sorry," she twisted her head to look in his face her lips dangerously close to his own, "I err think I should just erum...Leave a note for the others when they get in, letting them know where I am."

Booth was suddenly shaken out of his stupor and reluctantly let go of her waste. "Yeh that's a good idea. They walked out to the car in silence, and Booth automatically opened the door for Brennan. She smiled at the fact how this didn't bother her anymore and how he did it for her every time they went anywhere. She'd never admit it to anyone, least of all Booth, but she enjoyed these gentlemanly displays of affection from him they were...cute. She smiled 'I've been spending too much time with Angela,' she thought to herself smiling even broader

"What you thinking about Bones? Anything you care to share?" Booth chuckled, he loved watching Temperance smile.

"You actually," and with that she put her earphones into her ears and turned her ipod to shuffle and stared out the passenger window leaving Booth in a stunned silence. The rest of the car journey was spent in relative silence and it wasn't until about 1 hour and 45 minutes later that Brennan finally took out her earphones and asked,

"So are you going to tell me where we are going? Or do I have to wait?"

"It wasn't me that chose to be unsociable and put my earphones in Bones!"

"Well sorry, but…I well…"

"I'm kidding," He chuckled at her scowl, "Have you ever heard of the Dale Hotel? It's really posh, you have to practically be richer than Bill Gates to say there, although it does have a really good heath centre but I doubt any of the people who go there actually use it, too busy playing golf." He scoffed.

"Booth! You are so prejudiced! And even though I have no clue who Bill Gates is, I have actually stayed there before! Me and an old boyfriend stayed there before, it's very nice and I'll have you know that I made full use of the facilities!"

"Oh so your boyfriend wasn't up to much then? May have the money but that doesn't make up for lacking in other aspects."

"What makes you say that? And he wasn't rich!" She cocked her head to one side that made her look adorable to Booth, well even more so than usual.

"Well obviously if you spent a lot of the visit at the health centre, you weren't doing well lets say, strenuous activities of another sort."

Brennan blushed and turned bright red "Excuse me! What are you trying to say"

"Well," Booth paused, "If I had spent all that money taking a girl there I would make it worth both our whiles going, and she wouldn't have any energy to do much else."

"Booth! You are absolutely shocking," Brennan suddenly had a thought and smirked, "You shouldn't be so hard on the female sex as a species, I mean obviously from your past experience, your partners' stamina can't have been all that great. However I think I would be perfectly capable to keep up with any sort of…pace that you would choose to set."

Booths jaw dropped and she continued, "And still have more energy for further activity strenuous," she eyed him up and down, "or not so…"

"Hey that was cheap, you have no idea just how strenuous I can be!"

"Believe me I do, I have to put up with you almost everyday remember?"

"Oh very funny, I guess you win that round Bones, but I will get you back later!" They were pulling up to an amazing building situated in front of a line of impressively tall trees. "Wow Bones your boyfriend must have been pretty loaded to take you here!"

"Well I paid, it was only a week, and it was his idea." She shrugged

"What a rude bastard! He should have paid, although a week here would cost me more than a month's salary."

"Yeh but that's you Booth, your not like other guys."

"I'm not?" He smiled as he pulled up beside a police car, and officers were swarming around the scene, taping police tape all around to stop the nosy hotel guests getting a good view.

"Stop hunting."

"Fishing, Bones, fishing for compliments. And that is not what I was doing!"

She raised her eyebrows. "Really, will you please tell me why I'm here?"

"Okay, so a group of walkers were trekking trough the woods when they found a body, so they got spooked and ran back to the resort. That was a few hours ago, Forensics are there at the moment, and before you ask no, they didn't touch the skeleton, they do know what they are doing."

"Alright Booth. It's not like I think the FBI are completely incompetent, I mean…

"Bones!"

"Well the amount of money spent each year alone on.."

"Okay were here" he said hastily noticing the looks they were getting from surrounding agents.

They had gotten out of the car and he had led her to the edge of the dense forest. A agent motioned down the path and he thanked his lucky stars that he had picked today to wear his converses as he stared at the mucky path.

"Booth, why is the FBI involved in this, is there any evidence to suggest foul play?"

"We were kinda hoping you could tell us that Bones."

"But why are you.."

"Bones please just wait an see please?" he gave her his biggest charm smile.

"You know I hate surprises," she pouted

"Aw you look cute when you pout."

She promptly scowled and followed and after a brief walk through the woods, they came to a cluster of people in a clearing in the trees, who turned round and looked at the pair expectantly. Booth felt a rush of pride at the way Brennan was so respected and at how she took it all in her stride. Over the past few months the pair had solved so many cases together that they were famous throughout the bureau and the younger officers watched in awe as Brennan knelt over the skeleton

"You see now?" Booth asked

"The skull is missing! How can I tell who this is?"

"Yes, and the strange thing is that the walkers were sure they saw a full skeleton, skull included when they found it!"


Did you like it? I know that Tempe's character changes from weak to flirty overnight but hey I love the flirty fluff! Review (if u want)