Hello everyone! Sorry it took a while, I had my exams and then there was the waiting for my results. But now I know I passed woohoo! I'm here with a rather short chapter, which will probably be the last one.

Disclaimer: I don't own anything. I probably wouldn't be posting my stories here if I did...


A little while later Brennan came back from the ladies room. Once again she had to look for Booth.

She instantly became tense when she saw the pretty blonde hanging around him again, practically clinging herself to him from Brennan's point of view.

That girl is really out to get me, she's testing my patience, which is decreasing enormously!

She approached them and interrupted subtly. Booth immediately turned a little so she could join them. "Bones meet Karen Mayer from pathology, Karen this is Doctor Temperance Brennan, my partner."

Karen greeted Brennan and she returned the favour, her lips curving into a small smile.

Booth saw it wasn't a genuine one, her lips were merely a thin line, pressed together as if she tried to stop herself from speaking.

He really wanted to assure her, to just wrap his arm around her and kiss her, show there was no reason to be afraid.

Just in time he remembered that they were going to keep this a secret and although he wanted to explore their new relationship in all calm too, sometimes playing dumb was really tiresome.

As he said those words in his mind he realized how often he used that word lately and it only made him sigh more.

When Karen was distracted by another woman asking her something he finally found a chance to try and calm Brennan down a little.

"Hey, want to tell me what's wrong?"

She was staring at some people on the other side of the room, refusing to look at him. She didn't want to admit she was jealous and she knew he'd get it out of her in no time if he looked at her with his chocolate brown eyes for only a split second.

Unfortunately for her, he knew this too and he cupped her face so she had to face him. He gazed at her expectantly.

Eventually she sighed, he wasn't going to give up anyway. "I just don't like her okay. It happens, anthropologically speaking that's very logical. In every culture there are people who tend to bond better with each other than others, it's a matter of characteristics, interests and…".

"Yeah Bones, your very accurate and extremely expand explanation isn't going to get you off the hook this time. You don't even know her and you look like you could strangle the woman."

He had a pretty good idea as to why she was acting like this but he actually wanted to hear her say it.

"She's blond, she's pretty and she seems more than willing to throw herself at you.", she finally spat out.

Booth couldn't help the small smile that was appearing at his lips, which only got her more irritated.

"Bones, even if she does throw herself right in front of my feet, which wouldn't be the first time someone did that", he added with a smug smile, which only caused her to shake her head in disbelieve and annoyance, "I still wouldn't pick her up. The only woman I ever want to lay before me or throw herself at me is standing here with me."

He finally managed to make her smile just a little. "Okay?" She nodded.

"Alright and now I'm thirsty." She feigned annoyance. "Fine, I'll go find you another drink."

On her way to the bar she ran into Daisy, who didn't give her a chance to continue, she just started rambling and didn't seem to stop anymore. Booth will have to wait just a little while for that drink.

After what seemed like an eternity she finally found a way out of her conversation with Daisy, well conversation, Brennan hardly said a thing, it had been more a monologue from Daisy's side.

She figured maybe Booth would've got a drink himself by this time and she'd better check first.

She walked back to the other pièce and was completely shocked as she froze in the doorway at the sight in front of her: Booth kissing that completely frustrating pretty blonde.

She didn't know what she felt like doing first, crying, screaming, kicking him endlessly. She decided this wasn't the place to make a scene so she tried to keep her cool. I should've known this, men are all the same!

Booth just managed to push Karen away as Brennan turned around to leave the place ASAP. Booth saw her walking away and immediately rushed after her.

Right before she came to the front door he grabbed her arm and pulled her back, into the little space where Hodgins had a large closet for coats and stuff, people could still see them, but at least they weren't standing in the middle of the room.

"Bones that was not what it looked like." She laughed bitterly, typical excuse. "Of course it wasn't, you weren't kissing her at all!"

He tried to reply but she continued. She still tried to keep her voice down a little although it was really hard right now, but still if anyone heard this Angela would butt in and things would get even worse. Now she still had a chance to forget all this without people constantly reminding her of it.

"I guess it's my own fault, I was the one who never believed in monogamy, I said I didn't care, I probably asked for it by saying something like that."

He shook his head disbelievingly. "Bones what you saw was Karen trying to kiss me…"

Brennan snorted. "Trying? She seemed to be succeeding pretty well from where I was standing!"

"I saw it coming too late, I tried to push her away, that's when you came in. I really pushed her away as soon as I could Bones, I swear. Look at me."

He turned her by the shoulders so they were standing face to face.

"Believe me, I didn't want her to kiss me anymore than you do. I've been trying to be friendly to her all night because she hadn't done anything wrong. I rather didn't have her around me because she seemed to drive you away, but I couldn't tell her that now could I? So I remained polite and nice but if I had known she'd do that I would've told her where I stand straight from the start. I stand with you Bones, all the way. I've never lied to you before, right? So you have to trust me on this one."

She looked up at him, tears gleaming in her eyes, and studied his eyes. Trying to find a hint of a lie in them, but she only saw his despair and love.

Her voice was a muffled whisper when she spoke. "I really want to believe you and I probably will but you know me, scientist all the way, I'll just need proof."

He seemed to contemplate this for a minute and she wondered what he was thinking about.

When he finally spoke up, his voice almost startled her. "You know I never really talk about my love life or my girlfriends?" She nodded.

"You always ask me why you tell me about yours but I hardly ever share anything about mine. It's just that I was never really sure of them, I never had the feeling that they were the one. And I always start a relationship with the intention to make it last, I'm not one for short flirts and stuff, but still I always had this idea that it wasn't going to last. That's why I don't talk to you or to anyone about my love life, I figured that if I ever found the person I'd think I would spend the rest of my life with, the person that I believe to be my true love, that I would tell everybody then, that I wouldn't have any problem showing the whole world because I would want to shout it from the rooftops."

She was listening intently to him, she didn't really know where he was heading though.

Until he placed his hands on her face and came closer to close the gap between them, he just needed to know if it was alright.

She looked into his eyes once more and placed one hand on his chest, where his heart was beating regularly, slowly she lifted her other hand to rest at his chest as well.

He took it as a sign of allowance and finally found the strength to show the whole world that he was head-over-hills in love with Temperance Brennan.


So that's most likely it for this story. Please review, that's always nice. Thanks for sticking with me here and hopefully you'll see me back real soon!

CherryXMe